Here is the category that many have been waiting for! It’s the most popular category at The Miramichi Reader and as usual, there were many, many good titles and to try and narrow the fourteen titles on the longlist down to just seven was an unenviable task. Here, then are the seven “Best Fiction” titles of 2020:
- Side by Side by Anita Kushwaha (Inanna Publications)
- The Afrikaner by Arianna Dagnino (Guernica Editions, guest post at Consumed by Ink)
- Some People’s Children by Bridget Canning (Breakwater Books)
- The Tender Birds by Carole Giangrande (Inanna Publications)
- A Song From Faraway by Deni Ellis Béchard (Goose Lane Editions)
- Lay Figures by Mark Blagrave (Nimbus Publishing)
- All I Ask by Eva Crocker (House of Anansi Press)
Of the above seven titles, three will be awarded either gold, silver, or bronze award early in September 2020. The entire longlist can be seen here: https://miramichireader.ca/very-best-book-awards/
I am honoured to have made to the shortlist. Thank you Miramichi Reader!