The bestselling books in Canada for the week ending May 3

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“Glad Place,” Emily Henry’s fourth grownup romance debuts at No. 1 on the Unique fiction listing following sturdy critiques within the American press (it’s tempting, although presumably unkind, to consider her because the pondering lady’s Colleen Hoover). “Glad Place” is claimed to be edgier than Henry’s earlier outings, following three girlfriends — every with a secret, natch — over the course of 1 week.

One other debut on the Unique fiction listing is “Within the Lives of Puppets,” by T.J. Klune (at No. 7) with a science-fiction story excellent for our AI-focused instances, about three robots — an android, a nurse machine and a small vacuum — and one human.

In non-fiction, the week’s publishing success story is “Outsider,” Ottawa-based Brett Popplewell’s story of an aged superathlete named Dag Aabye and his life within the distant reaches of British Columbia. It debuted final week at No. 8 on the Canadian listing. This week it has risen to No. 3 on the Unique listing and No. 1 on the Canadian listing.

— Sarah Murdoch

The bestseller lists are compiled by Toronto Star Newspapers Restricted from info offered by BookNet Canada’s nationwide gross sales monitoring service, BNC SalesData.

ORIGINAL FICTION

1. Glad Place, Emily Henry, Berkley (1)*

2. Homecoming, Kate Morton, Simon & Schuster (4)

3. Dangle the Moon, Jeannette Wall, Scribner (5)

4. It Begins with Us, Colleen Hoover, Atria (27)

5. Merely Lies, David Baldacci, Grand Central (2)

6. It Ends with Us, Colleen Hoover, Atria (82)

7. Within the Lives of Puppets, T.J. Klune, Tor (1)

8. Pineapple Road, Jenny Jackson, Viking (6)

9. Icebreaker, Hannah Grace, Atria (7)

10. A Dying on the Celebration, Amy Stuart, Simon & Schuster (7)

ORIGINAL NON-FICTION

1. Spare, Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, Random Home Canada (16)

2. The Wager, David Grann, Doubleday (2)

3. Outsider, Brett Popplewell, Collins (1)

4. The Survivor, Josef Lewkowicz, Michael Calvin, HarperCollins Canada (4)

5. Geese, Kate Beaton, Drawn & Quarterly (21)

6. Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner, Classic (2)

7. Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed (109)

8. The Watchmaker’s Daughter, Larry Loftis, William Morrow (9)

9. 12 Guidelines for Life, Jordan B. Peterson, Random Home Canada (145)

10. I’m Glad My Mother Died, Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster (30)

CANADIAN FICTION

1. A Dying on the Celebration, Amy Stuart, Simon & Schuster

2. Coronation 12 months, Jennifer Robson, William Morrow

3. The Dutch Orphan, Ellen Keith, HarperCollins Canada

4. To Observe a Traitor, Iona Whishaw, TouchWood

5. All the things She Feared, Rick Mofina, MIRA

6. Meet Me on the Lake, Carley Fortune, Viking

7. Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel, Harper Perennial

8. Outdated Babes within the Wooden, Margaret Atwood, McClelland & Stewart

9. Snow Street Station, Elizabeth Hay, Knopf Canada

10. The Pretend, Zoe Whittall, HarperCollins Canada

CANADIAN NON-FICTION

1. Outsider, Brett Popplewell, Collins

2. The Survivor, Josef Lewkowicz, Michael Calvin, HarperCollins Canada

3. Geese, Kate Beaton, Drawn & Quarterly

4. Run In direction of the Hazard, Sarah Polley, Penguin Canada

5. 12 Guidelines for Life, Jordan B. Peterson, Random Home Canada

6. True Reconciliation, Jody Wilson-Raybould, McClelland & Stewart

7. Prisoner #1056, Roy Ratnavel, Viking

8. Love, Pamela, Pamela Anderson, Dey Road

9. 21 Issues You Might Not Know concerning the Indian Act, Bob Joseph, Indigenous Relations

10. Associates, Lovers, and the Huge Horrible Factor, Matthew Perry, Flatiron

CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULT

1. Canine Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas underneath the Sea, Dav Pilkey, Graphix

2. A Good Woman’s Information to Homicide, Holly Jackson, Ember

3. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Judy Blume, Atheneum Books for Younger Readers

4. The Adventures of Captain Underpants, Dav Pilkey, Scholastic

5. The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film Official Storybook, Michael Moccio, Random Home Books for Younger Readers

6. If He Had Been with Me, Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fireplace

7. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle, Penguin Younger Readers Group

8. Woman in Items, Kathleen Glasgow, Ember

9. The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film Official Exercise Ebook, Michael Moccio, Random Home Books for Younger Readers

10. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (a Starvation Video games novel), Suzanne Collins, Scholastic

HEALTH & FITNESS

1. Outlive, Peter Attia, Invoice Gifford, Concord

2. The Delusion of Regular, Gabor Maté, Daniel Maté, Knopf Canada

3. The Physique Retains Rating, Bessel van der Kolk, Penguin

4. When the Physique Says No, Gabor Maté, Classic

5. Pricey Future Mama, Meghan Trainor, HarperCollins Focus

6. Quick Like a Woman, Mindy Pelz, Hay Home

7. The Glucose Goddess Methodology, Jessie Inchauspe, Simon & Schuster

8. Younger Perpetually, Mark Hyman, Little Brown

9. Constructed to Transfer, Kelly Starrett, Juliet Starrett, Knopf

10. Eat to Beat Your Eating regimen, William W. Li, Grand Central

* Variety of weeks on listing* Variety of weeks on listing

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