20 Best fiction books like The Future by Catherine Leroux

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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…

"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

"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

"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

If you liked the fiction plot in The Future by Catherine Leroux , here is a list of 20 books like this:

Cover of The Adversary by Michael Crummey

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

Similar categories in Michael Crummey's The Adversary book and Catherine Leroux's The Future

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) by Waubgeshig Rice

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

Similar categories in Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) book and Catherine Leroux's The Future

  • canada
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein

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

Similar categories in Sarah Bernstein's Study for Obedience book and Catherine Leroux's The Future

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • literature
  • 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

Cover of Shut Up You're Pretty by Téa Mutonji

4. Shut Up You're Pretty

By: Téa Mutonji

3.57

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more

Similar categories in Téa Mutonji's Shut Up You're Pretty book and Catherine Leroux's The Future

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"

-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty

Cover of The Future by Catherine Leroux

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

Similar categories in Catherine Leroux's The Future book and Catherine Leroux's The Future

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • canada
  • literature
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • 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

Cover of Hotline by Dimitri Nasrallah

6. 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

Similar categories in Dimitri Nasrallah's Hotline book and Catherine Leroux's The Future

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of The Winter Knight by Jes Battis

7. The Winter Knight

By: Jes Battis

3.46

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Arthurian legends are reborn in this upbeat queer urban fantasy with a mystery at its heart The … read more

Similar categories in Jes Battis's The Winter Knight book and Catherine Leroux's The Future

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • canada
Cover of Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

8. 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

Similar categories in Jessica Johns's Bad Cree book and Catherine Leroux's The Future

  • magical realism
  • canada
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"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 All the Colour in the World by C.S. Richardson

9. 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

Similar categories in C.S. Richardson's All the Colour in the World book and Catherine Leroux's The Future

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Denison Avenue by Christina Wong

10. 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

Similar categories in Christina Wong's Denison Avenue book and Catherine Leroux's The Future

  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Reuniting With Strangers: A Novel by Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio

11. Reuniting With Strangers: A Novel

By: Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio

4.39

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Inspired by the work of Souvankham Thammavongsa, Catherine Hernandez and Wayson Choy, this unforget… read more

Similar categories in Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio's Reuniting With Strangers: A Novel book and Catherine Leroux's The Future

  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of The Circle by Katherena Vermette

12. 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

Similar categories in Katherena Vermette's The Circle book and Catherine Leroux's The Future

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Behind You by Catherine  Hernandez

13. Behind You

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.04

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

As terror grips a city, a young girl faces danger closer to home and chilling memories that last a … read more

Similar categories in Catherine Hernandez's Behind You book and Catherine Leroux's The Future

  • literature
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of The Islands: Stories by Dionne Irving

14. 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

Similar categories in Dionne Irving's The Islands: Stories book and Catherine Leroux's The Future

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

15. 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

Similar categories in Kevin Chong's The Double Life of Benson Yu book and Catherine Leroux's The Future

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Junie by Chelene Knight

16. Junie

By: Chelene Knight

3.78

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Longlisted for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction A riveting exploration of the complexity w… read more

Similar categories in Chelene Knight's Junie book and Catherine Leroux's The Future

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age by Darrel J. McLeod

17. Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age

By: Darrel J. McLeod

4.18

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Growing up in the tiny village of Smith, Alberta, Darrel J. McLeod was surrounded by his Cree famil… read more

Similar categories in Darrel J. McLeod's Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age book and Catherine Leroux's The Future

  • canada
Cover of Bad Medicine by Christopher Twin

18. Bad Medicine

By: Christopher Twin

3.62

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

A group of Cree teens gather around a fire to share stories of spirits and shapeshifters in this ch… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Twin's Bad Medicine book and Catherine Leroux's The Future

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • canada
Cover of What Comes Echoing Back by Leo McKay Jr.

19. What Comes Echoing Back

By: Leo McKay Jr.

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The worst moment of Sam’s life was captured on video and shared across the Internet for all to gawk… read more

Similar categories in Leo McKay Jr.'s What Comes Echoing Back book and Catherine Leroux's The Future

  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of Prairie Edge by Conor Kerr

20. 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

Similar categories in Conor Kerr's Prairie Edge book and Catherine Leroux's The Future

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of We Have Never Lived On Earth (Robert Kroetsch Series) by Kasia Van Schaik

21. We Have Never Lived On Earth (Robert Kroetsch Series)

By: Kasia Van Schaik

3.78

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Kasia Van Schaik's debut story collection follows the journey of Charlotte Ferrier, a child of divo… read more

Similar categories in Kasia Van Schaik's We Have Never Lived On Earth (Robert Kroetsch Series) book and Catherine Leroux's The Future

  • fiction
  • canada

14 Best audiobook books like The Future by Catherine Leroux

Transform Your Habits

The Adversary

Michael Crummey

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Study for Obedience

Sarah Bernstein

3.05

Transform Your Habits

Shut Up You're Pretty

Téa Mutonji

3.57

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21 must-read fiction books like The Adversary by Michael Crummey

Transform Your Habits

The Adversary

Michael Crummey

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Librarianist

Patrick deWitt

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Rage the Night

Donna Morrissey

3.97

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