Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir
By: Danny Ramadan
4.62
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
A queer Syrian refugee reckons with a life spent out of place.“Writing this memoir is a betrayal.” …
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1. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
By: Kai Cheng Thom
4.18
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more
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- queer
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
2. 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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- audiobook
- queer
- canada
- lgbt
"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
3. Her First Palestinian
By: Saeed Teebi
4.37
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Elegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in c… read more
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- canada
4. 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
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5. Behind You
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.04
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
As terror grips a city, a young girl faces danger closer to home and chilling memories that last a … read more
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- audiobook
- queer
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6. The Mother Act
By: Heidi Reimer
4.18
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Set against the sparkling backdrop of the theater world, this propulsive debut follows the complica… read more
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- audiobook
7. The Cure for Drowning
By: Loghan Paylor
4.28
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Evocative, magical and luminously written, The Cure for Drowning is not only a brilliant, boundary-… read more
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- queer
- canada
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8. Dayspring
By: Anthony Oliveira
4.18
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
A singular, stunning debut that transcends and transfigures genre—at once a bold retelling of bibli… read more
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- queer
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"when god died he died whimpering"-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring
"the fox has a den and the bird has a nest only humans go homeless"-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring
"when i sleep i remember days that never were. i dream a life i never saw and which i now see he never wanted..."-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring
"saint sebastian was a roman soldier. hot idiot twink go-go dancer pass around party bottom of the lord pincushioned through with arrows"-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring
9. Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path
By: Marcus McCann
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
An intimate look at one of culture’s most enduring taboos: public sex. Park Cruising takes a long l… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- canada
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
10. The Damages
By: Genevieve Scott
3.61
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Sharp and propulsive, The Damages is an engrossing novel set in motion by the disappearance of a st… read more
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- audiobook
11. There Are Rivers in the Sky
By: Elif Shafak
4.58
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about … read more
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- audiobook
"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky
12. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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- canada
- audiobook
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
13. The Secret History of Audrey James
By: Heather Marshall
4.46
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
The #1 bestselling author of Looking for Jane returns with a poignant, gripping novel about a piani… read more
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- canada
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14. It Stops Here: Standing Up for Our Lands, Our Waters, and Our People
By: Rueben George
4.34
Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition
NATIONAL BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE GEORGE RYGA AWARDA personal account of one man’s confrontati… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
15. Coexistence: Stories
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.39
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A gr… read more
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- audiobook
- queer
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"I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
"It's October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
"That's what love is -- someone else's spirit moving through you. When someone moves through you they leave behind a small trace of human life. It's how we know we're still alive."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
16. 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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17. Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir
By: Danny Ramadan
4.62
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
A queer Syrian refugee reckons with a life spent out of place.“Writing this memoir is a betrayal.” … read more
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- audiobook
- history
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- canada
- nonfiction
- queer
18. Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories
By: Shashi Bhat
4.22
Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition
CBC Books' Top Pick for Most Anticipated Canadian Fiction for Spring 2024—a breathtaking and sharpl… read more
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19. Small Rain
By: Garth Greenwell
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more
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20. The Knowing
By: Tanya Talaga
4.69
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of Seven Fallen Feathers , an urgent explora… read more
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21. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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- history
- memoir
- audiobook
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
