CBCBooks’ 100 Novels that Make You Proud to Be Canadian
Read 82/100 (as of January 2023)

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✔419 by Will Ferguson
✔A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
✔A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
✔A Season in the Life of Emmanuel by Marie-Claire Blais, Trans. Derek Coltman
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Gil Courtemanche, Trans. Patricia Claxton
✔A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
✔Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
✔Annabel by Kathleen Winter
✔Away by Jane Urquhart

House of Anansi, 2013

✔Barney’s Version by Mordecai Richler
✔Bear by Marian Engel
✔Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen
✔Bone and Bread by Saleema Nawaz
✔Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
✔By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
✔Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo
Certainty by Madeleine Thien
Come, Thou Tortoise by Jessica Grant
Creation by Katherine Govier
✔Crow Lake by Mary Lawson

Geroge Rue Clarke✔De Niro’s Game by Rawi Hage
✔Elizabeth and After by Matt Cohen
✔Essex County by Jeff Lemire
✔Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
✔February by Lisa Moore
✔Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
✔Forty Words for Sorrow by Giles Blunt
✔Fruit by Brian Francis
✔Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
✔Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
✔Galore by Michael Crummey
✔Generation X by Douglas Coupland
✔George & Rue by George Elliott Clarke
✔Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King

Half Blood Blues Edugyan✔Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
✔Holding Still for as Long as Possible by Zoe Whittall
✔How to Make Love to a Negro without Getting Tired by Dany Laferriere, Trans. David Homel
✔In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
✔Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
✔Kamouraska by Anne Hébert, Trans. Norman Shapiro
✔Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomson Highway
✔Kit’s Law by Donna Morrissey
✔Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay
✔Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Lives of the Saints by Nino Ricci
Lost Girls by Andrew Pyper
✔Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O’Neill

Ru ThuyMercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards
✔Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
Neuromancer by William Gibson
✔No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod
✔No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay
✔Obasan by Joy Kogawa
✔Room by Emma Donoghue
✔Ru by Kim Thuy, Trans. by Sheila Fischman
✔Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O’Malley
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
✔Six Metres of Pavement by Farzana Doctor
✔Skim by Mariko & Jillian Tamaki
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
✔Still Life by Louise Penny
✔Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock
Skim Tamaki✔Swamp Angel by Ethel Wilson
✔Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb

✔The Amazing Absorbing Boy by Rabindranath Maharaj
✔The Wars by Timothy Findley
✔The Wives of Bath by Susan Swan
Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
✔Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
✔Two Solitudes by Hugh MacLennan
Whale Music by Paul Quarrington
✔What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin
✔What We All Long For by Dionne Brand

Amazing Absorbing Boy✔The Antagonist by Lynn Coady
✔The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis
✔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 Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
✔The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston
✔The Cure for Death by Lightning by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
✔The Double Hook by Sheila Watson
✔The Englishman’s Boy by Guy Vanderhaeghe
The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon
✔The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
✔The Hero’s Walk by Anita Rau Badami
✔The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy
Lesser Blessed vanCamp✔The Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches by Gaétan Soucy, Trans. Sheila Fischman
✔The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
✔The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger
✔The Orenda by Joseph Boyden
✔The Outlander by Gil Adamson
The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke
The Romantic by Barbara Gowdy
✔The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
✔The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
✔The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
✔The Time in Between by David Bergen