The Centaur's Wife
By: Amanda Leduc
3.32
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Amanda Leduc's brilliant new novel, woven with fairy tales of her own devising and replete with bot…
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1. Brown Girl in the Ring
By: Nalo Hopkinson
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
"She's a powerful writer with an imagination that most of us would kill for. I have read everything… read more
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- dystopia
- fiction
- fantasy
- canada
2. The Boat People
By: Sharon Bala
4.50
Format: 282 pages,
When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody … read more
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3. The Annual Migration of Clouds (The Annual Migration of Clouds #1)
By: Premee Mohamed
3.72
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
In post-climate disaster Alberta, a woman infected with a mysterious parasite must choose whether t… read more
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- canada
- dystopia
- fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"In silent agreement we squeeze into the window to study our valley. Unlovely in the early spring, crusted with think rime of muddy snow, the river still choked with ice, a single dark thread of water…"-Premee Mohamed, The Annual Migration of Clouds (The Annual Migration of Clouds #1)
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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- adult
- audiobook
"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. Chrysalis
By: Anuja Varghese
3.96
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Canadian Governor General's Literary for Fiction Genre-blending stories of transfo… read more
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- magical realism
- canada
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
6. 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
- adult
- canada
- 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
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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- adult
- canada
- audiobook
8. The Tusks of Extinction
By: Ray Nayler
3.85
Format: 192 pages, ebook
When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA. Moscow has res… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
"When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA."-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction
"But there were links [to memories] that were broken as well. That no longer led to other memories. Were those memories still there, disconnected but whole, like planets that had escaped the gravity o…"-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction
"He was afraid to lose this memory. He returned to it often, like a person checking their pockets to make sure their keys were still there. He had lost so many memories of her. The further away he mov…"-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction
9. Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
By: Elamin Abdelmahmoud
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An enlightening and deliciously witty collection of essays on Blackness, faith, pop culture, and th… read more
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- canada
- audiobook
"We do things out of fear and we do things out of love and no one tells you what happens when you act from both places at once."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
"I am a student of migration stories. I am pulled toward accounts of lives rearranged by the journey from one place to another."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
"It is a profound, transformative gift to have someone see you as you’d like to be seen, even if you don’t see yourself that way."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
"Love is a practice, a trail you carve out by traveling the same path over and over and over until it becomes familiar, until it lights the way home."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
10. A Letter to the Luminous Deep
By: Sylvie Cathrall
3.69
Format: 432 pages, ebook
Dive into the curious correspondence of Sylvie Cathrall’s delightful debut novel, A Letter to the L… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
11. The Winter Palace (Catherine #1)
By: Eva Stachniak
3.60
Format: None pages, Audio CD
From award-winning author Eva Stachniak comes this passionate novel that illuminates, as only ficti… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
"Where does destiny end and choice begin?"-Eva Stachniak, The Winter Palace (Catherine #1)
"If you don't love, you cannot be betrayed."-Eva Stachniak, The Winter Palace (Catherine #1)
"If a tree is bent, every goat will jump on it."-Eva Stachniak, The Winter Palace (Catherine #1)
"I was a tongue, a gazette. The bearer of "the truth of the whispers." I knew of hollowed books, trunks with false bottoms, and the meanders of secret corridors. I knew how to open hidden drawers in y…"-Eva Stachniak, The Winter Palace (Catherine #1)
12. Jonny Appleseed
By: Joshua Whitehead
3.95
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
(Alternate cover edition of ISBN 1551527251 / 9781551527253.) "You're gonna need a rock and a w… read more
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- fiction
- adult
- canada
- audiobook
"I am my own best medicine."-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"...leaving home always hurts--home isn't a space, it's a feeling. You have to feel home and to feel it, you have to sense it: smell it, taste it, hear it. And it isn't always comfortable--"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"Maybe we're more like dandelions. A weed that's a pest in the yard but pretty to look at. Yeah, an Indian home is like a dandelion, pretty, but disposable and imbued with a million little seeds that …"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"The nurses were busybodies, I could hear them scurrying about in the rooms adjacent to ours. They were telling jokes and laughing. Their happiness pissed me off. Stop fucking laughing, I thought, my …"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
13. VenCo
By: Cherie Dimaline
3.79
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Lucky St. James, a Métis millennial living with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella, is … read more
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- magical realism
- canada
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"It felt like the drunken part of falling in love, the erratic and uncompromising compulsion that made you do dumb shit and your best shit at the same time. She had to stop herself from running. She h…"-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo
"Throughout history, witches have been the stand-ins for all people who have felt 'outside' or 'different.' I say, fuck it -- go outside, be different, be so different they have to loosen their grip o…"-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo
"She wondered if every place in New Orleans had a secret garden, if every place was so witchy and beautiful. And for the first time, she was filled with an enormous pride for who she was-- what she wa…"-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo
14. Permanent Astonishment
By: Tomson Highway
4.20
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Capricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada's most ac… read more
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- canada
- audiobook
15. Green Fuse Burning
By: Tiffany Morris
3.88
Format: 107 pages, ebook
The debut novella from the Elgin Award winning author of Elegies of Rotting Stars. After the death … read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
16. When Among Crows
By: Veronica Roth
3.73
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
When Among Crows is swift and striking, drawing from the deep well of Slavic folklore and asking if… read more
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- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- mythology
- audiobook
"I don't find it painful to be ordinary."-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows
"He pinches one of the petals and breaks it away from the flower. It doesn't feel like it's as powerful as it is, but maybe that's just how powerful things are- like the zmory, like Baba Jaga herself,…"-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows
17. 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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- fiction
- adult
- canada
18. Halal Sex: The Intimate Lives of Muslim Women in North America
By: Sheima Benembarek
3.89
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
An unprecedented glimpse into the sex lives of female and gender-expansive Muslims living across Ca… read more
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- canada
- audiobook
19. Swimming Back to Trout River
By: Linda Rui Feng
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE How many times in life can we start over with… read more
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- fiction
- canada
- audiobook
20. The Other Princess
By: Denny S. Bryce
3.99
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
A stunning portrait of an African princess raised in Queen Victoria’s court and adapting to life in… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
21. An Ocean of Minutes
By: Thea Lim
3.42
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize and a Best Book of the Year according to Real Simp… read more
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- canada
- dystopia
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Just as the invention of air travel had made it easy to go, but no easier to leave, the invention of time travel made time easy to pass, but no easier to endure."-Thea Lim, An Ocean of Minutes
22. Buffalo Is the New Buffalo
By: Chelsea Vowel
4.13
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
"Education is the new buffalo" is a metaphor widely used among Indigenous peoples in Canada to sign… read more
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- magical realism
- fantasy
- fiction
23. Red X
By: David Demchuk
3.77
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
A hunted community. A haunted author. A horror that spans centuries. Men are disappearing from T… read more
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- canada
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
24. Crow Winter
By: Karen McBride
3.90
Format: 352 pages, ebook
Nanabush. A name that has a certain weight on the tongue—a taste. Like lit sage in a windowless roo… read more
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- magical realism
- canada
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
25. Speak, Silence
By: Kim Echlin
4.09
Format: 203 pages, Kindle Edition
WINNER OF THE 2021 TORONTO BOOK AWARD NOMINATED FOR THE 2022 EVERGREEN AWARDFrom the internationall… read more
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- fiction
- adult
- canada
- audiobook
" A woman's war is not redeemed for the ages by art. "-Kim Echlin, Speak, Silence
26. The Centaur's Wife
By: Amanda Leduc
3.32
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Amanda Leduc's brilliant new novel, woven with fairy tales of her own devising and replete with bot… read more
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- retellings
- magical realism
- mythology
- canada
- dystopia
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- disability
- audiobook
27. Bird Suit
By: Sydney Hegele
4.48
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A tourist town folk tale of stifled ambition, love, loss, and the bird women who live beneath the l… read more
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- fiction
- fantasy
- canada
28. One Hundred Shadows
By: Hwang Jungeun
3.58
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER! Han Kang’s Human Acts meets Yōko Ogawa’s The Memory Police in this und… read more
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- adult
- magical realism
- fantasy
- fiction
"Are we ghosts? we wondered. Who could tell, this late at night. We might be ghosts seeking others of our kind, walking under a pale moon."-Hwang Jungeun, One Hundred Shadows
"More than anything else, Nana's not sure if she wants to open up Sora and Aeja and Nana herself to Moseh ssi, not so much the actual Sora, Aeja, and Nana, but as they exist for her, inside her. Betwe…"-Hwang Jungeun, One Hundred Shadows
29. The Maid and the Crocodile
By: Jordan Ifueko
4.51
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The smallest spark can bind two hearts . . . or start a revolution. In the magic-soaked capital … read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
30. She Who Knows (She Who Knows #1)
By: Nnedi Okorafor
4.13
Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
Part science fiction, part fantasy, and entirely infused with West African culture and spirituality… read more
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- dystopia
- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
31. Countess
By: Suzan Palumbo
3.65
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
A queer, Caribbean, anti-colonial sci-fi novella, inspired by the Count of Monte Cristo, in which a… read more
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- retellings
- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
