BEST ON THE SHELF
FICTION
1 (2) The Illegal (4 wks) Lawrence Hill This book about illegal migrants is by the author of The Book of Negroes. 2( 1) The Nature of the Beast (6 wks) Louise Penny This is the latest Chief Inspector Gamache mystery. 3 (3) The Girl in the Spider’s Web (4 wks) David Lagercrantz A followup to the Stieg Larsson Lisbeth Salander series. 4 (-) The Heart Goes Last: A Novel (1 wk) Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel. 5 (5) Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights (4 wks) Salman Rushdie Rushdie’s new novel blends history, mythology and a love story. 6 (4) Make Me (5 wks) Lee Child This is the most recent Jack Reacher novel. 7 (6) Undermajordomo Minor (4 wks) Patrick deWitt This novel is by the author of The Sisters Brothers. 8 (7) Go Set a Watchman: A Novel (12 wks) Harper Lee This is the followup novel to the classic To Kill a Mockingbird. 9 (8) Step Aside, Pops (3 wks) Kate Beaton This is a followup to the bestselling Hark! A Vagrant. 10 (11) His Whole Life (8 wks) Elizabeth Hay This is the story of a boy, his Canadian mother and his American father.
NON-FICTION
1 (-) The Reason You Walk (1 wk) Wab Kinew A moving story of fatherson reconciliation told by a charismatic aboriginal star. 2 (1) History’s People (3 wks) Margaret MacMillan Popular historian writes about personalities of the past. 3 (2) Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things (2 wks) Jenny Lawson New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. 4 (-) Unaccountable: Truth and Lies on Parliament Hill (1 wk) Kevin Page A unique insider’s account of the Harper government so damning that it can’t be ignored. 5 (-) Sixty: The Beginning of the End, Or the End of the Beginning (1 wk) Ian Brown A wickedly honest and brutally funny account of the year in which Ian Brown truly realized that the man in the mirror was actually ... 60. 6 (7) Secret Garden: 20 Postcards (10 wks) Johanna Basford This book of drawings is for artists and gardeners. 7 (4) What’s Happened to Politics? (6 wks) Bob Rae This take on politics is by the former NDP premier of Ontario. 8 (3) Open Heart, Open Mind (4 wks) Clara Hughes The Olympic athlete recalls her tumultuous life in this memoir. 9 (6) Canoe Country (4 wks) Roy MacGregor This book is subtitled: The Making of Canada. 10 (5) Between the World and Me (11 wks) Ta-Nehisi Coates A black American father shares life lessons with his son.
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