Glorious Frazzled Beings
By: Angelique LaLonde
3.13
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Home is where we love, suffer, and learn. Some homes we chose, others are inflicted upon us, and st…
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1. Fugitive Pieces
By: Anne Michaels
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
A New York TimesNotable Book of the Year Winner of the Lannan Literary Fiction Award Winner of the … read more
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2. Scarborough
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.19
Format: 208 pages,
Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighborhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest ci… read more
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3. The Break
By: Katherena Vermette
4.36
Format: 39 pages, Paperback
2016 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalist When Stella, a young Metis mother, looks out her … read more
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4. The Son of the House
By: Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
SHORTLISTED for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2021 • FINALIST for the Nigeria Prize for Literature 20… read more
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5. If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
By: Noor Naga
3.92
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobr… read more
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6. 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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"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
7. Fight Night
By: Miriam Toews
4.04
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
The beloved author of bestsellers Women Talking, A Complicated Kindness, and All My Puny Sorrows r… read more
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"She (mom) yelled from upstairs, Those are books that help me to live! Those books are my life! Get down here! I yelled back. I'm your goddamn life!"-Miriam Toews, Fight Night
8. How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
By: Souvankham Thammavongsa
3.85
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780316422130. In the title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa's d… read more
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"Whether or not you understood the oath you made, you had to move your lips."-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
"The only love Red knew was that simple, uncomplicated, lonely love one feels for oneself in the quiet moments of the day. It was there, steady and solid in the laughter and talk of the television and…"-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
"At church, she told us they ate one cracker and took one swallow of red wine and the rest of the time there was a man talking. She did not know exactly what he said, but he said it for a long time. S…"-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
9. We, Jane
By: Aimee Wall
3.41
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A remarkable debut about intergenerational female relationships and resistance found in the unlikel… read more
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10. 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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"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
11. What Strange Paradise
By: Omar El Akkad
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilap… read more
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"Today you are the only boy in the world and tomorrow it will be as though you never existed."-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"And what do you think the prerequisite for kindness is? Have you ever tried to be kind to someone better off than you?"-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"Farther out, the water sheds its sandy complexion and turns a turquoise of such clarity that the tourists’ sailboats seem to float atop their own shadows."-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"Because that's how we take the future from them," Walid said, animated now. "Look at Stockholm, look at Munich, look at New York-- who's picking up the garbage, cleaning the toilets? Who's doing the …"-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
12. 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
13. Astra
By: Cedar Bowers
4.21
Format: 286 pages, Paperback
If you could see yourself as others saw you, would you be any closer to the truth of who you really… read more
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14. Brother
By: David Chariandy
3.99
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
An intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, tightly constructed novel, Brother explores questions o… read more
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"She's carrying a backpack, not a suitcase, and this really is how she becomes Aisha."-David Chariandy, Brother
15. 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
16. 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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- indigenous
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"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
17. We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
By: Tsering Yangzom Lama
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the wake of China's invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her younger sister, Tenkyi… read more
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18. 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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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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20. The Strangers
By: Katherena Vermette
4.10
Format: 336 pages, None
From the bestselling author of The Break comes a staggering intergenerational saga that explores ho… read more
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"Summer was always the worst season. Everyone always complained about winter, but winter was simple, you just didn't go outside. Summer always tried to sneak in where it was not wanted."-Katherena Vermette, The Strangers
21. Earthflown (The Anatomy of Water #1)
By: Frances Wren
4.08
Format: 455 pages, Paperback
Featuring over 60 illustrations, Earthflown is a love story that tries – and fails – to leave the w… read more
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"How reassuring. A discount hitman."-Frances Wren, Earthflown (The Anatomy of Water #1)
"Certainty wasn't worth the doubt. Probably."-Frances Wren, Earthflown (The Anatomy of Water #1)
"It's a ballet. Dancing is a euphemism for everything."-Frances Wren, Earthflown (The Anatomy of Water #1)
"You know, I'm boring when I'm tired. And I'm always tired."-Frances Wren, Earthflown (The Anatomy of Water #1)
22. The Listeners
By: Jordan Tannahill
3.42
Format: 304 pages, ebook
A propulsive literary page-turner about a family torn apart by a mother’s obsession with a sound th… read more
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23. A Minor Chorus
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more
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24. Dandelion
By: Jamie Chai Yun Liew
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
When Lily was eleven years old, her mother, Swee Hua, walked away from the family, never to be seen… read more
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25. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
By: Kim Fu
3.86
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made… read more
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"Just imagine it: no longer feeling guilty for everything you have and don't deserve, for an unjust world bent in your favor, paying the piper at last. Wasn't it worth it, after all? My head on a pike…"-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
"My wife and I are that other kind of rich: the misers among you, in our quaint three-bedroom house in the suburbs, unrenovated since the 1990s, one modest hatchback car between us, our big-box store …"-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
26. Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing
By: Clayton Thomas-Muller
3.65
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
For much of his life, Clayton Thomas-Muller's very existence has been scrutinized and vilified. As … read more
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27. Tainna: The Unseen Ones, Short Stories
By: Norma Dunning
4.03
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Winner of Canada's Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Drawing on both lived experience … read more
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28. We Speak Through the Mountain (The Annual Migration of Clouds, #2)
By: Premee Mohamed
3.98
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
The enlivening follow-up to the award-winning sensation The Annual Migration of Clouds Traveling al… read more
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29. Stray Dogs: Stories
By: Rawi Hage
3.25
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEFrom the internationally acclaimed author of the no… read more
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30. Scars and Stars: Poems
By: Jesse Thistle
4.15
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A beautiful and moving collection of poems and stories from the author of th… read more
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31. Glorious Frazzled Beings
By: Angelique LaLonde
3.13
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Home is where we love, suffer, and learn. Some homes we chose, others are inflicted upon us, and st… read more
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