The Figgs
By: Ali Bryan
3.60
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Meet the Figgs. June, the family's matriarch, looks forward to a quiet retirement — if only she can…
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1. The Best of Adam Sharp
By: Graeme Simsion
3.09
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 bestselling author of The Rosie Project and The Rosie Effect, an unforgettable new nove… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"In Hong Kong, I read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera"-Graeme Simsion, The Best of Adam Sharp
"The day might come when I had nothing but memories, and the choice of whether to indulge my romantic side and wallow in them, or my cynical side and reflect on the reliability."-Graeme Simsion, The Best of Adam Sharp
"Lost love belongs in a three-minute song, pullling back feelings from a time when they came unbidden, recalling the infatuation, the walking on sunshine that cannot last and the pain of its loss, whe…"-Graeme Simsion, The Best of Adam Sharp
"A few times in my life, I have been manipulated by the sexual power of a woman. "Could you help with my assignment?" I'll do it for you. "I don't know why they've given me middle seat." Take mine. "I…"-Graeme Simsion, The Best of Adam Sharp
2. Fourteen Days
By: Margaret Atwood
3.23
Format: 363 pages, Hardcover
Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is a s… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
3. Rules for Visiting
By: Jessica Francis Kane
3.73
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
A beautifully observed and deeply funny novel of May Attaway, a university gardener who sets out on… read more
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- book club
- fiction
- contemporary
"I'm aware not everyone feels the way I do about trees, but I have no idea why not."-Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting
"Consider the word visit. It’s from the Old French visiter, which meant “to inspect, examine, or afflict."-Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting
"Are we a family damaged beyond repair? I don't know. I do believe in the power of words and stories to make sense of things."-Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting
"She was the kind of person who had multiple copies of the books she loved most. That way, she said, she could always give one away."-Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting
4. 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
- canada
- 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
5. In Waves
By: A.J. Dungo
4.37
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
In this graphic novel, surfer and illustrator AJ Dungo remembers his late partner and the shared lo… read more
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6. 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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- fiction
- canada
"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
7. I Only Read Murder (Miranda Abbott, #1)
By: Ian Ferguson
3.28
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A once-famous TV sleuth An amateur theater production An onstage murder A town full of suspects…… read more
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- fiction
- canada
- contemporary
8. 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
- book club
- canada
- contemporary
"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
9. The Fake
By: Zoe Whittall
3.44
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A con artist can make you feel like the luckiest person on earth just to be in their presence. But … read more
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- fiction
- canada
- contemporary
"There are worse things than telling a lie."-Zoe Whittall, The Fake
10. 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
"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
11. Closer by Sea
By: Perry Chafe
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER CBC Books “86 Works of Canadian Fiction to Read in the First Half of 20… read more
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- fiction
- canada
12. 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
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- fiction
13. 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
- canada
14. A New Season
By: Terry Fallis
3.65
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
From beloved and bestselling author Terry Fallis comes a novel unlike any of his others. A thoughtf… read more
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- fiction
- canada
- contemporary
15. The Winter Wives
By: Linden MacIntyre
3.37
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling new psychological drama from Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Linden MacIntrye, weaving t… read more
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- fiction
- canada
16. Dear Emmie Blue
By: Lia Louis
4.11
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
At sixteen, Emmie Blue stood in the fields of her school and released a red balloon into the sky. A… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"So, two closed books living together."-Lia Louis, Dear Emmie Blue
"Change. Everything is changing. Except for me."-Lia Louis, Dear Emmie Blue
"I probably looked ruddy , like streetwise children do , in Charles Dickens novels. A tomato - with a beating heart."-Lia Louis, Dear Emmie Blue
"But here, I can help myself. Here, I am looked after. And maybe that is why it feels more like home than anywhere else has ever felt. Maybe home isn't a place. It's a feeling. Of being looked after a…"-Lia Louis, Dear Emmie Blue
17. 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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- fiction
- canada
- contemporary
18. By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret
By: Piper Huguley
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The incredible untold story of Ann Lowe, Jackie Kennedy's wedding dress designer, a Black woman who… read more
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- book club
- fiction
"It took one person. One lady with a good heart to see who I was and what I could do in this world."-Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret
"It has been many years since I let a man kiss me... When our lips met, parts of me that I had forgotten existed, thawed out from neglect and rose back to life like when Jesus was resurrected."-Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret
"The way she had seen me and treated me, was the way we should all see and treat one another. For to be able to see someone, to see them as a human being, to see them for what they can contribute in t…"-Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret
"For all of my life, ever since I was a little girl, I thought what I wanted was to be at one of these lovely dinner dances. Well. Now that I'm here, It's been marvelous, but I know that the main thin…"-Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret
19. 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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- fiction
- canada
20. Watcher in the Woods (Rockton, #4)
By: Kelley Armstrong
4.14
Format: 368 pages, ebook
In #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's latest thriller, the town of Rockton--an… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"We deal with chauvinism and racism in real life, but we tell ourselves that's a minority opinion and then we go online and...[...] I still don't think it's a majority opinion. I have enough faith in …"-Kelley Armstrong, Watcher in the Woods (Rockton, #4)
21. The Inheritance
By: Joanna Goodman
3.53
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls and The Forgotten Daughter comes a compu… read more
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- fiction
- canada
- contemporary
22. Sunshine Nails
By: Mai Nguyen
3.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A tender, humorous, and page-turning debut about a Vietnamese Canadian family in Toronto who will d… read more
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- fiction
- canada
- contemporary
23. 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
24. Where the Dead Sit Talking
By: Brandon Hobson
3.35
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
National Book Award finalist Best book of 2018: Kirkus, Southern Living, and NPR Code Switch Read… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
25. Have You Seen Her
By: Catherine McKenzie
3.59
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling and timely novel about three women with dark secrets whose lives intersect in the pictu… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
26. Full Disclosure (Jilly Truitt, #1)
By: Beverley McLachlin
3.57
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
From the former Chief Justice of Canada comes a riveting thriller starring Jilly Truitt, a rising, … read more
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- fiction
- canada
- contemporary
27. 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
28. The Most Precious Substance on Earth
By: Shashi Bhat
3.60
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Journey Prize winner Shashi Bhat’s "powerful, surprising and terrifying" (Rufi Thorpe) story about … read more
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- fiction
- canada
- contemporary
29. The Company We Keep
By: Frances Itani
3.58
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
ON TUESDAY NIGHTS IN THE BACKROOM OF CASSIE'S CAFÉ, SIX STRANGERS SEEK SOLACE AND FIND THEMSELVES P… read more
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- book club
- canada
- contemporary
30. The Figgs
By: Ali Bryan
3.60
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Meet the Figgs. June, the family's matriarch, looks forward to a quiet retirement — if only she can… 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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