A Cemetery for Bees by Alina Dumitrescu, Translated by Katia Grubisic
This autobiographical novel traces a woman’s journey from her youth in Socialist Eastern Europe to her transplanted life in Montreal, Canada.
Alison Manley
Connection at Newcombe by Kayt Burgess
Post-World War I, the small town of Newcombe, Ontario, is in danger of dying. Remote and with fewer than 200 inhabitants, its future is spelled out: slow, drawn-out, painful death as a community. A chance meeting between Francis Barrett, an employee of the Canadian National Railway (CNR), and Cal Bannatyne, a major on his way home from the front, leads to an opportunity: getting a railway station to Newcombe, linking it to the rest of Canada, and perhaps keeping it from dying.
The Undertaking of Billy Buffone by David Giuliano
The Undertaking of Billy Buffone is the story of friendship: the bonds of childhood friends, the betrayal of trusted adults, and the lengths people go to protect and save their loved ones.
Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
Every so often, Canada Reads introduces you to a book that you absolutely needed to read, it opens the world to a new voice and story and gives a book that needed a wider platform that boost. Jonny Appleseed is one of those books.
Hour of the Crab by Patricia Robertson
If I had to pick one book that managed to capture the essence of 2020 without trying to speak about 2020 – a year we’ll be processing for decades to come – Hour of the Crab by Patricia Robertson would be up there.
Still Waters – Kamal Parmar
Still Waters is a Poetic Memoir of the sorrows and stress of a loving daughter watching her mother deteriorate into the throes of the dreaded ‘disease of the decades’, Alzheimer’s Disease.
Ode to the Unpraised: Stories and Lessons from Women I Know – Abena Beloved Green
A collection of prose and poetry exploring the practical knowledge, life lessons and personal experiences of women of color in North America and Ghana.
