10 must-read contemporary books like What’s Not Mine by Nora Decter

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What’s Not Mine

By: Nora Decter

3.61

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

For fans of Miriam Toews, an absorbing, darkly funny story of family, addiction, and survival The s…

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Cover of A Cry in the Dark (Carly Moore, #1) by Denise Grover Swank

1. A Cry in the Dark (Carly Moore, #1)

By: Denise Grover Swank

4.30

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman on the run with no one to trust. With the ink barely dry on her new identity, Cary Moore… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Grey Dog

By: Elliott Gish

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women’s historical fiction with delu… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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3. Nowhere Like Home

By: Sara Shepard

3.34

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Little Liars Sara Shepard's next adult novel follows… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"If she was going to be broken, she would rather be broken with some style."

-Sara Shepard, Nowhere Like Home

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4. youthjuice

By: E.K. Sathue

3.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

American Psycho meets The Devil Wears Prada: outrageous body horror for the goop generation A 29… read more

Similar categories in E.K. Sathue's youthjuice book and Nora Decter's What’s Not Mine

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. 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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6. The Celestial Wife

By: Leslie Howard

3.72

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A young fundamentalist Mormon girl facing a forced marriage escapes her strict, polygamist communit… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Howard's The Celestial Wife book and Nora Decter's What’s Not Mine

  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • canada
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7. 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
  • audiobook
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8. The Cure for Drowning

By: Loghan Paylor

4.28

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Evocative, magical and luminously written, The Cure for Drowning is not only a brilliant, boundary-… read more

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  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • canada
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9. The Waking Forest

By: Alyssa Wees

3.36

Format: 304 pages, None

The waking forest has secrets. To Rhea, it appears like a mirage, dark and dense, at the very edge … read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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10. Last Minute Guest

By: Drew Strickland

4.01

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

He wanted to step out of his comfort zone, but stumbled into a nightmare. One year after his si… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. 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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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
"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

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12. A Man Downstairs

By: Nicole Lundrigan

3.65

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

What if the childhood you remember isn’t really what happened at all? From the acclaimed author … read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
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13. Off the Tracks: A Meditation on Train Journeys in a Time of No Travel

By: Pamela Mulloy

3.70

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Train travel is having a renaissance. Grand old routes that had been canceled, or were moldering in… read more

Similar categories in Pamela Mulloy's Off the Tracks: A Meditation on Train Journeys in a Time of No Travel book and Nora Decter's What’s Not Mine

  • audiobook
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14. The Father She Went to Find

By: Carter Wilson

3.81

Format: 430 pages, Paperback

A road trip to find closure… or a reckless chase that could turn deadly? Penny has never met an… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of What’s Not Mine by Nora Decter

15. What’s Not Mine

By: Nora Decter

3.61

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

For fans of Miriam Toews, an absorbing, darkly funny story of family, addiction, and survival The s… read more

Similar categories in Nora Decter's What’s Not Mine book and Nora Decter's What’s Not Mine

  • canada
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories by Shashi Bhat

16. 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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  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of The Three Deaths of Willa Stannard by Kate Robards

17. The Three Deaths of Willa Stannard

By: Kate Robards

3.57

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s not that they’ve been all that close in the past few years, but sisters Willa and Sawyer Stann… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre

By: Niigaan Sinclair

4.65

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

From ground zero of this country's most important reconciliationNiigaan Sinclair has been called p… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
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19. 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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  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
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20. 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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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
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21. Indian Winter

By: Kazim Ali

3.62

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A queer writer travelling through India can't escape the regrets of his past nor the impending ruin… read more

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