100 novels that make you proud to be Canadian

CBC Books | CBC | Posted: July 10, 2017 1:54 PM | Last Updated: December 4, 2017

• The great Canadian reading list: 150 books to read for Canada 150

1. 419 by Will Ferguson
2. A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
3. ​A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
4. A Season in the Life of Emmanuel by Marie-Claire Blais, trans. Derek Coltman
5. A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Gil Courtemanche, trans. Patricia Claxton
6. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
7. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
8. Annabel by Kathleen Winter
9. Away by Jane Urquhart
10. Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler
11. Bear by Marian Engel
12. Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen
13. Bone and Bread by Saleema Nawaz
14. Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
15. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
16. Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo
17. Certainty by Madeleine Thien
18. Come, Thou Tortoise by Jessica Grant
19. Creation by Katherine Govier
20. Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
21. De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage
22. Elizabeth and After by Matt Cohen
23. Essex County by Jeff Lemire
24. Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
25. February by Lisa Moore
26. Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
27. Forty Words for Sorrow by Giles Blunt
28. Fruit by Brian Francis
29. Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
30. Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
31. Galore by Michael Crummey
32. Generation X by Douglas Coupland
33. George & Rue by George Elliott Clarke
34. Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King
35. Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
36. Holding Still for as Long as Possible by Zoe Whittall
37. How to Make Love to a Negro without Getting Tired by Dany Laferriere, trans. David Homel
38. In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
39. Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
40. Kamouraska by Anne Hébert, trans. Norman Shapiro
41. Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomson Highway
42. Kit's Law by Donna Morrissey
43. Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay
44. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
45. Lives of the Saints by Nino Ricci
46. Lost Girls by Andrew Pyper
47. Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill
48. Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards
49. Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
50. Neuromancer by William Gibson
51. No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod
52. No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay
53. Obasan by Joy Kogawa
54. Room by Emma Donoghue
55. Ru by Kim Thuy, trans. by Sheila Fischman
56. Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O'Malley
57. Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
58. Six Metres of Pavement by Farzana Doctor
59. Skim by Mariko & Jillian Tamaki
60. Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
61. Still Life by Louise Penny
62. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock
63. Swamp Angel by Ethel Wilson
64. Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb
65. The Amazing Absorbing Boy by Rabindranath Maharaj
66. What We All Long For by Dionne Brand
67. The Antagonist by Lynn Coady
68. The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis
69. The Birth House by Ami McKay
70. The Bishop's Man by Linden MacIntyre
71. The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
72. The Book of Secrets by M.G. Vassanji
73. The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
74. The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston
75. The Cure for Death by Lightning by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
76. The Double Hook by Sheila Watson
77. The Englishman's Boy by Guy Vanderhaeghe
78. The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon
79. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
80. The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami
81. The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy
82. The Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp
83. The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches by Gaétan Soucy, trans. Sheila Fischman
84. The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
85. The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger
86. The Orenda by Joseph Boyden
87. The Outlander by Gil Adamson
88. The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke
89. The Romantic by Barbara Gowdy
90. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
91. The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
92. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
93. The Time in Between by David Bergen
94. The Wars by Timothy Findley
95. The Wives of Bath by Susan Swan
96. Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
97. Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
98. Two Solitudes by Hugh MacLennan
99. Whale Music by Paul Quarrington
100. What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin