3.17 avg rating — 1,029 ratings

"Wayne Johnston is not only a Canadian author, but his books take place predominately in Canada, namely Newfoundland and Labrador. This latest book is set in St John's, Newfoundland and was long-listed for the 2013 Giller Prize."

4.22 avg rating — 19,072 ratings

"Joseph Boyden of Ontario is a prolific author who often writes about First Nations heritage and culture. The Orenda is the 2014 Canada Reads selection and was long-listed for the 2013 Giller Prize."

4.02 avg rating — 82,699 ratings

"MaddAddam is the latest and final book in the MaddAddam Trilogy. Margaret Atwood i arguably one of Canada's best-known authors."

3.20 avg rating — 26,833 ratings

"Although born in Ireland, Emma Donoghue has called London, Ontario home since 1998, so Canada is happy to claim her as one of its own. After the huge success of her novel, Room, Frog Music is a return to her well-known style we've come to know from her books such as Life Mask and Slammerkin."

3.36 avg rating — 72 ratings

"Catherine Bush of Toronto doesn't write novels often, but when she does, they are always critically acclaimed and usually award-winning. Accusation is no exception as it is listed on several Best Books of 2013 compilations. "

3.65 avg rating — 63 ratings

"A Bird's Eye is set in Toronto and was a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and an Amazon.ca Best Book of the Year for 2013. Books by Cary Fagan, who lives in Toronto, are often long and short-listed for various awards, whether they are adult or children's books."

4.01 avg rating — 32,623 ratings

"All My Puny Sorrows is already receiving great praise. It's a story of suicide and sadness shared between two sisters living in Ontario and Manitoba who we've met before in Miriam Toews's previous novels. Toews lives in Manitoba."

3.55 avg rating — 630 ratings

"Based on a terrible murder that took place in Toronto, when the author was only 11, Kicking the Sky by the still Toronto-based, Portuguese author has been receiving rave reviews. "

4.30 avg rating — 13,302 ratings

"Richard Wagamese, who currently resides in Kamloops, BC but is from Ontario, is one of Canada's foremost Native authors. His previous book, Indian Horse was 2013's Canada Reads. Medicine Walk is a read worthy of its own praise."

3.73 avg rating — 868 ratings

"All the Broken Things predominate location are the streets of Toronto and High Park, which play a prominent role in the story line. Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer who lives and works in Toronto explores themes of social and moral responsibility through the relationship between a street kid and a bear."

3.67 avg rating — 2,109 ratings

"Terry Fallis, a previous Canada Reads winner and recipient of the Leacock Medal for Canadian humour writing, continues to make us laugh in No Relation. This book is about Earnest Hemmingway III, not to be mistaken for Ernest Hemingway and his quest to help others who share names with famous people."

3.65 avg rating — 1,376 ratings

"Niagara Falls and the constant roaring sound is a key player in this book by Craig Davidson of Toronto. This raw and dark book explores how people can be products of their environments and often exploitable and disposable."

3.43 avg rating — 2,122 ratings

"Caught is a suspenseful story about drug smuggling in Canada. The protagonist is a Newfoundlander who's just served time in Nova Scotia. Lisa Moore, who resides in St John's NL, has created a great literary adventure. She won the Writers’ Trust Engel/Findley Award in 2013, which given to an author in mid-career for his or her entire body of work as well as what’s to come."

2.85 avg rating — 131 ratings

"Set in a Toronto boarding school, Audrey who attends and her mother Ruth who teaches, learn to navigate the social hierarchies and politics of their new world and life. Torontonian Krita Bridge's book has been nominated for The Writers' Trust Award for fiction."

3.43 avg rating — 929 ratings

"Winner of the 2013 Writers' Trust Award for fiction and short-listed for the Governor General's Award, A Beautiful Truth is an inventive story of a childless couple who adopt a chimpanzee and raise him as a son.
Born in Hong Kong, Colin McAdam has lived all over the world, but now calls Toronto home."

3.83 avg rating — 126,702 ratings

"This is a horror book in which a Boy Scouts troop head into the Canadian wilderness where an encounter with a bio-engineered stranger exposes the boys to a terrifying infection. Credited to "Nick Cutter," it is not a secret that the book is by Craig Davidson."

3.75 avg rating — 85,743 ratings

"The Luminaries won the 2013 Man Booker Prize, making Eleanor Catton, a Canadian-born New Zealand author the youngest recipient of the award in its history."

3.49 avg rating — 256 ratings

"Set during the October Crisis, with the kidnapping of James Cross, the British trade commissioner in Montréal, by members of the Front de Libération du Québec and became the worst terrorist act in Canada. Louis Hamelin was born and lives in Quebec. The book was originally written in French, but has been translated into English as well. Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize."

3.84 avg rating — 1,067 ratings

"Shyam Selvadurai is a Sri Lankan Canadian novelist. Hungry Ghosts is a story of what haunts the protagonist who moves from Sri Lanka to a suburb of Toronto in an attempt to shed his past."

3.35 avg rating — 1,937 ratings

"Lynn Coady lives in Edmonton. Winner of the 2013 Giller Prize and finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. These short stories delve into the mis-communications and misunderstandings that complicate relationships."

3.46 avg rating — 398 ratings

"Controversial author, antithesis to Alice Munro"

3.59 avg rating — 1,324 ratings

"Winner of the 2013 Amazon.ca First Novel Award...."

3.69 avg rating — 768 ratings

3.10 avg rating — 1,013 ratings

"British education in Newfoundland, living in Toronto."

3.53 avg rating — 1,097 ratings