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Waubgeshig Rice · 2018 · Canada · science fiction
★ 3.81 Goodreads · 48,929 ratings

As winter comes to a remote Anishinaabe community in northern Ontario, the power and the phones go out and the news from the south stops, and then a white stranger arrives.

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12 books for readers of Moon of the Crusted Snow

The Marrow Thieves

Cherie Dimaline · 2017 · Canada 96% match ★ 3.92 Goodreads · 46,879 ratings
shares: Canadian, Indigenous, survival, indigenous · easy read, earnest

In a future North America ravaged by climate change, where people have lost the ability to dream, Indigenous people are hunted for their bone marrow, and Frenchie, a Métis boy, flees north with others.

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

Kate Wilhelm · 1976 · US 93% match ★ 3.85 Goodreads · 11,502 ratings
shares: isolated, post apocalyptic, apocalypse · easy read, earnest

As pollution and plague leave humanity sterile, the wealthy Sumner family, in their isolated Appalachian valley, prepare by building a hospital and a cloning laboratory.

Monkey Beach

Eden Robinson · 2000 · Canada 91% match ★ 4.01 Goodreads · 11,143 ratings
shares: Canadian, Indigenous, indigenous · earnest, easy read

Lisamarie Hill, a young Haisla woman in Kitamaat, sets out by speedboat to look for her brother Jimmy, lost at sea, and remembers her family and the spirits she has seen since childhood.

Oryx and Crake

Margaret Atwood · 2003 · Canada 90% match ★ 4.00 Goodreads · 296,119 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in MaddAddam
shares: post apocalyptic · easy read, conventional

In a ruined world, Snowman, who may be the last human, remembers his friend Crake, a brilliant geneticist who built a new species, and the woman they both loved, in the first book of the MaddAddam trilogy.

Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel · 2014 · Canada 88% match ★ 4.06 Goodreads · 652,349 ratings
shares: post apocalyptic · easy read, earnest

A travelling Shakespeare company performs King Lear in the Great Lakes region twenty years after a flu pandemic wiped out civilisation.

The Terminal Experiment

Robert J. Sawyer · 1995 · Canada 88% match ★ 3.74 Goodreads · 4,596 ratings
shares: Canadian · easy read, earnest

Peter Hobson, a Toronto biomedical engineer who has detected the soul leaving the body at death, makes three digital copies of his own mind, and one of them starts killing people.

Terra Nullius

Claire G. Coleman · 2017 · Australia 88% match ★ 3.73 Goodreads · 4,394 ratings
shares: Indigenous, colonial, survival · easy read, exterior

Jacky, a young Native man who has escaped from a mission, runs across a colonised land with Settlers and Troopers on his trail.

Cell

Stephen King · 2006 · US 88% match ★ 3.65 Goodreads · 242,371 ratings
shares: dread, survival, apocalypse · easy read, earnest

Clay Riddell, an artist in Boston on the day he sells his graphic novel, watches everyone on a mobile phone suddenly turn violent, and sets off north to find his son in Maine.

Son of a Trickster

Eden Robinson · 2017 · Canada 88% match ★ 3.80 Goodreads · 14,553 ratings
shares: Canadian, Indigenous, indigenous · easy read, earnest

Jared, a sixteen-year-old Haisla boy in Kitimat who sells weed cookies to pay the family's bills, starts seeing things that can't be real, and his mother may be a witch.

Indian Horse

Richard Wagamese · 2012 · Canada 88% match ★ 4.40 Goodreads · 36,436 ratings
shares: Canadian, Indigenous, indigenous · earnest, easy read

Saul Indian Horse, an Ojibwe man in a treatment centre for alcoholics, goes back over his childhood, his years in a residential school and the hockey that saved him for a while.

The Fireman

Joe Hill · 2016 · US 88% match ★ 3.92 Goodreads · 68,547 ratings
shares: community, dread, survival, apocalypse · easy read, earnest

A spore called Dragonscale is spreading across the world, marking its victims with black and gold patterns before they burst into flame, and when school nurse Harper Grayson finds the marks on herself, pregnant and abandoned, she is taken in by a hidden community and a man called the Fireman.

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler · 1993 · US 86% match ★ 4.18 Goodreads · 301,377 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Earthseed
shares: community, survival · easy read, earnest

As civilisation collapses from climate change and inequality, a young woman with a dangerous gift of empathy leads survivors north towards a new beginning.