5 must-read indigenous books like I Place You into the Fire by Rebecca Thomas

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I Place You into the Fire

By: Rebecca Thomas

4.53

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

We remember tomorrow and a thousand years ago. From eel weirs to the buffalo. We remember petro…

If you liked the indigenous plot in I Place You into the Fire by Rebecca Thomas , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) by Waubgeshig Rice

1. 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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  • canada
  • audiobook
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2. 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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  • audiobook
  • canada
  • indigenous
"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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3. Rage the Night

By: Donna Morrissey

3.97

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

At once the intimate tale of one man's quest to discover the truth of his birth and a riveting acco… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
"…it is in solitude where one finds one’s courage."

-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night

"What use is any man if he doesn’t have a purpose?"

-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night

"No sense of having anything if you’ve no one to give it to."

-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night

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4. 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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  • canada
  • 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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5. 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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  • 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

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6. 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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  • canada
  • 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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7. 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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  • canada
  • 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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8. The Good Women of Safe Harbour

By: Bobbi French

4.39

Format: 304 pages, ebook

An unforgettable, life-affirming novel about a woman living on her own terms at last and reclaiming… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
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9. Fayne: A Novel

By: Ann-Marie MacDonald

4.26

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

A beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magyk, love and identity. In the late nineteent… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
"Byrn speaks and I understand him without effort, his words as clear as spring water. / Ask a favour of the plover, he says. Borrow her eyes. / Then I am flying through the air, and the flying is his …"

-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fayne: A Novel

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10. Recipe for a Good Life

By: Lesley Crewe

4.34

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

Globe & Mail bestselling Lesley Crewe's new novel follows a mystery author with writer's block from… read more

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  • canada
"Become an editor,' they said. 'You love books.' they said. I do love books; I just hate the people who write them."

-Lesley Crewe, Recipe for a Good Life

"I met the Homeville Women's Institute, a whole gaggle of rural women who have monthly meetings to make their community better. They realized that by joining together they had a stronger voice, and th…"

-Lesley Crewe, Recipe for a Good Life

"Life is like a recipe. What do you want in your life cake? What ingredients do you need to make it rise and taste wonderful? Sometimes the simplest recipe is the best, because the more you add to the…"

-Lesley Crewe, Recipe for a Good Life

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11. 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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  • audiobook
  • canada
  • indigenous
"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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12. Denison Avenue

By: Christina Wong

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
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13. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada

By: Michelle Good

4.44

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

Abold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • canada
  • indigenous
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14. Sunshine Nails

By: Mai Nguyen

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A tender, humorous, and page-turning debut about a Vietnamese Canadian family in Toronto who will d… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
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15. Peace by Chocolate

By: Jon Tattrie

4.47

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Tareq Hadhad was worried about his father: Isam did not know what to do with his life. Before the w… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion by Tyler LeBlanc

16. Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

By: Tyler LeBlanc

4.21

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The untold story of one Acadian family: their experiences following their expulsion and their deter… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Disintegrate/Dissociate by Arielle Twist

17. Disintegrate/Dissociate

By: Arielle Twist

4.22

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In her powerful debut collection of poetry, Arielle Twist unravels the complexities of human relati… read more

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  • poetry
  • canada
  • indigenous
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18. Crow

By: Amy Spurway

4.05

Format: 305 pages, Paperback

When Stacey Fortune is diagnosed with three highly unpredictable — and inoperable — brain tumours, … read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
"I come from a long line of lunatics and criminals. Crazies on the one side of the family tree, crooks on the other, although the odd crazy has a touch of crook, and vice versa"

-Amy Spurway, Crow

Cover of I Place You into the Fire by Rebecca  Thomas

19. I Place You into the Fire

By: Rebecca Thomas

4.53

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

We remember tomorrow and a thousand years ago. From eel weirs to the buffalo. We remember petro… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Thomas's I Place You into the Fire book and Rebecca Thomas's I Place You into the Fire

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • canada
  • indigenous
Cover of Before the Parade: A History of Halifax's Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Communities, 1972-1984 by Rebecca Rose (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

20. Before the Parade: A History of Halifax's Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Communities, 1972-1984

By: Rebecca Rose (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

4.49

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

In Before the Parade, journalist and activist Rebecca Rose brings her queer femme, feminist perspec… read more

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  • canada
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21. Frequently Asked White Questions

By: Ajay Parasram

4.17

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Are you a white person with questions about how race affects different situations, but you feel awk… read more

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  • audiobook

18 must-read audiobook books like I Place You into the Fire by Rebecca Thomas

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)

Waubgeshig Rice

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Rage the Night

Donna Morrissey

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Study for Obedience

Sarah Bernstein

3.05

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18 best-selling fiction books like Hotline by Dimitri Nasrallah

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Ce que je sais de toi

Éric Chacour

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Shut Up You're Pretty

Téa Mutonji

3.57

Transform Your Habits

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Emmanuelle Pierrot

4.45

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