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A look at Random House of Canada's bestselling across the country.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM:

Maclean's list dating from October 15, 2009
Globe and Mail list dating from October 17, 2009
Toronto Star list dating from October 18, 2009
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The Lost Symbol
Written by Dan Brown
Doubleday
Hardcover, 528 pages

#1 on the Globe and Mail Fiction bestseller list
#1 on the Maclean's Fiction bestseller list
#1 on the Toronto Star Original Fiction bestseller list


In this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world's most popular thriller writer. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling—a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths . . . all under...

The Associate
Written by John Grisham
Dell
Paperback, 448 pages

#1 on the Globe and Mail Fiction In Paper bestseller list


Kyle McAvoy possesses an outstanding legal mind. Good-looking and affable, he has a glittering future. He also has a dark secret that could destroy his dreams, his career, even his life. One night that secret catches up with him. The men who accost Kyle have a compromising video they’ll use to...

True Detectives
Written by Jonathan Kellerman
Ballantine Books
Paperback, 480 pages

#4 on the Globe and Mail Fiction In Paper bestseller list


Moses Reed and Aaron Fox have the same mother; their respective fathers were cops, friends, and partners. And despite their shared calling, their turbulent family history has set them at odds. Moses is a no-frills LAPD detective; Aaron is a smooth-talking private eye. Usually they go their separate ways, but the...

Where Men Win Glory
Written by Jon Krakauer
Doubleday
Hardcover, 416 pages

#9 on the Toronto Star Original Non-Fiction bestseller list


The bestselling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a stunning, eloquent account of a remarkable young man’s haunting journey.

Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers, Pat Tillman was an irrepressible individualist and iconoclast. In...

An Echo in the Bone
Written by Diana Gabaldon
Doubleday Canada
Hardcover, 848 pages

#2 on the Toronto Star Original Fiction bestseller list


A new Outlander novel — the seventh — from #1 National Bestselling author Diana Gabaldon.

Readers have been waiting with bated breath for the seventh volume in bestselling author Diana Gabaldon’s epic Outlander saga — a masterpiece of historical fiction featuring Jamie and Claire, from one of the genre’s most popular and...
Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.

My Life in France (Movie Tie-In Edition)
Written by Julia Child and Alex Prud'Homme
Anchor
Trade Paperback, 368 pages

#7 on the Globe and Mail Non-Fiction In Paper bestseller list


Julia Child single handedly awakened America to the pleasures of good cooking with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she didn't know the first thing about cooking when she landed in France.

Indeed, when she...
Also available as a paperback.

The Time Traveler's Wife
Written by Audrey Niffenegger
Vintage Canada
Trade Paperback, 560 pages

#3 on the Globe and Mail Fiction In Paper bestseller list


New York Times Bestseller

Today Show Book Club Selection


Audrey Niffenegger's innovative debut, The Time Traveler's Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry...

Her Fearful Symmetry
Written by Audrey Niffenegger
Knopf Canada
Hardcover, 416 pages

#6 on the Globe and Mail Fiction bestseller list
#2 on the Maclean's Fiction bestseller list
#4 on the Toronto Star Original Fiction bestseller list


Another brilliant, original and moving novel from the author of The Time Traveler’s Wife.

Julia and Valentina Poole are normal American teenagers — normal, at least, for identical “mirror” twins who have no interest in college or jobs or possibly anything outside their cozy suburban home. But everything changes when they...
Also available as an eBook.

The Year of the Flood
Written by Margaret Atwood
McClelland & Stewart
Hardcover, 448 pages

#5 on the Globe and Mail Fiction bestseller list
#3 on the Maclean's Fiction bestseller list
#3 on the Toronto Star Original Fiction bestseller list


The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood is a brilliant visionary imagining of the future that calls to mind her classic novel The Handmaid’s Tale.

Adam One, the kindly leader of God’s Gardeners — a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion — has long...

Gretzky's Tears
Written by Stephen Brunt
Knopf Canada
Hardcover, 272 pages

#6 on the Globe and Mail Non-Fiction bestseller list


Renowned sportswriter Stephen Brunt reveals how “the Great One,” who was bought and sold more than once, decided that the comfortable Canadian city where hockey ruled couldn’t compete with the slushy ice of a California franchise.

Bobby Orr’s career ended prematurely, with tears. Wayne Gretzky’s tears, unlike Orr’s, announced not an ending...
Also available as an eBook.

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