150 CANADIAN BOOKS TO READ

Books for Adults (Fiction)   419 by Will Ferguson Generation X by Douglas Coupland   A Better Man by Leah McLaren The Girl who was Saturday Night by Heather  A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews O’Neill   A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood   Across The Bridge by Mavis Gallant Helpless by Barbara Gowdy  Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood  Home from the Vinyl Café by Stuart McLean   All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese   And The Birds Rained Down by Jocelyne Saucier The Island Walkers by John Bemrose   Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy   Annabel by Kathleen Winter jPod by Douglas Coupland  As For Me and My House by Sinclair Ross  Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay   The Back of the Turtle by Thomas King Lives of the Saints by Nino Ricci   Barney’s Version by Mordecai Richler Love and Other Chemical Imbalances by Adam  Beatrice & Virgil by Yann Martel Clark   Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen Luck by Joan Barfoot   The Best Kind of People by Zoe Whittall Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese   The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis Mercy Among The Children by David Adams  The Birth House by Ami McKay Richards

 The Bishop’s Man by Linden MacIntyre  No Great Mischief by Alistair Macleod   Black Robe by Brian Moore The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson   Blackfly Season by Giles Blunt The Outlander by Gil Adamson   The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill The Piano Man’s Daughter by Timothy Findley   The Break by Katherena Vermette The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke

 The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje  Quantum Night by Robert J. Sawyer   The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Remembering the Bones by Frances Itani  Johnston Room by Emma Donoghue  Come, Thou Tortoise by Jessica Grant  Secret Path by Gordon Downie   Cool Water by Dianne Warren Still Life* (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache  Crow Lake by Mary Lawson Series) by Louise Penny   Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Still Missing by Chevy Stevens  Thien The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence  The Englishman’s Boy by Guy Vanderhaeghe  The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart   Far From True by Linwood Barclay Stone Diaries by Carol Shields   February by Lisa Moore Suddenly by Bonnie Burnard

 Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis  Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen  Fifth Business by Robertson Davies Leacock  Galore by Michael Crummey

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150 CANADIAN BOOKS TO READ

 The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie* (Flavia  The Film Club: A True Story of Father and Son by de Luce Mysteries) by Alan Bradley David Gilmour  Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb  Footprints: The Story Behind the Poem that  Ten Tiny Breaths* by K.A. Tucker Inspired Millions by Margaret Fishback Powers  Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden  John A: The Man Who Made Us by Richard J.  The Time In Between by David Bergen Gwyn  The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy  Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words by Malka  Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro Marom  We’re All In This Together by Amy Jones  Letters to my Grandchildren by David Suzuki  When Calls the Heart by Janette Oak  Mr. Hockey by Gordie Howe  Who Has Seen the Wind by W.O. Mitchell  Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat  Willem De Kooning’s Paintbrush by Kerry-Lee  One Thousand Gifts: Reflections on Finding Powell Everyday Graces by Ann Voskamp  The Wonder by Emma Donoghue  Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell  The Wreckage by Michael Crummey  Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret Olwen MacMillan  The Reason You Walk by Wab Kinew  The Regiment by Farley Mowat  Roughing it in the Bush by Susanna Moodie  Rumours of Glory by Bruce Cockburn Books For Adults (Nonfiction)  Staking Claims to a Continent: John A.  99: Stories of the Game by Wayne Gretzky Macdonald, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis,  A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout and the making of North America by James  An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Laxer Hadfield  They Left Us Everything: A Memoir by Plum  Baseball Life Advice: Loving the Game that Saved Johnson Me by Stacey May Fowles  This is My Country-What’s Yours? A Literary  Beyond Remembering: The Collected Poems of Al Atlas of Canada by Noah Richler Purdy by Al Purdy  Unbound: Finding Myself on Top of the World by  Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Steph Jagger Means (to Everyone) by Kamal Al-Solaylee  Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippy Dream by Neil  Citizen of the World by John English Young  The Convict Lover: A True Story by Merilyn Simonds  The Dogs Are Eating Them Now by Graeme Smith *title is part of a series or sequence of titles by the same  Feast: Recipes and Stories from a Canadian Road author and/or featuring the same characters. Trip by Lindsay Anderson & Dana Vanveller

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150 CANADIAN BOOKS TO READ

Books for Young Children Books for Older Children & Teenagers  Alligator Pie by Dennis Lee  And Then It Happened* by Michael Wade  Amos’s Sweater by Janet Lunn  Anne of Green Gables* by Lucy Maud  The Balloon Tree by Phoebe Gilman Montgomery  Big Blue Forever: The Story of Canada’s Largest  The Breadwinner* by Deborah Ellis Blue Whale Skeleton by Anita Miettunen  Dancing Through the Snow by Jean Little  Big Sarah’s Little Boots by Paulette Bourgeois  Emily of New Moon* by Lucy Maud  Canada in Colours by Per-Henrik Gurth Montgomery  Canada 123 by Kim Bellefontaine  Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel  Chicken, Pig, Cow* by Ruth Ohi  The Hypnotists* by Gordon Korman  Franklin in the Dark* by Paulette Bourgeois  Ice Storm (Disaster Strikes Series)* by Penny  Good Morning, Canada by Andrea Beck Draper  Grumpy Bird by Jeremy Tankard  Innocent Heroes by Sigmund Brouwer  The Hockey Sweater by Roch Carrier  The Lost Treasure of Casa Loma (Tom & Liz  If Kids Ruled the World by Linda Bailey Austen Mysteries)* by Eric Wilson  Jillian Jiggs* by Phoebe Gilman  The Rule of Three* by Eric Walters  The Kids Book of Canadian History by Carlotta  Run by Eric Walters Hacker  The Secret World of Og by Pierre Berton  Love You Forever by Robert Munsch  Stop That Stagecoach! (Canadian Flyer  M is for Maple by Michael Ulmer Adventures)* by Frieda Wishinsky  Moose! by Robert Munsch  The Summoning (Darkest Powers Series)* by  Picture a Tree by Barbara Reid Kelley Armstrong  A Porcupine in a Pine Tree: A Canadian 12 Days  The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Teresa of Christmas by Helaine Becker Toten  Red is Best by Kathy Stinson  The Whole Truth* by Kit Pearson  Scaredy Squirrel* by Melanie Watt  The Word for Home by Joan Clark  The Sea Wolves: Living Wild in the Great Bear Rainforest by Ian MacAllister & Nicholas Read  Stella: Star of the Sea by Marie-Louise Gay  This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen  There were Monkeys in my Kitchen by Sheree Fitch *title is part of a series or sequence of titles by the same  The Wish Tree by Kyo Maclear author and/or featuring the same characters.

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