Books from Canada
92 popular canadian books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around North America Challenge" were written by authors from Canada.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
A taut, psychological mind-bender from the bestselling author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things. We don’t get visitors. Not out here. We never have. In Iain Reid’s second haunting, philosophical puzzle of a novel, set in the near-future, Junior and Henrietta live a comfortable, solitary life on their farm, far from the city lights, but in close quarters with each other. One day, a stranger from the city arrives with alarming news: Junior has been randomly selected to travel far away from the farm...very far away. The most unusual part? Arrangements have already been made so that when he leaves,... continue
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For Joshua: One Ojibway Father Teaches His Son by Richard Wagamese EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
“An expansive work about healing, resilience, humanity, respect, inheritance, Indigenous teachings, and most of all, love” from the author of Indian Horse (Literary Hub). “We may not relight the fires that used to burn in our villages, but we can carry the embers from those fires in our hearts and learn to light new fires in a new world.” Ojibwe tradition calls for fathers to walk their children through the world, sharing the ancient understanding “that we are all, animate and inanimate alike, living on the one pure breath with which the Creator gave life to the Universe.” In this intimate ser... continue
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Friend of my Youth by Alice Munro EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
Presents a collection of ten stories that convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience; from a woman haunted by her dreams of her dead mother to an adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins, and more.
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Greenwood by Michael Christie EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
A magnificent generational saga that charts a family's rise and fall, its secrets and inherited crimes, and the conflicted relationship with the source of its fortune--trees--from one of Canada's most acclaimed novelists It's 2038 and Jacinda (Jake) Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one of the world's last remaining forests. It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, sprawled on his back after a workplace fall, calling out from the concrete floor of an empty mansion. It's 1974 and Willow Greenwood is out of jail, free aft... continue
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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage : Stories by Alice Munro EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 In the her tenth collection (the title story of which is the basis for the new film Hateship Loveship), Alice Munro achieves new heights, creating narratives that loop and swerve like memory, and conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know ourselves. A tough-minded housekeeper jettisons the habits of a lifetime because of a teenager’s practical joke. A college student visiting her brassy, unconventional aunt stumbles on an astonishing secret and its meaning in her own life. An incorrigible philanderer responds with unexpec... continue
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Herzog by Saul Bellow ES
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
A sus cuarenta y siete años Moses Herzog, profesor universitario de cierto prestigio y acreditado espíritu crítico en materia intelectual, afronta algo que creía del todo imposible: un nuevo fracaso matrimonial. Dominado por la necesidad de explicarse, de expresarse, de justificarse, de ponerlo todo en perspectiva, de aclararse, de corregirse, devorado por el odio y una voraz ansia de venganza empieza a escribir a amigos, parientes y conocidos, a los más renombrados inquisidores del alma humana, y en su desesperada búsqueda de sentido incluso al mismísimo Dios, aun cuando sabe que sus palabras... continue
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High School by Sara Quin, Tegan Quin EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
From the iconic musicians Tegan and Sara comes a memoir about high school, detailing their first loves and first songs in a compelling look back at their humble beginnings High School is the revelatory and unique coming-of-age story of Sara and Tegan Quin, identical twins from Calgary, Alberta, who grew up at the height of grunge and rave culture in the nineties, well before they became the celebrated musicians and global LGBTQ icons we know today. While grappling with their identity and sexuality, often alone, they also faced academic meltdown, their parents’ divorce, and the looming pressure... continue
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Hochverrat: Greatcoats by Sebastien de Castell DE
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
In einem Reich, das durch die Gier der Mächtigen zugrunde gerichtet wurde, kämpft Falcio val Mond, oberster Kantor der Greatcoats, unerschütterlich für Recht und Ordnung. Als ein grausames Verbrechen an einem Duke und seiner Familie verübt wird, nimmt der Krieger die Fährte des Mörders auf. Doch bald muss er erkennen, dass er das Opfer eines schrecklichen Verrats ist: Ein tödliches Gift jagt durch seine Venen. Plötzlich ist jeder Moment im Kampf gegen den Feind kostbarer denn je. Kann Falcio den Bürgerkrieg verhindern, der das Land ins Chaos zu... continue
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things : A Novel by Iain Reid EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
Includes Reader's Guide with discussion questions.
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Jade City - Familie ist Pflicht by Fonda Lee DE
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
Familie ist Pflicht – Magie ist Macht – Ehre ist alles! Fonda Lees Fantasy-Roman »Jade City – Familie ist Pflicht« ist der erste Teil der Jade-Saga und eine faszinierende Kombination aus Gangster-Epos und magischer Kung-Fu-Action. Seit Jahrhunderten ist die magische Jade das Lebenselixier der Insel Kekon. Ihretwegen wird gekämpft, gestohlen und gemordet, denn sie verleiht den ehrenhaften Grünblutkrieger ihre außergewöhnlichen Fähigkeiten. Doch nun ist eine mächtige Droge aufgetaucht, die es auch Fremden ermöglicht, die Jade zu nutzen. Diese neue Bedrohung für Kekon lässt die alten Blutfehde zw... continue