{"id":53100,"date":"2025-08-07T22:51:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T22:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/53100\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T22:51:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T22:51:16","slug":"what-canadian-books-are-popular-right-now-check-out-this-weeks-bestsellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/53100\/","title":{"rendered":"What Canadian books are popular right now? Check out this week’s bestsellers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are the bestselling Canadian fiction, nonfiction and children’s books from July 26-Aug. 2.<\/p>\n

Bestseller lists are compiled by\u00a0Bookmanager<\/a>\u00a0using weekly sales stats from more than\u00a0260 Canadian independent stores.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Canadian fiction\"A One Golden Summer is a novel by Carley Fortune. (Penguin Random House Canada, Jenna Marie Wakani)<\/p>\n

One Golden Summer<\/a>\u00a0by Carley Fortune is the #1\u00a0Canadian fiction book this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One Golden Summer<\/a>\u00a0is\u00a0a follow-up to Fortune’s debut book\u00a0Every Summer After<\/a>\u00a0and tells the story of Alice, a photographer seeking a quiet, restorative summer at her childhood cottage with her grandmother. But her plans for peace are upended when Charlie \u2014 charming, flirtatious, and impossible to ignore \u2014 unexpectedly reappears. Soon, Alice finds herself feeling like she’s 17 again, questioning whether this summer might hold something more than she ever expected.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

See the full Canadian fiction list below:\u00a0<\/p>\n

One Golden Summer\u00a0by Carley Fortune Valentine in Montreal\u00a0by Heather O’Neill, illustrated by Arizona O’Neill She Didn’t See It Coming by Shari Lapena Finding Flora\u00a0by Elinor Florence Snap\u00a0by Susin Nielsen Greenwood\u00a0by Michael Christie The Deepest Fake by Daniel Kalla The Adversary\u00a0by Michael Crummey Meet Me at the Lake\u00a0by Carley Fortune Endling\u00a0by Maria Reva Canadian nonfiction\"AValues is a nonfiction book by Mark Carney. (Signal, Toby Madden)<\/p>\n

Value(s)<\/a>\u00a0by Mark Carney is the #1 Canadian nonfiction book this week.<\/p>\n

Values<\/a>\u00a0is a book by the former Bank of Canada governor and current prime minister, Mark Carney. Published in 2021,\u00a0Values<\/a>\u00a0looks at the “fault lines” that divide contemporary society \u2014 racial, geographical, cultural and economic \u2014 and argues that they all stem from the same thing: a crisis of values. In the book, Carney offers a vision of a “more humane society” and a map toward getting there.<\/p>\n

See the full Canadian nonfiction list below:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Value(s)\u00a0by Mark Carney\u00a0 One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This\u00a0by Omar El Akkad Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism\u00a0by Stewart Reynolds The\u00a0Crisis of Canadian Democracy\u00a0by Andrew Coyne Theory\u00a0of Water\u00a0by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson A\u00a0History of Canada in Ten Maps\u00a0by Adam Shoalts Fire\u00a0Weather\u00a0by John Vaillant Encampment\u00a0by Maggie Helwig Messy Cities\u00a0edited by\u00a0Dylan Reid, Zahra Ebrahim, Leslie Woo and John Lorinc The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant Canadian kids\u00a0\"TT is for Terry is a book written by Denise Dias (left), illustrated by No\u00e9mie Gionet Landry (right). (Scholastic Canada)<\/p>\n

T is for Terry<\/a>\u00a0by Denise Dias,\u00a0illustrated by No\u00e9mie Gionet Landry,\u00a0is the #1 Canadian kids’ book this week. \u00a0<\/p>\n

T is for Terry<\/a>, celebrates the life and work\u00a0of Canadian icon Terry Fox, the Winnipeg-born athlete, humanitarian and cancer research activist. The picture book tells the story of\u00a0Fox’s life \u2014 his ambitions, personality and legacy \u2014 through an ABC format.<\/p>\n

See the full kids list below:<\/p>\n

T is for Terry\u00a0by Denise Dias,\u00a0illustrated by No\u00e9mie Gionet Landry Carson Crosses Canada\u00a0by Linda Bailey, illustrated by Kass Reich The Marrow Theives by Cherie Dimaline Mallory and the Trouble with Twins\u00a0by Arley Nopra The New Girl\u00a0by Cassandra Calin I Want My Hat Back\u00a0by Jon Klassen You Were Made for This World edited by Stephanie Sinclair\u00a0and Sara Sinclair The\u00a0Paper Bag Princess\u00a0by Robert Munsch, illustrated by Michael Martchenko The Animal People Choose a Leader\u00a0by Richard Wagamese, illustrated by Bridget George Snoop\u00a0by Gordon Korman <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are the bestselling Canadian fiction, nonfiction and children’s books from July 26-Aug. 2. Bestseller lists are compiled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[353,49,48,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-53100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}