150 Canadian Books to Read
Children & Teen
Adult
‡‡ Alligator Pie by Dennis Lee
‡‡ 419 by Will Ferguson
‡‡ Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud
‡‡ 99: Stories of the Game by Wayne Gretzky
Montgomery
‡‡ The Baby Project by Sarah Ellis
‡‡ An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris
Hadfield
‡‡ The Balloon Tree by Phoebe Gilman
‡‡ An Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
‡‡ Boy Soup by Loris Lesynski
‡‡ Annabel by Kathleen Winter
‡‡ The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
‡‡ The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by
‡‡ Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
‡‡ Charlie Wilcox by Sharon E. McKay
‡‡ Chicken, Pig, Cow by Ruth Ohi
‡‡ Chin Chiang and the Dragon’s Dance by Ian
Wallace
‡‡ The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert W.
Service
‡‡ Dippers by Barbara Nichol
‡‡ Dragon Seer by Janet McNaughton
‡‡ Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
‡‡ Eye of the Crow by Shane Peacock
‡‡ The First Stone by Don Aker
‡‡ Franklin in the Dark by Paulette Bourgeois
‡‡ From Anna by Jean Little
‡‡ Gifts by Jo Ellen Bogart
Mordecai Richler
‡‡ Bear by Marian Engel
‡‡ Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen
‡‡ The Best Kind of People by Zoe Whittall
‡‡ The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis
‡‡ Birdie by Tracey Lindberg
‡‡ The Birth House by Ami McKay
‡‡ The Bishop’s Man by Linden MacIntyre
‡‡ The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
‡‡ The Book of Secrets by M. G. Vassanji
‡‡ The Break by Katherena Vermette
‡‡ The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
‡‡ Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright
‡‡ The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne
Johnston
‡‡ Grumpy Bird by Jeremy Tankard
‡‡ A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
‡‡ The Hockey Sweater by Roch Carrier
‡‡ Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
‡‡ The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
‡‡ David Suzuki: The Autobiography by David
‡‡ Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes
‡‡ Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang by
Mordecai Richler
Suzuki
‡‡ A Discovery of Strangers by Rudy Wiebe
‡‡ Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine
Thien
‡‡ The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
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150 Canadian Books to Read
Children & Teen
Adult
‡‡ Jillian Jiggs by Phoebe Gilman
‡‡ The Englishman’s Boy by Guy Vanderhaeghe
‡‡ Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
‡‡ Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
‡‡ Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
‡‡ February by Lisa Moore
‡‡ Nix Minus One by Jill MacLean
‡‡ Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis
‡‡ The Nose from Jupiter by Richard Scrimger
‡‡ Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
‡‡ The Mole Sisters and the Rainy Day by Roslyn
‡‡ A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Schwartz
‡‡ The Olden Days Coat by Margaret Laurence
‡‡ Oonga Boonga by Frieda Wishinsky
‡‡ Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat
‡‡ The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch
‡‡ Picture a Tree by Barbara Reid
‡‡ Red is Best by Kathy Stinson
‡‡ The Root Cellar by Janet Lunn
‡‡ The Rule of Three by Eric Walters
‡‡ Rush by Eve Silver
‡‡ Scaredy Squirrel by Mélanie Watt
‡‡ Schooled by Gordon Korman
‡‡ Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
‡‡ Shadow in Hawthorn Bay by Janet Lunn
‡‡ Silverwing by Kenneth Oppel
‡‡ The Sky is Falling by Kit Pearson
‡‡ A Spy in the House by Y.S. Lee
‡‡ Stanley’s Party by Linda Bailey
‡‡ Stella, Queen of the Snow by Marie-Louise Gay
‡‡ The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong
‡‡ Swim the Fly by Don Calame
‡‡ Forty Words for Sorrow by Giles Blunt
‡‡ Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
‡‡ Galore by Michael Crummey
‡‡ Generation X by Douglas Coupland
‡‡ Gold Diggers by Charlotte Gray
‡‡ The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon
‡‡ Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King
‡‡ Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
‡‡ The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
‡‡ The Hanging of Angelique by Afua Cooper
‡‡ Hellgoing by Lynn Coady
‡‡ The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel
‡‡ Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer
‡‡ A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout
‡‡ Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
‡‡ Jade Peony by Wayson Choy
‡‡ Kamouraska by Anne Hebert
‡‡ The Last Spike by Pierre Berton
‡‡ Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay
‡‡ Life of Pi by Yann Martel
‡‡ Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
‡‡ Lives of the Saints by Nino Ricci
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150 Canadian Books to Read
Children & Teen
Adult
‡‡ Taken by Norah McClintock
‡‡ Lost Girls by Andrew Pyper
‡‡ That Scatterbrain Booky by Bernice Thurman
‡‡ Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O’Neill
Hunter
‡‡ This Can’t be Happening at Macdonald Hall! by
Gordon Korman
‡‡ This Dark Endeavour by Kenneth Oppel
‡‡ This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen
‡‡ Underground to Canada by Barbara Smucker
‡‡ The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Teresa Toten
‡‡ Who is Frances Rain by Margaret Buffie
‡‡ Mercy Among the Children by David Adams
Richards
‡‡ Mr. Hockey by Gordie Howe
‡‡ Neuromancer by William Gibson
‡‡ Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
‡‡ No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod
‡‡ Northern Light: The Enduring Mystery of Tom
Thomson by Roy MacGregor
‡‡ Wondrous Strange by Lesley Livingston
‡‡ Obasan by Joy Kogawa
‡‡ Zoom at Sea by Tim Wynne-Jones
‡‡ Orr: My Story by Bobby Orr
Adult
‡‡ The Outlander by Gill Adamson
‡‡ The Parcel by Anosh Irani
‡‡ A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
‡‡ The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke
‡‡ Terry Fox by Leslie Scrivener
‡‡ Room by Emma Donoghue
‡‡ Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
‡‡ Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie
‡‡ Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
‡‡ Ru by Kim Thúy
‡‡ The Time in Between by David Bergen
‡‡ Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
‡‡ The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy
‡‡ Selected Short Stories of Mavis Gallant by Mavis
‡‡ The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Gallant
‡‡ Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene
‡‡ The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
‡‡ Two Solitudes by Hugh MacLennan
‡‡ Still Life by Louise Penny
‡‡ The Wars by Timothy Findley
‡‡ The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
‡‡ We So Seldom Look On Love by Barbara Gowdy
‡‡ The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart
‡‡ Whale Music by Paul Quarrington
‡‡ Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
‡‡ Who Has Seen the Wind by W.O. Mitchell
‡‡ Such is my Beloved by Morley Callaghan
‡‡ Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen
Leacock
‡‡ Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb
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