Such a Lonely, Lovely Road
By: Kagiso Lesego Molope
4.12
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Coming out in South Africa . . . At what cost? All his life Kabelo Mosala has been the perfect chil…
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1. So Long, See You Tomorrow
By: William Maxwell
3.91
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
On an Illinois farm in the 1920s, a man is murdered, and in the same moment the tenuous friendship … read more
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- literary fiction
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"His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope."-William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
"Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera."-William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
"A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own."-William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
"I don't know what she looked like. Most farm women of her age were reduced by hard work and frequent child-bearing to a common denominator of plainness."-William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
2. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
3. Away
By: Jane Urquhart
4.16
Format: 1342 pages, Paperback
A stunning, evocative novel set in Ireland and Canada, Awaytraces a family's complex and layered pa… read more
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- literary fiction
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- canada
4. Fifth Business
By: Robertson Davies
3.71
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendae… read more
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6. The Double Hook
By: Sheila Watson , F.T. Flahiff
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In spare, allusive prose, Sheila Watson charts the destiny of a small, tightly knit community nestl… read more
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7. Nervous Conditions
By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
4.54
Format: 253 pages,
A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa's 100 Best Books of … read more
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8. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
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9. Family Meal
By: Bryan Washington
3.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel abo… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- lgbt
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- contemporary
- queer
10. 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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"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
11. What Strange Paradise
By: Omar El Akkad
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilap… read more
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"Today you are the only boy in the world and tomorrow it will be as though you never existed."-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"And what do you think the prerequisite for kindness is? Have you ever tried to be kind to someone better off than you?"-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"Farther out, the water sheds its sandy complexion and turns a turquoise of such clarity that the tourists’ sailboats seem to float atop their own shadows."-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"Because that's how we take the future from them," Walid said, animated now. "Look at Stockholm, look at Munich, look at New York-- who's picking up the garbage, cleaning the toilets? Who's doing the …"-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
12. Do You Remember Being Born?
By: Sean Michaels
3.83
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
FINALIST FOR THE 2023 PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN AWARD FOR FICTION Scotiabank Giller Prize-winner… read more
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"I opened my eyes: soft light, morning, cool. The shimmer of a dream as it departed. I have always enjoyed waking up to different weather, as if the world's been up to something in the night."-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?
"A poem-shaped space, I thought. A poem-shaped space. I tried to hold a poem-shaped space in my mind. Sometimes the work of life is like preparing a bedroom for a guest: sweeping the floor, emptying t…"-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?
"Some of what makes us human is our smallness. The brevity of our lifespans, the shortness of our memories, the narrowness of each person's field of vision. My Marian-ness is in the slender sample of …"-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?
"Art is husbandry, I thought. It is an experiment in imaginary kinship. Bring together this mare and this stallion; this marriage and this moon; this sun and this daughter. Poems, paintings, pop songs…"-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?
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
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14. All the Quiet Places
By: Brian Thomas Isaac
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Brian Isaac's powerful debut novel All the Quiet Places is the coming-of-age story of Eddie Toma, a… read more
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15. Such a Lonely, Lovely Road
By: Kagiso Lesego Molope
4.12
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Coming out in South Africa . . . At what cost? All his life Kabelo Mosala has been the perfect chil… read more
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- south africa
- canada
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
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16. Halal Sex: The Intimate Lives of Muslim Women in North America
By: Sheima Benembarek
3.89
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
An unprecedented glimpse into the sex lives of female and gender-expansive Muslims living across Ca… read more
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17. Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising
By: Brandi Morin
4.30
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
A wildfire of a debut memoir by internationally recognized French/Cree/Iroquois journalist Brandi M… read more
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18. A History of My Brief Body
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
The youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay c… read more
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"I'm as lonely and as brief as a country."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Living in a world where people are guns is a brutal legacy."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Regardless, I forgive them just as I forgive naive versions of myself."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Teens don't read for beauty, but to practice the art of disappearance."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
19. People Change
By: Vivek Shraya
3.96
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
*FINALIST FOR THE CITY OF CALGARY W.O. MITCHELL BOOK PRIZE* “A deeply generous and honest gift to … read more
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"Some friendships need to die. Sometimes we’re so trapped in old patterns or comforts that we don’t offer anything meaningful to each other except history."-Vivek Shraya, People Change
"Reinvention requires both a kind of death and a desire to keep living. And so at its core, reinvention is inextricably linked to hope: the hope that we can find another way, take another shape."-Vivek Shraya, People Change
20. Coexistence: Stories
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.39
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A gr… read more
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"I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
"It's October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
"That's what love is -- someone else's spirit moving through you. When someone moves through you they leave behind a small trace of human life. It's how we know we're still alive."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
21. How to Fail as a Popstar
By: Vivek Shraya
4.06
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Described as “cultural rocket fuel” by Vanity Fair , Vivek Shraya is a multi-media artist whose art… read more
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