{"id":81717,"date":"2025-08-19T17:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/81717\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T17:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:32:10","slug":"what-canadian-books-are-popular-right-now-check-out-this-weeks-bestsellers-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/81717\/","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 Aug. 9-16.<\/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\"AShe Didn’t See It Coming is a thriller novel by Shari Lapena. (Doubleday Canada, Rachel Wainz)<\/p>\n

She Didn’t See It Coming\u00a0by Shari Lapena\u00a0is the #1\u00a0Canadian fiction book this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In She Didn’t See It Coming, husband and wife Bryden and Sam seemingly have a perfect life: thriving careers, a good support system, a beautiful daughter and a fashionable condo. But illusions are up when one day, Bryden disappears from her own home, leaving no trace. As Sam and the rest of the community try to figure out what happened, the cracks in their perfect life begin to show.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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

She Didn’t See It Coming\u00a0by Shari Lapena One Golden Summer\u00a0by Carley Fortune Valentine\u00a0in Montreal\u00a0by Heather O’Neill, illustrated by Arizona O’Neill Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice Snap\u00a0by Susin Nielsen Finding\u00a0Flora\u00a0by Elinor Florence Endling by Maria Reva Greenwood\u00a0by Michael Christie The Berry Pickers\u00a0by Amanda Peters The\u00a0Adversary\u00a0by Michael Crummey 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 Myth of Normal\u00a0by Dr. Gabor Mat\u00e9, with Daniel Mat\u00e9 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 Messy Cities edited by\u00a0Dylan Reid, Zahra Ebrahim, Leslie Woo\u00a0and John Lorinc The Golden Spruce\u00a0by John Vaillant Canadian kids\u00a0\"AAward-winning author Linda Bailey has written more than thirty children’s books. (Lia Grainger\/Tundra)<\/p>\n

Carson Crosses Canada<\/a>\u00a0by Linda Bailey, illustrated by Kass Reich, is the #1 Canadian kids’ book this week. \u00a0<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Carson Crosses Canada<\/a>, Annie and her dog Carson set out on a cross-country road trip from British Columbia to Newfoundland to visit Anne’s sister Elsie. As they drive across Canada, they see special sights in every province to finally make it Elsie’s\u00a0\u2014 where a great surprise for Carson awaits.<\/p>\n

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

Carson Crosses Canada\u00a0by Linda Bailey, illustrated by Kass Reich T is for Terry\u00a0by Denise Dias,\u00a0illustrated by No\u00e9mie Gionet Landry You Were Made for This World\u00a0edited by Stephanie Sinclair\u00a0and Sara Sinclair The New Girl\u00a0by Cassandra Calin Mallory\u00a0and the Trouble with Twins\u00a0by Arley Nopra The Marrow Theives\u00a0by Cherie Dimaline I Want My Hat Back\u00a0by Jon Klassen The\u00a0Paper Bag Princess\u00a0by Robert Munsch, illustrated by Michael Martchenko The Great Dinosaur Sleepover\u00a0by Linda Bailey, illustrated by Joe Bluhm Shark Girl\u00a0by Kate Beaton <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are the bestselling Canadian fiction, nonfiction and children’s books from Aug. 9-16. Bestseller lists are compiled by\u00a0Bookmanager\u00a0using…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[353,49,48,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-81717","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\/81717","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=81717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}