18 Best canada books like The Winter Knight by Jes Battis

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The Winter Knight

By: Jes Battis

3.46

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Arthurian legends are reborn in this upbeat queer urban fantasy with a mystery at its heart The …

If you liked the canada plot in The Winter Knight by Jes Battis , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) by Waubgeshig Rice

1. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more

Similar categories in Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) book and Jes Battis's The Winter Knight

  • fiction
  • adult
  • canada
Cover of Shut Up You're Pretty by Téa Mutonji

2. Shut Up You're Pretty

By: Téa Mutonji

3.57

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more

Similar categories in Téa Mutonji's Shut Up You're Pretty book and Jes Battis's The Winter Knight

  • canada
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"

-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty

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3. The Future

By: Catherine Leroux

3.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Leroux's The Future book and Jes Battis's The Winter Knight

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • canada
"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

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4. River Mumma

By: Zalika Reid-Benta

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Issa Rae’s Insecure with a magical realist spin: River Mumma is an exhilarating contemporary fantas… read more

Similar categories in Zalika Reid-Benta's River Mumma book and Jes Battis's The Winter Knight

  • urban fantasy
  • canada
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
Cover of The Winter Knight by Jes Battis

5. The Winter Knight

By: Jes Battis

3.46

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Arthurian legends are reborn in this upbeat queer urban fantasy with a mystery at its heart The … read more

Similar categories in Jes Battis's The Winter Knight book and Jes Battis's The Winter Knight

  • urban fantasy
  • retellings
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • arthurian
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • queer
Cover of And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott

6. And Then She Fell

By: Alicia Elliott

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous wo… read more

Similar categories in Alicia Elliott's And Then She Fell book and Jes Battis's The Winter Knight

  • fiction
  • adult
  • canada
"Nothing I do is done solely for me. Everything is done to elevate Steve or Dawn, in some way. I'm an afterthought in my own life."

-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell

"A part of me wants to cry at this small request, because I know what that longing is like, what it means. I won't be there forever, but I will be there for her. For her sister. For her mother. I'll b…"

-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell

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7. Bad Cree

By: Jessica Johns

3.92

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Johns's Bad Cree book and Jes Battis's The Winter Knight

  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • canada
"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"

-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree

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8. Denison Avenue

By: Christina Wong

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more

Similar categories in Christina Wong's Denison Avenue book and Jes Battis's The Winter Knight

  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of Reuniting With Strangers: A Novel by Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio

9. Reuniting With Strangers: A Novel

By: Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio

4.39

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Inspired by the work of Souvankham Thammavongsa, Catherine Hernandez and Wayson Choy, this unforget… read more

Similar categories in Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio's Reuniting With Strangers: A Novel book and Jes Battis's The Winter Knight

  • fiction
  • adult
  • canada
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10. Perilous Times

By: Thomas D. Lee

3.89

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

An immortal Knight of the Round Table faces his greatest challenge yet—saving the politically polar… read more

Similar categories in Thomas D. Lee's Perilous Times book and Jes Battis's The Winter Knight

  • retellings
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • arthurian
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • queer
"Oi!' says the squirrel. 'Get your filthy hands off me! I'll fucking have you!"

-Thomas D. Lee, Perilous Times

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11. We Meant Well

By: Erum Shazia Hasan

4.05

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A propulsive debut that grapples with timely questions about what it means to be charitable, who de… read more

Similar categories in Erum Shazia Hasan's We Meant Well book and Jes Battis's The Winter Knight

  • fiction
  • canada
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12. Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality: Stories

By: Lindsay Wong

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, Canada Reads-shortlisted author of The Woo-Woo comes a wild, darkly hilarious… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Wong's Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality: Stories book and Jes Battis's The Winter Knight

  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • canada
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13. The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher

By: E.M. Anderson

3.75

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

You're never too old for adventure. When you’re a geriatric armed with nothing but gumption and… read more

Similar categories in E.M. Anderson's The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher book and Jes Battis's The Winter Knight

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Double Life of Benson Yu by Kevin  Chong

14. The Double Life of Benson Yu

By: Kevin Chong

3.54

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

This work of metafiction follows a graphic novelist losing control of his own narrative as he attem… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Chong's The Double Life of Benson Yu book and Jes Battis's The Winter Knight

  • fiction
  • canada
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15. Sunshine Nails

By: Mai Nguyen

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A tender, humorous, and page-turning debut about a Vietnamese Canadian family in Toronto who will d… read more

Similar categories in Mai Nguyen's Sunshine Nails book and Jes Battis's The Winter Knight

  • fiction
  • adult
  • canada
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16. The Innocents

By: Michael Crummey

3.78

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

From prizewinning author Michael Crummey comes a spellbinding story of survival in which a brother … read more

Similar categories in Michael Crummey's The Innocents book and Jes Battis's The Winter Knight

  • fiction
  • adult
  • canada
"A body must bear what can't be helped."

-Michael Crummey, The Innocents

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17. Junie

By: Chelene Knight

3.78

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Longlisted for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction A riveting exploration of the complexity w… read more

Similar categories in Chelene Knight's Junie book and Jes Battis's The Winter Knight

  • fiction
  • adult
  • canada
  • lgbt
Cover of Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age by Darrel J. McLeod

18. Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age

By: Darrel J. McLeod

4.18

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Growing up in the tiny village of Smith, Alberta, Darrel J. McLeod was surrounded by his Cree famil… read more

Similar categories in Darrel J. McLeod's Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age book and Jes Battis's The Winter Knight

  • queer
  • canada
  • lgbt
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19. The Stars Too Fondly

By: Emily Hamilton

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In her breathtaking debut—part space odyssey, part sapphic rom-com—Emily Hamilton tells a tale of g… read more

Similar categories in Emily Hamilton's The Stars Too Fondly book and Jes Battis's The Winter Knight

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Bad Medicine by Christopher Twin

20. Bad Medicine

By: Christopher Twin

3.62

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

A group of Cree teens gather around a fire to share stories of spirits and shapeshifters in this ch… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Twin's Bad Medicine book and Jes Battis's The Winter Knight

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • canada
Cover of What Comes Echoing Back by Leo McKay Jr.

21. What Comes Echoing Back

By: Leo McKay Jr.

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The worst moment of Sam’s life was captured on video and shared across the Internet for all to gawk… read more

Similar categories in Leo McKay Jr.'s What Comes Echoing Back book and Jes Battis's The Winter Knight

  • fiction
  • canada

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Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

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Téa Mutonji

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