Publication year 2019
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Friendship, Loneliness, Art, Appearance & Reality, Mental Health
Tags Horror & Suspense, Fantasy, Magical Realism, Mystery & Crime Fiction, Modern Classic Fiction
Canadian Literature
The Canadian Literature Collection highlights the diversity and talent of Canadian authors. Representing the broad range of genres and traditions reflected in Candian Literature, this Collection includes fiction by Margaret Atwood, John Irving, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and other Canadian writers who have shaped the nation's literary canon.
Publication year 2019
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Friendship, Loneliness, Art, Appearance & Reality, Mental Health
Tags Horror & Suspense, Fantasy, Magical Realism, Mystery & Crime Fiction, Modern Classic Fiction
Publication year 2010
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Grief, Community, Regret
Tags Mystery & Crime Fiction, Horror & Suspense
Bury Your Dead is a 2010 mystery novel in Louise Penny’s long-running Inspector Gamache series, the immediate sequel to 2009’s The Brutal Telling. The Gamache novels of Penny, a former broadcast journalist, have received critical acclaim, including multiple Agatha Awards for Best Mystery Novel of the Year and the Anthony Awards from the Mystery Writers of America. The most recent installment in the series, A World of Curiosities, was published in 2022.Content Warning: The source... Read Bury Your Dead Summary
Publication year 2023
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Love, Revenge, Death, Self Discovery, Good & Evil, Justice
Tags Romance, Horror & Suspense, Mystery & Crime Fiction, Modern Classic Fiction
Publication year 1988
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes The Past, Memory, Gender Identity, Art, Aging
Tags Coming of Age, Psychological Fiction, Gender & Feminism, Modern Classic Fiction, Classic Fiction
Cat’s Eye is a 1988 coming-of-age novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood that centers on Elaine Risley, a successful painter who is returning to Toronto for a retrospective show of her work. Throughout the novel, she has vivid recollections of her childhood and adolescence in the city during the postwar years—particularly of her friendship with Cordelia, who persecuted her in a way that had an indelible impact on her life. The novel was a finalist... Read Cat's Eye Summary
Publication year 1996
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Sexual Identity, Gender Identity, Memory, Colonialism
Tags Colonialism & Postcolonialism, LGBTQ+, Trauma & Abuse, Education, Education, Modern Classic Fiction, Magical Realism
Cereus Blooms at Night (1996) is the first novel-length work of fiction written by Shani Mootoo, a Canadian author who was born in Ireland and grew up on the island nation of Trinidad. The novel was originally published in Canada and received critical acclaim there and internationally. It was a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Giller Prize and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Mootoo is also a visual artist... Read Cereus Blooms At Night Summary
Publication year 2020
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Coming of Age, Truth & Lies, Social Class
Tags Romance, Realistic Fiction, Coming of Age, Modern Classic Fiction
Publication year 2003
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Emotions/Behavior: Courage, Family, Justice
Tags Children`s Literature, Horror & Suspense, Mystery & Crime Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Action & Adventure
Publication year 2022
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Fear, Grief, Love, Masculinity, The Past, Self Discovery, Trust & Doubt
Tags Romance, Sports, Contemporary Literature
Publication year 1986
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Science & Technology, Art, Death
Tags Science Fiction, Fantasy, Religion & Spirituality
Publication year 1986
Genre Novel, Fiction
Tags Realistic Fiction, Education, Education, Modern Classic Fiction, Action & Adventure, Classic Fiction
Crabbe is the story of Franklin Crabbe, an eighteen-year old native of Toronto who struggles with the conventional expectations of his affluent parents and teachers. Highly intelligent but riddled with resentment and anxiety, Crabbe (as he prefers to be called) decides to run away to the Canadian wilderness. Once in the wilderness, the inexperienced Crabbe encounters a series of life-threatening challenges that he overcomes only with the help of another fugitive, Mary Pallas, and the lessons... Read Crabbe Summary
Publication year 2002
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Gender Identity, Family
Tags Gender & Feminism, Modern Classic Fiction
Crow Lake is a 2002 Canadian bildungsroman set in a rural farming community in northern Ontario. It is author Mary Lawson’s debut work and earned her the Books in Canada First Novel Award and the UK McKitterick Prize. The novel focuses on the Morrison siblings, who are orphaned when their parents are killed by a logging truck. Kate, the second-youngest member of the family, narrates the novel in first person. Her narrative alternates between the... Read Crow Lake Summary
Publication year 2023
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Emotions/Behavior: Courage, Perseverance, Grief, Gender Identity, Indigenous Identity, Race, Coming of Age, Family, Marriage, Self Discovery, Colonialism, Justice
Tags World History
Publication year 1993
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Memory, Coming of Age, Family, Death
Tags Historical Fiction, World War II, Holocaust, Trauma & Abuse, Children`s Literature, Education, Education, Military & War, World History
Carol Matas is the author of the 1993 novel for young readers, Daniel’s Story, and she published the book in conjunction with the United States Holocaust Museum Memorial exhibit Remember the Children: Daniel’s Story. Like the museum exhibit, Daniel’s Story presents a researched account of what it was like to grow up in Nazi Germany and live through the Holocaust. Before she wrote Daniel’s Story, Matas published two historical novels about the Dutch resistance during... Read Daniel's Story Summary
Publication year 2013
Genre Book, Nonfiction
Tags Psychology, Science & Nature, Business & Economics, Sociology, World History, Psychology, Self-Improvement
Malcolm Gladwell’s 2013 book David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants is an investigation of the relationship—often distorted, in Gladwell’s view—between underdogs and giants. Taken from the Biblical account of David and Goliath, underdogs are cast as those battling (and overcoming) seemingly overwhelming odds, and giants are their adversaries. David and Goliath was a bestseller, but some critics and scholars found Gladwell’s conclusions unsatisfying and the stories he draws from unsubstantiated... Read David And Goliath Summary
Publication year 2015
Genre Short Story, Fiction
Tags Education, Education, Mystery & Crime Fiction, Canadian Literature, Classic Fiction
An elderly widow named Lois considers the Toronto condominium she moved into after her husband’s death. She’s happy to no longer have to deal with caring for a lawn, but she’s even happier to have found a place where she can fit all of her paintings. Lois’s art collection comprises work by the “Group of Seven”—a school of 20th-century painters who depict scenes of the Canadian wilderness. Contrary to what some of her friends think... Read Death By Landscape Summary
Publication year 2010
Genre Book, Nonfiction
Themes Gender Identity
Tags Sociology, Gender & Feminism, Women`s Studies, Science & Nature, Psychology, Psychology, LGBTQ+
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference, also known as Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences, is a 2010 work of feminist nonfiction by British psychologist and philosopher Dr. Cordelia Fine. Through an intensive but accessible review of neurological and sociological studies, the book debunks the idea that men and women have different brains. Nominated for numerous awards upon its publication, it went on to become a bestseller... Read Delusions of Gender Summary
Publication year 1993
Genre Poem, Fiction
Themes Education
Tags Lyric Poem, Education, Modernism
Publication year 2016
Genre Novel, Fiction
Tags Historical Fiction, Modern Classic Fiction, World History, Music, Chinese Literature
Do Not Say We Have Nothing is a novel by Madeline Thein, which focuses on the 20th century Communist Revolution in China and its effects on multiple generations of Chinese citizens. This book won the Scotiabank Giller Prize as well as the Governor General’s Award. It was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2016. This guide refers the American paperback edition published by W.W. Norton.Plot SummaryDuring the first horrific years of the Revolution... Read Do Not Say We Have Nothing Summary
Publication year 2018
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Family, Community, Joy, Self Discovery, Coming of Age, Social Class
Tags Fantasy, African American Literature
Publication year 2022
Genre Graphic Memoir , Nonfiction
Themes Coming of Age, Social Class, Gender Identity, Loneliness, Economics, Environment, Femininity, Masculinity, Friendship, Community, Safety & Danger
Tags Biography