Showing results by publisher "Knopf Canada" in Literature & Fiction

AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK “Douglas Stuart brilliantly weaved a layered, compelling and yet so intimate a story of identity, what it means to belong, and the courage to claim your own truth.” —Oprah Winfrey “One of 2026's literary triumphs.” —Boston Globe From the Booker-winning...

A major debut collection of globe-spanning stories set in the worlds of art, crime, and fantasy, by an exceptionally elegant and mischievous storyteller. “Terrific: witty, ironic, unnerving, stylish, and funny, very funny. . . . The best first collection of stories I’ve read in years.”...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Longlisted for the Booker Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times The Globe and Mail The Guardian Esquire Vogue TIME The Washington Post The Times (UK) Vulture The Economist NPR Bookriot and more...

From award-winning Brazilian author Eliana Alves Cruz comes a raw, propulsive novel-in-translation about a mother and daughter who work as live-in maids for the rich, and the tragedy they unwittingly bear witness to. Eunice works for a rich family in a building called The Golden Plate, in an...

THE INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2023 PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTION A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF CBC’S BEST CANADIAN FICTION BOOKS OF 2022 A beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magic, love and identity. In the late nineteenth century...

This brilliant novel with universal resonance tells the story of three people trying to survive in a city rife with the extreme fear of desperate times, and of the sorrowing cellist who plays undaunted in their midst. One day a shell lands in a bread line and kills twenty-two people as the...

Beloved author Ami McKay is back, bringing us a magical follow-up in the tradition of Victorian winter tales to her mesmerizing bestseller, The Witches of New York. During the nights between Christmas and New Year's, the witches of New York—Adelaide Thom, Eleanor St. Clair and the youngest...

From one of the great storytellers of our time, an exquisite spy novel—a disarming and memorable caper, in which not everything is quite as it seems At first, I took you for a charming jewel thief. London, 1938. After attending a music hall matinee, Richard Hadley has an unexpected encounter...

A Globe and Mail Spring 2026 Read The long-anticipated, wildly inventive new novel by the Irish-Canadian writer whose previous work won the Amazon First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Goldsmith’s Prize (UK). “One of the most unique, most compelling voices in...

BLACKWELL’S BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of Barack Obama’s Favourite Books of 2025 The Atlantic’s Top 10 The Standard’s Best 2025 Titles to Buy for Book Lovers Named a Best...

WINNER OF THE 2025 ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2026 GORDON BURN PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2026 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2026 AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2025 GOVERNOR...

A spare and powerful new novel from the award-winning author of Good to a Fault and The Little Shadows. When Julia arrives in Medway, accompanying her beloved Hardy on his first posting as an RCMP constable, she tries to explain her new life to old friends from the city, but can find no shared...

FINALIST FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROGERS WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION An explosive new novel from the award-winning, bestselling author of De Niro's Game and Cockroach. It is 1978 in Beirut, Lebanon...

A propulsive, darkly gripping novel about the power and paradoxes of human longing, faith, trauma and taboo, from the acclaimed author of The Amateurs, shortlisted for the Amazon First Novel Award. A fractured portrait of a darkly riveting sibling relationship from the inside out, Strange Loops...

From the critically acclaimed author of the Outline trilogy, an irresistible novel of fame, power, beauty, and truth―and a blazing renovation of the form. The movie star M is one of the most recognizable faces of our time. Her image is everywhere. It has been like that since she was a child...

Winter in the small Canadian town of Solace is a season of hibernation. But this year, the snowfall brings a series of accidental encounters that will shake up the lives—and loves—of an old man, a student on the run and an abandoned dog. It is deep winter, 1969. As the Vietnam War drives...

NAMED 'A BEST DEBUT NOVELIST' BY THE OBSERVER NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED NOVEL BY GOOD HOUSEKEEPING THE TIMES GQ THE GUARDIAN THE SUNDAY TIMES STYLE “I Want You to Be Happy is an irresistible novel that asks complex questions about contemporary life and refuses easy answers...

A Globe and Mail Best New Book of Summer 2026 Bestselling, award-winning, Canada-Reads finalist (for The Hero's Walk) Anita Rau Badami showcases her extraordinary storytelling gifts in this entertaining tale set in India and Montreal—her much-anticipated first novel in fifteen years. Asha...

Named a Most Anticipated Read of 2026 by The New Yorker The New York Times GQ The Guardian BBC Libby The Sydney Morning Herald USA Today Town & Country The Minnesota Star Tribune Featured in BBC’s Spring Preview Oprah Daily Goodreads ...

Named a Best Book of 2025 by The New Yorker Financial Times The Guardian The Economist From internationally renowned, award-winning author Salman Rushdie, an inventive collection of fiction that explores life, death, and what comes into focus at the proverbial eleventh hour of life...