This list of Forty Great Works of Canadian Fiction Canadian fiction was originally compiled by Quill & Quire some years ago and I’ve been steadily reading my way through it.
Some of these I had to read in school, like The Stone Angel, Who Has Seen the Wind and Fifth Business — but I liked them all the same ::grin::
Others I discovered in the early 90s, when I was working in a bookstore, and I quickly adopted them as favourites, like The Wars and The Stone Diaries. Others I sought out deliberately after coming across this list.
Some of them I wasn’t as fond of (Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town and Beautiful Losers, for instance), but others I was unexpectedly pleased with (As for Me and My House, The Mountain and the Valley and Swamp Angel), so overall there were enough “successes” on the list that I’ve decided to finish reading the books herein.
- ✔ The Stone Angel
- ✔ The Wars
- ✔ As for Me and My House
- ✔ Fifth Business
- ✔ The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
- ✔ The Lives of Girls and Women
- ✔ Who Has Seen the Wind
- ✔ Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
- ✔ The Diviners
- ✔ Anne of Green Gables
- ✔ Obasan
- ✔ The Double Hook
- ✔ The Mountain and the Valley
- ✔ The Stone Diaries
- ✔ Green Grass, Running Water
- ✔ Beautiful Losers
- ✔ The English Patient
- ✔Under the Volcano
- ✔ In the Skin of a Lion
- ✔ By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
- ✔ Fugitive Pieces
- ✔ A Fine Balance
- ✔ The Temptations of Big Bear
- ✔ Such a Long Journey
- ✔ The Handmaid’s Tale
- ✔Coming Through Slaughter
- The Watch that Ends the Night
- ✔ Swamp Angel
- ✔ Two Solitudes
- ✔ Such is My Beloved
- ✔ Who Do You Think You Are?
- ✔ Tay John
- ✔The Lost Salt Gift of Blood
- ✔ Surfacing
- ✔ Not Wanted on the Voyage
- St. Urbain’s Horseman
- ✔ The Edible Woman
- ✔ Bear
- ✔ Home Truths
- ✔From the Fifteenth District