International: 30 bestselling books of the week for Dec. 27

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NEW RELEASES

1. Meditations for Mortals, by Oliver Burkeman.

2. The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t a Guy at All: Volume 3, by Sumiko Arai.

3. The Language of Birds, by Jon-Erik Lappano, Zach Manbeck.

4. It Should Have Been You: A Novel, by Andrea Mara.

5. The Christmas Stocking Murders, by Denzil Meyrick.

6. Embroidering Life: Stitching Patterns and Projects for Every Season, by Yumiko Higuchi.

7. Let’s Go Home, Baby T. Rex, by Carolina Buzio.

8. Pop-Up Peekaboo! Tree, by Amy Grimes.

9. Silent Reading: Mo Du Volume 1 (Special Edition), by Priest.

10. Blue Lock Volume 25, by Elizabeth Helen.

FICTION

1. The Black Wolf: A Novel, by Louise Penny.

2. Pick a Colour, by Souvankham Thammavongsa.

3. Flesh: A Novel, by David Szalay. 

4. The Correspondent: A Novel, by Virginia Evans.     

5. What We Can Know: A Novel, by Ian McEwan.

6. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny: A Novel, by Kiran Desai.   

7. The Secret of Secrets: A Novel, by Dan Brown.   

8. Queen Esther: A Novel, by John Irving. 

9. The Widow: A Novel, by John Grisham. 

10. The Impossible Fortune: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery, by Richard Osman.

NON-FICTION

1. Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts, by Margaret Atwood.   

2. Always Remember: The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, The Horse and The Storm, by Charlie Mackesy.

3. John Candy: A Life in Comedy, by Paul Myers. 

4. Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It, by Cory Doctorow.

5. Bread of Angels: A Memoir, by Patti Smith. 

6. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, by Omar El Akkad. 

7. The Smiling Land: All Around the Circle in My Newfoundland and Labrador, by Alan Doyle.

8. Sorry, Not Sorry: An Unapologetic Look at What Makes Canada Worth Fighting For, by Mark Critch. 

9. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World, by Robin Wall Kimmerer. 

10. Vanished Beyond the Map: The Mystery of Lost Explorer Hubert Darrell, by Adam Shoalts.

— Compiled by Bookmanager using weekly sales statistics from over 250 Canadian independent book stores.