The Seaboard Review's Picks for Best Reads of 2024

Our Staff and Contributors Pick Their Favourite Reads

Here are our favourite books that we enjoyed reading and reviewing in 2024.

FICTION

• The Fake by Zoe Whittall (Harper Collins)

• Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty (Doubleday Canada)

• Bad Cree by Jessica Johns (Doubleday)

• Morel by Raymond Bock, Translated by Melissa Bull (QC Fiction)

• Felt by Mark Blagrave (Cormorant Books)

• River Faces North by Anne Smith-Nochasak (Friesen Press)

• The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)

• The Family Code by Wayne Ng (Guernica)

• Not Even the Sound of a River by Helene Dorion (Book*Hug Press)

• Firekeeper by Katłıà (Roseway)

SHORT FICTION

• Little Fortified Stories by Barbara Black (Caitlin Press)

• In the Shadows of Crows by M. V. Feehan (Baraka Books)

• Northern Nights Edited by Michael Kelly (Undertow Publications)

• Your Body Was Made for This by Debbie Bateman (Ronsdale Press)

• Death by A Thousand Cuts by Shashi Bhat (McClelland & Stewart)

• Brief Lives by Keith Hazzard (Exile Editions)

POETRY

• Best Canadian Poetry 2025 (Biblioasis)

• All This as I Stand By by Carolyne Van Der Meer (Ekstasis Editions)

NON-FICTION

• Sunrise over Half-Built Houses: Love, Longing and Addiction in Suburbia by Erin Steele (Caitlin Press)

• Atrocity on the Atlantic by Nate Hendley (Dundurn Press)

• A Gentleman and A Thief by Dean Jobb (HarperCollins)

• Living with Dementia: The Collected Columns of Darce Fardy (Nimbus Publishing)

• She Is Hope for Wildlife, The Story of Wildlife Rescuer Hope Swinimer, by Wanda Baxter, illustrated by Leah Boudreau (Nimbus)

MOST POPULAR

• Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall by Christophe Lebold (ECW Press)

• Scandal at The Alphorn Factory by Gary Barwin (Assembly Press)

• Felt by Mark Blagrave (Cormorant Books)

• The Suicide Magnet by Paul McLaughlin (Dundurn Press)

INTERNATIONAL

• Voices from the Deep: A Collection of Fantasy and Science Fiction Short Stories by Brian Reindel (Red Giant Press)

• The Islanders by Lewis Robinson (Islandport Press)

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