The bestselling Canadian books of the week

Here are the bestselling Canadian books from July 2-8, 2023.

Bestseller lists are compiled by Bookmanager using weekly sales stats from over 260 Canadian independent stores.

Canadian fiction

The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt is the #1 Canadian fiction book this week.

In The Librarianist, retired librarian Bob Comet is content spending the rest of his days reading in his Portland, Oregon home, until a chance encounter with an older woman in the supermarket brings him to the senior centre, where he begins volunteering. There, through conversations, reflection and a few funny characters, Bob's life story is slowly revealed.

Patrick deWitt is a novelist from Portland, Ore., by way of Vancouver Island. He has written several novels, including The Sisters Brothers, which won the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction, the Leacock Medal for Humour, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the Booker Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. His other books include Undermajordomo Minor and French Exit.

• Patrick deWitt depicts the loneliness and fullness of an introvert's life

See the full Canadian fiction list below.

1. The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt
2. Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune
3. Five Little Indians by Michelle Good
4. A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny
5. The Whispers by Ashley Audrain
6. I Only Read Murder by Ian Ferguson & Will Ferguson
7. Greenwood by Michael Christie
8. Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
9. Women Talking by Miriam Toews
10. Sea of Tranquillity by Emily St. John Mandel                                                                   

Canadian nonfiction

Pageboy by Elliot Page is the #1 Canadian nonfiction book this week.

Elliot Page shares his personal journey from the massive success of Juno to discovering his queerness and identity as a trans person, while navigating criticism and abuse from some of the most powerful people in Hollywood. Pageboy is filled with behind-the-scenes details and interrogations on sex, love and trauma. It's a story about what it means to free ourselves from the expectations of others and step into our truth with defiance, strength and joy.

• Why Elliot Page is speaking out about being trans 'in this climate of such intense hostility'

 See the full Canadian nonfiction list below.

1. Pageboy by Elliot Page
2. Truth Telling by Michelle Good
3. Ducks by Kate Beaton
4. Fire Weather by John Vaillant
5. Outsider by Brett Popplewell 
6. The Myth of Normal by Dr. Gabor Maté with Daniel Maté
7. Unbroken by Angela Sterritt
8. Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley
9. 21 Things You May Not Know about the Indian Act by Bob Joseph  
10. Held by the Land by Leigh Joseph

Canadian kids

The Barren Grounds by David A. Robertson is the #1 Canadian kids book this week.

The Barren Grounds is the first book of Robertson's new middle-grade series. It is set in Winnipeg where two Indigenous kids, Morgan and Eli, are placed in a new foster home. The pair feel out of place and disconnected in their new surroundings — until they uncover a secret portal in the attic that opens up to a magical reality. The frozen barren grounds they find set the pair on a mission of survival and self-determination.

• How David A. Robertson manages to write as much as he does

See the full Canadian kids book list below.

1. The Barren Grounds by David A. Robertson
2. Carson Crosses Canada by Linda Bailey, illustrated by Kass Reich
3. The Hidden World of Gnomes by Lauren Soloy
4. Sometimes I Feel Like a River by Danielle Daniel, illustrated by Josée Bisaillon
5. Tegan and Sara: Junior High by Tegan Quin and Sara Quin, illustrated by Tillie Walden
6. The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
7. Be a Good Ancestor by Leona Prince and Gabrielle Prince, illustrated by Carla Joseph
8. Love You Forever by Robert Munsch, illustrated by Sheila McGraw
9. Still This Love Goes On by Buffy Sainte-Marie, illustrated by Julie Flett
10. Pax by Sara Pennypacker, illustrated by Jon Klassen