Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Newsletter Updates

Join Now

Filter:

Black Rock

Black Rock
  • Author(s): John McFetridge
  • Location(s): Montreal
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s

An artfully told police procedural set in an explosive era in recent history Montreal 1970. The “Vampire Killer” has murdered three women and a fourth is missing. Bombs explode in the stock exchange, McGill University, and houses in Westmount....

Winter Wonderland

Winter Wonderland
  • Author(s): Belinda Jones
  • Location(s): Montreal, Québec
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Imagine waking up in a snow globe. . . That’s how travel journalist Krista feels when she arrives in magical Quebec to report on Canada’s glittering Winter Carnival. Over ten sub-zero days Krista’s formerly frozen heart begins to melt...

Ru

Ru
  • Author(s): Kim Thuy
  • Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Malaysia (Malaya), Montreal
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 1970s onwards

Ru: In Vietnamese it means lullaby: in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow – of tears, blood, money. Kim Thúy’s Ru is literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the...

The Dogs at the Perimeter

The Dogs at the Perimeter
  • Author(s): Madeleine Thien
  • Location(s): Cambodia, Montreal
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Looking back at the 1980s

One starless night Janie’s childhood was swept away by the terrors of the Khmer Rouge. Exiled from Phnom Penh, Janie and her family were forced to live out in the open: cold, hungry and under constant surveillance. Caught up...

The Girl Who Was Saturday Night

The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
  • Author(s): Heather O'Neill
  • Location(s): Montreal
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

At birth, Nouschka forms a bond with her twin that can never be broken. At six, she’s the child star daughter of Quebec’s most famous musician. At sixteen, she’s a high-school dropout kicking up with her beloved brother. At...

What I Know About You

What I Know About You
  • Author(s): Eric Chacour, Pablo Strauss (Translator)
  • Location(s): Cairo, Montreal
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

A heartbreaking tale of impossible love in late-twentieth century Egypt. Cairo, 1980s. Tarek’s whole life is laid out for him. A doctor like his father, he has taken over the family medical practice, married his childhood sweetheart and is...

Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter

Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter
  • Author(s): Heather Fawcett
  • Location(s): Montreal
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Current

From Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Heather Fawcett comes a healing and heart-warming fantasy with magic shops, rescue cats and a second chance at love. Agnes Aubert is very fond of making lists. These lists kept...

Foregone

Foregone
  • Author(s): Russell Banks
  • Location(s): Montreal
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary, looking back

A searing novel about memory, abandonment, and betrayal from the acclaimed and bestselling Russell Banks At the centre of Foregone is famed Canadian American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled...

Gravity Is the Thing

Gravity Is the Thing
  • Author(s): Jaclyn Moriarity
  • Location(s): Sydney, Montreal
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Twenty years ago, Abigail Sorenson’s brother Robert went missing one day before her sixteenth birthday, never to be seen again. That same year, she began receiving scattered chapters in the mail from a mysterious guidebook, whose anonymous authors promised...

Heaven’s Door, a Novel

Heaven’s Door, a Novel
  • Author(s): J Kilburn
  • Location(s): Montreal
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Horror, Suspense
  • Era(s): 1990's

Organized crime. An undercover police officer. A murder. An accidental witness. These are the elements of a unique story about love, loss, adventure, hope, and terror: Heaven’s Door, a Novel by J. Kilburn. Part noir crime novel, part historical...

Would you like to add a book or a review or create a reading list? Join Today – It's FREE

Register Now