CBC's 100 True Stories

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Nonfiction by Canadians that will make you proud to be Canadian
1
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
by Thomas King
1,293 members
54 reviews
4.1
4 Members
hipdeep, mathgirl40, gypsysmom, ahef1963
2
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
by Jane Jacobs
4,835 members
47 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
hipdeep, mathgirl40, gypsysmom
3
A House in the Sky: A Memoir
by Amanda Lindhout
1,257 members
63 reviews
4.1
3 Members
mathgirl40, gypsysmom, ahef1963
5
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
by Roméo Dallaire
1,870 members
30 reviews
4.2
2 Members
gypsysmom, ahef1963
6
No Logo
by Naomi Klein
7,108 members
57 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963
7
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
by John Vaillant
1,482 members
75 reviews
4
2 Members
mathgirl40, gypsysmom
8
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
23,692 members
345 reviews
3.8
2 Members
mathgirl40, gypsysmom
9
Klee Wyck
by Emily Carr
390 members
8 reviews
4
2 Members
mathgirl40, gypsysmom
10
Roughing It in the Bush
by Susanna Moodie
582 members
10 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
gypsysmom, ahef1963
11
Intolerable
by Kamal Al-Solaylee
97 members
8 reviews
3.9
2 Members
mathgirl40, gypsysmom
12
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
by Naomi Klein
2,747 members
53 reviews
4.1
2 Members
hipdeep, mathgirl40
13
A History of Reading
by Alberto Manguel
4,128 members
61 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
14
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
by Margaret MacMillan
3,640 members
57 reviews
4.1
Member
mathgirl40
15
And No Birds Sang
by Farley Mowat
534 members
12 reviews
3.9
Member
gypsysmom
17
The Last Spike
by Pierre Berton
349 members
1 review
3.9
Member
gypsysmom
18
They Left Us Everything: A Memoir
by Plum Johnson
295 members
17 reviews
4
Member
mathgirl40
19
Theatre of the Unimpressed: In Search of Vital Drama (Exploded Views)
by Jordan Tannahill
42 members
½ 4.5
Member
hipdeep
21
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
by Wade Davis
836 members
39 reviews
4.1
Member
mathgirl40
23
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
by Rosemary Sullivan
461 members
10 reviews
4
Member
hipdeep
24
Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
by Margaret Atwood
354 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ahef1963
25
Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography
by Chester Brown
855 members
19 reviews
3.8
Member
gypsysmom
26
The Game: A Thoughtful and Provocative Look at a Life in Hockey
by Ken Dryden
573 members
12 reviews
4
Member
hipdeep
27
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
by Marshall McLuhan
1,146 members
16 reviews
3.8
Member
hipdeep
28
Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays
by Northrop Frye
1,704 members
13 reviews
4
Member
hipdeep
29
The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son
by Ian Brown
304 members
26 reviews
4
Member
mathgirl40
31
Tangles: A story about Alzheimer's, my mother, and me
by Sarah Leavitt
174 members
8 reviews
4
Member
gypsysmom
32
Paper Shadows: A Memoir of a Past Lost and Found
by Wayson Choy
139 members
4 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
mathgirl40
33
One Native Life
by Richard Wagamese
162 members
6 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
gypsysmom
34
Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe
by Charlotte Gill
183 members
12 reviews
3.8
Member
mathgirl40
35
Too Close to the Falls
by Catherine Gildiner
592 members
25 reviews
3.8
Member
gypsysmom
36
Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
by Carmen Aguirre
229 members
11 reviews
3.9
Member
mathgirl40
37
Burmese Lessons: A true love story
by Karen Connelly
139 members
19 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
mathgirl40
38
The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A True Story of Resilience and Recovery
by Andrew Westoll
119 members
8 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
gypsysmom
39
Between Gods
by Alison Pick
87 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
mathgirl40
40
The Reason You Walk: A Memoir
by Wab Kinew
215 members
3 reviews
3.9
Member
gypsysmom
41
Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black And White In Canada
by Lawrence Hill
62 members
3 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
gypsysmom
42
Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History
by Edmund Metatawabin
92 members
6 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
gypsysmom
43
Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City
by Guy Delisle
918 members
44 reviews
4.1
44
Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally
by Alisa Smith
832 members
35 reviews
½ 3.7
45
Prisoner of Tehran: A Memoir
by Marina Nemat
793 members
33 reviews
4
46
The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature
by David Suzuki
690 members
6 reviews
4.1
47
Tree: A Life Story
by David Suzuki
252 members
3 reviews
4
48
Swing Low: A Life
by Miriam Toews
246 members
10 reviews
4.2
49
28: Stories of AIDS in Africa
by Stephanie Nolen
244 members
9 reviews
½ 4.5
50
Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World
by Doug Saunders
223 members
5 reviews
4
51
Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir
by Wayne Johnston
213 members
½ 3.6
52
The Russian Album
by Michael Ignatieff
188 members
1 review
3.8
53
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile
by Taras Grescoe
183 members
23 reviews
4.2
54
They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School
by Bev Sellars
178 members
6 reviews
4.1
55
Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman
by Rudy Wiebe
177 members
2 reviews
3.2
56
Cockeyed: A Memoir
by Ryan Knighton
173 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
58
What the Stones Remember: A Life Rediscovered
by Patrick Lane
165 members
7 reviews
3.9
59
Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid
by Evelyn Lau
144 members
1 review
4
60
The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir
by Joseph Auguste (Augie) Merasty
140 members
5 reviews
4
62
Two Generals
by Scott Chantler
128 members
8 reviews
4
63
Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times
by Richard J. Gwyn
127 members
4 reviews
4.1
64
On a Cold Road: Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock
by Dave Bidini
118 members
4 reviews
½ 3.4
65
Corked: A Memoir
by Kathryn Borel
117 members
21 reviews
2.8
66
Gold Diggers: Striking it Rich in the Klondike
by Charlotte Gray
115 members
8 reviews
4.2
67
From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island
by Lorna Goodison
109 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
68
Laughing All the Way to the Mosque
by Zarqa Nawaz
99 members
7 reviews
3.9
69
Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life
by Brian Brett
96 members
1 review
4.1
70
Open Heart, Open Mind
by Clara Hughes
94 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
71
Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies, and Aid
by Samantha Nutt
91 members
3 reviews
3.8
72
Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage
by Kathleen Winter
87 members
4 reviews
2.9
73
How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir
by Amber Dawn
85 members
2 reviews
3.8
75
A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape
by Candace Savage
83 members
3 reviews
4.2
76
The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan
by Graeme Smith
82 members
2 reviews
4.1
77
Mordecai: The Life & Times
by Charles Foran
79 members
5 reviews
3.9
78
The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day that Almost Was
by Chantal Hébert
75 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
79
The World is Moving Around Me: A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake
by Dany Laferrière
75 members
8 reviews
½ 3.3
80
This Is Happy
by Camilla Gibb
69 members
4 reviews
3.8
81
Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven
by Ross King
69 members
1 review
½ 3.6
82
Under an Afghan Sky: A Memoir of Captivity
by Mellissa Fung
69 members
3 reviews
½ 3.4
83
A Place Within: Rediscovering India
by M. G. Vassanji
68 members
2 reviews
3.8
84
Missing Sarah : A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister
by Maggie De Vries
62 members
2 reviews
4.1
85
On the Outside Looking Indian: How My Second Childhood Changed My Life
by Rupinder Gill
61 members
3 reviews
3.2
86
The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit
by Jj Lee
58 members
8 reviews
4.1
89
Photobooth: A Biography
by Meags Fitzgerald
52 members
2 reviews
4.1
90
Me Funny
by Drew Hayden Taylor
51 members
2 reviews
3.9
91
Nice Recovery
by Susan Juby
38 members
3.8
92
One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery
by Karyn L. Freedman
35 members
3.9
93
The Year of Finding Memory: A Memoir
by Judy Fong Bates
35 members
½ 3.4
94
Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself
by Russell Wangersky
31 members
2 reviews
4.1
95
Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother
by Priscila Uppal
28 members
3 reviews
4
96
The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway
by Arno Kopecky
27 members
3 reviews
½ 4.4
97
What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past
by James Fitzgerald
25 members
1 review
3.2
98
Norval Morrisseau: Man Changing into Thunderbird
by Armand Garnet Ruffo
23 members
1
99
Most of Me: Surviving My Medical Meltdown
by Robyn Michele Levy
20 members
2 reviews
½ 4.7