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• The best Canadian fiction of 2025 | CBC Books

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• To Place a Rabbit

  Anand, Madhur

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• Margaret's New Look

  Ashenburg, Katherine

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• We Could Be Rats

  Austin, Emily

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• Deep Cuts

  Brickley, Holly

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• Small Ceremonies

  Edwards, Kyle

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• The River Has Roots

  El-Mohtar, Amal

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• Letters to Kafka

  Estima, Christine

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• The World So Wide

  Jones, Zilla

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• The Hunger We Pass Down

  Lee, Jen Sookfong

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• As the Earth Dreams

  Black Canadian Speculative Stories

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  Edited by Terese Mason Pierre

• We, the Kindling

  Okot Bitek, Otoniya J.

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• Julius Julius

  Stewart de Peña, Aurora

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• Flesh

  Szalay, David

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  Winner of the 2025 Booker Prize

• Every Thing Is Fine Here

  Tushabe, Iryn

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• You've Changed

  Williams, Ian

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• The best Canadian nonfiction of 2025 | CBC Books

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• Look Ma, No Hands

  a Chronic Pain Memoir

  Drolet, Gabrielle

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• It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished

  a Memoir of My Body

  Gies, Kate

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• Encampment

  Resistance, Grace, and An Unhoused Community

  Helwig, Maggie

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