Alberta's Bestselling Books
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FICTION
- The Accident of Being Lost - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (House of Anansi)
- The Testaments - Margaret Atwood (McClelland & Stewart)
- The Boy, the Horse, the Fox and the Mole - Charlie Mackesy (HarperCollins)
- The Power - Naomi Alderman (Little, Brown and Company)
- Agency - William Gibson (Penguin)
- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong (Penguin)
- American Dirt - Jeanine Cummins (Flatiron Books)
- Women Talking - Miriam Toews (Vintage Canada)
- Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng (Penguin)
- The Dutch House - Ann Patchett (HarperCollins)
NON-FICTION
- Successful Aging - Daniel J. Levitin (Penguin)
- Whose Water Is It, Anyway? - Maude Barlow (ECW Press)
- The Collected Schizophrenias - Esmé Weijun Wang (Graywolf Press)
- From the Ashes - Jesse Thistle (Simon & Schuster)
- Start With Why - Simon Sinek (Penguin)
- tawâw: Progressive Indigenous Cuisine - Shane M. Chartrand * and Jennifer Cockrall-King (House of Anansi) *
- All Our Relations - Tanya Talaga (House of Anansi)
- The Body - Bill Bryson (Doubleday Canada)
- The Vagina Bible - Dr. Jen Gunter (Random House)
- Becoming Supernatural - Joe Dispenza (Hay House, Inc.)
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Edmonton's Bestselling Books
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FICTION
- American Dirt - Jeanine Cummins (Flatiron Books)
- Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo (Black Cat)
- The Little Shop of Found Things - Paula Brackston (St. Martin’s Press)
- Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club - Megan Gail Coles (House of Anansi)
- ʔbédayine - Kaitlyn Purcell (Metatron Press) *
- The Melting Queen - Bruce Cinnamon (NeWest Press) * +
- Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories - edited by Neil Christopher (Inhabit Media)
- Son of a Trickster - Eden Robinson (Knopf Canada)
- Strange Planet - Nathan W. Pyle (HarperCollins)
- The Overstory - Richard Powers (W.W. Norton)
NON-FICTION
- All Things Being Equal - John Mighton (Knopf Canada)
- Power Play: Professional Hockey and the Politics of Urban Development - Jay Scherer, * David Mills, * Linda Sloan McCulloch (University of Alberta Press) * +
- From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way - Jesse Thistle (Simon & Schuster)
- The Skin We’re In - Desmond Cole (Doubleday Canada)
- Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good - adrienne maree brown (AK Press)
- Successful Aging - Daniel J. Levitin (Penguin)
- The Body - Bill Bryson (Doubleday Canada)
- Learning to Die - Robert Bringhurst and Jan Zwicky (University of Regina Press)
- How to Make Art at the End of the World - Natalie Loveless (Duke University Press)
- Duchess at Home: Sweet & Savoury Recipes from My Home to Yours - Giselle Courteau (Appetite by Penguin Random House) *
POETRY
- Vulgar Mechanics - K.B. Thors (Coach House Books) *
- This Wound is a World - Billy-Ray Belcourt (Frontenac House) * +
- A Place More Hospitable - Jason Purcell (Anstruther Press) *
- Bluets - Maggie Nelson (Wave Books)
- How Not to Spill - Jessica Johns (Rahila’s Ghost) *
- Unless You’re Willing to Evaporate - Jessica Coles (Prairie Vixen Press) *
- Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry - ed. Amber Dawn and Justin Ducharme (Arsenal Pulp Press)
- Aunt Rachel Says 13 Poems - Lizzie Derksen (self-published) *
- Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers - Jake Skeets (Milkweed Editions)
- The Truth About Magic - Atticus (St. Martin’s Griffin)
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Dianne Coan, Division Director of Technical Operations at Fairfax County Public Library in Fairfax, VA., and Carmi Parker, a librarian and ILS administrator have created a financial impact analysis of the library boycott of Macmillan eBooks. They’ve found that the boycotting libraries are creating an 83% loss in revenue. Their full findings are summarized here.
In 2015, Lee & Low Books released the first Diversity Baseline Survey (DBS 1.0) with the goal of establishing statistics about the diversity of individuals working in the publishing industry. In 2019 they launched DBS 2.0. Their results suggest that the diversity of the field has changed little since 2015.
The Association of American Publishers released a comparison of net book sales in November 2018 vs. November 2019, showing a 23.9% decrease between the two periods.
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"Life happened because I turned the pages."
―Alberto Manguel
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