Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended October 8, 2017, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the Book Publishers Association of Alberta.
Edmonton Non-Fiction Bestsellers
Oil’s Deep State: How the Petroleum Industry Undermines Democracy and Slows Action on Global Warming – in Alberta, and in Ottawa – Kevin Taft *- To Hell and Back: A Former Hells Angel’s Story of Recovery and Redemption – Joe Calendino
- What Happened – Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Trudeau’s Tango: Alberta Meets Pierre Elliott Trudeau – Darryl Raymaker * +
- Powered by Love: A Grandmother’s’ Movement to Ends Aids in Africa – JoAnna Henry, Ilana Landsberg-Lewis, Alexis MacDonald
- Lightfoot – Nicholas Jennings
- Runaway Wives and Rogue Feminists: The Origins of the Women’s Shelter Movement in Canada – Margo Goodhand
- Farm to Chef: Cooking Through the Seasons – Lynn Crawford
- The Vietnam War: An Intimate History – Geoffrey Ward and Ken Burns
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry – Neil deGrasse Tyson
Edmonton Fiction Bestsellers
- This is All a Lie – Thomas Trofimuk *
- Slow War (Poetry) – Benjamin Hertwig
- Glass Houses – Louise Penny
- The Sun & Her Flowers (Poetry) – Rupi Kaur
- Bellevue Square – Michael Redhill
- A Legacy of Spies – John le Carré
- The History of Bees – Maja Lunde
- Manhattan Beach – Jennifer Egan
- Walking Through Turquoise (Poetry) – Laurie MacFayden * +
- A Tincture of Sunlight – Vivian Hansen * +
* Alberta Author
+ Alberta Publisher
2 replies on “Oil’s Deep State by Kevin Taft continues to top Audreys Books’ Edmonton Bestsellers List”
As always, this blog’s extreme left wing bias shows!
Kevin has it right.
AB’s oil industry has the lowest taxes and lowest royalties of any oil producing jurisdiction in the world. Compared to the states of the USA, including those along AB’s border, AB’s industry is massively subsidized. The greed of Calgary’s oil industry and the sense of entitlement that personifies the industry in AB, is sickening on at least two levels: (1) the financial loss to Albertan’s as resource owners and (2) the impact on Democracy through what Mr Taft correctly characterized as oil’s “deep state”..