Reading recommendations
The Understudies, October 2021
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You may have heard about a little thing recently called supply chain disruption. (Here’s a primer to get you up to speed.)
The bad news: It’s going to be tough to get your hands on the books you want to read for the foreseeable future. The good news: We’re here to fill the gap! We’ve got substitutions for the current bestseller lists lined up to help you through these tough times. Order them now through us or a fine bookstore near you!
Globe & Mail fiction bestseller list, week of Oct 16, 2021
- Current bestseller: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Our substitute: Bleeding Light by Rob Benvie
Both books follow multiple characters across space and time and are beautiful, redemptive novels. - Current bestseller: The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell
Our substitute: Daniil and Vanya by Marie-Helene Larochelle, translated by Michelle Winters
Both books take psychological suspense to new heights. - Current bestseller: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
Our substitute: The Union of Smokers by Paddy Scott
Both books feature young protagonists in multilayered tales of misadventure and self discovery and are populated by eclectic casts of characters. - Current bestseller: It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
Our substitute: There Are Victories by Charles Yale Harrison
Both books feature too-good-to-be-true romances and should come with content warnings for difficult relationship subject matter. - Current bestseller: The Butler by Danielle Steel
Our substitute: 26 Knots by Bindu Suresh
Both books bring together characters from very different worlds, strip them of their old roles, and sets them off on a new path together.