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Updated by: Readers’ Den Department - Mississauga Library System
As a special project to promote literacy in the community, famous Canadians donated their favourite book to the Library. These books are on permanent display in the Readers' Den department at the Central Library on the main level.
Slowly Down the Ganges by Eric Nobody Knows My Name by James Newby Baldwin
Donated by Allen Abel, Author and Donated by Lincoln Alexander, Former News Reporter Ontario Lieutenant-Governor
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Donated by Reverend Aloysius Donated by Lisa Alexander, Canadian Ambrozic, Catholic Archbishop of Olympic Medallist, Synchronized Toronto Swimmer
Regina, an Illustrated History by Nucleus by Atomic Energy of Canada J.William Brennan Ltd.
Donated by Mayor Douglas R. Archer, Mayor of Regina Donated by Robert Bothwell, History professor, University of Toronto
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret The Hobbit by J.R.R.Tolkien Atwood
Donated by Angela Bailey, Canadian Donated by Margaret Atwood, Athlete (track & field) Canadian Author The World of Robert Bateman by The Little Prince by A. De Robert Bateman Saint-Exupery
Donated by Robert Bateman, Donated by Frank Bean, Regional Canadian Nature Artist chairman, Peel region
The Secret World of Og by Pierre The Covenant by James A. Michener Berton
Donated by Don Blenkarn, Lawyer, Donated by Pierre Berton, Canadian Former Politician Author
Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain Fournier The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
Donated by Benoit Bouchard, Canada's Ambassador to France Donated by Liona Boyd, Canadian Musician
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Canadian Postal Workers by Paulette Montgomery Bourgeois and Kim LaFave
Donated by Catherine Callbeck, Premier of Prince Edward Island Donated by Canada Post Corporation
Dear Santa by Canada Post The Rebel in the House: the Life and Corporation Times of A.A. Heaps, M.P. by Leo Heaps
Donated by Canada Post Corporation Donated by Shirley G.E. Carr, President, Canadian Labour Congress The Population Explosion by Paul Straight From the Heart by Jean R.Ehrlich & Anne Ehrlich Chretien
Donated by Harry Chadwick, Donated by Jean Chretien, Prime Bramalea-Gore-Malton MP Minister of Canada
Nobody's Baby by Sheila Copps Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama
Donated by Sheila Copps, Hamilton Donated by John C. Crosby, Politician, Liberal MP Former Minister of Finance
The Miracle Planet by Bruce Brown & Black Beauty by Anne Sewell Lane Morgan
Donated by The Hon. Grant Devine, Donated by David Culham, Former Premier of Saskatchewan Mississauga Councillor
William Shakespeare - Tragedies by The Nymph and the Lamp by Thomas H. William Shakespeare Raddall
Donated by The Hon. Brian Dickson, Donated by Mayor Maria Ducharme, Chief Justice of Canada (Retired) Mayor of Halifax
Collected Poems of Robert Service by Friendly Manitoba by Irvin Kroeker Robert Service
Donated by Gary A. Filmon, Premier of Donated by Earl Fee Manitoba Wild Animals I have Known by Ernest Something Out There by Nadine Thompson Seton Gordimer
Donated by Timothy Findley, Canadian Donated by Barbara Frum, Journalist Author and Broadcaster
The Trouble with Canada by William Canada's Place in Space Gairdner
Donated by Marc Garneau, Canadian Donated by William Gairdner, Canadian Astronaut Author
L'ete de L'ile de Grace by Madeline Seize the Day by Geoffrey Ouellette-Michalsha A.H.Pearson
Donated by The Government of Donated by The Government of Canada Canada
The Year I was Born by Linda Granfield The Royal Canadian Legion, 1926-1986 by Jack Jarvie
Donated by Linda Granfield, Canadian Donated by Hugh Green, President of Author the Royal Canadian Legion
Like It Was by Malcolm Muggeridge Hard Bargains: My Life on the Line by Bob White
Donated by Albina Guarnieri, Mississauga Liberal MP Donated by Basil (Buzz) Hargrove, President, Canadian Auto Workers Union The Commanders by Bob Woodward Foundation's Edge by Issac Asimov
Donated by Hollis L. Harris, Chairman, Donated by Curtis Hibbert, Canadian Air Canada Gymnast
Anna Karenin by Leo Tolstoy Memoirs by Pablo Neruda
Donated by Tomson Highway, Canadian Donated by Mel Hurtig, Canadian Playwright, Artistic Director Publisher
Rideau Hall by R.H. Hubbard Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
Donated by The Hon. Ramon J. Donated by Norman Jewison, Canadian Hnatyshyn, Governor General of Film Director Canada
The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson The Secret Garden by Frances H. Davies Burnett
Donated by Norman Jewison, Canadian Donated by Karen Kain, Principal Film Director dancer, National Ballet of Canada
The World Is My Home by James When Lightning Strikes by Joyce Michener Beaton
Donated by Iggy Kaneff, Canadian Donated by Harold Kennedy, Businessman and Developer Mississauga Councillor Good News Bible Overtime: The Legend of Guy Lafleur by Georges-Hebert Germain
Donated by Dean Kondziolka Donated by Guy Lafleur, NHL star
Petticoats and Prejudice by Constance The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje Backhouse
Donated by Anne Marie Letheren, Donated by Donna Lane Secretary General, Canadian Olympic Association
24 Heroic Journeys by Shall Sinha Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
Donated by D. Lowry, President, AGT Ltd. Donated by Doug Lychak, Former Mississauga City Manager
The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler Webster by Jack Webster
Donated by Doug Lychak, Former Donated by Steve Mahoney, Mississauga City Manager Mississauga Liberal MP
Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Durrell Jules Verne
Donated by J.C. de Monmigny Donated by J.C. de Monmigny Marchand, Canada's Ambassador to Marchand, Canada's Ambassador to Italy Italy A Very Public Life,Vol.1&2 by Paul The Trouble With Canada by William Martin D.Gardner
Donated by The Hon. Paul Martin, Donated by Mayor Hazel McCallion, Finance Minister Mayor of Mississauga
Living in Mauritius by Christian Vaisse Loyal She Remains by United Empire Loyalists Assoc. of Canada
Donated by Police Chief W. McCormack, Metro Toronto Police Chief Donated by Frank McKechnie, Mississauga Councillor
The Last Spike by Pierre Berton The Uncounted Irish by Margaret E. Fitzgerald & Joseph A. King
Donated by Peter Mansbridge, Journalist, Broadcaster Donated by Patrick Meaney, Director of Dufferin-Peel Separate School Board
Hitchcock's Films Revisited by Robin How to Win Friends & Influence People Wood by Dale Carnegie
Donated by Don Mills, Director of Library Donated by Edwin Mirvish, Canadian Services, Mississauga Library System Businessman, Entrepreneur
In Place of Fear by Aneurin Bevan Rattray Marsh, Then & Now by Ruth Hussey & Judith Goulin
Donated by Desmond Morton, Principal, Erindale Campus, University of Toronto Donated by Councillor Pat Mullin, Mississauga Councillor Sir John A. MacDonald: The Young Matisse & Picasso - A Friendship in Art Politician by Donald Creighton by Francoise Gilot
Donated by Brian Mulroney, Former Donated by Mila Mulroney, Wife of Prime Minister of Canada Former Prime Minister B. Mulroney
The Colour Purple by Alice Walker Shadow of Heaven: The Life of Lester Pearson by John English
Donated by Anne Murray, Canadian Singer Donated by Steve Offer, Mississauga MPP
Rhymes on the Rising Tide by Carl Ogilvie When in Doubt, Do Both by Kay Macpherson
Donated by Kelvin K. Ogilvie, President, Acadia University Donated by Ontario Human Rights Commission
Little Women by Louisa Mary Historical Atlas of Canada by R. Cole Alcott Harris and Geoffrey J. Matthews
Donated by Maja Prentice, Mississauga Councillor Donated by J. Robert S. Prichard, President, University of Toronto
Tai-Pan by James Clavell Decline of the English Murder and other Essays by George Orwell
Donated by Province of Alberta
Donated by The Hon. Bob Rae, Former Premier of Ontario Titans and Others by Malcolm Last Of The Mohicans by J. MacDonald Fenimore Cooper
Donated by J.J. Robinette, Canadian Donated by John Sola, Mississauga Lawyer, Author MPP
Winnipeg by Various Authors Clarence Darrow for the Defence by Irving Stone
Donated by Mayor Susan A. Thompson, Mayor of Winnipeg Donated byThe Hon. Kenneth Thomson of Fleet, Chairman, The Thomson Corp
When We Were Young by A.A. Milne Northwest Gardener's Almanac by Bill Vander Zalm
Donated by Peter Trueman, Canadian Journalist Donated by The Hon. Bill Vander Zalm, Premier of British of Columbia
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Donated by Clyde Wells, Premier of Donated by The Hon. Mme Justice B. Newfoundland and Labrador Wilson, Supreme Court of Canada
Dune by Frank Herbert Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
Donated by Moses Znaimer, Executive Donated by Moses Znaimer, Executive Producer, City-T.V. Producer, City-T.V.