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BookNet bestsellers: Canadian fiction

The “Scotiabank Giller Prize effect” has proven its power, with all five 2012 shortlisted titles making appearances on this week’s bestseller list.

For the two weeks ending Nov. 11:

1. 419, Will Ferguson
(Viking Canada, $32 cl, 9780670064717)

2. Revenge of the Vinyl Café, Stuart McLean
(Viking Canada, $32 cl, 9780670064748)

3. Life of Pi (movie tie-in edition), Yann Martel
(Vintage Canada, $21 pa, 9780307363053)

4. Dear Life, Alice Munro
(McClelland & Stewart, $32.99 cl, 9780771064869)

5. The Imposter Bride, Nancy Richler
(HarperCollins Canada, $17.99 pa, 9781443404037)

6. Ru, Kim Thúy; Sheila Fischman, trans.
(Vintage Canada, $18.95 pa, 9780307359711)

7. Inside, Alix Ohlin
(House of Anansi Press, $22.95 pa, 9781770892064)

8. Up and Down, Terry Fallis
(M&S, $22.99 pa, 9780771047961)

9. The Cat’s Table, Michael Ondaatje
(Vintage Canada, $22 pa, 9780307401427)

10. Gabriel’s Inferno, Sylvain Reynard
(Berkley/Penguin, $17 pa, 9780425265963)

11. Gabriel’s Rapture, Sylvain Reynard
(Berkley/Penguin, $17 pa, 9780425265956)

12. The Renegade, Jack Whyte
(Viking Canada, $34 cl, 9780670068470)

13. The Town That Drowned, Riel Nason
(Goose Lane Editions, $19.95 pa, 9780864926401)

14. Trust Your Eyes, Linwood Barclay
(Doubleday Canada, $22 pa, 9780385669573)

15. The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt
(Anansi, $22.95 pa, 9781770890329)

16. Beware This Boy, Maureen Jennings
(M&S, $24.99 pa, 9780771043130)

17. Another Angel of Love, Henry Ripplinger
(Pio-Seelos Books, $21.95 pa, 9780986542428)

18. Life of Pi, Yann Martel
(Vintage Canada, $21 pa, 9780676973778)

19. The Buckshaw Chronicles, Volume 1, Alan Bradley
(Anchor Canada, $29.95 pa, 9780385678889)

20. Whirl Away, Russell Wangersky
(Thomas Allen Publishers, $21.95 pa, 9780887629365)

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