Canada Reads
What's the one book all of Canada should read? From March 17-20, five Canada Reads champions will bring their diverse perspectives to find the one book to change the narrative. Find out more about Canada Reads and this year's finalists here.
2025 Shortlist
Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper
Etta's greatest unfulfilled wish, living in the rolling farmland of Saskatchewan, is to see the sea. And so, at the age of eighty-two she gets up very early one morning, takes a rifle, some chocolate, and her best boots, and begins walking the 2,000 miles to water.
Paperback
Jennie's Boy by Wayne Johnston
Consummate storyteller and bestselling novelist Wayne Johnston reaches back into his past to bring us a sad, tender, and at times extremely funny memoir of his Newfoundland boyhood.
Paperback
2024 Shortlist
Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune
In this breathtaking new novel from the #1 bestselling author of Every Summer After, a random connection sends two strangers on a daylong adventure where they make a promise one keeps and the other breaks, with life-changing effects.
Paperback
2023 Shortlist
Greenwood by Michael Christie
A magnificent generational saga that charts a family's rise and fall, its secrets and inherited crimes, and the conflicted relationship with the source of its fortune--trees.
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Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
An isolated mansion. A chillingly charismatic aristocrat. And a brave socialite drawn to expose their treacherous secrets. . . . From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes “a terrifying twist on classic gothic horror” (Kirkus Reviews) set in glamorous 1950s Mexico.