16 must-read canada books like Medicine Wheel for the Planet: A Journey Toward Personal and Ecological Healing by Jennifer Grenz

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Medicine Wheel for the Planet: A Journey Toward Personal and Ecological Healing

By: Jennifer Grenz

4.26

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

A personal journey of bringing together Western science and Indigenous ecology to transform our und…

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1. 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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"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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2. 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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"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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3. 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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4. The Menopause Brain: New Science Empowers Women to Navigate the Pivotal Transition with Knowledge and Confidence

By: Lisa Mosconi

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The XX Brain shows women how to navigate menopause success… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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5. Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

By: Helen Knott

4.31

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behi… read more

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  • memoir
  • canada
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"What else have I made my responsibility that no one asked me to take on?"

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"Mama's arms felt like ceremony on nights when the ghosts of my past experiences wouldn't let me sleep."

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"The women in my family are medicine. They are backbones and ribcages and hearts. They are whispers in men's ears. They are the guardians that kept us whole."

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"Teetering on the brink of relapse and the edge of insanity. I can't fuck or fight my way out of these feelings, so that's a bitch, but the weather is nice. More cream for your coffee, Edna?"

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

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6. 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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  • canada
  • indigenous
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7. All the Quiet Places

By: Brian Thomas Isaac

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Brian Isaac's powerful debut novel All the Quiet Places is the coming-of-age story of Eddie Toma, a… read more

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  • indigenous
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8. Huge

By: Brent Butt

3.68

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In comedy, killing is a good thing. From the award-winning screenwriter and International Emmy nomi… read more

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9. 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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10. Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

By: Patty Krawec

4.58

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • indigenous
"Blood quantum is a race theory that still forms the basis for legal Indian status in the United States and Canada."

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Each of these terms is correct and wrong, and it is likely that whatever term you use will at some point be corrected by somebody else to a term they think is more appropriate. The best thing to do i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Settlers and migrants and the forcibly displanted get worried when Native people start talking about Land Back. What about their house? Where will they go? Unable to imagine any scenario other than w…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"It isn't wrong to think about your ancestors, to hear their stories and understand where they came from. And if your ancestors have been in the United States or Canada for a long period of time, it i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

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11. Black Boys Like Me: Confrontations with Race, Identity, and Belonging

By: Matthew R. Morris

4.31

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

“ Black Boys Like Me ignited parts of me I honestly didn't believe any book could ever know. . . . … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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12. The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart (The CBC Massey Lectures)

By: Astra Taylor

4.27

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

These days, everyone feels insecure. We are financially stressed and emotionally overwhelmed. The s… read more

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  • nonfiction
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13. Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

By: Jessica J. Lee

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human wor… read more

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  • canada
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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14. 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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  • indigenous
"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

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15. Blood and Mascara

By: Colin Krainin

3.60

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Iris is watching Bronze. Bronze is following Carolyn. Carolyn is sleeping with Billy. Now Bil… read more

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16. Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis

By: Gregor Craigie

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn urgent and illuminating examination of the unrelenting housing crisis Canadia… read more

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  • canada
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17. 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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  • indigenous
Cover of Medicine Wheel for the Planet: A Journey Toward Personal and Ecological Healing by Jennifer Grenz

18. Medicine Wheel for the Planet: A Journey Toward Personal and Ecological Healing

By: Jennifer Grenz

4.26

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

A personal journey of bringing together Western science and Indigenous ecology to transform our und… read more

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  • nature
  • memoir
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre by Niigaan Sinclair

19. Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre

By: Niigaan Sinclair

4.65

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

From ground zero of this country's most important reconciliationNiigaan Sinclair has been called p… read more

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Cover of The War We Won Apart: The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII by Nahlah Ayed

20. The War We Won Apart: The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII

By: Nahlah Ayed

3.87

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

Love, betrayal, and a secret the untold story of two elite agents, one Canadian, one British, who … read more

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  • canada
"I believe personally that the women of France did more than their men"

-Nahlah Ayed, The War We Won Apart: The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII

"For every generation there is a defining life-altering event, and for Guy and his like-minded cohort, it was this war; …"

-Nahlah Ayed, The War We Won Apart: The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII

"It had been forty years since Europe began to comprehend just how many of its children had been victims of book-burning authoritarians, of populism gone murderously awry, of blind and violent intoler…"

-Nahlah Ayed, The War We Won Apart: The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII

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21. Last Woman: Stories

By: Carleigh Baker

3.94

Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition

From one of the country’s most celebrated new writers, a blistering collection of short fiction tha… read more

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Lisa Mosconi

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4.31

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Michelle Good

4.44

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3.85

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Amanda Montell

3.54

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4.35

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