BookNet's Top 20 Canadian Titles

The following Canadian titles – a mix of fiction and non-fiction – are the big sellers going into the final stretch of the Christmas shopping season. For the two weeks ending Nov. 29, 2009:

1. The Bishop’s Man, Linden MacIntyre(Random House Canada, $32 cl, 9780307357069)
2. Playing with Fire, Theo Fleury and Kirstie McLellan Day(HarperCollins Canada, $32.99 cl, 9781554682393)
3. All of Me, Anne Murray and Michael Posner(Knopf Canada, $35 cl, 9780307398444)
4. A Soldier First, Rick Hillier(HarperCollins Canada, $34.99 cl, 9781554684915)
5. What the Dog Saw, Malcolm Gladwell(Little, Brown/H.B. Fenn and Company, $34.99 cl, 9780316075848)
6. The Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill(HarperCollins Canada, $24.95 pa, 9781554681563)
7. Canadian Living: the Slow Cooker Collection, Elizabeth Baird(Transcontinental Books, $22.95 pa, 9780980992458)
8. Bravo! Best of Bridge Cookbook, Sally Vaughan-Johnston(Robert Rose, $29.95 spiral, 9780778802204)
9. Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliot Trudeau, 1968-2000, John English(Knopf Canada, $39.95 cl, 9780676975239)
10. 100 Photos That Changed Canada(HarperCollins Canada, $45 cl, 9781554684977)
11. The Shack, William P. Young(Windblown Media/Hachette, $15.99 pa, 9780964729230)
12. Extreme Vinyl Café, Stuart Mclean(Viking Canada, $36 cl, 9780670064472)
13. The Best of Chef at Home, Michael Smith(Whitecap Books/H.B. Fenn, $29.95 cl, 9781552859841)
14. Don Cherry’s Hockey Stories and Stuff, Don Cherry(Doubleday Canada, $29.95 pa, 9780385666756)
15. The Golden Mean, Annabel Lyon(Random House Canada, $32.95 cl, 9780307356208)
16. The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood(McClelland & Stewart, $32.99 cl, 9780771008443)
17. The Mistress of Nothing, Kate Pullinger(McArthur & Company, $24.95 pa, 9781552787984)
18. Gretzky’s Tears, Stephen Brunt(Knopf Canada, $34.95 cl, 9780307397294)
19. Love You Forever, Robert Munsch; Sheila McGraw, illus.(Firefly Books, $5.95 pa, 9780920668375)
20. One on One, Peter Mansbridge(Random House Canada, $35 cl, 9780307357847)