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Bestseller lists compiled weekly from 230 independent Canadian booksellers

The Leader-Post
April 9, 2011

THIS WEEK (LAST WEEK)

NUMBER OF WEEKS ON LIST

TITLE, AUTHOR, PRICE IN CANADIAN DOLLARS, PUBLISHER

HARDCOVER FICTION

1( -) 1wks The Land of Painted Caves by Jean M. Auel $35 (Crown)

2( 1) 31wks Room by Emma Donoghue $29.99 (HarperCollins)

3( -) 1wks The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell $32.95 (KnopfCanada)

4( 3) 2wks The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party by Alexander McCall Smith $29.95 (KnopfCanada)

5( 2) 47wks The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson $32 (PenguinGroupCanada)

6( 4) 5wks Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult $32 (Simon&Schuster)

7( 5) 8wks A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley $29.95 (DoubledayCanada)

8( 8) 5wks The Wise Mans Fear by Patrick Rothfuss $37.50 (DAW)

9( 6) 58wks The Help by Kathryn Stockett $27.50 (Putnam)

10( -) 1wks Lover Unleashed by J.R. Ward $35 (NewAmericanLibrary)

11( 7) 4wks The Jungle by Clive Cussler with Jack Du Brul $32.50 (Putnam)

12( 9) 5wks A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness $33.50 (Viking)

13(10) 10wks Left Neglected by Lisa Genova $28.99 (Simon&Schuster)

14(11) 29wks Fall of Giants by Ken Follett $40 (Dutton)

15(12) 3wks The Paris Wife by Paula Mclain $29.95 (DoubledayCanada)

PAPERBACK FICTION

1( 1) 9wks The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis $19.99 (McClelland&Stewart)

2( 2) 95wks The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson $13.50 (Penguin)

3( 3) 57wks The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson $13.50 (PenguinGroupCanada)

4( 4) 40wks Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda $19.99 (HarperCollins)

5( 7) 5wks Annabel by Kathleen Winter $19.95 (Anansi)

6( 6) 5wks The Postmistress by Sarah Blake $18.50 (Berkley)

7( 5) 41wks Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese $22 (RandomHouseCanada)

8( 9) 132wks Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen $16.50 (HarperCollins)

9( 8) 5wks The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein $16.99 (HarperCollins)

10(14) 18wks Major Pettigrew's Last Stand: A Novel by Helen Simonson $22 (DoubledayCanada)

11(12) 3wks Solar by Ian McEwan $21 (KnopfCanada)

12( -) 1wks Indulgence in Death by J.D. Robb $9.99 (Berkley)

13(11) 51wks The Forgotten Garden: A Novel by Kate Morton $18.99 (Simon&Schuster)

14(10) 41wks The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley $19.95 (DoubledayCanada)

15(13) 19wks The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud $19.95 (Douglas&McIntyre)

HARDCOVER NON-FICTION

1( 2) 31wks The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant $34.95 (KnopfCanada)

2( 1) 8wks Patriot Hearts: Inside the Olympics That Changed a Country by John Furlong $32.95 (D&M)

3( 3) 23wks Life by Keith Richards $33.99 (Little,Brown&Co.)

4( -) 1wks Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock by Sammy Hagar $28.99 (HarperCollins)

5( 9) 18wks Atlantic by Simon Winchester $31.99 (HarperCollins)

6( 6) 4wks Extraordinary Canadians: Tommy Douglas by Vincent Lam $26 (PenguinCanada)

7( 4) 5wks How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly - and the Stark Choices Ahead by Dambisa Moyo $29.95 (D&M)

8( -) 1wks The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character and Achievement by David Brooks $31 (RandomHouse)

9( 5) 175wks The Secret by Rhonda Byrne $29.99 (S&S)

10( 8) 3wks Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton $30 (RandomHouse)

11(10) 26wks Changing My Mind by Margaret Trudeau $34.99 (HarperCollins)

12( -) 12wks How the Scots Invented Canada by Ken McGoogan $29.99 (HarperCollins)

13(11) 8wks Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff $33.99 (Little,Brown&Co.)

14( 7) 49wks SH*T My Dad Says by Justin Halpern $17.99 (HarperCollins)

15(13) 2wks Wait for Me! by Deborah Mitford $32.50 (FarrarStraus&Giroux)