Books from Canada
160 popular canadian books
Travel the world without leaving your chair.
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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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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Country: North America / Canada
Canada
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Can we ever be wholly free? In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands, Margaret Atwood holds a mirror up to our own world. The reflection we are faced with, of men and women in prisons literal and metaphorical, is frightening, but it is also a call to arms to speak and to act to preserve our freedom while we still can. And in that, there is hope. Selected from The Handmaid's Tale and Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood. VINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make ... continue
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Friend of my Youth by Alice Munro EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
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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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Good Bones and Simple Murders by Margaret Atwood EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
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A collection of short works includes parables, monologues, prose poems, condensed science fiction, and reconfigured fairy tales
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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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Hag-Seed : William Shakespeare's The Tempest Retold: A Novel by Margaret Atwood EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved author of The Handmaid’s Tale reimagines Shakespeare’s final, great play, The Tempest, in a gripping and emotionally rich novel of passion and revenge. “A marvel of gorgeous yet economical prose, in the service of a story that’s utterly heartbreaking yet pierced by humor, with a plot that retains considerable subtlety even as the original’s back story falls neatly into place.”—The New York Times Book Review Felix is at the top of his game as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. Now he’s staging aTempest like no other: not only will it bo... continue
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Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
With the verve and bite of Ottessa Moshfegh and the barbed charm of Nancy Mitford, Marlowe Granados’s stunning debut brilliantly captures a summer of striving in New York City. Isa Epley, all of twenty-one years old, is already wise enough to understand that the purpose of life is the pursuit of pleasure. She arrives in New York with her newly blond best friend looking for adventure. They have little money, but that’s hardly going to stop them. By day, the girls sell clothes on a market stall, pinching pennies for their Bed-Stuy sublet and bodega lunches. By night, they weave between Brooklyn,... continue
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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage : Stories by Alice Munro EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
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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