21 Best canada books like The Taste of Hunger by Barbara Joan Scott

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The Taste of Hunger

By: Barbara Joan Scott

4.15

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

A family saga about Ukrainian immigrants in the early 20th century, the power of desire, Baba Yaga …

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1. Lullabies for Little Criminals

By: Heather O'Neill

4.03

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

A gritty, heart-wrenching novel about bruised innocence on the city's feral streets—the remarkable … read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
"Whenever things were going well, I started to feel vain."

-Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals

"The smallest a family can be is two members, and that was Jules and me."

-Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals

"Women aren't mean the way that men are. They're full of life and they're like God in that way."

-Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals

"Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it."

-Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals

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2. Forgiveness

By: Mark Sakamoto

3.41

Format: 94 pages, Hardcover

The heart-rending true story of two families on either side of the Second World War-and a moving tr… read more

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  • canada

3. Late Nights on Air

By: Elizabeth Hay

3.88

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly anticipated novel from the bestselling author of A Student of Weather and Garbo Laughs.… read more

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4. The Crooked Branch

By: Jeanine Cummins

2.96

Format: 7 pages, Paperback

From the national bestselling and highly acclaimed author of The Outside Boy comes the deeply movin… read more

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5. 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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  • fiction
  • canada
  • historical fiction
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6. 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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  • fiction
  • canada
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7. Blood Betrayal (Blackwater Falls, #2)

By: Ausma Zehanat Khan

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A complex and timely mystery, Blood Betrayal proves once again that Ausma Zehanat Khan is a writer … read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
"Seif privately suspected Julie would be hearing from the sheriff for letting not one but two interlopers into the inner sanctum without prior consent. Julie's policy seemed to guarantee admission as …"

-Ausma Zehanat Khan, Blood Betrayal (Blackwater Falls, #2)

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8. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

By: Sarah Polley

4.32

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores me… read more

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"His love was all around the edges, but sometimes it was hard for both of us to see, I think."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"The past was affecting how I moved through the world, while present life was affecting how the past moved through me."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"The past and present, I have come to realize, are in constant dialogue, acting upon one another in a kind of reciprocal pressure dance."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"It can seem perplexing from the outside, this pull that many women experience to make things better for those who have hurt us. The impulse to smooth things over the keep ourselves safe..."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

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9. Learned by Heart

By: Emma Donoghue

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains d… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

By: John Vaillant

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more

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  • canada
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11. The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You

By: Margareta Magnusson

3.58

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author of The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning— now a TV series… read more

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"...unless you depend on your looks for your career or your joy, hinging your life on looking young is such a bad idea."

-Margareta Magnusson, The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You

"The world is always ending, and yet it continues to survive. We must always hope for a sustainable future, but hope is not enough."

-Margareta Magnusson, The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You

"It is never too late to do anything, unless it is really too late and you are. dead. The moment you start thinking it is too late, then you begin to die. I will keep going and do all I want to do."

-Margareta Magnusson, The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You

"The older I get, the more I find that I remember clearly all the things I said yes to, just when I was about to say no. I must admit I have not been open-minded all the time. I just wish I had been."

-Margareta Magnusson, The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You

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12. 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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  • fiction
  • canada
  • 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

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13. 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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  • fiction
  • canada
  • historical fiction
"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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14. The Colony of Unrequited Dreams

By: Wayne Johnston

3.95

Format: 594 pages, Paperback

A mystery and a love story spanning five decades, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is an epic portra… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • historical fiction
"You’re not an artist, you’re not a scientist, you’re not an intellectual. All that’s left to you is politics."

-Wayne Johnston, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams

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15. Camp Jupiter Classified: A Probatio's Journal

By: Rick Riordan

3.86

Format: 146 pages, Hardcover

Time to discover what's been going on at Camp Jupiter . . . It's the February after Gaea's defea… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Forsaken Country (Detective Max Rupert, #5) by Allen Eskens

16. Forsaken Country (Detective Max Rupert, #5)

By: Allen Eskens

4.24

Format: None pages, Audiobook

11 hours, 9 minutes Three fathers collide far beyond the reach or safety of the law in this bre… read more

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  • fiction
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17. A Sweet Sting of Salt

By: Rose Sutherland

3.88

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Once a young woman uncovers a dark secret about her neighbor and his mysterious new wife, she’ll ha… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. Death Under a Little Sky (Jake Jackson #1)

By: Stig Abell

3.72

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A detective ready for a new life…For years, Jake Jackson has been a high-flying detective in London… read more

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  • fiction
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19. The Secret Keeper

By: Genevieve Graham

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

From USA TODAY and internationally bestselling author Genevieve Graham comes a gripping World War I… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • historical fiction
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20. 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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  • fiction
  • canada
  • historical fiction
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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21. The Ghost Woods

By: C.J. Cooke

3.98

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

In the midst of the woods stands a house called Lichen Hall. This place is shrouded in folklore… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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22. What Wild Women Do

By: Karma Brown

3.76

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Two women's lives unexpectedly intertwine in this intriguing dual timeline novel from the #1 intern… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • historical fiction
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23. August Into Winter

By: Guy Vanderhaeghe

4.11

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The first novel in nearly a decade from the three-time Governor General's Award‒winning author of T… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • historical fiction
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24. Permanent Astonishment

By: Tomson Highway

4.20

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Capricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada's most ac… read more

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  • canada
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25. All the Quiet Places

By: Brian Thomas Isaac

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Brian Isaac's powerful debut novel All the Quiet Places is the coming-of-age story of Eddie Toma, a… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • historical fiction
Cover of Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest by Trina Moyles

26. Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest

By: Trina Moyles

4.29

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

A page-turning memoir about a young woman's grueling, revelatory summers working alone in a remote … read more

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  • canada
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27. The Forgotten Home Child

By: Genevieve Graham

4.36

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The Home for Unwanted Girls meets Orphan Train in this unforgettable novel about a young girl caugh… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • historical fiction
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28. The Taste of Hunger

By: Barbara Joan Scott

4.15

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

A family saga about Ukrainian immigrants in the early 20th century, the power of desire, Baba Yaga … read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • historical fiction
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29. Coq

By: Ali Bryan

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

From Leacock finalist Ali Bryan, a witty and immensely fun dramedy about a family’s memorial trip t… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
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30. Animal Person

By: Alexander MacLeod

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The highly anticipated new book of short fiction from the O. Henry Prize winner Alexander MacLeod―a… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
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31. Unrest

By: Gwen Tuinman

4.25

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

Brash, duplicitous women, murder and mayhem, and illicit love abound in this wild adventure for fan… read more

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  • historical fiction

22 must-read fiction books like The Taste of Hunger by Barbara Joan Scott

Transform Your Habits

Lullabies for Little Criminals

Heather O'Neill

4.03

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

Blood Betrayal (Blackwater Falls, #2)

Ausma Zehanat Khan

4.01

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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

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The Librarianist

Patrick deWitt

3.41

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Donna Morrissey

3.97

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