What to Read

A collection of recent books particularly recommended by Holly McNally. Look for our in-store What to Read displays.



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Beijing Coma - hardcover
By Ma Jian - $34.95

Knopf Canada is proud to welcome to the list one of the world’s most significant living writers. Spiked with dark wit, poetic beauty and deep rage, Beijing Coma is the epic new novel from prize-win...

 

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA - trade paperback
By Tim Weiner - $18.95

With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has lef...

 

Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog - trade paperback
By Ted Kerasote - $16.95

When an abandoned dog tags along with Ted Kerasote on a rafting trip, its the start of a long life-changing experience, with a learning process that goes both ways. Patrick Lawlor seamlessly portra...

 

Note By Note: A Celebration of the Piano Lesson - hardcover
By Tricia Tunstall - $28.00

In this luminous book, Tricia Tunstall explores the enduring fascination of the piano lesson. Even as everything else about the world of music changes, the piano lesson retains its appeal. Drawing ...

 

Shadows of a Childhood - trade paperback
By Elisabeth Gille - $16.50

Irène Némirovsky’s posthumous Suite Française has become a publishing phenomenon, selling more than half a million copies since its publication in 2006. As those who know it are keenly aware, Némir...

 

The Horseman's Graves - trade paperback
By Jacqueline Baker - $18.95

A stunning novel of passion, sin and redemption, The Horseman’s Graves returns to the harsh locale of Sand Hills on the Saskatchewan-Alberta border, the location for Jacqueline Baker’s multiple awa...

 

The Prisoner of Tehran - trade paperback
By Marina Nemet - $18.00

In 1982, 16-year-old Marina Nemat was arrested on false charges by Iranian Revolutionary Guards and tortured in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. At a time when most Western teenaged girls are choosi...

 

The Raw Shark Texts - trade paperback
By Steven Hall - $19.95

When Eric Sanderson wakes to amnesia and a haunting note from himself, he discovers an eerie world of thought and concept, a world in which ideas have a life of their own. Attacked by a force he ca...

 

The Reluctant Fundamentalist - trade paperback
By Mohsin Hamid - $17.95

From the author of the award-winning Moth Smoke comes a perspective on love, prejudice, and the war on terror that has never been seen in North American literature.At a café table in Lahore, a...

 

The Withdrawal Method - hardcover
By Pasha Malla - $29.95

Haunting and fresh, shot through with empathy and humour, Pasha Malla's deceptively smooth, brilliant stories grant us entry into fascinating worlds - the forbidden, complex world of children act...

 

Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England - trade paperback
By Lynne Olson - $22.00

Acclaimed historian Lynne Olson’s collective biography explores one of the most important turning points in 20th-century history – the months leading up to Winston Churchill’s accession to Prim...