Death comes for us all and when it does, if you’re famous, it might give you a posthumous push onto the bestseller lists.
Such is the case this week for “I Am Ozzy,” the 2011 memoir that heavy metal star Ozzy Osbourne — who died last week at age 76 — wrote with Chris Ayres about his journey from poverty in Birmingham, England, to rock ’n’ roll stardom and excess. It comes in at No. 9 on the original non-fiction list.
In the book, Osbourne wrote: “People ask me how come I’m still alive, and I don’t know what to say. When I was growing up, if you’d have put me up against a wall with the other kids from my street and asked me which one of us was gonna make it to the age of sixtyÌý… I wouldn’t have put money on me.”
Though he was known as the Prince of Darkness, my image of him, not being a heavy metal aficionado, will forever be the befuddled and funny patriarch of reality TV series “The Osbournes.”
Speaking of reality TV, Scheana Shay, a star of 11-season-and-counting juggernaut “Vanderpump Rules,” is telling her side of the show’s juicy drama in memoir “My Good Side,” which joins the original non-fiction list at No. 5. According to the book blurb, Shay joined “Vanderpump” as a pathway to an acting career and was instead turned into a reality TV villain.
TV is also having an impact on the children’s and young adult list.
“The Summer I Turned Pretty,” the YA romance by Jenny Han that was made into a Prime Video series, rejoined the list around the same time the show’s third season began streaming. It’s now got company in Han’s “We’ll Always Have Summer,” the third book in her “Summer” trilogy. Meanwhile, “We Were Liars” by E. Lockhart has spent the last few weeks on the list after Prime Video debuted a TV show based on the book in June.Ìý
ORIGINAL FICTION
1. One Golden Summer, Carley Fortune, Viking (12)*
2. Not Quite Dead Yet, Holly Jackson, Doubleday Canada (1)
3.ÌýThe Woman in Suite 11, Ruth Ware, Simon & Schuster (3)
4.ÌýAtmosphere, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Doubleday Canada (8)
5.ÌýDon’t Let Him In, Lisa Jewell, Atria (5)
6.ÌýMy Friends,ÌýFredrik Backman, Simon & Schuster (13)
7.ÌýAn Inside Job, Daniel Silva, Harper (2)
8.ÌýEvery Summer After, Carley Fortune, Viking (12)
9. The Housemaid, Freida McFadden, Grand Central (39)
10.ÌýBroken Country, Clare Leslie Hall, Simon & Schuster (17)
ORIGINAL NON-FICTION
1. The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt, Penguin (56)
2.ÌýThe Idaho Four, James Patterson, Vicky Ward, Little, Brown (2)
3.ÌýOne Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This,ÌýOmar El Akkad, McClelland & Stewart (21)
4.ÌýAnatomy of a Cover-Up, Paul Palango, Random House Canada (7)
5. My Good Side, Scheana Shay, Grand Central (1)
6.ÌýThe Serviceberry,ÌýRobin Wall Kimmerer, Scribner (35)
7. Braiding Sweetgrass,ÌýRobin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed (156)
8.ÌýEverything Is Tuberculosis, John Green (8)
9. I Am Ozzy, Ozzy Osbourne, Chris Ayres, Grand Central (1)
10. A Spy in the Family, Paul Henderson, David Gardiner, HarperCollins Canada (4)
CANADIAN FICTION
1. One Golden Summer, Carley Fortune, Viking
2.ÌýEvery Summer After, Carley Fortune, Viking
3.ÌýFinding Flora, Elinor Florence, Simon & Schuster
4.ÌýA Most Puzzling Murder, Bianca Marais, Mira
5. Meet Me at the Lake, Carley Fortune, Viking
6. This Summer Will Be Different, Carley Fortune, Viking
7. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood, McClelland & Stewart
8.ÌýEveryone Here Is Lying, Shari Lapena, Seal
9. The Retirement Plan, Sue Hincenbergs, Harper Avenue
10. I Hope You Remember, Josie Balka, Simon & Schuster
CANADIAN NON-FICTION
1.ÌýValue(s),ÌýMark Carney, Signal
2.ÌýOne Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This,ÌýOmar El Akkad, McClelland & Stewart
3.ÌýOutsider, Brett Popplewell, HarperCollins Canada
4.ÌýAnatomy of a Cover-Up, Paul Palango, Random House Canada
5.ÌýLessons From Cats for Surviving Fascism, Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central
6.ÌýMurder, Madness and Mayhem, Mike Browne, HarperCollins Canada
7. The Knowing, Tanya Talaga, HarperCollins Canada
8.ÌýThe Massey Murder, Charlotte Gray, HarperCollins Canada
9.ÌýA History of Canada in Ten Maps, Adam Shoalts, Penguin Canada
10. Empire of Deception, Dean Jobb, HarperCollins Canada
CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULT
1.ÌýSunrise on the Reaping,ÌýSuzanne Collins, Scholastic
2.ÌýThe Summer I Turned Pretty, Jenny Han,ÌýSimon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
3. Red Queen, Victoria Aveyard, HarperCollins
4. A Study in Drowning, Ava Reid, HarperCollins
5.ÌýWe Were Liars, E. Lockhart, Ember
6. The Enemy’s Daughter, Melissa Poett, Quill Tree
7. We’ll Always Have Summer, Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
8.ÌýKaren’s Ghost (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #11), D.K. Yingst, Ann M. Martin, Graphix
9.ÌýLove You Forever, Robert Munsch, Sheila McGraw, Firefly
10.ÌýBinding 13,ÌýChloe Walsh, Bloom
SELF-IMPROVEMENT
1. The Let Them Theory, Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins, Hay House
2. The Mountain Is You, Brianna Wiest, Thought Catalog
3. The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk, Penguin
4. The 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene, Joost Elffers, Penguin
5. 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think, Brianna Wiest,ÌýThought Catalog
6. Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill, TarcherPerigee
7. We Can Do Hard Things, Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Amanda Doyle, Dial
8. The Life That’s Waiting,ÌýBrianna Wiest,ÌýThought Catalog
9. Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert T. Kiyosaki, Plata
10. Attached, Amir Levine, Rachel Heller,ÌýTarcherPerigee
*Weeks on list
The bestseller lists are compiled by ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ Star Newspapers Limited from information provided by BookNet Canada’s national sales tracking service, BNC SalesData.
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