What Canadian books are popular right now? Check out this week's bestsellers

Here are the bestselling Canadian fiction, nonfiction and children's books from June 22-29, 2024.

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

Canadian fiction

Vacationing one summer on Prince Edward Island, Lucy meets Felix in an electric, chemistry-filled night. Only one problem: Felix is her best friend Bridget's younger brother. On her annual return trips to P.E.I., Lucy vows to avoid Felix and his bed, that This Summer Will Be Different — easier said than done. When Bridget rushes home to P.E.I. in crisis a week before her wedding, Lucy can only follow and remind herself to protect her heart, but finally wonders if she really wants to do that after all. 

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See the full Canadian fiction list below. 

1. This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune
2. Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
3. Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
4. The Lost Tarot by Sarah Henstra
5. Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
6. Lightning Strikes the Silence by Iona Whishaw
7. Coexistence by Billy-Ray Belcourt
8. Fayne by Ann-Marie MacDonald
9. Greenwood by Michael Christie
10. Parade by Rachel Cusk

Canadian nonfiction

The War We Won Apart by Nahlah Ayed is the #1 Canadian nonfiction book this week.

The War We Won Apart weaves together the lives of Sonia and Guy d'Artois starting with their early years: Sonia born in England, raised in France and Guy from Montreal. By 1944, both were working for Britain's Special Operations Executive and fell in love as they were undergoing training in Scotland. Days after they got married, the pair was separated, each embarking on dangerous missions as elite agents, then reuniting post-war, immigrating to Quebec and raising six children.

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See the full Canadian nonfiction list below.

1. The War We Won Apart by Nahlah Ayed
2. Fire Weather by John Vaillant 
3. Making Love With The Land by Joshua Whitehead
4. Truth Telling by Michelle Good
5. The Prince by Stephen Maher
6. Winipek by Niigaan Sinclair 
7. Crosses in the Sky by Mark Bourrie
8. Beneath the Surface of Things by Wade Davis
9. Health for All by Jane Philpott
10. North of Nowhere by Marie Wilson

Canadian kids

The New Girl by Cassandra Calin is the #1 Canadian kids book this week.

Inspired by artist Cassandra Calin's own immigration story, The New Girl is a middle-grade graphic novel about Lia and her family's move to Canada from Romania. Alongside all the complicated feelings Lia has about moving to somewhere completely different from home, when she arrives she experiences her first period. Now, as Lia navigates a new school with new classmates and new languages she is also faced with the daunting task of puberty.

• Cassandra Calin on creating a comic book about the immigrant experience — and her favourite Romanian snacks

See the full kids list below.

1. The New Girl by Cassandra Calin 
2. Carson Crosses Canada by Linda Bailey, illustrated by Kass Reich
3. The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
4. The Barren Grounds by David A. Robertson
5. Claudia and the Bad Joke by Ann M. Martin, illustrated by Arley Nopra
6. Love You Forever by Robert Munsch, illustrated by Sheila McGraw
7. Club Microbe by Elise Gravel
8. Métis Like Me by Tasha Hilderman, illustrated by Risa Hugo
9. Mushrooms Know: Wisdom from Our Friends by Kallie George, illustrated by Sara Gillingham
10. Sometimes I Feel Like an Oak by Danielle Daniel, illustrated by Jackie Traverse