“Heated Rivalry” fever has come to the non-fiction lists.
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The Rachel Reid hockey-romance novel that inspired the hit Crave TV series of the same name dominated the Canadian fiction lists early this year and late last year after the show’s release.
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Now, Jacob Tierney, its writer and showrunner, has topped the Canadian and original non-fiction lists.
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In “I’ll Believe in Anything,” Tierney reproduces the scripts for the first season with annotations that go behind the scenes.
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“Obviously I had no sense at the time, while I was writing the show, of how it would resonate,” Tierney told the Star.
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“But the reason I was so enthusiastic about ‘Heated Rivalry,’ about the adaptation, was the happy ending.”
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He added that it was “very appealing to write this kind of classic fantasy for queer people as an antidote to toxicity.
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There’s kindness, and the narrative chugs along toward joy in these characters’ lives.”
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Several other Canadian authors made a showing on both of the non-fiction lists, including former deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland, whose “Unreliable Boyfriend: An Insider’s View of Dealing with a Chaotic Superpower, Plutocrats, and Other Complicated People” prescribes standing up to the bullying of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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A couple of new sports memoirs by Canadians also cracked the lists: “The Code of the West” by hockey coach Darryl Sutter and “Learning to Breathe” by Olympic speedskater Clara Hughes.
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And former CBC journalist Carol Off rediscovers her patriotism in “True Patriot Love: Reporting from the Frontlines of Canadian Sovereignty.”
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I’ll Believe in Anything, Jacob Tierney, Little, Brown
2. Unreliable Boyfriend, Chrystia Freeland, Simon & Schuster
3. The Code of the West, Darryl Sutter, Justin Bourne, Viking
4. The American Way of Killing, Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown
5. Learning to Breathe, Clara Hughes, Simon & Schuster
6. True Patriot Love, Carol Off, Random House Canada
7. End Times Fascism, Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, Knopf Canada
8. Into the Breach, Wayne Eyre, Simon & Schuster
9. Reclaiming Canadian Sovereignty in a Ruptured World, ed.
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The Heights, Ian Rankin, Orion (1)
8. The French Illusion, John Grisham, Doubleday (3)
9. Partita, Barbara Kingsolver, Harper (2)
10. Other Worlds Than These, Stephen King, Peter Straub, Gabriel Rodriguez, Scribner (2)
ORIGINAL NON-FICTION
1. I’ll Believe in Anything, Jacob Tierney, Little Brown (1)
2. Unreliable Boyfriend, Chrystia Freeland, Simon & Schuster (1)
3. In the Shadow of Eight, Collin Gosselin, Grand Central (1)
4. The Code of the West, Darryl Sutter, Justin Bourne, Viking (1)
5. Swan Song, Charles Spencer, Penguin (4)
6. The American Way of Killing, Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown (3)
7. Learning to Breathe, Clara Hughes, Simon & Schuster (1)
8. One Helluva Ride, Michael Douglas, Grand Central (2)
9. True Patriot Love, Carol Off, Random House Canada (1)
10. End Times Fascism, Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, Knopf Canada (6)
CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULT
1. A Fishboy
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Cozy Love and Christmas Crime, Anouk Filippini, Djohr Guedra, Éditions et Diffusions Auzou
7. 5-Minute Frozen Stories, Disney Book Group, Disney Press
8. The Sixth Faction (deluxe, limited edition), Veronica Roth, HarperCollins
9. Little Blue Truck’s Halloween, Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry, Clarion
10. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling, Levi Pinfold, Bloomsbury Children’s Books
MYSTERY
1. Verity, Colleen Hoover, Grand Central
2. Brain Damage, Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen
3. The Dying Light (Two Rivers #4), Ann Cleeves, Macmillan
4. Look What the Cat Dragged In, Jason Rekulak, Flatiron
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10. The Widow, John Grisham, Vintage
*Weeks on list
The bestseller lists are compiled by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited from information provided by BookNet Canada’s national sales tracking service, BNC SalesData.
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