21 Top fiction books like Watermark by ChristyAnn Conlin

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Watermark

By: ChristyAnn Conlin

3.99

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

In these evocative and startling stories, we meet people navigating the elemental forces of love, l…

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1. The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder

By: Charles Graeber

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

After his December 2003 arrest, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed "The Angel of De… read more

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2. The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

By: John Grisham

3.86

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

John Grisham's first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, … read more

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"No star fades faster than that of a high school athlete."

-John Grisham, The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

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3. Relative Happiness

By: Lesley Crewe

3.89

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Filled with heartache without being maudlin, this contemporary novel about life and love in a small… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
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4. Shadow of Doubt: The Trial of Dennis Oland

By: Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon

3.89

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

On July 6, 2011, Richard Oland, scion of the Moosehead brewing family, was murdered in his office. … read more

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5. The Year of Fog

By: Michelle Richmond

4.16

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

Life changes in an instant. On a foggy beach. In the seconds when Abby Mason--photographer, fiancee… read more

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  • fiction
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6. For One More Day

By: Mitch Albom

3.98

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

"Every family is a ghost story..." Mitch Albom mesmerized readers around the world with his number … read more

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  • fiction

7. 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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8. The Break

By: Katherena Vermette

4.36

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

2016 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalist When Stella, a young Metis mother, looks out her … read more

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9. Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

By: Margaret Atwood

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of … read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • canadian literature
  • canada
"Many things get broken in a war."

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

"Holiness is a form of monstrosity"

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

"Many obscure women have been done to death merely for existing."

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

"They're dead now. A thing that happens increasingly: people die."

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

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10. 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

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  • fiction
  • canada
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11. The Librarianist

By: Patrick deWitt

3.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who ha… read more

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  • fiction
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12. 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
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13. 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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  • fiction
  • canada
"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)

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14. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

By: Sarah Polley

4.32

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores me… read more

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  • canada
"His love was all around the edges, but sometimes it was hard for both of us to see, I think."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"The past was affecting how I moved through the world, while present life was affecting how the past moved through me."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"The past and present, I have come to realize, are in constant dialogue, acting upon one another in a kind of reciprocal pressure dance."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"It can seem perplexing from the outside, this pull that many women experience to make things better for those who have hurt us. The impulse to smooth things over the keep ourselves safe..."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

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15. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelv… read more

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  • short stories
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16. Our Darkest Night

By: Jennifer Robson

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

To survive the Holocaust, a young Jewish woman must pose as a Christian farmer’s wife in this unfor… read more

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  • fiction
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17. If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

By: Noor Naga

3.92

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobr… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
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18. 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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  • fiction
  • canadian literature
  • canada
"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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19. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

By: Gabor Maté

4.32

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more

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20. Fight Night

By: Miriam Toews

4.04

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

The beloved author of bestsellers Women Talking, A Complicated Kindness, and All My Puny Sorrows r… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
"She (mom) yelled from upstairs, Those are books that help me to live! Those books are my life! Get down here! I yelled back. I'm your goddamn life!"

-Miriam Toews, Fight Night

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21. 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
  • short stories
  • canada
"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

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22. Second Place

By: Rachel Cusk

3.68

Format: 186 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted in a closed s… read more

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  • fiction
"Some people write simply because they don’t know how to live in the moment and have to reconstruct it and live in it afterwards."

-Rachel Cusk, Second Place

"Muutoksen ja toiston kaava on niin tiukasti yhteydessä tietynlaiseen harmoniaan elämässä, ja vapauden harjoittaminen on alisteista sille aivan kuin opinkappaleelle. Muutoksia täytyy annostella kohtuu…"

-Rachel Cusk, Second Place

"Joskus minun vain täytyy saada puhua jotta tuntisin itseni todelliseksi, ja toivoisin että sinäkin puhuisit minulle." Hän makasi vaiti pimeässä ja tuijotti kattoon. Sitten hän sanoi: "Minusta tuntuu …"

-Rachel Cusk, Second Place

"It struck me how the human capacity for receptivity is a kind of birthright, an asset given to us in the moment of our creation by which we are intended to regulate the currency of our souls. Unless …"

-Rachel Cusk, Second Place

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23. The House of Hidden Meanings

By: RuPaul

3.84

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and persona… read more

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"We all have that magic within us - But it's the faculty to harness it - to turn something seemingly meaningless into something special, to be loose and spontaneous with it - that makes life most wort…"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"But in that time the RuPaul idea was born, and people outside of my world were inspired to talk about me and androgyny and drag in a way that was unprecedented. Not long after that, the questions cam…"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"Life is full of dualities: night and day, black and white, yin and yang, good and evil, birth and death, love and fear. You can't have one without the other. It takes two to create the magnetic pull …"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"There are ideological precepts that people will fight or even kill for. But those things are never really what they seem to be. As much as people will claim a hard moral line, that line becomes very …"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

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

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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25. 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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  • fiction
  • canada
"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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26. 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
  • canada
"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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27. We Begin at the End

By: Chris Whitaker

4.16

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Right. Wrong. Life is lived somewhere in between. Duchess Day Radley is a thirteen-year-old self… read more

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  • fiction
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28. The Story of Us

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of Canada Reads finalist Scarborough, a stunning new novel about the unbreakable bo… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
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29. 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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  • fiction
  • canadian literature
  • canada
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30. Daughter

By: Claudia Dey

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In Claudia Dey’s Daughter, a woman long caught in her father's web strives to make a life—and art—o… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
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31. Watermark

By: ChristyAnn Conlin

3.99

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

In these evocative and startling stories, we meet people navigating the elemental forces of love, l… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • canadian literature
  • canada

17 Best canada books like Watermark by ChristyAnn Conlin

Transform Your Habits

Relative Happiness

Lesley Crewe

3.89

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Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

Margaret Atwood

3.71

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Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Kate Beaton

4.41

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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

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Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

3.85

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The Wren, the Wren

Anne Enright

3.55

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Jonathan Escoffery

3.69

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