Summer Challenge 2025: Canadian locations

Looking for help completing your Summer Challenge Bingo Card? Here are some books set in various Canadian provinces and territories!

Updated June 20, 2025
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The birth house
McKay, Ami
Paper Book
In this breathtaking debut novel, Ami McKay has created an unforgettable portrait of the struggles that women have faced to control their own bodies and to keep the best parts of tradition alive in the world of modern medicine. The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare--the first daughter...

Set in Nova Scotia

Sea of Tranquility : a novel
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...

Set in British Columbia (on Vancouver Island)

Empire of wild : a novel
Dimaline, Cherie
Paper Book
"Deftly written, gripping and informative. Empire of Wild is a rip-roaring read!"--Margaret Atwood, From Instagram "Empire of Wild is doing everything I love in a contemporary novel and more. It is tough, funny, beautiful, honest and propulsive--all the while telling a...

Set in Ontario

Split tooth
Tagaq
Paper Book
A girl grows up in Nunavut in the 1970s. She knows joy and love. She knows boredom and bullying. She knows the tedium of the everyday and the seductive energy of the animal world. She knows the ravages of alcohol and violence. When she becomes pregnant, she must navigate all this. Veering between...

Set in Nunavut

The Melting Queen : a novel
Cinnamon, Bruce
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the Sixth Annual Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize--Literary Fiction Category!Shortlisted for Best Speculative Fiction at the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!Shortlisted for Best Book Design at the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!Second Place in the Prose...

Set in Alberta

Still life
Penny, Louise.
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestselling Author -- Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team are called to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal and yet a world away. Jane Neal, a local fixture in the tiny hamlet of Three Pines, has been found dead in the woods on Thanksgiving...

Set in Quebec

The break
Vermette, Katherena
Paper Book
Winner of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award, The Break is a stunning and heartbreaking debut novel about a multigenerational Métis-Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking...

Set in Manitoba

Home : chronicle of a north country life
Powning, Beth
Paper Book

Set in New Brunswick

Paying the land
Sacco, Joe
Paper Book
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE GUARDIAN, THE BROOKLYN RAIL, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, POP MATTERS, COMICS BEAT, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY From the "heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman" (The Economist), a...

Set in the Northwest Territories

Dakwäkãda warriors
Pauls, Cole
Paper Book
As a young person growing up in Haines Junction YT, artist Cole Pauls performed in a traditional song and dance group called the Dakwakada Dancers. During that time, Pauls encountered the ancestral language of Southern Tutchone. Driven by a desire to help revitalize the language, he created...

Set in the Yukon

Anne of Green Gables
Montgomery, L. M.
Paper Book
nbsp;When Marilla Cuthbert and her brother, Matthew, decide to adopt a child from a distant orphanage, they don't get quite what they bargained for. The child who awaits them at the tiny Bright River train station is not the strapping young boy they'd imagined--someone to help Matthew work the...

Set in PEI


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