CBC Canada Reads: 2025 Longlist

Canada's great book debate is back for another year! Find all 15 of the longlisted titles at GVPL to read along.

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Updated February 1, 2025
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The Whispers: The Propulsive New Novel from the Author of the PUSH
Audrain, Ashley
Paper Book
*LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2025* INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Expertly, subtly and powerfully rendered. . . . [The Whispers] delivers a sucker-punch ending you'll have to read twice to believe."--The New York Times Book Review "[An]...
Watch out for her : a novel
Bailey, Samantha M.
Paper Book
Shortlisted for CANADA READS · Instant #1 National Bestseller · A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year A tense psychological thriller about a mother who must keep watch at all times if she wants to keep her family safe--from USA TODAY and #1 national bestselling author...

Shortlisted for Canada Reads 2025 and championed by Maggie Mac Neil

The pull of the stars : a novel
Donoghue, Emma
Paper Book
THE NEW #1 BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WONDER AND ROOM  Dublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the great flu. A small world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love, by the bestselling author of The Wonder and Room. <...
Etta and Otto and Russell and James
Hooper, Emma
Paper Book
Winner of the 2017 Frank Hegyi Award for Emerging Authors A beautiful novel that reminds us that it's never too late to see the things you've longed to see, or to say the things you've longed to say   Eighty-two-year-old Etta has never seen the ocean. So, early one...

Shortlisted for Canada Reads 2025 and championed by Michelle Morgan

Becoming a Matriarch : A Memoir
Knott, Helen
Paper Book
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER The bestselling follow-up to the award-winning, bestselling debut, In My Own Moccasins: When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behind, or to craft a new space. Helen Knott's debut...

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