Indigo Announces the Booklover's Best of the Decade
-Canadian Book Buying Team Compiles List of Books that Made a Difference-
On the Indigo Best of the Decade fiction list, the decade's best fiction told heart-wrenching stories, followed strong female characters like Lawrence Hill's Aminata Diallo, and harnessed the power of prize winning to heighten the success of bestsellers like Yann Martel's The Life of Pi. Both Hill's historical fiction and Martel's modern fable landed on the top ten list of books that most changed the lives of Canadian booklovers.
The journeys and voices that shape the Indigo Best of the Decade biography list are comic, magical, breathtaking, wise, heartbreaking and moving. From Azar Nafisi's inspirational Reading Lolita in
Naomi Klein's thesis on the social impact of branding and Malcolm Gladwell's ground breaking bestseller on the spread of ideas both celebrate their 10th anniversaries, and kick off the Indigo Best of the Decade non-fiction list. With the Bible topping the "life-changing" list of books for Indigo customers, it's no surprise that the Indigo Best of the Decade non-fiction list is punctuated by titles that provoked emblematic discussions of faith. The non-fiction list also sees several investigations into the food we eat, and food actually spawns its own category on the bookseller's List with a compilation of Best of the Decade cookbooks that have become collectibles and coffee table display pieces.
Young adult fiction flourished through the past decade with Indigo and Chapters seeing 200% growth through the latter five years. As expected, J.K. Rowling's
Indigo Best of the Decade 2000-2009
Fiction
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The Corrections, Johnathan Franzen, 2001
The Life Of Pi, Yann Martel, 2002
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold, 2002
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini, 2003
The Time Traveller's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger, 2003
The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Nighttime, Mark Haddon, 2003
Shadow Of The Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, 2004
Runaway, Alice Munro, 2004
The Birth House, Ami McKay, 2006
The Road, Cormac McCarthy, 2006
The Book Of Negroes, Lawrence Hill, 2007
Biographies
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Lucky, Alice Sebold, 1999
Reading Lolita In Tehran, Azar Nafisi, 2003
Scar Tissue, Anthony Kiedis, 2004
Dreams Of My Father , Barack Obama, 2004
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls, 2005
The Know It All, A.J. Jacobs, 2005
Tender Bar, J.R. Moehringer, 2005
Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, 2006
A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah, 2007
Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 2007
Beautiful Boy, David Sheff, 2007
Somewhere Towards the End, Diana Athill, 2009
Non-Fiction
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The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell, 2000
No Logo, Naomi Klein, 2000
Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain, 2000
Paris 1919, Margaret Macmillan, 2001
Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser, 2001
The Power Of Now, Eckhart Tolle, 2001
Salt: A World History, Mark Kurlansky, 2002
Moneyball, Michael Lewis, 2003
Shake Hands With The Devil, Romeo Dallaire, 2003
1,000 Places to See Before You Die, Patricia Schultz, 2003
A Short History of Progress, Ronald Wright, 2004
Long Way Round, Ewan McGregor, 2004
Marley & Me, John Grogan, 2005
Freakonomics, Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner, 2005
The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman, 2005
Team Of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin, 2005
Collapse, Jared Diamond, 2005
The Audacity Of Hope, Barack Obama, 2006
The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright, 2006
God Delusion, Richard Dawkins, 2006
Three Cups Of Tea, Greg Mortenson, 2006
The Omnivores Dilemma, Michael Pollan, 2006
Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore, 2006
The Secret, Rhonda Byrne, 2006
The Black Swan, Nassim Nichola Taleb, 2007
Made To Stick, Chip Heath, 2007
God Is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens, 2007
Stuff Of Thought, Steven Pinker, 2007
100 Mile Diet, Alisa Smith, 2007
Ascent Of Money, Niall Ferguson, 2008
Payback, Margaret Atwood, 2008
In Defense Of Food, Michael Pollan, 2008
The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch, 2008
Cookbooks
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Eat Shrink Be Merry, Janet & Greta Podleski
Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics, Ina Garten
Everyday Italian, Giada de Laurentis
Cook With Jamie, Jamie Oliver
Vijs, Vij Vikram
Molto Italiano, Mario Batali
Eat Clean Diet Cookbook, Tosca Reno
Gordon Ramsay's Healthy Appetite, Gordon Ramsay
Everyday Food, Martha Stewart
Complete Canadian Living Baking, Elizabeth Baird
Red White Drunk All Over, Natalie McLean
The Silver Spoon
French Laundry, Thomas Keller
Food Matters, Mark Bittman
Feast, Nigella Lawson
Hello Cupcake, Karen Tack
Billionaires Vinegar, Ben Wallace
Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan
Heat, Bill Buford
Young Adult Fiction
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling, 2007
Twilight, Stephenie Meyer, 2005
The Amber Spyglass, 2000
Eragon, Christopher Paolini, 2003
Diary of A Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney, 2007
Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging, 2000
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning, 1999
Bone: Out From Boneville, 2005
The Book Thief, 2005
The Tale of Despereaux, 2003
Booklovers' Top Ten "Life-changing" Books
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The Bible
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960
Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom, 1997
Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery, 1908
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini, 2003
The Alchemist, Paul Coelho, 1988
The Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill, 2007
Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, 1997
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien, 1954
Life of Pi, Yann Martel, 2002
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Chapters and Indigo are rated as the number one and number two retailers in
In 2004, Indigo founded the Indigo Love of Reading Foundation, a registered charity that provides new books and education materials to high-needs Canadian elementary schools, to address the literacy crisis in
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(1) Indigo Books & Music Inc. Voices Panel survey, October 2009
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