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  • The 2024 Canada Reads Longlist Is Here

The 2024 Canada Reads Longlist Is Here

This year, the great Canadian book debate is looking for one book to carry us forward. Check back for the shortlist on Jan 11!
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  • Meet Me at the Lake

    by Carley Fortune ...
    **INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERINSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2024In this breathtaking new novel from the #1 bestselling author of Every Summer After, a random connection sends two strangers on a daylong adventure where they make a promise one keeps and the other breaks, with life-changing effects.**Fern Brookbanks has wasted far too much of her adult life ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Innocents

    by Michael Crummey ...
    ***FINALIST FOR THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE*FINALIST FOR THE 2019 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD*FINALIST FOR THE 2019 ROGERS WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE*WINNER OF THE 2020 THOMAS RADDALL ATLANTIC FICTION AWARD*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2019 BY The Globe and Mail • CBC • Toronto Star • Maclean'sCrummey's novel has the capacity to change the way the reader sees the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Bad Cree

    A Novel

    by Jessica Johns ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERA haunting debut novel where dreams, family and spirits collideMackenzie, a Cree millennial, wakes up in her one-bedroom Vancouver apartment clutching a pine bough she had been holding in her dream just moments earlier. When she blinks, it disappears. But she can still smell the sharp pine scent in the air, the nearest pine tree a thousand kilometres away in the far reaches of ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Sunshine Nails

    by Mai Nguyen ...
    A tender and funny debut about a Vietnamese Canadian family who will do whatever it takes to keep their no-frills nail salon afloat after a multimillion-dollar chain opens across the street.Vietnamese refugees Debbie and Phil Tran have made a good life for themselves in Toronto, but their landlord has just jacked up the rent of their family-run nail salon, Sunshine Nails, and it’s way more than ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Future

    by Catherine Leroux ...
    Translated by Susan Ouriou ...
    Series Book 44 - Biblioasis International Translation Series
    Longlisted for Canada Reads 2023 • One of Tor.com's Can't Miss Speculative Fiction for Fall 2023 • Listed in CBC Books Fiction to Read in Fall 2023 • One of Kirkus Reviews' Fall 2023 Big Books By Small Presses • One of CBC Books Best Books of 2023In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own kingdom in the trees.In an alternate history of... ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • What Comes Echoing Back

    by Leo McKay Jr. ...
    The worst moment of Sam’s life was captured on video and shared across the internet for all to gawk at. This is something she has in common with Robot, who just wants to move past the mistakes he’s made, if only his small town will let him. When the two meet in a high school music class, they start to find their way to each other. Music might offer a way not only forward, but forward together, if ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Winter Knight

    by Jes Battis ...
    Arthurian legends are reborn in this upbeat queer urban fantasy with a mystery at its heartThe knights of the round table are alive in Vancouver, but when one winds up dead, it’s clear the familiar stories have taken a left turn. Hildie, a Valkyrie and the investigator assigned to the case, wants to find the killer — and maybe figure her life out while she’s at it. On her short list of suspects is ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reuniting With Strangers

    A Novel

    by Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio ...
    Inspired by the work of Souvankham Thammavongsa, Catherine Hernandez and Wayson Choy, this unforgettable novel follows the reunification of Filipino caregiver families over one Canadian winter—and the mysterious progress of Monolith, who appears and disappears in their lives.When five-year-old Monolith is taken from the Philippines to live with his mother in Canada, he immediately lashes out. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shut Up You're Pretty

    by Téa Mutonji ...
    --Shut Up You’re Pretty by Téa Mutonji is the first book to be published by VS. Books, Arsenal’s series dedicated to new and emerging writers of color (under the age of 30). The series is curated and edited by writer-musician Vivek Shraya, author of 4 previous Arsenal titles (including The Boy & the Bindi and even this page is white) as well as the comic Death Threat, also publishing this season.- ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Junie

    by Chelene Knight ...
    A riveting exploration of the complexity within mother-daughter relationships and the dynamic vitality of Vancouver's former Hogan's Alley neighbourhood.1930s, Hogan's Alley—a thriving Black and immigrant community located in Vancouver's East End. Junie is a creative, observant child who moves to the alley with her mother, Maddie: a jazz singer with a growing alcohol dependency. Junie quickly ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Happy Hour

    by Marlowe Granados ...
    “Marlowe Granados's Happy Hour is as refreshing as a gin fizz. It is a wild careening joyride through a hot sultry summer in New York in 2013, and it evokes that time with such sparkling specificity that you can feel the heat coming off the pavement. If you are looking for romance, ambition, glamour, and a story about what it means to be young and striving in the city, this is your song of the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mamaskatch

    A Cree Coming of Age

    by Darrel J. McLeod ...
    Growing up in the tiny village of Smith, Alberta, Darrel J. McLeod was surrounded by his Cree family’s history. In shifting and unpredictable stories, his mother, Bertha, shared narratives of their culture, their family and the cruelty that she and her sisters endured in residential school. McLeod was comforted by her presence and that of his many siblings and cousins, the smells of moose stew and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Denison Avenue

    by Christina Wong ...
    A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vulnerable Chinese Canadian eldersBringing together ink artwork and fiction, Denison Avenue by Daniel Innes (illustrations) and Christina Wong (text) follows the elderly Wong Cho Sum, who, living in Toronto’s gentrifying Chinatown–Kensington Market, begins to collect bottles and cans after the sudden ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus