BESTSELLERS
BRITISH COLUMBIA
The top 10 British Columbia titles for the week ending April 30 as compiled by the Association of Book Publishers of B.C. Number of weeks on the chart is in parentheses.
1. (5) On Island: Life Among the Coast Dwellers — Pat Carney 2. (31) The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate — 3. (25) Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations — Richard Wagamese 4. (10) Hello Humpback! — Roy Henry Vickers & Robert Budd 5. (2) Chilcotin Chronicles: Stories of Adventure and Intrigue from British Columbia’s Central Interior — Sage Birchwater 6. (33) British Columbia Lullaby — P.L. McCarron & Joy Steuerwald 7. (16) Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family’s Journey — Margriet Ruurs, illustrated by Nizar Ali Badr 8. (2) Birds of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest: A Complete Guide — Richard Cannings, Tom Aversa & Hal Opperman 9. (27) The Queen of the North Disaster: The Captain’s Story — Colin Henthorne 10. (2) Wolf Island — Nicholas Read, photographs by Ian McAllister
CANADA
The top 10 hardcover fiction and non-fiction books in Canada for the week ending April 30 as compiled by Maclean’s magazine. Previous week’s position is in parentheses. FICTION
1. (1) Norse Mythology — Neil Gaiman 2. (-) The Fix — David Baldacci 3. (2) The Black Book — James Patterson and David Ellis 4. (-) Star Wars: Thrawn — Timothy Zahn 5. (6) Earthly Remains — Donna Leon 6. (-) My Italian Bulldozer — Alexander McCall Smith 7. (4) Mississippi Blood — Greg Iles 8. (5) American War — Omar El Akkad 9. (8) Lincoln in the Bardo — George Saunders 10. (7) Son of a Trickster — Eden Robinson
NON-FICTION
1. (4) Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign — Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes 2. (-) Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy — Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant 3. (1) Vimy: The Battle and the Legend — Tim Cook 4. (7) Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 5. (5) Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis — J.D. Vance 6. (6) The Whisky King: The Remarkable True Story of Canada’s Most Infamous Bootlegger and the Undercover Mountie on His Trail — Trevor Cole 7. (8) The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters — Tom Nichols 8. (9) The Stranger in the Woods — Michael Finkel 9. (3) The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World — Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu 10. (10) Nevertheless: A Memoir — Alec Baldwin