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
17163 This Summer Will Be Different Carley Fortune 2024 Unknown English
17163 Prairie Edge Conor Kerr 2024 Unknown English
17163 May Our Joy Endure Kevin Lambert 2022 Canadian French
17163 Camp Zero Michelle Min Sterling 2023 Unknown English
17163 The Cure For Drowning Loghan Paylor 2024 Unknown English
17163 In Winter I Get Up At Night Jane Urquhart 2024 Unknown English
17163 The Leap Year Gene Shelley Wood 2024 Unknown English
17163 Hair For Men Michelle Winters 2024 Unknown English
17163 The Knowing Tanya Talaga 2024 Unknown Unknown
17163 What She Said Elizabeth Renzetti 2024 Canadian English
17163 Rogers V. Rogers Alexandra Posadzki 2024 Unknown English
17163 The War We Won Apart Nahlah Ayed 2024 Unknown English
17163 Montreal Standard Time Mavis Gallant 2024 Canadian Unknown
17163 The Widow's Guide To Dead Bastards Jessica Waite 2024 Unknown English
17163 Our Crumbling Foundation Gregor Craigie 2024 Unknown English
17163 Sir John A. Macdonald And The Apocalyptic Year 1885 Patrice Dutil 2024 Canadian English
17163 Let's Go Julie Flett 2024 Unknown English
17163 Age 16 Rosena Fung 2024 Unknown English
17163 Little Moons Jen Storm 2024 Unknown English
17163 Who We Are In Real Life Victoria Koops 2024 Unknown English
17163 The Antagonist Lynn Coady 2011 Canadian English
17140 The Edible Woman Margaret Atwood 1969 Canadian English
17163 Trans Atlantic Colum McCann 2013 Irish English
17163 There And Back: Diaries 1999 2009 Michael Palin 2024 British English
17163 The Myth Of Normal Gabor Maté 2023 Canadian English
17163 The Comfort Crisis Michael Easter 2021 American English
17163 Astoria Peter Stark 2014 American English
17163 Always Looking Up Michael J. Fox 2009 American English
17163 Never Cry Wolf Farley Mowat 1963 Canadian English
17163 Fruit Brian Francis 2004 Canadian English
17163 The Collected Essex County Jeff Lemire 2009 Canadian English
17163 The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan 2015 British English
17163 Endure Alex Hutchinson 2018 Canadian English
17163 419 Will Ferguson 2012 Canadian English
17163 A Sunday At The Pool In Kigali Gil Courtemanche, Patricia Claxton 2000 Canadian French
17163 Annabel Kathleen Winter 2010 Canadian English
17163 Bone And Bread Saleema Nawaz 2013 Canadian English
17163 Cereus Blooms At Night Shani Mootoo 1996 Canadian English
17163 Certainty Madeleine Thien 2006 Canadian English
17163 Come, Thou Tortoise Jessica Grant 2009 Canadian English
17163 Creation Katherine Govier 2002 Canadian English
17163 Elizabeth And After Matt Cohen 1999 Canadian English
17163 February Lisa Moore 2009 Canadian English
17163 Forty Words For Sorrow Giles Blunt 2000 Canadian English
17163 Galore Michael Crummey 2009 Canadian English
17163 Green Grass, Running Water Thomas King 1993 Canadian English
17163 Half Blood Blues Esi Edugyan 2011 Canadian English
17163 Holding Still For As Long As Possible Zoe Whittall 2009 Canadian English
17163 How To Make Love To A Negro Without Getting Tired Dany Laferriere 1989 Canadian French
16808 Kamouraska Anne Hébert 1970 Canadian French
17163 Kiss Of The Fur Queen Tomson Highway 1998 Canadian English
17163 Late Nights On Air Elizabeth Hay 2007 Canadian English
17163 Lives Of The Saints Nino Ricci 1990 Canadian English
17163 Lost Girls Andrew Pyper 2000 Canadian English
17163 Six Metres Of Pavement Farzana Doctor 2011 Canadian English
17163 Skim Mariko Tamaki 2008 Canadian English
17163 Sweetness In The Belly Camilla Gibb 2005 Canadian English
17163 The Amazing Absorbing Boy Rabindranath Maharaj 2010 Canadian English
17163 The Best Laid Plans Terry Fallis 2007 Canadian English
17163 The Bishop's Man Linden MacIntyre 2009 Canadian English
17163 The Book Of Secrets M.G. Vassanji 1994 Canadian English
17163 The Cure For Death By Lightning Gail Anderson-Dargatz 1996 Canadian English
17163 The Hero's Walk Anita Rau Badami 2000 Canadian English
17163 The Lesser Blessed Richard Van Camp 1996 Canadian English
17163 The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond Of Matches Gaétan Soucy 1998 Canadian French
17163 The Mistress Of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009 Canadian English
17163 The Orenda Joseph Boyden 2013 Canadian English
17163 The Polished Hoe Austin Clarke 2002 Barbadian English
17163 The Romantic Barbara Gowdy 2003 Canadian English
17163 The Time In Between David Bergen 2005 Canadian English
17163 The Wives Of Bath Susan Swan 1993 Canadian English
17163 Whale Music Paul Quarrington 1989 Canadian English
17163 What The Body Remembers Shauna Singh Baldwin 1999 Canadian English
17163 The Sports Gene David Epstein 2013 American English
17163 Await Your Reply Dan Chaon 2009 American English
17163 The Brain That Changes Itself Norman Doidge 2007 Canadian English
17163 Impro Keith Johnstone 1979 British English
17163 Finding The Mother Tree Suzanne Simard 2021 Canadian English
17163 Gathering Moss Robin Wall Kimmerer 2003 American English
17163 The Coiled Serpent Camilla Grudova 2023 Unknown English
17163 At A Loss For Words Carol Off 2024 Canadian English
17163 The Wedding Gurjinder Basran 2024 Unknown English
17163 Crooked Teeth Danny Ramadan 2024 Unknown English
17163 The Nowhere Places Susan LeBlanc 2024 Unknown English
17163 Swann Carol Shields 1987 Canadian English
17163 King Leary Paul Quarrington 1987 Canadian English
17163 The Summer Game Roger Angell 1972 American English
17163 Big Red Of Meadow Stable William Nack 1988 American English
17163 Big Game, Small World Alexander Wolff 2002 Unknown English
17163 Game Misconduct Russ Conway 1995 Unknown English
17163 Rainbow Black Maggie Thrash 2024 Unknown English
17163 The Wages Of Destruction Adam Tooze 2006 British English
17163 We Were Dreamers Marjorie Liu 2022 Unknown English
17163 The Day The World Came To Town Jim DeFede 2002 American English
16982 The Big Rock Candy Mountain Wallace Stegner 1943 American English
17163 The Power Of Meaning Emily Esfahani Smith 2017 American English
17163 Born Standing Up Steve Martin 2007 American English
17163 Cosmic Connections Charles Taylor 2024 Unknown English
17163 On Fire Naomi Klein 2019 Canadian English
17163 Of Wolves And Men Barry Lopez 1978 American English
17163 The Wealth And Poverty Of Nations David S. Landes 1998 American English
17163 The Golden Spruce John Vaillant 2005 Canadian English
17163 Him Sarina Bowen 2015 Unknown English
17163 Aria Nazanine Hozar 2019 Unknown English
17163 Churchill Martin Gilbert 1991 British English
17163 Because Internet Gretchen McCulloch 2019 Canadian English
17163 Atlas Obscura Joshua Foer 2016 American English
16935 Fate Is The Hunter Ernest K. Gann 1961 American English
17141 The Age Of Revolution, 1789 1848 Eric Hobsbawm 1962 British English
17163 North America's Forgotten Past Series Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear 1990 American English
17163 The Twelfth Transforming Pauline Gedge 1984 Canadian English
17163 Lady Of The Reeds Pauline Gedge 1994 Canadian English
17163 Guns Of Burgoyne Bruce Lancaster 1975 American English
17163 Eight Bears Gloria Dickie 2023 Unknown English
17163 Girlfriend On Mars Deborah Willis 2023 Canadian English
17163 Master Slave Husband Wife Ilyon Woo 2023 Unknown English
17163 The Rediscovery Of America Ned Blackhawk 2023 American English
17163 Crossings Ben Goldfarb 2023 Unknown English
17163 This Is Wildfire Nick Mott, Justin Angle 2023 Unknown English
17163 Eight Bears Gloria Dickie 2023 Unknown English