From a bold new voice in crime fiction, Lower City blends the gritty realism of S.A. Cosby with the page-turning pulse of Louise Penny. It’s October 2025 and Hamilton, Ontario is a city on edge—job insecurity, rising rents, and polarization combine in dangerous ways. When a series of abductions plunges the city into chaos, an unsuspecting hero […]
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SHORTLISTED: 2026 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, John Marsden Prize for Writing For Young Adults There’s something dangerous in the air. It shimmers in the night, wrapped in the warm, humid breeze. I stand on the kerb outside my cousin’s house waiting for my sister. Zillah has always been a good girl – nothing like her […]
Two Palestinians search for a language of love amid the ruins of dispossession. Leila, a Palestinian Canadian film scholar, joins a delegation of academics on her first journey to Occupied Palestine. What begins as an intellectual pilgrimage becomes an intimate, destabilizing return to an ancestral land her family was exiled from. There, she meets Khaled—a […]
A wildly funny and richly resonant novel about the absurdities and hypocrisies of twenty-first-century higher education and what parents will sacrifice to get their children into the schools of their dreams, from a celebrated Canadian novelist Devi is a Sri Lankan village girl who dreams of going to Harvard. Katrina is a middle-class American girl […]
In a lush, quiet field, a girl made of flowers opens her eyes and meets Rory, a boy who is desperate to have a friend. Magic and horror collide in this stunning debut that explores power, consent, loneliness, and what makes a person. She was made for him. Daye was woven together from flowers and […]
NATIONAL BESTSELLER · THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • A sweeping novel about friendship, love, and the lifelong pursuit of art from Dave Eggers, the award-winning, bestselling author of The Circle, A Hologram for the King, and The Eyes & the Impossible “Glorious and captivating, with Eggers’ signature humor and precision, Contrapposto […]
These women are out for blood. “Filmic, funny and genuinely terrifying, Hemo Sapiens is part detective story, part vampire myth and an all-biting (pun intended) exploration of the horrors of pregnancy, and the power of sisterhood.” — Paola Ferrante, author of Her Body Among Animals Detective Luke Stockton is preparing for his first child with […]
“A powerful novel set in a Hong Kong that feels remarkably universal.” —Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit West “A dazzling, page-turning novel…Gripping, specific, important, and highly satisfying.” —Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot and Either/Or A powerful, award-winning novel that follows the lives of two women as democracy starts to crumble in Hong Kong On […]
From bestselling author Patrick deWitt comes Dodge City, a rollicking novel about a young man on an amphetamine-fueled cross-country road trip, fleeing the draft for the safe haven of Canada. It’s 1967 in Los Angeles and Lee Clarke has received his draft notice, calling him up to fight in the Vietnam War. A straitlaced, apolitical twenty-three-year-old from […]
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • In a dazzling ode to human inventiveness and desire for meaning, four lives are entangled across time by one unfinished story, saved to a floppy disk in the 1980s and destined to ripple across the centuries. “A joy…and a hauntingly beautiful exploration of what makes […]
Beautifully crafted stories in which older men and women from the Caribbean islands confront their pasts, with regrets and wonder as they discover subtle epiphanies. The stories consider the briefness of life, not only its final outcome but the losses accumulated over the years. Many of the stories focus on characters who are at a […]
A windstorm of fire, scent, and vengeance engulfs three different generations in the Arabian Peninsula. In the ninth century AD, Abbasid poet Ibn al-Mo’taz hides in his palace from the flames of revenge eating at his soul. In the early 1920s, Shamma is born to a family of Dubai spice traders with a nose unlike […]
From the bestselling author of I’m Afraid of Men comes a propulsive and chilling novel for the post-#MeToo era, set in an isolationist state where one woman’s death sparks a movement that could liberate women or destroy them all. When Sarah Munroe is sexually assaulted on her university campus and her attacker walks free, she makes a devastating […]
A saga inspired by the incredible but true story of the iconic Klimt painting Painted in Vienna in 1910, Gustav Klimt’s “Portrait of a Lady” was purchased by an anonymous collector in 1916, retouched by the master a year later, then stolen in 1997 before reappearing in the gardens of an Italian modern art museum […]
WINNER OF THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION A New York Times and Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year An Indigo Book of the Year A propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp. Fifteen-year-old […]
“A sweet coming-of-age story . . . but Christie goes further, adding to the mix a Hardy Boys-style mystery about bootlegged alcohol, pet wolves that never forget a human scent, and generally shady goings-on in abandoned grain elevators . . . Compelling.” —The Globe and Mail Will can’t remember ever going Outside. He lives happily […]
From two-time Leacock Medal winner and bestselling author Terry Fallis comes a slim parable of a novel that imagines a world where literature rules—and one humble writer discovers that success can be the strangest fiction of all. What if novelists were the new rock stars? Malcolm Forde is a novelist who’s made peace with the […]
“Opening Diving Board is like waking in a white room with no doors or windows. A question resonates as one reads these stories: How did Tomás Downey place me here so perfectly, and why is it that I don’t want to leave?”—Agustina Bazterrica, author of Tender is the Flesh and The Unworthy Tomás Downey writes from the edge of the […]
An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On the island of Sicily amid the Peloponnesian War, the Syracusans have figured out what to do with the surviving Athenians who had the gall to invade their city: they’ve herded the sorry prisoners of war into a rock quarry and […]
Indigo’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026 • CBC Books Spring Fiction List 2026 • CBC Books Canadian Fiction Bestseller A dual coming-of-age story about performance—both public and private—sexuality, envy, and grief. Motherclown explores the most fundamental and potentially explosive of human relationships: that of a mother and her daughter. In the wake of her father’s […]
“An unforgiving tale of political horror and womanhood by a writer that is fearless.”—Mariana Enriquez A genre-defying feminist gothic novel blending Indonesian folklore, Islamic mysticism, horror, and political reckoning International literary sensation Intan Paramaditha returns with her most ambitious and haunting work to date. The novel opens with a devastating act: the youngest of three […]
Four Black Japanese gay men team up to exact revenge in a culture where discrimination is deep-seated. A searing, darkly funny debut from the Akutagawa Prize–winning author. Nobody at the corporate offices of Athletius Japan knows much about the massage therapist, Jackson—but rumors abound. He used to work as a model. He likes to party. […]
Set between London and Baghdad, Saleem Haddad’s brilliant second novel is a sweeping, multigenerational tale of art, exile, memory, and the enduring legacies of war. In the summer of 2014, three long estranged Iraqi-British sisters are pulled back into each other’s orbit by the rediscovery of their late father’s long-lost paintings. Beautiful, elusive Zainab; embittered, […]
A powerful, unforgettable debut: three estranged generations in Appalachia grapple with loss, poverty, and their individual demons, until an explosive climax brings them together in apocalyptic deliverance. In the hills and isolated mountain enclaves of southern Appalachia, Nana Grace has left her own family behind to become the “Shepherd” of a disaffected flock of worshippers […]
