The Secret is Out: Rhonda Byrne’s Blockbuster is the Bestselling Book of 2007, Finishing Ahead of Even Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
TORONTO, December 17, 2007 - 2007 was a hard year to keep The Secret with Rhonda Byrne’s bestselling title edging out all competition to finish number one overall.
BookNet Canada SalesData shows The Secret was 2007s top-selling book and the only non-fiction title on this year’s top five selling titles. And no surprises for wizard fans: topping the fiction category was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows while our homegrown favorite remained Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures for the second year running.
The Scotiabank Giller Prize and Canada Reads need only look to this year’s fiction bestsellers for more evidence of the power of Canada’s top awards. Not only was 2006s Giller Prize winner Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures the number one Canadian-authored title in 2007 and the fifth best-selling fiction paperback, Canada Reads 2007 winner Lullabies for Little Criminals finished number five on BNC SalesData’s Canadian list.
The You series from Mehmet Oz and Michael Rosen continues to make its way to the homes of every You in Canada, with both You: Staying Young and You: On A Diet finding their way into the hardcover non-fiction top five.
From January 1, 2007 to the week ending December 9th, 2007, the top-selling books are as follows:
Top 5 Overall, All Categories
- The Secret, Rhonda Byrne (Simon and Schuster, hardcover) $28.99
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Raincoast Books, hardcover) $45.00 (NOTE: rankings are built from the BNC SalesData aggregate which does not include online sales)
- The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, Kim Edwards (Penguin Group, trade paperback) $18.50
- Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin Group (Canada), trade paperback) $18.50
- A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini (Penguin Group (Canada), hardcover) $34.00
Top 5 Canadian-Authored, All Categories
- Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, Vincent Lam (Doubleday Canada, TP) $17.95
- The Birth House, Ami McKay (Knopf Canada, TP) $22.00
- Blink, Malcolm Gladwell (Little Brown & Company, TP) $18.50
- Love You Forever, Robert Munsch (Firefly Books, TP) $5.95
- Lullabies for Little Criminals, Heather O’Neill (HarperCollins Canada, TP) $17.50
Top 5 Trade Paperback Fiction, Juvenile and Adult
- The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, Kim Edwards (Penguin Group) $18.50
- The Road, Cormac McCarthy (Knopf Publishing Group) $21.00
- Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, Vincent Lam (Doubleday Canada) $17.95
- The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (Doubleday Canada) $21.00
- Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Knopf Publishing Group) $19.95
Top 5 Trade Non-Fiction
- Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin Group (Canada), trade paperback) $18.50
- The Measure of a Man, Sidney Poitier (HarperCollins Publishers) $17.50
- Blink, Malcolm Gladwell (Little Brown & Company) $18.50
- The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls (Simon & Schuster) $19.00
- Uncle John’s Triumphant 20th Anniversary Bathroom Reader, Bathroom Readers’ Institute Staff (Advantage Publishers’ Group) $20.95
Top 5 Hardcover Fiction, Juvenile and Adult
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Raincoast Books, hardcover) $45.00
- A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini (Penguin Group (Canada), hardcover) $34.00
- Shopaholic and Baby, Sophie Kinsella (Dell Publishing) $30.00
- The Children of Húrin, J.R.R. Tolkien (HarperCollins Canada) $34.95
- For One More Day, Mitch Albom (Hyperion Press) $24.95
Top 5 Hardcover Non-Fiction
- The Secret, Rhonda Byrne (Simon and Schuster) $28.99
- You: Staying Young, Michael F. Roizen (Simon & Schuster) $29.99
- Guinness World Records 2008 (Guinness World Records Ltd.) $35.95
- The Best Life Diet, Bob Greene (Simon and Schuster) $29.99
- You: On a Diet, Michael F. Roizen (Simon & Schuster) $32.00
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