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Here are the bestselling Canadian fiction, nonfiction and children’s books from July 4-13.
Bestseller lists are compiled by Bookmanager using weekly sales stats from more than 260 Canadian independent stores.
Canadian fiction
Our Perfect Storm is the fifth novel by Canadian romance writer Carley Fortune. (Penguin Random House Canada)
Our Perfect Storm by Carley Fortune is the No. 1 Canadian fiction title this week.
In Our Perfect Storm, Frankie is dumped on the morning of her wedding, and George convinces her to take him on her Vancouver Island honeymoon instead. Frankie and George have been close since they were eight years old, but their tempers tend to get in the way.
This trip to Tofino is a chance to repair that — and keep Frankie from wallowing. But the more time they spend together, the more they realize that something might have been brewing between them all along.
See the full Canadian fiction list below:
- Our Perfect Storm by Carley Fortune
- The Cure for Drowning by Loghan Paylor
- The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances by Glenn Dixon
- The Last Mandarin by Louise Penny and Mellissa Fung
- Liberty Street by Heather Marshall
- Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid
- One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune
- A False and Fatal Claim by Iona Whishaw
- This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune
- Wildwood by Elinor Florence
Canadian nonfiction
The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI is a nonfiction book by Cory Doctorow. (MCD, Jonathan Worth)
For the third week, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI is the the No. 1 Canadian nonfiction book.
In The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI, author Cory Doctorow describes the term “reverse centaur” as someone who, because of technology, must work at an impossible pace.
Doctorow shares that even as someone who uses AI in his day-to-day, he’s worried about what could happen to the world economy if AI doesn’t live up to the investment hype that surrounds it. He breaks down how we got here — and how we might find a way to make AI work for us, rather than the alternative.
See the full Canadian nonfiction list below:
- The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow
- Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism by Stewart “Brittlestar” Reynolds
- Trash!: A Garbageman’s Story by Simon Pare-Poupart
- A History of Canada in Ten Maps by Adam Shoalts
- When the Forest Breathes by Suzanne Simard
- One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
- Values by Mark Carney
- The Wealthy Barber by David Chilton
- The Finest Hotel in Kabul by Lyse Doucet
- Talk Treaty to Me by Crystal Gail Fraser and Sara Komarnisky
Canadian kids
First Crush is a middle-grade graphic novel by Cassandra Calin. (Graphix)
For the ninth week in a row, First Crush by Cassandra Calin is the No. 1 Canadian kids book this week.
In the graphic novel First Crush, Lia is finally feeling more comfortable in her new life in Montreal. She’s gotten the hang of French, she has wonderful friends and her crush, Julien, is maybe starting to notice her. But she’s so busy obsessing over him that she doesn’t notice that she has another admirer. All of these big feelings are overwhelming and Lia must figure out how to manage them all.
See the full Canadian kids list below:
- First Crush by Cassandra Calin
- Dawn on the Coast by Arley Nopra
- The New Girl by Cassandra Calin
- Carson Crosses Canada by Linda Bailey, illustrated by Kass Reich
- The Wise Pickle by Sarah Howden, illustrated by Sabina Hahn
- The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch, illustrated by Michael Martchenko
- PAWS: The Trouble with Leo by Nathan Fairbairn, illustrated by Michele Assarasakorn
- The Inquisitive Raven by Richard Wagamese, illustrated by Bridget George
- Canada: We Are the Story by Richard Wagamese, illustrated by Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley
- Love You Forever by Robert Munsch, illustrated by Sheila McGraw
