Atlantic Canada's 100 Greatest Books

101 Works 94,965 Books 2,015 Reviews 4.1
WorkOrder Label
No Great Mischief (1999) by Alistair MacLeod
No 1
Rockbound (1928) by Frank Parker Day
No 10
Voyage of the iceberg : the story of the iceberg that sank the Titanic (1983) by Richard Brown
No 100
The Nymph and the Lamp (1950) by Thomas H. Raddall
No 11
The Birth House (2006) by Ami McKay
No 12
Two Solitudes (1945) by Hugh MacLennan
No 13
Island: The Complete Stories (2000) by Alistair MacLeod
No 14
River Thieves (2001) by Michael Crummey
No 15
Nights below Station Street (1988) by David Adams Richards
No 16
The Clockmaker (1836) by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
No 17
Open (2002) by Lisa Moore
No 18
Halifax, Warden of the North (1656) by Thomas H. Raddall
No 19
Anne of Green Gables (1908) by L. M. Montgomery
No 2
Kit's Law (1999) by Donna Morrissey
No 20
House of Hate (1970) by Percy Janes
No 21
The Shipping News (1993) by E. Annie Proulx
No 22
The Boat Who Wouldn't Float (1969) by Farley Mowat
No 23
This All Happened (2000) by Michael Winter
No 24
The Afterlife of George Cartwright (1992) by John Steffler
No 25
An Audience of Chairs (2005) by Joan Clark
No 26
The Channel Shore (1954) by Charles Bruce
No 27
When the Earth Was Flat (2007) by Raymond Fraser
No 28
The Book of Negroes (2007) by Lawrence Hill
No 29
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams (1998) by Wayne Johnston
No 3
Dictionary of Newfoundland English (1982) by G.M. Story
No 30
The Big Why: A Novel (2004) by Michael Winter
No 31
The Republic of Nothing (1994) by Lesley Choyce
No 32
The Governor's Lady (1960) by Thomas H. Raddall
No 33
Death on the Ice: The Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster of 1914 (1972) by Cassie Brown
No 34
The Living Beach (1998) by Silver Donald Cameron
No 35
The Beothuk way : living with nature (2006) by John Kitchen
No 36
His Majesty's Yankees (1941) by Thomas H. Raddall
No 37
For those who hunt the wounded down (1993) by David Adams Richards
No 38
A Place Between the Tides: A Naturalist's Reflections on the Salt Marsh (2004) by Harry Thurston
No 39
The Mountain and the Valley (1952) by Ernest Buckler
No 4
George and Rue (2006) by George Elliott Clarke
No 40
Latitudes of Melt (2001) by Joan Clark
No 41
Strange Heaven (1998) by Lynn Coady
No 42
Heave (2002) by Christy Ann Conlin
No 43
Rilla of Ingleside (1921) by L. M. Montgomery
No 44
Each Man's Son (1951) by Hugh MacLennan
No 45
The Story of Bobby O'Malley (1985) by Wayne Johnston
No 46
THE EDUCATION OF EVERETT RICHARDSON, the Nova Scotia Fishermen's Strike 1970-71 (1977) by Silver Donald Cameron
No 47
Footsteps on Old Floors (1968) by Thomas H. Raddall
No 48
Inside (2006) by Kenneth J. Harvey
No 49
Fall on Your Knees (1996) by Ann-Marie MacDonald
No 5
The Navigator of New York (2002) by Wayne Johnston
No 50
A Whale for the Killing (1972) by Farley Mowat
No 51
The Town That Forgot How to Breathe (2003) by Kenneth J. Harvey
No 52
The Divine Ryans (1990) by Wayne Johnston
No 53
Bluenose Ghosts (1957) by Helen Creighton
No 54
We Were Not the Savages: Collision Between European and Native American Civilizations (1993) by Daniel N. Paul
No 55
The Bannonbridge Musicians (1978) by Raymond Fraser
No 56
Pélagie: The Return to Acadie (1979) by Antonine Maillet
No 57
The Accidental Indies (2000) by Robert Finley
No 58
Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir (1999) by Wayne Johnston
No 59
Barometer Rising (1941) by Hugh MacLennan
No 6
Rum River (1997) by Raymond Fraser
No 60
Alligator (2005) by Lisa Moore
No 61
The Friends of Meager Fortune (2006) by David Adams Richards
No 62
Life With Billy (1986) by Brian Vallee
No 63
Down to the Dirt (2004) by Joel Hynes
No 64
The Lost Highway (2007) by David Adams Richards
No 65
Gaff Topsails (1996) by Patrick Kavanagh
No 66
Emily of New Moon (1923) by L. M. Montgomery
No 67
The foxes of Beachy Cove (1975) by Harold Horwood
No 68
Play the Monster Blind (2000) by Lynn Coady
No 69
Random Passage (1991) by Bernice Morgan
No 7
Various persons named Kevin O'Brien (1973) by Alden Nowlan
No 70
The Custodian of Paradise (2006) by Wayne Johnston
No 71
The Chrysalids (1955) by John Wyndham
No 72
Anne of the Island (1915) by L. M. Montgomery
No 73
Sailing Alone around the World (1900) by Joshua Slocum
No 74
A Forest for Calum (1700) by Frank MacDonald
No 75
Ox Bells and Fireflies (1968) by Ernest Buckler
No 76
Mean Boy (2006) by Lynn Coady
No 77
In a Cloud of Dust and Smoke (2003) by Raymond Fraser
No 78
Cape Breton Road (2000) by D. R. MacDonald
No 79
The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1988) by Alistair MacLeod
No 8
Sylvanus Now (2005) by Donna Morrissey
No 80
The Fighting Fisherman: The Life of Yvon Durelle (1981) by Raymond Fraser
No 81
19 Knives (2000) by Mark Anthony Jarman
No 82
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888) by James De Mille
No 83
Architects Are Here (2007) by Michael Winter
No 84
The Americans Are Coming (1989) by Herb Curtis
No 85
Curse of The Narrows: The Halifax Disaster of 1917 (2005) by Laura M. Mac Donald
No 86
Thirteen Years After; A Great War Veteran Returns to the Old Battlefields (1932) by Will R. Bird
No 87
Downhill Chance (2002) by Donna Morrissey
No 88
Sea of Slaughter (1984) by Farley Mowat
No 89
Mercy Among the Children (2000) by David Adams Richards
No 9
Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource (1999) by Marq de Villiers
No 90
The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor (2007) by Sally Armstrong
No 91
Sailors, Slackers and Blind Pigs: Halifax at War (2002) by Stephen Kimber
No 92
Nova Scotia, Shaped by the Sea: A Living History (1996) by Lesley Choyce
No 93
Ragged Islands (2007) by Don Hannah
No 94
Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself (2008) by Russell Wangersky
No 95
The Betrayer (2003) by Michael Hennessey
No 96
Bittersweet: Confessions of a Twice-Married Man (2008) by Philip Lee
No 97
The Iambics of Newfoundland: Notes from an Unknown Shore (2007) by Robert Finch
No 98
Red Soil - A PEI Soldier's Life at the Front (2000) by Felix Perry
No 99
Atlantic Canada's 100 Greatest Books (2009) by Trevor J. Adams

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