Winner of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award
Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize
Growing up in the suburban hell of Misery Saga (a.k.a. Mississauga), Lizzie has never liked the way she looks—even though her best...
Literary fiction
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Author:Awad, MonaSummary: - Author:Peters, StevenSummary:
In 59 Glass Bridges, an unnamed narrator travels through a maze that is at once mutable and immutable: walls fall to vine-filled forests, hallways to rivers, bridges to lamp-lit boats. What remains is the desire to escape. He is led...
- Author:Mistry, RohintonSummary:
A Fine Balance is in mid-1970s India. It tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a "State of Internal Emergency." Through days of...
- Author:Rooke, LeonSummary:
During the night of a storm, an Appalachian girl delivers a baby and disappears. The next morning, Raymond Toker finds the baby under a bush and takes to the mountain roads to find her a home. While Turner carries out his quest, the...
- Author:Porter, MichelleSummary:
National Bestseller Finalist for the 2023 Writers' Trust Atwood Gibson Fiction Prize Five generations of Meacute;tis women argue, dance, struggle, laugh, love, and tell the stories that will sing their family, and perhaps the land...
- Author:Laurence, MargaretSummary:
In this celebrated novel, Margaret Laurence writes with grace, power, and deep compassion about Rachel Cameron, a woman struggling to come to terms with love, with death, with herself and her world.
Trapped in a milieu of deceit...
- Author:Yanagihara, HanyaSummary:
A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and...
- Author:Allende, IsabelSummary:
In the late 1930s, civil war grips Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them...
- Author:Carley, RodSummary:
Will Crosswell’s decision to pursue acting shattered his father’s dream of him being a useful adult. When we first meet the young Will he is a wolf in wolf’s clothing. But in the ensuing years, from relationships to the theatre, his...
- Author:Belcourt, Billy-RaySummary:
An urgent first novel about breaching the prisons we live inside from one of Canada's most daring literary talents. An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta in search of what eludes him: the...
- Author:Joella, EthanSummary:
From the author of A Little Hope--a Read with Jenna Bonus Pick--comes an enormously powerful and life-affirming novel about three individuals whose lives intersect in unforeseen ways. Set in a close-knit Pennsylvania suburb in the grip...
- Author:Pamuk, OrhanSummary:
Selling Turkish spirits on the street and dreaming of becoming rich in a rapidly developing Istanbul, street youth Melvut Karatas elopes with the wrong woman and builds a family over decades marked by a series of dead-end jobs and an...
- Author:Ozeki, RuthSummary:
In Tokyo, 16-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived...
- Author:Edizel, LorenSummary:
John arrives in a Montreal airport with a suitcase in hand. We do not know where he is from, or who he is. The novel sets out to explore his identity by following his daily movements and intimate thoughts, as well as his connections to...
- Author:Banks, RussellSummary:
A well-digger and policeman in a bleak New Hampshire town, Wade Whitehouse is a former high-school star gone to beer fat, a loner with a mean streak. Told by his articulate, equally scarred younger brother, Wade's story becomes as...
- Author:Schwartz, Selby WynnSummary:
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE An exhilarating debut from a radiant new voice, After Sappho reimagines the intertwined lives of feminists at the turn of the twentieth century. "The first thing we did was change our names. We...
- Author:Alvarez, JuliaSummary:
The author of In the Time of the Butterflies, with more than one million copies in print, is back with a tour de force. Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has...
- Author:Macleod, AlisonSummary:
Finalist for the 2017 Governor General's Literary Awards for Fiction. Longlisted for the 2018 Edge Hill Prize for Short Story. Hovering on the border of life and dealth, these stories form a ground-shifting collection, taking us into...
- Author:Richardson, C.S.Summary:
A beautifully transporting novel capturing the romantic sweep of the twentieth century—from Toronto in the '20s and '30s through the killing fields of World War II, to 1960s Rome and Florence. Born in 1916, Henry, thin-as-sticks and...
- Author:Crewe, LesleySummary:
Can you really move forward without putting the past to rest? Grace Willingdon has everything she needs. For fifteen years she's lived in a trailer overlooking Bras d'Or Lakes in postcard-perfect Baddeck, Cape Breton, with Fletcher...
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