Globe and Mail Canadian Nonfiction Bestsellers

Recent movers and shakers in Globe and Mail Canadian Nonfiction Bestsellers.
Updated April 19, 2025
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values "[A] bracing memoir and manifesto."--The New York Times "I can...
When the Going Was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines
Graydon Carter
Paper Book
When Graydon Carter was offered the editorship of Vanity Fair in 1992, he knew he faced an uphill battle - how to make the esteemed and long-established magazine his own. Not only was he confronted with a staff that he perceived to be loyal to the previous regime, but also he arrived only a few...
When the body says no : the cost of hidden stress
Maté, Gabor
Paper Book
Can a person literally die of loneliness? Is there such a thing as a 'cancer personality'? Drawing on scientific research and the author's decades of experience as a practicing physician, this book provides answers to these and other important questions about the effect of the mind-body link on...
Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre
Mark Bourrie
As Canada heads towards a pivotal election, bestselling author Mark Bourrie charts the rise of Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre and considers the history and potential cost of the politics of division. Six weeks into the Covid pandemic, New York Times columnist David Brooks identified...
Unanxious: 50 Simple Truths to Help Overthinkers Feel Less Stress and More Calm
Humble the Poet
A book for overthinkers by an overthinker. Learn to start living a life you create--no longer burdened by the need to numb yourself from feelings of anxiety and burnout--through insightful stories, journal prompts, and down-to-earth advice from artist and international best-selling author of...
How to Survive a Bear Attack: A Memoir
Claire Cameron
*INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER* CBC's Great Canadian Books to Read This Spring In this debut memoir from the bestselling author of The Bear and The Last Neanderthal, Claire Cameron confronts the rare genetic mutation that gave her cancer by investigating an...
Value(s) : building a better world for all
Carney, Mark
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Winner of the 2021 National Business Book Award * Shortlisted for the 2021 Donner Prize A bold and urgent argument by the Prime Minister of Canada and former bank governor on the radical, foundational change that is required if we are to build an economy and...
A two-spirit journey : the autobiography of a lesbian Ojibwa-Cree elder
Chacaby, Ma-Nee
Paper Book
Winner of Canada Reads 2025 From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community, Ma-Nee Chacaby's extraordinary story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social and economic legacies of colonialism. As a child, Chacaby learned...
Wilful blindness : how a network of narcos, tycoons and CCP agents infiltrated the West
Cooper, Sam (Journalist)
Paper Book
The best selling book has been updated and released June 8, 2022Soon after Wilful Blindness was published, I learned the book was having an impact in Beijing. I was contacted by Canadian intelligence and informed that Chinese espionage assets in Canada had been tasked with...

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