Abdou, Angie – Between, The Canterbury Trail, The Bone Cage
Abdou, Angie – Home Ice
Adamson, Gil – Ridgerunner
Alexis, André – Pastoral, Fifteen Dogs, The Hidden Keys, Days by Moonlight
al Rabeeah, Abu Bakr (with Winnie Yeung) – Homes
Anderson-Dergatz, Gail – The Cure for Death By Lightning
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
Autism: The Gift That Needs To Be Opened
Awad, Mona – 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
Awad, Mona – Bunny
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
Benjamin, Chris – Drive-By Saviours
Bergen, David – Stranger
Bergen, David – Here the Dark
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
Bezmozgis, David – Immigrant City
Black Writers Matter, edited by Whitney French
Blake, Becky – Proof I Was Here
Boyden, Joseph – The Orenda, Wenjack
Brand, Dionne – Love Enough
Brennan, Binnie – Harbour View
Brennan, Binnie – A Certain Grace
Britt, Fanny – Hunting Houses
Bruneau, Carol – These Good Hands, Glass Voices
Bruneau, Carol – A Bird on Every Tree
Bruneau, Carol – A Circle on the Surface
Bryan, Ali – Roost
Bryan, Ali – The Figgs
Buckler, Ernest – The Mountain and the Valley
Buffie, Erna – Let Us Be True
Burnet, Jaime – Crocuses Hatch From Snow
Butler, Jenna – A Profession of Hope
Butler, Paul – The Widow’s Fire
Butler, Paul – Mina’s Child
Bydlowska, Jowita – Drunk Mom, Guy
Cahill, Matt – The Society of Experience
Cameron, Claire – The Bear
Canning, Bridget – The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes
Carlucci, Paul – The High-Rise in Fort Fierce
Carter, Lauren – Swarm
Carter, Lauren – Following Sea
Carter, Lauren – This Has Nothing To Do With You
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
Clark, Joan – The Birthday Lunch
Clarke, George Elliott – George and Rue, Portia White
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, Sally – With My Back to the World
Crewe, Lesley – Are You Kidding Me?!
Crocker, Eva – Barrelling Forward
Crocker, Eva – All I Ask
Crummey, Michael – River Thieves
Crummey, Michael – Sweetland, Little Dogs
Crummey, Michael – The Innocents
Cull, Kerri – Rock Paper Sex
Curran, Oisín – Blood Fable
Currie, Sheldon – The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum
Cusk, Rachel – Transit
Cutter, Nick – The Troop
Dagnino, Arianna – The Afrikaner
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
Davison, Nicola – In the Wake
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
De Sa, Anthony – Kicking the Sky
Desjardins, Martine – Maleficium
deWitt, Patrick – French Exit
Dimaline, Cherie – The Marrow Thieves
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
Doyle, Terry – Dig
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
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
El Akkad, Omar – American War
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
Fallis, Terry – No Relation
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
Fortier, Jean-Michel – The Electric Baths
Foss, Krista – Smoke River
Foulds, Adam – Dream Sequence
Fowles, Stacey May – Infidelity
Francis, Brian – Fruit
Frost, Karolyn Smardz – Steal Away Home
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
Glenn Norris, Laurie – Found Drowned
Gowdy, Barbara – We So Seldom Look on Love
Graham, Catherine – Quarry
Graham, Genevieve – Tides of Honour, Promises to Keep
Graham, Genevieve – Come From Away, The Forgotten Home Child
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
Habib, Samra – We Have Always Been Here
Hage, Rawi – Cockroach
Hallett, Michelle Butler – This Marlowe
Hamilton, Sylvia D. – And I Alone Escaped to Tell You
Hardcastle, Kevin – In the Cage
Harrison, A.S.A. – The Silent Wife
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
Henstra, Sarah – The Red Word
Heti, Sheila – Motherhood
Hickey, Gemma – Almost Feral
Hill, Andria – Mona Parsons
Hill, Lawrence – The Illegal, Dear Sir I Intend to Burn Your Book, Black Berry Sweet Juice
Holdstock, Pauline – Here I Am!
Hosking, Jay – Three Years With the Rat
Huebert, David – Peninsula Sinking
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
Itani, Frances – Deafening, Tell
Jacobs, Heidi L.M. – Molly of the Mall
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
Johnston, Wayne – Baltimore’s Mansion
Jones, Amy – We’re All In This Together
Jones, Amy – Every Little Piece of Me
joudry, shalan – Elapultiek, Generations Re-merging
Juby, Susan – The Woefield Poultry Collective
Kaufman, Andrew – The Tiny Wife
Kellough, Kaie – Dominoes at the Crossroads
King, Thomas – The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
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
Lansens, Lori – The Mountain Story
Lapena, Shari – The Couple Next Door
Laurence, Margaret – The Stone Angel
Lavoie, Marie-Renee – Autopsy of a Boring Wife, Mister Roger and Me
Lee, Nancy – The Age
Leroux, Catherine – The Party Wall
Leroux, Catherine – Madame Victoria
Leung, Carrianne – That Time I Loved You
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
LoveGrove, Jennifer – Watch How We Walk
Lye, Harriet Alida – The Honey Farm
Lyon, Annabel – Consent
MacDonald, Ann-Marie – Adult Onset
MacDonald, Frank – A Forest for Calum
MacLeod, Alistair – Remembrance
MacLeod, Alistair – The Boat, In the Fall, As Birds Bring Forth the Sun
MacNeil, Beatrice – The Geranium Window
Maharaj, Rabindranath – Adjacentland
Major, Kevin – Found Far and Wide
Mandel, Emily St. John – Station Eleven, Last Night in Montreal
Mandel, Emily St. John – The Glass Hotel
Marais, Bianca – Hum If You Don’t Know the Words
Marston, Missy – Bad Ideas, The Love Monster
Mathieu, Eric – The Little Fox of Mayerville
McAdam, Colin – A Beautiful Truth
McDougall, Carol – Wake the Stone Man
McKay Jr., Leo – Roll Up the Rim
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
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 Blythes are Quoted, Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, Emily’s Quest, After Many Years
Moodie, Susanna – Roughing It In the Bush
Moore, Brian – The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Moore, Lisa – Caught, Flannery
Moore, Lisa – Something for Everyone
Mootoo, Shani – Polar Vortex
Morgan-Cole, Trudy J. – Most Anything You Please
Morgan-Cole – Trudy J. – A Roll of the Bones
Morrissey, Donna – The Fortunate Brother
Murphy, Matthew – A Beckoning War
Mutonji, Tea – Shut Up You’re Pretty
Nason, Riel – The Town That Drowned, All the Things We Leave Behind
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
Oppel, Kenneth – The Nest
Osmond, Rosalie – Broken Symmetry
Page, Kathy – The Two of Us
Page, Kathy – Dear Evelyn
Palka, Kurt – The Piano Maker
Peacock, Molly – Alphabetique
Pelley, Chad – Every Little Thing, Away From Everywhere, Four-Letter Words
Peterson, Zoey Leigh – Next Year, For Sure
Pflug, Ursula – Mountain
Phinney, Sandra – Waking Up in My Own Backyard
Powell, Kerry Lee – Willem de Kooning’s Paintbrush
Powning, Beth – A Measure of Light
Poynter, Adele – Dancing In a Jar
Preston, Rachael – The Wind Seller
Price, Steven – Lampedusa
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
Rice, Waubgeshig – Moon of the Crusted Snow
Richardson, C.S. – The End of the Alphabet
Robart-Johnson, Sharon – Africa’s Children
Robillard, Leo Brent – The Road To Atlantis
Robinson, Eden – Son of A Trickster
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
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
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
Sinnott, Susan – Catching the Light
Skibsrud, Johanna – Tiger, Tiger
Slayter, Rebecca Silver – In the Land of Birdfishes
Smith, Emily Taylor – Around the Province in 88 Days
Smith, Neil – Boo
Smith, Russell – Confidence
Snyder, Carrie – Girl Runner
Spurway, Amy – Crow
Stenson, Fred – Who By Fire
Strube, Cordelia – Lemon
Swan, Mary – The Deep
Tacon, Claire – In Search of the Perfect Singing Flamingo
Tacon, Claire – In the Field
Tagaq, Tanya – Split Tooth
Tater, Mallory – The Birth Yard
Tattrie, Jon – Black Snow
Taylor, Wanda – The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children
Thanh, Yasuko – Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains
Taylor, Susie – Even Weirder Than Before
Thammavongsa, Souvankham – How To Pronounce Knife
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, Rebecca – I’m Finding My Talk
Thuy, Kim – Man
Thuy, Kim – Ru
Thuy, Kim – Vi
Toews, Miriam – All My Puny Sorrows
Toews, Miriam – Irma Voth
Toews, Miriam – Women Talking
Todd, Jack – Rose & Poe
Tremblay, Lise – Mile End
Unwin, Peter – Nine Bells for a Man
Vassanji, M.G. – Nostalgia
Vermette, Katherena – The Break
Victory Meat: New Fiction from Atlantic Canada, edited by Lynn Coady
Von Konigslow, Alexis – The Capacity For Infinite Happiness
Vryenhoek, Leslie – Ledger of the Open Hand
Vryenhoek, Leslie – We All Will Be Received
Wagamese, Richard – Ragged Company, Medicine Walk
Walters, Eric – Safe As Houses, Trapped In Ice
Walton, Jo – Among Others
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
Whittall, Zoe – The Best Kind of People, Bottle Rocket Hearts
Wicks, Heidi – Melt
Wiersema, Robert J. – The World More Full of Weeping
Williams, Ian – Reproduction
Wilson, Budge – Before Green Gables, After Swissair
Wilson, Martha – Nosy White Woman
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
Zentner, Alexi – Touch
This is so great! I haven’t read any of these so now I have lots of new options. I look forward to reading more from your blog!
Lindsay
http://untamedshrews.wordpress.com/
Thanks for coming by, and for the follow!