5 must-read lgbt books like Shelterbelts by Jonathan Dyck

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Shelterbelts

By: Jonathan Dyck

3.92

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Fractures form in a tight-knit Mennonite community, echoing the struggles experienced in small town…

If you liked the lgbt plot in Shelterbelts by Jonathan Dyck , here is a list of 5 books like this:

1. Ragged Company

By: Richard Wagamese

4.18

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Four chronically homeless people-Amelia One Sky, Timber, Double Dick and Digger-seek refuge in a wa… read more

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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 Jonathan Dyck's Shelterbelts

  • fiction
  • adult
  • canada
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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 Jonathan Dyck's Shelterbelts

  • canada
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
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4. Revenge of the Librarians

By: Tom Gauld

3.94

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

Confront the spectre of failure, the wraith of social media, and other supernatural enemies of the … read more

Similar categories in Tom Gauld's Revenge of the Librarians book and Jonathan Dyck's Shelterbelts

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
  • fiction
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5. Homebody

By: Theo Parish

4.43

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In their comics debut, Theo Parish masterfully weaves an intimate and defiantly hopeful memoir abou… read more

Similar categories in Theo Parish's Homebody book and Jonathan Dyck's Shelterbelts

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • lgbt
"Being openly queer can feel intimidating. But every day just by being yourself you inspire the people around you. You don't have to be an influencer to influence!"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"There is no one way to be transgender, just like there is no one way to be cisgender. We are all just trying to find a place to call our own. We are all deserving of comfort and safety, a place to ca…"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"Living authentically in a world that takes every opportunity to squeeze you uncomfortably into a box of someone else's design...that is the most radical act of self love. Blossoming in an environment…"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"Words are important. They allow us to communicate how we think and feel. Words help us to understand and to be understood. So, finally grasping the language you've been reaching for, to explain this …"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

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6. Borders

By: Thomas King

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A stunning graphic-novel adaptation based on the work of one of Canada’s most revered and bestselli… read more

Similar categories in Thomas King's Borders book and Jonathan Dyck's Shelterbelts

  • canada
  • graphic novels
  • realistic fiction
  • comics
  • fiction
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7. The Long Form

By: Kate Briggs

4.09

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Helen and her young baby, Rose, are awake. It is first thing on a new morning. They move, they rest… read more

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  • fiction
"For what if it were easier to love a pattern when you were a pattern yourself? When social life required that you fall into its established patterns, starting with the basic division of day and night…"

-Kate Briggs, The Long Form

"The novel, by working with the interplay of durations, and inviting the reader to interact with them, has the capacity to pay a double, triple, multiple allegiance to the weird workings of time, to o…"

-Kate Briggs, The Long Form

"The world is surprising. It had undiscovered stores. It is not yet wholly given. There will be new gestures, new questions, new forms of life. The capacity to welcome them, to make room for them (to …"

-Kate Briggs, The Long Form

"I know time. I know time differently now. I know it because I am unlearning it. I know it because the baby is teaching me that the rhythms of the clock and the calendar, and even the most elemental d…"

-Kate Briggs, The Long Form

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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

Similar categories in Catherine Leroux's The Future book and Jonathan Dyck's Shelterbelts

  • fiction
  • 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

Cover of This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America by Navied Mahdavian

9. This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America

By: Navied Mahdavian

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A gorgeously illustrated and written debut graphic memoir about belonging, identity, and making a h… read more

Similar categories in Navied Mahdavian's This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America book and Jonathan Dyck's Shelterbelts

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
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10. 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 Jonathan Dyck's Shelterbelts

  • fiction
  • adult
  • 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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11. Mall Goth

By: Kate Leth

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me gets a Y2K twist in this coming-of-age young adult graphic nov… read more

Similar categories in Kate Leth's Mall Goth book and Jonathan Dyck's Shelterbelts

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • realistic fiction
  • comics
  • fiction
"Oh mall... at least you're always here for me"

-Kate Leth, Mall Goth

Cover of Denison Avenue by Christina Wong

12. 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 Jonathan Dyck's Shelterbelts

  • fiction
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • canada
Cover of The Circle by Katherena Vermette

13. 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 Jonathan Dyck's Shelterbelts

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • canada
  • lgbt
Cover of Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada by Michelle Good

14. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada

By: Michelle Good

4.44

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

Abold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experi… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Good's Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada book and Jonathan Dyck's Shelterbelts

  • canada
Cover of Our Colors by Gengoroh Tagame

15. Our Colors

By: Gengoroh Tagame

4.04

Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition

A mesmerizing coming-of-age and coming-out graphic novel by the genius writer-artist of the Eisner … read more

Similar categories in Gengoroh Tagame's Our Colors book and Jonathan Dyck's Shelterbelts

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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16. The Marigold

By: Andrew F. Sullivan

3.32

Format: 360 pages, ebook

An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here. In a near-future Toronto buffeted by environm… read more

Similar categories in Andrew F. Sullivan's The Marigold book and Jonathan Dyck's Shelterbelts

  • fiction
  • adult
  • canada
Cover of Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation by Andrew Stobo Sniderman

17. Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation

By: Andrew Stobo Sniderman

4.54

Format: 384 pages, ebook

A heart-rending true story about racism and reconciliationDivided by a beautiful valley and 150 yea… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Stobo Sniderman's Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation book and Jonathan Dyck's Shelterbelts

  • canada
Cover of Shelterbelts by Jonathan Dyck

18. Shelterbelts

By: Jonathan Dyck

3.92

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Fractures form in a tight-knit Mennonite community, echoing the struggles experienced in small town… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Dyck's Shelterbelts book and Jonathan Dyck's Shelterbelts

  • canada
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • realistic fiction
  • short stories
  • religion
  • comics
  • fiction
  • adult
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19. Our Little Secret

By: Emily Carrington

4.18

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize At 15, Emily is a relatively typical teenage girl… read more

Similar categories in Emily Carrington's Our Little Secret book and Jonathan Dyck's Shelterbelts

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • canada
Cover of The Horizon, Vol. 1 (The Horizon #1) by JH

20. The Horizon, Vol. 1 (The Horizon #1)

By: JH

4.33

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

A world where everything has been lost. A boy and a girl alone together. All they can do is move fo… read more

Similar categories in JH's The Horizon, Vol. 1 (The Horizon #1) book and Jonathan Dyck's Shelterbelts

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
Cover of Stealing Home by J. Torres

21. Stealing Home

By: J. Torres

3.99

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

When a boy struggles after moving to a Japanese internment camp during WWII, baseball shows him ano… read more

Similar categories in J. Torres's Stealing Home book and Jonathan Dyck's Shelterbelts

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • canada

13 Best fiction books like Shelterbelts by Jonathan Dyck

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Revenge of the Librarians

Tom Gauld

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Borders

Thomas King

3.93

Transform Your Habits

The Long Form

Kate Briggs

4.09

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19 Top audiobook books like Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation by Andrew Stobo Sniderman

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Rage the Night

Donna Morrissey

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Shut Up You're Pretty

Téa Mutonji

3.57

Transform Your Habits

The Future

Catherine Leroux

3.32

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