BEST ON THE SHELF
FICTION
1 (-) 1 wk. Words of Radiance Brandon Sanderson Brandon Sanderson continues the 2010 bestseller Stormlight Archive.
2 ( 2) 26 wks The Orenda Joseph Boyden Our reviewer called this Giller longlisted book a “stunning, masterful work of staggering depth.”
3 ( 1) 20 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.
4 ( 4) 9 wks The Invention of Wings Sue Monk Kidd An Oprah Book Club pick about slavery in the Deep South.
5 (-) 1 wk. The Bootlegger Clive Cussler Detective Isaac Bell returns in this Prohibition- era thriller.
6 ( 3) 8 wks The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches Alan Bradley Eleven- year- old aspiring detective Flavia de Luce is back.
7 ( 5) 21 wks The Luminaries Eleanor Catton New Zealand author Eleanor Catton became the youngest author ever to win the Man Booker Prize recently.
8 ( 6) 3 wks Concealed in Death J. D. Robb The latest in the suspenseful and bestselling Eve Dallas series.
9 ( 8) 5 wks The Wily O’Reilly: Irish Country Stories Patrick Taylor This is a collection of humorous columns about Dr. Fingal Flahertie O’Reilly.
10 ( 15) 42 wks And the Mountains Echoed Khaled Hosseini A new novel by the author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns.
NON- FICTION
1 ( 1) 19 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.
2 ( 3) 22 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.
3 ( 2) 7 wks Unsinkable: A Memoir Silken Laumann Olympic rower Silken Laumann writes about her life.
4 (-) 1 wk. I Can See Clearly Now Wayne W. Dyer Internationally renowned author and speaker has written a memoir.
5 ( 8) 19 wks The War That Ended Peace Margaret MacMillan Subtitled The Road to 1914, this book is about the First World War. 6 ( 5) 7 wks My Journey Olivia Chow Memoir by MP and wife of late NDP leader Jack Layton.
7 ( 4) 5 wks Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story Robyn Doolittle Get the full story about Toronto’s controversial mayor.
8 ( 7) 21 wks Orr: My Story Bobby Orr Hockey great Bobby Orr tells his story in this memoir.
9 ( 6) 3 wks The Sixth Extinction Elizabeth Kolbert Kolbert writes that we are witnessing a wide- scale dying off of species comparable to the earlier extinction events.
10 ( 9) 7 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. Large number indicates rating in the past week, number in parentheses indicates rating the previous week, third number indicates number of weeks on bestseller list. © TBM BookManager Ltd., www. bookmanager. com. Lists are compiled weekly from actual sales at more than 280 Canadian independent booksellers.