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…
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1. Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
By: Mona Eltahawy
3.60
Format: None pages,
A passionate manifesto decrying misogyny in the Arab world, by an Egyptian American journalist and … read more
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2. Hijab Butch Blues
By: Lamya H.
4.48
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Sort of?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"Queer indispensability?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
3. 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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- audiobook
- feminism
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- lgbt
"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
4. Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart
By: Jen Sookfong Lee
3.91
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A sharply observed memoir in pieces that uses one woman's life-long love affair with pop culture as… read more
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- nonfiction
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5. 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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"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
6. In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience (The Regina Collection, 11)
By: Helen Knott
4.53
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Long-listed for the 2020 RBC Taylor Prize A memoir of addiction, intergenerational trauma, a… read more
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7. We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
By: Samra Habib
4.16
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
CANADA READS 2020 WINNER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION NA… read more
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"Being surrounded by people who fuel you is intentional."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
"For me, a wedding was an act of necessity, not a fairy tale."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
"The joy of discovery is one of the biggest pleasures you'll ever know."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
"Closure, for me, would mean accepting my circumstances rather than trying to alter them to serve me best."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
8. Making Love with the Land: Essays
By: Joshua Whitehead
4.11
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n… read more
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"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state know…"-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
9. 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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10. Her First Palestinian
By: Saeed Teebi
4.37
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Elegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in c… read more
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11. 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
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"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
12. The Story of Us
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.19
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of Canada Reads finalist Scarborough, a stunning new novel about the unbreakable bo… read more
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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. 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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15. 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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16. 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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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
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18. Much Ado about Nada
By: Uzma Jalaluddin
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A sparkling second-chance romance inspired by Jane Austen's Persuasion... Nada Syed is stuck. On… read more
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"Life really was bizarre on occasion."-Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada
"He didn't want anything to change, ever. And so nothing changed for anyone in her family. Ever."-Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada
"A world doesn't exist where I don't choose you, Nada beta, over everyone else. I will always choose you."-Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada
"My parents want to leave a legacy. We want to create our own. We're all just making it up as we go along."-Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada
19. 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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- sexuality
- womens
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20. Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir
By: Danny Ramadan
4.62
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
A queer Syrian refugee reckons with a life spent out of place.“Writing this memoir is a betrayal.” … read more
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21. But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures
By: Sahaj Kaur Kohli
4.58
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A deeply personal, paradigm-shifting book from therapist, writer, and founder of @browngirltherapy … read more
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