Have a Look: Fiction

November 21, 2018

Have a Look: Fiction
New Reads Book Club - December 5 2018, 7pm

Our fiction section is small but mighty! We take great care to stock the best and most interesting fiction being published today in English. We carry diverse publications by underrepresented voices, including those in translation, from independent presses, and found off-the-beaten track. 

Stay tuned to this space to find new releases, staff favs, recommendations in fiction, and book club updates, including the New Reads Book Club for new fiction and the Reading Across Borders Book Club for fiction in translation. 

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Split Tooth

Tanya Tagaq

Longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller PrizeFrom the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never...

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Motherhood

Sheila Heti

A daring, funny, and poignant novel about the desire and duty to procreate, by one of our most brilliant and original writersMotherhood treats one...

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There There

Tommy Orange

Here is a voice we have never heard--a voice full of poetry and rage, exploding onto the page with stunning urgency and force.Here is...

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Washington Black

Esi Edugyan

A dazzling, original novel of slavery and freedom, from the author of the international bestseller Half-Blood BluesLonglisted for the 2018 MAN BOOKER PRIZEWhen two...

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Zolitude

Paige Cooper

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2018 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION Fantastical, magnetic, and harsh—these are the women...

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Paradise Rot

Jenny Hval

A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imageryJo is in a strange new country for...

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Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars

Kai Cheng Thom

In Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir, a haunted young girl (who happens to be a kung-fu expert and pathological...

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Friday Black

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

A National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree, chosen by Colson Whitehead “An excitement and a wonder: strange, crazed, urgent and funny...The wildly talented...

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The Silence of the Girls

Pat Barker

One of Vanity Fair's Best Fall Books of 2018 “An important, powerful, memorable book that invites us to look differently not only at The Iliad but at...

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Once and Forever

Kenji Miyazawa

A collection of classic, fantastical tales from Northern Japan that are equal parts whimsical and sophisticated, perfect for readers of all ages.Kenji Miyazawa is...

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