Missing from the Village: The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System That Failed Toronto's Queer Community
By: Justin Ling
4.23
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
The tragic and resonant story of the disappearance of eight men--the victims of serial killer Bruce…
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1. A Daughter's Deadly Deception: The Jennifer Pan Story
By: Jeremy Grimaldi
3.45
Format: 336 pages, ebook
2017 Arthur Ellis Award, Best Nonfiction Book — WinnerA sinister plot by a young woman left her mot… read more
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- true crime
- canada
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
2. Dark Ambition: The Shocking Crime of Dellen Millard and Mark Smich
By: Ann Brocklehurst
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2017 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, Nonfiction CategoryLonglisted for the 2018 Fra… read more
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- crime
- nonfiction
- true crime
3. Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story
By: Robyn Doolittle
3.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
His drug and alcohol-fuelled antics made world headlines and engulfed a city in unprecedented contr… read more
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4. Scarborough
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.19
Format: 208 pages,
Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighborhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest ci… read more
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5. On the Farm
By: Stevie Cameron
3.33
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
Now that the publication bans are lifted, you need Stevie Cameron to get the whole story, which inc… read more
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6. Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
By: Jessica McDiarmid
4.30
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
A searing account of the missing, and murdered, Indigenous women of Highway 16, and an indictment o… read more
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- history
- true crime
- canada
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
7. 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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- canada
- 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
8. Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
By: Elamin Abdelmahmoud
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An enlightening and deliciously witty collection of essays on Blackness, faith, pop culture, and th… read more
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- nonfiction
- canada
- audiobook
"I am a student of migration stories. I am pulled toward accounts of lives rearranged by the journey from one place to another."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
"We do things out of fear and we do things out of love and no one tells you what happens when you act from both places at once."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
"It is a profound, transformative gift to have someone see you as you’d like to be seen, even if you don’t see yourself that way."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
"Love is a practice, a trail you carve out by traveling the same path over and over and over until it becomes familiar, until it lights the way home."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
9. Half-Bads in White Regalia: A Memoir
By: Cody Caetano
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
*LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2023* NATIONAL BESTSELLERA family tries to learn from the mistakes of … read more
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- nonfiction
- canada
- audiobook
10. Red River Girl: The Life and Death of Tina Fontaine
By: Joanna Jolly
4.19
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A gripping account of the unsolved death of an Indigenous teenager, and the detective determined to… read more
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- history
- true crime
- canada
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
11. The Billionaire Murders: The Mysterious Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman
By: Kevin Donovan
3.49
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
A top journalist crosses the yellow tape to investigate a shocking high-society crime. Billionai… read more
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- history
- true crime
- canada
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
12. Jonny Appleseed
By: Joshua Whitehead
3.95
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
(Alternate cover edition of ISBN 1551527251 / 9781551527253.) "You're gonna need a rock and a w… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- canada
- queer
"I am my own best medicine."-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"...leaving home always hurts--home isn't a space, it's a feeling. You have to feel home and to feel it, you have to sense it: smell it, taste it, hear it. And it isn't always comfortable--"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"Maybe we're more like dandelions. A weed that's a pest in the yard but pretty to look at. Yeah, an Indian home is like a dandelion, pretty, but disposable and imbued with a million little seeds that …"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"The nurses were busybodies, I could hear them scurrying about in the rooms adjacent to ours. They were telling jokes and laughing. Their happiness pissed me off. Stop fucking laughing, I thought, my …"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
13. A Dark Night in Aurora: Inside James Holmes and the Colorado Mass Shootings
By: William H. Reid
3.89
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
James Holmes killed or wounded seventy people in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. Only one man … read more
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- crime
- nonfiction
- true crime
- audiobook
14. 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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- mystery
- 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
15. The Family Next Door: The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the Thirteen Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue
By: John Glatt
3.60
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling true crime author John Glatt comes the devastating story of the Tur… read more
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- true crime
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
16. 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
- audiobook
17. 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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- nonfiction
- history
- canada
- 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
18. Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance
By: Jesse Wente
4.39
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
A prominent Indigenous voice uncovers the lies and myths that affect relations between white and In… read more
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- history
- canada
- audiobook
19. 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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- audiobook
- canada
- lgbt
20. 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
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- history
- canada
- audiobook
21. Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI
By: Jana Monroe
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Mindhunter, Criminal Minds, and My Favorite Murder, a riveting memoir of a trailblazing… read more
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- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
"The devil, or whatever force was behind that disembodied knife in her mind, has never made anyone do anything. The devil just applauds when it happens."-Jana Monroe, Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI
"Our answers were rarely found in confessional sessions in a jailhouse interrogation room despite how hard serial killers like Ted Bundy and Edmund Kemper tried to play their interviewers. Our answers…"-Jana Monroe, Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI
22. Missing from the Village: The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System That Failed Toronto's Queer Community
By: Justin Ling
4.23
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
The tragic and resonant story of the disappearance of eight men--the victims of serial killer Bruce… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- true crime
- gay
- lgbt
- canada
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- queer
23. 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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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- canada
- lgbt
24. Someone You Know: Sixteen Unforgettable Canadian True Crime Stories
By: Catherine Fogarty
3.72
Format: 320 pages, ebook
Someone You Know takes you into dangerous territory--behind closed doors where family, friendship a… read more
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- true crime
- canada
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
25. Red X
By: David Demchuk
3.77
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
A hunted community. A haunted author. A horror that spans centuries. Men are disappearing from T… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- canada
- queer
26. Wish You Were Here
By: John Allore
3.63
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
As compelling as Michelle McNamara's I'll Be Gone in the Dark or James Ellroy's My Dark Places, thi… read more
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- canada
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- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
27. 22 Murders: Investigating the Massacres, Cover-up and Obstacles to Justice in Nova Scotia
By: Paul Palango
3.58
Format: 587 pages, Paperback
A shocking exposé of the deadliest killing spree in Canadian history, and how police tragically fai… read more
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- history
- true crime
- canada
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
28. Overdose: Heartbreak And Hope in Canada’s Opioid Crisis
By: Benjamin Perrin
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing and powerful look at the ongoing opioid health crisis--the only book of its kind in … read more
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- canada
- audiobook
29. NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.43
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In his follow-up to This Wound is a World , Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Griffin Poetry Prize–winning colle… read more
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- gay
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"A country is how men hunt in the dark"-Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
"What an ugly, necessary monster I made of myself." from "The Wall Clock Caught Fire From Neglect"-Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
30. I Got a Name: The Murder of Krystal Senyk
By: Eliza Robertson
3.67
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A vivid and meticulous true-crime story that exposes the deep fracture… read more
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- history
- true crime
- canada
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
31. Wild Failure: Stories
By: Zoe Whittall
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In these raucous and poignant short stories, bestselling novelist Zoe Whittall contends with the me… read more
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