> BESTSELLERS
A couple of observations drawn from this week’s bestsellers lists:
Over the course of three decades and more than 35 legal thrillers, novels by
John Grisham have reliably debuted in the No. 1 spot on the fiction list. But his latest, “The Judge’s List,” is no match for the double threat of Louise Penny and
Hillary Rodham Clinton, who maintain their hold on the top spot, with Grisham at No. 2.
“The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity,” which debuts at No. 4 on the nonfiction list, seems the perfect fit for our current moment. American anthropologist and self-described anarchist David Graeber (who died last year) and British archeologist David Wengrow revisit the past 30,000 years through a progressive lens that debunks the notion that inequality is inevitable. A review in The Atlantic describes it as “textured, surprising, paradoxical, inspiring.”
-Sarah Murdoch
The bestseller lists are compiled by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited from information provided by BookNet Canada’s national sales tracking service, BNC SalesData.
ORIGINAL FICTION
1. State of Terror (paperback), Hillary Rodham Clinton, Louise Penny, Simon & Schuster (2)*
2. The Judge’s List, John Grisham, Doubleday (1)
3. The Apollo Murders, Chris Hadfield, Random House Canada (2)
4. A Shadow in the Ember, Jennifer L. Armentrout, Blue Box (1)
5. It Ends with Us, Colleen Hoover,
Atria (10)
6. Over My Dead Body, Jeffrey Archer, HarperCollins (1)
7. The Wish, Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central (2)
8. The Night She Disappeared, Lisa Jewell, Atria (7)
9. Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr, Scribner (4)
10. The Lighthouse Witches, C.J. Cooke, HarperCollins (2)
ORIGINAL NON-FICTION
1. Guinness World Records 2022, Craig Glenda, Guinness World Records (6)
2. The Storyteller, Dave Grohl, Dey Street (3)
3. Off the Record, Peter Mansbridge, Simon & Schuster (3)
4. The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber, David Wengrow, Signal (1)
5. Indian in the Cabinet, Jody WilsonRaybould, HarperCollins Canada (6)
6. Taste, Stanley Tucci, Gallery (3)
7. The Forever Dog, Rodney Habib, Karen Shaw Becker, Collins (2)
8. Peril, Bob Woodward, Robert Costa, Simon & Schuster (5)
9. The First 21, Nikki Sixx, Hachette (1)
10. 21 Things You May Not Know about the Indian Act, Bob Joseph, Indigenous Relations (16)
CANADIAN FICTION
1. State of Terror (paperback), Hillary Rodham Clinton, Louise Penny, Simon & Schuster
2. The Apollo Murders, Chris Hadfield, Random House Canada
3. The Strangers, Katherena Vermette, Hamish Hamilton
4. The Vinyl Cafe Celebrates, Stuart McLean, Viking
5. Five Little Indians, Michelle Good, HarperCollins Canada
6. The Madness of Crowds, Louise Penny, Minotaur
7. State of Terror (hardcover), Hillary Rodham Clinton, Louise Penny, Simon & Schuster
8. Fight Night, Miriam Toews, Knopf Canada
9. Denial, Beverley McLachlin, Simon & Schuster
10. The Holiday Swap, Maggie Knox, Viking
CANADIAN NON-FICTION
1. Off the Record, Peter Mansbridge, Simon & Schuster
2. Indian in the Cabinet, Jody WilsonRaybould, HarperCollins Canada
3. The Forever Dog, Rodney Habib, Karen Shaw Becker, Collins
4. 21 Things You May Not Know about the Indian Act, Bob Joseph, Indigenous Relations
5. Over the Boards, Hayley Wickenheiser, Viking
6. Unreconciled, Jesse Wente, Allen Lane
7. The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown
8. Talking to Strangers, Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay
9. The Fight for History, Tim Cook, Penguin Canada
10. Call Me Indian, Fred Sasakamoose, Viking
The bestseller lists are compiled by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited from information provided by BookNet Canada’s national sales tracking service, BNC SalesData.
* Weeks on the bestseller list