Longlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize. Short stories about disparate characters consider what it means to find happiness. On New Year's Eve, a pair of addicts robs a string of high-end parties in order to fund their own recovery. A...
Scotiabank Giller Prize 2024
This award recognizes excellence in Canadian fiction – long format or short stories — and is Canada's largest purse for a literary award.
Thanks to a partnership with the Scotiabank Giller Prize, shortlisted titles are available in accessible formats from NNELS on the date they're announced nationally. Learn more about the program from the Scotiabank Giller Prize website.
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Author:Adderson, CarolineSummary: - Author:Chong, CorinnaSummary:
Longlister for the Giller Prize. The slow-burning, deeply felt story of a social outcast reckoning with the wounds of her past. Regina is a socially awkward loner who is content to live a life withdrawn from everyone except her...
- Author:Fleming, AnneSummary:
A thrilling literary-historical novel with a modern twist, in the vein of Fingersmith by Sarah Waters and Fayne by Ann-Marie MacDonald. Curiosity begins when a present-day historian discovers a cache of five seventeenth-century...
- Author:Bhat, ShashiSummary:
In this dazzling collection of stories, characters confront the painful absurdities and everyday horrors that come with being a woman. A writer discovers that her ex-boyfriend has published a novel about their breakup. An...
- Author:Michaels, AnneSummary:
A breathtaking and ineffable new novel from the author of the international best sellers Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault-a novel of love and loyalty across generations, at once sweeping and intimate. 1917. On a battlefield near the...
- Author:Urquhart, JaneSummary:
In the early morning dark, Emer McConnell rises for a day of teaching music in the schools of rural Saskatchewan. While she travels the snowy roads in the gathering light, she begins another journey, one of recollection and...
- Author:Rajagopalan, DeepaSummary:
In these brilliant and witty stories, Deepa Rajagopalan centres a cast of Indian women who are flawed, enterprising, and filled with desire. In the award-winning title story, an underappreciated server in a coffee shop attracts tens of...
- Author:Kerr, ConorSummary:
The Giller Prize-longlisted author of Avenue of Champions returns with a frenetic, propulsive crime thriller that doubles as a sharp critique of modern activism and challenges readers to consider what "Land Back" might really look like...
- Author:Vermette, KatherenaSummary:
*Longlister for the 2024 Giller Prize* From the author of the nationally bestselling Strangers saga comes a heartrending story of two Michif sisters who must face their past trauma when their mother is called out for false claims to...
- Author:Paylor, LoghanSummary:
Evocative, magical and luminously written, The Cure for Drowning is not only a brilliant, boundary-pushing love story but a Canadian historical novel that boldly centres queer and non-binary characters in unprecedented ways. Born...
- Author:Messud, ClaireSummary:
An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest contemporary novelists. Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state—separated in the chaos...
