Canadian Book Reviews

Abdou, Angie – Between, The Canterbury Trail, The Bone Cage

Abdou, Angie – Home Ice

Adamson, Gil – Ridgerunner

Alexis, André – PastoralFifteen Dogs, The Hidden Keys, Days by Moonlight, Ring

al Rabeeah, Abu Bakr (with Winnie Yeung) – Homes

Alward, Lisa – Cocktail

Anderson-Dergatz, Gail – The Cure for Death By Lightning

Arden, Jann – If I Knew Then

Arsenault, Colin Sweets – Short Mercy

Arthurson, Wayne – The Red Chesterfield

Ashby, Madeline – Company Town

Ashton, Jenn – People Like Frank

Atwood, Margaret – Moral Disorder, The Heart Goes Last, Alias Grace

Atwood, Margaret – The Handmaid’s Tale (a re-read)

Atwood, Margaret – Stone Mattress

Atwood, Margaret – Morning in the Burned House, The CanLit Foodbook

Atwood, Margaret – a variety of children’s books, Angel Catbird

Atwood, Margaret – Hag-Seed

Austin, Emily – Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead

Austin, Emily – Interesting Facts About Space

Autism: The Gift That Needs To Be Opened

Awad, Mona – 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

Awad, Mona – Bunny

Babcock, Becca – One Who Has Been Here Before

Babcock, Becca – Some There are Fearless

Badami, Anita Rau – The Hero’s Walk

Bala, Sharon – The Boat People

Barbeau, Melissa – The Luminous Sea

Barbeau-Lavalette, Anais – Suzanne 

Barwin, Gary – Yiddish For Pirates

Bascaramurty, Dakshana – This is Not the End of Me

Beaton, Kate – Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Belcourt, Billy-Ray – A History of My Brief Body

Belliveau, Renee – The Sound of Fire

Benjamin, Chris – Drive-By Saviours

Benjamin, Chris – Boy With A Problem

Benjamin, Chris – Chasing Paradise

Beresford-Howe, Constance – The Book of Eve

Bergen, David – Stranger

Bergen, David – Here the Dark

Berkhout, Nina – Why Birds Sing

Berry, Michelle – The Prisoner and the Chaplain

Bertin, Kris – Bad Things Happen

Bertin, Kris – Use Your Imagination!

Best Canadian Stories 2018, edited by Russell Smith

Best Canadian Stories 2019, edited by Caroline Adderson

Best, Laura – Good Mothers Don’t

Bezmozgis, David – Immigrant City

Bhat, Shashi – The Most Precious Substance on Earth

Bickell, Katie – Always Brave, Sometimes Kind

Black Writers Matter, edited by Whitney French

Blake, Becky – Proof I Was Here

Bowers, Cedar – Astra

Boyden, Joseph – The Orenda, Wenjack

Boyle, Frances – Tower/Seeking Shade

Brand, Dionne – Love Enough

Brault, Vincent – The Ghost of Suzuko

Brennan, Binnie – Harbour View

Brennan, Binnie – A Certain Grace

Britt, Fanny – Hunting Houses

Browne, Violet – This Is the House That Luke Built

Bruneau, Carol – These Good Hands, Glass Voices

Bruneau, Carol – A Bird on Every Tree

Bruneau, Carol – A Circle on the Surface

Bruneau, Carol – Brighten the Corner Where You Are

Bruneau, Carol – Depth Rapture

Bryan, Ali – Roost

Bryan, Ali – The Figgs

Bryan, Ali – Coq, The Hill, Crow Valley Karaoke Competition

Buckler, Ernest – The Mountain and the Valley

Buffie, Erna – Let Us Be True

Burnet, Jaime – Crocuses Hatch From Snow

Bursey, Jeff – Unidentified man at left of photo

Bursey, Jeff – an impalpable certain rest

Bush, Catherine – Blaze Island

Butala, Sharon – This Strange Visible Air

Butler, Jenna – A Profession of Hope

Butler, Paul – The Widow’s Fire

Butler, Paul – Mina’s Child

Bydlowska, Jowita – Drunk Mom, Guy

Byggdin, K.R. – Wonder World

Cahill, Matt – The Society of Experience

Cameron, Claire – The Bear

Canning, Bridget – The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes

Canning, Bridget – Some People’s Children

Canning, Bridget – No One Knows About Us

Carlucci, Paul – The High-Rise in Fort Fierce

Campbell, Maria – Halfbreed

Carr, Charlene – Hold My Girl

Carter, Lauren – Swarm

Carter, Lauren – Following Sea

Carter, Lauren – This Has Nothing To Do With You

Case, James – Ananias

Chariandy, David – Brother

Choyce, Lesley – The Unlikely Redemption of John Alexander MacNeil

Christie, Evie – The Bourgeois Empire

Christie, Michael – If I Fall, If I Die

Christie, Michael – Greenwood

Clark, Joan – The Birthday Lunch

Clarke, George Elliott – George and Rue, Portia White

Clarke, George Elliott – Where Beauty Survived

Clarke, W.D. – She Sang to Them, She Sang

Coady, Lynn – Watching You Without Me 

Coles, Megan Gail – Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome

Coles, Megan Gail – Small Game Hunting At the Local Coward Gun Club

Colford, Ian – A Dark House and Other Stories

Colford, Ian – Perfect World

Comeau, Joey – Overqualified

Comeau, Joey – Malagash

Conlin, Christy Ann – Heave, The Memento

Conlin, Christy Ann – Watermark

Connelly, Karen – The Change Room

Cooper, Catherine – Lasko

Cooper, Sally – With My Back to the World

Covert, K.S. – The Petting Zoos

Crewe, Lesley – Are You Kidding Me?!

Crewe, Lesley – The Spoon Stealer

Crewe, Lesley – Nosy Parker

Crewe, Lesley – Recipe for a Good Life

Critch, Mark – Son of a Critch

Crocker, Eva – Barrelling Forward

Crocker, Eva – All I Ask

Crummey, Michael – River Thieves

Crummey, Michael – Sweetland, Little Dogs

Crummey, Michael – The Innocents

Crummey, Michael – The Adversary

Cull, Kerri – Rock Paper Sex

Curran, Oisín – Blood Fable

Currie, Sheldon – The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum

Curwin, Julie – The Appendage Formerly Known as Your Left Arm

Cusk, Rachel – Transit

Cutter, Nick – The Troop

Dagnino, Arianna – The Afrikaner

Dance, Jennifer – Gone But Still Here

Daniell, Ruth – boobs: Women Explore What It means To Have Breasts

Davidson, Craig – Precious Cargo

Davies, Robertson – Tempest-Tost

Davis, Lauren B. – The Empty Room, Our Daily Bread, Against A Darkening Sky, The Radiant City

Davis, Lauren B. – The Grimoire of Kensington Market, Even So

Davison, Nicola – In the Wake

Davison, Nicola – Decoding Dot Grey

Dawn, Amber – How Poetry Saved My Life

Day, Dian – The Madrigal (James’ review)

Day, Dian – The Madrigal (My review)

de Mariaffi, Elisabeth – The Devil You Know

Deacon, Gillian – Naked Imperfection

Demeule, Fanie – Lightness

De Sa, Anthony – Kicking the Sky

Desjardins, Martine – Maleficium

deWitt, Patrick – French Exit

deWitt, Patrick – The Librarianist

Dicintio, Marcello – Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers

Dimaline, Cherie – The Marrow Thieves

Dimaline, Cherie – Empire of Wild

Doctor, Farzana – All Inclusive

Doctor, Farzana – Seven

Doctorow, Cory – Radicalized

Domet, Stephanie – Fallsy Downsies, Homing

Donoghue, Emma – Astray, The Wonder

Donoghue, Emma – The Pull of the Stars

Donoghue, Emma – Room

Doucet, Jane – The Pregnant Pause, Fishnets & Fantasies

Doucet, Jane – Lost & Found in Lunenburg

Doyle, Alan – All Together Now

Doyle, Alan – Where I Belong

Doyle, Alan – A Newfoundlander in Canada

Doyle, Terry – Dig

Doyle, Terry – The Wards

Drake, Aaron Cully – Do You Think This Is Strange?

Dumont, Claudine – Captive

Dumont, Dawn – Nobody Cries at Bingo

DuPont, Eric – Songs for the Cold of Heart

DuPont, Eric – Rosa’s Very Own Personal Revolution

Echlin, Kim – Under the Visible Life

Eddie, Christine – The Douglas Notebooks

Edugyan, Esi – Half-Blood Blues

Edugyan, Esi – Washington Black

Eisen, Max – By Chance Alone

Ekwuyasi, Francesca – Butter Honey Pig Bread

El Akkad, Omar – American War

El Akkad, Omar – What Strange Paradise

Elkouri, Rima – Manam

Elliott, Alicia – A Mind Spread Out On the Ground

Elliott, Marilyn Davidson – The Blind Mechanic

Endicott, Marina – Good To A Fault, Close To Hugh

Endicott, The Difference

Evans, Kate – The Inward Journey

Faber, Sarah – All Is Beauty Now

Fagan, Cary – Great Adventures for the Faint of Heart, Water Water, The Student

Fallis, Terry – No Relation

Fenton, Andre – Annaka

Ferguson, Will – Happiness

Findley, Timothy – The Wars

Fishbane, Melanie J. – Maud

Fitch, Sheree – You Won’t Always Be This Sad

Fitzpatrick, Jamie – The End of Music

Flieger, Jon R. – You Are Among Monsters

Follett, Beth – Instructor

Forget, Andre – In the City of Pigs

Fortier, Jean-Michel – The Electric Baths

Foss, Krista – Smoke River

Foulds, Adam – Dream Sequence

Fowles, Stacey May – Infidelity

Francis, Brian – Fruit

Francis, Brian – Missed Connections

French, Bobbi – The Good Women of Safe Harbour

Frost, Karolyn Smardz – Steal Away Home

Fu, Kim – Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

Gallant, Joanne – A Womb In the Shape of A Heart

Galloway, Steven – The Cellist of Sarajevo

Galloway, Steven – The Confabulist

Gault, Cinda – This Godforsaken Place

Gault, Connie – A Beauty

Gibb, Camilla – Sweetness in the Belly

Gillespie, Cheryl – I Feel Your Stare

Gish, Elliott – Grey Dog

Glenn Norris, Laurie – Found Drowned

Good, Michelle – Five Little Indians

Gowdy, Barbara – We So Seldom Look on Love

Graham, Catherine – Quarry

Graham, Genevieve – Tides of HonourPromises to Keep

Graham, Genevieve – Come From Away, The Forgotten Home Child, Letters Across the Sea

Greeley, Meghan – Jawbone

Greer, Darren – Just Beneath My Skin

Greer, Darren – Advocate

Greer, Darren – Outcast

Gregor, James – Going Dutch

Grove, Frederick Philip – Settlers of the Marsh

Gruen, Sara – At the Water’s Edge

Gunraj, Andrea – The Lost Sister

Gunter, Jen – The Vagina Bible

Guriel, Jason – The Full-Moon Whaling Chronicles

Habib, Samra – We Have Always Been Here

Hage, Rawi – Cockroach

Hage, Rawi – Stray Dogs

Hallett, Michelle Butler – This Marlowe

Hallett, Michelle Butler – Constant Nobody

Hamilton, Sylvia D. – And I Alone Escaped to Tell You

Hardcastle, Kevin – In the Cage

Harrison, A.S.A. – The Silent Wife

Harvey, Katherine Alexandra – Quiet Time

Hasan, Erum Shazia – We Meant Well

Hawley, Alix – All True Not A Lie In It

Hay, Elizabeth – Late Nights on Air

Heiti, Matthew – The City Still Breathing

Hellard, Tyler – Searching for Terry Punchout

Helwig, David – The Stand-In

Helwig, David – Killing McGee

Hemming, Deborah – Throw Down Your Shadows

Hemming, Deborah – Goddess

Henstra, Sarah – The Red Word

Hernandez, Catherine – Crosshairs

Herring, Nicholas – Some Hellish

Hetherington, Victoria – Autonomy, Mooncalves

Heti, Sheila – Motherhood

Heti, Sheila – Pure Colour

Hickey, Gemma – Almost Feral

Hill, Andria – Mona Parsons

Hill, Lawrence – The Illegal, Dear Sir I Intend to Burn Your Book, Black Berry Sweet Juice

Hlongwane, Gugu – Electric Fences

Holdstock, Pauline – Here I Am!

Holdstock, Pauline – Confessions With Keith

Hooper, Emma – We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky

Hosking, Jay – Three Years With the Rat

Huebert, David – Peninsula Sinking

Huebert, David – Chemical Valley

Hull, David – The Man Who Remembered the Moon

Humphreys, Helen – Coventry

Hynes, Joel Thomas – We’ll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Day

Ingram, Katie – Breaking Disaster

Isaac, Brian Thomas – All the Quiet Places

Itani, Frances – Deafening, Tell

Jacobs, Heidi L.M. – Molly of the Mall

Jalaluddin, Uzma – Much Ado About Nada

Jenner, Natalie – The Jane Austen Society

Jewell, Sara – Field Notes: A City Girl’s Search for Heart and Home in Rural Nova Scotia

Joe, Rita – Songs of Eskasoni, I Lost My Talk

Johns, Jessica – Bad Cree

Johnston, Wayne – Baltimore’s Mansion

Jones, Amy – We’re All In This Together

Jones, Amy – Every Little Piece of Me

Jones, Amy – Pebble & Dove

joudry, shalan – Elapultiek, Generations Re-merging, Waking Ground

Juby, Susan – The Woefield Poultry Collective

Kaufman, Andrew – The Tiny Wife

Kawaja, Shelly – The Raw Light of Morning

Kean, Willow – Eyes In Front When Running

Kellough, Kaie – Dominoes at the Crossroads

Kimber, Stephen – The Sweetness in the Lime

King, Thomas – The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America

King, Wesley – OCDaniel

Kishkan, Theresa – Winter Wren

Knight, Chelene – Junie

Kogawa, Joy – Obasan

Komar, Debra – The Ballad of Jacob Peck

Koul, Scaachi – One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

Krukoff, Devin – Hummingbird

Kutsukake, Lynne – The Translation of Love

Laffoley, Steven – The Blue Tattoo

Laffoley, Steven – A Halifax Christmas Carol, Halifax Nocturne

Laffoley, Steven – Unfiltered: An Irreverent History of Beer in Nova Scotia, Dulse to Donairs: An Irreverent History of Food in Nova Scotia

Lalonde, Angelique – Glorious Frazzled Beings

Lama, Tsering Yangzom – We Measure the Earth With Our bodies

Lambert, Kevin – Querelle of Roberval, You Will Love What You Have Killed

Langhorst, Barbara – The Winter-Blooming Tree

Langille, Carole Glasser – Doing Time

Lansens, Lori – The Mountain Story

Lapena, Shari – The Couple Next Door

Larue, Stephane – The Dishwasher

Laurence, Margaret – The Stone Angel

Lavoie, Marie-Renee – Autopsy of a Boring Wife, Mister Roger and Me

Lavoie, Marie-Renee – A Boring Wife Settles the Score

Lavoie, Marie-Renee – Some Maintenance Required

LeDuc, Amanda – Disfigured

Lee, Nancy – The Age

Leeson, Garry – The Dome Chronicles

Leroux, Catherine – The Party Wall

Leroux, Catherine – Madame Victoria

Leroux, Catherine – The Future

Lessard, Ariane – School for Girls

Leung, Carrianne – That Time I Loved You

Levangie, Richard – Secrets of the Hotel Maisonneuve

Lewis, Marc – The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction is Not A Disease

Lim, Thea – An Ocean of Minutes

Lindberg, Tracey – Birdie

Loney, Bretton – The Last Hockey Player

Loney, Bretton – Joe Howe’s Ghost

LoveGrove, Jennifer – Watch How We Walk

Lucas, Chad – Thanks A Lot, Universe

Lye, Harriet Alida – The Honey Farm

Lyon, Annabel – Consent

MacDonald, Ann-Marie – Adult Onset

MacDonald, Frank – A Forest for Calum

MacKinnon, J.B. – The Day the World Stops Shopping

MacLennan-Dunphy, Brenda – The Silence of the Vessel

MacLeod, Alexander – Animal Person

MacLeod, Alistair – Remembrance

MacLeod, Alistair – The Boat, In the Fall, As Birds Bring Forth the Sun, The Vastness of the Dark, To Every Thing There Is a Season, Second Spring, Winter Dog

MacNeil, Beatrice – The Geranium Window

Maharaj, Rabindranath – Adjacentland

Major, Kevin – Found Far and Wide

Malone, Stephens Gerard – The History of Rain

Mandel, Emily St. John – Station Eleven, Last Night in Montreal

Mandel, Emily St. John – The Glass Hotel

Mandel, Emiy St. John – Sea of Tranquility

Maracle, Lee – My Conversations With Canadians

Marais, Bianca – Hum If You Don’t Know the Words

Marston, Missy – Bad Ideas, The Love Monster

Martis, Eternity – They Said This Would Be Fun

Mason, Paul Nicholas – The Rogue Wave

Mathieu, Eric – The Little Fox of Mayerville

Maxymiw, Anna – Dirty Work

Mayoff, Steven – The Island Gospel According to Samson Grief

Mayr, Matt – Things Worth Burying

McAdam, Colin – A Beautiful Truth

McCann, Sean and Andrea Aragon – One Good Reason

McDougall, Carol – Wake the Stone Man

McEwen, Jim – Fearnoch

McGrath, Wendy – Santa Rosa/North East/Broke City

McKay Jr., Leo – Roll Up the Rim

McKay Jr., Leo – What Comes Echoing Back

McMillan, Amber – The Running Trees

McWatt, Tessa – Shame On Me

Merasty, Joseph Auguste – The Education of Augie Merasty

Mercer, Rick – Talking to Canadians

Messud, Claire – The Woman Upstairs

Mian, Sarah – When the Saints

Michaels, Sean – Us Conductors

Michaud, Andrée A. – Boundary: The Last Summer

Miller, K.D. – All Saints and Late Breaking

Mitchell, Shandi – The Waiting Hours

Mohamed, Premee – The Annual Migration of Clouds

Monaghan, Damhnait – New Girl in Little Cove

Montgomery, L.M. – Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne’s House of Dreams, Anne of Ingleside, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, The Blue Castle, The Blythes are Quoted, Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, Emily’s Quest, After Many Years, Jane of Lantern Hill, The Story Girl, The Golden Road

Moodie, Susanna – Roughing It In the Bush

Moore, Brian – The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

Moore, Lisa – Caught, Flannery

Moore, Lisa – Something for Everyone

Moore, Lisa – This Is How We Love

Mootoo, Shani – Polar Vortex

Morgan-Cole, Trudy J. – Most Anything You Please

Morgan-Cole – Trudy J. – A Roll of the Bones, Such Miracles and Mischiefs

Morris, Aren A. – We Happy Few

Morrissey, Donna – The Fortunate Brother

Morrow, Jennie – Bird Shadows

Mullinger, James – Brit Happens

Murphy, Matthew – A Beckoning War

Murray, Morgan – Dirty Birds

Murray, Sheila – Finding Edward

Mutonji, Tea – Shut Up You’re Pretty

Myers, Christina – The List of Last Chances

Naga, Noor – If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English

Narbonne, Andre – Lucien & Olivia

Nason, Riel – The Town That Drowned, All the Things We Leave Behind

Nasrallah, Dimitri – Hotline

Nawaz, Saleema – Bone & Bread

Neale, Jen – Land Mammals and Sea Creatures

Nielsen, Susin – The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen

Nielsen, Susin – We Are All Made of Molecules

Nothing Without Us, edited by Cait Gordon & Talia C. Johnson

Ohlin, Alix – Dual Citizens

O’Loughlin, Ed – Minds of Winter

O’Neill, Heather – The Lonely Hearts Hotel

Ondaatje, Michael – In the Skin of A Lion

Onyemelukwe-Onuobia, Cheluchi – The Son of the House

Oppel, Kenneth – The Nest

Osmond, Rosalie – Broken Symmetry

Page, Kathy – The Two of Us

Page, Kathy – Dear Evelyn

Palka, Kurt – The Piano Maker

Paperny, Anna Mehler – Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me

Parker-Brown, Angela – Writing With My Eyes

Parker, Fawn – What We Both Know

Pasricha, Neil – The Happiness Equation

Peacock, Molly – Alphabetique

Peck, Frances – The Broken Places

Peck, Francis – Uncontrolled Flight

Pelley, Chad – Every Little Thing, Away From Everywhere, Four-Letter Words

Pellissier-Lush, Julie – Epekwitk: Mi’kmaq Poetry from Prince Edward Island

Peters, Amanda – The Berry Pickers

Peterson, Zoey Leigh – Next Year, For Sure

Pflug, Ursula – Mountain

Philippe, Ben – Sure, I’ll Be Your Black Friend

Phinney, Sandra – Waking Up in My Own Backyard

Porter, C.S. – Beneath Her Skin

Powell, Kerry Lee – Willem de Kooning’s Paintbrush

Powley, Jen – Just Jen

Powning, Beth – A Measure of Light

Powning, Beth – The Sister’s Tale

Poynter, Adele – Dancing In a Jar

Preston, Rachael – The Wind Seller

Price, Steven – Lampedusa

Pugsley, Alex – Aubrey McKee

Pugsley, Alex – Shimmer

Quarrington, Paul – King Leary

Quiviger, Pascale – If You Hear Me

Quimper, Charles – In Every Wave

Quist, Jennifer – Love Letters of the Angel of Death

Rachman, Tom – The Rise and Fall of Great Powers

Raddall, Thomas H. – The Nymph and the Lamp, Hangman’s Beach

Raddall, Thomas H. – At the Tide’s Turn, The Wings of Night

Redhill, Michael – Bellevue Square

Réhel, Jean-Christophe – Tatouine

Reid, Raziel – When Everything Feels Like the Movies

Reid-Benta, Zalika – Frying Plantain

Rene, Colleen – Nothing in Truth Can Harm Us

Rennehan, Mandy – The Blue Collar CEO

Rice, Waubgeshig – Moon of the Crusted Snow

Rice, Waubgeshig – Moon of the Turning Leaves

Richardson, C.S. – The End of the Alphabet

Robart-Johnson, Sharon – Africa’s Children

Robart-Johnson, Sharon – Jude and Diana

Robertson, David – Black Water

Robillard, Leo Brent – The Road To Atlantis

Robinson, Eden – Son of A Trickster, Trickster Drift

Robinson, Olivia – The Blue Moth Motel

Rosenblum, Rebecca – So Much Love

Rosnau, Laisha – Little Fortress

Ross, Cecily – The Lost Diaries of Susanna Moodie

Rubinstein, Dan – Born to Walk

Ruddock, Jesse – Shot-Blue

Sakamoto, Mark – Forgiveness

Salverson, Julie – Lines of Flight: An Atomic Memoir

Samuel, Sigal – The Mystics of Mile End

Sanford, Janet Coulter – Memories on the Bounty

Saso, Emily – Nine Dash Line

Saucier, Jocelyne – And the Birds Rained Down, Twenty-One Cardinals

Schofield, Anakana – Malarky

Schofield, Anakana – Martin John

Schofield, Anakana – Bina

Schultz, Emily – The Blondes

Scott, Genevieve – Catch My Drift 

Seesequasis, Paul – Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun

Segura, Mauricio – Oscar

Selecky, Sarah – Radiant Shimmering Light

Selecky, Sarah – This Cake is For the Party

Seth – Clyde Fans

Shaw, RC – Louisbourg or Bust

Shields, Carol – Unless

Shields, Carol – Happenstance

Shoalts, Adam – Beyond the Trees

Simpson, Anne – Speechless

Sinnott, Susan – Catching the Light

Sinnott, Susan – The Remembering

Skibsrud, Johanna – Tiger, Tiger

Slayter, Rebecca Silver – In the Land of Birdfishes

Slayter, Rebecca Silver – The Second History

Smith, Emily Taylor – Around the Province in 88 Days

Smith, Neil – Boo

Smith, Neil – Little Bird Stories Vol. 5

Smith, Russell – Confidence

Smith, Russell – Secret Sex

Smith-Nochasak, Anne M. – A Canoer of Shorelines

Snyder, Carrie – Girl Runner

Spurway, Amy – Crow

Stapleton, Bernardine Ann Teraz – Love, Life

Stenson, Fred – Who By Fire

Strube, Cordelia – Lemon

Strutt, Lesley – On the Edge

Sullivan, Andrew F. – The Marigold

Swan, Mary – The Deep

Sweatman, Margaret – The Gunsmith’s Daughter

Tacon, Claire – In Search of the Perfect Singing Flamingo

Tacon, Claire – In the Field

Tagaq, Tanya – Split Tooth

Talaga, Tanya – Seven Fallen Feathers

Tannahill, Jordan – The Listeners

Tater, Mallory – The Birth Yard

Tattrie, Jon – Black Snow

Tattrie, Jon – Peace by Chocolate

Taylor, Margie – Rose Addams

Taylor, Wanda – The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children

Thanh, Yasuko – Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains

Taylor, Alison – Aftershock

Taylor, Susie – Even Weirder Than Before

Thammavongsa, Souvankham – How To Pronounce Knife

Theis, Leona – If Sylvie Had Nine Lives

Theriault, Denis – The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman

Thien, Madeleine – Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Dogs at the Perimeter

Thistle, Jesse – From the Ashes

Thomas, Joan – Five Wives

Thomas, Kai – In the Upper Country

Thomas, Rebecca – I’m Finding My Talk, I Place You Into the Fire

Thomas-Muller, Clayton – Life in the City of Dirty Water

Thompson, Lee D. – Apastoral: a mistopia

Thompson, Shelley – Roar

Thuy, Kim – Man

Thuy, Kim – Ru

Thuy, Kim – Vi

Thuy, Kim – Em

Toews, Miriam – All My Puny Sorrows

Toews, Miriam – Irma Voth

Toews, Miriam – Women Talking

Toews, Miriam – Fight Night

Todd, Jack – Rose & Poe

Torti, Jules – Been There, Ate That

Tremblay, Lise – Mile End

Twist, Arielle – Disintegrate/Dissociate

Unwin, Peter – Nine Bells for a Man

Urquhart, Emily – Ordinary Wonder Tales

Vanderstoop, Doreen – Watershed

Vassanji, M.G. – Nostalgia

Vermette, Katherena – The Break

Vermette, Katherena – The Strangers

Victory Meat: New Fiction from Atlantic Canada, edited by Lynn Coady

Von Konigslow, Alexis – The Capacity For Infinite Happiness

Vowles, Martha – Senior Management

Vryenhoek, Leslie – Ledger of the Open Hand

Vryenhoek, Leslie – We All Will Be Received

Wagamese, Richard – Ragged Company, Medicine Walk

Wagamese, Richard – For Joshua

Walbourne-Gough, Douglas – Crow Gulch

Wall, Aimee – We, Jane

Wallace, David M. – The Little Brudders of Misericorde

Walters, Eric – Safe As Houses, Trapped In Ice

Walton, Jo – Among Others

Wamboldt, Michelle – Birth Road

Warner, Patrick – One Hit Wonders

Warner, Patrick – My Camino

Watson, Allison – Transplanted

Watt, Alison – Dazzle Patterns

Wesley, Gloria Ann – If This Is Freedom

Wharton, Thomas – Every Blade of Grass, Icefields

White, Susan – The Way I Feel

Whitehead, Joshua – Jonny Appleseed, Love After the End

Whitlock, Nathan – Lump

Whittall, Zoe – The Best Kind of People, Bottle Rocket Hearts

Whitton, David – Seven Down

Wicks, Heidi – Melt

Wiersema, Robert J. – The World More Full of Weeping

Wilkshire, Claire – The Love Olympics

Williams, Ian – Reproduction

Williams, Ian – Disorientation

Willis, Deborah – Girlfriend on Mars

Wilson, Budge – Before Green Gables, After Swissair

Wilson, Martha – Nosy White Woman

Winn, Vanessa – Trappings

Winter, Kathleen – Annabel

Winter, Michael – Minister Without Portfolio

Winters, Michelle – I Am a Truck

Wunker, Erin – Notes From a Feminist Killjoy

York, Alissa – Fauna, The Naturalist

Young, Jared – Into the Current

Zeng, Lili – Dear Haider

Zentner, Alexi – Touch

6 thoughts on “Canadian Book Reviews

  1. Peggy Pilkey says:

    Just discovered your Consumed by Ink reading lists in a link from Sarah Emsley’s latest blog post. I’ll definitely revisit them to see what books I may have missed and wish to read in future. In your review of Ian Colford’s book Perfect World for the Miramichi Reader, the name Tom Colford misidentifies Ian’s photo. The error was also made in the third line up from the end of that same review. Perhaps this is something you already know, and may already have fixed. Looking forward to reading more Canadian literature.

    • Naomi says:

      Hi Peggy! Thanks for visiting – I hope you find some good books to read!

      Thank you for pointing out those errors. I’ll pass it along to James from The Miramichi Reader!

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