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* Stats based on period from October 16 through November 25

Top 50 Bestselling Fiction

1 Yann Martel, Life of Pi (Vintage Canada, Paperback)
2 Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Last Crossing (McClelland & Stewart, Hardcover)
3 Wayne Johnston, The Navigator of New York (Knopf Canada, Hardcover)
4 Austin Clarke, The Polished Hoe (Thomas Allen, Hardcover)
5 Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters (McClelland & Stewart, Hardcover)
6 Carol Shields, Unless (Random House Canada, Hardcover)
7 Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones (Little, Brown, Hardcover)
8 Allison Pearson, I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother (Knopf, Hardcover)
9 Maeve Binchy, Quentins (McArthur, Paperback)
10 Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan (HarperCollins Canada, Paperback)
11 Umberto Eco, Baudolino (Harcourt, Hardcover)
12 Stephen King, From a Buick 8 (Scribner, Hardcover)
13 Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight (Tor, Hardcover)
14 Julie Andrews Edwards, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles (HarperTrophy, Paperback)
15 Anita Diamant, The Red Tent (Picador, Paperback)
16 William Trevor, The Story of Lucy Gault (Knopf Canada, Hardcover)
17 Sue Grafton, Q Is for Quarry (Putnam, Hardcover)
18 Irvine Welsh, Porno (Jonathan Cape, Paperback)
19 J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Raincoast , Paperback)
20 Donna Tartt, The Little Friend (Knopf, Hardcover)
21 R.A. Salvatore A Thousand Orcs Wizards of the Coast Hardcover
22 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit (Boxed Set) (HarperCollins,Paperback)
23 Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White (HarperCollins Canada,Hardcover)
24 Lemony Snicket, The Carnivorous Carnival (HarperCollins, Hardcover)
25 Dr. Seuss, Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? (Random House, Board Book)
26 Ian McEwen, Atonement (Vintage Canada, Paperback)
27 Imre Kertesz, Fateless (Northwestern University Press, Paperback)
28 Michael Crichton, Prey (HarperCollins Canada, Hardcover)
29 Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections (HarperCollins Canada, Paperback)
30 Alice Munro, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (Penguin Canada, Paperback)
31 James Patterson, Four Blind Mice (Little, Brown, Hardcover)
32 George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows (Spectra, Hardcover)
33 Anne Rice, Blackwood Farm (Knopf Canada, Hardcover)
34 Michael Connelly, Chasing the Dime (Little, Brown Hardcover)
35 Robert Ludlum, The Janson Directive (St. Martin's, Hardcover)
36 Scott Turow, Reversible Errors (HarperCollins, Hardcover)
37 Terry Pratchett, Night Watch (Doubleday UK, Hardcover)
38 Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd, Goodnight Moon (HarperCollins, Board Book)
39 Daniel Mason, The Piano Tuner (Knopf, Hardcover)
40 J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Raincoast, Paperback)
41 Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time (Yearling, Paperback)
42 Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby (Doubleday, Hardcover)
43 J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Raincoast, Paperback)
44 J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Raincoast, Paperback)
45 Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Dune: The Butlerian Jihad (Tor, Hardcover)
46 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion (HarperCollins, Paperback)
47 Janet Evanovich, Visions of Sugar Plums (St. Martin's, Hardcover)
48 Martin Cruz Smith, December 6 (Simon & Schuster, Hardcover)
49 David Weber, War of Honor (Baen, Hardcover)
50 Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are (HarperCollins , Hardcover)

Top 50 Bestselling Non-Fiction

1 Michael Moore, Stupid White Men ... and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! (HarperCollins, Hardcover)
2 Will Ferguson and Ian Ferguson, How to Be a Canadian (Even if You Already Are One)(Douglas & McIntyre, Paperback)
3 Douglas Coupland, Souvenir of Canada (Douglas & McIntyre , Paperback)
4 Rudolph Giuliani, Leadership (Miramax, Hardcover)
5 Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World (RandomHouse, Hard)
6 Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (HarperCollins, Paperback)
7 James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap, and Others Don't (HarperCollins, Hardcover)
8 Jamie Oliver, Happy Days with the Naked Chef (Hyperion, Hardcover)
9 Naomi Klein, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (Vintage Canada, Paperback)
10 Arthur Herman, How the Scots Invented the Modern World (Three Rivers, Paperback)
11 Allen Rucker and Michele Scicolone, The Sopranos Cookbook (Warner, Hardcover)
12 Bob Greene, Get with the Program!: Getting Real about Your Health, Weight, and Emotional Well-Being (Simon & Schuster, Paperback)
13 Andrew Mitrovica, Covert Entry: Spies, Lies and Crimes Inside Canada's Secret Service (Random House Canada, Hardcover)
14 Martha Hart with Eric Francis, Broken Harts: The Life and Death of Owen Hart (Key Porter, Paperback)
15 Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Viking, Hardcover)
16 David Pogue, Mac OS X: The Missing Manual (O'Reilly, Paperback)
17 Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Norton, Paperback)
18 Kurt Cobain, Journals (Riverhead, Hardcover)
19 Louis V. Gerstner, Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround (HarperCollins, Hardcover)
20 Preston Manning, Think Big: My Adventures in Life and Democracy (McClelland & Stewart, Hardcover)
21 Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan, Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done (Crown, Hardcover)
22 Robert R. Prechter, Conquer the Crash: You Can Survive and Prosper in a Deflationary Depression (Wiley, Hardcover)
23 Bill Wyman, Rolling with the Stones (Dorling Kindersley, Hardcover)
24 Culinary Institute of America, The Professional Chef (Wiley, Hardcover)
25 Kevin Mitnick The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security Wiley, Hardcover)
26 Laurel Mellin, The Solution: 6 Winning Ways to Permanent Weight Loss (Regan,Paperback)
27 Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Addison-Wesley, Hardcover)
28 Martin Fowler Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Addison-Wesley, Hardcover)
29 Jann Arden, If I Knew, Don't You Think I'd Tell You? (Insomniac, Paperback)
30 Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Pantheon, Paperback)
31 Michael Ondaatje, The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film (Vintage Canada, Paperback)
32 Patricia Cornwell, Portrait of a Killer: Jack the RipperùCase Closed (Putnam, Hardcover)
33 Joan Magretta and Nan Stone, What Management is: How It Works and Why It's Everyone's Business (Free Press, Hardcover)
34 Bjorn Lomborg, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World (Cambridge University Press, Paperback)
35 Mark Cotta Vaz, Alias Declassified: The Official Companion (Bantam, Paperback)
36 Scott Adams, Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel (HarperBusiness, Hardcover)
37 Bob Woodward, Bush at War (Simon & Schuster, Hardcover)
38 Noam Chomsky, 9-11 (Seven Stories, Paperback)
39 Naomi Klein, Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate (Vintage Canada , Paperback)
40 Barbara Coloroso, The Bully, the Bullied and the Bystander (HarperCollins Can, Hardcover)
41 Tom Shales and James A. Miller, Live from New York: An Oral History of Saturday Night Live (Little, Brown, Hardcover)
42 Ben Mezrich, Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions (Free Press, Hardcover)
43 Luke Welling and Laura Thomson, PHP and MySQL Web Development (SAMS, Paperback)
44 Steven R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Simon & Schuster, Paperback)
45 Jeremy Rifkin The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the Worldwide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth (Putnam, Hardcover)
46 Leo LaPorte, Leo LaPorte's 2003 Technology Almanac (Que, Paperback)
47 Business: The Ultimate Resource (Perseus, Hardcover)
48 Lou Paget, How to Give Her Absolute Pleasure (Broadway, Hardcover)
49 Robert Bateman, Birds (Penguin Canada, Hardcover)
50 William Bernstein The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio McGraw-Hill Hardcover

Top 15 Bestselling First Novels

1 Mary Lawson, Crow Lake (Knopf Canada, Hardcover)
2 Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief (McClelland & Stewart, Paperback)
3 Michael Crummey, River Thieves (Doubleday Canada,Paperback)
4 Michael Redhill, Martin Sloane (Anchor Canada, Paperback)
5 Yann Martel, Self (Vintage Canada, Paperback)
6 William Gibson, Neuromancer (Ace, Paperback)
7 Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees (Vintage Canada, Paperback)
8 Will Ferguson, Happiness (Penguin Canada, Paperback)
9 Dennis Bock, The Ash Garden (HarperCollins Canada, Paperback)
10 Steven Erikson, Gardens of the Moon (Bantam UK, Paperback)
11 Hubert Aquin, Next Episode (New Canadian Library,Paperback)
12 Paul Hiebert, Sarah Binks (New Canadian Library,Paperback)
13 Timothy Taylor, Stanley Park (Vintage Canada,Paperback)
14 Lori Lansens, Rush Home Road (Knopf Canada,Hardcover)
15 Nino Ricci, Lives of the Saints (Cormorant, Paperback )

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