Based on sales by 250 independent Canadian booksellers for the week ending Saturday, Oct. 11. Bracketed figures indicate number of weeks on list.

Hardcover Fiction

1(9) Through Black Spruce Joseph Boyden

2 (8) The Story of Edgar Sawtelle David Wroblewski

3 (11) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society -- Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

4 (8) The Private Patient -- P.D. James

5 (10) The Flying Troutman -- Miriam Toews 6 (6) A Most Wanted Man -- John Le Carre

7 (1) Swallowing Darkness

Laurell K. Hamilton

8 (27) The Host -- Stephanie Meyer 9 (1) Salvation in Death -- J.D. Robb

10 (6) All the Colours of Darkness Peter Robinson

Hardcover Non-Fiction

1 (12) What is America?: A Short History of the New World Order Ronald Wright

2 (7) A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada John Ralston Saul

3 (18) My Stroke of Insight: A Brain

Scientist's Personal Journey

Jill Bolte Taylor

4 (2) Hell Or High Water: My Life In and Out of Politics -- Paul Martin 5 (10) The Secret --Rhonda Byrne 6 (2) Getting to the Bubble: Finding Magic Amid the Urban Road

Mike McCardell 7(1) Otherwise -- Farley Mowat

8 (5) Passchendaele: Canada's Triumph and Tragedy on the Fields of Flanders -- Norman Leach 9 (2) Don Cherry's Hockey Stories and Stuff -- Don Cherry 10 (5) Letter to My Daughter -- Maya Angelou

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