The Amazon Canada First Novel Award
achievements of Canadian authors and their debut novels, as well as young writers and their short stories.
The 2023 Finalists
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A Minor Chorus
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Billy-Ray Belcourt
- Narrateur(s): Jesse Nobess
- Durée: 4 h et 13 min
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An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta in search of what eludes him: the shape of the novel he yearns to write, an autobiography of his rural hometown, the answers to existential questions about family, love, and happiness.
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A Minor Chorus
- A Novel
- Narrateur(s): Jesse Nobess
- Durée: 4 h et 13 min
- Date de publication: 2022-09-27
- Langue: Anglais
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Bad Cree
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Jessica Johns
- Narrateur(s): Tanis Parenteau
- Durée: 8 h et 14 min
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Mackenzie, a Cree millennial, wakes up in her one-bedroom Vancouver apartment clutching a pine bough she had been holding in her dream just moments earlier. When she blinks, it disappears....
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as spooky as it was authentic
- Écrit par Nevion le 2023-04-21
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Bad Cree
- A Novel
- Narrateur(s): Tanis Parenteau
- Durée: 8 h et 14 min
- Date de publication: 2023-01-10
- Langue: Anglais
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Prix courant: 32,62$ ou 1 crédit
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Hollow Bamboo
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): William Seto Ping
- Narrateur(s): Richard Lam
- Durée: 11 h et 23 min
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The hilarious and heartbreaking story of two William Pings in Newfoundland—the lost millennial and the grandfather he knows nothing about....
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Humour and heartbreak
- Écrit par Mishy le 2023-06-23
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Hollow Bamboo
- A Novel
- Narrateur(s): Richard Lam
- Durée: 11 h et 23 min
- Date de publication: 2023-02-21
- Langue: Anglais
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The Island of Forgetting
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Jasmine Sealy
- Narrateur(s): Varia Williams
- Durée: 8 h et 37 min
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Lost soul Iapetus roams the island, scared and alone, driven mad after witnessing his father’s death at the hands of his mother and his older brother, Cronus. Just before Iapetus is lost forever, he has a son, but the baby is not enough to save him from himself—or his family’s secrets....
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Loved it!
- Écrit par Isaac Murisa le 2023-03-14
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The Island of Forgetting
- A Novel
- Narrateur(s): Varia Williams
- Durée: 8 h et 37 min
- Date de publication: 2022-04-26
- Langue: Anglais
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Prix courant: 29,13$ ou 1 crédit
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In the Upper Country
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Kai Thomas
- Narrateur(s): Wesley French, Milton Barnes, Tymika Tafari
- Durée: 9 h et 46 min
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Young Lensinda Martin is a protegee of a crusading Black journalist in mid-18th century southwestern Ontario, finding a home in a community founded by refugees from the slave-owning states of the American south—whose agents do not always stay on their side of the border....
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In the Upper Country
- A Novel
- Narrateur(s): Wesley French, Milton Barnes, Tymika Tafari
- Durée: 9 h et 46 min
- Date de publication: 2023-01-10
- Langue: Anglais
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Prix courant: 31,47$ ou 1 crédit
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Ghost Forest
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Pik-Shuen Fung
- Narrateur(s): Pik-Shuen Fung
- Durée: 3 h et 47 min
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How do you grieve, if your family doesn’t talk about feelings? This is the question the unnamed protagonist of GhostForest considers after her father dies. One of the many Hong Kong “astronaut” fathers, he stays there to work, while the rest of the family immigrated to Canada before the 1997 Handover, when the British returned sovereignty over Hong Kong to China. As she revisits memories of her father through the years, she struggles with unresolved questions and misunderstandings.
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Elegant, Simple and Utterly Perfect
- Écrit par Karen W. Lam le 2022-06-17
Auteur(s): Pik-Shuen Fung
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Five Little Indians
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Michelle Good
- Narrateur(s): Kyla Garcia
- Durée: 10 h et 34 min
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Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention. Alone and without any skills, support or families, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, where they cling together, striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world that doesn’t want them.
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Poor narration,mediocre plot
- Écrit par Alan Scheer le 2020-09-16
Auteur(s): Michelle Good
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The Dishwasher
- Auteur(s): Stéphane Larue, Pablo Strauss - translator
- Narrateur(s): Robert Naylor
- Durée: 12 h et 16 min
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It’s October in Montreal, 2002, and winter is coming on fast. Past due on his first freelance gig and ensnared in lies to his family and friends, a graphic design student with a gambling addiction goes after the first job that promises a paycheck: dishwasher at the sophisticated La Trattoria. Though he feels out of place in the posh dining room, warned by the manager not to enter through the front and coolly assessed by the waitstaff in their tailored shirts, nothing could have prepared him for the tension and noise of the kitchen, or the dishpit’s clamor and steam.
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Awesome book
- Écrit par Christine le 2020-07-04
Auteur(s): Stéphane Larue, Autres
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Little Fish
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Casey Plett
- Narrateur(s): A. Almeida
- Durée: 8 h et 10 min
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It's the dead of winter in Winnipeg and Wendy Reimer, a 30-year-old trans woman, feels like her life is frozen in place. When her Oma passes away Wendy receives an unexpected phone call from a distant family friend with a startling secret: Wendy's Opa (grandfather) - a devout Mennonite farmer - might have been transgender himself. At first she dismisses this revelation, but as Wendy's life grows increasingly volatile, she finds herself aching for the lost pieces of her Opa's truth.
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Amazing story
- Écrit par Britttay Unger le 2023-09-20
Auteur(s): Casey Plett
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The Water Beetles
- Auteur(s): Michael Kaan
- Narrateur(s): Richard Lee
- Durée: 8 h et 34 min
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The Leung family leads a life of secluded luxury in Hong Kong. But in December 1941, the Empire of Japan invades the colony. The family is quickly dragged into a spiral of violence, repression, and starvation. To survive, they entomb themselves and their friends in the Leung mansion. But this is only a temporary reprieve, and the Leungs are forced to send their children away. The youngest boy, Chung-Man, escapes with some of his siblings, and together they travel deep into the countryside to avoid the Japanese invaders.
Auteur(s): Michael Kaan
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The Break
- Auteur(s): Katherena Vermette
- Narrateur(s): Michaela Washburn
- Durée: 11 h et 21 min
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When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break - a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house - she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime. In a series of shifting narratives, people who are connected, both directly and indirectly, with the victim - police, family, and friends - tell their personal stories leading up to that fateful night.
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Every Canadian must read
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2018-03-20
Auteur(s): Katherena Vermette
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Ghost Forest
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Pik-Shuen Fung
- Narrateur(s): Pik-Shuen Fung
- Durée: 3 h et 47 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Histoire
How do you grieve, if your family doesn’t talk about feelings? This is the question the unnamed protagonist of GhostForest considers after her father dies. One of the many Hong Kong “astronaut” fathers, he stays there to work, while the rest of the family immigrated to Canada before the 1997 Handover, when the British returned sovereignty over Hong Kong to China. As she revisits memories of her father through the years, she struggles with unresolved questions and misunderstandings.
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Elegant, Simple and Utterly Perfect
- Écrit par Karen W. Lam le 2022-06-17
Auteur(s): Pik-Shuen Fung
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Five Little Indians
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Michelle Good
- Narrateur(s): Kyla Garcia
- Durée: 10 h et 34 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention. Alone and without any skills, support or families, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, where they cling together, striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world that doesn’t want them.
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Poor narration,mediocre plot
- Écrit par Alan Scheer le 2020-09-16
Auteur(s): Michelle Good
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The Dishwasher
- Auteur(s): Stéphane Larue, Pablo Strauss - translator
- Narrateur(s): Robert Naylor
- Durée: 12 h et 16 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Histoire
It’s October in Montreal, 2002, and winter is coming on fast. Past due on his first freelance gig and ensnared in lies to his family and friends, a graphic design student with a gambling addiction goes after the first job that promises a paycheck: dishwasher at the sophisticated La Trattoria. Though he feels out of place in the posh dining room, warned by the manager not to enter through the front and coolly assessed by the waitstaff in their tailored shirts, nothing could have prepared him for the tension and noise of the kitchen, or the dishpit’s clamor and steam.
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Awesome book
- Écrit par Christine le 2020-07-04
Auteur(s): Stéphane Larue, Autres
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Little Fish
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Casey Plett
- Narrateur(s): A. Almeida
- Durée: 8 h et 10 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Histoire
It's the dead of winter in Winnipeg and Wendy Reimer, a 30-year-old trans woman, feels like her life is frozen in place. When her Oma passes away Wendy receives an unexpected phone call from a distant family friend with a startling secret: Wendy's Opa (grandfather) - a devout Mennonite farmer - might have been transgender himself. At first she dismisses this revelation, but as Wendy's life grows increasingly volatile, she finds herself aching for the lost pieces of her Opa's truth.
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Amazing story
- Écrit par Britttay Unger le 2023-09-20
Auteur(s): Casey Plett
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The Water Beetles
- Auteur(s): Michael Kaan
- Narrateur(s): Richard Lee
- Durée: 8 h et 34 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Histoire
The Leung family leads a life of secluded luxury in Hong Kong. But in December 1941, the Empire of Japan invades the colony. The family is quickly dragged into a spiral of violence, repression, and starvation. To survive, they entomb themselves and their friends in the Leung mansion. But this is only a temporary reprieve, and the Leungs are forced to send their children away. The youngest boy, Chung-Man, escapes with some of his siblings, and together they travel deep into the countryside to avoid the Japanese invaders.
Auteur(s): Michael Kaan
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The Break
- Auteur(s): Katherena Vermette
- Narrateur(s): Michaela Washburn
- Durée: 11 h et 21 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break - a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house - she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime. In a series of shifting narratives, people who are connected, both directly and indirectly, with the victim - police, family, and friends - tell their personal stories leading up to that fateful night.
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Every Canadian must read
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2018-03-20
Auteur(s): Katherena Vermette
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13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
- Auteur(s): Mona Awad
- Narrateur(s): Jorjeana Marie
- Durée: 6 h et 27 min
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Growing up in the suburban hell of Misery Saga (aka Mississauga), Lizzie has never liked the way she looks - even though her best friend, Mel, says she's the pretty one. She starts dating guys online, but she's afraid to send pictures, even when her skinny friend China does her makeup: She knows no one would want her if they could really see her. So she starts to lose. With punishing drive, she counts almonds consumed, miles logged, pounds dropped. She fights her way into coveted dresses.
Auteur(s): Mona Awad
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All True Not a Lie in It
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Alix Hawley
- Narrateur(s): Jesse Einstein
- Durée: 12 h et 53 min
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Here is Daniel Boone as you've never seen him. Debut novelist Alix Hawley presents Boone's life, from his childhood in a Quaker colony, through two stints captured by Indians as he attempted to settle Kentucky, the death of a son at the hands of the same Indians, and the rescue of a daughter. The prose rivals Hilary Mantel's and Peter Carey's, conveying that sense of being inside the head of a storied historical figure about which much nonsense is spoken while also feeling completely contemporary.
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Direct and evocative.
- Écrit par Matthew D Gorman le 2018-09-19
Auteur(s): Alix Hawley
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The Rehearsal
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Eleanor Catton
- Narrateur(s): Nicole Arumugum
- Durée: 9 h et 48 min
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A teacher's affair with his underage student jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own power. Their nascent desires surprise even themselves as they find the practice room where they rehearse with their saxophone teacher is the safe place where they can test out their abilities to attract and manipulate. It seems their every act is a performance, every platform a stage.
Auteur(s): Eleanor Catton
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The Outlander
- Auteur(s): Gil Adamson
- Narrateur(s): Sabryn Rock
- Durée: 12 h et 23 min
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In 1903 a mysterious, desperate young woman flees alone across the west, one quick step ahead of the law. She has just become a widow by her own hand. Two vengeful brothers and a pack of bloodhounds track her across the western wilderness. She is 19 years old and half mad. Gil Adamson's extraordinary novel opens in heart-pounding midflight and propels the listener through a gripping road trip with a twist - the steely outlaw in this story is a grief-struck young woman.
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Love this story
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2021-09-16
Auteur(s): Gil Adamson
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Certainty
- Auteur(s): Madeleine Thien
- Narrateur(s): Laara Sadiq
- Durée: 7 h et 57 min
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Certainty follows Gail Lim, a producer of radio documentaries in Vancouver, as she works to uncover the history of her parents' relationship and struggles to come to terms with the events that brought them together. Gail's search for the truth leads her to Amsterdam where she meets a war photographer named Sipke, who tells her the story of a woman named Ani - and in so doing, reveals valuable information that not only sheds further light on Gail's parents, but also brings Gail face to face with the complications in her own life and closer to unraveling the questions that have gripped her imagination.
Auteur(s): Madeleine Thien
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Three Day Road
- Auteur(s): Joseph Boyden
- Narrateur(s): Ruth Ann Phimister
- Durée: 15 h et 47 min
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Cree Indians and best-friends Xavier and Elijah enlist in the Canadian Army in 1915, eager to become heroes. Seasoned hunters, the men become expert snipers, but their horrifying experiences serving in World War I will leave devastating impressions on each man’s life.
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A must read. Captivating from start to end.
- Écrit par Travelmug le 2018-04-23
Auteur(s): Joseph Boyden