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 www.ocl.net 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 www.ocl.net 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. www.ocl.net .