BOOKS TO UNDERSTAND CANADA

BOOKS TO UNDERSTAND CANADA

Sheryl MacKay the hostess on the CBC Radio 1 program North by Northwest, Weekends 6:00 - 9:00 a.m highlighted some Canadian books for visitors to the recent Olympics.
I consider myself a dedicated Canadian and a voracious reader. It is embarrassing to admit that of the 46 listed I have only read 5. Perhaps I have yet to understand Canada.

Source
http://www.cbc.ca/nxnw/
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Canada Reads Vancouver Book Club - Book List:

The discussion was open to all Canadian books, any genre - what books would you recommend visitors read to understand Canada and Canadians?

Sheryl MacKay's Suggestions:

No Great Mischief - Alastair McLeod
Who Has Seen the Wind - WO Mitchell
Where the Blood Mixes - Kevin Loring
Roughing it in the Bush - Susannah Moodie
Souvenir of Canada (1 or 2) - Douglas Coupland


Jen Sookfong Lee's Suggestions:

The Stone Angel - Margaret Laurence
Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing - Tomson Highway
Anne of Green Gables - by L.M. Montgomery
Stilt Jack - John Thompson
Saltwater City: An Illustrated History of the Chinese in Vancouver - Paul Yee
The Journals of Susannah Moodie - Margaret Atwood


Simi Sara's Suggestions:

Good To a Fault - Marina Endicott
The Jade Peony - Wayson Choy
Nikolski - Nicholas Dickner
Monkey Beach - Eden Robinson
Galore - Michael Crummey
The Retreat - David Bergen


The Audience Suggestions:

Consumption - Kevin Patterson
A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada - John Ralston Saul
The Diviners - Margaret Laurence
Two Solitudes - Hugh MacLennan
As for Me and My House - Sinclair Ross
Food that Schmecks - Edna Staebler
Why We Act Like Canadians - Pierre Berton
Chokecherry - Norma Hawkins
Through Black Spruce - Joseph Boyden
Beyond Forget: Rediscovery the Prairies - Mark Abley
The Cure for Death by Lightning - Gail Anderson-Dargatz
jPod - Douglas Coupland
Simple Recipes - Madeleine Thien
The Reckoning of Boston Jim - Claire Mulligan
Obasan - Joy Kogawa
Stanley Park - Timothy Taylor
Mister Got to Go: The Cat that Wouldn't Leave - Lois Simmie & Cynthia Nugent
Awake and Dreaming - Kit Pearson
To All Appearances A Lady - Marilyn Bowering
Stubby Amberchuk and the Holy Grail - Anne Cameron
Where the Blue Grama Grows - Doris Bircham
The Bishop's Man - Linden MacIntyre
The Birth House - Ami McKay
October Ferry to Gabriola - Malcolm Lowry
Ruffles on My Longjohns - Isabel Edwards
Midnight at the Dragon Caf� - Judy Fong Bates
A Curve of Time - M. Wylie Blanchet
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept - Elizabeth Smart
Visiting Hours - Shane Koyczan
The End of East - Jen Sookfong Lee