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American dirt
Cummins, Jeanine, author
Girl, woman, other
Evaristo, Bernardine, 1959- author
Hamnet & Judith
O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972- author
Home sweet maison : the French art of making a home
Postel-Vinay, Danielle, author
How to pronounce knife : stories
Thammavongsa, Souvankham, 1978- author
I am, I am, I am : seventeen brushes with death : a memoir
Long bright river
Moore, Liz, 1983- author
Make it stick : the science of successful learning
Brown, Peter C., author
A memory called empire
Martine, Arkady, author
Milkman
Burns, Anna, 1962- author
The nickel boys : a novel
Whitehead, Colson, 1969- author
Salt slow : stories
Armfield, Julia, author.
The secret lives of church ladies
Philyaw, Deesha, author
Shuggie Bain : a novel
Stuart, Douglas, 1976- author
Station eleven
Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979- author
The stranger diaries
Griffiths, Elly, author
Two trees make a forest : in search of my family's past among Taiwan's mountains and coasts
Lee, Jessica J., 1986- author
The Volunteer : one man, an underground army, and the secret mission to destroy Auschwitz
Fairweather, Jack, author
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Anna Karenina
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910, author
The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse
Mackesy, Charlie, author
The complete polysyllabic spree
Hornby, Nick
Don't let's go to the dogs tonight : an African childhood
Fuller, Alexandra, 1969-
The end of your life book club
Schwalbe, Will
The Essex Serpent
Perry, Sarah, 1979-, author
Forgiveness : a gift from my grandparents
Sakamoto, Mark, 1977- author
If on a winter's night a traveller
Calvino, Italo
Island : the collected stories
MacLeod, Alistair
The last samurai
DeWitt, Helen, 1957-
Miss Garnet's angel
Vickers, Salley
Mr Bridge
Connell, Evan S., 1924-2013
Mrs. Bridge
Ragged company
Wagamese, Richard, author
Scar tissue
Kiedis, Anthony, author
Soul moments : marvelous stories of synchronicity--meaningful coincidences from a seemingly random world
The tender bar : a memoir
Moehringer, J. R., 1964-
The three hostages
Buchan, John, 1875-1940
To the end of the land
Grossman, David
Too close to the falls
Gildiner, Catherine, 1948-
A town like Alice
Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960
Underland : a deep time journey
Macfarlane, Robert, 1976- author.
The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry : a novel
Joyce, Rachel
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The Alexandria quartet
Durrell, Lawrence, author
Angle of repose
Stegner, Wallace, 1909-1993
Anne of Green Gables
Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942
At peace : choosing a good death after a long life
Harrington, Samuel (Physician), author
Blindness
Saramago, José
Children of Eden : a novel
Graceffa, Joey, 1991- author
Do not say we have nothing : a novel
Thien, Madeleine, 1974- author
Galore : a novel
Crummey, Michael
Girl with a pearl earring
Chevalier, Tracy
The giver
Lowry, Lois
The good earth
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973.
Good morning, monster : five heroic journeys to recovery
Gildiner, Catherine, 1948- author
Johnny got his gun
Trumbo, Dalton, 1905-1976.
The library book
Orlean, Susan, author
Life of Pi : a novel
Martel, Yann.
A man called Ove : a novel
Backman, Fredrik, 1981-, author
Midnight's children : a novel
Rushdie, Salman.
No great mischief
North of normal : a memoir of my wilderness childhood, my counterculture family, and how I survived both
Person, Cea Sunrise, author
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Dillard, Annie.
Raven's end : a tale from the Canadian Rockies
Gadd, Ben, 1946-
Say nothing : a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland
Keefe, Patrick Radden, 1976- author
Sweetland : a novel
Crummey, Michael, 1965- author
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West : a novel
Maguire, Gregory
The woman in black
Hill, Susan, 1942-
See All February Picks - Favourite Books Continued
Becoming
Obama, Michelle, 1964-, author
Brighten the corner where you are : a novel inspired by the life of Maud Lewis
Bruneau, Carol, 1956- author
Deafening : a novel
Itani, Frances, 1942-
Dusk, night, dawn : on revival and courage
Lamott, Anne, author
The female eunuch
Greer, Germaine, 1939- author
Following the river : traces of Red River women
Glenn, Lorri Neilsen, author
The four winds
Hannah, Kristin, author
The girl explorers : the untold story of the globetrotting women who trekked, flew, and fought their way around the world
Zanglein, Jayne E., 1954- author.
The last letter from Juliet
Hudson, Melanie (Fiction writer), author
Like water for chocolate : a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies
Esquivel, Laura, 1950-
The mercies
Hargrave, Kiran Millwood, 1990- author
The moment of lift : how empowering women changes the world
Gates, Melinda, 1964- author
The natural way of things
Wood, Charlotte, 1965- author.
Outlander
Gabaldon, Diana, author
Pippi Longstocking
Lindgren, Astrid, 1907-2002.
The pull of the stars
Donoghue, Emma, 1969- author
The reinvention of love : a novel
Humphreys, Helen, 1961-
Scrappy little nobody
Kendrick, Anna, author
Seven and a half lessons about the brain
Barrett, Lisa Feldman, author
The shadow king
Mengiste, Maaza, author
Somewhere towards the end
Athill, Diana.
Traplines
Robinson, Eden
What comes next and how to like it : a Memoir
Thomas, Abigail, author.
See All March Picks - Women Authors
Arctic dreams : imagination and desire in a northern landscape
Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-
Canoeing the Churchill : a practical guide to the historic voyageur highway
Marchildon, Gregory P., 1956-
The Canterbury trail
Abdou, Angie, 1969-
Circe : a novel
Miller, Madeline, author
The fatal shore
Hughes, Robert, 1938-2012
Full tilt : Ireland to India with a bicycle
Murphy, Dervla, 1931-
High adventure
Hillary, Edmund, 1919-2008
Jacqueline the singing crow
Kujawa, Mandi, author
The joy of writing : a guide for writers, disguised as a literary memoir
Berton, Pierre, 1920-2004.
Kabloona in the yellow kayak : one women's journey through the Northwest Passage
Jason, Victoria, 1945-
Lands of lost borders : out of bounds on the Silk Road
Harris, Kate, 1982- author
The old ways : a journey on foot
Macfarlane, Robert, 1976-
The open road : the global journey of the fourteenth Dalai Lama
Iyer, Pico
Peace by Chocolate : the Hadhad family's remarkable journey from Syria to Canada.
Tattrie, Jon, author
The secret marathon : empowering women and girls in Afghanistan through sport
Parnell, Martin, 1955- author
Seven years in Tibet
Harrer, Heinrich, 1912-2006
The song of Achilles
Miller, Madeline
Take me outside : running across the Canadian landscape that shapes us
Harris, Colin, author
See All April Picks - Travel Books
Alias Grace
Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
All hat : a novel
Smith, B. J. (Brad J.)
The beautiful mystery
Penny, Louise
The cold dish
Johnson, Craig, 1961- author
The couple next door
Lapeña, Shari, 1960- author
The Da Vinci code : a novel
Brown, Dan, 1964-
Death on the Nile
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976, author
Find you first : a novel
Barclay, Linwood, author.
Forty words for sorrow
Blunt, Giles, author
Gallows view : the first inspector Banks novel
Robinson, Peter, 1950- author
The girl next door
Morgan, Phoebe (Editor)
I know who you are
Feeney, Alice, author
Knots & crosses
Rankin, Ian
Life or death
Robotham, Michael, 1960-, author.
The likeness
French, Tana, author
Maisie Dobbs
Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955- author
Moment of truth
Scottoline, Lisa
No place for wolverines : a Jenny Willson mystery
Butler, Dave, 1958- author
Obsidian
King, Thomas, 1943- author
State of Terror A Novel
Clinton, Hillary Rodham
Still life
Penny, Louise, author
Stranger in the lake
Belle, Kimberly author
The sweetness at the bottom of the pie
Bradley, C. Alan, 1938-
Tooth and nail
Unnatural habits
Greenwood, Kerry
See All May Picks - Mysteries & Thrillers
Beautiful scars : steeltown secrets, Mohawk skywalkers and the road home
Wilson, Tom, 1959- author
Bobbi Lee, Indian rebel.
Maracle, Lee, 1950-
The break
Vermette, Katherena, 1977- author
Celia's song
Maracle, Lee, author.
Embers : one Ojibway's meditations
Five little Indians
Good, Michelle, author
Follow the rabbit-proof fence
Pilkington, Doris, 1937-2014, author
From the ashes : my story of being Métis, homeless, and finding my way
Thistle, Jesse, author
I lost my talk
Joe, Rita, 1932-2007, author.
The inconvenient Indian : a curious account of native people in North America
King, Thomas, 1943-
Keeper'n me
The marrow thieves
Dimaline, Cherie, 1975- author
Monkey beach
Robinson, Eden, author
Moon of the crusted snow
Rice, Waubgeshig, 1979- author
The Northwest is our mother : the story of Louis Riel's people, the Métis nation
Teillet, Jean, author
Return of the Trickster
Seven fallen feathers : racism, death, and hard truths in a northern city
Talaga, Tanya, author
Son of a trickster
Sufferance : a novel
There there
Orange, Tommy, 1982- author
Tilly and the Crazy Eights
Gray Smith, Monique, 1968- author
Trickster drift
See All June Picks - Indigenous Authors
Dark roads
Stevens, Chevy, author
The elephant of Belfast : a novel
Walsh, S. Kirk, author
Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
The flatshare
O'Leary, Beth, author
Indians on vacation
Laura Ingalls is ruining my life
Tougas, Shelley, author
Letters across the sea : a novel
Graham, Genevieve, author
Little pieces of me : a novel
Hammer, Alison, author
Malibu rising : a novel
Reid, Taylor Jenkins, author
The retreat
De Mariaffi, Elisabeth, 1973- author.
Second place : a novel
Cusk, Rachel, 1967- author
Should we stay or should we go : a novel
Shriver, Lionel, author
Walking in Two Worlds
Kinew, Wab
The Windsor knot : a novel
Bennett, S. J. (Sophia J.), author
The year of reading dangerously : how fifty great books (and two no-so-great ones) saved my life
Miller, Andy, author
See All July Picks - Summer Reads
The agony and the ecstasy : a biographical novel of Michelangelo
Stone, Irving, 1903-1989.
Beautiful country : a memoir
Wang, Qian Julie, 1987- author
Desert queen : the extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell, adventurer, adviser to kings, ally of Lawrence of Arabia
Wallach, Janet, 1942- author
A good wife : escaping the life I never chose
Zafar, Samra, author
A house in the sky : a memoir
Lindhout, Amanda, author
How y'all doing? : misadventures and mischief from a life well lived
Jordan, Leslie, 1955- author
The lonely city : adventures in the art of being alone
Laing, Olivia, author
Mao's last dancer
Li, Cunxin, 1961-
Memoirs of a wildcat : unadoptable, unstoppable, unconditional love
Tidlund, Mary A.
The other side of the coin : the queen, the dresser and the wardrobe
Kelly, Angela (Image consultant), author.
A passion for nature : the life of John Muir
Worster, Donald, 1941-
A Venetian affair
Di Robilant, Andrea, 1957-
See All August Picks - Biography, Autobiography, Memoir
The anthropology of turquoise : meditations on landscape, art, and spirit
Meloy, Ellen.
Biomimicry : innovation inspired by nature
Benyus, Janine M.
The bird way : a new look at how birds talk, work, play, parent, and think
Ackerman, Jennifer, 1959- author.
Birds art life
Maclear, Kyo, 1970-, author
The clan of the cave bear : a novel
Auel, Jean M., author
The cloud collector's handbook
Pretor-Pinney, Gavin.
Diary of a young naturalist
McAnulty, Dara, author.
Down from the mountain : the life and death of a grizzly bear
Andrews, Bryce, author
Firestorm : how wildfire will shape our future
Struzik, Edward, 1954-, author
Greenwood : a novel
Christie, Michael, 1976-, author
Horizon
Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945- author
The inner life of animals : love, grief, and compassion : surprising observations of a hidden world
Wohlleben, Peter, 1964-, author
The overstory
Powers, Richard, 1957- author
The seabird's cry : the lives and loves and Puffins, Gannets and other ocean voyagers
Nicolson, Adam, 1957- author
The shark and the albatross : a wildlife filmmaker reveals why nature matters to us all
Aitchison, John (Cinematographer) author
The stranger in the woods : the extraordinary story of the last true hermit
Finkel, Michael, author
The wake : the deadly legacy of a Newfoundland tsunami
MacIntyre, Linden, author
Wenjack
Boyden, Joseph, 1966-, author
The white bone
Gowdy, Barbara.
World of wonders : in praise of fireflies, whale sharks, and other astonishments
Nezhukumatathil, Aimee, author
A year in nature : a memoir of solace
Leslie, Clare Walker.
See All September Picks - Nature & Environmentalism
All the light we cannot see : a novel
Doerr, Anthony, 1973- author
Artists in Nazi-occupied France : a German officer's memoir
Lange, Werner, 1911-1980?
The boy in the striped pajamas : a fable
Boyne, John, 1971- author
Captain Corelli's mandolin
De Bernières, Louis
The children's blizzard
Benjamin, Melanie, 1962- author
Cilka's journey
Morris, Heather (Screenwriter), author
Cold comfort : my love affair with the Arctic
Rowley, Graham.
The dig
Preston, John, 1953-, author
The dovekeepers : a novel
Hoffman, Alice
Em
Thúy, Kim, author
Erosion : essays of undoing
Williams, Terry Tempest.
Footsteps in the snow : the Red River diary of Isobel Scott
Matas, Carol, 1949- author
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Shaffer, Mary Ann, author
The light of days : the untold story of women resistance fighters in Hitler's ghettos
Batalion, Judith, author
Madame Fourcade's secret war : the daring young woman who led France's largest spy network against Hitler
Olson, Lynne, author
Madness, betrayal and the lash : the epic voyage of Captain George Vancouver
Bown, Stephen R.
Marrying Mozart : a novel
Cowell, Stephanie.
The mountains sing : a novel
Nguyễn, Phan Quế Mai, 1973- author
The nine : the true story of a band of women who survived the worst of Nazi Germany
Strauss, Gwen, author
No safe harbour : the Halifax explosion diary of Charlotte Blackburn
Lawson, Julie, 1947-
Obasan
Kogawa, Joy
The opposite house
Oyeyemi, Helen.
Paris : the novel
Rutherfurd, Edward
The Paris wife : a novel
McLain, Paula
A prairie as wide as the sea : the immigrant diary of Ivy Weatherall
Ellis, Sarah
See All October Picks - History & Historical Fiction
Parvana's journey
Ellis, Deborah, 1960-
The pearl that broke its shell
Hashimi, Nadia, author
Regeneration
Barker, Pat, 1943-, author
Ru
Thúy, Kim, author
Sensational : the hidden history of America's "girl stunt reporters"
Todd, Kim, 1970- author.
The shadow of the wind
Ruiz Zafón, Carlos, 1964-
Sparks like stars
The tattooist of Auschwitz
Time and again
Finney, Jack
The time traveler's wife : a novel
Niffenegger, Audrey
War and peace
What the wind knows
Harmon, Amy, author
When women ruled the world : six queens of Egypt
Cooney, Kara, author
The woman with the blue star
Jenoff, Pam, author
See All October Picks - History and Historical Fiction Continued
The au pair
Rous, Emma, author
Be kind, be calm, be safe : four weeks that shaped a pandemic
Henry, Bonnie, Dr., author
A boy called Christmas
Haig, Matt, 1975- author
Canadian courage : true stories of Canada's everyday heroes
Pruessen, Linda, author
The code breaker : Jennifer Doudna, gene editing, and the future of the human race
Isaacson, Walter, author
Crossroads : a novel
Franzen, Jonathan, author
Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest
Simard, S. (Suzanne), author
Go tell the bees that I am gone : a novel
Half life : a novel
Cantor, Jillian, author.
Klara and the sun
Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-, author
The Lincoln Highway
Towles, Amor, author
Operation Angus : a novel
Fallis, Terry, author
Permanent astonishment : a memoir
Highway, Tomson, 1951- author
Pluck : a memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist
Morrissey, Donna, 1956- author
Pump : a natural history of the heart
Schutt, Bill, author.
Sisters of the resistance : a novel of Catherine Dior's Paris spy network
Wells, Christine, author
The stranger in the lifeboat : a novel
Albom, Mitch, 1958- author.
The winter wives : a novel
MacIntyre, Linden, author.
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