If you're looking for something to read, you may find some ideas in this just-released list from BookNetCanada of the top selling books in Canada in 2009. In addition to print formats, we also have many of these titles available as audiobooks on cd and downloadable audiobooks for your iPod/ mp3 players.

Top 5 Overall, All Categories:

•  The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown
• Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer
• Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
• New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
• The Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill (author reading on March 2, 2010 at the Central Library)

Top 5 Canadian-Authored, All Categories:

• The Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill
• The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity, William P. Young
• Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
• Playing With Fire, Theo Fleury
• Always Looking Up, Michael J. Fox

Top 5 Trade Paperback Adult Fiction:

•  The Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill
• The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity, William P. Young
• The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
• My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer

Top 5 Trade Paperback Non-Fiction:

• Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time, Greg Mortenson
• Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama
• The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, Eckhart Tolle
• The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
• The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama

Top 5 Hardcover Adult Fiction:

• The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown
• The Host, Stephenie Meyer
• An Echo in the Bone, Diana Gabaldon
• The Associate, John Grisham
• Twenties Girl, Sophie Kinsella

Top 5 Hardcover Non-Fiction:

• Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
• Guinness World Records 2010, Craig Glenday
• Playing With Fire, Theo Fleury
• Always Looking Up, Michael J. Fox
• Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom

Top 5 Juvenile:

• Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer
• Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
• New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
• Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
• The Last Straw, Jeff Kinney

~Lisa