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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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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HUGE by Brent Butt EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
In comedy, killing is a good thing. From the award-winning screenwriter and International Emmy nominee comes this unexpectedly dark and twisted thriller. It's 1994, and three stand-up comedians have embarked on a tour of smaller communities across a remote stretch of rural Canadian countryside. Dale is a 40-something comic from Chicago who's on the back half of a mediocre career and thinking about quitting the business. Rynn is a 20-something fast-rising comedy star from Dublin with a big break into TV on her horizon. And who is this third guy, the hulking young man added to the bill at the la... 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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Icefields by Thomas Wharton EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
Winner of: The Banff Grand National Prize for Literature The Writers Guild of Alberta Best First Book Award The Commonwealth Best First Novel Prize (Caribbean and Canada Region) At a quarter past three in the afternoon, on August 17, 1898, Doctor Edward Byrne slipped on the ice of Acturus glacier in the Canadian Rockies and slid into a crevasse . . . Nearly sixty feet below the surface, Byrne is wedged upside down between the narrowing walls of a chasm, fighting his desire to sleep. The ice in front of him is lit with a pale blue-green radiance. There, embedded in he pure, antediluvian glacier... continue
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Indian Horse : A Novel by Richard Wagamese EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he's a reluctant resident in a treatment centre for alcoholics, surrounded by people he's sure will never understand him. But Saul wants peace, and he grudgingly comes to see that he'll find it only through telling his story. With him, readers embark on a journey back through the life he's led as a northern Ojibway, with all its joys and sorrows. With compassion and insight, author Richard Wagamese traces through his fictional characters the decline of a culture and a cultural way. For Saul, taken forcibly from the lan... continue
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Indian in the Cabinet: Speaking Truth to Power by Jody Wilson-Raybould EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
THE #1 BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE WRITERS' TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY A compelling political memoir of leadership and speaking truth to power by one of the most inspiring women of her generation Jody Wilson-Raybould was raised to be a leader. Inspired by the example of her grandmother, who persevered throughout her life to keep alive the governing traditions of her people, and raised as the daughter of a hereditary chief and Indigenous leader, Wilson-Raybould always knew she would take on leadership roles and responsibilities. She never anticipated, however, that those roles woul... continue
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Interesting Facts about Space : A Novel by Emily Austin EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
"Meet Enid: a lesbian who's a serial dater and deaf in one ear. She works at The Space Agency as an information architect, and when she's not obsessing over true crime podcasts, she's managing her crippling phobia of bald people. While she tries not think about her teenage years, she can't seem to stop obsessively watching her childhood YouTube channel. But as Enid fumbles her way through her first serious relationship and navigates a new family life with her estranged half-sisters, she starts to worry that someone is following her. As her paranoia starts to take over her life, and the persona... continue
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Islands of Decolonial Love: Stories and Songs by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg nation. Found on reserves, in cities and small towns, in bars and curling rinks, canoes and community centres, doctors offices and pickup trucks, Simpson's characters confront the often heartbreaking challenge of pairing the desire to live loving and observant lives with a constant struggle to simply survive the historical and ongoing injustices of racism and coloni... continue
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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
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Jonny Appleseed : A Novel by Joshua Whitehead EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
A tour-de-force debut novel about a Two-Spirit Indigiqueer young man and proud NDN glitter princess who must reckon with his past when he returns home to his reservation.