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A collection of the best and newest titles by Canadian authors to add to your TBR (to be read) list. From cookbooks to memoirs, thrillers to fantasy, these multicultural voices of Canada offer a window into the richness of our diverse literary landscape.

Pickering Public Library

25 items

  • All the Little Monsters

    How I Learned to Live With Anxiety

    Robertson, David, 1977-
    With humour, warmth and heartbreaking honesty, award-winning author David A. Robertson explores the struggles and small victories of living with chronic anxiety and depression, and shares his hard-earned wisdom in the hope of making other…
    BookToronto, ON : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, [2025] — 616.85250092 Rober
  • The Certainty Illusion

    What You Don't Know and Why It Matters

    Caulfield, Timothy A., 1963-
    In a world where there is so much conflicting information about how we are supposed to live our lives, what can we really know?
    BookToronto, ON : Allen Lane, 2025. — 302.23 Cau
  • In an inspirational, practical self-help book, bestselling author and Pakistani-Canadian Dr. Samra Zafar weaves together research and personal stories to share how she has broken free of beliefs that held her back, and how readers can too.
    BookHarperCollins Canada, Limited 2025
  • Follow the river Liss to the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, and meet two sisters who cannot be separated, even in death.
    BookNew York : Tordotcom, 2025. — FIC ElMoh
  • From a queer Muslim woman and artist, a generous, insightful memoir that traces her journey toward radical self-acceptance and of exile from her ancestral home.
    BookToronto, WA : Knopf Canada, 2025. — 306.7663092 Nozar
  • The sublime, long-awaited, major new novel from the beloved author of the GG Award-winning, Booker Prize-shortlisted bestseller Do Not Say We Have Nothing.
    BookKnopf Canada 2025
  • Catch a Fire

    the Blaze and Bust of the Canadian Cannabis Industry

    Kaplan, Ben,
    The untold story of the $131-billion Canadian cannabis blow out.
    BookToronto, ON : Dundurn Press, [2025] — 338.173790971 Kap
  • An unstoppable thriller set in 1988 when—a mere 100 hours before world leaders gather for the G7 summit—police get a hot tip that an assassin is on the way.
    BookToronto, Ontario : Simon & Schuster Canada, 2025. — FIC Roten
  • A narrator and his accidental companion find themselves impersonating a purportedly dead couple at an island wellness retreat in this absurdist tale.
    BookToronto : Coach House Books, 2024. — FIC Malla
  • British Columbian Amanda Leduc's dazzling new novel follows two walking, talking hyenas as they interact with humans over decades. Blurring the line between human and animal, these strange messengers reveal what is possible when the cages…
    BookToronto, Ontario : Random House Canada, 2025. — FIC Leduc
  • A scientist is consumed by memories of love and loss as she translates a French novella in this witty, irresistible debut novel from award-winning poet Madhur Anand about entangled desire in books, life and love.
    BookKnopf Canada 2025
  • A page-turner about a mysterious disappearance and a moving portrait of a Chinese Canadian family navigating insecurities, expectations, and simmering anger in their small BC town.
    BookPenguin Canada 2025
  • Try Hard

    Creative Work in Progress

    Kerman, Max,
    Funny, conversational, and relatable, Try Hard is for anyone looking to make sense of their own creative pursuit or bring more creativity into their life, offering a framework for how to do it and where to begin, by award-winning frontman…
    BookToronto, ON : Viking, 2025. — 782.42166092 Kerma
  • A genre-bending exploration of that most elemental force–water–through Indigenous storytelling, personal memory, and the work of influential artists and writers.
    BookToronto, ON : Alchemy by Knopf Canada, 2025. — 553.701 Sim
  • The Hinge

    Time to Build An Even Better Canada

    Carney, Mark
    In this timely new book, former Bank of Canada Governor and bestselling author Mark Carney charts a path forward for Canada and the world as we collectively face a multitude of existential threats to our long-standing democratic traditions.
    BookCanada : Signal, 2025. — ON ORDER 2024
  • Wood, Fire & Smoke

    Recipes and Techniques for Wood-Fired Cooking

    Smith, Michael
    Over 80 innovative recipes and techniques for grilling, smoking, spit-roasting, cooking over coals, and more, from award-winning chef and master of wood-fired cooking from Prince Edward Island, Michael Smith.
    BookCanada : Penguin Canada, 2025. — ON ORDER 2024
  • From the cultural critic and bestselling author of One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter comes a poignant, bitingly funny, and unabashedly candid new memoir in essays.
    BookToronto, ON : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, [2025] — 819.46 Koul
  • Alha Disnii

    My Truth : Words From a Wet'suwet'en Woman

    George, Corinne,
    A memoir by Corinne George, a Wet'suwet'en woman from the Gidimt'en Clan, exploring the ongoing impacts of colonization, resilience, and the importance of healing and reconciliation.
    BookVictoria, BC : Medicine Wheel Publishing, [2024] — 305.897071092 Georg
  • A wrenching love story and literary debut following two strangers whose paths converge in a series of seemingly chance encounters and shared histories, from Zimbabwe-born Tarisai Ngangura.
    BookToronto, Ontario : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2025. — FIC Ngang
  • In this sweeping crossover of romantic fantasy and Hindu mythology, Kritika H. Rao reimagines the famous tale of a celestial dancer tasked with seducing a human sage, but when she finds herself falling in love with her mark, she will be…
    BookNew York, NY : Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2025. — FIC Rao