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Started by: karj on March 26, 2009

For all of the book lists out there it appears we really need to compile on for the best Canadian books. This one started from Jewelles Smith's list on Facebook. She asks for you to contribute your selections for "Canadian books or historical Canadian books that Canadians would love". ( Edited by karj )  

Great Canadian Books
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talitha's picks

1. Anil's Ghost (2000), Michael Ondaatje
2. Life of Pi, Yann Martel
3. Falling Angels, Barbara Gowdy
4. Mister Sandman, Barbara Gowdy
5. Helpless, Barbara Gowdy
6. The White Bone, Barbara Gowdy
7. We So Seldom Look on Love, Barbara Gowdy
8. A Complicated Kindness, Miriam Toews
9. The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
10. Coming through Slaughter, Michael Ondaatje
11. The Birthhouse, Ami McKay
12. The Handmaiden's Tale, Margaret Atwood
13. Lullubies for Little Criminals, Heather O'Neill
14. Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
15. The Flying Troutmans, Miriam Toews
16. The Sudden Weight of Snow, Laisha Rosnau
17. The Boys in The Trees, by Mary Swan
18. Lives of the Saints, Nino Ricci
19. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, by Alice Munro
20. Friend of My Youth, Alice Munro
21. The Stone Angel, Margaret Laurence
22. The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood
why I chose these

srlong's picks

1. The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
2. The Cinnamon Peeler, Michael Ondaatje
3. Coming through Slaughter, Michael Ondaatje
4. Beautiful Losers, Leonard Cohen
5. Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, Douglas Coupland
6. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
7. Divisadero, by Michael Ondaatje
8. The Handmaiden's Tale, Margaret Atwood
why I chose these

jewelles's picks

1. A Complicated Kindness, Miriam Toews
2. Beautiful Losers, Leonard Cohen
3. Fall On Your Knees, Anne-Marie MacDonald
4. Monkey Beach, Eden Robinson
5. Before I Wake, Robert J. Wiersema
6. The Birthhouse, Ami McKay
7. The Handmaiden's Tale, Margaret Atwood
8. The Way the Crow Flies, Anne-Marie MacDonald
9. Lullubies for Little Criminals, Heather O'Neill
10. Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
11. Cargo of Orchids, Susan Musgrave
12. A Secret Between Us, Daniel Poliquin
13. 50 Below Zero, Robert Munsch
14. Making a Stone of the Heart, Cynthia Flood
15. The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
16. Blue Moon, James King
why I chose these

danilacy's picks

1. Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
2. The Handmaiden's Tale, Margaret Atwood
3. The Onion Girl, Charles De Lint
4. Legends of Vancouver (1911), E. Pauline Johnson
5. Monkey Beach, Eden Robinson
6. Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland
why I chose these

karynmadam's picks

1. Anil's Ghost (2000), Michael Ondaatje
2. Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
3. Legends of Vancouver (1911), E. Pauline Johnson
4. English Lessons and Other Stories (1996), Shauna Singh Baldwin
5. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
6. A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888), James De Mille
7. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1911), Stephen Leacock
why I chose these

plmiller's picks

1. Shoeless Joe by W P Kinsella
why I chose these

karj's picks

1. Fall On Your Knees, Anne-Marie MacDonald
2. No Logo, Naomi Klein
3. A Perfect Night to Go to China, David Gilmour
4. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
why I chose these

olivelife's picks

1. Life of Pi, Yann Martel
why I chose these
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