Summer Challenge 2026: Debut Canadian Novel

Looking for help completing your Summer Challenge Bingo Card? Here are some debut novels by Canadian writers!

Updated June 10, 2026
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JULIE CHAN IS DEAD
ZHANG, LIANN
Paper Book
INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER One of NPR's Books We Love for 2025 2026 Libby Book Awards Best Thriller For fans of Bunny and Yellowface, this razor-sharp debut thriller blends biting satire with chilling suspense, as a young woman...
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THAMMAVONGSA, SOUVANKHAM
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE GILLER PRIZE A USA Today Bestseller From O. Henry Award winner and two-time Giller Prize winner Souvankham Thammavongsa comes a revelatory novel about loneliness, love, labor, and class, an intimate and sharply...
DEEP CUTS
BRINCKLEY, HOLLY
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "Tender as a ballad and pleasurable as a pop song, Deep Cuts is both a romp into the indie sleaze era of the early aughts and a timeless love story."--Coco Mellors, New York Times bestselling author of Blue Sisters SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION...
A minor chorus : a novel
Belcourt, Billy-Ray.
Ebook
Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize A debut novel from a rising literary star that brings the modern queer and Indigenous experience into sharp relief. In the stark expanse of Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his...

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