Fiction
The Plague
A modern retelling of the Camus classic that posits its story of infectious disease and quarantine in our contemporary age of social justice and rising inequity.
At first it's the dead rats; they start ...
Body Music
From the author of Blue Is the Warmest Color: a beautiful, bittersweet graphic novel on the complexities of love.
Julie Maroh's first book, Blue Is the Warmest Color, was a graphic novel phenomenon; it ...
Oracle Bone
A magic-realist novel set in seventh-century China featuring ghosts, martial arts, and the transformative oracle bone.
Life in seventh-century China teems with magic, fox spirits, and demons; there is ...
Tarry This Night
A powerful dystopian novel set during a new American civil war, about a polygamist cult leader and his followers.
In this eerily relevant, cautionary novel, a civil war is brewing in America. Below ground, ...
In Case I Go
The latest by Angie Abdou: young Eli invokes the spirit, and the mistakes, of his great-great-grandfather.
In Canada Reads finalist Angie Abdou's fifth work of fiction, Eli and his parents have returned ...
Don't Tell Me What to Do
An offbeat story collection about strange, imperfect people doing strange, imperfect things.
In poet Dina Del Bucchia's debut story collection, an older woman becomes obsessed with the state of her lawn, ...
Scarborough
Trillium Book Award and City of Toronto Book Award finalist; Edmund White Debut Fiction Award finalist; A Globe 100, National Post and Quill and Quire Best Book of the Year; Longlisted for Canada Reads ...
Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person
Finalist, Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes)
A YouTube star becomes famous after he documents his breakup online. An anxious, lactose-intolerant office worker obsesses over a stranger who says ...
Rough Patch
A YA novel about Keira, a figure skater just entering high school who's intrigued about kissing both boys and girls.
In this compelling novel for young adults, Keira is a quirky but shy teen entering ...
Niagara Motel
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize finalist
Set in the early 1990s, Ashley Little's follow-up to her award-winning novel Anatomy of a Girl Gang introduces readers to unforgettable eleven-year-old Tucker Malone--the ...