5 Top family books like The Clarion by Nina Dunic

Cover of The Clarion by Nina Dunic

The Clarion

By: Nina Dunic

3.64

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE AN APPLE BOOKS BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR SEPTEMBER…

If you liked the family plot in The Clarion by Nina Dunic , here is a list of 5 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 Nina Dunic's The Clarion

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Rage the Night by Donna Morrissey

2. 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

Similar categories in Donna Morrissey's Rage the Night book and Nina Dunic's The Clarion

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
"What use is any man if he doesn’t have a purpose?"

-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night

"…it is in solitude where one finds one’s courage."

-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night

"No sense of having anything if you’ve no one to give it to."

-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night

Cover of Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein

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 Nina Dunic's The Clarion

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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. 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

Similar categories in Téa Mutonji's Shut Up You're Pretty book and Nina Dunic's The Clarion

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"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

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5. 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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6. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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7. 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

Similar categories in Vincent Lam's On the Ravine book and Nina Dunic's The Clarion

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of All the Colour in the World by C.S. Richardson

8. 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
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Bury the Lead (Quill & Packet Mystery, #1) by Kate   Hilton

9. Bury the Lead (Quill & Packet Mystery, #1)

By: Kate Hilton

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A big-city journalist joins the staff of a small-town paper in cottage country and finds a communit… read more

Similar categories in Kate Hilton's Bury the Lead (Quill & Packet Mystery, #1) book and Nina Dunic's The Clarion

  • fiction
  • canada
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10. 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

Similar categories in Terry Fallis's A New Season book and Nina Dunic's The Clarion

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
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11. 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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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
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12. 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 Nina Dunic's The Clarion

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of The Circle by Katherena Vermette

13. 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 Nina Dunic's The Clarion

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of We Meant Well by Erum Shazia Hasan

14. We Meant Well

By: Erum Shazia Hasan

4.05

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A propulsive debut that grapples with timely questions about what it means to be charitable, who de… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Behind You by Catherine  Hernandez

15. 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

Similar categories in Catherine Hernandez's Behind You book and Nina Dunic's The Clarion

  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of The Islands: Stories by Dionne Irving

16. The Islands: Stories

By: Dionne Irving

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Powerful stories that explore the legacy of colonialism, and issues of race, immigration, sexual di… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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

Similar categories in Kevin Chong's The Double Life of Benson Yu book and Nina Dunic's The Clarion

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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18. The Observer: A Novel

By: Marina Endicott

3.81

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

A spare and powerful new novel from the award-winning author of Good to a Fault and The Little Shad… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of Girlfriend on Mars by Deborah  Willis

19. 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 Nina Dunic's The Clarion

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Held by Anne   Michaels

20. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

Cover of The Rooftop Garden by Menaka Raman-Wilms

21. The Rooftop Garden

By: Menaka Raman-Wilms

3.66

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A thought-provoking debut novel that examines the intersection of climate change, human connection … read more

Similar categories in Menaka Raman-Wilms's The Rooftop Garden book and Nina Dunic's The Clarion

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Away from the Dead by David Bergen

22. Away from the Dead

By: David Bergen

3.96

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Longlisted, Scotiabank Giller Prize Violence is the domain of both the rich and poor. Or so it seem… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Wait Softly Brother by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

23. Wait Softly Brother

By: Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

3.64

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

After twenty years of looping frustrations Kathryn walks out of her marriage and washes up in her c… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • family
  • canada
Cover of Daughter by Claudia Dey

24. Daughter

By: Claudia Dey

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In Claudia Dey’s Daughter, a woman long caught in her father's web strives to make a life—and art—o… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Breaking and Entering by Don Gillmor

25. Breaking and Entering

By: Don Gillmor

3.53

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

In the midst of the hottest summer on record, a woman tests the increasing tension between our soci… read more

Similar categories in Don Gillmor's Breaking and Entering book and Nina Dunic's The Clarion

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Prairie Edge by Conor Kerr

26. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
Cover of The Clarion by Nina Dunic

27. The Clarion

By: Nina Dunic

3.64

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE AN APPLE BOOKS BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR SEPTEMBER… read more

Similar categories in Nina Dunic's The Clarion book and Nina Dunic's The Clarion

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories by Shashi Bhat

28. Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

By: Shashi Bhat

4.22

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

CBC Books' Top Pick for Most Anticipated Canadian Fiction for Spring 2024—a breathtaking and sharpl… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of Wild Failure: Stories by Zoe Whittall

29. Wild Failure: Stories

By: Zoe Whittall

3.80

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In these raucous and poignant short stories, bestselling novelist Zoe Whittall contends with the me… read more

Similar categories in Zoe Whittall's Wild Failure: Stories book and Nina Dunic's The Clarion

  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
Cover of We Have Never Lived On Earth (Robert Kroetsch Series) by Kasia Van Schaik

30. We Have Never Lived On Earth (Robert Kroetsch Series)

By: Kasia Van Schaik

3.78

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Kasia Van Schaik's debut story collection follows the journey of Charlotte Ferrier, a child of divo… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of real ones by Katherena Vermette

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

Similar categories in Katherena Vermette's real ones book and Nina Dunic's The Clarion

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook

31 Top fiction books like The Clarion by Nina Dunic

Transform Your Habits

The Adversary

Michael Crummey

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Rage the Night

Donna Morrissey

3.97

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Study for Obedience

Sarah Bernstein

3.05

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Shut Up You're Pretty

Téa Mutonji

3.57

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21 must-read fiction books like The Adversary by Michael Crummey

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Michael Crummey

3.85

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Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

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The Librarianist

Patrick deWitt

3.41

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Donna Morrissey

3.97

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