12 Top canada books like Vile Spirits by John MacLachlan Gray

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Vile Spirits

By: John MacLachlan Gray

3.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating page-turner set in 1920s Vancouver post prohibition, when liquor was the fuel drivi…

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1. The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

By: Sandy Tolan

4.11

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

In 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal o… read more

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"Bashir walked toward a glass cabinet in the dining room. Dalia followed Bashir, and the two stood looking through the glass. "Look at the cabinet and tell me what you see," Bashir said. "Is this a te…"

-Sandy Tolan, The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

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2. The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son and a 50 Year Search

By: Martin Sixsmith

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Judi Dench: the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoma… read more

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3. Fates and Furies

By: Lauren Groff

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, th… read more

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4. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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  • historical fiction
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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5. The Dance Tree

By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping historical novel, the internationally bestselling author of The Mercies weaves a s… read more

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  • historical fiction
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6. A Dangerous Business

By: Jane Smiley

3.17

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author of A Thousand Acres: a mystery set … read more

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  • historical mystery
  • historical fiction
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7. A Keeper

By: Graham Norton

3.99

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

When Elizabeth Keane returns to Ireland after her mother’s death, she’s focused only on saying good… read more

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"I've always found there are far fewer answers than there are questions."

-Graham Norton, A Keeper

"The dead don't vanish, they leave a negative of themselves stamped on the world."

-Graham Norton, A Keeper

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8. Haven

By: Emma Donoghue

3.42

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the s… read more

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  • canada
  • historical fiction
"Fog makes an island of every man."

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

"To travel is to turn the pages of the great book of life."

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

"Cormac’s distracted by a slopping sound under the slats. He keeps talking to soothe his nerves. ‘Here’s a saying I’ve heard but don’t understand: Never turn your back on the ocean.’ ‘Even on a calm d…"

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

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9. The Children's Blizzard

By: Melanie Benjamin

3.95

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife reveals a little-known story of courage… read more

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  • historical fiction
"The Great Plains were immense enough to inspire the grandest, most foolish of dreams - but they were also vast enough that no one could ever explore every corner."

-Melanie Benjamin, The Children's Blizzard

"The blizzard, created when an enormous trough of cold air rushing in from the Arctic had met up with an equally enormous influx of warm, wet air from the gulf, gobbled up everything in its path. The …"

-Melanie Benjamin, The Children's Blizzard

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10. The Great Divide

By: Cristina Henríquez

3.70

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more

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  • historical fiction
"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"

-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide

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11. May God Forgive (Harry McCoy, #5)

By: Alan Parks

4.36

Format: 372 pages, ebook

Detective Harry McCoy returns in the suspenseful, atmospheric fifth instalment in Alan Park's inter… read more

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12. 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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  • canada
  • historical fiction
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13. The Air Raid Book Club

By: Annie Lyons

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn’t feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of he… read more

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  • historical fiction
"Quite. But Hedy has inherited her mother's skills as a seamstress. Very good. Tell her to come and see me. If you can't sew, can you knit? A little. Although I made my father a pair of socks once and…"

-Annie Lyons, The Air Raid Book Club

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14. I Only Read Murder (Miranda Abbott, #1)

By: Ian Ferguson

3.28

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A once-famous TV sleuth An amateur theater production An onstage murder A town full of suspects…… read more

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  • canada
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15. A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)

By: Louise Penny

4.46

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louis… read more

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  • canada
"They didn’t need proof. All a woman had to be was alive. Just being a woman was, in the church’s eyes, evil."

-Louise Penny, A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)

"He look at the canvas and saw bold swirls of reds and greens and yellows and bright blues all intermingled. They formed no image, and he got no feeling. He closed his eyes and paused. When he open th…"

-Louise Penny, A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)

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16. I Will Ruin You

By: Linwood Barclay

3.98

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

In the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Linwood Barclay, a teacher’s act of hero… read more

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  • canada
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17. Bluebird

By: Genevieve Graham

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A dazzling novel set during the Great War and postwar Prohibition about a young nurse, a soldier, a… read more

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  • canada
  • historical fiction
Cover of Lightning Strikes the Silence (Lane Winslow #11) by Iona Whishaw

18. Lightning Strikes the Silence (Lane Winslow #11)

By: Iona Whishaw

4.39

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

Beginning with a bang, the latest mystery in the series Publishers Weekly calls “highly entertainin… read more

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  • historical mystery
  • canada
  • historical fiction
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19. Pandora

By: Susan Stokes-Chapman

3.67

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

London, 1799. Dora Blake, an aspiring jewelry artist, lives with her odious uncle atop her late par… read more

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  • historical fiction
"but since when did gratitude mean the acceptance of rage?"

-Susan Stokes-Chapman, Pandora

"It amazes him how much money rich people seem happy to waste on entertainment for one mere evening."

-Susan Stokes-Chapman, Pandora

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20. Welcome to the School by the Sea (School by the Sea #1)

By: Jane Beaton

3.60

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The first book of Jenny Colgan's delightful new four-part series, set at a charming English boardin… read more

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21. 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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  • canada
  • historical fiction
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22. 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
  • historical fiction
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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23. The Phoenix Crown

By: Kate Quinn

3.82

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From bestselling authors Janie Chang and Kate Quinn, a thrilling and unforgettable narrative about … read more

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  • historical mystery
  • historical fiction
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24. Hell and Gone (Wakeland, #3)

By: Sam Wiebe

4.02

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

A captivating new thriller in the Wakeland detective series that explores the depths of Vancouver's… read more

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  • canada
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25. Sunset and Jericho (Wakeland, #4)

By: Sam Wiebe

4.13

Format: None pages, Paperback

The fourth thrilling installment of the Wakeland detective series, exploring the depths of Vancouve… read more

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  • canada
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26. The School of Mirrors

By: Eva Stachniak

3.50

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A scintillating, gorgeously written historical novel about a mother and a daughter in eighteenth-ce… read more

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  • historical fiction
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27. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more

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28. The Dark Wives (Vera Stanhope, #11)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.47

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

As New York Times bestseller Ann Cleeves's beloved Vera series explodes in popularity in print and … read more

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29. What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust (Flavia de Luce, #11)

By: Alan Bradley

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the absence of adult supervision, Flavia has taken on the mentorship of her “pestilent” younger … read more

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  • historical mystery
  • historical fiction
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30. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida

By: Mikita Brottman

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of the “enthralling” ( San Francisco Book Review ) An Unexplai… read more

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31. Vile Spirits

By: John MacLachlan Gray

3.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating page-turner set in 1920s Vancouver post prohibition, when liquor was the fuel drivi… read more

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  • historical mystery
  • canada
  • historical fiction

17 must-read historical fiction books like Vile Spirits by John MacLachlan Gray

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The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

Cormac McCarthy

3.58

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The Dance Tree

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

3.90

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A Dangerous Business

Jane Smiley

3.17

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Emma Donoghue

3.42

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I Only Read Murder (Miranda Abbott, #1)

Ian Ferguson

3.28

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Fit to Die

Daniel Kalla

3.66

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Thomas King

4.01

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