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BookNet Canada's October bestseller lists

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Aren't books just great? If you're not going to enter our Black Rock Resort Contest (which we fully believe you should) and can't afford to book even the most affordable of vacations, here's a list of good reads to help you escape the city hubbub and grey weather gloom.

Here are BookNet Canada's bestsellers for October.

Top 10 Fiction

"The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
"The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" by Stieg Larsson
"The Cat's Table" by Michael Ondaatje
"Sing You Home" by Jodi Picoult
"The Best of Me" by Nicholas Sparks
"The Impossible Dead" by Ian Rankin
"The Fifth Witness" by Michael Connelly
"The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
"Before I Go to Sleep" by S. J. Watson
"Bad Blood" by John Sandford

Top 10 Non-Fiction

"Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson
"The Wealthy Barber Returns" by David Chilton
"Seriously... I'm Kidding" by Ellen DeGeneres
"Heaven Is for Real" by Todd Burpo
"Cold Hard Truth" by Kevin O'Leary
"Chef Michael Smith's Kitchen" by Michael Smith
"Cornered" by Ron M. Maclean
"Ripley's Believe It or Not! Strikingly True" by Geoff Tibbals
"The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven" by Kevin Malarkey
"Boomerang" by Michael Lewis


Top 10 Juvenile

"The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
"The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
"Silence" by Becca Fitzpatrick
"Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
"Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
"Destined" by P. C. Cast
"The Last Council" by Kazu Kibuishi
"The Amazing Voyage" by Geronimo Stilton
"The Power of Six" by Pittacus Lore
"How to Dork Your Diary" by Rachel Renée Russell

Canadian authors are in bold.


















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