2023 Festival Books

21 Things You May Not Know About The Indian Act

Bob Joseph

24 Hours in Italy

Romi Moondi

A Death at the Party

Amy Stuart

A Game of Lies

Clare Mackintosh

A knife so sharp its edge cannot be seen

Erin Noteboom

A Minor Chorus

Billy-Ray Belcourt

A New Season

Terry Fallis

A Safe Girl to Love

Casey Plett

A Super Scary Narwhalloween

Ben Clanton

Abolition Is Love

Syrus Marcus Ware

All The Shining People

Kathy Friedman

An Ordinary Violence

Adriana Chartrand

And Then She Fell

Apartment 713

Kevin Sylvester

Arc of Feeling: The History of the Swing

Javier Moscoso

Austral

Carlos Fonseca

Away from the Dead

David Bergen

Back in the Land of the Living

Eva Crocker

Bad Cree

Be Mine

Richard Ford

Benjamin’s Thunderstorm

Melanie Florence

Best Vacation Ever

Jessica Cunsolo

Bibbit Jumps

Bei Lynn

Blood Grove

Walter Mosley

Blue Hunger

Viola Di Grado

Bonesmith

Nicki Pau Preto

Bonnie Jack

Ian Hamilton

Breaking and Entering

Don Gillmor

Brotherless Night

V. V. Ganeshananthan

Brown Boy: A Memoir

Omer Aziz

Burr

Brooke Lockyer

Celebrate Pride with Lockheed Martin

Jake Byrne

City in Flames

Tomas Hachard

City of Neighbours

Katy Dockrill

Cold Snap

Maureen Jennings

Dear Street

Lindsay Zier-Vogel

Denison Avenue

Christina Wong

Diary of an Invasion

Andrey Kurkov

Dirt

Bill Buford

Do You Remember Being Born?

Sean Michaels

Dragging Mason County

Curtis Campbell

Dunyazad

May Telmissany

Eight Strings

Margaret DeRosia

Elsewhere

Alexis Schaitkin

Everyone Here is Lying

Shari Lapena

Everything There Is

M.G. Vassanji

Except the Dying

Maureen Jennings

Failures of Forgiveness: What We Get Wrong and How to Do Better

Myisha Cherry

Falling Hour

Geoffrey D. Morrison

Far Cry

Alissa York

Find You First

Linwood Barclay

Focus. Click. Wind.

Amanda West Lewis

Forgiveness

Hiro Kanagawa

Gendered Islamophobia: My Journey With a Scar(f)

Monia Mazigh

Ghost Town

Kevin Chen

Grey Bees

Andrey Kurkov

Grimmish

Michael Winkler

Gull Island

Anna Porter 

Half-Life of a Stolen Sister

Rachel Cantor

Haunted Canada 12: More Frightening True Tales

Joel A. Sutherland

Heartbreak Homes

Jo Treggiari

Heat

Bill Buford

Her Body Among Animals

Paola Ferrante

Her First Palestinian

Saeed Teebi

Hitting the Crossbar

Nicole Nwosu

Hollow Bamboo

William Ping

Hot Cross Buns for Everyone

Yolanda T. Marshall

House of Ash and Bone

Joel A. Sutherland

How to Be the Best Third Wheel

Loridee De Villa

How to Decorate a Christmas Tree

Miki Sato

How To Fail As A Popstar

Vivek Shraya

Hunger Heart

Karen Fastrup

I Only Read Murder

Ian Ferguson

Immigrant City

David Bezmozgis

In the Belly of the Congo

Blaise Ndala

In the Game (Hockey Super Six)

Kevin Sylvester

In The Upper Country

Kai Thomas

Inside the Montreal Mafia

Eric Thibault & Félix Séguin

Is My Microphone On?

Jordan Tannahill

It’s Time for Berries!

Ceporah Mearns

Jade is a Twisted Green

Tanya Turton

JAJ: A Haida Manga

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

Jana Goes Wild

Farah Heron

Jokes For The Gunmen

Mazen Maarouf

Just Once, No More: On Fathers, Sons, and Who We Are Until We Are No Longer

Charlie Foran

Kukum

Michel Jean

Learned By Heart

Emma Donoghue

Leilong the Library Bus

Bei Lynn

Leilong’s Too Long!

Bei Lynn

Like A Sister

Kellye Garrett

Malaika, Carnival Queen

Irene Luxbacher

Mansions of the Moon

Shyam Selvadurai

Me Tomorrow: Indigenous Views on the Future

Cyndy Baskin

Meet Us By The Roaring Sea

Akil Kumarasamy

Miss Matched

Wendy Million

Mnoomin maan’gowing / The Gift of Mnoomin

Brittany Luby

Much Ado About Nada

Uzma Jalaluddin

My Father’s House

Karmele Jaio

Nat for Nothing

Maria Scrivan

Never Coming Home

Hannah Mary McKinnon

Not A Happy Family

Shari Lapena

Not Here: Why American Democracy Is Eroding and How Canada Can Protect Itself

Rob Goodman

Nothing Good Happens in Wazirabad on Wednesday

Jamaluddin Aram

November Rain

Maureen Jennings

Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

Margaret Atwood

On the Ravine

Vincent Lam

One Body and A Thousand Edge

Jackleen Salam

Over Time (Hockey Super Six)

Kevin Sylvester

P.S. Tell No One

Vikki VanSickle

Palookaville #24

Seth

Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt

Charlotte Gray

People You Know, Places You’ve Been

Hana Shafi

Permanent Astonishment

Tomson Highway 

Restless

Joseph Kai

Reuniting With Strangers

Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio

River Mumma

Zalika Reid-Benta

River Spirit

Leila Aboulela

Road To Nowhere

Paris Marx

Run Towards The Danger

Sarah Polley

Sadie X

Clara Dupuis-Morency

Salvo mi corazón, todo está bien / Aside from My Heart, All Is Well

Héctor Abad

Scoundrel

Sarah Weinman

Semi-Detached

Elizabeth Ruth

Sharon, Lois and Bram’s Peanut Butter and Jelly

Sharon Hampson & Randi Hampson

Sing, Nightingale

Marie Hélène Poitras

Sinister Graves

Marcie Rendon

Skating Wild on an Inland Sea

Jean E. Pendziwol

Snow Road Station

Elizabeth Hay

Soldiers, Hunters, Not Cowboys

Aaron Tucker

Someone You Know

Catherine Fogarty

Song of the Sparrow

Tara MacLean

South

Babak Lakghomi

Stranger

David Bergen

Suite As Sugar and Other Stories

Camille Hernández-Ramdwar

Surviving Autocracy

Masha Gessen

Take Your Breath Away

Linwood Barclay

Temple Alley Summer

Sachiko Kashiwaba

The Abduction of Seven Forgers

Sean Dixon

The Adversary

Michael Crummey

The African Samurai

Craig Shreve

The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart

Astra Taylor

The Antiracist Kitchen: 21 Stories (and Recipes)

Nadia L. Hohn

The Berry Pickers

Amanda Peters

The Bingo Hall Detectives

Jonathan Whitelaw

The Book of Rain

Thomas Wharton

The Correspondence of Victoria Ocampo, Count Keyserling and C. G. Jung

Craig Stephenson

The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World’s Oceans

Laura Trethewey

The Devastation of Silence

João Reis

The Double Life of Benson Yu: A Novel

Kevin Chong

The Drowning Woman

Robyn Harding

The Enchanted Loom

Suvendrini Lena

The End of Craving: Recovering the Lost Wisdom of Eating Well

The Fake

Zoe Whittall

The Farm

Héctor Abad

The Full-Moon Whaling Chronicles

Jason Guriel

The Future

Catherine Leroux

The Garden of Seven Twilights

Miquel de Palol

The Handyman Method: A Story of Terror

Andrew F. Sullivan

The Island of Forgetting

Jasmine Sealy

The Last Pomegranate Tree

Bachtyar Ali

The Lazarus Solution

Kjell Ola Dahl

The Legend of Baraffo

Moez Surani

The Librarianist

Patrick deWitt

The Lie Maker

Linwood Barclay

The Light at the End of the World

Siddhartha Deb

The Listeners

The Long Knives

Irvine Welsh

The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past

Taras Grescoe

The Maid

Nita Prose

The Marigold

Andrew F. Sullivan

The Negroes are Congregating

Natasha Adiyana Morris

The Observer

Marina Endicott

The Only Way to Make Bread

Cristina Quintero

The Shadow

Melanie Raabe

The Story of Us

Catherine Hernandez

The Sultan of Sarawak

Ian Hamilton

the swailing

Patrick Errington

The Syrian Ladies Benevolent Society

Christine Estima

The Theater of War

Bryan Doerries

The War Being Waged

Darla Contois

The Whole Animal

Corinna Chong

The Woman and Her Bear Cub

Jaypeetee Arnakak

The Wren, The Wren

Anne Enright

These Days Are Numbered: Diary of a High-Rise Lockdown

Rebecca Rosenblum

They All Say I Love You

May Telmissany

This Other Eden

Paul Harding

Thousand Farewells: A Reporter’s Journey From Refugee Camp To The Arab Spring

Nahlah Ayed

ThunderBoom

Claudia Dávila

Truth Telling: Seven Conversations About Indigenous Life in Canada

Michelle Good

Turtle and Guy: A Jeremy and Jazzy Adventure on Understanding Your Emotions

Jeremy Fisher

Two for the Road

Chantel Guertin

Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

Kyo Maclear

Until We Break

Matthew Dawkins

Valid

Chris Bergeron

Vinland Saga 13

Makoto Yukimura

We Belong Here

Frieda Wishinsky

Web3: Charting the Internet’s Next Economic and Cultural Frontier

What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings

John Lorinc

Where Waters Meet

Zhang Ling

Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and Remembrances

Kwame Alexander

Why I Was Late

Charlie Petch

Wild Fires

Sophie Jai

Wild Hope

Joan Thomas

William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, A Radical Retelling

Cliff Cardinal

Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much

Natalie MacLean

Wires that Sputter: Poems

Britta Badour

Word Problems

Ian Williams

Your Driver Is Waiting

Priya Guns

البيريتا يكسب دائماً | Beretta Always Wins

Kamel Riahi

فرنكشنتاين تونس | Frankenstein of Tunisia

Kamel Riahi

مهندس البهجة | The Engineer of Joy

Walid El Khachab