I told myself I wasn’t going to write about “Heated Rivalry” again this week, but it’s hard not to do when the book and its mates in Rachel Reid’s “Game Changers” series are burning up the bestseller lists again as readers snap up her tales of hunky hockey players in love.
“Heated Rivalry” author Rachel Reid.
I thought we’d perhaps hit peak “Heated Rivalry” last week — that’s the name of the ridiculously popular Crave TV series as well as the book — when five of Reid’s novels made the Canadian fiction list and two topped the original fiction list. But this week, Reid has snagged the top six spots in Canadian fiction and has five books on the original fiction list.
She was knocked out of top spot in original fiction by Taylor Jenkins Reid‘s astronaut romance “Atmosphere,” but still! Plus, we now know that Reid will continue the story of lovers Shane and Ilya — the focus of “Heated Rivalry” and sequel “The Long Game” — with a new book in September, “Unrivaled.”
In non-“Heated Rivalry” news, a couple of Canadian authors made a mark on the original non-fiction list.
Trina Moyles is at No. 6 with “Black Bear: A Story of Siblinghood and Survival,” her memoir about her encounters with bears when she worked as a fire lookout in northern Alberta, as well as how she processed her grief over her brother’s suicide. It’s also at No. 4 on the Canadian non-fiction list.
Another personal story, “Life After Ambition: A ‘Good Enough’ Memoir,” made No. 8 in original non-fiction.
It’s an account by Toronto journalist Amil Niazi, a columnist for New York Magazine’s “The Cut,” of jumping off the professional hamster wheel to see what else is out there.
1. The Long Game, Rachel Reid, Carina
2. Game Changer, Rachel Reid, Carina
3. Heated Rivalry, Rachel Reid, Carina
4. Tough Guy, Rachel Reid, Carina
5. Role Model, Rachel Reid, Carina
6. Common Goal, Rachel Reid, Carina
7. Hollow (deluxe limited edition), Celina Myers, Hanover Square
8. The Black Wolf, Louise Penny, Minotaur
9. One Golden Summer, Carley Fortune, Viking
10. Finding Flora, Elinor Florence, Simon & Schuster
1. The Wealthy Barber, David Chilton, Financial Awareness
2. Book of Lives, Margaret Atwood, McClelland & Stewart
3. One Day, Everyone Will have Always Been Against This, Omar El Akkad, McClelland & Stewart
4. Black Bear, Trina Moyles, Knopf Canada
5. We Breed Lions, Rick Westhead, Random House Canada
6. Life After Ambition, Amil Niazi, McClelland & Stewart
7. The Smiling Land, Alan Doyle, Doubleday Canada
8. Sorry, Not Sorry, Mark Critch, Viking
9. Vanished Beyond the Map, Adam Shoalts, Allen Lane
10. Live to See the Day, Mark Medley, McClelland & Stewart
1. Atmosphere, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Doubleday Canada (17)*
2. The Long Game, Rachel Reid, Carina (2)
3. Game Changer, Rachel Reid, Carina (1)
4. Heated Rivalry, Rachel Reid, Carina (3)
5. The Correspondent, Virginia Evans, Crown (1)
6. The First Time I Saw Him, Laura Dave, Scribner (1)
7. Tough Guy, Rachel Reid, Carina (1)
8. Wild Dark Shore, Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron (8)
9. My Friends, Fredrik Backman, Simon & Schuster (25)
10. Role Model, Rachel Reid, Carina (1)
1. The Wealthy Barber, David Chilton, Financial Awareness (7)
2. Nobody’s Girl, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Knopf (11)
3. Book of Lives, Margaret Atwood, McClelland & Stewart (9)
4. 1929, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Viking (10)
5. One Day, Everyone Will have Always Been Against This, Omar El Akkad, McClelland & Stewart (28)
6. Black Bear, Trina Moyles, Knopf Canada (1)
7. We Breed Lions, Rick Westhead, Random House Canada (3)
8. Life After Ambition, Amil Niazi, McClelland & Stewart (1)
9. Notes on Being a Man, Scott Galloway, Simon & Schuster (5)
10. Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy, Simon & Schuster (9)
1. Talons of Power (Wings of Fire #9), Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes, Graphix
2. Big Jim Believes (Dog Man #14), Dav Pilkey, Graphix
3. For the Fans! (KPop Demon Hunters), Angela Song, Golden Books
4. Partypooper (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #20), Jeff Kinney, Amulet
5. Vortex of the Chaos Dragon (Dragon Masters #30), Tracey West, Graham Howells, Scholastic
6. Powerless, Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
7. A Waffle Lot of Love (Narwhal and Jelly #10), Ben Clanton, Tundra
8. Love You Forever, Robert Munsch, Sheila McGraw, Firefly
9. Dragon Cursed, Elise Kova, Entangled
10. Darkstalker (Wings of Fire: Legends), Tui T. Sutherland, Jake Parker, Graphix
1. The Housemaid, Freida McFadden, Grand Central
2. The Housemaid’s Secret, Freida McFadden, Quercus
3. It Should Have Been You, Andrea Mara, Doubleday Canada
4. The Housemaid Is Watching, Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen
5. The Invisible Woman, James Patterson, Susan DiLallo, Little, Brown
6. Don’t Let Him In, Lisa Jewell, Atria
7. The Intruder, Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen
8. The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides, Celadon
9. The Inmate, Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen
10. The Waiting, Michael Connelly, Little, Brown
The bestseller lists are compiled by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited from information provided by BookNet Canada’s national sales tracking service, BNC SalesData.
