I’ve followed Canada Reads since the beginning, with varying degrees of emotional involvement (okay, maybe I shed a tear or two when Justin Trudeau voted against his own book, Wayne Johnston’s novel, to triumph Next Episode in 2003). Yah, I should probably get out more but, in the meantime, I still intend to catch up on the CR titles that I haven’t read yet.
✔Angie Abdou’s The Bone Cage (11)
✔Gil Adamson’s The Outlander (09)
Hubert Aquin’s Next Episode (W03)
✔Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (02)
✔Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake (05)
✔David Bergen’s The Age of Hope (12)
✔David Bezmozgis’ Natasha and Other Stories (07)
Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road (06)
✔Wayson Choy’s The Jade Peony (10)
✔George Elliott Clarke’s Whylah Falls (02)
✔Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers (05)
✔Douglas Coupland’s Generation X (10)
✔Frank Parker Day’s Rockbound (05)
✔Nicolas Dickner’s Nikolski (10)
✔Marina Endicott’s Good to a Fault (10)
✔Terry Fallis’ The Best Laid Plans (11)
✔Timothy Findley’s Not Wanted on the Voyage (08)
✔Brian Francis’ Fruit (09)
Mavis Gallant’s From the Fifteenth District (08)
Paul Hiebert’s Sarah Binks (03)
✔Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes (W09)
✔Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring (08)
✔Helen Humphreys’ The Lost Garden (03)
Anosh Irani’s The Song of Kahunsha (07)
✔Frances Itani’s Deafening (06)
✔Wayne Johnston’s The Colony of Unrequited Dreams (03)
✔Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water (04)
✔Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel (02)
✔Jeff Lemire’s Essex County (11)
✔Ann-Marie Macdonald’s Fall on Your Knees (10)
✔Hugh MacLennan’s Two Solitudes (13)
✔Yann Martel’s Life of Pi (03)
✔Ami McKay’s The Birth House (11)
✔Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance (02)
✔Lisa Moore’s February (W13)
✔Alice Munro’s The Love of a Good Woman (04)
✔Heather O’Neill’s Lullabies for Little Criminals (W07)
✔Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion (W02)
✔Jacques Poulin’s Volkswagen Blues (05)
✔Monique Proulx’s The Heart is an Involuntary Muscle (04)
Paul Quarrington’s King Leary (W08)
✔Al Purdy’s Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems 1962-1996 (06)
David Adams Richards’ Mercy Among the Children (09)
✔Mordecai Richler’s Barney’s Version (04)
✔Mordecai Richler’s Cocksure (06)
✔Gabrielle Roy’s Children of My Heart (07)
✔Mairuth Sarsfield’s No Crystal Stair (05)
✔Carol Shields’ Unless (11)
Timothy Taylor’s Stanley Park (07)
✔Miriam Toews’ A Complicated Kindness (W06)
Michel Tremblay’s The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant (09)
Guy Vanderhaeghe’s The Last Crossing (W04)
✔Richard Wagamese Indian Horse (13)
✔Thomas Wharton’s Icefields (08)
Note: In 2012, Canada Reads focussed on non-fiction reads: Carmen Aguirre’s Something Fierce, Dave Bidini’s On a Cold Road, Ken Dryden’s The Game, Marina Nemat’s Prisoner of Tehran, and John Vaillant’s The Tiger.
