SCPL Reads: One eRead Canada Read-a-Likes

Throughout April, public libraries across the country will participate in One eRead / Un livrel Canada, a Canada-wide community book club. Throughout the month, thousands of readers can borrow digital copies of Éric Chacour’s novel What I Know About You from their public libraries with no waitlists.

If you've been reading - and loving - What I Know About You by Éric Chacour, you're going to love these other library titles:

Book cover for Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead.

Jonny Appleseed

Joshua Whitehead

Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, has to return to the his former life when he attends the funeral of his stepfather.

Book cover for Held by Anne Michaels.

Held

Anne Michaels

Beginning with John, an English soldier in 1917 France, and then visiting him again several years later in Yorkshire where he's running a photography studio, this leisurely paced, poetic novel follows him and generations of his family from the early 1900s to 2025.

Book cover for Kukum by Michel Jean.

Kukum

Michel Jean

The story of Almanda Simeon, an orphan raised by her aunt and uncle, who falls in love with a young Innu man despite their cultural differences and goes on to share her life with the Pekuakami Innu community. 

Book cover for The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai.

The Mountains Sing

Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

A sweeping and lyrical multigenerational saga of one family in Vietnam, from the height of the French colonial era to the late 1970s.

Book cover for I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver.

I Wish You All the Best

Mason Deaver

Thrown out of their parents' home and moving in with their estranged sister after coming out as nonbinary, Ben De Backer struggles to endure an anxiety disorder and the last half of senior year while bonding with a charismatic new friend.

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