31 best-selling fiction books like The Double Life of Benson Yu by Kevin Chong

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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…

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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
  • 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

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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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

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

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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

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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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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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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
  • canada
  • audiobook
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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
  • fiction
  • 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

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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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  • 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

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
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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

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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
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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11. 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
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12. 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

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13. 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
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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14. 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
  • graphic novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • asian literature
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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15. 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

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  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of The Circle by Katherena Vermette

16. 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
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17. 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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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Behind You by Catherine  Hernandez

18. Behind You

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.04

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

As terror grips a city, a young girl faces danger closer to home and chilling memories that last a … read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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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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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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20. 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 Kevin Chong's The Double Life of Benson Yu

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • coming of age
  • historical
  • graphic novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • asian literature
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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21. 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
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22. 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
  • canada
  • coming of age
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Held by Anne   Michaels

23. 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
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of The Rooftop Garden by Menaka Raman-Wilms

24. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Away from the Dead by David Bergen

25. 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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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Wait Softly Brother by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

26. 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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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of What Comes Echoing Back by Leo McKay Jr.

27. 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
Cover of Prairie Edge by Conor Kerr

28. Prairie Edge

By: Conor Kerr

4.15

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

The Giller Prize-longlisted author of Avenue of Champions returns with a frenetic, propulsive crime… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
Cover of The Clarion by Nina Dunic

29. 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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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories by Shashi Bhat

30. Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

By: Shashi Bhat

4.22

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

CBC Books' Top Pick for Most Anticipated Canadian Fiction for Spring 2024—a breathtaking and sharpl… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of We Have Never Lived On Earth (Robert Kroetsch Series) by Kasia Van Schaik

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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  • fiction
  • canada

14 best-selling contemporary books like The Double Life of Benson Yu by Kevin Chong

Transform Your Habits

Birnam Wood

Eleanor Catton

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Study for Obedience

Sarah Bernstein

3.05

Transform Your Habits

Shut Up You're Pretty

Téa Mutonji

3.57

Transform Your Habits

Hotline

Dimitri Nasrallah

4.15

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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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