Canadian Books
Many non-Canadian friends have asked me about Canadian literature.
Does it exist? What is worth reading? In response to these queries
i've compiled a list of my favourite Canadian authors with a book or
two that i think are a good introduction to the author.
-
Margaret Atwood: Lady Oracle, Cat's Eye
- Joan Barfoot: Dancing in the Dark
- Robertson Davies: Fifth Business
- Timothy Findley: Famous Last Words, The Wars
- Barbara Gowdy: Falling Angels
- Margaret Laurence: A Jest of God, The Diviners
- Ken Mitchell: Everybody Gets Something Here, The
Meadowlark Connection
- W. O. Mitchell: How I Spent My Summer Holidays
- Farley Mowat: Never Cry Wolf
- Alice Munro: Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You, Open Secrets
- Michael Ondaatje: The English Patient
- Mordecai Richler: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Solomon Gursky was Here
- Carol Shields: Swann
-
Susan Swan: The Last of the Golden Girls
- Michel Tremblay:
The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant (Translated from
the French)
- Jane Urquhart: Away
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Other Good Books
Contrary to what you might think, i am not a nationalist! I actually read books by people from other countries. Here's a list of the books which I enjoyed
most
during 1996:
- T. Coraghessan Boyle, Budding Prospects
- Margaret Drabble, A Natural Curiousity
- Timothy Findley, The Wars
- John Fowles, The Magus
- Robert Graves and Raphael Patai, Hebrew Myths
- W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Short Stories
- R.K. Narayan, Malgudi Days
- Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
- Jane Urquhart, Away
- Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms
Sharon Morsink