Canada Reads Top 40 Essential Canadian Novels of the Decade

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The Bone Cage (2007) by Angie Abdou
Oryx and Crake (2003) by Margaret Atwood
The Year of the Flood (2009) by Margaret Atwood
Drive-by Saviours (2010) by Chris Benjamin
Three Day Road (2005) by Joseph Boyden
Through Black Spruce (2008) by Joseph Boyden
The Day the Falls Stood Still (2009) by Cathy Marie Buchanan
Heave (2002) by Christy Ann Conlin
Galore (2009) by Michael Crummey
The Girls Who Saw Everything (2007) by Sean Dixon
Room (2010) by Emma Donoghue
The Best Laid Plans (2007) by Terry Fallis
The Fallen (2009) by Stephen Finucan
Sweetness in the Belly (2005) by Camilla Gibb
Pattern Recognition (2003) by William Gibson
Elle: A Novel (2003) by Douglas Glover
Come, Thou Tortoise (2009) by Jessica Grant
Inside (2006) by Kenneth J. Harvey
Late Nights on Air (2007) by Elizabeth Hay
The Book of Negroes (2007) by Lawrence Hill
Twenty-Six (2003) by Leo McKay Jr.
Crow Lake (2002) by Mary Lawson
The Collected Essex County (2009) by Jeff Lemire
The Way the Crow Flies (2003) by Ann-Marie MacDonald
The Bishop's Man (2009) by Linden MacIntyre
Life of Pi (2001) by Yann Martel
The Birth House (2006) by Ami McKay
February (2010) by Lisa Moore
Conceit (2007) by Mary Novik
Lullabies for Little Criminals (2006) by Heather O'Neill
Far to Go (2010) by Alison Pick
Shelf Monkey (2007) by Corey Redekop
Moody Food: A Novel (2002) by Ray Robertson
Unless (2002) by Carol Shields
Skim (2008) by Mariko Tamaki
A Complicated Kindness (2004) by Miriam Toews
The Stone Carvers (2001) by Jane Urquhart
The Last Crossing (2003) by Guy Vanderhaeghe
Bottle Rocket Hearts (2007) by Zoe Whittall
Clara Callan (2001) by Richard B. Wright

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