The Weekend Man
By: Richard B. Wright
3.44
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
Everyone agrees that Wes Wakeham is a likeable if unambitious fellow, with the exception of his est…
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1. Oscar and Lucinda
By: Peter Carey
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel imagines Australia's youth, before its dynamic passions be… read more
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2. Little Bee
By: Chris Cleave
4.53
Format: 194 pages,
From the author of the international bestseller Incendiary comes a haunting novel about the tenuous… read more
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3. On Chesil Beach
By: Ian McEwan
3.21
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. It is… read more
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4. Ninety-two in the Shade
By: Thomas McGuane
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Tiring of the company of junkies and burn-outs, Thomas Skelton goes home to Key West to take up a m… read more
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5. Homesick
By: Guy Vanderhaeghe
4.01
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
It is the summer of 1959, and in a prairie town in Saskatchewan, Alec Monkman waits for his estrang… read more
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6. An American Marriage
By: Tayari Jones
4.47
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is … read more
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7. Her Fearful Symmetry
By: Audrey Niffenegger
3.47
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Six years after the phenomenal success of The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger has returned… read more
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8. Up and Down
By: Terry Fallis
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
David Stewart, fresh from the Canadian Space Ministry, proposes NASA revitalize their PR with a Cit… read more
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9. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1)
By: Rachel Joyce
3.68
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
A novel of unsentimental charm, humor, and profound insight into the thoughts and feelings we all b… read more
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10. Son of a Trickster (Trickster, #1)
By: Eden Robinson
3.82
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
With striking originality and precision, Eden Robinson, the Giller-shortlisted author of the classi… read more
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"He wasn't going to be alone after she died, but the world was going to be a lonelier place without her."-Eden Robinson, Son of a Trickster (Trickster, #1)
11. The Dovekeepers
By: Alice Hoffman
4.11
Format: 40 pages,
Over five years in the writing, The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing n… read more
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12. True History of the Kelly Gang
By: Peter Carey
3.87
Format: 334 pages,
"I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dea… read more
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13. The Shipping News
By: Annie Proulx
4.04
Format: 538 pages, Paperback
When Quoyle's two-timing wife meets her just desserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his an… read more
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14. Crow Lake
By: Mary Lawson
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so emotionally pitch perfect, you kn… read more
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"Feeling must have rendered her numb."-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake
"Tomorrow is forever, and years pass in no time at all"-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake
"The lake hadn’t been frozen long and of all them had been expressly forbidden to go out on it, but Norman Pye, who was older than the rest of them, said that it would be safe if they slid out on thei…"-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake
"My Great Grandmother Morrison fixed a book-rest to her spinning wheel so that she could read while she was spinning, or so the story goes. And one Saturday evening she became so absorbed in her book …"-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake
15. Somebody's Fool
By: Richard Russo
4.27
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and t… read more
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16. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
By: Colson Whitehead
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more
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"Misery is a money pit."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
17. The Breakaway
By: Jennifer Weiner
3.77
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a warmhearted and empowering new no… read more
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18. All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)
By: Louise Penny
4.43
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
The 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sû… read more
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"You were going to say the Death Star, weren’t you?"-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)
"I just sit where I'm put, composed of stone and wishful thinking: That the deity that kills for pleasure will also heal, That in the midst of your nightmare, the final one, a kind lion will pick your…"-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)
"Regarding Notre Dame cathedral: "He could see the huge rose window that had, incredibly, survived the fire. It looked, behind the works, like a giant third eye. Gazing perpetually out at the City of …"-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)
"I just sit where I’m put, composed of stone and wishful thinking: That the deity that kills for pleasure will also heal, That in the midst of your nightmare, the final one, a kind lion will come with…"-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)
19. The Pull of the Stars
By: Emma Donoghue
3.96
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospita… read more
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"Guilt was the sooty air we breathed these days."-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
"I’m beginning to know enough to know that I know nothing."-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
"I seem to have stumbled onto love, like a pothole in the night."-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
"Neither of us mentioned the kissing, so as not to burst the bubble by touching it. So as not to think about what it meant for the two of us to kiss."-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
20. Be Mine
By: Richard Ford
3.99
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the… read more
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21. The Nest
By: Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
3.41
Format: 432 pages, Mass Market Paperback
An instant Globe and Mail bestseller. On a wintry afternoon in New York City, Melody, Beatrice a… read more
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"Jack picked a piece of mint from his glass and chewed on it for a second. “I’m curious,"-Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, The Nest
"How tragic could a breakup be when it was a part of the fabric of expectation from the beginning?"-Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, The Nest
"Right now, it felt like there was nowhere for his thoughts to alight that wasn't rife with land mines of regret or anger or guilt."-Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, The Nest
"People abandoned one another constantly without performing the courtesy of of actually disappearing. They left, but didn't, lurking about, a constant reminder of what could or should have been."-Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, The Nest
22. The Weekend Man
By: Richard B. Wright
3.44
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
Everyone agrees that Wes Wakeham is a likeable if unambitious fellow, with the exception of his est… read more
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