The Islands: Stories
By: Dionne Irving
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Powerful stories that explore the legacy of colonialism, and issues of race, immigration, sexual di…
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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
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- literary fiction
- canada
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
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
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- fiction
- canada
- audiobook
3. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
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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- literary fiction
- canada
- fiction
- contemporary
- 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
5. Learned by Heart
By: Emma Donoghue
3.51
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains d… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
6. Chrysalis
By: Anuja Varghese
3.96
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Canadian Governor General's Literary for Fiction Genre-blending stories of transfo… read more
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- fiction
- short stories
- canada
- audiobook
7. 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
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- literary fiction
- canada
- short stories
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- contemporary
- audiobook
"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
8. 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
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- fiction
- canada
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"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
9. 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
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- literary fiction
- canada
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- 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
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
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- literary fiction
- canada
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- contemporary
- audiobook
11. 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
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- audiobook
- fiction
- canada
- contemporary
12. 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
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- literary fiction
- canada
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
13. 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
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- 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
14. 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
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- literary fiction
- canada
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
15. 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
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- canada
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- audiobook
16. Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
By: Helen Knott
4.31
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behi… read more
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- audiobook
"What else have I made my responsibility that no one asked me to take on?"-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
"Mama's arms felt like ceremony on nights when the ghosts of my past experiences wouldn't let me sleep."-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
"The women in my family are medicine. They are backbones and ribcages and hearts. They are whispers in men's ears. They are the guardians that kept us whole."-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
"Teetering on the brink of relapse and the edge of insanity. I can't fuck or fight my way out of these feelings, so that's a bitch, but the weather is nice. More cream for your coffee, Edna?"-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
17. 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
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- literary fiction
- canada
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
18. 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
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- canada
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
19. The Islands: Stories
By: Dionne Irving
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Powerful stories that explore the legacy of colonialism, and issues of race, immigration, sexual di… read more
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- race
- canada
- short stories
- essays
- historical fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- african american
- audiobook
20. Cold
By: Drew Hayden Taylor
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERA tragic plane crash that leaves two women stranded and fighting for the… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
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- contemporary
21. 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
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- literary fiction
- canada
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- audiobook
22. Girlfriend on Mars
By: Deborah Willis
3.42
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Amber Kivinen is moving to Mars. Or at least, she will be if she wins a chance to join MarsNow. She… read more
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- literary fiction
- canada
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
23. 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
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- literary fiction
- race
- canada
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- historical fiction
- audiobook
24. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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- literary fiction
- canada
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"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
25. The Rooftop Garden
By: Menaka Raman-Wilms
3.66
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A thought-provoking debut novel that examines the intersection of climate change, human connection … read more
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- fiction
- canada
- audiobook
26. Away from the Dead
By: David Bergen
3.96
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Longlisted, Scotiabank Giller Prize Violence is the domain of both the rich and poor. Or so it seem… read more
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- canada
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- historical fiction
- audiobook
27. Wait Softly Brother
By: Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
3.64
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
After twenty years of looping frustrations Kathryn walks out of her marriage and washes up in her c… read more
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- fiction
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28. 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
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- fiction
- canada
29. Broughtupsy
By: Christina Cooke
3.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
At once cinematic yet intimate, Broughtupsy is an enthralling debut novel about a young Jamaican wo… read more
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- canada
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- contemporary
- audiobook
30. The Clarion
By: Nina Dunic
3.64
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE AN APPLE BOOKS BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR SEPTEMBER… read more
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- audiobook
31. We Have Never Lived On Earth (Robert Kroetsch Series)
By: Kasia Van Schaik
3.78
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Kasia Van Schaik's debut story collection follows the journey of Charlotte Ferrier, a child of divo… read more
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- short stories
- canada
