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A new month means new books! Here are some of the most anticipated Canadian fiction and nonfiction titles for October 2026.
A new month means new books! Here are some of the most anticipated Canadian fiction and nonfiction titles for October 2026. The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.
Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. From the new mystery novel in Louise Penny's Inspector Gamache series to Olympian Cassie Campbell-Pascall's memoir, October is an exciting month for Canadian books. It’s All Coming Back to Me NowIt's All Coming Back to Me Now by Jean-Michel Fortier, pictured, translated by Johnathan Kaplansky.
is a novel about Colin and his best friend Eugénie, set in Sainte-Foy, Que. , in 2003. They’re just normal teenagers, except for Colin’s two big secrets: he’s a die-hard Céline Dion fan and he has a crush on a guy on the swim team. In this coming-of-age story, Colin must decide if he wants to live his truth or keep it close to his chest.
Jonathan Kaplansky is a Montreal-based translator of many authors, including Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec, Lise Tremblay, Annie Ernaux and John Porter.is a novel set in contemporary Halifax and follows a middle-aged woman named Isla who owns the local flower shop. When she’s not keeping her small business afloat, she’s caring for her aging father and her daughter who seems to have no direction in life.
But when a handsome widower’s sailboat sinks right by her property, she’s intrigued and finds herself falling for him.is a coming-of-age novel set between New Brunswick and Cuba. It’s about Missy, a young woman who grapples with racism and poverty with dark humour, a strong sense of self and determination.will be accepting submissions between Sept. 1 and Nov. 1.
You can submit your original, unpublished short fiction for a chance to win $6,000 from theis a novel set in the summer of 1986 in the Quebec mining town of Thetford Mines. There, Steve and Poulie roam free on their bikes and have a summer filled with laughter and childhood innocence. But when tragedy strikes the town, everything changes. Five years later, Steve is desperate to recreate the magic of that summer.
Sébastien Dulude is an author and poet based in Montreal, who spent 10 years in Thetford Mines, from ages six to 16. Pablo Strauss is a translator and three-time finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for translation. He lives in Quebec City.is Olympian Cassie Campbell-Pascall's memoir detailing her extraordinary hockey career and her eventual pivot into broadcasting.
Campbell-Pascall reflects on breaking barriers and making history as a player and media personality — as well as her contributions to the Professional Women's Hockey League. Campbell-Pascall is a three-time Olympian. She was captain of the Canadian women's hockey team, leading them to gold medals at the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics. The Canadian hockey icon is also a broadcaster and analyst.author Herman Melville and American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne.
While only a few of their letters remain in real life, Fortier brings their passionate bond to the page, interspersing their story with that of Melville’s wife, Lizzie, and Fortier’s own conversations while writing the novel. Rhonda Mullins is a translator based in Montreal.
Mullins has been a seven-time finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for translation, and won in 2015 for her translation of Jocelyne Saucier'sSam Wiebe looks at the history of Vancouver as one of the three busiest hubs for film production in North America. Wiebe examines how the city's considerable tax breaks, diverse landscape and proximity to the U.S. led to it becoming a stand-in for locations everywhere, from Seattle and Smallville to Riverdale and Russia.
, won the Arthur Ellis Award for best unpublished first novel and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. He lives in New Westminster, B.C. A New Kind of Clean is a novel by Iain Reid, right, and Ellie Foumbi. is a philosophical horror novel about a struggling actor who gets a lucrative commercial audition that just might change everything.
As she continues the casting process, her grasp on reality begins to fracture, and she'll have to decide how far she's willing to go to achieve everything she's ever wanted. I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Theo is changed forever when he finds the body of the artist Dan Rainer in the ice of Toronto Island’s harbour. The death shocks the close-knit community, including Theo’s mom, Yvonne, and Dan’s daughter, Maxine, who are grappling with this grief.
Years later, Theo and Maxine meet again in Whitehorse and start to form a romantic connection. Yet, as they forge on, they are haunted by their past on Toronto Island. Adrick Brock grew up on Toronto Island and currently lives in Vancouver. He has been shortlisted and longlisted for the, seven ballerinas spend a month at the cursed Deveraux Manor, secluded in the mountains, as they audition for the lead in a fallen primadonna’s company.
Eden desperately wants the part, but so does everyone else — and they’ll all do whatever it takes. As the process intensifies, the ballerinas are pushed to the edge and they’ll have to make bloody sacrifices to get where they want to go. , Nisha is so close to having her dream career, a romantic happy ending and her family’s stamp of approval.
But when she meets an enigmatic consultant named Nick, he sweeps her off her feet, and tempts her to throw expectations to the wind and change her carefully laid plans. , Genie meets Jacob in the Philippines and they instantly fall for one another. They decide to meet up again in Paris and spend a whirlwind two weeks enjoying each other’s company and planning a future together.
But when Jacob disappears, Genie knows something bad has happened to him, though the police and the nearby residents of her rental apartment aren’t as convinced. In a grief-fuelled frenzy, she must get to the bottom of his disappearance before people think that she’s the one to blame. Eva Jurcyzk is an author and book buyer who was born in Poland and currently lives in Toronto.
Her other books includeWhen six-time Olympic medallist Clara Hughes suffered a catastrophic knee injury in 2021, it forced her to slow down. In the stillness, depression, mood swings and menopausal hot flashes loomed large. After seeking help through traditional means, she began psychedelic-assisted therapy. Clara Hughes is a cyclist, speed skater, author and humanitarian.
She is the only Canadian athlete to win multiple medals at both the summer and winter Olympic Games. She is also the author ofGaa Bi Kidwaad Maa Nbiising Nishnaabeg is a nonfiction book by Glenna Beaucage and Katrina Srigley. explores the story of the people of Nipissing First Nation from the perspective of the lake, the land and the community.
The book weaves in social and cultural history to look at themes of education, family, community, gender and language. Katrina Srigley lives and works on Nbisiing Nishnaabeg territory. She is a professor in the department of history at Nipissing University. , Ladybug LaFlesche is a con artist on the run with her two sons.
Though she swore to never return, she finds herself back on her home reserve of Sucker Falls, which she hopes to help become its own sovereign nation as well as the site of the world’s greatest new casino. But when she ends up with piles of debt, she must deceive three new strangers with deep pockets. We Are Underlings tells the story of entry-level marketing employee Zita Chang, who’s also dealing with grief from her father’s recent death.
When the executive director of the park mysteriously dies just before it’s set to open, Zita and her colleagues need to reanimate his body to make sure everything runs smoothly. As some of her other coworkers also meet their sudden demise, she can’t help but wonder if something sinister is afoot. How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?.
, Inspector Gamache, the head of the homicide department of the Sûreté du Québec, receives a call in the early hours of the morning. A terrified voice informs him of a body found in a place called Lost Nation. Gamache has never heard of Lost Nation, but he climbs out of bed and starts looking for it.
When Gamache and his team find the body, they're left with more questions than answers: it's a man who looks like he's from 100 years ago. State of Terror with Hilary Clinton. Penny has won many awards throughout her career, as well as received both the Order of Canada and l’Ordre national du Québec. , Jesse Wente documents his own healing journey and how it relates to reconciliation between nations.
Written from an anti-colonial perspective, Wente analyzes his life — from dealing with grief and pressure to succeed to racism and his place in family and community. He also looks at how rediscovering golf has contributed to his healing. Wente is an Anishinaabe writer, broadcaster and arts leader. He's best known for the more than 20 years he's spent as a columnist for CBC Radio's.
After working at the Toronto International Film Festival, he was named the first executive director of the Indigenous Screen Office in 2018 and was appointed chair of the Canada Council for the Arts in 2020. That Asian Girl Is a Problem, blends memoir and cultural critique to examine what it means to be an Asian woman in spaces that weren't made for you.
Phan details what it's like to navigate parental relationships, workplace politics and relationships while being seen as too much or difficult. Rachel Phan is a Toronto-based writer. Her work has been featured in HuffPost, CBC, National Post and Maclean's. She holds a Master of Journalism from the Toronto Metropolitan University.
She is the author of the memoircombines images and words to explore themes of home and housing. Through essays, poems, diary entries and photographs, Owen reflects on the many places she has lived, her own struggles with housing as a young mother and how moving around can impact a person's sense of belonging.is a novel set in the near future where the world is experiencing climate disaster.
When a new drug is invented that allows users to have a glimpse into different timelines, most science research is dedicated to exploring those and hoping to find one in which the climate crisis has been solved. When one of the leading researchers in this field dies in a mysterious explosion in the research lab, her ex is accused of domestic terrorism and has to find out the truth by piecing together timelines and taking the drug herself.
, Dina is a Toronto lawyer looking forward to celebrating her sister’s wedding. She doesn’t want to take any attention away from the bride by revealing that her own marriage is coming to an end, so she keeps it closely guarded.
But when a former law school crush who ghosted her is at the wedding, old sparks begin to fly, and she realizes that maybe he didn’t actually ghost her after all.is the seventh book in the Sebastien Synard mystery series. Private detective Sebastian is hired as a tour guide for an organization working to restore old Newfoundland toponyms. But when a speaker is found dead at the organization’s first conference, Sebastien and his partner must figure out who’s behind it.
Kevin Major is the Newfoundland author of 26 books, from nonfiction to poetry and young adult novels. His titles include, Doug is an insurance adjustor living a normal life until aliens come to Earth and recruit him to hide the human souls they’ve harvested.
At first, he’s enjoying his new lucrative responsibility, but he soon realizes that he’s a pawn in an intergalactic rivalry — and that he might just be the only person who can save the planet from the sinister things they’re planning.. He won an Emmy Award and was nominated for an Oscar and a Grammy.
Aykroyd is the host and executive producer of the showtells the story of Isabel, a guerilla fighter who returns to her daughter, who she left in the care of her conservative aunt, Soraida. Soraida doesn’t want to lose Yasmin, the teenager she raised, but nonetheless allows Isabel into her home.
The novel follows the three women as they learn to live together in a country still divided.is her debut novel, and it won the 2025 Guernica Prize in its unpublished form. She is based in London, Ont. Meet 14 writers who won Canada's biggest literary awards this year
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