One Sunny Afternoon: A Memoir of Trauma and Healing
By: Rowan Jette Knox
3.93
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Love Lives Here, a deeply personal memoir about facing life-long tra…
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1. A Safe Girl to Love
By: Casey Plett
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Eleven unique short stories that stretch from a rural Canadian Mennonite town to a hipster gay bar … read more
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2. Bought and Sold
By: Megan Stephens
4.12
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
A heart-stopping story of lies, brutality and fear. British girl Megan Stephens tells the true stor… read more
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3. 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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4. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
By: Kai Cheng Thom
4.18
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more
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- memoir
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"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
5. 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
6. Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump
By: Ben Philippe
3.79
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In an era in which “I have many black friends” is often a medal of Wokeness, Ben hilariously chroni… read more
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7. 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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8. 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
9. In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience (The Regina Collection, 11)
By: Helen Knott
4.53
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Long-listed for the 2020 RBC Taylor Prize A memoir of addiction, intergenerational trauma, a… read more
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- mental health
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- audiobook
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
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11. 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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"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
12. 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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13. Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
By: Helen Knott
4.31
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behi… read more
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"What else have I made my responsibility that no one asked me to take on?"-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
"Mama's arms felt like ceremony on nights when the ghosts of my past experiences wouldn't let me sleep."-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
"The women in my family are medicine. They are backbones and ribcages and hearts. They are whispers in men's ears. They are the guardians that kept us whole."-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
"Teetering on the brink of relapse and the edge of insanity. I can't fuck or fight my way out of these feelings, so that's a bitch, but the weather is nice. More cream for your coffee, Edna?"-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
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
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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
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16. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada
By: Michelle Good
4.44
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
Abold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experi… read more
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17. Behind You
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.04
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
As terror grips a city, a young girl faces danger closer to home and chilling memories that last a … read more
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18. Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person
By: Anna Mehler Paperny
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A vibrant, compelling memoir that bravely reveals the real-life havoc the depression wreaks and an … read more
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- mental health
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"Depression affects everyone on the planet, directly or indirectly, in every possible sphere. its very ubiquity robs it of sexiness but not urgency."-Anna Mehler Paperny, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person
"Suicidality and curiosity are anathema to each other: You can’t want to know things if you want to die. As long as I had questions I had reason to live, and when I was overwhelmed by a desire for dea…"-Anna Mehler Paperny, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person
19. The Damages
By: Genevieve Scott
3.61
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Sharp and propulsive, The Damages is an engrossing novel set in motion by the disappearance of a st… read more
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20. The Secret History of Audrey James
By: Heather Marshall
4.46
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
The #1 bestselling author of Looking for Jane returns with a poignant, gripping novel about a piani… read more
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21. Skid Dogs
By: Emelia Symington-Fedy
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
"I can't remember the last time I read a book so brave. Maybe never." Ani Difranco "I fell hard … read more
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22. Wild Hope: A Novel
By: Joan Thomas
3.50
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Governor General’s Award–winning author of Five Wives, a thrilling contemporary novel abo… read more
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23. Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls
By: Angela Sterritt
4.51
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable work of memoir and investigative journalism focusing on missing and murdered Indigenou… read more
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24. I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness
By: Daniel Allen Cox
3.57
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
*LONGLISTED FOR THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE DE MONTREAL* “I spent eighteen years in a group that taugh… read more
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25. Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
By: Kyo Maclear
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable memoir about a family secret revealed by a DNA test, the lessons learned in its af… read more
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"A mother enters a story. But how does she enter? How does she walk across the pages of a book?"-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
"What is grief, if not the act of persisting and reconstituting oneself? What is its difficulty, if not the pressure to appear, once more, fully formed?"-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
"I could hear her saying: One day I will have a daughter and I will give her an unfinished story and it will be up to her to decide if it is a void or a gift."-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
"Knowledge is a beautiful sideways and sometimes upward spiral, but a tower of appeasement will not feed you. Merit badges will teach compliance with preset paths but will not teach pathfinding."-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
26. Coexistence: Stories
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.39
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A gr… read more
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"I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
"It's October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
"That's what love is -- someone else's spirit moving through you. When someone moves through you they leave behind a small trace of human life. It's how we know we're still alive."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
27. Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go
By: Kelly S. Thompson
4.41
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
With honesty, love, and humour, in this moving memoir, Kelly S. Thompson explores her relationship … read more
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"Sisters come back to one another, I think. When they're ready."-Kelly S. Thompson, Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go
"I have always thought that sisters have a way of communicating, no matter what keeps them apart."-Kelly S. Thompson, Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go
"We were all just trying to save someone. It was a state of loving, despite instead of loving because."-Kelly S. Thompson, Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go
28. One Sunny Afternoon: A Memoir of Trauma and Healing
By: Rowan Jette Knox
3.93
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Love Lives Here, a deeply personal memoir about facing life-long tra… read more
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29. Prairie Edge
By: Conor Kerr
4.15
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
The Giller Prize-longlisted author of Avenue of Champions returns with a frenetic, propulsive crime… read more
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30. We Rip the World Apart
By: Charlene Carr
4.26
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Hold My Girl comes a sweeping multi-generational story about motherhoo… read more
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31. real ones
By: Katherena Vermette
4.10
Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of the nationally bestselling Strangers saga comes a heartrending story of two Mich… read more
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