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At No. 8 on the original non-fiction list sits a posthumous book by Joan Didion, who died in 2021. “Notes to John” is a compilation of journal entries that Didion wrote for her husband, John Gregory Dunne (who predeceased her in 2003), about the psychiatric sessions she began in 1999.

And with the fate of Canada’s storied Hudson’s Bay up in the air, “The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson’s Bay Empire” by Stephen Bown was back on the Canadian non-fiction list at No. 9.Ìý

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, a Canadian Indigenous author and musician, entered both the original non-fiction and Canadian fiction lists, at No. 7 and 4 respectively, with “Theory of Water,” in which she traces the cultural and historical interactions of Indigenous people with water and reimagines water as a catalyst for transformation, according to Penguin Random House Canada.

ORIGINAL FICTION

1. Great Big Beautiful Life, Emily Henry, Berkley (1)*

2.ÌýSay You’ll Remember Me,ÌýAbby Jimenez, Forever (4)

3.ÌýOn Isabella Street, Genevieve Graham, Simon & Schuster (1)

4. Broken Country, Clare Leslie Hall, Simon & Schuster (8)

5.ÌýThe Maid’s Secret, Nita Prose, Viking (3)

6.ÌýThe Housemaid, Freida McFadden, Grand Central (35)

7.ÌýStrangers in Time, David Baldacci, Grand Central (2)

8.ÌýFunny Story, Emily Henry, Berkley (9)

9.ÌýEnchantra, Kaylie Smith, Forever (3)

10.ÌýOnyx Storm, Rebecca Yarros, Red Tower (14)

ORIGINAL NON-FICTION

1. Try Hard, Max Kerman, Viking (1)

2. Hope, Pope Francis,ÌýCarlo Musso, Richard Dixon, Random House (3)

3.ÌýHow to Giggle, Hannah Berner, Paige DeSorbo, Simon & Schuster (2)

4.ÌýOne Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, Omar El Akkad, McClelland & Stewart (9)

5. Genocide Bad, Sim Kern, Olive Branch (1)

6.ÌýThe Serviceberry, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Scribner (22)

7. Theory of Water, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Knopf Canada (1)

8. Notes to John, Joan Didion, Knopf (1)

9.ÌýOn Democracies and Death Cults, Douglas Murray, Broadside (3)

10.ÌýOn Tyranny, Timothy Snyder, Tim Duggan (9)

CANADIAN FICTION

1.ÌýOn Isabella Street, Genevieve Graham, Simon & Schuster

2.ÌýThe Maid’s Secret, Nita Prose, Viking

3.ÌýThe Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood, McClelland & Stewart

4.ÌýWild Love, Elsie Silver, Bloom

5.ÌýFinding Flora, Elinor Florence, Simon & Schuster

6. The Cost of a Hostage, Iona Whishaw, TouchWood

7.ÌýThe Paris Express, Emma Donoghue, Harper Avenue

8. Flawless, Elsie Silver, Bloom

9.ÌýThe Life Cycle of the Common Octopus, Emma Knight, Viking

10. Every Summer After, Carley Fortune, Viking

CANADIAN NON-FICTION

1.ÌýValue(s), Mark Carney, Signal

2.ÌýTry Hard, Max Kerman, VikingÌý

3.ÌýOne Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, Omar El Akkad, McClelland & Stewart

4.ÌýTheory of Water, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Knopf Canada

5. Ally Is a Verb, Rose LeMay, Page Two

6. We Who Wrestle With God, Jordan B. Peterson, Portfolio

7. All the Little Monsters, David A. Robertson, Shelagh Rogers, HarperCollinsÌý

8.ÌýRipper, Mark Bourrie, Biblioasis

9. The Company, Stephen Bown, Anchor Canada

10.ÌýA Two-Spirit Journey, Ma-Nee Chacaby, Mary Louisa Plummer, University of Manitoba

CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULT

1.ÌýSunrise on the Reaping, Suzanne Collins, Scholastic

2.ÌýFearless, Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

3.ÌýWarriors Graphic Novel (The Prophecies Begin #2), Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess, Sara Goetter, HarperAlley

4.ÌýBig Jim Begins (Dog Man #13), Dav Pilkey, Graphix

5.ÌýWatch Me, Tahereh Mafi, HarperCollins

6.ÌýKaren’s Prize (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #10), Shauna J. Grant, Ann M. Martin, Graphix

7.ÌýThe Cartoonists Club, Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix

8. Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers

9.ÌýMallory and the Trouble With Twins (Baby-Sitters Club #17), Arley Nopra, Ann M. Martin, Graphix

10. Powerless, Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

COOKING

1. Every Salad Ever, Greta Podleski, One Spoon

2. Tahini Baby, Eden Grinshpan, Penguin Canada

3. Shred Happens, Arash Hashemi, Rodale

4. The Essential Cottage Cookbook, Andrea Buckett, Appetite by Random House

5. The How Not to Age Cookbook, Michael Greger, Flatiron

6. Matty Matheson: Soups, Salads, Sandwiches, Matty Matheson, Appetite by Random House

7. So Easy So Good, Kylie Sakaida, Simon & Schuster

8. By Heart, Hailee Catalano, Dorling Kindersley

9. Life-Changing Salads, Danielle Brown, Dorling Kindersley

10. Where the River Narrows, J-C Poirier, Joie Alvaro Kent, Appetite by Random House

*Weeks on list

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