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BookNet Canada's August bestseller lists

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This fall, everyone is picking up a book, and with good cause: The Vancouver International Writers Festival is coming up in October, so let's all help promote Canadian and international writers. Here are BookNet Canada's bestsellers for August.

Top 10 Fiction

"The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
"The Confession" by John Grisham
"The Help Movie Tie-in Edition" by Kathryn Stockett
"Room" by Emma Donoghue
"Private" by James Patterson
"One Day" by David Nicholls
"Safe Haven" by Nicholas Sparks
"Left Neglected" by Lisa Genova
"A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
"The Distant Hours" by Kate Morton

Top 10 Non-Fiction

"A Stolen Life" by Jaycee Dugard
"Heaven Is for Real" by Todd Burpo
"The Book of Awesome" by Neil Pasricha
"The Wealthy Barber Returns" by David Chilton
"Go the F* k to Sleep" by Adam Mansbach
"Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
"Quinoa 365" by Patricia Green
"The 17 Day Diet" by Mike Moreno
"All New Larousse's French-English English-French Dictionary" by Larousse Staff
"The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

Top 10 Juvenile

"The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
"Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
"Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
"The Power of Six" by Pittacus Lore
"Big Nate on a Roll" by Lincoln Peirce
"Thirst No. 4" by Christopher Pike
"Never Have I Ever: A Lying Game Novel" by Sara Shepard
"The Red Pyramid" by Rick Riordan
"Forever" by Maggie Stiefvater
"The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

Canadian authors are in bold.







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