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The bestselling Canadian books for the week of Nov. 3 to 9, 2019
Bestseller lists are compiled by Bookmanager using weekly sales stats from over 260 Canadian independent stores.
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The CBC Books fall reading list: 30 books to read now
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Margaret Atwood, Louise Penny, S.K. Ali, Malcolm Gladwell among Goodreads' 2019 best book nominees
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David Szalay's Turbulence looks at how we're disconnected in a connected world
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Ryan B. Patrick
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'There's never been a better time' to be a woman, says activist Sally Armstrong
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How to tune into the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize
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Amanda Parris
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Your seafood dinner could be tied to slavery on fishing vessels, says journalist
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Joy Kogawa revisits the story of Japanese Canadian internment camps with a new AR app
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I Am C-3PO: Anthony Daniels on playing the Star Wars droid for more than 40 years
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Jael Richardson's book pick: Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh
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Forget Paris: Go to Winnipeg, says author who has visited more than 110 countries
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'I thought my mind would never be mine again': Arnold Thomas Fanning explores mental illness in new memoir
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How to stay on 50K write track for NaNoWriMo author challenge
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Ben Lerner's new novel goes back to the '90s to understand Trump's America
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33 writers make the 2019 CBC Poetry Prize longlist
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Decades after WW II, 99-year-old conscientious objector shares story in new book
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Scottish poet tells the story of a Canadian vet in post-WW II America — in verse
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Ingo Schulze reflects on life in Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall
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11 Canadian books to read for Remembrance Day
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Why Megan Gail Coles set her Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated novel on Valentine's Day in Newfoundland
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