In The Spirit of Scatarie, Lesley-Crewe crafts a hauntingly beautiful island saga set on the remote shores of Scatarie Island off Cape Breton. The novel picks up the lives of three children born on Ch...

If there were ever a substance that could double as a national metaphor, it’s maple syrup. In Maple Syrup: A Short History of Canada’s Sweetest Obsession, journalist and forester Peter Kuitenbrouwer t...

It’s rare for a jurist’s memoir to read like literature, rarer still for it to pulse with emotion. Truth Be Told — Beverley McLachlin’s candid, elegant account of her journey from a small Alberta town...

Few voices in Canada command the same moral clarity as Murray Sinclair’s. In Who We Are: Four Questions for a Life and a Nation, the former senator and chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission...

In The Black Wolf, Louise Penny takes her beloved Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series into darker, broader territory — and the result is a gripping, morally charged thriller that still manages to fe...

When Margaret Atwood announced she was returning to Gilead more than three decades after The Handmaid’s Tale, anticipation teetered between excitement and dread. How do you follow a novel that became ...

t’s been nearly four decades since The Handmaid’s Tale first appeared in 1985, yet reading it today feels less like revisiting a classic than like confronting a prophecy. Margaret Atwood’s dystopian m...

In an era when vulnerability has become its own kind of performance, Joey Kidney’s Just Remember feels disarmingly sincere. The Ottawa-born writer and creator, best known for his quietly confessional ...

In The First Thousand Trees, Premee Mohamed brings the trilogy that began with The Annual Migration of Clouds to its denouement — and the tone she strikes is less spectacle than sober reckoning. This ...

In The Solitary Friend, Bowen brings back her long-standing sleuth, Joanne Kilbourn, for what is billed as the penultimate volume of the series. Joanne is pulled into personal territory when a friend’...

In Fifty-Four Pigs, Philipp Schott introduces readers to Dr. Peter Bannerman — veterinarian by profession, amateur sleuth by inclination — and sets him loose in the snowy hinterlands of Manitoba, in a...

Carley Fortune has quickly become Canada’s reigning queen of the summer love story — and Meet Me at the Lake cements her crown. Set against the sun-dappled backdrop of Muskoka’s lakes and the nostalgi...

In Moon of the Turning Leaves, Waubgeshig Rice returns to the post-collapse landscape first explored in Moon of the Crusted Snow—but this time, the story blooms outward. Years have passed since the gr...

Leigh Bardugo’s Hell Bent slams the gates of academia open and dares its readers to follow her straight into the underworld. The sequel to Ninth House is equal parts gothic thriller, dark academia fev...

Louise Penny has never been afraid to evolve her beloved Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series, but The Grey Wolf feels like a bold stride into uncharted territory. This isn’t a quiet Three Pines whod...