The bestselling books in Canada for the week ending June 28

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“Zero Days” is the latest novel destined to go from bookstore to a weekend at the cottage. It’s by the popular thriller writer Ruth Ware, and joins the list this week at the top of the Original fiction list.

On the Canadian fiction list, the week’s top arrival is the wonderfully titled “I Only Read Murder.” It’s a cozy mystery about a washed-up TV sleuth who finds herself at a small town on the West Coast where, surprise!, she gets involved in a real-life murder. It’s by brothers Ian Ferguson and Will Ferguson, both winners of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. Their previous collaboration was 2007’s “How to Be a Canadian: Even If You Already Are One.” It ranks No. 7 on the list.

Finally, we can tell even without looking at Facebook posts showing our friends’ graduating offspring that it’s that time of year, because the poignant “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” by Dr. Seuss is No. 1 on the Children and Young Readers list. It’s a perennial, if perhaps unoriginal, gift to the graduands in our lives.

— 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. Zero Days, Ruth Ware, Simon & Schuster (1)*

2. The Five-Star Weekend, Elin Hilderbrand, Little Brown (2)

3. Love, Theoretically, Ali Hazelwood, Berkley (3)

4. The Whispers, Ashley Audrain, Viking (3)

5. Icebreaker, Hannah Grace, Atria (11)

6. Homecoming, Kate Morton, Simon & Schuster (12)

7. The Only One Left, Riley Sager, Dutton (1)

8. Meet Me at the Lake, Carley Fortune, Viking (8)

9. Happy Place, Emily Henry, Berkley (9)

10. Yellowface, R.F. Kuang, William Morrow (5)

ORIGINAL NON-FICTION

1. Pageboy, Elliot Page, HarperCollins Canada (3)

2. Truth Telling, Michelle Good, HarperCollins Canada (5)

3. The Wager, David Grann, Doubleday (10)

4. Spare, Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, Random House Canada (24)

5. The Great Canadian Cottage Book, Collins Canada (3)

6. I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster (31)

7. The Real Anthony Fauci, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Skyhorse (2)

8. Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed (115)

9. My Friend Anne Frank, Hannah Pick-Goslar, Dina Kraft, Little Brown (4)

10. 12 Rules for Life, Jordan B. Peterson, Random House Canada (151)

CANADIAN FICTION

1. The Whispers, Ashley Audrain, Viking

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

3. Someday I’ll Find You, C.C. Humphreys, Doubleday Canada

4. The Lie Maker, Linwood Barclay, William Morrow

5. Everything She Feared, Rick Mofina, MIRA

6. Every Summer After, Carley Fortune, Penguin Canada

7. I Only Read Murder, Ian Ferguson, Will Ferguson, HarperCollins Canada

8. The Push, Ashley Audrain, Penguin Canada

9. Five Little Indians, Michelle Good, Harper Perennial

10. The Dutch Orphan, Ellen Keith, HarperCollins Canada

CANADIAN NON-FICTION

1. Pageboy, Elliot Page, HarperCollins Canada

2. Truth Telling, Michelle Good, HarperCollins Canada

3. The Great Canadian Cottage Book, Collins Canada

4. 12 Rules for Life, Jordan B. Peterson, Random House Canada

5. Unbroken, Angela Sterritt, Greystone

6. 21 Things You May Not Know about the Indian Act, Bob Joseph, Indigenous Studies

7. Outsider, Brett Popplewell, Collins

8. Fire Weather, John Vaillant, Knopf Canada

9. Ducks, Kate Beaton, Drawn & Quarterly

10. The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King, Anchor Canada

CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULT

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

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

3. Second Grade Jumbo Workbook, Scholastic Canada, Cartwheel

4. Pre-K Jumbo Workbook, Scholastic Canada, Cartwheel

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

6. Kindergarten Jumbo Workbook, Scholastic Canada, Cartwheel

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

8. Bluey Outdoor Fun Box Set, Penguin Young Readers

9. Get Ready for Pre-K Jumbo Workbook, Scholastic Canada, Cartwheel

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

BUSINESS AND PERSONAL FINANCE

1. Atomic Habits, James Clear, Avery

2. The Psychology of Money, Morgan Housel, Harriman

3. Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert T. Kiyosaki, Plata

4. The Intelligent Investor (Revised edition), Benjamin Graham, Harper Business

5. Dare to Lead, Brené Brown, Random House

6. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey, Sean Covey, Jim Collins, Simon & Schuster

7. The Daily Stoic, Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman, Portfolio

8. How to Work with (Almost) Anyone, Michael Bungay Stanier, Page Two

9. The Coaching Habit, Michael Bungay Stanier, Page Two

10. Start with Why, Simon Sinek, Portfolio

* Number of weeks on list

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