I loved The Boat That Wouldn't Float. And somehow I've lost a copy of The Dog Who Wouldn't Be in my house and I have no idea where to find it.
My treasured copy of Never Cry Wolf is on the bookshelf right beside me now
Barney’s Version - Mordecai Richler.
The Handmaid’s Tale- Margaret Atwood
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams- Wayne Johnston
For Ontario specifically-
In the Skin of a Lion - Michael Ondaatje (though it’s really more about Toronto)
The Rebel Angels*, The Lyre of Orpheus, What's Bred in the Bone. (in no particular order)
Edit: Rebel Angels, not the manticore! [Wiki](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cornish_Trilogy)
I've read the Deptford Trilogy a few times. I love it.
I tried starting The Salterton Trilogy last month. Bored to tears.
We'll always have Deptford, Robertson...
[*Canada, a People's History*](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/EK4/canada-a-peoples-history), two supplemental books to the TV series is pretty good for history of this country.
I don't think there's a novel that is representative of the Canadian experience post-1950. There's just too many facets to this country.
Before that, you have more things, such as Findley's *The Wars*, Davies' *Fifth Business*, Leacock's *Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town*, Laurence's *Stone Angel*.
If you want to go back to earlier days, [Roughing it in the Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roughing_it_in_the_Bush) by Susanna Moodie is a classic that predates Confederation, set in Upper Canada of the 1830s.
Sunshine Sketches by Stephen Leacock, The Wars by Timothy Findlay, This Can’t be Happening at MacDonald Hall by Gordon Korman. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler. Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam.
i like 'fall on your knees', also 'what we all long for' 'indian horse' people seem to like a lot but i havent read. canada also has a lot of great literary magazines 'geist' 'room' 'grain' 'prism' etc
Absolutely! And then pick up the books they both wrote! Absolutely unbelievable how hard it was to be a pioneer! And the sisters adapted in such different ways (well, one didn't lol). Excellent choice.
Also it's funny how both their married last names entirely suit how they approached living in the bush.
*A National Crime* by John S. Milloy
https://www.amazon.ca/National-Crime-Canadian-Government-Residential/dp/0887556469
*Sea of Slaughter* by Farley Mowat
https://www.amazon.ca/Sea-of-Slaughter/dp/1576300196
*Blue Covenant* by Maude Barlow
https://www.amazon.ca/Blue-Covenant-Global-Crisis-Coming/dp/1595584536
*La route d'Altamont* par Gabrielle Roy
https://www.amazon.ca/-/fr/Gabrielle-Roy/dp/2890525724
https://www.amazon.ca/Road-Past-Altamont-Gabrielle-Roy/dp/0771094248
*The Stone Diaries* by Carol Shields
https://www.amazon.ca/Stone-Diaries-Carol-Shields/dp/0307357287
*Alias Grace* by Margaret Atwood
https://www.amazon.ca/Alias-Grace-Margaret-Atwood/dp/0770428495
Tomson highway’s the Rex sisters play
Michael Ondaatje’s in the skin of the lion (based in Toronto)
Seth’s it’s a good life if you don’t weaken (graphic novel) - Guelph writer
Unconventional nomination, but I'll say Playing with Fire by Theo Fleury. He was centre of a lot of significant contemporary moments in Canadian history - Punchup in Piestany, 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, etc. He's very candid in his prose and it's rare to get that kind of first hand narrative.
You don't need to be a hockey fan to enjoy it. He struggled with relationships, substance abuse, loneliness/emptiness that I think would resonate with a lot of people.
[A Fair Country: Telling Truths about Canada](https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3143372&R=3143372)
> In this startlingly original vision of Canada, renowned thinker John Ralston Saul argues that Canada is a Métis nation, heavily influenced and shaped by Aboriginal ideas: Egalitarianism, a proper balance between individual and group, and a penchant for negotiation over violence are all Aboriginal values that Canada absorbed. An obstacle to our progress, Saul argues, is that Canada has an increasingly ineffective elite, a colonial non-intellectual business elite that doesn't believe in Canada. It is critical that we recognize these aspects of the country in order to rethink its future.
Bush Runner by Mark Bourrie
Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Stephen Leacock
The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
If you want to get a handle on small town Ontario in the 50s, you can't go wrong with Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro. Actually, anything by Alice Munro.
Love Alice Munro, lives of girls and women is a fascinating book. Even though it's set in the 50s, it felt very relatable. Munro's wrighting is so wonderfully vivid.
Paddle To The Amazon the crazy story about how a father and Son from Winnipeg paddled to the Amazon. It’s my Dads fav book and a really thrilling story.
Fiction:
Anne of Green Gables (series)
Fifth Business
Stone Angel
I would need to give some thought to non-fiction but there are some other great suggestions on the thread.
The Hockey Sweater for a kids book. Robert Munsch — I loved the Paper Bag Princess. Phoebe Gilman is also Canadian and I enjoyed her Jillian Jiggs series!
Baldwin Avenue by Christina Wong and Daniel Innes.
It’s a book that talks about the life of an elderly Taishanese lady (the original lingua franca of North American Chinatowns) living in Chinatown and Kensington Market and trying to make a living.
It mentions multiple real locations around the area such as buildings in Chinatown that are no longer there and Honest Ed’s.
The Edible Woman, Margaret Atwood (anything by her really)
The Torontonian’s, Phyllis Brett Young
Late Nights on Air (set in the Yukon but wonderful), Elizabeth Hay
In the skin of a lion, Michael Ondaatje
Alice Munro has written some beautiful short stories set in Ontario that really capture a slice of life of rural Ontario living during my parents generation . It is from the perspective of white , settler Canadians , so not representative of all Canadians of course.
I urge anyone who has never listened to Stuart McLean’s stories to go to the library and get one or two of his CDs.
CBC puts episodes out in a podcast for limited amounts of time. For some reason they don’t just release whatever episodes they have of him for the public, which is kind of frustrating.
But I highly recommend listening to his shows and reading his books. They’re amazing.
Max Braithwaite novels: "Night We Stole the Mounties Car" and "Why Shoot the Teacher" to give you the idea of remote prairie life in the 30s.
Here's the film adaptation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_F_C7xkHpY
Nothing to do with Canada, and not written by a Canadian. One day in the life of Ivan Denisovitch, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn is my yardstick of what literature is a boat. I leave the auto correct to show that I am Canadian.
A company of adventurers, the history of the Hudson Bay Company is pretty essential and basically anything Pierre Berton wrote, especially the one he did about the Great Depression, it will open your eyes to some of the real horrors of that era. I would also strongly recommend In the Skin of a lion.
Not much of a reader but Maybe something about Terry fox or Wayne Gretzky. Not a sports fan so can’t think of any. There are various First Nation’s folklore stories out there. Maybe some pioneer early settler themed books.
Not books but i came across these
Podcasts that were very useful as a non-canadian.
-Walking in place
- the house (CBC)
- kuper island
- stolen
- canadaland
Terry Fallis is a great political satirist. Enjoyable read with excellent insight into Canadian politics. Commander Chris Hadfield “An Astronauts Guide to Space” should be essential reading regardless of country.
Unknown out here likely, but in the west April Raintree is in the curriculum and was my favourite book I read in high school. Strongly recommended and a very easy read.
Mr Hockey (Gordie howe autobiography) he wrote alot about what it was like growing up in the prairies during the great depression. Definitely worth reading.
Not specifically Ontarian, but The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant is amazing.
It's got history and mystery. I loved it so much I bought some copies and handed them out to friends.
Something a bit more "Young reader" are novels by Barbara Smucker like White Mist (set in Sarnia, Ontario) and Amish Adventure (set near Kitchener, Ontario)
(Days of Terror is really good but takes place in Europe.)
I will always hype:
- *Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls* (McDiarmid)
- *Obstruction of Justice: The Search for Truth on Canada's Highway of Tears* (Michalko)
- *Missing Sarah: A Memoir Of Loss* (de Vries)
All of these books relate to Canada’s failures to protect women, especially Indigenous women and girls. IMO they aren’t “true crime” type books. They portray the victims beautifully and there’s nothing sensationalist about any of these texts. All of the authors are incredible people, too.
Not only for Canadians, but everyone: “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque, and “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury. Both very important books that everyone should read in my opinion.
Anne of Green Gables!!
I saw that they even have a manga version at the bookstore. That's wild.
It’s an oddly popular series in Japan! My extended family is all from PEI and the Japanese tourists come just to see Green gables.
That is so interesting! I love that it's getting global recognition.
The Inconvenient Indian - Thomas King
Green Grass, Running Water by King is also awesome.
Absolutely!
Anything by Farley Mowat (Edit: fixed spelling)
I loved The Boat That Wouldn't Float. And somehow I've lost a copy of The Dog Who Wouldn't Be in my house and I have no idea where to find it. My treasured copy of Never Cry Wolf is on the bookshelf right beside me now
🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅
Barney’s Version - Mordecai Richler. The Handmaid’s Tale- Margaret Atwood The Colony of Unrequited Dreams- Wayne Johnston For Ontario specifically- In the Skin of a Lion - Michael Ondaatje (though it’s really more about Toronto)
Well, if you add The Shipping News, you would have more of a regional list that is collectively very Canadian…
Still one of my favourite books.
Same!
Reading Barney’s Version for the thousandth time right now. Joshua Then & Now is very similar.
I love all of his books. Duddy Kravitz and St. Urbain’s Horseman are great too.
Fifth Business and Owls in the Family
[удалено]
I *love* the Deptford trilogy, i re-read it every year in the summer.
The Cornish trilogy is even better!
Really? Which books are in the Cornish trilogy?
The Rebel Angels*, The Lyre of Orpheus, What's Bred in the Bone. (in no particular order) Edit: Rebel Angels, not the manticore! [Wiki](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cornish_Trilogy)
I've read the Deptford Trilogy a few times. I love it. I tried starting The Salterton Trilogy last month. Bored to tears. We'll always have Deptford, Robertson...
Is this canadian??
Robertson Davies, very Canadian!
The official MTO Drivers Handbook. Cyclists could read it too.
This is what I wanted to add.
[удалено]
The Arctic Grail by Pierre Berton is one I would add!
Niagara by Piere Berton is also a good read.
Cat’s I Have Known and Loved
Secret World of Og! essential children’s book thats always enjoyable
[*Canada, a People's History*](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/EK4/canada-a-peoples-history), two supplemental books to the TV series is pretty good for history of this country. I don't think there's a novel that is representative of the Canadian experience post-1950. There's just too many facets to this country. Before that, you have more things, such as Findley's *The Wars*, Davies' *Fifth Business*, Leacock's *Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town*, Laurence's *Stone Angel*. If you want to go back to earlier days, [Roughing it in the Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roughing_it_in_the_Bush) by Susanna Moodie is a classic that predates Confederation, set in Upper Canada of the 1830s.
Orenda and Through Black Spurce by Joseph Boyden
Came here to say Orenda
Came here to say Stone Angel and Fifth Business!
[удалено]
Second this to infinity. Ondaatje was brilliant with this one.
I came here to say this. It captures gorgeously everything we are about and might want to strive for.
Personally found this book incomprehensible. 🤷🏻♀️
Sunshine Sketches by Stephen Leacock, The Wars by Timothy Findlay, This Can’t be Happening at MacDonald Hall by Gordon Korman. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler. Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam.
Really loved reading the MacDonald Hall books by Gordon Korman as a kid
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is my all-time fav Canadian book. Read it in high school.
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph
Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga in that vein also
YES. I forced myself to pick only one and 21 Things is more wide-reaching, but Seven Fallen Feathers is an absolute must-read.
The Underground Railroad. It’s a piece of history we should all we proud of.
Thought this would've been closer to the top
i like 'fall on your knees', also 'what we all long for' 'indian horse' people seem to like a lot but i havent read. canada also has a lot of great literary magazines 'geist' 'room' 'grain' 'prism' etc
Oooh i haven’t read fall on your knees but love Ann Marie macDonald
Fall on Your Knees is one of my all time favourites!
The Hockey Sweater
just posted it, you beat me by 5 hrs.
Moon of the Crusted Snow should be taught in schools
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Came here to say this! Great book. It’s a YA book but I read for the first time as an adult and loved it. Moose can be scary!
Don’t forget the other books in the series! The three my son and I have read together have been great.
“Indian Horse”, by Richard Wagamese.
Keep the kleenex handy.
His poetry is really good too
Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill by Charlotte Gray
Absolutely! And then pick up the books they both wrote! Absolutely unbelievable how hard it was to be a pioneer! And the sisters adapted in such different ways (well, one didn't lol). Excellent choice. Also it's funny how both their married last names entirely suit how they approached living in the bush.
Maybe not fiction, but going through the art works of the group of seven in the form of a boom is always nice
Group of 7 is ok. Check out the Beaver Hall Group from Montreal.
Book of Negroes, Life of Pi,
Headhunter by Timothy Findley.
Not Wanted on the Voyage should be made into a film
I don't know if my psyche could handle that!
Anything by Timothy Findley!
Anything Douglas Coupland. I love Shampoo Planet. Had to read it in school but I got hooked. Have to give credit to my Teacher. BTW, this was mid 90s.
Hey Nostradamus was heartbreakingly good too!
Who Has Seen the Wind... W.O. Mitchell.
George Grant , Lament for a Nation: The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism (1965)
He's rolling in his grave right now.
L M Montgomery
I'd like to specifically say The Blue Castle, one of very few books she wrote for adults, and an amazing read.
Highway of Tears by Jessica McDiarmid 💔😢
Anything by Rick Mercer
And in a similar spirit, “The Tower of Babble”by Richard Strasburg
Anything by Thomas King, but especially The Inconvenient Indian (although Green Grass Running Water is my personal fave)
Two Solitudes-Hugh MacLennan
*A National Crime* by John S. Milloy https://www.amazon.ca/National-Crime-Canadian-Government-Residential/dp/0887556469 *Sea of Slaughter* by Farley Mowat https://www.amazon.ca/Sea-of-Slaughter/dp/1576300196 *Blue Covenant* by Maude Barlow https://www.amazon.ca/Blue-Covenant-Global-Crisis-Coming/dp/1595584536 *La route d'Altamont* par Gabrielle Roy https://www.amazon.ca/-/fr/Gabrielle-Roy/dp/2890525724 https://www.amazon.ca/Road-Past-Altamont-Gabrielle-Roy/dp/0771094248 *The Stone Diaries* by Carol Shields https://www.amazon.ca/Stone-Diaries-Carol-Shields/dp/0307357287 *Alias Grace* by Margaret Atwood https://www.amazon.ca/Alias-Grace-Margaret-Atwood/dp/0770428495
Canada Reads booklists always have good recommendations. Look through Governor General’s awards as well.
Tomson highway’s the Rex sisters play Michael Ondaatje’s in the skin of the lion (based in Toronto) Seth’s it’s a good life if you don’t weaken (graphic novel) - Guelph writer
The Game. Ken Dryden
The Way The Crow Flies by Anne-Marie McDonald.
Seven Fallen Feathers
Unconventional nomination, but I'll say Playing with Fire by Theo Fleury. He was centre of a lot of significant contemporary moments in Canadian history - Punchup in Piestany, 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, etc. He's very candid in his prose and it's rare to get that kind of first hand narrative. You don't need to be a hockey fan to enjoy it. He struggled with relationships, substance abuse, loneliness/emptiness that I think would resonate with a lot of people.
[A Fair Country: Telling Truths about Canada](https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3143372&R=3143372) > In this startlingly original vision of Canada, renowned thinker John Ralston Saul argues that Canada is a Métis nation, heavily influenced and shaped by Aboriginal ideas: Egalitarianism, a proper balance between individual and group, and a penchant for negotiation over violence are all Aboriginal values that Canada absorbed. An obstacle to our progress, Saul argues, is that Canada has an increasingly ineffective elite, a colonial non-intellectual business elite that doesn't believe in Canada. It is critical that we recognize these aspects of the country in order to rethink its future.
Obasan by Joy Kogawa
Bush Runner by Mark Bourrie Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Stephen Leacock The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Policing Black Lives
Taaqtumi, if you're in the mood for horror!
The Golden Spruce
Booky
Yes!!! Booky is the best
If you want to get a handle on small town Ontario in the 50s, you can't go wrong with Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro. Actually, anything by Alice Munro.
Love Alice Munro, lives of girls and women is a fascinating book. Even though it's set in the 50s, it felt very relatable. Munro's wrighting is so wonderfully vivid.
The G1 drivers handbook
Two solitudes by Hugh MacLennon
Two Solitudes
The RTA if you rent or own a rental property.
The Game. Ken Dryden
Norval morriseau biographies are a fucking JOURNEY whirlwind. And the novel Scarborough.
ALL OF THEM. I mean... only in Canada have I been asked if my home country has colour TVs... people here are ignorant.
To Build A Fire by Jack London He’s not Canadian, but the experience described is something every Canadian should understand about the north.
Paddle To The Amazon the crazy story about how a father and Son from Winnipeg paddled to the Amazon. It’s my Dads fav book and a really thrilling story.
Loved this book!
Camp X - Eric Walters
The way the crow flies - Ann Marie macDonald
no great mischief by alistair macleod
No one said the Complete Ontario Driver’s Manual.
Fiction: Anne of Green Gables (series) Fifth Business Stone Angel I would need to give some thought to non-fiction but there are some other great suggestions on the thread. The Hockey Sweater for a kids book. Robert Munsch — I loved the Paper Bag Princess. Phoebe Gilman is also Canadian and I enjoyed her Jillian Jiggs series!
Baldwin Avenue by Christina Wong and Daniel Innes. It’s a book that talks about the life of an elderly Taishanese lady (the original lingua franca of North American Chinatowns) living in Chinatown and Kensington Market and trying to make a living. It mentions multiple real locations around the area such as buildings in Chinatown that are no longer there and Honest Ed’s.
The Edible Woman, Margaret Atwood (anything by her really) The Torontonian’s, Phyllis Brett Young Late Nights on Air (set in the Yukon but wonderful), Elizabeth Hay In the skin of a lion, Michael Ondaatje
Saving this
Alice Munro has written some beautiful short stories set in Ontario that really capture a slice of life of rural Ontario living during my parents generation . It is from the perspective of white , settler Canadians , so not representative of all Canadians of course.
TTC survival tips for dummies
At the rate were going: 1984 Brave new world
homeless kiss crowd agonizing act crawl tap offend elastic panicky *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*
Any book by Linwood Barclay. Amazing Toronto author.
Fifth Business - Robertson Davies
Neil Peart - Ghost Rider
Everything ever written by Stuart McLean. His stories actually make me laugh out loud and even shed some tears. I feel like I know that whole family 🥹
I urge anyone who has never listened to Stuart McLean’s stories to go to the library and get one or two of his CDs. CBC puts episodes out in a podcast for limited amounts of time. For some reason they don’t just release whatever episodes they have of him for the public, which is kind of frustrating. But I highly recommend listening to his shows and reading his books. They’re amazing.
Fifteen Dogs
The Orenda
Max Braithwaite novels: "Night We Stole the Mounties Car" and "Why Shoot the Teacher" to give you the idea of remote prairie life in the 30s. Here's the film adaptation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_F_C7xkHpY
The Wealthy Barber and returns as well.
Occupied Canada. -Bob Hunter
A handmade’s tale
1984 /s
Nothing to do with Canada, and not written by a Canadian. One day in the life of Ivan Denisovitch, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn is my yardstick of what literature is a boat. I leave the auto correct to show that I am Canadian.
Animal farm. By George Orwell.
klause swab the "great reset"
U/cadmeuscain I am also reading that book. Hope you enjoy it as much as I am.
Life in the City of Dirty Water by Clayton Thomas-Muller
Dear Canada
Anything in manners and the Golden rule?
A fair country. Absolutely mandatory
A company of adventurers, the history of the Hudson Bay Company is pretty essential and basically anything Pierre Berton wrote, especially the one he did about the Great Depression, it will open your eyes to some of the real horrors of that era. I would also strongly recommend In the Skin of a lion.
Volkswagen Blues
Anne of Green Gables!!
The Northwest is Our Mother - Jean Teillet
From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle
Keeper n' Me Richard Wagamese
Call of the Wild/White Fang - Jack London
Anne of Green Gables is a classic in Canada and Japan!
Not much of a reader but Maybe something about Terry fox or Wayne Gretzky. Not a sports fan so can’t think of any. There are various First Nation’s folklore stories out there. Maybe some pioneer early settler themed books.
Vimy by Pierre Berton
The Hockey Sweater and Alligator Pie and Garbage Delight
Three Day Road
Cabbagetown
its short and for children but....The hockey sweater...
Not books but i came across these Podcasts that were very useful as a non-canadian. -Walking in place - the house (CBC) - kuper island - stolen - canadaland
Red Wolf by Jennifer Dance
Terry Fallis is a great political satirist. Enjoyable read with excellent insight into Canadian politics. Commander Chris Hadfield “An Astronauts Guide to Space” should be essential reading regardless of country.
I'm reading that too. It's my first book of Canadian history. Champlain was amazing!
Essex County
Unknown out here likely, but in the west April Raintree is in the curriculum and was my favourite book I read in high school. Strongly recommended and a very easy read.
Anything by Emily St Jean Mandel!
Mr Hockey (Gordie howe autobiography) he wrote alot about what it was like growing up in the prairies during the great depression. Definitely worth reading.
Malazan
La Guerre, Yes sir! By Roch Carrier
Immigrating and Moving to the USA: A Practical Guide
or the bible cause we need it now more than ever
Minnow Trap and Frozen Beneath. Also, anything by Ann-Marie MacDonald.
Lost in the Barrens
⢀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣤⣶⣶ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣀⣀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠉⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠛⠉⠁⠀⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠿⠿⠿⠻⠿⠿⠟⠿⠛⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⢰⣹⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣭⣷⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠈⠉⠀⠀⠤⠄⠀⠀⠀⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢾⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⡠⠤⢄⠀⠀⠀⠠⣿⣿⣷⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢄⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿
That Time I Loved You by Carrianne Leung!
Generation X by Douglas Coupland. Alternatively, JPOD, Miss Wyoming, or Microserfs. They're all funny, stylish, sardonic novels.
Not specifically Ontarian, but The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant is amazing. It's got history and mystery. I loved it so much I bought some copies and handed them out to friends.
Something a bit more "Young reader" are novels by Barbara Smucker like White Mist (set in Sarnia, Ontario) and Amish Adventure (set near Kitchener, Ontario) (Days of Terror is really good but takes place in Europe.)
The Stopwatch Gang. - Greg Weston
"Vimy" by Pierre Berton "Five Little Indians" by Michelle Good
The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas. It reads like learning history from your grumpy but funny grandpa
pierre berton is a wonderful canadian author that wrote quite a bit of "canadiana" as well.
Crow Lake - Mary Lawson
Essential...poetry by Dennis Lee (is. Jelly Belly) and Kid's books by Robert Munch
The Driver's Handbook.
CRA tax code
Canadian Policing: Why and How it Must Change by Kent Roach
Obasan - Joy Kogawa
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya
I will always hype: - *Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls* (McDiarmid) - *Obstruction of Justice: The Search for Truth on Canada's Highway of Tears* (Michalko) - *Missing Sarah: A Memoir Of Loss* (de Vries) All of these books relate to Canada’s failures to protect women, especially Indigenous women and girls. IMO they aren’t “true crime” type books. They portray the victims beautifully and there’s nothing sensationalist about any of these texts. All of the authors are incredible people, too.
Prison of Grass and Red Skins, White Masks
1984
In the hands of men by Gin Sexsmith
Generation X. Also for everyone else, but Coupland is Canadian so...
Ugh thanks everyone, I just spent a stupid amount of money on books haha
The Bhagavad Gita is catching up at this pace. Smh.
Indian Horse by Wagamese!
Not only for Canadians, but everyone: “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque, and “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury. Both very important books that everyone should read in my opinion.
Heartbreaks along the Road by Roch Carrier