The bestselling books in Canada for the week ending Jan. 5, 2022

This will likely be remembered because the week that TikTok tradition took excessive half of the bestseller fiction listing. Novelist Colleen Hoover dominates, with 2014’s “Ugly Love” within the high spot, 2016’s “It Ends with U” at No. 2 and “Verity,” a psychological thriller revealed in October, at No. 3.

Ali Hazelwood, who wrote “The Love Speculation, No. 4 on this week’s fiction listing, is one other author who appeals to the “New Grownup” demographic.

Each Hoover and Hazelwood have an enormous presence on TikTok.

-Sarah Murdoch

The bestseller lists are compiled by Toronto Star Newspapers Restricted from info supplied by BookNet Canada’s nationwide gross sales monitoring service, BNC SalesData.

ORIGINAL FICTION

1. Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover, Atria (1)*

2. It Ends with Us, Colleen Hoover, Atria (18)

3. Verity, Colleen Hoover, Grand Central (1)

4. The Love Speculation, Ali Hazelwood, Berkley (1)

5. The Midnight Library, Matt Haig, Harper Avenue (24)

6. Go Inform the Bees That I Am Gone, Diana Gabaldon, Doubleday Canada (5)

7. Want You Had been Right here, Jodi Picoult, Random Home Canada (4)

8. The Strangers, Katherena Vermette, Hamish Hamilton (9)

9. Individuals We Meet on Trip, Emily Henry, Berkley (14)

10. The Paper Palace, Miranda Heller Cowley, Riverhead (12)

ORIGINAL NON-FICTION

1. Atlas of the Coronary heart, Brené Brown, Random Home (4)

2. Will, Will Smith, Mark Manson, Penguin (7)

3. Speaking to Canadians, Rick Mercer, Doubleday Canada (8)

4. No One Wins Alone, Mark Messier, Jimmy Roberts, Simon & Schuster (9)

5. The Daybreak of Every part, David Graeber, David Wengrow, Sign (2)

6. Off the File, Peter Mansbridge, Simon & Schuster (12)

7. Between Two Kingdoms, Suleika Jaouad, Random Home (25)

8. Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed (53)

9. Yearbook, Seth Rogen, Viking (12)

10. The Storyteller, Dave Grohl, Dey Road (12)

CANADIAN FICTION

1. The Strangers, Katherena Vermette, Hamish Hamilton

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

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

4. Fortunate, Marissa Stapley, Simon & Schuster

5. 5 Little Indians, Michelle Good, HarperCollins Canada

6. What Unusual Paradise, Omar El Akkad, McClelland & Stewart

7. Battle Night time, Miriam Toews, Knopf Canada

8. The Vinyl Cafe Celebrates, Stuart McLean, Viking

9. The Maid, Nita Prose, Viking

10. The Association, Robyn Harding, Pocket

CANADIAN NON-FICTION

1. Speaking to Canadians, Rick Mercer, Doubleday Canada

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

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

4. Speaking to Strangers, Malcolm Gladwell, Again Bay

5. Yearbook, Seth Rogen, Viking

6. Homicide, Insanity and Mayhem, Mike Browne, Collins

7. Unreconciled, Jesse Wente, Allen Lane

8. 21 Issues You Might Not Know in regards to the Indian Act, Bob Joseph, Indigenous Relations

9. 12 Guidelines of Life, Jordan B. Peterson, Random Home Canada

10. The Whisper on the Night time Wind, Adam Shoalts, Allen Lane

CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT

1. Cat Child Comedian Membership Views, Dav Pilkey, Graphix.

2. A Good Lady’s Information to Homicide, Holly Jackson, Ember

3. Huge Shot (Diary of a Wimpy Child #16), Jeff Kinney, Amulet

4. Wings of Fireplace: The Brightest Night time, Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes, Graphix

5. They Each Die on the Finish, Adam Silvera, Quill Tree

6. One in every of Us Is Mendacity, Karen M. McManus, Delacorte

7. The Inheritance Video games, Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown for Younger Readers

8. The Merciless Prince, Holly Black, Little, Brown for Younger Readers

9. Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao, Penguin Teen

10. We Had been Liars, E. Lockhart, Ember

MYSTERY

1. Verity, Colleen Hoover, Grand Central

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

3. The Decide’s Record, John Grisham, Doubleday

4. Reacher: Killing Flooring (film tie-in), Lee Youngster, Berkley

5. Discover You First, Linwood Barclay, William Morrow

6. Tom Clancy: Shadow of the Dragon, Marc Cameron, Berkley

7. Earlier than She Disappeared, Lisa Gardner, Dutton

8. All Her Little Secrets and techniques, Wanda M. Morris, William Morrow

9. The Night time She Disappeared, Lisa Jewell, Atria

10. The Substitute Spouse, Darby Kane, William Morrow

* Variety of weeks on listing