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...
The Giller Prize 2024
Formally called the Scotiabank Giller Prize, The Giller Prize 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 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 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 Regina is a socially awkward loner who is content to live a life withdrawn from everyone except her...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...
- Author:Chacour, ÉricSummary:
A heartbreaking tale of a family and an impossible love, torn apart by secrets and traditions in late-twentieth-century Cairo. As a boy in 1960s Cairo, Tarek knows that his entire life is written in advance. He'll be a doctor like his...
