BEST ON THE SHELF
FICTION
1 ( 1) 3 wks Canada Richard Ford Richard Ford’s latest novel is about a young man whose parents commit a crime.
2 ( 2) 5 wks In One Person John Irving The author of The World According to Garp brings us a new novel that includes sexual differences, wrestling and cross- dressing.
3 ( 5) 48 wks A Dance with Dragons George R. R. Martin The fifth instalment of the fantasy epic, A Song of Ice and Fire.
4 ( 3) 7 wks The Wind Through the Keyhole Stephen King A new novel in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series.
5 ( 4) 6 wks Deadlocked Charlaine Harris The 12th book in the Sookie Stackhouse series.
6 ( 6) 5 wks The Sins of the Father Jeffrey Archer The story of Harry Clifton continues just before Britain declares war on Germany.
7 ( 7) 10 wks The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection Alexander Mccall Smith Precious Ramotswe and her No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency return.
8 ( 8) 7 wks The Headmaster’s Wager Vincent Lam The new novel by the Giller Prize- winning author is a story of epic struggles, set primarily in Saigon.
9 ( 9) 11 wks Why Men Lie Linden Macintyre The third story in Macintyre’s trilogy; this time it’s told from a woman’s perspective.
10 (-) 1 wk Kiss the Dead Laurell K. Hamilton U. S. Marshal Anita Blake is tasked with finding a 15- yearold girl who has been abducted by vampires.
NON- FICTION
1 ( 1) 5 wks The End of Growth Jeff Rubin Rubin’s follow up to Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller, in which he argues that the end of cheap oil means the end of growth.
2 ( 2) 53 wks Go the F--- to Sleep Adam Mansbach & Ricardo Cortes A naughty bedtime book for parents.
3 ( 3) 13 wks Dying to Be Me Anita Moorjani Anita Moorjani freely shares all she has learned about illness, healing, fear, “being love,” and the true magnificence of each and every human being.
4 ( 4) 28 wks Eating Dirt Charlotte Gill Gill won the BC National Prize for Non- Fiction for her memoir of a 20- year tree planting career.
5 ( 5) 9 wks A Thousand Farewells Nahlah Ayed A personal insight into the Middle East from a Canadian foreign correspondent.
6 ( 6) 5 wks The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Robert A. Caro Book four looks at U. S. President Lyndon Johnson’s time in power between 1958 and 1964.
7 ( 14) 3 wks This is How Augusten Burroughs Subtitled: Proven aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
8 (-) 4 wks Goodnight ipad Ann Droyd A parody of the children’s classic Goodnight Moon, for the next generation.
9 ( 10) 2 wks In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World Ian Stewart Mathematics professors writes about equations from Pythagoras’s theory to gravity.
10 ( 7) 3 wks Escape from Camp 14 Blaine Harden Journalist writes about one man’s life in and escape from a labour camp in North Korea.