There Has to Be a Knife

By Adnan Khan
Categories: Fiction

For readers of Brother by David Chariandy and Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez, Adnan Khan's blistering debut novel investigates themes of race, class, masculinity, and contemporary relationships.

Omar ...

Shut Up You're Pretty

By Tea Mutonji
Categories: Women's Literature, BIPOC, Black Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Fiction
Series: VS. Books

CANADA READS RUNNER-UP, 2024

Winner, Trillium Book Award and Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction; Finalist, Rogers Writers' Trust of Canada Fiction Prize; a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year

In Tea ...

The Walking Boy

By Lydia Kwa
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Fiction, Gay 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: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Fiction, Children's & Young Adult, Young Adult, Youth Culture

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: LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Fiction

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: Fiction, Women's Literature, 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 ...

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 ...

Jonny Appleseed

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

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, Fiction, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature

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 ...

Sodom Road Exit

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

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 ...