Next Page Live! - Favourite fiction and non-fiction

April 18, 2023 offering of Next Page Live! where Danielle, Monique, Toby, and Trevor share their favourite fiction and non-fiction reads.

Updated May 9, 2023
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The beast : riding the rails and dodging narcos on the migrant trail
Martínez, Oscar
Paper Book
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR, The Economist and The Financial Times   "Harrowing" true stories from two years of immersion reporting on the migrant trail from Chiapas to Arizona--an "honorable successor to enduring works like George Orwell's The Road...

Danielle recommends

City treaty
Francis, Marvin
Paper Book
city treaty is a tough and gritty long poem from a fresh new voice on the Canadian literary scene.

Monique recommends

Cloud atlas : a novel
Mitchell, David
Paper Book
A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan's California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified "dinery server" on death-row;...

Trevor recommends

False witness
Slaughter, Karin
Paper Book
Don't miss the next Will Trent thriller, This Is Why We Lied, coming this August!  INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "There's deception, sabotage, violence, family secrets . . . all the stuff you could want from a fictional page-turner."-- theSkimm  ...

Danielle recommends

Hark! : a vagrant
Beaton, Kate
Paper Book
FEATURED ON MORE THAN TWENTY BEST-OF LISTS, INCLUDING TIME, AMAZON, E! AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY! Hark! A Vagrant is an uproarious romp through history and literature seen through the sharp, contemporary lens of New Yorker cartoonist and comics sensation Kate Beaton. No era...

Danielle recommends

Homegoing
Gyasi, Yaa
Paper Book
A PENGUIN BOOK CLUB PICK "Homegoing is an inspiration." --Ta-Nehisi Coates  An unforgettable New York Times bestseller of exceptional scope and sweeping vision that traces the descendants of two sisters across three hundred years in Ghana and...

Toby recommends

If on a winter's night a traveler
Calvino, Italo.
Paper Book
"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel...Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade." --from If On A Winter's Night a Traveler Italo Calvino's stunning classic imagines a novel capable of endless possibilities in an intricately crafted,...

Trevor recommends

The imagined city : a literary history of Winnipeg
Arnason, David
Paper Book
A survey of the people, places and stories that make up Winnipeg's literary history, from its earliest days to the present. Illustrated with maps and photos.

Monique recommends

The Lincoln highway
Towles, Amor
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More than ONE MILLION copies sold A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick A New York Times Notable Book, a New York Times Readers' Choice Best Book of the Century, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR,...

Toby recommends

The little stranger
Waters, Sarah
Paper Book
From the multi-award-winning and bestselling author ofThe Night WatchandFingersmithcomes an astonishing novel about love, loss, and the sometimes unbearable weight of the past. In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to see a patient at lonely...

Trevor recommends

North End love songs
Vermette, Katherena
Paper Book
Katherena Vermette's award-winning poetry collection North End Love Songs is an ode to the place she grew up, where the beauty of the natural world is overlaid with the rough reality of crime and racism. When a young girl's brother goes missing, she learns what prejudice and discrimination...

Monique recommends

Perception : a photo series
Adams, K. C.
Paper Book
Tired of reading negative and disparaging remarks directed at Indigenous people of Winnipeg in the press and social media, artist KC Adams created a photo series that presented another perspective. Called "Perception Photo Series," it confronted common stereotypes of First Nation, Inuit and Métis...

Monique recommends

Pet sematary : a novel
King, Stephen
Paper Book
Stephen King's #1 New York Times bestseller is a "wild, powerful, disturbing" (The Washington Post Book World) classic about evil that exists far beyond the grave--among his most iconic and frightening novels. When Dr. Louis Creed takes a new job and moves his...

Trevor recommends

The proposal
Guillory, Jasmine
Paper Book
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick "There is so much to relate to and throughout the novel, there is a sharp feminist edge. Loved this one, and you will too."--New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay ...

Danielle recommends

A psalm for the wild-built
Chambers, Becky
Paper Book
Winner of the Hugo Award! In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, bestselling Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk and Robot series, gives us hope for the future. It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools;...

Toby recommends

Right Ho, Jeeves
Wodehouse, P. G.
Paper Book
_________________________________________ 'If comedy is your thing, it's hard to match PG Wodehouse and his classic characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster for hilarious farce.' Irish Daily Mail 'P.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic...

Trevor recommends

Run towards the danger : confrontations with a body of memory
Polley, Sarah
Paper Book
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE 2022 TORONTO BOOK AWARDS * SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Named a Most-Anticipated Book of 2022 by Entertainment Weekly, Lit Hub, and AV Club ...

Toby recommends

Sea of Tranquility
Mandel, Emily St. John
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years...

Toby recommends

Stolen City: Racial Capitalism and the Making of Winnipeg
Toews, Owen
Paper Book
Through a combination of historical and contemporary analysis this book shows how settler colonialism, as a mode of racial capitalism, has made and remade Winnipeg and the Canadian Prairie West over the past one hundred and fifty years. It traces the emergence of a 'dominant bloc', or alliance,...

Monique recommends

Stories Houses Tell
Gibbons, Lillian
Paper Book

Monique recommends

The unreal and the real : the selected short stories of Ursula K. Le Guin
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Paper Book
A collection of short stories by the legendary and iconic Ursula K. Le Guin--selected with an introduction by the author, and combined in one volume for the first time. The Unreal and the Real is a collection of some of Ursula K. Le Guin's best short stories. She has won...

Danielle recommends


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