The Walking Boy

By Lydia Kwa
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Gay Literature, Fiction, BIPOC, Asian Literature

The Walking Boy is a quest novel set in early eighth-century Tang Dynasty China, in the final days of the rule of the first Female Emperor Wu Zhao. The ailing hermit monk Harelip sends his disciple Baoshi ...

Synchro Boy

By Shannon McFerran
Categories: Youth Culture, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Children's & Young Adult, Young Adult, Fiction

Sixteen-year-old Bart Lively desperately wants to feel comfortable in his own skin. Being a jock doesn't mean he isn't the target of gay jokes, and the macho culture of his swim team is wearing him down. ...

Sketchtasy

By Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Categories: Fiction, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature

Lambda Literary Award finalist

Sketchtasy takes place in that late-night moment when everything comes together, and everything falls apart: it's an urgent, glittering, devastating novel about the perils ...

The Tiger Flu

By Larissa Lai
Categories: Women's Literature, Fiction, BIPOC, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award

In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai -- her first in sixteen years -- a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by patriarchal and corporate Salt Water City, go ...

Jonny Appleseed

By Joshua Whitehead
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Youth Culture, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, Fiction

2021 CANADA READS WINNER

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction

Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction; Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Indigenous Voices Award; ...

Little Fish

By Casey Plett
Categories: Women's Literature, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Fiction

WINNER, Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction

Finalist, Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award

A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year

It's the dead of winter in ...

Property Values

By Charles Demers
Categories: Fiction, Humour

The worlds of urban gentrification, overpriced real estate, and gang violence collide in this wry and sardonic crime novel by author and comedian Charles Demers (Vancouver Special, The Horrors).

As a ...

Sodom Road Exit

By Amber Dawn
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Women's Literature, Fiction

Lambda Literary Award and Sunburst Award finalist; a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year

It's the summer of 1990, and Crystal Beach in Ontario has lost its beloved, long-running amusement park, leaving ...

The Plague

By Kevin Chong
Categories: Fiction

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

By Jul Maroh
Translated by David Homel
Categories: Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, Erotica, Fiction, Women's Literature, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Lesbian Literature

From the author of Blue Is the Warmest Color: a beautiful, bittersweet graphic novel on the complexities of love.

Jul Maroh's first book, Blue Is the Warmest Color, was a graphic novel phenomenon; it ...