5 must-read fantasy books like The Book of Rain by Thomas Wharton

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The Book of Rain

By: Thomas Wharton

3.28

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking, deeply affecting work of environmental literary suspense for fans of Cloud Atlas,…

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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

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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2. 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

Similar categories in Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) book and Thomas Wharton's The Book of Rain

  • canada
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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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

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • canadian literature
  • fiction
  • novels
  • 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. The Defector (Apollo Murders, #2)

By: Chris Hadfield

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author, astronaut, and fighter pilot Chris Hadfield comes a rivetin… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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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
  • canada
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • 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. 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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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • canadian literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"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

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7. Snow Road Station

By: Elizabeth Hay

3.77

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the Giller Prize-winning author comes a novel, witty and wise, about thwarted ambition, unreal… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • canadian literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. 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

Similar categories in Perry Chafe's Closer by Sea book and Thomas Wharton's The Book of Rain

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
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9. 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
  • fantasy
  • canada
  • audiobook
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10. The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

3.46

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • canadian literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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11. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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12. 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

Similar categories in Cherie Dimaline's VenCo book and Thomas Wharton's The Book of Rain

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • canada
  • 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

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13. 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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  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • canada
  • audiobook
"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

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14. 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
  • canada
  • canadian literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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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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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • canadian literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. Cold

By: Drew Hayden Taylor

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERA tragic plane crash that leaves two women stranded and fighting for the… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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17. In the Upper Country

By: Kai Thomas

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The fates of two unforgettable women--one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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18. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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19. Followed by the Lark

By: Helen Humphreys

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A novel as wise as it is tender, a meditation on the miracle of friendship and the heartbreak of ch… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of Wild Hope: A Novel by Joan     Thomas

20. 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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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of The Book of Rain by Thomas Wharton

21. The Book of Rain

By: Thomas Wharton

3.28

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking, deeply affecting work of environmental literary suspense for fans of Cloud Atlas,… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Wharton's The Book of Rain book and Thomas Wharton's The Book of Rain

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • canadian literature
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • climate change
  • novels
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

21 best-selling fiction books like The Book of Rain by Thomas Wharton

Transform Your Habits

The Adversary

Michael Crummey

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Study for Obedience

Sarah Bernstein

3.05

Transform Your Habits

The Defector (Apollo Murders, #2)

Chris Hadfield

4.02

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

Transform Your Habits

The Adversary

Michael Crummey

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Librarianist

Patrick deWitt

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Rage the Night

Donna Morrissey

3.97

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