I was
blessed with the greatest good fortune when I was born in Canada. Today is my country’s 150th
birthday and in honour of the occasion, I’m listing 150 Canadian novels/short story
collections everyone should read. The
authors all call Canada home or have lived here for an extended period of time.
The books are
listed alphabetically by author’s surname.
I’ve limited myself to a maximum of five books per author; if other of
the author’s books are also worth investigating, I’ve placed an asterisk (*) by the
writer’s name.
Anderson-Dargatz, Gail
1. The Cure for Death by Lightning
A
Recipe for Bees
Atwood, Margaret*
The Handmaid’s Tale
Alias Grace
The
Blind Assassin
The
Robber Bride
Oryx
and Crake
Badami, Rita Rau*
Tamarind Mem
The
Hero's Walk
Baldwin, Shauna Singh
10. What the Body Remembers
The Tiger Claw
Beresford-Howe, Constance
The Book of Eve
Boyden, Joseph
Three Day Road
Through
Black Spruce
The
Orenda
Bradley, Alan*
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Burnard, Bonnie
A Good House
Callaghan, Morley
Such Is My Beloved
The
Loved and the Lost
Clarke, Austin
20. The Polished Hoe
Cohen, Leonard
Beautiful Losers
Cohen, Matt
Elizabeth and After
Connelly, Karen
The Lizard Cage
Crummey, Michael
River Thieves
The
Wreckage
Galore
Sweetland
Davies, Robertson*
Fifth Business
The
Manticore
30. World of Wonders
Donoghue, Emma
Room
Ekbäck, Cecilia
Wolf Winter
The
Midnight Sun
Engel, Marian
Bear
Findley, Timothy*
The Wars
Headhunter
The
Piano Man's Daughter
Pilgrim
Gallant, Mavis
The Selected Stories of Mavis Gallant
Galloway, Steven
40. The Cellist of Sarajevo
Govier, Katherine
Angel Walk
Gowdy, Barbara
The White Bone
Gruen, Sara
Water for Elephants
Hay, Elizabeth
A Student of Weather
Late
Nights on Air
Alone
in the Classroom
His
Whole Life
Hébert, Anne
Kamouraska
Highway, Thomson
The Kiss of the Fur Queen
Hill, Lawrence
50. The Book of Negroes
The
Illegal
Irani, Anosh
The Parcel
Irving, John*
A Prayer for Owen Meany
The
Cider House Rules
A
Son of the Circus
Itani, Frances
Deafening
Remembering
the Bones
Requiem
Tell
Johnston, Wayne*
60. The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
The
Navigator of New York
The
Custodian of Paradise
A
World Elsewhere
The
Son of a Certain Woman
Kogawa, Joy
Obasan
Lansens, Lori
Rush Home Road
The
Girls
The
Mountain Story
Laurence, Margaret*
The Stone Angel
70. A
Jest of God
The
Diviners
Lawson, Mary
Crow Lake
The
Other Side of the Bridge
Road
Ends
Leacock, Stephen
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
MacDonald, Ann-Marie
Fall on Your Knees
The
Way the Crow Flies
MacIntyre, Linden
The Long Stretch
The Bishop’s Man
80. Why
Men Lie
MacLeod, Alistair
No Great Mischief
MacLennan, Hugh
Two Solitudes
Martel, Yann
The Life of Pi
McKay, Ami
The Birth House
The
Virgin Cure
McLean, Stuart*
Stories from the Vinyl Cafe
Mitchell, W. O.
Who Has Seen the Wind
Mistry, Rohinton
Such a Long Journey
A
Fine Balance
90. Family
Matters
Montgomery, Lucy Maud*
Anne of Green Gables
Moore, Lisa
February
Caught
Morgan, Bernice
Random Passage
Morrissey, Donna*
Downhill Chance
Sylvanus
Now
What
They Wanted
The
Deception of Livvy Higgs
The
Fortunate Brother
Munro, Alice*
100. Alice Munro’s Best Selected Stories
Ondaatje, Michael
In the Skin of a Lion
The English Patient
Anil's
Ghost
Divisadero
Ozeki, Ruth
A Tale for the Time Being
Proulx, Annie
The Shipping News
Pullinger, Kate
The Mistress of Nothing
Quarrington, Paul
Whale Music
Ricci, Nino
Lives of the Saints
Richards, David Adams*
110. Mercy Among the Children
River
of the Broken-Hearted
The
Friends of Meager Fortune
The
Lost Highway
Incidents
in the Life of Markus Paul
Richardson, Bill
Bachelor Brothers’ Bed & Breakfast
Richler, Mordecai
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Barney’s
Version
Robinson, Eden
Monkey Beach
Roy, Gabrielle
The Tin Flute
120. Where
Nests the Water Hen (La Petite Poule d'eau)
Street
of Riches (Rue Deschambault
Windflower
(La Rivière sans repos)
Selvadurai, Shyam
The Hungry Ghosts
Shields, Carol
Swann: A Mystery
The
Stone Diaries
Larry's
Party
Smart, Elizabeth
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Thien, Madeleine
Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Toews, Miriam
A Complicated Kindness
130. All
My Puny Sorrows
Urquhart, Jane*
Away
The
Underpainter
The
Stone Carvers
A
Map of Glass
Sanctuary
Line
Vanderhaeghe, Guy
The Englishman's Boy
The
Last Crossing
A
Good Man
Vassanji, M. G.
The Book of Secrets
140. The
Assassin's Song
Wagamese, Richard
Indian Horse
Medicine
Walk
Warren, Dianne
Cool Water
Winter, Kathleen
Annabel
Wright, Richard B.
Clara Callan
Adultery
October
Mr.
Shakespeare's Bastard
York, Alissa
Mercy
150. Effigy
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CANADA!
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