23 best-selling canada books like Summer of My Amazing Luck by Miriam Toews

Cover of Summer of My Amazing Luck by Miriam Toews

Summer of My Amazing Luck

By: Miriam Toews

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

Lucy Von Alstyne sends fictitious letters to her friend Alicia, pretending to be the father of Alic…

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Cover of Good To A Fault by Marina Endicott

1. Good To A Fault

By: Marina Endicott

3.58

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

In a novel reminiscent of the work of Penelope Lively, Anne Tyler, and Alice Munro, acclaimed autho… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • canadian literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"Everybody was dying, or already dead, or leaving other people, and the year was dying into winter, and the only thing to do was make some noise."

-Marina Endicott, Good To A Fault

Cover of That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx

2. That Old Ace in the Hole

By: Annie Proulx

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Folks in the Texas panhandle do not like hog farms. But Bob Dollar is determined to see his new job… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
Cover of The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas by Jerry Dennis

3. The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas

By: Jerry Dennis

4.23

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Award-winning nature author Jerry Dennis reveals the splendor and beauty of North America’s Great L… read more

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4. Adult Onset

By: Ann-Marie MacDonald

3.27

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of 2 beloved classics, Adult Onset is a powerful drama about… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"Non sa bene quanti “altri"

-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Adult Onset

"She never knows when it might strike. The rage. And when it does, she loses her grip on herself—literally. At times, she could swear she sees another self—shiny black phantom, faceless, as though cla…"

-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Adult Onset

Cover of Summer of My Amazing Luck by Miriam Toews

5. Summer of My Amazing Luck

By: Miriam Toews

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

Lucy Von Alstyne sends fictitious letters to her friend Alicia, pretending to be the father of Alic… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • humor
  • canadian literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels

6. Scarborough

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.19

Format: 208 pages,

Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighborhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest ci… read more

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7. The Break

By: Katherena Vermette

4.36

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

2016 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalist When Stella, a young Metis mother, looks out her … read more

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8. Fifteen Dogs

By: André Alexis

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

" I wonder", said Hermes, "what it would be like if animals had human intelligence." " I'll wager a… read more

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Cover of Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory by Sarah Polley

9. 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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  • canada
"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

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10. Enter Ghost

By: Isabella Hammad

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein

11. 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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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • canadian literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"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

Cover of Chrysalis by Anuja  Varghese

12. Chrysalis

By: Anuja Varghese

3.96

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Canadian Governor General's Literary for Fiction Genre-blending stories of transfo… read more

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  • fiction
  • canadian literature
  • canada
Cover of The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . . by Rick      Mercer

13. The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . .

By: Rick Mercer

4.45

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Rick Mercer is back—again!—with the eagerly awaited sequel to his bestselling memoir At the end … read more

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  • humor
  • canada
Cover of In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience (The Regina Collection, 11) by Helen Knott

14. 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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  • canada
Cover of Snow Road Station by Elizabeth Hay

15. 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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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • canadian literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Our Strangers: Stories by Lydia Davis

16. Our Strangers: Stories

By: Lydia Davis

3.92

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Only available at independent bookstores and libraries, by request of the author. From one of the m… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Bittlemores by Jann Arden

17. The Bittlemores

By: Jann Arden

3.87

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A heartfelt, comic, and deeply satisfying debut novel from the #1 bestselling author, singer-songwr… read more

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  • fiction
  • humor
  • canada
Cover of The Secret Keeper by Genevieve Graham

18. 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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  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of Hey, Good Luck Out There by Georgia Toews

19. Hey, Good Luck Out There

By: Georgia Toews

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Subversive, captivating and vividly attuned to both the extraordinary and the mundane, Georgia Toew… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
Cover of Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

20. 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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  • fiction
  • canada
"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

Cover of Denison Avenue by Christina Wong

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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  • fiction
  • canadian literature
  • canada
  • contemporary
Cover of Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir by Helen Knott

22. Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

By: Helen Knott

4.31

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behi… read more

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  • canada
"What else have I made my responsibility that no one asked me to take on?"

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"Mama's arms felt like ceremony on nights when the ghosts of my past experiences wouldn't let me sleep."

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"The women in my family are medicine. They are backbones and ribcages and hearts. They are whispers in men's ears. They are the guardians that kept us whole."

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"Teetering on the brink of relapse and the edge of insanity. I can't fuck or fight my way out of these feelings, so that's a bitch, but the weather is nice. More cream for your coffee, Edna?"

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

Cover of The Jazz Club Spy by Roberta Rich

23. The Jazz Club Spy

By: Roberta Rich

3.60

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From the author of the “riveting” ( Chicago Tribune ) The Midwife of Venice , a fresh and sweeping … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Circle by Katherena Vermette

24. 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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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • canadian literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Islands: Stories by Dionne Irving

25. The Islands: Stories

By: Dionne Irving

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Powerful stories that explore the legacy of colonialism, and issues of race, immigration, sexual di… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
Cover of The Double Life of Benson Yu by Kevin  Chong

26. The Double Life of Benson Yu

By: Kevin Chong

3.54

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

This work of metafiction follows a graphic novelist losing control of his own narrative as he attem… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
Cover of The Damages by Genevieve  Scott

27. The Damages

By: Genevieve Scott

3.61

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Sharp and propulsive, The Damages is an engrossing novel set in motion by the disappearance of a st… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
Cover of A Great Country by Shilpi Somaya Gowda

28. A Great Country

By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's Little Fires E… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
Cover of The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island by Kent Monkman

29. The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island

By: Kent Monkman

4.31

Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition

From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformati… read more

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  • canada
Cover of The Secret History of Audrey James by Heather     Marshall

30. The Secret History of Audrey James

By: Heather Marshall

4.46

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

The #1 bestselling author of Looking for Jane returns with a poignant, gripping novel about a piani… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of DreadfulWater (DreadfulWater, #1) by Hartley GoodWeather

31. 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
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels

22 Top fiction books like Summer of My Amazing Luck by Miriam Toews

Transform Your Habits

Good To A Fault

Marina Endicott

3.58

Transform Your Habits

That Old Ace in the Hole

Annie Proulx

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Adult Onset

Ann-Marie MacDonald

3.27

Transform Your Habits

Summer of My Amazing Luck

Miriam Toews

3.95

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16 Top audiobook books like The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . . by Rick Mercer

Transform Your Habits

My Effin' Life

Geddy Lee

4.58

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Defector (Apollo Murders, #2)

Chris Hadfield

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Shut Up You're Pretty

Téa Mutonji

3.57

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