The bestselling books in Canada for the week ending June 7

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Our imminent retreat to cottage country brings with it a deluge of fine summer reading:

“Killing Moon” is the 13th Harry Hole mystery from Jo Nesbo, the pre-eminent purveyor of Nordic noir. This one’s a transatlantic mystery with our sleuth visiting Los Angeles while directing a serial-killer investigation in Oslo. It joins the Original fiction list at No. 9.

Toronto writer Ashley Audrain’s 2021 debut, “The Push,” enjoyed a long run on the bestseller list. “The Whispers,” her new domestic thriller, also delves into the dark side of momhood in all its ambivalence. It debuts this week at No. 9 on the Canadian list surrounded by great early reviews, including this one in The Star.

On the Original nonfiction list, CBC Vancouver journalist Angela Sterritt debuts with “Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls,” part memoir, part reportage from the front lines of Indigenous life. Sterritt is a member of the Gitxsan Nation and her book debuts at No. 4 on the Original nonfiction list and No. 2 on the Canadian list.

Actor Elliot Page takes us from his success as the star of 2007’s “Juno” to his gradual transition from gay to transgender. The Halifax-born star’s life story, “Page Boy,” debuts on the Canadian list at No. 9.

— Sarah Murdoch

The bestseller lists are compiled by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited from information provided by BookNet Canada’s national sales tracking service, BNC SalesData.

ORIGINAL FICTION

1. Homecoming, Kate Morton, Simon & Schuster (9)*

2. Meet Me at the Lake, Carley Fortune, Viking (5)

3. Happy Place, Emily Henry, Berkley (6)

4. It Ends with Us, Colleen Hoover, Atria (87)

5. It Starts with Us, Colleen Hoover, Atria (32)

6. Yellowface, R.F. Kuang, William Morrow (3)

7. Identity, Nora Roberts, St. Martin’s Place (2)

8. The Lie Maker, Linwood Barclay, William Morrow (3)

9. Killing Moon, Jo Nesbo, trans. Seán Kinsella, Random House Canada (1)

10. Unfortunately Yours, Tessa Bailey, Avon (1)

ORIGINAL NON-FICTION

1. Truth Telling, Michelle Good, HarperCollins Canada (2)

2. Spare, Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, Random House Canada (21)

3. The Wager, David Grann, Doubleday (7)

4. Unbroken, Angela Sterritt, Greystone (1)

5. Fire Weather, John Vaillant, Knopf Canada (2)

6. Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed (114)

7. The Survivor, Josef Lewkowicz, Michael Calvin, HarperCollins Canada (9)

8. 12 Rules for Life, Jordan B. Peterson, Random House Canada (150)

9. There Are Moms Way Worse Than You, Glenn Boozan, Priscilla Witte, Workman (3)

10. Ducks, Kate Beaton, Drawn & Quarterly (25)

CANADIAN FICTION

1. Meet Me at the Lake, Carley Fortune, Viking

2. The Lie Maker, Linwood Barclay, William Morrow

3. Everything She Feared, Rick Mofina, MIRA

4. Standing in the Shadows, Peter Robinson, McClelland & Stewart

5. Closer by Sea, Perry Chafe, Simon & Schuster

6. The Dutch Orphan, Ellen Keith, HarperCollins Canada

7. Every Summer After, Carley Fortune, Penguin Canada

8. The Paris Deception, Bryn Turnbull, MIRA

9. The Whispers, Ashley Audrain, Viking

10. A Death at the Party, Amy Stuart, Simon & Schuster

CANADIAN NON-FICTION

1. Truth Telling, Michelle Good, HarperCollins Canada

2. Unbroken, Angela Sterritt, Greystone

3. Fire Weather, John Vaillant, Knopf Canada

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

5. 12 Rules for Life, Jordan B. Peterson, Random House Canada

6. Ducks, Kate Beaton, Drawn & Quarterly

7. Lightfoot, Nicholas Jennings, Penguin Canada

8. Outsider, Brett Popplewell, Collins

9. Pageboy, Elliot Page, HarperCollins Canada

10. Leaving Good Things Behind, Darren Calabrese, McClelland & Stewart

CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULT

1. Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas under the Sea, Dav Pilkey, Graphix

2. Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers

3. From the World of Percy Jackson: the Sun and the Star, Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro, Disney-Hyperion

4. Surprisingly Sarah, Terri Libenson, Balzer & Bray

5. The One and Only Ruby, Katherine Applegate, HarperCollins

6. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, Holly Jackson, Ember

7. If He Had Been with Me, Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire

8. Girls Like Girls, Hayley Kiyoko, Wednesday

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

10. Taylor Swift: a Little Golden Book Biography, Wendy Loggia, Elisa Chavarri, Golden

HEALTH & FITNESS

1. Outlive, Peter Attia, Bill Gifford, Harmony

2. The Body Keeps Score, Bessel van der Kolk, Penguin

3. The Myth of Normal, Gabor Maté, Daniel Maté, Knopf Canada

4. Ultra-Processed People, Chris van Tulleken, Knopf Canada

5. When the Body Says No, Gabor Maté, Vintage

6. Fast Like a Girl, Mindy Pelz, Hay House

7. Eat to Beat Your Diet, William W. Li, Grand Central

8. What Happened to You?, Oprah Winfrey, Bruce D. Perry, Flatiron

9. Built to Move, Kelly Starrett, Juliet Starrett, Knopf

10. Come As You Are (revised and updated), Emily Nagoski, Simon & Schuster

* Number of weeks on list