15 must-read literary fiction books like The Good Father by Wayne Grady

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The Good Father

By: Wayne Grady

3.28

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From award-winning, bestselling author Wayne Grady comes The Good Father, his first contemporary no…

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Cover of Through Black Spruce  (Bird Family Trilogy, #2) by Joseph Boyden

1. Through Black Spruce (Bird Family Trilogy, #2)

By: Joseph Boyden

4.12

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

A haunting novel about identity, love, and loss by the author of Three Day RoadWill Bird is a legen… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Mother Nature was one angry slut. She'd try and kill you the first chance she got. You'd screwed with her for so long that she was happy to eliminate you."

-Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce (Bird Family Trilogy, #2)

"When I die, nieces, I want to be cremated, my ashes taken up in a bush plane and sprinkled onto the people in town below. Let them think my body is snowflakes, sticking in their hair and on their sho…"

-Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce (Bird Family Trilogy, #2)

"Your grandfather was a hero in a war, girls. He wasn't a bad man or a weak man. Maybe he was too old to have a second family, a second wife and your mother and me, so many years after he lost his fir…"

-Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce (Bird Family Trilogy, #2)

"I passed the friendship centre and nodded to an old couple on the porch. Kookum smiled back and nodded, a cotton kerchief on her head. Moshum's eyes squinted, too, but never looked straight at me, ju…"

-Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce (Bird Family Trilogy, #2)

2. Three Day Road

By: Joseph Boyden

3.91

Format: 631 pages, Paperback

It is 1919, and Niska, the last Oji-Cree woman to live off the land, has received word that one of … read more

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3. 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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4. Hum If You Don’t Know the Words

By: Bianca Marais

3.43

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Perfect for readers of The Secret Life of Bees and The Help, a perceptive and searing look at Apart… read more

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5. Wenjack

By: Joseph Boyden , Kent Monkman

3.80

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the 2017OLSN Northern Lit Award An Ojibwe boy runs away from a North Ontario Indian… read more

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6. We Spread

By: Iain Reid

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A new work of philosophical suspense. Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for deca… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The love I'd felt for him faded and detached. There was nothing to hold it in place. No more mystery. Nothing to learn. Wonder was replaced with awareness. By the end, it wasn't just familiarity. I h…"

-Iain Reid, We Spread

"We do not all blend together. We are not ruined, helpless, a burden. We are not the elderly. We are not old people. Now, still, we're unique. Distinct. Regardless of what we've produced or what happe…"

-Iain Reid, We Spread

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7. Five Little Indians

By: Michelle Good

4.48

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential sch… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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8. 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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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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

Cover of Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi

9. Butter Honey Pig Bread

By: Francesca Ekwuyasi

4.31

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tel… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Death is only a doorway."

-Francesca Ekwuyasi, Butter Honey Pig Bread

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10. This Is How We Love

By: Lisa Moore

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the celebrated author of February and Caught comes an exhilarating new novel that asks: What m… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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11. 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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  • adult fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of The Final Curtain (Detective Kaga, #4) by Keigo Higashino

12. The Final Curtain (Detective Kaga, #4)

By: Keigo Higashino

4.13

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Malice and Newcomer, a confounding murder in Tokyo is connected to the… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. On the Ravine

By: Vincent Lam

4.03

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, Giller Prize-winning author of Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures comes an exqui… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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14. 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
  • audiobook
"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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15. A New Season

By: Terry Fallis

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From beloved and bestselling author Terry Fallis comes a novel unlike any of his others. A thoughtf… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
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16. Daughters of the Deer

By: Danielle Daniel

4.40

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

In this haunting, groundbreaking, historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of her ances… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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17. 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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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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18. Probably Ruby

By: Lisa Bird-Wilson

3.49

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An Indigenous woman adopted by white parents goes in search of her identity in this unforgettable d… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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19. 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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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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20. The Whispers

By: Ashley Audrain

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A pageturner about four suburban families whose lives are changed when the unthinkable happens--and… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. The Innocents

By: Michael Crummey

3.78

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

From prizewinning author Michael Crummey comes a spellbinding story of survival in which a brother … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"A body must bear what can't be helped."

-Michael Crummey, The Innocents

Cover of A Great Country by Shilpi Somaya Gowda

22. A Great Country

By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's Little Fires E… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Truth Be Told: My Journey Through Life and the Law by Beverley McLachlin

23. Truth Be Told: My Journey Through Life and the Law

By: Beverley McLachlin

4.28

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Beverley McLachlin offers an intimate and revea… read more

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  • canada
Cover of Trust Me When I Lie (Jack Quick, #1) by Benjamin   Stevenson

24. Trust Me When I Lie (Jack Quick, #1)

By: Benjamin Stevenson

3.52

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Eliza Dacey was murdered in cold blood. Four years later, the world watched it unfold again on s… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller

25. Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

By: Kirsten Miller

4.19

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking!… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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26. Swimming Back to Trout River

By: Linda Rui Feng

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE How many times in life can we start over with… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of DreadfulWater (DreadfulWater, #1) by Hartley GoodWeather

27. DreadfulWater (DreadfulWater, #1)

By: Hartley GoodWeather

3.81

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

The award-winning, bestselling author of The Back of the Turtle and The Inconvenient Indian masters… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
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28. The House Guests

By: Emilie Richards

3.80

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

"A compelling page-turner one won't want to put down.”— New York Journal of Books Two women. Two f… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Good Father by Wayne Grady

29. The Good Father

By: Wayne Grady

3.28

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From award-winning, bestselling author Wayne Grady comes The Good Father, his first contemporary no… read more

Similar categories in Wayne Grady's The Good Father book and Wayne Grady's The Good Father

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of The Knowing by Tanya Talaga

30. 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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  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of The Capital of Dreams by Heather O'Neill

31. The Capital of Dreams

By: Heather O'Neill

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

“The Capital of Dreams is not so much a novel to read but one to live (and dream) in. A dark, wistf… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada

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