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title: "Canadian Book Challenge"
description: "John at Book Mine Set has issued a challenge. The Canadian Book Challenge. The rules are simple: 1. Read 13 Canadian books (books by Canadians and/or about Canadians) before next Canada Day (July 1)..."
url: https://somisguided.com/2007/12/14/canadian-book-challenge/
date: 2007-12-14
modified: 2007-12-14
author: "Monique"
type: post
lang: en
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# Canadian Book Challenge

John at (http://bookmineset.blogspot.com) has issued a challenge. The Canadian Book Challenge.

**The rules are simple: **

1. Read 13 Canadian books (books by Canadians and/or about Canadians) before next Canada Day (July 1)

2. Blog about each one

(http://bookmineset.blogspot.com/2007/10/canadian-book-challenge.html)

If you need inspiration, here’s a list from Book Mine Set.

Red = titles I’ve read

Blue = authors I’ve read but not the title listed.

**Newfoundland and Labrador**

Bernard Assiniwi- The Beothuk Saga

Ken Babstock- Airstream Land Yacht (Poetry)

Cassie Brown- Death On The Ice (Non-fiction)

Paul Butler- Easton

Joan Clark- An Audience of Chairs

Michael Crummey- River Thieves

Mary Dalton- Merrybegot (Poetry)

Bud Davidge and Ian Wallace (Illustrator)- The Mummer’s Song (Children’s Book)

Jim Defede- The Day The World Came To Town (Non-fiction)

Kenneth J. Harvey- The Town That Forgot How To Breathe

Harold Horwood- White Eskimo

Harold Horwood- Bartlett The Great Explorer (Non-fiction)

Percy Janes- House of Hate

Dale Jarvis- Haunted Shores: True Ghost Stories of Newfoundland and Labrador

Wayne Johnston- Colony of Unrequited Dreams

Kevin Major- Eh? To Zed (Children’s book)

Lisa Moore- Open (Short Stories)

Lisa Moore- Alligator

Bernice Morgan- Random Passage

Donna Morrissey- Kit’s Law

Claire Mowat- Outport People (Non-fiction)

Earl B. Pilgrim- The Ghost of Ellen Dower

Al Pittman- Down By Jim Long’s Stage (Children’s poems)

Al Pittman- West Moon (play)

E. J. Pratt- Complete Poems (Poetry)

E. Annie Proulx- The Shipping News

Edward Riche- Rare Birds

Ted Russell- The Holdin’ Ground (play)

Dillon Wallace- The Lure of The Labrador Wild

Michael Winter- The Big Why

**Prince Edward Island**

Milton Acorn- I Shout Love and Other Poems (Poetry)

Anne Compton- Processional (Poetry)

Stompin’ Tom Connors and Brenda Jones (Illustrator)- The Hockey Song (Children’s Book)

David Helwig- Saltsea

Michael Hennessey- The Betrayer

Lucy Maud Montgomery- Anne of Green Gables

J. J. Steinfeld- Would You Hide Me? (Short Stories)

**Nova Scotia**

Ernest Buckler- The Mountain and the Valley

George Elliott Clarke- Whylah Falls (Poetry)

Frank Parker Day- Rockbound

Brad Kessler- Birds In Fall

Thomas Chandler Haliburton- The Clockmaker

Ann-Marie MacDonald- Fall On Your Knees

Linden MacIntyre- Causeway (Non-fiction)

Hugh MacLennan- The Watch That Ends The Night

Alistair MacLeod- Island (Short Stories)

Alistair MacLeod- No Great Mischief

Ami McKay- The Birth House

Alden Nolan- The Best Of (Poetry)

Anne Simpson- Loop (Poetry)

**New Brunswick**

Donna Allard- Minago Streets (Poetry)

Linda Hall- Black Ice

Elisabeth Harvor- Fortress Of Chairs

Antonine Maillet- Pelagie: The Return To Acadie

David Adams Richards- Mercy Among The Children

Charles G. D. Roberts- The Collected Poems (Poetry)

T. G. Roberts- The Red Feathers

**Quebec**

Hubert Acquin- Next Episode

Peter Behrens- The Law of Dreams

Saul Bellow- Humboldt’s Gift

Frances Brooke- The History of Emily Montague

Nicole Brossard- Museum of Bone and Water

Willa Cather- Shadows On The Rock

Roch Carrier- The Hockey Sweater (Children’s Book)

Leonard Cohen- Beautiful Losers

Leonard Cohen- Let Us Compare Mythologies (Poetry)

Romeo Dallaire- Shake Hands With The Devil (Non-fiction)

Mavis Gallant- Home Truths (Short Stories)

Anne Hebert- Kamouraska

Naomi Klein- No Logo (Non-fiction)

Gordon Korman- Island: Shipwreck (Young Adult)

Irving Layton- Dance With Desire (Poems)

Markoosie- Harpoon of the Hunter

Yann Martel- Life of Pi

Colin McDougall- Execution

Stuart McLean- Stories From The Vinyl Cafe (Short Stories)

Heather O’Neill- Lullabies For Little Criminals

Jacques Poulin- Volkswagen Blues

Monique Proulx- The Heart Is An Involuntary Muscle

Mordecai Richler- Barney’s Version

Gabrielle Roy- The Tin Flute

Mairuth Sarsfield- No Crystal Stair

Gaetan Soucy- The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond Of Matches

Yves Theriault- Agaguk

Michel Tremblay- The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant

Michel Tremblay- Forever Yours Marie-Lou (Play)

**Ontario**

Margaret Atwood- Handmaid’s Tale

Joan Barfoot- Luck

David Bezmozgis- Natasha and Other Stories (Short Stories)

Christian Bok- Eunoia (poetry)

Joseph Boyden- Three Day Road

Morley Callaghan- More Joy In Heaven

Austin Clarke- The Polished Hoe

Matt Cohen- Elizabeth and After

Robertson Davies- Fifth Business

Gordon Downie- Coke Machine Glow (Poetry)

Marian Engel- Bear

Timothy Findley- The Wars

Phoebe Gilman- Something From Nothing (Children’s Book)

David Gilmour- A Perfect Night To Go To China

Douglas Glover- Elle

Barbara Gowdy- White Bone

Helen Humphries- Afterimage

Frances Itani- Deafening

M. T. Kelly- A Dream Like Mine

Thomas King- Green Grass, Running Water

Vincent Lam- Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures (Short stories)

Mary Lawson- Crow Lake

Stephen Leacock- Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (Short Stories)

Dennis Lee- Alligator Pie (Children’s Poems)

Charles de Lint- Moonlight and Vines

Jon McCrae- In Flanders Fields (Poem)

Anne Michaels- Fugitive Pieces

Rohinton Mistry- A Fine Balance

Farley Mowat- Never Cry Wolf

Alice Munro- Who Do You Think You Are? (Short Stories)

Robert Munsch- The Paperbag Princess (Children’s Book)

Michael Ondaatje- In The Skin Of A Lion

Al Purdy- Beyond Remembering (Poetry)

Paul Quarrington- Whale Music

Barbara Reid- Two By Two (Children’s Book)

Nino Richie- Lives of The Saints

Leon Rooke- Shakespeare’s Dog

Diane Schoemperlen- Forms of Devotion

Jane Urquhart- The Stone Carvers

M. G. Vassanji- The In-Between World of Vikram Lall

Richard B. Wright- Clara Callan

**Manitoba**

David Bergen- The Time In Between

David Godfrey- The New Ancestors

Tomson Highway- The Rez Sisters (Play)

Margaret Laurence- A Bird In The House (Short Stories)

Margaret Laurence- A Jest of God

Corey Redekop- Shelf Monkey

Bill Richardson- Bachelor Brothers’ Bed and Breakfast

Carol Shields- The Stone Diaries

Miriam Toews- A Complicated Kindness

Adele Wiseman- The Sacrifice

**Saskatchewan**

Sharon Butala- Lilac Moon (Non-fiction)

Paul Hiebert- Sarah Binks

Guy Gavriel Kay- The Summer Tree

Tim Lilburn- Kill-Site (Poetry)

W. O. Mitchell- Who Has Seen The Wind

Sinclair Ross- As For Me and My House

Kate Sutherland- All In Together Girls

Guy Vanderhaeghe- The Last Crossing

Dianne Warren- Serpent In The Night Sky (play)

Rudy Wiebe- The Temptations of Big Bear

**Alberta**

Anita Rau Badami- Can You Hear The Nightbird Call?

Earle Birney- One Muddy Hand (Poetry)

Will Ferguson- Why I Hate Canadians (Nonfiction)

Katherine Govier- Three Views of Crystal Water

Greg Holingshead- The Roaring Girl (Short stories)

W. P. Kinsella- Shoeless Joe

Robert Kroetsch- The Studhorse Man

Gloria Sawai- A Song For Nettie Johnson

Thomas Wharton- Salamander

Christopher Wiseman- In John Updike’s Room (Poetry)

**British Columbia**

George Bowering- The Gangs of Kosmos

Kevin Chong- Baroque-a-Nova

Wayson Choy- The Jade Peony

Douglas Coupland- Generation X

Margaret Craven- I Heard The Owl Call My Name

John Gould- Kilter (Short stories)

Jack Hodgins- The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne

Anosh Irani- The Song of Kahunsha

Joy Kogawa- Obasan

Susan Musgrave- What The Small Day Cannot Hold (Poetry)

bp Nichol- The Martyrology (Poetry)

Kenneth Oppel- Silverwing (Young Adult)

P.K. Page- Planet Earth (Poetry)

Gayla Reid- To Be There With You (Short stories)

Eden Robinson- Monkey Beach

Timothy Taylor- Stanley Park

Audrey Thomas- Coming Down From Wa

Michael Turner- Hard Core Logo

Sheila Watson- The Double Hook

**Yukon**

Pierre Berton- The National Dream (Non-fiction)

Ted Harrison- Children of the Yukon (Children’s Book)

Pj Johnson- Rhymes of the Raven Lady (Poetry)

Jack London- Call of the Wild

Dick North- The Mad Trapper of Rat River (Non-fiction)

Al Pope- Bad Latitudes

Robert Service- The Best Of (Poetry)

**Northwest Territories**

Robert Alexie- Pale Indian

Richard Van Camp- Lesser Blessed

Rene Fumoleau- Here I Sit (Poetry)

Elizabeth Hay- Late Nights On Air

Mackay Jenkins- Bloody Falls of the Coppermine (nonfiction)

James Raffan- Emperor of The North (Non-fiction)

Steve Zipp- Yellowknife

**Nunavut**

John Bennett and Susan Rowley (Editors and compilers) Uqalurait: An Oral History of Nunavut (Non-fiction)

Pierre Berton- The Arctic Grail (Nonfiction)

Jan Brett- Three Snow Bears (Children’s Book)

Kenn Harper- Give Me My Father’s Body (Non-fiction)

James Houston- The White Dawn

Michael Kusugak- Curse of the Shaman (Young Adult)

Michael Kusugak and Vladyana Krykorka(Illustrator)- Hide and Sneak (Children’s book)

Tom Lowenstein (translator)/ Knud Rasmussen (compiled by)- Eskimo Poems (Poetry)

Kevin Patterson- Consumption

Robert Ruby- Unknown Shore (Non-fiction)

Zachariah Wells- Unsettled

Eric Wilson- The Inuk Mountie Adventure (Young Adult)

**There are a bunch of titles not on this list that I think are important–mostly because I’ve read them and it will make me look very Canadian. Perhaps I’ll do a missing in action list.

Copy the list and post on your blog which titles and authors you’ve read. **