The bestselling books in Canada for the week ending Nov. 24, 2021

Occasionally, there’s a striking anomaly on the bestseller lists, a book that is neither new nor the subject of rave reviews. Right now, that book is “It Ends with Us,” a romance published in 2016 by Texas writer Colleen Hoover and No. 9 on this week’s Original Fiction List. It first appeared on the list in August — a full five years after publication — and there it has remained ever since. Hoover (called CoHo by her young fans) has published a startling 21 novels since 2012, seven of them since “It Ends with Us.” But this is the one that has struck an enduring note.

-Sarah Murdoch

The bestseller lists are compiled by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited from information provided by BookNet Canada’s national sales tracking service, BNC SalesData.

ORIGINAL FICTION

1. State of Terror, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Louise Penny, Simon & Schuster (6)*

2. The Judge’s List, John Grisham, Doubleday (5)

3. The Apollo Murders, Chris Hadfield, Random House Canada (6)

4. The Stranger in the Lifeboat, Mitch Albom, Harper (3)

5. Never, Ken Follett, Viking (2)

6. Mercy, David Baldacci, Grand Central (1)

7. The Dark Hours, Michael Connelly, Little Brown (2)

8. The Strangers, Katherena Vermette, Hamish Hamilton (5)

9. It Ends with Us, Colleen Hoover, Atria (13)

10. Better off Dead, Lee Child, Andrew Child, Delacorte (4)

ORIGINAL NON-FICTION

1. Talking to Canadians, Rick Mercer, Doubleday Canada (3)

2. Guinness World Records 2022, Craig Glenda, Guinness World Records (10)

3. Will, Will Smith, Mark Manson, Penguin (2)

4. No One Wins Alone, Mark Messier, Jimmy Roberts, Simon & Schuster (4)

5. The Storyteller, Dave Grohl, Dey Street (7)

6. Off the Record, Peter Mansbridge, Simon & Schuster (7)

7. Best Wishes, Warmest Regards, Daniel Levy, Eugene Levy, Black Dog & Leventhal (4)

8. Taste, Stanley Tucci, Gallery (4)

9. Indian in the Cabinet, Jody Wilson-Raybould, HarperCollins Canada (10)

10. Over the Boards, Hayley Wickenheiser, Viking (2)

CANADIAN FICTION

1. State of Terror, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Louise Penny, Simon & Schuster

2. The Apollo Murders, Chris Hadfield, Random House Canada

3. The Strangers, Katherena Vermette, Hamish Hamilton

4. What Strange Paradise, Omar El Akkad, McClelland & Stewart

5. The Holiday Swap, Maggie Knox, Viking

6. The Vinyl Cafe Celebrates, Stuart McLean, Viking

7. Five Little Indians, Michelle Good, HarperCollins Canada

8. Fight Night, Miriam Toews, Knopf Canada

9. The Madness of Crowds, Louise Penny, Minotaur

10. Dark Roads, Chevy Stevens, St. Martin’s

CANADIAN NON-FICTION

1. Talking to Canadians, Rick Mercer, Doubleday Canada

2. No One Wins Alone, Mark Messier, Jimmy Roberts, Simon & Schuster

3. Off the Record, Peter Mansbridge, Simon & Schuster

4. Talking to Strangers, Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay

5. Best Wishes, Warmest Regards, Daniel Levy, Eugene Levy, Black Dog & Leventhal

6. Indian in the Cabinet, Jody Wilson-Raybould, HarperCollins Canada

7. Over the Boards, Hayley Wickenheiser, Viking

8. The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown

9. The Forever Dog, Rodney Habib, Karen Shaw Becker, Collins

10. Unreconciled, Jesse Wente, Allen Lane

CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT

1. Big Shot (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #16), Jeff Kinney, Amulet

2. Cat Kid Comic Club Perspectives, Dav Pilkey, Graphix

3. The Smart Cookie, Jory John, Pete Oswald, HarperCollins

4. The Christmas Pig, J.K. Rowling, Jim Field, Scholastic

5. The Bad Guys in “They’re Bee-Hind You!”, Aaron Blabey, Scholastic Paperbacks

6. Woodland Dance!, Sandra Boynton, Workman

7. Our Violent Ends, Chloe Gong, Margaret K. McElderry Books

8. Dog Man Mothering Heights, Dav Pilkey, Graphix

9. A Charlie Brown Christmas, Charles M. Schulz, Maggie Testa, Vicki Scott, Simon Spotlight

10. They Both Die at the End, Adam Silvera, Quill Tree

MYSTERY

1. State of Terror, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Louise Penny, Simon & Schuster

2. The Judge’s List, John Grisham, Doubleday

3. Never, Ken Follett, Viking

4. Mercy, David Baldacci, Grand Central

5. Better off Dead, Lee Child, Andrew Child, Delacorte

6. The 19th Christmas, James Patterson, Maxine Paetro, Grand Central

7. Tom Clancy, Chain of Command, Marc Cameron, GP. Putnam’s

8. The Silent Wife, Karin Slaughter, William Morrow

9. The Night She Disappeared, Lisa Jewell, Atria

10. Verity, Colleen Hoover, Grand Central

* Number of weeks on list