Bestselling Sports and Recreation Books in Canada

This week’s bestseller listings cover the top 20 sports and recreation titles for the two weeks ending Aug. 10, 2008, as tracked by BookNet Canada’s BNC SalesData.

1. Becoming the Natural, Randy Couture
(Simon & Schuster, $29.99 cl, 9781416957805)

2. Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
(Anchor/Random House, $16.95 pa, 9780385494786)

3. The Water Boy, Bobby Ackles
(John Wiley & Sons, $21.95 pa, 9780470155912)

4. Best Hikes and Walks of Southwestern British Columbia, Dawn Hanna
(Lone Pine Publishing, $21.95 pa, 9781551054551)

5. McCown’s Law: The 100 Greatest Hockey Arguments, Bob McCown
(Doubleday Canada, $19.95 pa, 9780385664653)

6. The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding, Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Simon & Schuster, $32 pa, 9780684857213)

7. We Might As Well Win, Johan Bruyneel and Bill Strickland
(Houghton Mifflin/Thomas Allen & Son, $27.95 cl, 9780618879373)

8. Iceman: My Fighting Life, Chuck Liddell
(Dutton/Penguin, $28.50 cl, 9780525950561)

9. 2008 NFL Record and Fact Book
(Time/H.B. Fenn and Company, $19.95 pa, 9781603207706)

10. Golf for Dummies, Gary McCord
(John Wiley & Sons, $23.99 pa, 9780471768715)

11. Golf: Visual Quick Tips, Cheryl Anderson, Brian A. Crowell, and Tom Mackin
(John Wiley & Sons, $15.99 pa, 9780470182666)

12. A Champion’s Mind, Pete Sampras
(Crown/Random House, $27.95 cl, 9780307383297)

13. How Tiger Does It, Brad Kearns
(McGraw-Hill, $21.95 cl, 9780071545648)

14. SAS Survival Handbook, John Wiseman
(HarperCollins, $29.95 pa, 9780007158997)

15. The Complete Book of the Olympics, Jaime Loucky and David Wallechinsky
(Aurum Press/Fitzhenry & Whiteside, $29.95 pa, 9781845133306)

16. Golf: The Best Instruction Book Ever!
(Time/H.B. Fenn and Company, $32.95 cl, 9781603200011)

17. Hockey Tough, Saul L. Miller
(Human Kinetics, $21.95 pa, 9780736051231)

18. Bicycle Repair Manual, Chris Sidwells
(Dorling Kindersley, $17 pa, 9780756633943)

19. Tales from Q School, John Feinstein
(Little, Brown/H.B. Fenn and Company, $17.99 pa, 9780316014328)

20. The Boy Camper: 160 Outdoor Activities
(Hearst Books, $11.95 cl, 9781588167033)