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
"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] electrifying...razor-sharp page-turner." --Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling...
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
Donoghue, Emma.
Paper Book
In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in "Donoghue's best novel since Room" (Kirkus Reviews) In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an...
Etta and Otto and Russell and James
Hooper, Emma
Paper Book
This "poetic, poignant" (US Weekly) debut features last great adventures, unlikely heroes, and a "sweet, disarming story of lasting love" (The New York Times Book Review). Eighty-three-year-old Etta has never seen the ocean. So early one morning she takes a rifle,...

Shortlisted for Canada Reads 2025 and championed by Michelle Morgan

The Other Valley: A Novel
Howard, Scott Alexander
Paper Book
*Soon to be a TV series* Jimmy Fallon's Book Club Top Four Pick and a PBS Book Club Pick For fans of Kazuo Ishiguro and Emily St. John Mandel, this "mind-bending take on time travel" (The New York Times) is about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and...

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