BEST ON THE SHELF

FICTION

1 ( 1) 3 wks All My Puny Sorrows

Miriam Toews The author of A Complicated Kindness writes a novel of two sisters, one of whom commits suicide. 2 ( 2) 5 wks Medicine Walk

Richard Wagamese Our reviewer calls this new novel about two men on a journey one of the finest novels of the year. 3 ( 3) 28 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) 5 wks The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

Gabrielle Zevin This book is about a bookstore owner whose prize possession, a collection of poems, is stolen. 5 ( 9) 2 wks Chestnut Street

Maeve Binchy One last story by Irish novelist Maeve Binchy, who died in 2012. 6 ( 5) 2 wks The Serpent of Venice

Christopher Moore Greed, revenge, deception, lust and a sea monster are promised in this bawdy tale. 7 (-) 1 wk. The Confabulist

Steven Galloway Author of The Cellist of Sarajevo writes about Houdini and his “magic.” 8 ( 7) 2 wks The Target

David Baldacci The newest adventure in the Robie and Reel series sees them called to Langley. 9 ( 6) 5 wks Frog Music

Emma Donoghue Our review said this historical whodunnit is a sensational tour through the hard- drinking late Victorian San Francisco. 10 ( 10) 8 wks Be Careful What You Wish For

Jeffrey Archer The fourth book in Archer’s Clifton chronicles is a tense thriller.

NON- FICTION

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( 3) 27 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 ( 6) 3 wks Tragedy in the Commons

Alison Loat Alison Loat draws on 80 exit interviews with former Members of Parliament to learn about politics in Canada. 3

( 4) 15 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. 4 ( 5) 30 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. 5 (-) 1 wk. Struck By Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel

Jason Padgett & Maureen P. Seaberg A man develops a keen awareness of geometry after experiencing a head injury. 6 ( 14) 3 wks Listen to the Squawking Chicken Elaine Lui The woman behind Lainey Gossip writes about her relationship with her mother. 7 ( 8) 5 wks A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power

Jimmy Carter Former U. S. president writes about the world’s discrimination and violence against women and girls. 8 ( 7) 11 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. 9 ( 9) 27 wks The War That Ended Peace

Margaret MacMillan Subtitled The Road to 1914, this book is about the First World War.

10 ( 12) 29 wks Orr: My Story

Bobby Orr

Hockey great tells his story.