12 must-read nonfiction books like Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion by Tyler LeBlanc

Cover of Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion by Tyler LeBlanc

Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

By: Tyler LeBlanc

4.21

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The untold story of one Acadian family: their experiences following their expulsion and their deter…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion by Tyler LeBlanc , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis, William Benham, Richard Challoner, D.D.

1. The Imitation of Christ

By: Thomas à Kempis , William Benham , Richard Challoner, D.D.

4.32

Format: 632 pages, Paperback

Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than The Imita… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Le Plongeur by Stéphane Larue

2. Le Plongeur

By: Stéphane Larue

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Nous sommes a Montreal au debut de l'hiver 2002. Le narrateur n'a pas vingt ans. Il aime Clive Bark… read more

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  • canada

3. The Sea Captain's Wife

By: Beth Powning

3.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Growing up on the Bay of Fundy, Azuba Galloway dreams of going to sea. She watches magnificent ship… read more

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Cover of The Adversary by Michael Crummey

4. The Adversary

By: Michael Crummey

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Innocents (“Extraordinary”— Wall Street … read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) by Waubgeshig Rice

5. 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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  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of The Defector (Apollo Murders, #2) by Chris Hadfield

6. The Defector (Apollo Murders, #2)

By: Chris Hadfield

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author, astronaut, and fighter pilot Chris Hadfield comes a rivetin… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . . by Rick      Mercer

7. The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . .

By: Rick Mercer

4.45

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Rick Mercer is back—again!—with the eagerly awaited sequel to his bestselling memoir At the end … read more

Similar categories in Rick Mercer's The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . . book and Tyler LeBlanc's Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of If You Would Have Told Me by John Stamos

8. If You Would Have Told Me

By: John Stamos

3.81

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

If you would have told a young John Stamos flipping burgers at his dad’s fast-food joint that one d… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. 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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  • 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

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10. Kukum

By: Michel Jean

4.55

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

«C'est un de ces soirs où je trayais les vaches dans la lumière du soleil couchant que je l'ai vu p… read more

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  • canada
"Péribonka, c'est un chemin creusé par des géants à même le roc. Cette nature indomptée et somptueuse m'a libérée de l'horizon."

-Michel Jean, Kukum

"Ce soir d'été, quand je suis arrivée au pâturage, il m'attendait, assis sur la clôture, avec la patience de celui qui se moque du temps qui passe."

-Michel Jean, Kukum

Cover of Fayne: A Novel by Ann-Marie MacDonald

11. Fayne: A Novel

By: Ann-Marie MacDonald

4.26

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

A beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magyk, love and identity. In the late nineteent… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
"Byrn speaks and I understand him without effort, his words as clear as spring water. / Ask a favour of the plover, he says. Borrow her eyes. / Then I am flying through the air, and the flying is his …"

-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fayne: A Novel

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12. The Bittlemores

By: Jann Arden

3.87

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A heartfelt, comic, and deeply satisfying debut novel from the #1 bestselling author, singer-songwr… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions by Greta Thunberg

13. The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions

By: Greta Thunberg

4.40

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, … read more

Similar categories in Greta Thunberg's The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions book and Tyler LeBlanc's Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The richest 1 per cent of the world's population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the people who make up the poorest half of humanity."

-Greta Thunberg, The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions

"The transformation we need in order to stay below 1.5 C or even 2 C of warming may not be politically possible today. But we are the ones who determine what will be politically possible tomorrow."

-Greta Thunberg, The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions

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14. 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
Cover of Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada by Michelle Good

15. 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 Tyler LeBlanc's Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of The Islands: Stories by Dionne Irving

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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  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of The Cure for Drowning by Loghan Paylor

17. The Cure for Drowning

By: Loghan Paylor

4.28

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Evocative, magical and luminously written, The Cure for Drowning is not only a brilliant, boundary-… read more

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  • canada
Cover of Peace by Chocolate by Jon Tattrie

18. Peace by Chocolate

By: Jon Tattrie

4.47

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Tareq Hadhad was worried about his father: Isam did not know what to do with his life. Before the w… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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19. Something More

By: Jackie Khalilieh

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A contemporary teen romance novel featuring a Palestinian-Canadian girl trying to hide her autism d… read more

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  • audiobook
"No matter how far I've come and no matter how hard I try, beneath the mask will always be a girl who's afraid of being left behind."

-Jackie Khalilieh, Something More

"Maybe if people can get past the things that make me different on the outside, then they might try to get to know the real me. And maybe I’ll let them."

-Jackie Khalilieh, Something More

Cover of Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion by Tyler LeBlanc

20. Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

By: Tyler LeBlanc

4.21

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The untold story of one Acadian family: their experiences following their expulsion and their deter… read more

Similar categories in Tyler LeBlanc's Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion book and Tyler LeBlanc's Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of If I Knew Then: Finding Wisdom in Failure and Power in Aging by Jann Arden

21. If I Knew Then: Finding Wisdom in Failure and Power in Aging

By: Jann Arden

4.04

Format: 211 pages, Kindle Edition

Jann Arden--bestselling author, recording artist and late-blooming TV star--is back with this funny… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
"Since the big things find you no matter where you are, it's okay to unhook from your portable news source so you're not in the middle of what's happening every minute of the day. It doesn't mean you …"

-Jann Arden, If I Knew Then: Finding Wisdom in Failure and Power in Aging

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22. Beholden

By: Lesley Crewe

4.25

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

The story begins with Nell, the “spinster on the hill” near St. Peter’s, Cape Breton. Scarred by he… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Son of a Critch: A Childish Newfoundland Memoir by Mark Critch

23. Son of a Critch: A Childish Newfoundland Memoir

By: Mark Critch

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A heartfelt and outrageously funny memoir about Newfoundland, family, and being the weirdest kid in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of All Together Now: A Newfoundlander's Light Tales for Heavy Times by Alan  Doyle

24. All Together Now: A Newfoundlander's Light Tales for Heavy Times

By: Alan Doyle

4.24

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

One of Newfoundland's funniest and most beloved storytellers offers his cure for the Covid blues. … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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25. Crow

By: Amy Spurway

4.05

Format: 305 pages, Paperback

When Stacey Fortune is diagnosed with three highly unpredictable — and inoperable — brain tumours, … read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
"I come from a long line of lunatics and criminals. Crazies on the one side of the family tree, crooks on the other, although the odd crazy has a touch of crook, and vice versa"

-Amy Spurway, Crow

Cover of I Place You into the Fire by Rebecca  Thomas

26. I Place You into the Fire

By: Rebecca Thomas

4.53

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

We remember tomorrow and a thousand years ago. From eel weirs to the buffalo. We remember petro… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson

27. Monkey Beach

By: Eden Robinson

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

“ Monkey Beach creates a vivid contemporary landscape that draws the reader deep into a traditional… read more

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  • canada
"Six crows sit in our greengage tree. Half awake, I hear them speak to me in Haisla."

-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

"As I drove away, I felt deeply comforted knowing that magical things were still living in the world."

-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

"You honkies want women to be like cookies, all sweet and dainty and easy to eat. But I'm fry bread, you bitch, and I'm proud of it."

-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

"We are apart so that I will know the joy of being with you again. Take care of yourself, wherever you are. Take care of yourself, wherever you are."

-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

Cover of Frequently Asked White Questions by Ajay Parasram

28. Frequently Asked White Questions

By: Ajay Parasram

4.17

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Are you a white person with questions about how race affects different situations, but you feel awk… read more

Similar categories in Ajay Parasram's Frequently Asked White Questions book and Tyler LeBlanc's Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Power of Teamwork: How We Can All Work Better Together by Brian Goldman

29. The Power of Teamwork: How We Can All Work Better Together

By: Brian Goldman

3.48

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

The national bestseller from the host of CBC Radio’s White Coat, Black Art—now in paperback! In … read more

Similar categories in Brian Goldman's The Power of Teamwork: How We Can All Work Better Together book and Tyler LeBlanc's Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

  • nonfiction
Cover of Jude and Diana by Sharon Robart-Johnson

30. Jude and Diana

By: Sharon Robart-Johnson

4.11

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

The only mention of Jude in Nova Scotia’s official history is of her death. In 1801 a slave-owning… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Zee by Su J. Sokol

31. Zee

By: Su J. Sokol

4.10

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Zee can hear what you’re thinking and feel what you’re feeling. She sees herself through your eyes … read more

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23 Top canada books like Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion by Tyler LeBlanc

Transform Your Habits

Le Plongeur

Stéphane Larue

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Adversary

Michael Crummey

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Defector (Apollo Murders, #2)

Chris Hadfield

4.02

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21 must-read fiction books like The Adversary by Michael Crummey

Transform Your Habits

The Adversary

Michael Crummey

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Librarianist

Patrick deWitt

3.41

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Rage the Night

Donna Morrissey

3.97

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