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How It Works Out
by Lacroix, Myriam
After Myriam and Allison fall in love at a show in run-down punk house, their relationship starts to unfold through a series of hypotheticals. What if they became mothers by finding a baby in an alley? What if the only cure for Myriam’s depression was Allison’s flesh? What if they were B-list celebrities, famous for writing a book about building healthy lesbian relationships? How much darker - or sexier - would their dynamic be if one were a power-hungry CEO, and the other her lowly employee? From the fantasies of early romance to the slow encroaching of violence that unravels the fantasy, each reality builds to complete a brilliant, painfully funny portrait of love’s many promises and perils.
Award Nomination: 2025 Amazon Canada First Novel Award
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I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie SueTrapped between petty revenge and a life-changing opportunity, Jolene navigates coworker drama, hidden secrets and forbidden feelings to save her job, risking exposure of an email vendetta and the walls she's built around her heart.
Award Nomination: 2025 Amazon Canada First Novel Award
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Oil People: A Novel
by Huebert, David
Part generational saga, part eco-gothic fable, "Oil People" is a luminous debut novel about history and family, land and power, and oil as an object of toxic wonder. 1987: 13-year-old Jade Armbruster lives with her parents and older sister on the family’s vintage oil farm - a decrepit property built by her ancestor. As her parents fight about whether to sell the land and their failing business, Jade struggles to avoid her best-friend-turned-nemesis and vies for the attention of the enigmatic farmer boy. 1862: Clyde Armbruster catches his big break, striking Lambton County’s first gusher. The discovery brings wealth and opportunity to him and his wife Lise, but his daily proximity to oil leaves him infertile and may be the cause of his alarming, otherworldly visions.
Award Nomination: 2025 Amazon Canada First Novel Award
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Hòt'a! Enough! : Georges Erasmus's Fifty-Year Battle for Indigenous Rights
by Wayne K. Spear
The political life of Dene leader Georges Erasmus - a radical Native rights crusader widely regarded as one of the most important Indigenous leaders of the past 50 years. For decades, Georges Henry Erasmus led the fight for Indigenous rights. From the Berger Inquiry to the Canadian constitutional talks to the Oka Crisis, Georges was a significant figure in Canada’s political landscape. Georges’s five decade battle for Indigenous rights took him around the world and saw him sitting across the table from prime ministers and premiers.
Award Nomination: 2025 Indigenous Voices Awards
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Niizh
by Joelle Peters
It's summertime on the rez. The frybread is sizzling, and the local radio station plays bluegrass, Anishinaabemowin lessons, and Friday-night bingo numbers. Filled with Indigenous humour, small-town seasoning, and dream-world interludes, this heartwarming love story captures the bittersweet highs and lows of a rural teenage upbringing. A love letter to community, Niizh is a refreshing coming-of-age romcom about two young lovebirds leaving the nest.
Award Nomination: 2025 Indigenous Voices Awards
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The Knowing
by Talaga, Tanya
For generations, Indigenous People have known that their family members disappeared, many of them after being sent to residential schools, "Indian hospitals" and asylums through a coordinated system designed to destroy who the First Nations, Métis and Inuit people are. "The Knowing" is the unfolding of Canadian history unlike anything we have ever read before. Anishinaabe author Tanya Talaga retells the history of this country as only she can--through an Indigenous lens, beginning with the life of her great-great grandmother Annie Carpenter and her family as they experienced decades of government- and Church-sanctioned enfranchisement and genocide.
Award Nominations: 2025 Indigenous Voices Awards; 2025 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize
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Health for All: A Doctor's Prescription for a Healthier Canada
by Philpott, Jane
From one of Canada’s most respected and high-profile health professionals (and former federal Minister of Health), a timely, practical, ambitious, and deeply personal call for action on health that sets out the roadmap to our future well-being. What sets this book apart is that it’s more than a prescription for better medical care. Philpott looks at the big picture of health for all. The remedy we await is serious leadership to implement what we already know and to put the well-being of Canadians at the top of the agenda.
Award Nomination: 2025 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize
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The Prince: The Turbulent Reign of Justin Trudeau
by Stephen Maher
In this first comprehensive history of the Justin Trudeau government, veteran journalist Stephen Maher takes readers behind the scenes of a tumultuous decade of Canadian politics. Through hundreds of interviews with political insiders, he describes how Trudeau - a Canadian prince - had the famous name, the political instincts, the work ethic, and the confidence to overcome errors in judgment and build a global brand.
Award Nomination: 2025 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize
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Code Noir: Metamorphoses
by Lubrin, Canisia
A daring and inventive reimagining of the infamous set of laws, the “Code Noir,” that once governed Black lives. The original Code had 59 articles; "Code Noir" has 59 short, linked fictions that present vivid, unforgettable, multi-layered fragments of Black life as it really existed and still exists, winding in and around, over and under the official decrees, refusing to be contained or “ruled.” Ranging in style from contemporary realism to dystopia, from fantasy to historical fiction, this loosely linked stream of 59 irrepressible stories comments on, underscores, undermines, mocks, breaks and redefines the Code’s intent.
Award Nomination: 2025 Trillium Book Award
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I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir
by Maurice Vellekoop
This graphic memoir depicts author Maurice Vellekoop's intense childhood and difficult young adulthood as a young gay person in a strict Christian household. Set in Toronto from the 1970s, Vellekoop begins to see his relationships with his mother and father fracture. As he ventures out on his own, he explores his passion for art and is set on finding romance, but is met with violent attacks and the anxiety surrounding the AIDS era. This story shows an artist's personal journey to self-love and acceptance.
Award Nomination: 2025 Trillium Book Award |
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Wild Houses
by Colin Barrett
In Ballina, Ireland, introspective loner Dev, when Doll English, the younger brother of a small-time local dealer shows up on his doorstep in the clutches of Dev's enforcer cousins, finds his quiet homelife upturned as he is quickly and unwittingly drawn into a revenge plot and a kidnapping gone awry.
Award Nomination: 2025 Trillium Book Award
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