Wait Softly Brother
By: Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
3.64
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
After twenty years of looping frustrations Kathryn walks out of her marriage and washes up in her c…
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1. 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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- literary fiction
- canada
- historical
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- historical fiction
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2. A Grandmother Begins the Story
By: Michelle Porter
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Michelle Porter makes her fiction debut with an enchanting and original story … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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"Different ways to tell a story. Some tellers make a noise to announce the coming of the story for get someone else to call everyone's attention. Some wait for people to gather around, for the quiet t…"-Michelle Porter, A Grandmother Begins the Story
"People get themselves ready to die. They start going through their memories and bringing out their stories one by one as if there was a photo album in their head and they've got to get through it bef…"-Michelle Porter, A Grandmother Begins the Story
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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- fiction
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"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
- fiction
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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
5. 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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"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
6. 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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- literary fiction
- canada
- historical
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- historical fiction
"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
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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- family
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8. 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?
9. And Then She Fell
By: Alicia Elliott
3.90
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous wo… read more
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- fiction
- canada
"Nothing I do is done solely for me. Everything is done to elevate Steve or Dawn, in some way. I'm an afterthought in my own life."-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell
"A part of me wants to cry at this small request, because I know what that longing is like, what it means. I won't be there forever, but I will be there for her. For her sister. For her mother. I'll b…"-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell
10. The Sleeping Car Porter
By: Suzette Mayr
3.46
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more
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"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
11. 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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- literary fiction
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- canada
12. 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
- canada
"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
13. 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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- canada
- historical
- war
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- historical fiction
14. A New Season
By: Terry Fallis
3.65
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
From beloved and bestselling author Terry Fallis comes a novel unlike any of his others. A thoughtf… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- canada
15. 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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- fiction
- canada
- historical fiction
16. 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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17. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- family
- canada
18. 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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19. We Meant Well
By: Erum Shazia Hasan
4.05
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
A propulsive debut that grapples with timely questions about what it means to be charitable, who de… read more
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- canada
- war
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20. 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
- historical fiction
21. The Double Life of Benson Yu
By: Kevin Chong
3.54
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
This work of metafiction follows a graphic novelist losing control of his own narrative as he attem… read more
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- historical
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- historical fiction
22. Girlfriend on Mars
By: Deborah Willis
3.42
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Amber Kivinen is moving to Mars. Or at least, she will be if she wins a chance to join MarsNow. She… read more
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- fiction
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23. The Damages
By: Genevieve Scott
3.61
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Sharp and propulsive, The Damages is an engrossing novel set in motion by the disappearance of a st… read more
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24. 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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25. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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- canada
- historical
- war
- fiction
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"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
26. The Rooftop Garden
By: Menaka Raman-Wilms
3.66
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A thought-provoking debut novel that examines the intersection of climate change, human connection … read more
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27. Away from the Dead
By: David Bergen
3.96
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Longlisted, Scotiabank Giller Prize Violence is the domain of both the rich and poor. Or so it seem… read more
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28. Wait Softly Brother
By: Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
3.64
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
After twenty years of looping frustrations Kathryn walks out of her marriage and washes up in her c… read more
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- civil war
- war
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- family
- novels
29. Daughter
By: Claudia Dey
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In Claudia Dey’s Daughter, a woman long caught in her father's web strives to make a life—and art—o… read more
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30. The Clarion
By: Nina Dunic
3.64
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE AN APPLE BOOKS BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR SEPTEMBER… read more
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31. We Have Never Lived On Earth (Robert Kroetsch Series)
By: Kasia Van Schaik
3.78
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Kasia Van Schaik's debut story collection follows the journey of Charlotte Ferrier, a child of divo… read more
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