{"id":86,"date":"2010-11-25T03:02:26","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T03:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/ubalblog\/2010\/11\/25\/canada-reads-list\/"},"modified":"2012-10-19T04:45:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T04:45:33","slug":"canada-reads-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/ubalblog\/2010\/11\/25\/canada-reads-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Reads List"},"content":{"rendered":"

[<\/strong> \"Sick\" Mood:<\/strong> Sick ]<\/strong>
[<\/strong> Currently:<\/strong> About to place a scholstic order. ]<\/strong>
Given the BBC List(s) that has (have) been bouncing around Facebook recently, I thought I needed to turn to a more Can-Con list. Below are the top forty novels of the last ten years as voted on by CBC listeners in the lead up to the 10th Anniversary of Canada Reads<\/a>. I asked myself, how many of these have I read. Sum total = one. Am I a bad Canadian because I have only read one of these? I don’t think so, but I do think that I am poorer in my knowledge and understanding of Canada. <\/p>\n

\n(To be fair to me, I started reading Book of Negroes, but stopped as I had just had my son and with the main character about to take a transatlantic voyage in a room full of pregnant slaves, I knew what was coming, and I knew I needed to walk away.)<\/p>\n

So here we go: Bold if I read it. Italicized if I started it, but didn’t finish it.<\/p>\n

A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews<\/p>\n

Bottle Rocket Hearts by Zoe Whittall<\/p>\n

Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright<\/p>\n

Come, Thou Tortoise by Jessica Grant<\/p>\n

Conceit by Mary Novik<\/p>\n

Crow Lake by Mary Lawson<\/p>\n

Drive-by Saviours by Chris Benjamin<\/p>\n

Elle by Douglas Glover<\/p>\n

Essex County by Jeff Lemire<\/p>\n

Far to Go by Alison Pick<\/p>\n

February by Lisa Moore<\/p>\n

Galore by Michael Crummey<\/p>\n

Heave by Christy Ann Conlin<\/p>\n

Inside by Kenneth J. Harvey<\/p>\n

Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay<\/p>\n

Life of Pi by Yann Martel<\/p>\n

Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O’Neill<\/p>\n

Moody Food by Ray Robertson<\/p>\n

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood<\/p>\n

Pattern Recognition by William Gibson<\/p>\n

Room by Emma Donoghue<\/p>\n

Shelf Monkey by Corey Redekop<\/p>\n

Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki<\/span><\/p>\n

Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb<\/p>\n

The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis<\/p>\n

The Birth House by Ami McKay<\/p>\n

The Bishop’s Man by Linden MacIntyre<\/p>\n

The Bone Cage by Angie Abdou<\/p>\n

The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill<\/span><\/p>\n

The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan<\/p>\n

The Fallen by Stephen Finucan<\/p>\n

The Girls Who Saw Everything by Sean Dixon<\/p>\n

The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe<\/p>\n

The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart<\/p>\n

The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald<\/p>\n

The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood<\/p>\n

Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden do<\/p>\n

Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden<\/p>\n

Twenty-Six by Leo McKay Jr.<\/p>\n

Unless by Carol Shields<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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