BEST ON THE SHELF
FICTION
1 ( 1) 8 wks Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn This is a dark and fast- paced thriller about a marriage gone terribly wrong and the suspicions that arise when a husband’s beautiful wife mysteriously disappears.
2 ( 2) 58 wks A Dance with Dragons George R. R. Martin Martin’s latest is the fifth instalment of the fantasy epic, A Song of Ice and Fire.
3 ( 4) 3 wks The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Rachel Joyce This is story of Englishman Harold Fry, who goes on a pilgrimage to see an old acquaintance with whom he has unfinished business.
4 ( 3) 6 wks Shadow of Night
Deborah Harkness Harkness’s new novel is Part 2 in the trilogy that began with A Discovery of Witches.
5 ( 5) 13 wks Canada
Richard Ford Richard Ford’s latest novel is about a young man whose parents commit a crime.
6 ( 6) 15 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.
7 (-) 1 wk. Until the Night
Giles Blunt The sixth instalment of the John Cardinal and Lise Delorme murder mystery series begins with the body of a dead woman found in a motel parking lot.
8 ( 8) 7 wks The Prisoner of heaven Carlos Ruiz Zafon The third book in the series that began with The Shadow of the Wind is narrated by bookseller Daniel Sempere.
9 (-) 1 wk. The Kingmaker’s Daughter Philippa Gregory Philippa Gregory, author of The Other Boleyn Girl, brings readers another story of sisters in 15th century England.
10 ( 7) 8 wks The Red House Mark Haddon This is a new novel about a family gathering by the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- Time.
NON- FICTION
1 ( 1) 10 wks Darth Vader and Son
Jeffrey Brown Artist Jeffrey Brown creates a comic in which Darth Vader is a dad just like any other.
2 ( 2) 12 wks Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed This memoir has been picked by Oprah for the relaunch of her book club.
3 ( 4) 63 wks Go the F--- to Sleep Adam Mansbach & Ricardo Cortes This is a naughty bedtime book for parents.
4 ( 5) 23 wks Dying to Be Me Anita Moorjani Anita Moorjani freely shares all she has learned about illness, healing, fear, and “being love.”
5 ( 3) 15 wks The End of Growth Jeff Rubin In Rubin’s followup to Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller he argues that the end of cheap oil means the end of growth.
6 (-) 1 wk. The Second World War Antony Beevor Beevor, who has also written novels and most recently D- Day – The Battle for Normandy, now tackles the Second World War.
7 ( 9) 10 wks Let’s Pretend This Never Happened Jenny Lawson Lawson writes that the moments we would most like to forget are those that most define us.
8 ( 11) 7 wks A Thousand Farewells: A Reporter’s Journey From Refugee Camp to the Arab Spring Nahlah Ayed This is the heartfelt and personal chronicle of a journalist who has devoted much of her career to covering one of the world’s most vexing regions.
9 ( 8) 38 wks Eating Dirt Charlotte Gill Gill won the B. C. National Prize for Non- Fiction for her memoir of a 20- year tree- planting career.
10 ( 7) 5 wks Mick: The Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger Christopher Anderson This is a biography of the Rolling Stones frontman as the band celebrates its 50th anniversary.