Books Worth a Look
On Twitter, author Zoe Whittall started a thread asking, "What are the Canadian books you love but might be ten years old now or maybe didn’t receive as much press as you thought they deserved?" Such a great idea! We decided to collect suggestions here. Check out the thread at https://49thshelf.com/Lists/Members/2020-31/Books-Worth-a-Look
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The Tracey Fragments
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When I Was Young and In My Prime
Wipe Under a Love
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Dream Pool Essays
Roaring Girl
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Sweet Affliction
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Nobody Cries at Bingo
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Seven Openings of the Head
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Letter from Brooklyn
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The Desperates
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Imagining Toronto
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Vs.
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Outside the Box
The Life and Legacy of Writer Mona Gould, the Grandmother I Thought I Knew
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I’m a Registered Nurse Not a Whore
and Other Stories
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Amphibian
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Killdeer
essay-poems
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Small Beauty
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RATS NEST
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Swim
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Girls Fall Down
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Daniel O'Thunder
A Novel
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The Lion Seeker
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Funny Boy
Penguin Modern Classics Edition