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Curated weekly by our editors, tracking the top 10 books generating the strongest momentum with Canadian readers across social conversation, search interest, editorial attention, and other cultural signals.

Week of October 26, 2026

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Entertainment / Screenwriting

I’ll Believe in Anything: The Making of Heated Rivalry Season 1

By Jacob Tierney

From Jacob Tierney, the creator of Heated Rivalry, in partnership with Brendan Brady and Accent Aigu, comes an official and complete collection of annotated scripts for the biggest cultural sensation of the year, with all new exclusive behind-the-scenes content.

Indigo $33.60 Amazon $33.60

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Nonfiction / Current Affairs

Unreliable Boyfriend: An Insider's View of Dealing with a Chaotic Superpower, Plutocrats, and Other Complicated People

By Chrystia Freeland

A tell-all by former cabinet minister and journalist Chrystia Freeland offers a behind-the-scenes look at her "breakup" with former prime minister Justin Trudeau, who isn't the titular boyfriend. Spoiler alert: It's U.S. President Donald Trump.

Indigo $31.50 Amazon $29.22

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Politics / Current Affairs

End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World

By by Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor

A scathing investigation into the apocalyptic thinking of the Christian nationalists, tech-bro reactionaries, and populist survivalists who increasingly define the contemporary right―and a recipe for how to fight them.

Indigo $28.50 Amazon $28.50

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Fiction / Literary

Theo of Golden: A Novel

By Allen Levi

An elderly stranger arrives in a small town and buys pencil portraits of local residents. He then returns them to their subjects, changing lives and forging unexpected connections.

Indigo $20.00 Amazon $18.15

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Fiction / Literary

Partita

By Barbara Kingsolver

A Tennessee piano teacher's quiet life is disrupted when a former lover resurfaces decades later, forcing her to revisit the passions, losses and choices that shaped her life.

Indigo $21.60 Amazon $31.50

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Nonfiction / Current Affairs

All the Wrong Moves: How Three Catastrophic Decisions Led to the Rise of Trump

By Anthony Scaramucci

Remember Anthony Scaramucci? The former first-term Donald Trump White House communications director argues that a series of decisions by Democrats and Republicans helped fuel the anger driving Trump's second term

Indigo $41.99 Amazon $39.79

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Fiction / Literary

Eliza Sunshine

By Michelle Good

Three generations of Cree women navigate the legacy of residential schools, exploring resilience, identity and healing through the power of storytelling.

Indigo $20.00 Amazon $20.00

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Fiction / Literary

Your Breath in Charcoal

By Nicholas Herring

A hilarious, sensitive, and heady working-class odyssey rife with metaphorical richness and references to literature, film, and 90s music, Your Breath in Charcoal peers into the mind of its irrepressible and relentlessly quotable East Coast everyman.

Indigo $20.80 Amazon $19.76

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Nonfiction / Current Affairs

The Hidden Hand: The Information War and the Rise of Antisemitic Propaganda

By Warren Kinsella 

Winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Contemporary Jewish Issues, this book argues that, in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, a global campaign emerged to reshape public opinion and fuel antisemitism. 

Indigo $39 Amazon $39.99

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Fiction / Contemporary Fiction

Yesteryear: A Novel

By Caro Calire Burke

Yesteryear follows a "tradwife" influencer who wakes up to the harsh reality of the life she's been pretending to live. Faced with no electricity, a patriarchal society and certainly no nannies or producers, she struggles to adjust while reflecting on how she got there. 

Indigo $20.00 Amazon $19.59
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