The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Canada

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
17117 This Summer Will Be Different Carley Fortune 2024 Unknown English
17117 Prairie Edge Conor Kerr 2024 Unknown English
17117 May Our Joy Endure Kevin Lambert 2022 Canadian French
17117 Camp Zero Michelle Min Sterling 2023 Unknown English
17117 The Cure For Drowning Loghan Paylor 2024 Unknown English
17117 In Winter I Get Up At Night Jane Urquhart 2024 Unknown English
17117 The Leap Year Gene Shelley Wood 2024 Unknown English
17117 Hair For Men Michelle Winters 2024 Unknown English
17117 The Knowing Tanya Talaga 2024 Unknown Unknown
17117 What She Said Elizabeth Renzetti 2024 Canadian English
17117 Rogers V. Rogers Alexandra Posadzki 2024 Unknown English
17117 The War We Won Apart Nahlah Ayed 2024 Unknown English
17117 Montreal Standard Time Mavis Gallant 2024 Canadian Unknown
17117 The Widow's Guide To Dead Bastards Jessica Waite 2024 Unknown English
17117 Our Crumbling Foundation Gregor Craigie 2024 Unknown English
17117 Sir John A. Macdonald And The Apocalyptic Year 1885 Patrice Dutil 2024 Canadian English
17117 Let's Go Julie Flett 2024 Unknown English
17117 Age 16 Rosena Fung 2024 Unknown English
17117 Little Moons Jen Storm 2024 Unknown English
17117 Who We Are In Real Life Victoria Koops 2024 Unknown English
17117 The Antagonist Lynn Coady 2011 Canadian English
17114 The Edible Woman Margaret Atwood 1969 Canadian English
17117 Trans Atlantic Colum McCann 2013 Irish English
17117 There And Back: Diaries 1999 2009 Michael Palin 2024 British English
17117 The Myth Of Normal Gabor Maté 2023 Canadian English
17117 The Comfort Crisis Michael Easter 2021 American English
17117 Astoria Peter Stark 2014 American English
17117 Always Looking Up Michael J. Fox 2009 American English
17117 Never Cry Wolf Farley Mowat 1963 Canadian English
17117 Fruit Brian Francis 2004 Canadian English
17117 The Collected Essex County Jeff Lemire 2009 Canadian English
17117 The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan 2015 British English
17117 Endure Alex Hutchinson 2018 Canadian English
17117 419 Will Ferguson 2012 Canadian English
17117 A Sunday At The Pool In Kigali Gil Courtemanche, Patricia Claxton 2000 Canadian French
17117 Annabel Kathleen Winter 2010 Canadian English
17117 Bone And Bread Saleema Nawaz 2013 Canadian English
17117 Cereus Blooms At Night Shani Mootoo 1996 Canadian English
17117 Certainty Madeleine Thien 2006 Canadian English
17117 Come, Thou Tortoise Jessica Grant 2009 Canadian English
17117 Creation Katherine Govier 2002 Canadian English
17117 Elizabeth And After Matt Cohen 1999 Canadian English
17117 February Lisa Moore 2009 Canadian English
17117 Forty Words For Sorrow Giles Blunt 2000 Canadian English
17117 Galore Michael Crummey 2009 Canadian English
17117 Green Grass, Running Water Thomas King 1993 Canadian English
17117 Half Blood Blues Esi Edugyan 2011 Canadian English
17117 Holding Still For As Long As Possible Zoe Whittall 2009 Canadian English
17117 How To Make Love To A Negro Without Getting Tired Dany Laferriere 1989 Canadian French
16765 Kamouraska Anne Hébert 1970 Canadian French
17117 Kiss Of The Fur Queen Tomson Highway 1998 Canadian English
17117 Late Nights On Air Elizabeth Hay 2007 Canadian English
17117 Lives Of The Saints Nino Ricci 1990 Canadian English
17117 Lost Girls Andrew Pyper 2000 Canadian English
17117 Six Metres Of Pavement Farzana Doctor 2011 Canadian English
17117 Skim Mariko Tamaki 2008 Canadian English
17117 Sweetness In The Belly Camilla Gibb 2005 Canadian English
17117 The Amazing Absorbing Boy Rabindranath Maharaj 2010 Canadian English
17117 The Best Laid Plans Terry Fallis 2007 Canadian English
17117 The Bishop's Man Linden MacIntyre 2009 Canadian English
17117 The Book Of Secrets M.G. Vassanji 1994 Canadian English
17117 The Cure For Death By Lightning Gail Anderson-Dargatz 1996 Canadian English
17117 The Hero's Walk Anita Rau Badami 2000 Canadian English
17117 The Lesser Blessed Richard Van Camp 1996 Canadian English
17117 The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond Of Matches Gaétan Soucy 1998 Canadian French
17117 The Mistress Of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009 Canadian English
17117 The Orenda Joseph Boyden 2013 Canadian English
17117 The Polished Hoe Austin Clarke 2002 Barbadian English
17117 The Romantic Barbara Gowdy 2003 Canadian English
17117 The Time In Between David Bergen 2005 Canadian English
17117 The Wives Of Bath Susan Swan 1993 Canadian English
17117 Whale Music Paul Quarrington 1989 Canadian English
17117 What The Body Remembers Shauna Singh Baldwin 1999 Canadian English
17117 The Sports Gene David Epstein 2013 American English
17117 Await Your Reply Dan Chaon 2009 American English
17117 The Brain That Changes Itself Norman Doidge 2007 Canadian English
17117 Impro Keith Johnstone 1979 British English
17117 Finding The Mother Tree Suzanne Simard 2021 Canadian English
17117 Gathering Moss Robin Wall Kimmerer 2003 American English
17117 The Coiled Serpent Camilla Grudova 2023 Unknown English
17117 At A Loss For Words Carol Off 2024 Canadian English
17117 The Wedding Gurjinder Basran 2024 Unknown English
17117 Crooked Teeth Danny Ramadan 2024 Unknown English
17117 The Nowhere Places Susan LeBlanc 2024 Unknown English
17117 Swann Carol Shields 1987 Canadian English
17117 King Leary Paul Quarrington 1987 Canadian English
17117 The Summer Game Roger Angell 1972 American English
17117 Big Red Of Meadow Stable William Nack 1988 American English
17117 Big Game, Small World Alexander Wolff 2002 Unknown English
17117 Game Misconduct Russ Conway 1995 Unknown English
17117 Rainbow Black Maggie Thrash 2024 Unknown English
17117 The Wages Of Destruction Adam Tooze 2006 British English
17117 We Were Dreamers Marjorie Liu 2022 Unknown English
17117 The Day The World Came To Town Jim DeFede 2002 American English
16923 The Big Rock Candy Mountain Wallace Stegner 1943 American English
17117 The Power Of Meaning Emily Esfahani Smith 2017 American English
17117 Born Standing Up Steve Martin 2007 American English
17117 Cosmic Connections Charles Taylor 2024 Unknown English
17117 On Fire Naomi Klein 2019 Canadian English
17117 Of Wolves And Men Barry Lopez 1978 American English
17117 The Wealth And Poverty Of Nations David S. Landes 1998 American English
17117 The Golden Spruce John Vaillant 2005 Canadian English
17117 Him Sarina Bowen 2015 Unknown English
17117 Aria Nazanine Hozar 2019 Unknown English
17117 Churchill Martin Gilbert 1991 British English
17117 Because Internet Gretchen McCulloch 2019 Canadian English
17117 Atlas Obscura Joshua Foer 2016 American English
16910 Fate Is The Hunter Ernest K. Gann 1961 American English
17092 The Age Of Revolution, 1789 1848 Eric Hobsbawm 1962 British English
17117 North America's Forgotten Past Series Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear 1990 American English
17117 The Twelfth Transforming Pauline Gedge 1984 Canadian English
17117 Lady Of The Reeds Pauline Gedge 1994 Canadian English
17117 Guns Of Burgoyne Bruce Lancaster 1975 American English
17117 Eight Bears Gloria Dickie 2023 Unknown English
17117 Girlfriend On Mars Deborah Willis 2023 Canadian English
17117 Master Slave Husband Wife Ilyon Woo 2023 Unknown English
17117 The Rediscovery Of America Ned Blackhawk 2023 American English
17117 Crossings Ben Goldfarb 2023 Unknown English
17117 This Is Wildfire Nick Mott, Justin Angle 2023 Unknown English
17117 Eight Bears Gloria Dickie 2023 Unknown English