Your Best Canadian Books

March 21, 2024 Question of the Week: Name your favourite canadian book / author.

Your answers, featured below.

Where the Falcon Flies by Adam Shoalts

The History of Canada in 10 Maps by Adam Shoalts

The Turcottes: The Remarkable Story of a Horse Racing Dynasty

by Curtis Stock

The Power of Story by Harold R. Johnson

Both My Houses by Sean O'Sullivan

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

The War That Ended Peace: The Road To 1914 by Margaret MacMillan

The National Dream by Pierre Berton

Why we act like Canadians by Pierre Berton

The Secret World of Og” by Pierre Berton

The Last Spike by Pierre Berton

The Night Wanderer by Drew Hayden Taylor

The Grey Seas Under by Farley Mowat

Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez

There Were Monkeys in my Kitchen! by Sherry Fitch, illustrated by Marc Mongeau

The Reader's Digest Great Canadian Adventures a collection by several authors

The Orenda by Joseph Boyden

Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The MaddAddam Trilogy by Margaret Atwood

Acadian Driftwood by Tyler LeBlanc

The Future is Now by Bob Macdonald

Clearing The Plains by James Daschuk

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield

Fight to The Finish by Tim Cook

My Effin Life by Geddy Lee

The Innocents by Michael Crummey

Truth Be Told by Beverley McLauglin

Fifth Business by Robertson Davies

A Fair Country by John Ralston Saul

Ragged Company by Richard Wagamese

Where to From Here by Bill Morneau

The Sobo Cookbook by Lisa Ahier with Andrew Morrison

Fatal Passage by Ken McGoogan

The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne by Jack Hodgins

The Diviners by Margaret Laurence

The Age of Insecurity by Astra Taylor

The Concubine's Children" by Denise Chong

Ghost Rider by Neil Peart

The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King

Doppelganger by Naomi Klein

Marching to Armageddon by Desmond Morton and Jack Granatstein

This Can’t Be Happening At Macdonald Hall by Gordon Korman

The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay

The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis

Obasan by Joy Kogawa

Values by Mark Carney

Canoe Country by Roy MacGregor

The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire" by Stephen R. Brown

Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

The Break” by Katherena Vermette

Is There Bacon in Heaven? by Ali Hassan

22 Murders by Paul Palango

And No Birds Sang by Farley Mowat

Big Men Fear Me by Mark Bourrie

Welcome Home by Stuart McLean

Solomon Gursky was here by Mordecai Richler

Sunshine Sketches of a Small Town by Stephen Leacock

Two Solitudes by Hugh MacLennan

Paddle to the Amazon by Don Starkell

From the Ashes by Jessie Thistle

The Lightkeeper's Daughter by Jean E. Pendziwol

Outlive by Peter Attia

Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club by Megan Gail Coles

The Tenant Class by Ricardo Tranjan

The Dishwasher by Stephane Larue

Hollow Bamboo by William Seto Ping

Maximum Canada: Why 35 Million Canadians Are Not Enough by Doug Saunders

The Best Things in Life: A Guide to What Really Matters by Thomas Hurka.

Philosophy in the Mass Age by George P. Grant

Toronto, I Love You by Didier Leclair

A Killer at Kings Cove by Iona Whishaw

The Madman and The Butcher by Tim Cook

Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga

Shake Hands with the Devil by Roméo Dallaire

The Road Years by Rick Mercer

The Wake: The Deadly Legacy of a Newfoundland Tsunami by Linden MacIntrye

DreadfulWater series by Thomas King

Louis Hippolyte-LaFontaine & Robert Baldwin by John Ralston Saul

After Oil by KM Cannon

Bit Rot by Jason Baronette

In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje

Pluck by Donna Morrissey

Crazy Town; The Rob Ford Story by Robyn Doolittle and Kevin Donovan

Cobalt by Charlie Angus

Up From The Ashes by Steve Ranni

Birds of Alberta by Chris Fisher and John Acorn

Permanent Astonishment by Tomson Highway