The bestselling books in Canada for the week ending April 12

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Toronto novelist Amy Stuart’s “A Death at the Party” continues to draw in new readers. This week, its fifth week, it ranks No. 5 on the Original Fiction list while on the Canadian list it’s No. 1; and on our Mystery bestseller list, which appears every five weeks and includes both original and reprint titles, it ranks No. 2.

A Canadian non-fiction title that is finding its audience is “Gibby: Tales of a Baseball Lifer,” by John Gibbons and Greg Oliver. Gibbons was the manager of the Blue Jays over the course of 11 years and was guiding the team when it played in the World Series in 2015 for the first time in 22 years. Last week “Gibby” debuted on the Canadian list. This week it scored No. 6 on the Original Non-Fiction list and No. 4 on the Canadian list.

A third Canadian racking up strong sales is Omer Aziz, whose memoir, “Brown Boy,” debuts this week at No. 9 on the Original list and No. 5 on the Canadian list. Aziz takes us on his journey from the outskirts of Toronto to trying to find his place in the world’s centres of excellence, including France’s Sciences Po, Britain’s Cambridge University and America’s Yale Law School, before moving on to jobs with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and then foreign affairs minister Chrystia Freeland.

— 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, Atria (1)

2. Hang the Moon, Jeannette Wall, Scribner (2)

3. It Starts with Us, Colleen Hoover, Atria (24)

4. Pineapple Street, Jenny Jackson, Viking (3)

5. It Ends with Us, Colleen Hoover, Atria (79)

6. A Death at the Party, Amy Stuart, Simon & Schuster (5)

7. Trees of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson, Tor (1)

8. Coronation Year, Jennifer Robson, William Morrow (1)

9. Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover, Atria (37)

10. The Perfumist of Paris, Alka Joshi, MIRA (2)

ORIGINAL NON-FICTION

1. Spare, Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, Random House Canada (13)

2. Ducks, Kate Beaton, Drawn & Quarterly (18)

3. The Survivor, Josef Lewkowicz, Michael Calvin, HarperCollins Canada (1)

4. The Watchmaker’s Daughter, Larry Loftis, William Morrow (6)

5. 12 Rules for Life, Jordan B. Peterson, Random House Canada (142)

6. Gibby, John Gibbons, Greg Oliver, ECW (1)

7. I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster (28)

8. Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed (106)

9. Brown Boy, Omer Aziz, Scribner (1)

10. Love, Pamela, Pamela Anderson, Dey Street (10)

CANADIAN FICTION

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

2. Coronation Year, Jennifer Robson, William Morrow

3. The Berry Pickers, Amanda Peters, Harper Perennial

4. Old Babes in the Wood, Margaret Atwood, McClelland & Stewart

5. Greenwood, Michael Christie, McClelland & Stewart

6. Camp Zero, Michelle Min Sterling, Knopf Canada

7. Hotline, Dimitri Nasrallah, Esplanade

8. Birnam Wood, Eleanor Catton, McClelland & Stewart

9. Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel, Harper Perennial

10. Women Talking, Miriam Toews, Vintage Canada

CANADIAN NON-FICTION

1. Ducks, Kate Beaton, Drawn & Quarterly

2. Run Towards the Danger, Sarah Polley, Penguin Canada

3. 12 Rules for Life, Jordan B. Peterson, Random House Canada

4. Gibby, John Gibbons, Greg Oliver, ECW

5. Brown Boy, Omer Aziz, Scribner

6. Love, Pamela, Pamela Anderson, Dey Street

7. Ordinary Notes, Christina Sharpe, Knopf Canada

8. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, Matthew Perry, Flatiron

9. 21 Things You May Not Know about the Indian Act, Bob Joseph, Indigenous Relations

10. Quantum Physics Made Me Do It, Jérémie Harris, Viking

CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULT

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

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

3. Cat Kid Comic Club: Collaborations (Cat Kid Comic Club #4), Dav Pilkey, Scholastic

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

5. Punk Rock Unicorn, Dana Simpson, Andrews McMeel

6. Big Nate: Nailed It!, Lincoln Pierce, Andrews McMeel

7. Why I Love Easter, Daniel Howarth, HarperCollins Children’s

8. Woo Hoo! You’re Doing Great!, Sandra Boynton, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

9. Mary Anne’s Bad Luck Mystery (The Baby-Sitters Club #13) , Ann M. Martin, Cynthia Yuan Cheng, Graphix

10. Where’s Waldo? The Great Speed Search, Martin Handford, Candlewick

MYSTERY

1. The Russian, James Patterson, James O. Born, Grand Central

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

3. Overkill, Sandra Brown, Grand Central

4. Verity, Colleen Hoover, Grand Central

5. The Hunt, Faye Kellerman, William Morrow

6. It’s One of Us, J.T. Ellison, MIRA

7. Lost Souls, Lisa Jackson, Kensington

8. Countdown, James Patterson, Brendan DuBois, Little Brown

9. Mercy, David Baldacci, Grand Central

10. The Final Detail, Harlan Coben, Dell

* Number of weeks on list

The Original Fiction list was updated from a previous version due to incorrect information provided to the Star

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