The Miramichi Reader’s Best Fiction of 2025
It’s the end of 2025 already, and so the “Best of” lists are surfacing! Here are some of TMR’s Best fiction of the year, chosen by our dedicated team of contributors.
It’s the end of 2025 already, and so the “Best of” lists are surfacing! Here are some of TMR’s Best fiction of the year, chosen by our dedicated team of contributors.
Below, we’ve put together a list of Palestinian books reviewed on TMR. What are you reading this week?
Planet Earth is a wide-ranging collection of stories. Clocking in at 184 pages in total, this is small but mighty: there are pieces of flash fiction here, longer stories, ones that break your heart and ones that chill you to the bone.
There’s a certain wry tone in Soviet comic fiction — sly, humorous, incredibly bleak, resigned, and also still managing to delight in the absolute absurdity of it all. It’s very specific, and if you’ve read any Soviet writers, you’ll know what I mean.
I Have a Love Story is a nice summation of MacMaster’s incredible career.
This is going to be a key text in the history of hockey.
This collection is well worth your time, populated by a set of distinct voices
[…] learn about what Indigenous self-government can be, even after hundreds of years of colonialism in North America and the necessary healing and repair that needs to be done.
What really shines in this novel, and makes it worth your time, is the vibrancy of the relationships between the female characters.
I read If, After Snow earlier this month, before going on vacation and leaving my poor review sadly unwritten – but oh boy did I spend lots of time thinking about this novel, and how deeply it moved me.
I think one of the hardest things to write is from the viewpoint of a child.
The 2024 Alchemy Lecture took place at York University in October 2024, and is printed here, with an introduction by Christina Sharpe, a noted scholar and author (Ordinary Notes, which is remarkable, changed my life and thinking) who organizes the lecture each year.
Gallery of Heartache is also about trying to find healing, however that can look on any particular day, often ugly and unappealing, or messy, but still, trying to make sense.
Solitaria is clear about the story and who it’s for, as well as who it’s criticizing.