Satched
By: Megan Gail Coles
4.02
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Named after a local word meaning “soaked through” or “weighed down,” Scotiabank Giller Prize finali…
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1. Fall on Your Knees
By: Ann-Marie MacDonald
3.97
Format: 672 pages, Mass Market Paperback
They are the Pipers of Cape Breton Island — a family steeped in lies and unspoken truths that reach… read more
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"She is why purgatory was invented."-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees
"To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain."-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees
"Sat - sex is good for the voice. Why don't they teach you that in school?"-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees
"My first advantage: I have everything. My second advantage: this is just another island. My third advantage: I am bigger than it all."-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees
2. Dream Work
By: Mary Oliver
4.35
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Olive… read more
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"I saw what love might have done had we loved in time."-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
"I wanted to live my life but I didn’t want to do what I had to do to go on,"-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
"Mostly, I want to be kind. And nobody, of course, is kind, or mean, for a simple reason."-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
"the black fox that lies down to sleep beneath you, the moon staring with her bone-white eye"-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
3. Caught
By: Lisa Moore
4.04
Format: 130 pages, Hardcover
Caughtbegins with a prison break. Twenty-five-year-old David Slaney, locked up on charges of mariju… read more
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4. 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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5. Time Is a Mother
By: Ocean Vuong
3.94
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more
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6. “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People
By: Aubrey Gordon
4.33
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the fac… read more
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7. Washington Black
By: Esi Edugyan
3.95
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar … read more
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"You cannot know the true nature of another's suffering." "No. But you can try your damnedest not to worsen it."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
"I do not much care for childhood. It is a astate of terrible vulnerability, and is therefore unnatural and incomaptivle with human life."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
"...a good parent is as rare as snow in summer, I am afraid. Well." He smiled sadly. "It is possible I have some prejudices in this respect."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
"But then, gradually, miraculously, things began to clear between us. We were able to speak as we'd once done, with great love and little calculation."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
8. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
By: Sarah Polley
4.32
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores me… read more
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"His love was all around the edges, but sometimes it was hard for both of us to see, I think."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
"The past was affecting how I moved through the world, while present life was affecting how the past moved through me."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
"The past and present, I have come to realize, are in constant dialogue, acting upon one another in a kind of reciprocal pressure dance."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
"It can seem perplexing from the outside, this pull that many women experience to make things better for those who have hurt us. The impulse to smooth things over the keep ourselves safe..."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
9. Fight Night
By: Miriam Toews
4.04
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
The beloved author of bestsellers Women Talking, A Complicated Kindness, and All My Puny Sorrows r… read more
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"She (mom) yelled from upstairs, Those are books that help me to live! Those books are my life! Get down here! I yelled back. I'm your goddamn life!"-Miriam Toews, Fight Night
10. 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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11. 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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"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
12. The Morningside
By: Téa Obreht
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland, a ma… read more
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13. Half-Bads in White Regalia: A Memoir
By: Cody Caetano
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
*LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2023* NATIONAL BESTSELLERA family tries to learn from the mistakes of … read more
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14. The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)
By: Amanda Lovelace
3.73
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The witch: supernaturally powerful, inscrutably independent, and now—indestructible. These moving, … read more
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" -call us alexandria "-Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)
"Confiança não é egocentrismo"-Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)
"Fuck the idea of staying calm."-Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)
"i am the girl with the arsonist heart"-Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)
15. And Then She Fell
By: Alicia Elliott
3.90
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous wo… read more
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"Nothing I do is done solely for me. Everything is done to elevate Steve or Dawn, in some way. I'm an afterthought in my own life."-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell
"A part of me wants to cry at this small request, because I know what that longing is like, what it means. I won't be there forever, but I will be there for her. For her sister. For her mother. I'll b…"-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell
16. A Sweet Sting of Salt
By: Rose Sutherland
3.88
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Once a young woman uncovers a dark secret about her neighbor and his mysterious new wife, she’ll ha… read more
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17. The Centre
By: Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
3.41
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A darkly comic, boundary-pushing debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who atten… read more
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18. The Sleeping Car Porter
By: Suzette Mayr
3.46
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more
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"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
19. Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories
By: Aviaq Johnston
3.74
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
“Taaqtumi” is an Inuktitut word that means “in the dark”—and these spine-tingling horror stories by… read more
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20. Something Wild & Wonderful (Love & Other Disasters, #2)
By: Anita Kelly
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
From the author of Love & Other Disasters comes a sparkling grumpy-meets-sunshine romance featuring… read more
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"Do they miss me? Does it count if the person they miss isn’t actually me? "-Anita Kelly, Something Wild & Wonderful (Love & Other Disasters, #2)
21. 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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22. The Circle
By: Katherena Vermette
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant an… read more
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23. An Education in Malice
By: S.T. Gibson
3.58
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Sumptuous and addictive, An Education in Malice is a dark academia tale of blood, secrets and insat… read more
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"Right and Wrong don't exist. They're fairy tales made up by priests and parents"-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice
"I wasn't in the habit of confessing my sapphic proclivities as a sin, since I didn't consider them to be one, but my idolatry of Carmilla definitely counted as something worth confessing."-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice
"She kissed me with a martyr’s agonized desperation, like I was the only sword she ever wanted to fall on. I kissed her right back like the cutting edge of a blade, trying to inflict as much damage as…"-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice
"I was, I knew full well, a creature composed of strange desires. They'd always been with me, these hungers. As a child I played villain in every game of 'capture the princess,' tying my pretty playma…"-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice
24. You Exist Too Much
By: Zaina Arafat
3.64
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men o… read more
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"When you don’t want to lose someone, it’s so tempting to deceive them."-Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much
"Appetite is embarrassing enough; visibly trying to satiate it, utterly mortifying."-Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much
25. The Spectacular
By: Zoe Whittall
3.67
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Three generations of women strive for real freedom in this startling, provocative novel exploring s… read more
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26. Women of the Fur Trade
By: Frances Koncan
4.19
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In eighteen hundred and something something, somewhere upon the banks of a Reddish River in Treaty … read more
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27. Len & Cub: A Queer History
By: Meredith J. Batt
4.41
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Leonard "Len" Keith and Joseph "Cub" Coates grew up in the rural New Brunswick village of Havelock … read more
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28. The All + Flesh: Poems
By: Brandi Bird
4.77
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Brandi Bird's frank, transcendent poetry explores the concepts of health, language, place, and memo… read more
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29. Satched
By: Megan Gail Coles
4.02
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Named after a local word meaning “soaked through” or “weighed down,” Scotiabank Giller Prize finali… read more
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30. Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There (23) (First Poets Series)
By: Jade Wallace
4.39
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Each section of Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There is a psychogeographic investigation. Tw… read more
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31. Something for Everyone
By: Lisa Moore
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Internationally celebrated as one of literature’s most gifted stylists, Lisa Moore returns with her… read more
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