11 must-read canada books like Magnetic Equator by Kaie Kellough

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Magnetic Equator

By: Kaie Kellough

4.25

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

An original, inventive--and visually stunning--exploration of place, identity, language, and experi…

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1. No Language Is Neutral

By: Dionne Brand

4.15

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

A joyful, imagistic discovery of woman as speaker and subject. As a woman, a black, and a lesbian, … read more

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  • poetry
  • canada
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2. Half Blood Blues

By: Esi Edugyan

3.99

Format: None pages, Paperback

The aftermath of the fall of Paris, 1940. Hieronymous Falk, a rising star on the cabaret scene, was… read more

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  • canada

3. The Beauty

By: Aliya Whiteley

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Somewhere away from the cities and towns, a group of men and boys gather around the fire each night… read more

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4. Fifteen Dogs

By: André Alexis

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

" I wonder", said Hermes, "what it would be like if animals had human intelligence." " I'll wager a… read more

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5. Vernon Subutex, 2 (Vernon Subutex, #2)

By: Virginie Despentes

3.10

Format: None pages,

QUI EST VERNON SUBUTEX ? Une legende urbaine. Un ange dechu. Un disparu qui ne cesse de ressurgir. … read more

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6. Le Malade imaginaire

By: Molière

3.63

Format: 255 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Le Malade imaginaire est la dernière comédie et en même temps la dernière pièce écrite par Molière.… read more

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"La musique est accoutumée à ne point faire ce qu'on veut."

-Molière, Le Malade imaginaire

"Presque tous les hommes meurent de leurs remèdes, et non pas de leurs maladies."

-Molière, Le Malade imaginaire

7. Go, Went, Gone

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

4.13

Format: None pages,

One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe's biggest issue. Richard has spent h… read more

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8. 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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9. Là où je me terre

By: Caroline Dawson

4.38

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Valparaíso, décembre 1986, tremblement de terre entre les quatre murs d’une maison. Un homme et une… read more

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"Parce que c'est ma mère, elle qui a sacrifié chacun de ses jours et plusieurs de ses nuits pour me voir libérée des servilités et soumissions qui étaient les siennes, qui a souahaité le plus ma réuss…"

-Caroline Dawson, Là où je me terre

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10. 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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11. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

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"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

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12. 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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  • 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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13. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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14. What Strange Paradise

By: Omar El Akkad

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilap… read more

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  • canada
"Today you are the only boy in the world and tomorrow it will be as though you never existed."

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

"And what do you think the prerequisite for kindness is? Have you ever tried to be kind to someone better off than you?"

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

"Farther out, the water sheds its sandy complexion and turns a turquoise of such clarity that the tourists’ sailboats seem to float atop their own shadows."

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

"Because that's how we take the future from them," Walid said, animated now. "Look at Stockholm, look at Munich, look at New York-- who's picking up the garbage, cleaning the toilets? Who's doing the …"

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

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15. When We Lost Our Heads

By: Heather O'Neill

3.97

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding story about two girls whose friendship is so intense it not only threatens to destro… read more

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  • canada
"Her heart leaped like a frog out of a child’s fist."

-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads

"Loving everyone is the same thing as loving nobody at."

-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads

"She felt jealousy pounding like enemy soldiers at the gate."

-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads

"Her words squiggled onto the page like the laces of a girl running for her life with untied boots."

-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads

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16. Do You Remember Being Born?

By: Sean Michaels

3.83

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

FINALIST FOR THE 2023 PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN AWARD FOR FICTION Scotiabank Giller Prize-winner… read more

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  • poetry
  • canada
"I opened my eyes: soft light, morning, cool. The shimmer of a dream as it departed. I have always enjoyed waking up to different weather, as if the world's been up to something in the night."

-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?

"A poem-shaped space, I thought. A poem-shaped space. I tried to hold a poem-shaped space in my mind. Sometimes the work of life is like preparing a bedroom for a guest: sweeping the floor, emptying t…"

-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?

"Some of what makes us human is our smallness. The brevity of our lifespans, the shortness of our memories, the narrowness of each person's field of vision. My Marian-ness is in the slender sample of …"

-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?

"Art is husbandry, I thought. It is an experiment in imaginary kinship. Bring together this mare and this stallion; this marriage and this moon; this sun and this daughter. Poems, paintings, pop songs…"

-Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?

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17. Sankofa

By: Chibundu Onuzo

3.85

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781646220830. Masterful in its examination of freedom, prejudic… read more

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"Rotten eggs that will never hatch"

-Chibundu Onuzo, Sankofa

"Even now after all he’s done, I’m still waiting for his attention."

-Chibundu Onuzo, Sankofa

"Not even crocodiles eat their young...papa takes care of his children."

-Chibundu Onuzo, Sankofa

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18. A Half-Built Garden

By: Ruthanna Emrys

3.63

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the… read more

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"They're nothing but dangerous questions."

-Ruthanna Emrys, A Half-Built Garden

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19. Wrong Norma

By: Anne Carson

4.33

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-desig… read more

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  • poetry
  • canada
"Last thing: one Sunday evening about a year before all this we were on the telephone, my mother and I; it was just after we sold the house and she’d moved to the facility, where she was allowed a sma…"

-Anne Carson, Wrong Norma

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20. Ordinary Notes

By: Christina Sharpe

4.55

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Ce qui est tu by Caroline Dawson

21. Ce qui est tu

By: Caroline Dawson

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Dans ce livre, Caroline Dawson s’adresse à son fils qui célèbre ses 7 ans, le même âge qu’elle avai… read more

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  • poetry
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22. A Minor Chorus

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more

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  • canada
Cover of Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging by Tessa McWatt

23. Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging

By: Tessa McWatt

4.11

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Interrogating our ideas of race through the lens of her own multi-racial identity, critically accla… read more

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  • canada
"Similar to writing, the story of the self is true in each particular telling. We change, the story unfolds and changes, but the telling itself is eternal."

-Tessa McWatt, Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging

"I recognized that the racialized liberalism in which I was educated--where we strive for a bigger part of some mythological pie that our fractured identities are in competition for--leaves us without…"

-Tessa McWatt, Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging

"These stories relieve me of the pain of belonging nowhere and give me the key to everywhere. As I once longed for a singular place, a singular ethnicity or plot of land over generations, I now long f…"

-Tessa McWatt, Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging

"Identifying as a woman of colour has been crucial in my understanding of structural politics in society. But this focus hasn't changed the plantation structure, the violence against black bodies and …"

-Tessa McWatt, Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging

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24. Les pires moments de l'histoire

By: Charles Beauchesne

4.42

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

Les pires moments de l’histoire, c’est d’abord le très populaire podcast comico-historique de l’hum… read more

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25. Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose

By: Nikki Giovanni

4.20

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

One of America’s most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collect… read more

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  • poetry
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26. Ça aurait pu être un film

By: Martine Delvaux

3.59

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

C’est l’histoire d’un film qui ne s’est pas fait.C’est l’histoire de trois artistes, Hollis Jeffcoa… read more

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27. Trop de Pascale

By: Pascale Bérubé

4.06

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Récit poétique autoréflexif aussi sensible que démesuré, ce livre au genre inclassable interroge le… read more

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28. Nipinapunan

By: VOLLANT ALEXIS

4.02

Format: None pages, Paperback

Nipinapunan fait entendre la voix intérieure d’une jeune Innue de Pessamit qui cède à l’entêtement … read more

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29. Magnetic Equator

By: Kaie Kellough

4.25

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

An original, inventive--and visually stunning--exploration of place, identity, language, and experi… read more

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  • poetry
  • canada
Cover of Mon fils ne revint que sept jours by David Clerson

30. Mon fils ne revint que sept jours

By: David Clerson

3.22

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Une femme passant ses étés seule dans un chalet en Mauricie reçoit la visite de son fils disparu de… read more

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31. L'horizon par hasard

By: Anne Martine Parent

3.66

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Depuis l’enfance, une femme avance, se perd, se métamorphose jusqu’à la disparition, ses pieds dans… read more

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No Language Is Neutral

Dionne Brand

4.15

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Sean Michaels

3.83

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Wrong Norma

Anne Carson

4.33

Transform Your Habits

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Christina Sharpe

4.55

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If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

Noor Naga

3.92

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Catherine Leroux

3.32

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Jonny Appleseed

Joshua Whitehead

3.95

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Suzette Mayr

3.46

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