Contemporary fiction books from Canada
Recommended contemporary fiction books (28)
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If you are into contemporary fiction here are some contemporary fiction books from Canada for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Accidentally Engaged by Farah Heron EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
A delectable romantic comedy about a woman who fakes an engagement to the boy next door to enter a couples cooking contest--named one of the best romances of the year by NPR, USA Today, and Entertainment Weekly. When it comes to bread, Reena Manji knows exactly what she's doing. She treats her sourdough starters like (somewhat unruly) children. But when it comes to Reena's actual family—and their constant meddling in her life—well, that recipe always ends in disaster. Now Reena's parents have found her yet another potential Good Muslim Husband. This one has the body of Captain America, a delic... continue
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After Elias by Eddy Boudel Tan EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
2021 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction — Finalist A modern queer tragedy about a pilot's last words, an interrupted celebration, and the fear of losing everything. “Utterly engrossing. Coen is a hero for our era, darkly struggling amid the aftershocks of loss, but doing so with dignity, humanity, and passion.” — Timothy Taylor, author of The Rule of Stephens When the airplane piloted by Elias Santos crashes one week before their wedding day, Coen Caraway loses the man he loves and the illusion of happiness he has worked so hard to create. The only thing Elias leaves behind is a recording of... continue
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Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A funny and smart new novel about destiny--and what it means to forge your own path--from two-time Leacock Medal winner Terry Fallis. Adam Coryell is your average high-school student--well, except for that obsession with fountain pens--when his life changes forever. Based on a study by a quirky Swedish professor that claims that every human being, regardless of athletic inclination, has a body that is suited to excel in at least one sport, it turns out that Adam is good--very good, in fact--at golf. Even though he'd never even picked up a golf club. Almost instantly, and wi... continue
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Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
"Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other 'Bunny,' and are often found entangled in a group hug so tight they become one. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled 'Smut Salon,' and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching ... continue
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Collide by Bal Khabra EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER! She’s an honors student with ambitious graduate school plans and he’s a jock with only hockey on his mind, but once their worlds collide, their connection is hot enough to melt an ice rink. An ultimatum from Summer Preston’s thesis advisor thrusts her into an unexpected collision with the hockey team’s captain, Aiden Crawford. She’s caught between conflicting desires of fulfilling her lifelong dream of becoming a sport psychologist and staying as far away as possible from the god-awful sport. And once she meets Aiden—well, let’s just say he confirms all her worst assump... continue
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Dandelion by Jamie Chai Yun Liew EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
When Lily was eleven years old, her mother, Swee Hua, walked away from the family, never to be seen or heard from again. Now a new mother herself, Lily becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to Swee Hua. She recalls the spring of 1987, growing up in a small British Columbia mining town where there were only a handful of Asian families; Lily's previously stateless father wanted to blend seamlessly into Canadian life, while her mother, alienated and isolated, longed to return to Brunei. Years later, still affected by Swee Hua's disappearance, Lily's family is stubbornly s... continue
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De opkomst en ondergang van grootmachten by Tom Rachman NL
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
Een vrouw probeert zich een beeld te vormen van haar verwekkers.
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Ein Leben mehr by Jocelyne Saucier DE
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
Dies ist die Geschichte von drei alten Männern, die sich in die nordkanadischen Wälder zurückgezogen haben. Von drei Männern, die die Freiheit lieben. Eines Tages aber ist es mit ihrer Einsiedelei vorbei. Zuerst stößt eine Fotografin zu ihnen, sie sucht nach einem der letzten Überlebenden der Großen Brände, einem gewissen Boychuck. Kurze Zeit später taucht Marie-Desneige auf, eine eigensinnige, zierliche Dame von achtzig Jahren. Die Frauen bleiben. Und während sie dem Rätsel um Boychucks Überleben nachgehen, entsteht etwas unte... continue
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Every Summer After by Carley Fortune EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
"A radiant debut."—Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Named One of the Hottest Reads of Summer 2022 by Today ∙ Parade ∙ PopSugar ∙ USA Today ∙ SheReads ∙ BuzzFeed ∙ BookBub ∙ Bustle ∙ and more! Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right. They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in t... continue
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Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
With the verve and bite of Ottessa Moshfegh and the barbed charm of Nancy Mitford, this stunning debut about a young ingénue in the big city is “as refreshing as gin fizz . . . a wild careening joyride through a hot sultry summer in New York” (Rachel Syme, The New Yorker). Isa Epley, all of twenty-one years old, is already wise enough to understand that the purpose of life is the pursuit of pleasure. She arrives in New York with her newly blond best friend looking for adventure. They have little money, but that’s hardly going to stop them. By day, the girls sell clothes on a market stall, pinc... continue