BEST ON THE SHELF
FICTION
1 ( 1) 20 wks The Orenda Joseph Boyden Our reviewer called this Giller longlisted book a “stunning, masterful work of staggering depth.”
2 ( 2) 16 wks The Goldfinch Donna Tartt This new novel by the author of The Secret History is about a boy who survives a terrorist incident that kills his mother.
3 ( 3) 4 wks The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches Alan Bradley Eleven- year- old aspiring detective Flavia de Luce is back on the case.
4 ( 4) 5 wks The Invention of Wings Sue Monk Kidd An Oprah Book Club pick that is a story of slavery in the deep south.
5 ( 5) 17 wks The Luminaries Eleanor Catton New Zealand author Eleanor Catton became the youngest author ever to win the Man Booker Prize recently.
6 ( 6) 12 wks Longbourn Jo Baker Pride and Prejudice reimagined through the eyes of the servants.
7 ( 12) 59 wks Gone Girl Gillian Flynn A dark thriller about a golden boy whose wife disappears on their fifth wedding anniversary. He stands by his innocence, but is he really a killer?
8 ( 8) 14 wks Saints of the Shadow Bible Ian Rankin Rebus is back on the police force, albeit with a demotion and a chip on his shoulder.
9 ( 7) 13 wks The First Phone Call From Heaven Mitch Albom This novel begins with a small town receiving many phone calls from people who say they’re calling from heaven.
10 ( 9) 13 wks Road Ends Mary Lawson The author of Crow Lake and The Other Side of the Bridge returns.
NON- FICTION
1 ( 2) 3 wks My Journey Olivia Chow MP and wife of deceased NDP leader Jack Layton writes a memoir.
2 ( 1) 15 wks An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth
Chris Hadfield Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield writes about his experiences on the International Space Station and back on Earth.
3 ( 8) 3 wks Unsinkable: A Memoir Silken Laumann Olympic rower Silken Laumann writes about her life.
4 (-) 1 wk. Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story Robyn Doolittle Get the full story about Toronto’s controversial mayor.
5 ( 3) 18 wks I am Malala Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb The subtitle says it all: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban.
6 ( 4) 15 wks The War That Ended Peace Margaret MacMillan Subtitled The Road to 1914, this book is about the First World War.
7 ( 6) 3 wks What Makes Olga Run? Bruce Grierson Subtitled, The Mystery of the 90- Something Track Star Who Is Smashing Records and Outpacing Time, and What She Can Teach Us About How to Live.
8 ( 7) 7 wks The Great Escape: A Canadian Story Ted Barris Ted Barris writes about the Great Escape, when 80 Commonwealth airmen tried to escape from a German PoW camp in the Second World War.
9 ( 5) 17 wks Orr: My Story Bobby Orr Hockey great Bobby Orr tells his story in this memoir.
10 ( 9) 23 wks A House in the Sky Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout was kidnapped and held for 15 months by insurgents in Somalia.