Summer Reading List
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FICTION
- Sunset Park by Paul Auster
- Tell It To the Trees by Anita Rau Badami
- As Long as the Rivers Flow by James K. Bartleman
- The O’Briens by Peter Behrens
- Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
- Summertime by J. M. Coetzee
- Unconfessed by Yvette Christiansë
- By Love Possessed by Lorna Goodison
- Reinventing the Rose by Kenneth J. Harvey
- Alone in the Classroom by Elizabeth Hay
- The Reinvention of Love by Helen Humphreys
- Requiem by Frances Itani
- The Rowing Lesson by Anne Landsman
- The Factory Voice by Jeanette Lynes
- The Guardians by Andrew Pyper
- Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul by David Adams Richards
- Various Positions by Martha Schabas
- At a Loss for Words by Diane Schoemperlen
- The Blue Light Project by Timothy Taylor
- Dogs at the Perimeter by Madeleine Thien
- Touch by Alexi Zentner
MYSTERY/CRIME/THRILLER
- The Accident by Linwood Barclay
- Crime Machine by Giles Blunt
- River City by John Farrow
SCI–FI/FANTASY
- Wonder by Robert Sawyer
NONFICTION
- Shake Hands with the Devil by Romeo Dallaire
- They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children by Romeo Dallaire
- Nation Maker by Richard Gwyn
- Hot Art by Joshua Knelman
- Begging to Be Black by Antjie Krog
- Little Comrades by Laurie Lewis
- Tommy Douglas by Vincent Lam
- How the Scots Invented Canada by Ken McGoogan
- The Paper Garden by Molly Peacock
- Consumer Republic by Bruce Philp
- What We Talk About When We Talk About War by Noah Richler
- Our Way to Fight by Michael Riordon
- A New Leaf: Growing with My Garden by Merilyn Simonds
- The Love Queen of Malabar by Merrily Weisbord
CHILDREN/YOUTH
- Between Sisters by Adwoa Badoe
- The Agency: The Body at the Tower by Y.S. Lee
- Chicken, Pig, Cow and the Class Pet by Ruth Ohi
- Dogs Don’t Eat Jam: And Other Things Bid Kids Know by Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang
- Zorgamazoo by Robert Paul Weston
- Dust City by Robert Paul Weston
POETRY
- The Cartographer’s Skin by Lara Bozabalian
- Small Mechanics by Lorna Crozier
- Icon Driven by Eric Folsom
- Groundwork by Amanda Jernigan
- Body Bereft by Antjie Krog
- Bloom by Michael Lista
- The New Blue Distance by Jeanette Lynes
- The Second Blush by Molly Peacock
- Post–Apothecary by Sandra Ridley
- Sweet Devilry by Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang
