Almost Visible (Baraka Fiction)
By: Michelle Sinclair
4.50
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Tess has just moved to Montreal from Nova Scotia, and seeks to lose herself by involving herself in…
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1. That Summer in Provincetown
By: Caroline Vu
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Daniel, a young French-Vietnamese man, lies dying in a Montreal hospital. Spurned by his family for… read more
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2. Scarborough
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.19
Format: 208 pages,
Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighborhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest ci… read more
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3. Such a Long Journey
By: Rohinton Mistry
3.96
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
It is Bombay in 1971, the year India went to war over what was to become Bangladesh. A hard-working… read more
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"The pavement artist thought for a bit, then agreed. 'I can start tomorrow morning.' 'Good, good. But one question. Will you be able to draw enough to cover 300 feet? I mean, do you know enough differ…"-Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey
"But the artist began to have misgivings as the wall underwent its transformation. Bigger than any pavement project he had yet undertaken, it made him restless. Over the years, a precise cycle had ent…"-Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey
4. An Unnecessary Woman
By: Rabih Alameddine
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
One of Beirut's most celebrated voices, Rabih Alameddine follows his international bestseller, The … read more
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5. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
By: Kate Beaton
4.41
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more
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- canada
6. Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
By: Waubgeshig Rice
3.85
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, … read more
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"Yes, apocalypse. We've had that over and over. But we always survived. We're still here. And we'll still be here, even if the power and the radios don't come back on and we never see any white people…"-Waubgeshig Rice, Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
7. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
8. 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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9. What Strange Paradise
By: Omar El Akkad
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilap… read more
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"Today you are the only boy in the world and tomorrow it will be as though you never existed."-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"And what do you think the prerequisite for kindness is? Have you ever tried to be kind to someone better off than you?"-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"Farther out, the water sheds its sandy complexion and turns a turquoise of such clarity that the tourists’ sailboats seem to float atop their own shadows."-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"Because that's how we take the future from them," Walid said, animated now. "Look at Stockholm, look at Munich, look at New York-- who's picking up the garbage, cleaning the toilets? Who's doing the …"-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
10. Greenwood
By: Michael Christie
4.33
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting u… read more
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"There is nothing more quieting than an ancient tree"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
"Do you know what becomes of men like us without the armour of wealth...?"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
"Maybe trees do have souls. Which makes wood a kind of flesh. And perhaps instruments of wooden construction sound so pleasing to our ears for this reason: the choral shimmer of a guitar; the heartbea…"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
"Still, Temple has no illusions concerning her library's impact. Her books won't lift anyone from their low station. They won't right wrongs or save wandering souls from perdition or fill grumbling st…"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
11. The Pull of the Stars
By: Emma Donoghue
3.96
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospita… read more
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"Guilt was the sooty air we breathed these days."-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
"I’m beginning to know enough to know that I know nothing."-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
"I seem to have stumbled onto love, like a pothole in the night."-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
"Neither of us mentioned the kissing, so as not to burst the bubble by touching it. So as not to think about what it meant for the two of us to kiss."-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
12. Pure Colour
By: Sheila Heti
3.46
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. … read more
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"And what opens one heart opens many."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"The body becomes a woman and it cannot turn back."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"And a glimpse into one heart is a glimpse into many."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"Why did it seem like the only way to live-was to disobey?"-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
13. Looking for Jane
By: Heather Marshall
4.36
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A debut about three women whose lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother’s love, an… read more
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- canada
14. We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
By: Tsering Yangzom Lama
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the wake of China's invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her younger sister, Tenkyi… read more
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- fiction
- canada
15. Fifty Words for Rain
By: Asha Lemmie
3.88
Format: 449 pages, Hardcover
From debut author Asha Lemmie, a sweeping, heartrending coming-of-age novel about a young woman's q… read more
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- fiction
"Nori ebbe un attimo di esitazione. Aveva solo qualche secondo. Non le veniva in mente niente da dire a quella donna. Erano una puttana e la sua signora, una principessa decaduta e una pezzente arricc…"-Asha Lemmie, Fifty Words for Rain
16. Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality: Stories
By: Lindsay Wong
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, Canada Reads-shortlisted author of The Woo-Woo comes a wild, darkly hilarious… read more
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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
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18. Dark August
By: Katie Tallo
3.82
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
An electrifying, page-turning debut about a young woman haunted by her tragic past, who returns to … read more
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19. Gutter Child
By: Jael Richardson
3.86
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Finalist for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award Cityline Book Club Pick … read more
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"What if greatness only happens when we're together, when we don't let them pull us apart?"-Jael Richardson, Gutter Child
"It takes a particular kind of strength to exist in a world where you are not wanted that doesn't feel like strength at all."-Jael Richardson, Gutter Child
"When I drew pictures of Mother and me, I used Peach for her and Chestnut for myself. "Why is your skin named after something soft and sweet and mine is something hard and bitter?" "Because you are so…"-Jael Richardson, Gutter Child
"A girl learns who she is from the woman she sees loving her," Ida says. "She learns what's good and what's lovely about herself, and the further apart she is from that woman, and the more different t…"-Jael Richardson, Gutter Child
20. The Foulest Things (Dominion Archives Mysteries #1)
By: Amy Tector
3.69
Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition
Jess Kendall is desperate to make a good impression on her new boss at the Canadian Archives and th… read more
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21. Speak for the Dead (Dominion Archives Mysteries #2)
By: Amy Tector
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
It's a steamy summer Ottawa day when Dr Cate Spencer is called out to the nitratefacility to invest… read more
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22. Honor the Dead (The Dominion Archives Mysteries, #3)
By: Amy Tector
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Dr. Cate Spencer is back in this highly-anticipated third installment of the Dominion Archives Myst… read more
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- fiction
23. The Heathens and the Dragon: A 13th-Century Adventure
By: Kate A. Boorman
4.54
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
From award-winning author Kate A. Boorman comes her first middle grade historical novel, set in Fra… read more
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24. Rebellion Box
By: Hollay Ghadery
4.72
Format: 75 pages, Kindle Edition
This explosive debut collection pushes against the limitations of gender roles, race, bodies, and m… read more
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- canada
25. Uncontrolled Flight
By: Frances Peck
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A 49th Shelf 2023 Book of the Year (Fiction) A 2023 Standout Read at Consumed by Ink CBC Books Ca… read more
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26. Fifteen Thousand Pieces
By: Gina Leola Woolsey
4.23
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
On Wednesday, September 2nd, 1998, an international flight carrying 229 souls crashed into the Atla… read more
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27. Almost Visible (Baraka Fiction)
By: Michelle Sinclair
4.50
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Tess has just moved to Montreal from Nova Scotia, and seeks to lose herself by involving herself in… read more
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28. The Family Code (206) (Essential Prose Series)
By: Wayne Ng
4.60
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
Every family has rituals and routines holding them together. But sometimes they are the very things… read more
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"Axel’s eyes are hazelnut and shift with the light and his mood. It makes him seem elusive and slippery, almost complicated. He’s not. He just has to be fed, kept busy, and reminded to wipe himself."-Wayne Ng, The Family Code (206) (Essential Prose Series)
"The things that come naturally to me are getting by (yes, that’s debatable), getting out when the shit’s hitting the fan, and getting the first punch in (unless I’ve been suckered). I’m good at those…"-Wayne Ng, The Family Code (206) (Essential Prose Series)
"The CAS sent me to a therapist. He actually wasn’t half bad at first—real young, kinda cute, a bit stuck up with degrees in fancy IKEA frames all over his concrete walls and new-agey music playing. I…"-Wayne Ng, The Family Code (206) (Essential Prose Series)
29. Call Me Stan: A Tragedy in Three Millennia (188) (Essential Prose Series)
By: K.R. Wilson
4.23
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
Long-listed for the 2022 Leacock Medal for Humour When King Priam's pregnant daughter was fleeing t… read more
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30. Catinat Boulevard (211) (Essential Prose Series)
By: Caroline Vu
4.20
Format: 467 pages, Paperback
Beginning in Saigon during the Vietnam War and ending in present day New York, Catinat Boulevard te… read more
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31. Widow Fantasies
By: Hollay Ghadery
4.68
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
Fantasies are places we briefly visit; we can’t live there. The stories in Widow Fantasies deftly e… read more
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