18 Best canada books like The Certainties by Aislinn Hunter

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The Certainties

By: Aislinn Hunter

3.52

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A vivid, moving novel reminiscent of Anthony Doerr and Michael Ondaatje, about the entwined fates o…

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1. Ru

By: Kim Thúy

4.20

Format: None pages, Broche

Une femme voyage a travers le desordre des souvenirs : l'enfance dans sa cage d'or a Saigon, l'arri… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • historical fiction
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2. First Snow, Last Light

By: Wayne Johnston

4.15

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

In the last of the trilogy of Newfoundland novels that began with the critically acclaimed, prizewi… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • historical fiction

3. All the Birds, Singing

By: Evie Wyld

4.52

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists, a stunningly insightful, emotionally powerful ne… read more

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4. Our Endless Numbered Days

By: Claire Fuller

3.68

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Peggy Hillcoat is eight years old when her survivalist father, James, takes her from their home in … read more

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5. The Back of the Turtle

By: Thomas King

4.00

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

This is Thomas King's first literary novel in 15 years and follows on the success of the award-winn… read more

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6. History of Wolves

By: Emily Fridlund

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Fourteen-year-old Madeline lives with her parents in the beautiful, austere woods of northern Minne… read more

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7. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. The Son of the House

By: Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

SHORTLISTED for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2021 • FINALIST for the Nigeria Prize for Literature 20… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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9. The Friend

By: Sigrid Nunez

3.77

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her do… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I like that the Aborigines say dogs make people human"

-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

"I know this is all moronically anthropomorphic, but sometimes that is the form love takes."

-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

"Anthropomorphism, I've decided, is inescapable, and though I might try to hide it I no longer fight it."

-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

"There's a certain type of person who, having read this far, is anxiously wondering: Does something bad happen to the dog?"

-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

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10. We, Jane

By: Aimee Wall

3.41

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A remarkable debut about intergenerational female relationships and resistance found in the unlikel… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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11. Lanny

By: Max Porter

4.06

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller and Booker Prize Longlisted novel Lanny by the author of Grief … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Which do you think is more patient, an idea or a hope?"

-Max Porter, Lanny

"False things, endings. Sutenance for fools and never what they claim to be."

-Max Porter, Lanny

"What or who is supposed to manage and regulate Lanny and his gifts," he asks. "Oh fuck, it's us. Who can have children and not go completely mad?"

-Max Porter, Lanny

"Dead Papa Toothwort wakes from his standing nap an acre wide and scrapes off dream dregs of bitumen glistening thick with liquid globs of litter."

-Max Porter, Lanny

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12. Talking to Canadians

By: Rick Mercer

4.28

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Canada’s beloved comic genius tells his own story for the first time. What is Rick Mercer going… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
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13. Clear

By: Carys Davies

3.92

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. 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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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • historical fiction
"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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15. Astra

By: Cedar Bowers

4.21

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

If you could see yourself as others saw you, would you be any closer to the truth of who you really… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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16. The Coast Road

By: Alan Murrin

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and heartbreaking debut novel set in the 1990s in a claustrophobic coast town. With divo… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. Chouette

By: Claire Oshetsky

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, provocative novel of motherhood in extremisTiny is pregnant. Her husband is deligh… read more

Similar categories in Claire Oshetsky's Chouette book and Aislinn Hunter's The Certainties

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"We're the oldest love triangle in the world: mother, father, child."

-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

"Maybe I resent you a little. Once this first small thought of maybe-resentment creeps in, it acts like a fast poison."

-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

"Every day you wrench me toward a different world altogether: an older world, filled with wild, perfect creatures, singing in the dark."

-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

"I prefer to speak in metaphor: That way, no logic can trap me, and no rule can bind me, and no fact can limit me or decide for me what’s possible."

-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

Cover of The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr

18. 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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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • historical fiction
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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19. 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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  • canada
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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20. 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 Aislinn Hunter's The Certainties

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Art of Catching Feelings by Alicia Thompson

21. The Art of Catching Feelings

By: Alicia Thompson

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A professional baseball player and his heckler prove that true love is worth going to bat for. … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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22. 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

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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23. Rabbit Foot Bill

By: Helen Humphreys

3.89

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A lonely boy in a prairie town befriends a local outsider in 1947 and then witnesses a shocking mur… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • historical fiction
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24. Frying Plantain

By: Zalika Reid-Benta

3.82

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle — of her Canadian nationality and her desire to be a “tru… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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25. Tides

By: Sara Freeman

3.58

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy seaside tow… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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26. Two Steps Onward

By: Graeme Simsion

3.47

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Three years after life got in the way of their long-distance relationship, Californian illustrator … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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27. 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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  • fiction
  • canada
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28. This Little Light

By: Lori Lansens

3.55

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An urgent bulletin from an all-too-believable near future where a smart young woman who questions t… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of The Certainties by Aislinn Hunter

29. The Certainties

By: Aislinn Hunter

3.52

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A vivid, moving novel reminiscent of Anthony Doerr and Michael Ondaatje, about the entwined fates o… read more

Similar categories in Aislinn Hunter's The Certainties book and Aislinn Hunter's The Certainties

  • adult fiction
  • canada
  • spain
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • writing
  • audiobook
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30. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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31. In Winter I Get Up at Night: A Novel

By: Jane Urquhart

4.28

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

From one of the greatest writers of our time comes a profound and moving novel of an unforgettable … read more

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  • fiction
  • canada

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