The Innocents
By: Michael Crummey
3.78
Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition
From prizewinning author Michael Crummey comes a spellbinding story of survival in which a brother …
Want to Read $ 12.99"A body must bear what can't be helped."-Michael Crummey, The Innocents
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1. 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
- adult
- canada
- audiobook
2. 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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- literary fiction
- canada
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"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
3. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- canada
- fiction
- adult
- 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
4. 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
- adult
- 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
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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- literary fiction
- canada
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"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
6. 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
7. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- canada
- fiction
- family
- audiobook
8. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- canada
- coming of age
- fiction
- historical fiction
9. The Winter Knight
By: Jes Battis
3.46
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Arthurian legends are reborn in this upbeat queer urban fantasy with a mystery at its heart The … read more
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- fiction
- adult
- canada
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
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- fiction
- adult
- 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
11. 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
- adult
- audiobook
12. Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club
By: Megan Gail Coles
3.59
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
#1 National BestsellerFinalist, CBC Canada ReadsFinalist, Scotiabank Giller Prize By turns savag… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- canada
"Fight or flight, fight or flight, fight or flight. But women aren't meant to do that anymore, Iris has learned. Stay and suffer through. Or lose your job, your house, your kids, your dog, your sanity…"-Megan Gail Coles, Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club
"This is why people are chasing their aces all over the poorest bays. Not because they've some genuine belief that they will catch the card. They can barely catch a break at all. A century of impoveri…"-Megan Gail Coles, Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club
"Just joking with ya, b'y. He said this readily in an unmistakable smirking way. But everyone knew he was never just joking. Not even a little bit joking. The claim provided him cover to make asinine …"-Megan Gail Coles, Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club
13. 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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- adult fiction
- canada
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
14. 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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- adult fiction
- fiction
- adult
- canada
15. Sunshine Nails
By: Mai Nguyen
3.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A tender, humorous, and page-turning debut about a Vietnamese Canadian family in Toronto who will d… read more
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- adult fiction
- canada
- family
- fiction
- adult
- audiobook
16. The Innocents
By: Michael Crummey
3.78
Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition
From prizewinning author Michael Crummey comes a spellbinding story of survival in which a brother … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- canada
- coming of age
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- family
- adult
- audiobook
"A body must bear what can't be helped."-Michael Crummey, The Innocents
17. Reproduction
By: Ian Williams
3.28
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious, surprising and poignant love story about the way families are invented, told with the … read more
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- literary fiction
- canada
- fiction
- family
- adult
- audiobook
18. 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
- adult
- audiobook
19. Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age
By: Darrel J. McLeod
4.18
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Growing up in the tiny village of Smith, Alberta, Darrel J. McLeod was surrounded by his Cree famil… read more
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- coming of age
- canada
20. Bad Medicine
By: Christopher Twin
3.62
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
A group of Cree teens gather around a fire to share stories of spirits and shapeshifters in this ch… read more
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- fiction
- canada
21. 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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