Lawrence Hill takes three spots on this week’s list for Canadian fiction.
For the two weeks ending July 8, 2012:
1. The Cat’s Table, Michael Ondaatje
(Vintage Canada, $22 pa, 9780307401427)
2. Room, Emma Donoghue
(HarperCollins Canada, $10.99 mm, 9781443413695)
3. Secret Daughter, Shilpi Somaya Gowda
(HarperCollins Canada, $10.99 mm, 9780062203960)
4. The Virgin Cure, Ami McKay
(Vintage Canada, $22 pa, 9780676979572)
5. The Wild Zone, Joy Fielding
(Seal Books/Random House Canada, $10.99 mm, 9781400025794)
6. Half-Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan
(Thomas Allen Publishers, $24.95 pa, 9780887627415)
7. The Witch of Babylon, D.J. McIntosh
(Penguin Canada, $13.50 mm, 9780143175735)
8. A Good Man, Guy Vanderhaeghe
(M&S, $22 pa, 9780771086083)
9. The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt
(House of Anansi Press, $22.95 pa, 9781770890329)
10. A Trick of the Light, Louise Penny
(St. Martin’s Press/Raincoast, $16.99 pa, 9781250007346)
11. The Headmaster’s Wager, Vincent Lam
(Doubleday Canada, $32.95 cl, 9780385661454)
12. The Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill
(HarperCollins Canada, $10.99 mm, 9781443408981)
13. Spell Bound, Kelley Armstrong
(Vintage Canada, $17.95 pa, 9780307359032)
14. Secret Daughter, Shilpi Somaya Gowda
(HarperCollins Canada, $19.99 pa, 9780061974304)
15. Life of Pi, Yann Martel
(Vintage Canada, $21 pa, 9780676973778)
16. The Winter Palace, Eva Stachniak
(Doubleday Canada, $24.95 pa, 9780385666565)
17. Ru, Kim Thúy; Sheila Fischman, trans.
(Random House Canada, $25 cl, 9780307359704)
18. Any Known Blood, Lawrence Hill
(HarperCollins Canada, $17.99 pa, 9781443409100)
19. The Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill
(HarperCollins Canada, $17.99 pa, 9781443409094)
20. Everybody Has Everything, Katrina Onstad
(M&S, $22.99 pa, 9780771068980)