16 must-read canada books like The Raw Light of Morning by Shelly Kawaja

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The Raw Light of Morning

By: Shelly Kawaja

4.15

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

The Raw Light of Morning is a powerful debut novel about one family's search for love and healing i…

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1. Death On The Ice: The Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster Of 1914

By: Cassie Brown , None

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Each year, for generations, poor, ill-clad Newfoundland fisherman sailed out 'to the ice' to hunt s… read more

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2. 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

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3. Rage the Night

By: Donna Morrissey

3.97

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

At once the intimate tale of one man's quest to discover the truth of his birth and a riveting acco… read more

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"What use is any man if he doesn’t have a purpose?"

-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night

"…it is in solitude where one finds one’s courage."

-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night

"No sense of having anything if you’ve no one to give it to."

-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night

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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

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"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. 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

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"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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6. The Fake

By: Zoe Whittall

3.44

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A con artist can make you feel like the luckiest person on earth just to be in their presence. But … read more

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"There are worse things than telling a lie."

-Zoe Whittall, The Fake

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7. The Good Women of Safe Harbour

By: Bobbi French

4.39

Format: 304 pages, ebook

An unforgettable, life-affirming novel about a woman living on her own terms at last and reclaiming… read more

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8. 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

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"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

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9. This Is How We Love

By: Lisa Moore

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the celebrated author of February and Caught comes an exhilarating new novel that asks: What m… read more

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10. Jennie's Boy: A Newfoundland Childhood

By: Wayne Johnston

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CBCConsummate storyteller and bestselling n… read more

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11. Closer by Sea

By: Perry Chafe

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER CBC Books “86 Works of Canadian Fiction to Read in the First Half of 20… read more

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12. The Woman in the Attic

By: Emily Hepditch

3.85

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

On the coast of rural Newfoundland, Hannah Fitzgerald's mother has lived her life in near total iso… read more

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13. The Raw Light of Morning

By: Shelly Kawaja

4.15

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

The Raw Light of Morning is a powerful debut novel about one family's search for love and healing i… read more

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Cover of Such Miracles and Mischiefs (Cupids Trilogy, #2) by Trudy J. Morgan-Cole

14. Such Miracles and Mischiefs (Cupids Trilogy, #2)

By: Trudy J. Morgan-Cole

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Such Miracles and Mischiefs, the second book in the Cupids trilogy, adventures across the first thr… read more

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15. Hollow Bamboo: A Novel

By: William Seto Ping

4.12

Format: 447 pages, Kindle Edition

AMAZON FIRST NOVEL AWARD SHORTLIST THOMAS RADDALL ATLANTIC FICTION AWARD SHORTLIST BMO WINTERSET … read more

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16. Birth Road

By: Michelle Wamboldt

4.23

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Told in startling vignettes and with bold, impeccable prose, Birth Road is a story of love, lost in… read more

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"My mother always said, if we all threw our troubles in a pile and were given the choice to pick out whichever ones we wanted, we would always choose our own."

-Michelle Wamboldt, Birth Road

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17. The Wards

By: Terry Doyle

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The Wards are a working-class Newfoundland family on the cusp of upheaval. The children are becomin… read more

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18. A Company of Rogues (Cupids Trilogy #3)

By: Trudy J. Morgan-Cole

4.30

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

This dramatic conclusion to a trilogy foregrounds the experiences of women settlers in North Americ… read more

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19. Message in a Bottle: Ocean Dispatches from a Seabird Biologist

By: Holly Hogan

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the heart of the Labrador Current to the furthest reaches of our global oceans, Message in a B… read more

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20. Operation Masonic (Operation, #5)

By: Helen C. Escott

4.20

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

Operation Masonic The Lost Cathedral The Freemasons' Most Worshipful Grand Master has been mu… read more

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21. We'd Rather Fight than Eat

By: Jay McGrath

3.93

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Society has fallen. And now the struggle for survival has begun. This action-packed adventure… read more

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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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