100 novels that make you proud to be a Canadian

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The Outlander (2008) by Gil Adamson
The Cure for Death by Lightning (1996) by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Alias Grace (1996) by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood
The Hero's Walk (2001) by Anita Rau Badami
What the body remembers (1999) by Shauna Singh Baldwin
No Time for Goodbye (2007) by Linwood Barclay
The Time in Between (2003) by David Bergen
A Season in the Life of Emmanuel (1965) by Marie-Claire Blais
Forty Words for Sorrow (2000) by Giles Blunt
The Orenda (2013) by Joseph Boyden
Three Day Road (2005) by Joseph Boyden
What We All Long For (2005) by Dionne Brand
The Luminaries (2013) by Eleanor Catton
The Jade Peony (1995) by Wayson Choy
The Polished Hoe (2002) by Austin Clarke
George and Rue (2006) by George Elliott Clarke
The Antagonist (2013) by Lynn Coady
Beautiful Losers (1966) by Leonard Cohen
Elizabeth and After (1999) by Matt Cohen
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) by Douglas Coupland
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali (2000) by Gil Courtemanche
Galore (2009) by Michael Crummey
Fifth Business (1970) by Robertson Davies
The Sisters Brothers (2011) by Patrick deWitt
Six Metres of Pavement (2011) by Farzana Doctor
Room (2010) by Emma Donoghue
Half Blood Blues (2011) by Esi Edugyan
Bear (1976) by Marian Engel
The Best Laid Plans (2007) by Terry Fallis
419 (2012) by Will Ferguson
The Wars (1977) by Timothy Findley
Fruit (2004) by Brian Francis
The Cellist of Sarajevo (2008) by Steven Galloway
Sweetness in the Belly (2005) by Camilla Gibb
Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson
Creation (2002) by Katherine Govier
Secret Daughter (2010) by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
The Romantic (2003) by Barbara Gowdy
Come, Thou Tortoise (2009) by Jessica Grant
De Niro's Game (2006) by Rawi Hage
Late Nights on Air (2007) by Elizabeth Hay
Kamouraska (1973) by Anne Hébert
Kiss of the Fur Queen (1998) by Tomson Highway
The Book of Negroes (2007) by Lawrence Hill
Brown Girl In The Ring (1998) by Nalo Hopkinson
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams (1998) by Wayne Johnston
Tigana (1990) by Guy Gavriel Kay
Green Grass, Running Water (1993) by Thomas King
Obasan (1981) by Joy Kogawa
How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired (1985) by Dany Laferrière
The Stone Angel (1964) by Margaret Laurence
Crow Lake (2002) by Mary Lawson
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912) by Stephen Leacock
The Collected Essex County (2009) by Jeff Lemire
The Golden Mean (2009) by Annabel Lyon
Fall on Your Knees (1996) by Ann-Marie MacDonald
The Bishop's Man (2009) by Linden MacIntyre
Two Solitudes (1945) by Hugh MacLennan
No Great Mischief (1999) by Alistair MacLeod
The Amazing Absorbing Boy (2010) by Rabindranath Maharaj
Life of Pi (2001) by Yann Martel
The Birth House (2006) by Ami McKay
Fugitive Pieces (1996) by Anne Michaels
A Fine Balance (1995) by Rohinton Mistry
February (2010) by Lisa Moore
Cereus Blooms at Night (1996) by Shani Mootoo
Kit's Law (1999) by Donna Morrissey
Bone and Bread (2013) by Saleema Nawaz
Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life (2004) by Bryan Lee O'Malley
In the Skin of a Lion (1987) by Michael Ondaatje
Lullabies for Little Criminals (2006) by Heather O'Neill
A Tale for the Time Being (2013) by Ruth Ozeki
Still Life (2005) by Louise Penny
The Mistress of Nothing (2009) by Kate Pullinger
Lost Girls (1999) by Andrew Pyper
Whale Music (1989) by Paul Quarrington
Lives of the Saints (1990) by Nino Ricci
Mercy Among the Children (2000) by David Adams Richards
Barney's Version (1997) by Mordecai Richler
Monkey Beach (2000) by Eden Robinson
Funny Boy (1995) by Shyam Selvadurai
The Stone Diaries (1993) by Carol Shields
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (1945) by Elizabeth Smart
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (1998) by Gaétan Soucy
The Wives of Bath (1993) by Susan Swan
Skim (2008) by Mariko Tamaki
Certainty (2006) by Madeleine Thien
Ru (2009) by Kim Thúy
A Complicated Kindness (2004) by Miriam Toews
Away (1993) by Jane Urquhart
The Lesser Blessed (1996) by Richard Van Camp
The Englishman's Boy (1996) by Guy Vanderhaeghe
The Book of Secrets (1994) by M. G. Vassanji
Indian Horse (2012) by Richard Wagamese
The Double Hook (1959) by Sheila Watson
Holding Still for as Long as Possible (2009) by Zoe Whittall
Swamp Angel (1954) by Ethel Wilson
Spin (2005) by Robert Charles Wilson
Annabel (2010) by Kathleen Winter

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