Blaze Island
By: Catherine Bush
3.31
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
For those who loved Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior comes a new climate-themed, Shakespeare-in…
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1. Inventory: Poems
By: Dionne Brand
3.82
Format: 106 pages, Paperback
In Dionne Brand’s incantatory, deeply engaged, beautifully crafted long poem, the question is asked… read more
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2. Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
By: Tanya Talaga
4.52
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away fro… read more
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- audiobook
"Rebuilding an inequitable and harmful relationship is not easy. But for the good of all our children – Indigenous and not – the hard work must begin."-Tanya Talaga, Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
3. 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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4. Galore
By: Michael Crummey
3.71
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
Sprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical, Galore is a novel about the power of stories to shap… read more
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5. Potiki
By: Patricia Grace
3.00
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A Maori community on the coast of New Zealand is threatened by a land developer who wants to purcha… read more
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6. 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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- adult fiction
- fiction
- canada
- audiobook
7. Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
By: Waubgeshig Rice
3.85
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, … read more
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- canada
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- audiobook
"Yes, apocalypse. We've had that over and over. But we always survived. We're still here. And we'll still be here, even if the power and the radios don't come back on and we never see any white people…"-Waubgeshig Rice, Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
8. Washington Black
By: Esi Edugyan
3.95
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar … read more
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- fiction
- canada
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"You cannot know the true nature of another's suffering." "No. But you can try your damnedest not to worsen it."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
"I do not much care for childhood. It is a astate of terrible vulnerability, and is therefore unnatural and incomaptivle with human life."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
"...a good parent is as rare as snow in summer, I am afraid. Well." He smiled sadly. "It is possible I have some prejudices in this respect."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
"But then, gradually, miraculously, things began to clear between us. We were able to speak as we'd once done, with great love and little calculation."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
9. Rage the Night
By: Donna Morrissey
3.97
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
At once the intimate tale of one man's quest to discover the truth of his birth and a riveting acco… read more
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- fiction
- canada
- audiobook
"…it is in solitude where one finds one’s courage."-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night
"What use is any man if he doesn’t have a purpose?"-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night
"No sense of having anything if you’ve no one to give it to."-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night
10. The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
By: Dwight Garner
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal … read more
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"There's no verb for traveling while hopping from swimming pool to swimming pool. Perhaps "cheevering" would suffice."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
"A friend once told her that he had seen graffiti in a restaurant's men's room that read, "Gael Greene uses a thesaurus."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
11. Chrysalis
By: Anuja Varghese
3.96
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Canadian Governor General's Literary for Fiction Genre-blending stories of transfo… read more
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- fiction
- canadian literature
- canada
- audiobook
12. 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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- fiction
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- contemporary
"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
13. Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart
By: Jen Sookfong Lee
3.91
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A sharply observed memoir in pieces that uses one woman's life-long love affair with pop culture as… read more
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- audiobook
14. 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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- adult fiction
- canada
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"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
15. 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
- canadian literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- 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
16. 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
- 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
17. This Is How We Love
By: Lisa Moore
3.79
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the celebrated author of February and Caught comes an exhilarating new novel that asks: What m… read more
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- canada
- canadian literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
18. 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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- adult fiction
- canada
- canadian literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
19. One for the Rock (Sebastian Synard Mysteries #1)
By: Kevin Major
3.55
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Sebastian Synard doesn’t want any more trouble than he already has. But when he leads a group of to… read more
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- canada
- audiobook
20. 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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- fiction
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21. New Girl in Little Cove
By: Damhnait Monaghan
3.98
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
After the local French teacher scandalizes the fishing village of Little Cove, Newfoundland, by run… read more
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- canada
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- contemporary
- audiobook
22. Crossroads: My Story of Tragedy and Resilience as a Humboldt Bronco
By: Kaleb Dahlgren
4.53
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
An inspiring story of hope and resiliency On April 6, 2018, sixteen people died and thirteen ot… read more
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23. 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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- canadian literature
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"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
24. 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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- adult fiction
- canada
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
25. Blackfish City
By: Sam J. Miller
3.58
Format: 336 pages, ebook
After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of m… read more
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- science fiction
- dystopia
- fiction
- audiobook
"Wood smells like wealth"-Sam J. Miller, Blackfish City
"America has fallen and I don't feel so good myself."-Sam J. Miller, Blackfish City
"Everyone can afford to be nice to each other, when no one is trying to exterminate anybody."-Sam J. Miller, Blackfish City
"Slums are always a marvel; how human desperation can seem to warp the very laws of physics."-Sam J. Miller, Blackfish City
26. 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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27. In the Upper Country
By: Kai Thomas
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The fates of two unforgettable women--one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery … read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
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- audiobook
28. Sugar Street
By: Jonathan Dee
3.51
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Publishing for the first time with Grove Atlantic, Pulitzer Prize finalist and celebrated author of… read more
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- contemporary
29. A Roll of the Bones (Cupids Trilogy, #1)
By: Trudy J. Morgan-Cole
4.09
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
In 1610, John Guy established a small colony in Cupids, Newfoundland, on the very edge of a world u… read more
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30. A Great Country
By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's Little Fires E… read more
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31. Blaze Island
By: Catherine Bush
3.31
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
For those who loved Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior comes a new climate-themed, Shakespeare-in… read more
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- adult fiction
- canada
- canadian literature
- dystopia
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- climate change
- environment
- audiobook
