The Hundred Most Important Canadian Books LRCLiterary Review of Canada 1545–1948
1 Bref récit et succincte narration de la 13 Flint and Feather (1912) navigation faite en MDXXXV et MDXXXVI E. Pauline Johnston (Account of the Second Voyage of the 14 Maria Chapdelaine (1914) Navigation of 1535 and 1536) (1545) Louis Hémon Jacques Cartier 15 Jalna (1927) 2 A Journey from Prince of Wales’s Fort in Mazo de la Roche Hudson’s Bay to the Northern Ocean (1795) Samuel Hearne 16 The Fur-Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History (1930) 3 Wacousta; or The Prophecy: H.A. Innis A Tale of the Canadas (1832) John Richardson 17 Such Is My Beloved (1934) Morley Callaghan 4 Report on the Affairs of British North America (1839) 18 The Commercial Empire of the Lord Durham St. Lawrence, 1760–1850 (1937) Donald Creighton 5 Roughing It in the Bush, or Life in Canada (1852) 19 Menaud, maître-draveur Susanna Moodie (Boss of the River) (1937) Félix-Antoine Savard 6 Geological Survey of Canada: Report of Progress from Its 20 As for Me and My House (1941) Commencement to 1863 (1863) Sinclair Ross 7 Canada and the Canadian Question (1891) 21 Two Solitudes (1945) Goldwin Smith Hugh MacLennan 8 Wild Animals I Have Known: Being the 22 Bonheur d’occasion (The Tin Flute) (1945) Personal Histories of Lobo, Silverspot, Gabrielle Roy Raggylug, Bingo, the Springfi eld Fox, the 23 Report of the Royal Commission to Investigate Pacing Mustang, Wully and Redruff (1898) the Facts Relating to and the Circumstances Ernest Thompson Seton Surrounding the Communication by Public 9 The Poems of Archibald Lampman (1900) Offi cials and Other Persons in Positions of Archibald Lampman Trust of Secret and Confi dential Information to Agents of a Foreign Power (1946) 10 The Imperialist (1904) Kellock-Taschereau Commission Sara Jeanette Duncan 24 Who Has Seen the Wind (1947) 11 Anne of Green Gables (1908) W.O. Mitchell Lucy Maud Montgomery 25 Les Plouffe (The Plouffe Family) (1948) 12 Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912) Roger Lemelin Stephen Leacock 26 Refus Global (Complete Refusal) (1948) Paul-Émile Borduas The Hundred Most Important Canadian Books LRCLiterary Review of Canada 1950–1968
27 Empire and Communications (1950) 39 The Stone Angel (1964) Harold A. Innis Margaret Laurence 28 Report of the Royal Commission on 40 In Praise of Older Women: National Development in the Arts, The Amorous Recollections of Letters and Sciences, 1949–1951 (1951) András Vajda (1965) Massey-Lévesque Commission Stephen Vizinczey 29 People of the Deer (1952) 41 Lament for a Nation: Farley Mowat The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism (1965) George Grant 30 So Little for the Mind (1953) Hilda Neatby 42 Prochain épisode (Next Episode) (1965) Hubert Aquin 31 John A. Macdonald: The Young Politician (1952) 43 The Vertical Mosaic: and The Old Chieftain (1955) An Analysis of Social Class and Donald Creighton Power in Canada (1965) John A. Porter 32 Insight: A Study in Human Understanding (1957) 44 Une saison dans la vie d’Emmanuel Bernard Lonergan (A Season in the Life of Emmanuel) (1965) Marie-Claire Blais 33 Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957) 45 Combat Journal for Place d’Armes: Northrop Frye A Personal Narrative (1967) Scott Symons 34 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) Mordecai Richler 46 The Ecstasy of Rita Joe (1967) George Ryga 35 The Spice-Box of Earth (1961) Leonard Cohen 47 Final Report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (1967–69) 36 The Gutenberg Galaxy: Laurendeau-Dunton Commission The Making of Typographic Man (1962) Marshall McLuhan 48 Les belles-sœurs (1968) Michel Tremblay 37 Renegade in Power: The Diefenbaker Years (1963) 49 Federalism and the French Canadians (1968) Peter C. Newman Pierre Elliott Trudeau 38 Report of the Canada Royal Commission 50 Nègres blancs d’Amérique on Health Services (1964) (White Niggers of America) (1968) Hall Commission Pierre Vallières The Hundred Most Important Canadian Books LRCLiterary Review of Canada 1970–1982
51 Fifth Business (1970) 64 The Temptations of Big Bear (1973) Robertson Davies Rudy Wiebe 52 Gentlemen, Players and Politicians (1970) 65 Ten Lost Years: Dalton Camp 1929–1939 (1973) Barry Broadfoot 53 Silent Surrender: The Multinational Corporation 66 Alligator Pie (1974) in Canada (1970) Dennis Lee Kari Levitt 67 The Siren Years: 54 The Blacks in Canada: A Canadian Diplomat Abroad (1974) A History (1971) Charles Ritchie Robin Winks 68 Bear (1976) 55 The Bush Garden: Marian Engel Essays on the Canadian Imagination (1971) 69 A Very Double Life: Northrop Frye The Private World of Mackenzie King (1976) 56 Lives of Girls and Women (1971) C.P. Stacey Alice Munro 70 Duplessis (1976) 57 Paul Kane’s Frontier (1971) Conrad Black J. Russell Harper 71 A New Athens (1977) 58 Red Lights on the Prairies (1971) Hugh Hood James H. Gray 72 The Wars (1977) 59 La Sagouine (1971) Timothy Findley Antonine Maillet 73 Obasan (1981) 60 The Last Spike (1972) Joy Kogawa Pierre Berton 74 None Is Too Many: 61 Leaving Home (1972) Canada and the Jews of Europe, David French 1933–1948 (1982) Irving Abella and Harold Troper 62 Survival (1972) Margaret Atwood 75 Radical Tories: The Conservative Tradition in Canada (1982) 63 Howie Meeker’s Hockey Basics (1973) Charles Taylor Howie Meeker The Hundred Most Important Canadian Books LRCLiterary Review of Canada 1984–2004
76 Banting: 89 A Fine Balance (1995) A Biography (1984) Rohinton Mistry Michael Bliss 90 The Group of Seven: 77 Neuromancer (1984) Art for a Nation (1995) William Gibson Charles Hill 78 The Canadian Encyclopedia (1985) 91 The Jade Peony (1995) Wayson Choy 79 The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) Margaret Atwood 92 Nationalism Without Walls: The Unbearable Lightness of 80 Report on the Economic Union and Being Canadian (1995) Development Prospects for Canada (1985) Richard Gwyn Macdonald Commission 93 The Unconscious Civilization (1995) 81 Rites of Spring: John Ralston Saul The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (1989) 94 Yankee Go Home? Modris Eksteins Canadians and Anti-Americanism (1996) J.L. Granatstein 82 Solomon Gursky Was Here (1989) Mordecai Richler 95 The Colony of Unrequited Dreams (1998) Wayne Johnston 83 Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing (1989) Tomson Highway 96 A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the 84 Trudeau and Our Times: Residential School System, 1879 to 1986 (1999) The Heroic Delusion (1990) John Milloy and The Magnifi cent Obsession (1994) Stephen Clarkson and Christina McCall 97 No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (1999) 85 The Malaise of Modernity (1991) Naomi Klein Charles Taylor 98 Long Shadows: 86 Blood and Belonging: Truth, Lies and History (2000) Journeys into the New Nationalism (1993) Erna Paris Michael Ignatieff 99 Fire and Ice (2003) 87 Green Grass, Running Water (1993) Michael Adams Thomas King 100 Dark Age Ahead (2004) 88 The Stone Diaries (1993) Jane Jacobs Carol Shields