BookNet's Top Books on Sports

Gear up for the Vancouver Winter Olympics with these top 20 bestselling sports and recreation titles. For the two weeks ending Nov. 22, 2009:

1. Gretzky’s Tears, Stephen Brunt(Knopf Canada, $34.95 cl, 9780307397294)
2. Canada’s Olympic Hockey History, 1920–2010, Andrew Podnieks(Key Porter, $40 pa, 9781551683232)
3. The Book of Basketball, Bill Simmons(Random House Canada, $37 cl, 9780345511768)
4. Why the Leafs Suck and How They Can Be Fixed, Al Strachan(HarperCollins Canada, $22.99 pa, 9781554685462)
5. Hockey Dad, Bob McKenzie(John Wiley & Sons Canada, $29.95 cl, 9780470159392)
6. Leafs AbomiNation, David Feschuk, Michael Grange(Random House Canada, $19.67 pa, 9780307357762)
7. NHL Official Guide and Record Book 2010(Triumph Books/Monarch Books of Canada, $29.95 pa, 9781894801164)
8. Curl to Win, Russ Howard(HarperCollins Canada, $29.99 cl, 9780002008488)
9. Survive! Les Stroud(HarperCollins Canada, $21.95 pa, 9780002008860)
10. The Montreal Canadiens, D’Arcy Jenish(Doubleday Canada, $22 pa, 9780385663250)
11. Jacques Plante, Todd Denault(McClelland & Stewart, $32.99 cl, 9780771026331)
12. Survive! Ultimate Edition, Les Stroud(HarperCollins Canada, $34.99 pa, 9781554686377)13. Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer(Knopf Canada, $9.99 mm, 9780307475251)
14. Home Ice, Lorna Schultz Nicholson(H.B. Fenn, $25 pa, 9781551683256)
15. Got Fight? Forrest Griffin, Erich Krauss(HarperCollins Canada, $31.50 cl, 9780061721717)16. TSN 25 Years(John Wiley & Sons Canada, $39.95 cl, 9780470736487)
17. Searching for Bobby Orr, Stephen Brunt(Knopf Canada, $22 pa, 9780676976526)
18. Saskatchewan Roughriders, Robert Lorin Calder (Centax Books & Distribution, $54.95 cl, 9781897010617)