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THE GLOBE 100

Our annual list of the year’s most noteworthy books

PHOTO CHRISTIE VUONG; ILLUSTRATIONS LEEANDRA CIANCI

Globe and Mail editors and reviewers offer up our annual guide to the most noteworthy fiction, non-fiction, thrillers, graphic novels, poetry, picture books, young adult books and cookbooks of the year

A Dream of a Woman

Casey Plett

(Arsenal Pulp Press)

Plett has a characteristic style that manages to merge tenderness with Prairie toughness – a style on display in these stories of trans women seeking something – groundedness, maybe, but that dreamlike quality of desire, too.

A Town Called Solace

Mary Lawson

(Knopf Canada)

In a small Northern Ontario town in the early 1970s, rebellious 16-year-old Rose vanishes after a fight with her mother. The novel, longlisted for the Booker, follows Rose’s little sister, Clara, and Liam, the thirtysomething man from the city who moves in next door after inheriting the property.

All’s Well Mona Awad

(Hamish Hamilton)

A stage accident ended theatre professor Miranda Fitch’s acting career and left her addicted to painkillers – but when she acquires the ability to transfer her pain to others, she gleefully does so on those who doubted her injury. This story is shaped by Awad’s own experience of chronic pain – as well as Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well and Macbeth, and Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus.

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