20 Top fiction books like The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr

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The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

3.46

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p…

"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

If you liked the fiction plot in The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr , here is a list of 20 books like this:

Cover of The Adversary by Michael Crummey

1. The Adversary

By: Michael Crummey

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Innocents (“Extraordinary”— Wall Street … read more

Similar categories in Michael Crummey's The Adversary book and Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) by Waubgeshig Rice

2. 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 Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter

  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

3. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

Similar categories in Kate Beaton's Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands book and Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter

  • canada
Cover of Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein

4. Study for Obedience

By: Sarah Bernstein

3.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Bernstein's Study for Obedience book and Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • canadian literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I try always to be good."

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

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5. 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 Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • 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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6. Greenwood

By: Michael Christie

4.33

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting u… read more

Similar categories in Michael Christie's Greenwood book and Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"There is nothing more quieting than an ancient tree"

-Michael Christie, Greenwood

"Do you know what becomes of men like us without the armour of wealth...?"

-Michael Christie, Greenwood

"Maybe trees do have souls. Which makes wood a kind of flesh. And perhaps instruments of wooden construction sound so pleasing to our ears for this reason: the choral shimmer of a guitar; the heartbea…"

-Michael Christie, Greenwood

"Still, Temple has no illusions concerning her library's impact. Her books won't lift anyone from their low station. They won't right wrongs or save wandering souls from perdition or fill grumbling st…"

-Michael Christie, Greenwood

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7. 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 Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Hotline by Dimitri Nasrallah

8. Hotline

By: Dimitri Nasrallah

4.15

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more

Similar categories in Dimitri Nasrallah's Hotline book and Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • canadian literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"

-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline

Cover of Fayne: A Novel by Ann-Marie MacDonald

9. Fayne: A Novel

By: Ann-Marie MacDonald

4.26

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

A beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magyk, love and identity. In the late nineteent… read more

Similar categories in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fayne: A Novel book and Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"Byrn speaks and I understand him without effort, his words as clear as spring water. / Ask a favour of the plover, he says. Borrow her eyes. / Then I am flying through the air, and the flying is his …"

-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fayne: A Novel

Cover of Snow Road Station by Elizabeth Hay

10. Snow Road Station

By: Elizabeth Hay

3.77

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the Giller Prize-winning author comes a novel, witty and wise, about thwarted ambition, unreal… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Hay's Snow Road Station book and Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • canadian literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Bittlemores

By: Jann Arden

3.87

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A heartfelt, comic, and deeply satisfying debut novel from the #1 bestselling author, singer-songwr… read more

Similar categories in Jann Arden's The Bittlemores book and Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter

  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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12. Finding Edward

By: Sheila Murray

4.02

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Cyril Rowntree, a mixed race Jamaican, migrates to Canada after his mother and surrogate grandfathe… read more

Similar categories in Sheila Murray's Finding Edward book and Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter

  • fiction
  • book club
  • canada
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr

13. The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

3.46

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more

Similar categories in Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter book and Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • canadian literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • book club
  • queer
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

Cover of On the Ravine by Vincent Lam

14. On the Ravine

By: Vincent Lam

4.03

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, Giller Prize-winning author of Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures comes an exqui… read more

Similar categories in Vincent Lam's On the Ravine book and Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

15. 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 Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter

  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama

16. We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies

By: Tsering Yangzom Lama

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the wake of China's invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her younger sister, Tenkyi… read more

Similar categories in Tsering Yangzom Lama's We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies book and Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of All the Colour in the World by C.S. Richardson

17. All the Colour in the World

By: C.S. Richardson

3.74

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The story of the restorative power of art in one man's life, set against the sweep of the twentieth… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Richardson's All the Colour in the World book and Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • canadian literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Denison Avenue by Christina Wong

18. 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 Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter

  • canada
  • canadian literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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19. The Story of Us

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of Canada Reads finalist Scarborough, a stunning new novel about the unbreakable bo… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Hernandez's The Story of Us book and Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of The Circle by Katherena Vermette

20. The Circle

By: Katherena Vermette

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant an… read more

Similar categories in Katherena Vermette's The Circle book and Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • canadian literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Stray Dogs: Stories by Rawi Hage

21. Stray Dogs: Stories

By: Rawi Hage

3.25

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEFrom the internationally acclaimed author of the no… read more

Similar categories in Rawi Hage's Stray Dogs: Stories book and Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter

  • fiction
  • canadian literature
  • canada
  • audiobook

19 best-selling audiobook books like The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr

Transform Your Habits

The Adversary

Michael Crummey

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Study for Obedience

Sarah Bernstein

3.05

Transform Your Habits

Shut Up You're Pretty

Téa Mutonji

3.57

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21 must-read fiction books like The Adversary by Michael Crummey

Transform Your Habits

The Adversary

Michael Crummey

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Librarianist

Patrick deWitt

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Rage the Night

Donna Morrissey

3.97

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