8 must-read historical fiction books like Far Cry by Alissa York

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Far Cry

By: Alissa York

4.01

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In a novel as compelling as the forbidden love at its heart, Alissa York, one of Canada's most dist…

If you liked the historical fiction plot in Far Cry by Alissa York , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of The Adversary by Michael Crummey

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

Similar categories in Michael Crummey's The Adversary book and Alissa York's Far Cry

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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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
  • canada
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"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

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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

Similar categories in Sarah Bernstein's Study for Obedience book and Alissa York's Far Cry

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
"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

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4. 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

Similar categories in Emma Donoghue's Learned by Heart book and Alissa York's Far Cry

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant

5. 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
  • audiobook
Cover of Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart by Jen Sookfong Lee

6. 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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  • canada
  • audiobook
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7. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
"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

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8. 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

Similar categories in Elizabeth Hay's Snow Road Station book and Alissa York's Far Cry

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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9. Adrift

By: Lisa Brideau

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

For fans of The Last Thing He Told Me comes a page-turning thriller about hidden identities and the… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Brideau's Adrift book and Alissa York's Far Cry

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Bittlemores by Jann Arden

10. 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

Similar categories in Jann Arden's The Bittlemores book and Alissa York's Far Cry

  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr

11. 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

Similar categories in Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter book and Alissa York's Far Cry

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

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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12. 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
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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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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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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14. 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

Similar categories in Catherine Hernandez's The Story of Us book and Alissa York's Far Cry

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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15. 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

Similar categories in Katherena Vermette's The Circle book and Alissa York's Far Cry

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas

16. 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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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Double Life of Benson Yu by Kevin  Chong

17. 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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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Girlfriend on Mars by Deborah  Willis

18. 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

Similar categories in Deborah Willis's Girlfriend on Mars book and Alissa York's Far Cry

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Far Cry by Alissa York

19. Far Cry

By: Alissa York

4.01

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In a novel as compelling as the forbidden love at its heart, Alissa York, one of Canada's most dist… read more

Similar categories in Alissa York's Far Cry book and Alissa York's Far Cry

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Burden of Exile: A Banned Journalist's Flight from Dictatorship by Aaron Berhane

20. The Burden of Exile: A Banned Journalist's Flight from Dictatorship

By: Aaron Berhane

4.31

Format: 328 pages, ebook

In the strict dictatorship of Eritrea, a young reporter co-founds the first independent newspaper, … read more

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Cover of Dancing in Small Spaces: One Couple’s Journey with Parkinson’s Disease and Lewy Body Dementia by Leslie A. Davidson

21. Dancing in Small Spaces: One Couple’s Journey with Parkinson’s Disease and Lewy Body Dementia

By: Leslie A. Davidson

4.54

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An unstintingly honest and surprisingly humorous memoir that charts a couple’s parallel diagnoses o… read more

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17 must-read fiction books like Far Cry by Alissa York

Transform Your Habits

The Adversary

Michael Crummey

3.85

Transform Your Habits

A Grandmother Begins the Story

Michelle Porter

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Study for Obedience

Sarah Bernstein

3.05

Transform Your Habits

Learned by Heart

Emma Donoghue

3.51

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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

Transform Your Habits

The Librarianist

Patrick deWitt

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Rage the Night

Donna Morrissey

3.97

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