20 must-read canada books like The Never-Ending Present by Michael Barclay

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The Never-Ending Present

By: Michael Barclay

4.06

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

The biography of “Canada’s band” In the summer of 2016, more than a third of Canadians tuned in …

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1. Fat City

By: Leonard Gardner

4.02

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

Fat City is a novel about the indestructibility of of hope, the anguish and comedy of the human con… read more

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"Profoundly moved, he kissed the lax waiting mouth with exquisite unhappiness."

-Leonard Gardner, Fat City

"At times as he lay in bed listening to her breathing, a fear came over him that after marriage death was the next major event."

-Leonard Gardner, Fat City

"He felt the guilt of inaction, of simply waiting while his life went to waste. No one was worth the gift of his life, no one could possibly be worth that. It belonged to him alone, and he did not des…"

-Leonard Gardner, Fat City

"Out in the fog, weary, yet buoyant from the drinks, his mind dulled along with his aches and his energy returning, Tully was free of the sense of impending ordeal that had been with him for weeks. He…"

-Leonard Gardner, Fat City

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2. Son of a Trickster (Trickster, #1)

By: Eden Robinson

3.82

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

With striking originality and precision, Eden Robinson, the Giller-shortlisted author of the classi… read more

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  • canada
"He wasn't going to be alone after she died, but the world was going to be a lonelier place without her."

-Eden Robinson, Son of a Trickster (Trickster, #1)

3. A Newfoundlander in Canada: Always Going Somewhere, Always Coming Home

By: None

3.78

Format: 472 pages, Hardcover

Following the fantastic success of his bestselling memoir, Where I Belong, Great Big Sea front man … read more

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4. My Effin' Life

By: Geddy Lee

4.58

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • canada
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • canada
  • audiobook
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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
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7. The Sanctuary (Kørner and Werner, #5)

By: Katrine Engberg

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From internationally bestselling author Katrine Engberg, the series that is a “gripping addition to… read more

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  • audiobook
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8. 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

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  • history
  • biography
  • canada
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Talking to Canadians

By: Rick Mercer

4.28

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Canada’s beloved comic genius tells his own story for the first time. What is Rick Mercer going… read more

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  • biography
  • canada
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. The Downloaded

By: Robert J. Sawyer

3.62

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

The new novel by Canada's top Science Fiction writer In 2059 two very different groups have their m… read more

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  • audiobook
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11. 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

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12. 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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  • canada
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13. The Beautiful Ones

By: Prince

3.78

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

From Prince himself comes the brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the gre… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Still, my soul is cast iron and not to be dented."

-Prince, The Beautiful Ones

"A lot of people have the idea that I'm a wild sexual person...I've lectured quite a few people out there. I'll say, 'Think about what you're saying. How would you react if you were me?' I ask that qu…"

-Prince, The Beautiful Ones

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14. Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008

By: Chris Payne

4.41

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

An explosive oral history of emo's takeover from 1999 to 2008, featuring MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, FA… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
" Jonathan Daniel: I mean, people knew "Sins." That song was so big everywhere. But yeah, I don't think they knew the band as much. I remember Panic! went to see Kanye in Vegas, and Pete asked Kanye i…"

-Chris Payne, Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008

" Jim Adkins: ...There was a girl who wrote us, explaining how she felt like an outsider at her school because the punk rock kids wouldn't accept her, even though she liked us and a lot of the really …"

-Chris Payne, Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008

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15. Memoirs and Misinformation

By: Jim Carrey

2.86

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

"None of this is real and all of it is true." --Jim Carrey Meet Jim Carrey. Sure, he's an insane… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • canada
  • audiobook
"Well, necessity is the motherfucker of invention, man."

-Jim Carrey, Memoirs and Misinformation

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16. World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

By: Jeff Tweedy

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting and heartening mix of memories, music, and inspiration from Wilco front man and New Yor… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. 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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  • canada
  • audiobook
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18. Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.

By: Jeff Tweedy

4.33

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

The singer, guitarist, and songwriter—best known for his work with Wilco—opens up about his past, h… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"If you were me, which I am,"

-Jeff Tweedy, Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.

"The Chicago historian Studs Terkel asked Bob Dylan in the sixties about how he went about writing a song and trying to outdo himself, or at least being as good as the last song he wrote, and his resp…"

-Jeff Tweedy, Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.

"As we grow, we learn to evaluate and judge, to navigate the world with some discretion, and then we turn on ourselves – creating can't just be for the sake of creating anymore. It has to be good, or …"

-Jeff Tweedy, Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.

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19. 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
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20. 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
  • biography
  • canada
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me

By: Rex Chapman

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A powerful memoir from the University of Kentucky basketball legend, NBA veteran, and social media … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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22. Sidney Crosby: The Rookie Year

By: Neely Lohmann

4.34

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Sidney Crosby is ready to tell his story in his own words. As one of the greatest NHL players of al… read more

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  • biography
  • canada
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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23. Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past

By: Brett Popplewell

4.31

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

Into the Wild  meets  Born to Run  meets  The Stranger in the Woods  in a fascinating true story of… read more

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  • biography
  • canada
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland by Steven Hyden

24. There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland

By: Steven Hyden

4.21

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album,  Born in the U.S.A. —a record … read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk

By: Billy Walters

3.84

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “An insightful read…Walters is a larger-than-life character.” — Sports … read more

Similar categories in Billy Walters's Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk book and Michael Barclay's The Never-Ending Present

  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson by Mark Bourrie

26. Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson

By: Mark Bourrie

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Murderer. Salesman. Pirate. Adventurer. Cannibal. Co-founder of the Hudson's Bay Company. Known … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • canada
Cover of Killer: My Life in Hockey by Doug Gilmour

27. Killer: My Life in Hockey

By: Doug Gilmour

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The #1 Bestselling Canadian Non-Fiction Book of the Year They called him Killer. Doug Gilmour didn’… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • canada
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28. Off the Record

By: Peter Mansbridge

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Peter Mansbridge invites us to walk the beat with him in this entertaining and revealing look into … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • canada
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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29. The Never-Ending Present

By: Michael Barclay

4.06

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

The biography of “Canada’s band” In the summer of 2016, more than a third of Canadians tuned in … read more

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  • music
  • cultural
  • history
  • biography
  • canada
  • pop culture
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of What Comes Echoing Back by Leo McKay Jr.

30. 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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  • canada
Cover of Murder on the Inside: The True Story of the Deadly Riot at Kingston Penitentiary by Catherine Fogarty

31. Murder on the Inside: The True Story of the Deadly Riot at Kingston Penitentiary

By: Catherine Fogarty

4.15

Format: None pages, ebook

"You have taken our civil rights--we want our human rights." On April 14, 1971, a handful of pri… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • canada

23 must-read audiobook books like The Never-Ending Present by Michael Barclay

Transform Your Habits

My Effin' Life

Geddy Lee

4.58

Transform Your Habits

Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Jessica McDiarmid

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Defector (Apollo Murders, #2)

Chris Hadfield

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The Sanctuary (Kørner and Werner, #5)

Katrine Engberg

3.92

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17 best-selling audiobook books like It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me by Rex Chapman

Transform Your Habits

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

Ed Zwick

4.03

Transform Your Habits

When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season

Rich Cohen

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

Keith O'Brien

4.43

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