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Fiction

THIS WEEK/LAST WEEK/WEEKS ON LIST/ TITLE/AUTHOR/PUBLISHER/PRICE
1 1 2 Twenties Girl, by Sophie Kinsella (Dell, $32).
2 2 55 The Shack, by William P. Young (Windblown Media, $15.99).
3 3 15 Pride And Prejudice And Zombies, by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith (Quirk, $17.95).
4 - 1 The Girl Who Played With Fire, by Stieg Larsson (Viking Canada, $32).
5 6 55 The Host, by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown, $28.99).
6 4 3 Best Friends Forever, by Jennifer Weiner (Simon & Schuster, $29.99).
7 5 24 Still Alice, by Lisa Genova (Simon & Schuster, $17.50).
8 7 6 The Doomsday Key, by James Rollins (William Morrow, $21).
9 - 3 The Slap, by Christos Tsiolkas (HarperCollins, $24.99).
10 - 1 The Angel's Game, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Doubleday Canada, $34.95).
IN PAPER
1 4 9 The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger (Knopf, $22).
2 1 10 My Sister's Keeper, by Jodi Picoult (Simon & Schuster, $11.99).
3 3 52 The Book Of Negroes, by Lawrence Hill (HarperCollins, $24.95).
4 8 2 The Quickie, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (Grand Central, $9.50).
5 2 2 Smoke Screen, by Sandra Brown (Simon & Schuster, $12.99).
6 5 4 The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson (Penguin Canada, $13.50).
7 6 12 The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (Dial, $16.50).
8 - 1 Chosen To Die, by Lisa Jackson (Zebra, $10.99).
9 - 1 Promises In Death, by J.D. Robb (Berkley, $9.99).
10 - 1 Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Dead and Alive, by Dean Koontz (Bantam, $11.99).
THIS WEEK/LAST WEEK/WEEKS ON LIST/ TITLE/AUTHOR/PUBLISHER/PRICE
1 1 36 Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $30.99).
2 2 3 Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson, by Ian Halperin (Transit, $24.95).
3 3 10 Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller, by Jeff Rubin (Random House Canada, $29.95).
4 4 17 Always Looking Up, by Michael J. Fox (Hyperion, $33.99).
5 5 11 Slow Death By Rubber Duck, by Rick Smith, Bruce Lourie and Sarah Dopp (Knopf Canada, $32).
6 - 1 Michael Jackson, by J. Randy Taraborrelli (Grand Central, $22.99).
7 7 67 The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch, with Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion, $23.50).
8 6 3 The Evolution Of God, by Robert Wright (Little, Brown, $28.99).
9 - 22 The Ascent Of Money, by Niall Ferguson (Penguin Press, $33).
10 - 32 Payback, by Margaret Atwood (Anansi, $18.95).
IN PAPER
1 3 3 Julie And Julia, by Julie Powell (Little, Brown, $16.99).
2 2 72 Three Cups Of Tea, by Greg Mortenson (Penguin, $18.50).
3 7 8 My Stroke Of Insight, by Jill Bolte Taylor (Plume, $18.50).
4 4 3 My Life In France, by Julia Child, with Alex Prud'homme (Anchor, $18.95).
5 8 173 The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $21.95).
6 5 47 Dreams From My Father, by Barack Obama (Crown, $21).
7 10 12 In Defense Of Food, by Michael Pollan (Penguin, $16.50).
8 1 122 Eat Pray Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin, $18.50).
9 6 162 The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls (Scribner, $19).
10 9 71 Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $18.50).
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The bestseller list is compiled by The Globe and Mail using sales figures provided by BookNet Canada's national sales tracking service, BNC SalesData, and from bookstores across Canada, including those named above.

Non-Fiction

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Canadian Bestsellers

RANK// TITLE/AUTHOR/PUBLISHER
FICTION
1 The Book Of Negroes, by Lawrence Hill (HarperCollins, $24.95).
2 The Shack, by William P. Young (Windblown Media, $15.99).
3 Devil Bones, by Kathy Reichs (Simon & Schuster, $12.99).
4 Too Close To Home, by Linwood Barclay (Bantam, $10.99).
5 The Gargoyle, by Andrew Davidson (Random House Canada, $21).
6 The Flying Troutmans, by Miriam Toews (Random House Canada, $22).
7 Any Known Blood, by Lawrence Hill (HarperCollins, $24.95).
8 Water For Elephants, by Sara Gruen (HarperCollins, $16.50).
9 The Cellist Of Sarajevo, by Steven Galloway (Random House Canada, $21).
10 Late Nights On Air, by Elizabeth Hay (McClelland & Stewart, $19.99).
11 Three-Day Road, by Joseph Boyden (Penguin, $20).
12 All The Colours Of Darkness, by Peter Robinson (McClelland & Stewart, $11.99).
13 Order In Chaos, by Jack Whyte (Viking Canada, $38).
14 The Origin Of Species, by Nino Ricci (Doubleday Canada, $22).
15 Life Of Pi, by Yann Martel (Knopf Canada, $21).
Non-Fiction
1 Unmasked: The Final Years Of Michael Jackson, by Ian Halperin (Transit, $24.95).
2 Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $30.99).
3 Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller, by Jeff Rubin (Random House Canada, $29.95).
4 Always Looking Up, by Michael J. Fox (Hyperion, $33.99).
5 The Hormone Diet, by Natasha Turner (Random House Canada, $32.95).
6 The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $16.99).
7 Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $18.50).
8 The Power Of Now, by Eckhart Tolle (New World Library, $14.95).
9 Slow Death By Rubber Duck, by Rick Smith, Bruce Lourie and Sarah Dopp (Knopf Canada, $32).
10 A New Earth, by Eckhart Tolle (Penguin, $15.50).
11 Prisoner Of Tehran, by Marina Nemat (Penguin Canada, $18).
12 The Brain That Changes Itself, by Norman Doidge (Penguin, $17.50).
13 Survive!, by Les Stroud (HarperCollins, $21.95).
14 This Is Your Brain On Music, by Daniel J. Levitin (Penguin, $16.50).
15 Payback, by Margaret Atwood (Anansi, $18.95).
RANK// TITLE/AUTHOR/PUBLISHER
1 My Sister's Keeper, by Jodi Picoult (Simon & Schuster, $11.99).
2 Tribute, by Nora Roberts (Penguin, $8.99).
3 The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society , by Mary Ann Shaffer (Dell, $16.50).
4 Still Alice, by Lisa Genova (Simon & Schuster, $17.50).
5 Honor Thyself, by Danielle Steel (Dell, $10.99).
6 Always Looking Up, by Michael J. Fox (Hyperion, $33.99).
7 Vision In White, by Nora Roberts (Penguin, $20).
8 The Associate, by John Grisham (Knopf, $33).
9 Angels And Demons, by Dan Brown (Simon & Schuster, $12.99).
10 Sail, by James Patterson (Grand Central, $11.99).

Bestsellers to date this year The Canadian Fiction and Non-Fiction bestseller lists, and the year-to-date list, are compiled for The Globe and Mail by BookNet Canada.

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