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60 Books Every Canadian Should Read

Here is a book 'bucket list' for every Canadian (or aspiring Canadian) to read before they die. It was compiled with books cited in at least two or more of the following lists of noteworthy books written by Canadians: CBC's 100 Novels that Make You Proud to be a Canadian (2015); Today's Parent's 100 Best Canadian Kids Books (2015); Ballast's 50 Greatest Canadian Books of All Time (2014); Good Reads - 100 Canadian Books to Read in a Lifetime (2014); QwiLit's The Great White North: 25 Classic Canadian Novels (2013); Globe and Mail's Best Canadian Fiction (2013); Maclean's Top 10 Canadian Books of the Decade (2009); and The Literary Review of Canada's (LRC) 100 - Canada's Most Important Books (2006).
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A Complicated Kindness (Miriam Toews)
A Complicated Kindness
1
Miriam Toews
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
2
Alias Grace (Margaret Atwood)
Alias Grace
3
Margaret Atwood
Alligator Pie (Dennis Lee)
Alligator Pie
4
Dennis Lee
Annabel
Annabel
5
Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
Anne of Green Gables
6
L.M. Montgomery
A Tale for the Time Being (Ruth Ozeki)
A Tale for the Time Being
7
Ruth Ozeki
Barney's Version
Barney's Version
8
Bear (Marian Engel)
Bear
9
Marian Engel
Beautiful Losers
Beautiful Losers
10
Come, Thou Tortoise (Jessica Grant)
Come, Thou Tortoise
11
Jessica Grant
De Niro's Game
De Niro's Game
12
Dry Lips Ought to Move to Kapuskasing (Tomson Highway)
Dry Lips Ought to Move to Kapuskasing
13
Tomson Highway
Fall on Your Knees
Fall on Your Knees
14
February
February
15
Fifth Business (Robertson Davies)
Fifth Business
16
Robertson Davies
Fruit: A Novel About a Boy and His Nipples (Brian Francis)
Fruit: A Novel About a Boy and His Nipples
17
Brian Francis
Fugitive Pieces (Anne Michaels)
Fugitive Pieces
18
Anne Michaels
Generation X (Douglas Coupland)
Generation X
19
Douglas Coupland
Green Grass, Running Water (Thomas King)
Green Grass, Running Water
20
Thomas King
Half-Blood Blues
Half-Blood Blues
21
Indian Horse
Indian Horse
22
In the Skin of a Lion
In the Skin of a Lion
23
Kamouraska
Kamouraska
24
Kiss of the Fur Queen
Kiss of the Fur Queen
25
Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
Life of Pi
26
Yann Martel
Lives of Girls and Women (Alice Munro)
Lives of Girls and Women
27
Alice Munro
Lullabies for Little Criminals (Heather O'Neill)
Lullabies for Little Criminals
28
Heather O'Neill
Mercy Among the Children
Mercy Among the Children
29
Nègres Blancs D'Amérique De Pierre Vallières
Nègres Blancs D'Amérique De Pierre Vallières
30
Neuromancer (William Gibson)
Neuromancer
31
William Gibson
No Great Mischief (Alistair MacLeod)
No Great Mischief
32
Alistair MacLeod
Naomi Klein, No LOGO /On No LOGO/
Naomi Klein, No LOGO /On No LOGO/
33
Obasan (Joy Kogawa)
Obasan
34
Joy Kogawa
Owls in the Family (Farley Mowat)
Owls in the Family
35
Farley Mowat
Roughing It in the Bush
Roughing It in the Bush
36
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
37
The Antagonist by Lynn Coady
The Antagonist by Lynn Coady
38
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (Mordecai Richler)
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
39
Mordecai Richler
The Bishop's Man
The Bishop's Man
40
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