The 15-title longlist for next year’s CBC Canada Reads competition has been announced.

The 2024 edition of the annual battle of the books is looking for “one book to carry us forward,” and the longlist has collected a group of books that includes novels, graphic novels, and memoir that are “finding the resilience and the hope needed to carry on” in moments of uncertainty.

The shortlisted books and the five panelists who will represent them will be announced on January 11, 2024. The Canada Reads debates will take place from March 4 to 7.

The longlisted books are:

• Bad Cree by Jessica Johns (HarperCollins)
• Bad Medicine by Christopher Twin (Conundrum Press)
• Denison Avenue by Christina Wong and Daniel Innes, ill. (ECW Press)
• Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados (Flying Books)
• Junie by Chelene Knight (Book*hug Press)
• Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age by Darrel J. McLeod (Douglas & McIntyre)
• Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune (Penguin Canada)
• Reuniting with Strangers by Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio (Douglas & McIntyre)
• Shut Up You’re Pretty by Téa Mutonji (VS. Books/Arsenal Pulp Press)
• Sunshine Nails by Mai Nguyen (Simon & Schuster)
• The Future by Catherine Leroux and Susan Ouriou, trans. (Biblioasis)
• The Innocents by Michael Crummey (Doubleday Canada)
• The Winter Knight by Jes Battis (ECW Press)
• What Comes Echoing Back by Leo McKay Jr. (Nimbus Publishing)
• Woke Up Like This by Amy Lea (Amazon Publishing)