21 Top canada books like Whitemud Walking by Matthew James Weigel

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Whitemud Walking

By: Matthew James Weigel

4.48

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

An Indigenous resistance historiography, poetry that interrogates the colonial violence of the arch…

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1. Everyman

By: Anonymous , Unknown

3.27

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

Everyman is a medieval morality play that was first performed in the late 15th century. The play te… read more

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  • poetry
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2. Equus (Penguin Plays)

By: Peter Shaffer

3.91

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In "Equus," which took critics and public alike by storm and has gone on to become a modern classic… read more

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"There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out."

-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)

"A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave."

-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)

"That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped - when did you?"

-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)

"To go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!"

-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)

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3. The Place of Scraps

By: Jordan Abel

3.00

Format: 12 pages, Paperback

The Place of Scrapsrevolves around Marius Barbeau, an early-twentieth-century ethnographer, who stu… read more

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  • poetry
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4. The Lais of Marie de France

By: Marie de France , Glyn S. Burgess , Keith Busby

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is a prose translation of the lais or poems attributed to Marie de France. Little is known of … read more

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  • poetry
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5. 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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6. Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection, Volume 1 (Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection, #1)

By: Hope Nicholson , Michael Sheyahshe

3.90

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Produced by AH Comics Inc. (Titan: An Alternate History, Delta, Hobson's Gate, Jewish Comix Antholo… read more

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7. Half-Breed

By: Maria Campbell

2.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

Maria Campbell's biography is a classic, vital account of a young Metis woman's struggle to come to… read more

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8. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more

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  • canada
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9. Disorientation

By: Elaine Hsieh Chou

3.84

Format: 403 pages, Hardcover

A Taiwanese American woman’s coming-of-consciousness ignites eye-opening revelations and chaos on a… read more

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"Never apologize, Ingrid. Especially not when it concerns a man."

-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

"She'd be split apart, never certain if the submissive and docile figure in the mirror was a reflection of who she really was, or the ghostly effect of someone telling her her entire life: this is who…"

-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

"For once in her life, she wanted to be selfishly and deliciously lazy. To embody the most abhorred word of her generation: unproductive. She, yes she, wanted to be the person who walks away as a car …"

-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

"Though it was a little shabby and could do with more frequent dusting, sudents flocked to the café for the worn-in armchairs and couches, free wi-fi and cheap coffee. Ingrid particularly liked the to…"

-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

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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. A Grandmother Begins the Story

By: Michelle Porter

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Michelle Porter makes her fiction debut with an enchanting and original story … read more

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  • canada
  • indigenous
"Different ways to tell a story. Some tellers make a noise to announce the coming of the story for get someone else to call everyone's attention. Some wait for people to gather around, for the quiet t…"

-Michelle Porter, A Grandmother Begins the Story

"People get themselves ready to die. They start going through their memories and bringing out their stories one by one as if there was a photo album in their head and they've got to get through it bef…"

-Michelle Porter, A Grandmother Begins the Story

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12. Indians on Vacation

By: Thomas King

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Meet Bird and Mimi in this brilliant new novel from one of Canada’s foremost authors. Inspired by a… read more

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  • canada
  • indigenous
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13. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act

By: Bob Joseph

4.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to… read more

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  • canada
  • indigenous
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14. Bad Tourists

By: Caro Carver

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Three tight-knit friends embark on an extravagant divorce trip to the Maldives where they can unwin… read more

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"Her default setting is to say no to any offers of help, that she’s fine, even when she’s not."

-Caro Carver, Bad Tourists

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15. Making Love with the Land: Essays

By: Joshua Whitehead

4.11

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n… read more

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  • canada
  • indigenous
"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state know…"

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

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16. 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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  • canada
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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17. 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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  • canada
  • indigenous
"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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18. Nishga

By: Jordan Abel

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jordan Abel comes a groundbreaking, deeply personal, and devastati… read more

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  • poetry
  • canada
  • indigenous
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19. Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada's Chinese Restaurants

By: Ann Hui

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In 2016, Globe and Mail reporter Ann Hui drove across Canada to answer two questions: Why is there … read more

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  • canada
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20. full-metal indigiqueer: poems

By: Joshua Whitehead

4.33

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Using binary code and texts from classics of the English language such as Edmund Spenser's The Faer… read more

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  • poetry
  • canada
  • indigenous
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21. A History of My Brief Body

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

The youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay c… read more

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  • poetry
  • canada
  • indigenous
"I'm as lonely and as brief as a country."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Living in a world where people are guns is a brutal legacy."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Teens don't read for beauty, but to practice the art of disappearance."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Regardless, I forgive them just as I forgive naive versions of myself."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

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22. 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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  • canada
  • 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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23. 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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  • canada
  • indigenous
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24. 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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  • canada
  • indigenous
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25. Empty Spaces

By: Jordan Abel

3.77

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed, boundary-breaking author of NISHGA comes a hypnotic and mystifying exploration … read more

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  • canada
  • indigenous
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26. Monkey Beach

By: Eden Robinson

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

“ Monkey Beach creates a vivid contemporary landscape that draws the reader deep into a traditional… read more

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  • canada
  • indigenous
"Six crows sit in our greengage tree. Half awake, I hear them speak to me in Haisla."

-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

"As I drove away, I felt deeply comforted knowing that magical things were still living in the world."

-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

"You honkies want women to be like cookies, all sweet and dainty and easy to eat. But I'm fry bread, you bitch, and I'm proud of it."

-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

"We are apart so that I will know the joy of being with you again. Take care of yourself, wherever you are. Take care of yourself, wherever you are."

-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

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27. Exhibitionist

By: Molly Cross-Blanchard

4.44

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

One minute she’s drying her underwear on the corner of your mirror, the next she’s asking the sky t… read more

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  • poetry
  • canada
  • indigenous
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28. Whitemud Walking

By: Matthew James Weigel

4.48

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

An Indigenous resistance historiography, poetry that interrogates the colonial violence of the arch… read more

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  • poetry
  • canada
  • indigenous
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29. Salvage: Readings from the Wreck

By: Dionne Brand

4.21

Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition

In her first full-length non-fiction since the influential A Map to the Door of No Return, Dionne B… read more

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30. Nedí Nezų (Good Medicine)

By: Tenille Campbell

4.44

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

nedí nezų (Good Medicine) explores the beautiful space that being a sensual Indigenous woman create… read more

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  • poetry
  • canada
  • indigenous
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31. Cousin Bear Comes to Visit

By: Halie Finney

4.95

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

In Cousin Bear Comes to Visit, Métis artist Halie Finney introduces us to Francis the Bear as she p… read more

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