White World

By (author) Saad Farooqi
Categories: Dystopian and utopian fiction

Pakistan, 2083 A.D. The world is snow and blood.

For Avaan, a gun in his hand feels as natural as breathing. As a Pakistani living under martial law and religious bigotry, violence is never too far away. ...

Autokrator

By (author) Emily A. Weedon
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Born nameless, in a rigid, autocratic society that has relegated all women to non-person status — Unmales — two women fight against their invisibility.

The disappearance of yet another Domestic means ...

Silver Repetition

By (author) Lily Wang
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

A young Asian immigrant mends her fractured sense of self in this exquisite coming-of-age debut novel about family, grief, and identity.

Having left China for Canada with her parents as a child, Yuè Yuè ...

Roar

By (author) Shelley Thompson
Categories: Family life fiction

A novel inspired by the original screenplay for the award-winning feature film Dawn, Her Dad & the Tractor, about a young trans woman who returns to her family farm in the wake of her mother's death, ...

An Ordinary Violence

By (author) Adriana Chartrand
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

A chilling horror novel about a young Indigenous woman haunted by the oppressive legacies of colonization.

Dawn hasn’t spoken to her brother, Cody, since he was sent to prison for a violent crime seven ...

Yara

By (author) Tamara Faith Berger
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

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Flicker

By (author) Lori Hahnel
Categories: Romance: time travel
Series: Brave & Brilliant

Cass Reisender doesn’t enjoy her psychic abilities. They appeared after her parents were killed in a tragic accident and led her to Madame Freyja, a travelling fortune teller and all-round terrible ...

Jumbo

By (author) Stephens Gerard Malone
Categories: Historical fiction

A work of historical fiction following the prized African elephant who stole the show of the Barnum & Bailey Circus — and the hearts of people around the world — exploring exploitation, unrequited ...

Tales for Late Night Bonfires

By (author) G.A. Grisenthwaite
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Curious, uncanny tales blending Indigenous oral storytelling and meticulous style, from an electric voice in Canadian fiction

These are stories that are a little bit larger than life, or maybe they really ...

South

By (author) Babak Lakghomi
Categories: Dystopian and utopian fiction

South is a hallucinatory reimagination of life in a world under totalitarianism, and an individual’s quest for truth, agency, and understanding.

“A quiet meditation on imagination and reality, absence ...