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Canada Reads Winners and Nominees

Description: Since 2002 CBC has hosted a week long program to pick an essential Canadian read.
Based on bookaward: Canada Reads
Members: 5 participating members
gypsysmom, ahef1963, DidIReallyReadThat, WeeTurtle, MaggieFlo

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Rank Title Author Added CK Order

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42,596 members

995 reviews

3.9

4 Members: DidIReallyReadThat, gypsysmom, ahef1963, WeeTurtle

2

by Margaret Atwood

16,674 members

523 reviews

3.9

4 Members: DidIReallyReadThat, gypsysmom, ahef1963, WeeTurtle

3

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

40,776 members

1,114 reviews

4.1

3 Members: DidIReallyReadThat, gypsysmom, ahef1963

4

The Hero's Walk

by Anita Rau Badami

596 members

21 reviews

3.8

3 Members: DidIReallyReadThat, MaggieFlo, ahef1963

5

Fall on Your Knees

by Ann-Marie MacDonald

5,352 members

123 reviews

3.9

3 Members: DidIReallyReadThat, gypsysmom, ahef1963

6

The Birth House

1,960 members

109 reviews

3.9

3 Members: DidIReallyReadThat, gypsysmom, ahef1963

7

The Best Laid Plans

by Terry Fallis

497 members

39 reviews

3.9

2 Members: DidIReallyReadThat, gypsysmom

8

The Book of Negroes

by Lawrence Hill

3,556 members

176 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: DidIReallyReadThat, gypsysmom, ahef1963

9

A Complicated Kindness

by Miriam Toews

2,225 members

65 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: DidIReallyReadThat, gypsysmom, ahef1963

10

Lullabies for Little Criminals

by Heather O'Neill

1,535 members

76 reviews

3.9

3 Members: DidIReallyReadThat, gypsysmom, ahef1963

11

Son of a Trickster

by Eden Robinson

470 members

33 reviews

3.8

3 Members: DidIReallyReadThat, gypsysmom, ahef1963

12

by Rohinton Mistry

8,972 members

248 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

13

The Year of the Flood

by Margaret Atwood

7,067 members

363 reviews

3.9

2 Members: DidIReallyReadThat, gypsysmom

14

The Stone Angel

by Margaret Laurence

1,693 members

41 reviews

3.8

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

15

by Joseph Boyden

1,808 members

86 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: DidIReallyReadThat, gypsysmom

16

by Jane Urquhart

804 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

17

Half Blood Blues

1,401 members

83 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: DidIReallyReadThat, gypsysmom

18

The Colony of Unrequited Dreams

by Wayne Johnston

1,122 members

21 reviews

4.1

2 Members: DidIReallyReadThat, gypsysmom

19

by Hugh MacLennan

442 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

20

Not Wanted on the Voyage

by Timothy Findley

966 members

16 reviews

4.1

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

21

by Carol Shields

2,977 members

94 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: gypsysmom

22

Beautiful Losers

by Leonard Cohen

1,719 members

21 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: gypsysmom

23

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

by Douglas Coupland

5,259 members

60 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

24

1,360 members

89 reviews

3.8

Member: gypsysmom

25

Natasha: And Other Stories

by David Bezmozgis

468 members

17 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

26

Green Grass, Running Water

1,115 members

27 reviews

4

Member: gypsysmom

27

The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

by John Vaillant

1,200 members

66 reviews

4

Member: gypsysmom

28

by Kathleen Winter

996 members

75 reviews

4

Member: gypsysmom

29

by Frances Itani

743 members

26 reviews

3.8

Member: gypsysmom

30

Mercy Among the Children

by David Adams Richards

726 members

29 reviews

3.9

Member: gypsysmom

31

630 members

23 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: gypsysmom

32

827 members

56 reviews

3.8

Member: gypsysmom

33

581 members

46 reviews

3.8

Member: gypsysmom

34

The Lost Garden

by Helen Humphreys

558 members

40 reviews

3.9

Member: gypsysmom

35

Good to a Fault

by Marina Endicott

456 members

40 reviews

3.9

Member: gypsysmom

36

The Collected Essex County

633 members

42 reviews

4.2

Member: gypsysmom

37

The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America

959 members

47 reviews

4.1

Member: gypsysmom

38

by Timothy Taylor

341 members

9 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: gypsysmom

39

by Thomas Wharton

321 members

17 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gypsysmom

40

by Richard Wagamese

737 members

45 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: gypsysmom

41

by Madeline Ashby

453 members

30 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: gypsysmom

42

Children of My Heart

by Gabrielle Roy

177 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: gypsysmom

43

And the Birds Rained Down

by Jocelyne Saucier

247 members

33 reviews

4.2

Member: gypsysmom

44

by Paul G. Hiebert

118 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gypsysmom

45

by Corey Redekop

118 members

12 reviews

4

Member: gypsysmom

46

by George Elliott Clarke

122 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: gypsysmom

47

by Katherena Vermette

496 members

31 reviews

4.2

Member: gypsysmom

48

The Age Of Hope

by David Bergen

88 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gypsysmom

49

by Kamal Al-Solaylee

83 members

9 reviews

3.9

Member: gypsysmom

50

No Crystal Stair

by Mairuth Sarsfield

60 members

4 reviews

3

Member: gypsysmom

51

In the Skin of a Lion

by Michael Ondaatje

2,752 members

44 reviews

3.9

Member: gypsysmom

52

by Joseph Boyden

982 members

43 reviews

4.2

Member: gypsysmom

53

The Last Crossing

by Guy Vanderhaeghe

782 members

22 reviews

3.9

Member: gypsysmom

54

by Nicolas Dickner

480 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: gypsysmom

55

Fifteen Dogs: An Apologue

by André Alexis

827 members

54 reviews

3.8

Member: gypsysmom

56

The Illegal: A Novel

by Lawrence Hill

393 members

23 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: gypsysmom

57

by Frank Parker Day

241 members

12 reviews

3.8

Member: gypsysmom

58

by Paul Quarrington

185 members

15 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: gypsysmom

59

by Hubert Aquin

194 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: gypsysmom

60

The Love of a Good Woman: Stories

1,882 members

32 reviews

3.9

Member: gypsysmom

61

by David Chariandy

339 members

25 reviews

4

Member: gypsysmom

62

By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz

142 members

6 reviews

4.2

Member: gypsysmom

63

La femme qui fuit

by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette

119 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gypsysmom

64

101 members

9 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: gypsysmom

65

Homes: A Refugee Story

by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah

128 members

16 reviews

4

Member: gypsysmom

66

Barney's Version

by Mordecai Richler

1,759 members

40 reviews

4

Member: gypsysmom

67

Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club

by Megan Gail Coles

139 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gypsysmom

68

by Cory Doctorow

414 members

19 reviews

4

Member: gypsysmom

69

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

293 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gypsysmom

70

The Midnight Bargain

515 members

35 reviews

3.8

Member: gypsysmom

71

Butter Honey Pig Bread

by Francesca Ekwuyasi

188 members

8 reviews

4.2

Member: gypsysmom

72

Five Little Indians

by Michelle Good

400 members

21 reviews

4.1

Member: gypsysmom

73

Washington Black

2,136 members

131 reviews

3.9

Member: gypsysmom

74

What Strange Paradise

by Omar El Akkad

350 members

22 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: gypsysmom

75

Jonny Appleseed

by Joshua Whitehead

406 members

17 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gypsysmom

76

by Catherine Hernandez

143 members

8 reviews

4

Member: gypsysmom

77

Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing

by Clayton Thomas-Muller

75 members

4 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: gypsysmom

78

by Saleema Nawaz

131 members

12 reviews

3.8

Member: gypsysmom

79

by Natalie Zina Walschots

792 members

66 reviews

4

Member: gypsysmom

80

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

610 members

39 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: gypsysmom

81

by Michael Christie

478 members

24 reviews

4.1

Member: gypsysmom

82

by Dimitri Nasrallah

40 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: gypsysmom

83

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

4,129 members

210 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gypsysmom

84

by Emily St. John Mandel

10,808 members

751 reviews

4.1

Member: gypsysmom

85

by Omar El Akkad

1,741 members

88 reviews

3.8

86

Brown Girl In The Ring

by Nalo Hopkinson

1,129 members

51 reviews

½ 3.7

87

The Marrow Thieves

by Cherie Dimaline

1,017 members

36 reviews

4

88

Prisoner of Tehran: A Memoir

by Marina Nemat

692 members

33 reviews

4

89

The Game: A Thoughtful and Provocative Look at a Life in Hockey

467 members

12 reviews

4

90

366 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

91

by Brian Francis

319 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

92

From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way

by Jesse Thistle

318 members

10 reviews

4.2

93

The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant

by Michel Tremblay

291 members

14 reviews

3.8

94

by Mordecai Richler

268 members

5 reviews

½ 3.4

95

by Tracey Lindberg

253 members

10 reviews

½ 3.6

96

The Boat People

235 members

21 reviews

4

97

Volkswagen Blues

by Jacques Poulin

235 members

9 reviews

½ 3.5

98

Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World

by Doug Saunders

197 members

4 reviews

4.1

99

The Song of Kahunsha

187 members

13 reviews

½ 3.6

100

by Douglas Glover

181 members

9 reviews

½ 3.3

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Started: gypsysmom
September 2017
Type: Numbered and unnumbered, Adding restricted

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