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The top 10 bestselling Canadian books of 2019
CBC Books is counting down the top 10 bestselling Canadian titles of 2019, using data from close to 300 independent Canadian bookstores, courtesy of Bookmanager.
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The best books of 2019
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Katherine Govier named to the Order of Canada for her writing, charity work
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When Wayne Grady discovered his family's secret past, it changed who he was and how he wrote
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Why Lisa Charleyboy wrote a book to empower young Indigenous women
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Gail Gallant grew up believing she was reborn — and wrote a memoir about it
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James FitzGerald looks back on how his first love's early death shaped him and another man
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Todd Babiak's The Empress of Idaho explores vulnerability and sexual power
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Why Shandi Mitchell wrote a novel about the triumph of failure
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John Irving on why he became a Canadian
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Customer starts campaign to find new location for 'unique' Sydney bookstore
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Brent Kelloway
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The enduring appeal of Middlemarch, 200 years after George Eliot's birth
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Why Louise Penny had to be 'hurt' into writing full time
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Read 2 chapters and call me in the morning: The White Coat, Black Art book club
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9 books to read from The Next Chapter's mystery book panel
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Prescribed reading: How a book club helps health-care workers 'understand why we do what we do'
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The bestselling Canadian books for the week of Dec. 8-14, 2019
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How a news story about elevator inspectors (really!) inspired Linwood Barclay's latest thriller
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To Every Thing There is a Season: A reading of a Cape Breton Christmas story
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How Shawn Hitchins finds hope in Dickens's A Christmas Carol
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This man is memorizing and performing all 688 pages of Finnegans Wake
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'Be brave and fearless': Nearly 40 years on, The Paper Bag Princess is touted for a message ahead of its time
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