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Exciting Contenders for Canada Reads 2023 10

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Ducks by Kate Beaton

Beaton tackles the dichotomy between Canada’s natural beauty and our exploit it in this narrative graphic Alberta oil sands.

Mexican Gothic

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

In 1950s Mexico, Noemi travels isolated manor house of her cousin’s Nightmares quickly follow—and strange fungus growing everywhere?

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Greenwood

by Michael Christie

This inventive novel follows the Greenwood family from WWI to through the lens of the dwindling surrounds them.

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Hotline

by Dimitri Nasrallah

After immigrating to Montreal from Muna Haddad finds work as a hotline weight loss centre, and soon finds her callers’ deepest secrets.

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Station Eleven

by Emily St John Mandel

This dual timeline narrative follows the events leading up to a major his travels with a theatre troupe apocalyptic world that follows.

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We Were Dreamers

by Simu Liu

Canadian actor Simu Liu traces his path to fame in this memoir, from his humble origins in China to his failed accounting career, to the Craigslist ad that would lead him to stardom.

Half-Bads in White Regalia

by Cody Caetano

The son of an Anishinaabe mother and Portuguese father revisits his chaotic childhood in a place called Happyland in this wholly original memoir.

Hana Khan Carries On

by Uzma Jalaluddin

This fun spin on “You’ve Got Mail” centres on rival halal restaurants, one family-run and one more upscale, while also tackling family secrets, racism, and budding romance.

Dandelion

by Jamie Chai Yun Liew

A new mother journeys from British Columbia to Southeast Asia to uncover what became of her own mother, who immigrated to Canada and then disappeared.

Blood Scion

by Deborah Falaye

This young adult novel takes inspiration from Yoruba mythology, following a descendant of the Orisha gods named Sloane as she climbs the ranks of a brutal army.