The National Post Bestseller List is reported weekly by a different Canadian bookstore, featuring local favourites alongside national hits. This week’s list is courtesy of Pages Books (bookmanager.com – 1135 Kensington Rd. N.W., Calgary, Alta.)
FICTION
1. Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector (New Directions) 2. Zeno’s Conscience by Italo Svevo, translated by William Weaver ( Vintage) 3. The Last Wolf by Laszlo Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtis (New Directions) 4. Eva Sleeps by Francesco Melandri, translated by Katherine Gregor (Europa Editions) 5. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges (New Directions) 6. The Lewis Man: Lewis Trilogy # 2 by Peter May (Quercus) 7. Submission by Michel Houellebecq (Picador) 8. Nicotine by Nell Zink (Ecco) 9. Partial List of People to Bleach by Gary Lutz (Future Tense) 10. Dear Mr. M by Herman Koch, translated by Sam Garrett (Hogarth)
NON-FICTION
1. Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water
Lilies by Ross King (Bond Street) 2. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They
Communicate by Peter Wohllenben (Greystone/ David Suzuki) 3. Time Travel: A History by James Gleick (Pantheon) 4. A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age by Daniel J. Levitin (Allen Lane) 5. The Temptation
to Exist by E. M. Coiran, translated by Richard Howard (Arcade) 6. Records of Shelley, Byron,
and the Author by Edward John Trelawny (Penguin Classics) 7. This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer by Richard Holmes ( William Collins) 8. Known and Strange Things: Essays by Teju Cole (Random House) 9. All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essay by George Orwell (Mariner) 10. Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard (Princeton)