Let It Destroy You: A Novel
By: Harriet Alida Lye
3.91
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Inspired by the true story of a dangerous atomic weapon and the man who designed it, here is a stun…
Want to Read $ 12.99"We never know the end of something as it's happening. It's only in the aftermath that we create a narrative, and story can only ever be a cousin of the truth."-Harriet Alida Lye, Let It Destroy You: A Novel
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1. The Adversary
By: Michael Crummey
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Innocents (“Extraordinary”— Wall Street … read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
2. 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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- fiction
- audiobook
3. Study for Obedience
By: Sarah Bernstein
3.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"I try always to be good."-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
4. Learned by Heart
By: Emma Donoghue
3.51
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains d… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
5. 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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- fiction
- audiobook
"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
6. A Death at the Party
By: Amy Stuart
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In this tense, spellbinding thriller set over the course of a single day, a woman prepares for a pa… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
7. Hotline
By: Dimitri Nasrallah
4.15
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline
8. In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience (The Regina Collection, 11)
By: Helen Knott
4.53
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Long-listed for the 2020 RBC Taylor Prize A memoir of addiction, intergenerational trauma, a… read more
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- audiobook
9. The Fake
By: Zoe Whittall
3.44
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A con artist can make you feel like the luckiest person on earth just to be in their presence. But … read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"There are worse things than telling a lie."-Zoe Whittall, The Fake
10. The Good Women of Safe Harbour
By: Bobbi French
4.39
Format: 304 pages, ebook
An unforgettable, life-affirming novel about a woman living on her own terms at last and reclaiming… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
11. Snow Road Station
By: Elizabeth Hay
3.77
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the Giller Prize-winning author comes a novel, witty and wise, about thwarted ambition, unreal… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
12. 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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- fiction
- audiobook
"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?
13. The Secret Keeper
By: Genevieve Graham
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
From USA TODAY and internationally bestselling author Genevieve Graham comes a gripping World War I… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
14. Fit to Die
By: Daniel Kalla
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
From internationally bestselling author Daniel Kalla comes a riveting thriller about online body sh… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
15. 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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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
16. All the Colour in the World
By: C.S. Richardson
3.74
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The story of the restorative power of art in one man's life, set against the sweep of the twentieth… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
17. 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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- audiobook
- fiction
- historical fiction
18. We Meant Well
By: Erum Shazia Hasan
4.05
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
A propulsive debut that grapples with timely questions about what it means to be charitable, who de… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
19. Unmarriageable
By: Soniah Kamal
3.74
Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition
In this one-of-a-kind retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in modern-day Pakistan, Alys Binat has … read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"real happiness in marriage seems a matter of chance. You can marry a seemingly perfect person and they can transform before your eyes into imperfection, or you can marry a flawed person and they can …"-Soniah Kamal, Unmarriageable
"Alys gave a small smile. "I wrestle with how to incorporate history. Can any amount of good ever merit the interference of empire? Do we never speak English again? Not read the literature? Erasing hi…"-Soniah Kamal, Unmarriageable
"Ever since I could remember, I'd been engaging in literary transference/transplantation/translation from one culture to another. Growing up on English literature, I taught myself to see my daily real…"-Soniah Kamal, Unmarriageable
20. The Inheritance
By: Joanna Goodman
3.53
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls and The Forgotten Daughter comes a compu… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
21. Pebble & Dove
By: Amy Jones
3.97
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In the tradition of Karen Russell's Swamplandia! , a once-famous but now-abandoned aquarium-in-a-sh… read more
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- fiction
22. Frying Plantain
By: Zalika Reid-Benta
3.82
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle — of her Canadian nationality and her desire to be a “tru… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
23. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
24. Daughter
By: Claudia Dey
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In Claudia Dey’s Daughter, a woman long caught in her father's web strives to make a life—and art—o… read more
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- audiobook
25. Cold Snap (Paradise Café, #3)
By: Maureen Jennings
3.77
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
December 1936. Charlotte Frayne, Private Investigator, is pulled into a dangerous international plo… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
26. Le Fay (Morgan le Fay, #2)
By: Sophie Keetch
4.46
Format: 461 pages, Kindle Edition
Lady Morgan surveys her life at an unhappy marriage and a vengeful husband determined to keep thei… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
27. 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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- audiobook
"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
28. Back in the Land of the Living
By: Eva Crocker
3.46
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A sexy, unforgettable story about love and longing in a time of chaos by Scotiabank Giller Prize lo… read more
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29. Let It Destroy You: A Novel
By: Harriet Alida Lye
3.91
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Inspired by the true story of a dangerous atomic weapon and the man who designed it, here is a stun… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"We never know the end of something as it's happening. It's only in the aftermath that we create a narrative, and story can only ever be a cousin of the truth."-Harriet Alida Lye, Let It Destroy You: A Novel
30. The Light of Eternal Spring
By: Angel Di Zhang
3.96
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
Angel Di Zhang's intensely cinematic debut novel travels from the streets of New York City to north… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
31. The Wedding: A Novel
By: Gurjinder Basran
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
You’re invited to The Wedding, an electrifying novel about the joining of two South Asian families,… read more
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