No Stars in the Sky by Martha Bátiz
The nineteen stories in No Stars in the Sky feature strong but damaged female characters in crisis.
Ian Colford
What Comes Echoing Back by Leo McKay
A poignant novel imbued with music from the Giller Prize — shortlisted author of Like This and Twenty-Six that follows two social outcasts as they navigate through their traumatic pasts.
The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman’s Life
Winner of the Brage Prize, the most prestigious award in Norwegian Literature, The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman’s Life is a quiet, beautiful exploration of solitude and how we relate to other beings.
A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt
A Minor Chorus tells the story of a young unnamed narrator who becomes disillusioned with the academic life, abandons his PhD dissertation and embarks on a journey of self-discovery.
Everything Affects Everyone by Shawna Lemay
Everything Affects Everyone, is a novel about listening, about how women speak to one another, and about the power of the question.
What We Both Know by Fawn Parker
A mesmerizing, disturbing, and thoroughly compelling novel about one woman’s role in preserving—or destroying—her famous father’s legacy.
Coq by Ali Bryan
Ten years after her raucously entertaining debut novel, Roost, Ali Bryan checks in with Claudia and her family to bring readers up to date on their latest adventures.
Morse Code for Romantics by Anne Baldo
Wretched, reckless and haunted by the past, the men and women in Anne Baldo’s Morse Code for Romantics try to restart their sputtering hearts, seeking to turn their pain into pearls through connection, understanding and hope.
The Get: A Crime Novel by Dietrich Kalteis
In Dietrich Kalteis’s crime thriller The Get, it’s the mid-1960s and Lenny Ovitz has his hands more than full.
Stray Dogs by Rawi Hage
The irresistible characters in Stray Dogs lead radically different lives, but all are restless travelers, moving between states—nation-states and states of mind—seeking connection, escaping the past and following delicate threads of truth, only to experience the sometimes shocking, sometimes amusing and often random ways our fragile modern identities are constructed, destroyed, and reborn.
The Most Precious Substance on Earth by Shashi Bhat
A humorous coming-of-age novel-in-stories and a sharp-edged look at how silence can shape a life, from the winner of the Journey Prize. A Chatelaine Summer Reads pick.
We Meant Well by Erum Shazia Hasan
A propulsive debut that grapples with timely questions about what it means to be charitable, who deserves what, and who gets the power to decide.
Under a Kabul Sky: Short Fiction by Afghan Women
These twelve short stories dive deep into imaginary worlds where everyday life is marked and marred by war.
Radioland by Matt Cahill
In Matt Cahill’s novel, Radioland, something evil is stalking the streets of Toronto and people are dying in grisly fashion.
Animal Person by Alexander MacLeod
From Giller Prize finalist Alexander MacLeod comes a magnificent collection about the needs, temptations, and tensions that exist just beneath the surface of our lives.