Here are the bestselling books in Canada of 2017
Discover the most popular fiction, nonfiction, young adult and children's books this year.
As 2017 comes to a close, here are some of the bestselling books in Canada this past year.
Bestseller lists are compiled by Bookmanager using weekly sales stats from over 230 Canadian independent stores.
Overall | Canadian fiction | Canadian nonfiction | Canadian young adult | Canadian picture books
Overall

- milk and honey by Rupi Kaur
- The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
- Wonder by R.J. Palacio
- Glass Houses by Louise Penny
- The Break by Katherena Vermette
- Dog Man Unleashed by Dav Pilkey
- Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo
- Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
- Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
Canadian fiction

- milk and honey by Rupi Kaur
- Glass Houses by Louise Penny
- The Break by Katherena Vermette
- Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis
- Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- the sun and her flowers by Rupi Kaur
- Secret Path by Gord Downie & Jeff Lemire
- Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
- Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
Canadian nonfiction

- Embers by Richard Wagamese
- No Is Not Enough by Naomi Klein
- The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
- This I Know by Terry O'Reilly
- The Right to Be Cold by Sheila Watt-Cloutier
- Vimy by Tim Cook
- Game Change by Ken Dryden
- In Search of A Better World by Payam Akhavan
- Indigenous Writes by Chelsea Vowel
- Powered by Love by Joanna Henry, Ilana Landsberg-Lewis & Alexis MacDonald
Canadian YA

- The Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands
- The Mask That Sang by Susan Currie
- After Peaches by Michelle Mulder
- Mark of the Plague by Kevin Sands
- Dear Canada: These Are My Words by Ruby Slipperjack
- The Skeleton Tree by Iain Lawrence
- We Are All Made of Molecules by Susin Nielsen
- Masterminds by Gordon Korman
- The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
- Pandas on the Eastside by Gabrielle Prendergast
Canadian picture books

- Love You Forever by Robert Munsch, illustrated by Sheila McGraw
- The Darkest Dark by Chris Hadfield, illustrated by Eric Fan & Terry Fan
- When We Were Alone by David A. Robertson, illustrated by Julie Flett
- The Paper Bag Princess, 45th Edition by Robert Munsch, illustrated by Michael Martchenko
- The Paper Bag Princess, 78th Edition by Robert Munsch, illustrated by Michael Martchenko
- Narwhal by Ben Clanton
- Stepping Stones by Margriet Ruurs, Nizar Ali Badr & Falah Raheem
- Carson Crosses Canada by Linda Bailey, illustrated by Kass Reich
- Blackflies by Robert Munsch, illustrated by Jay Odjick
- Canada ABC by Paul Covello
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