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We asked Globe readers to share their favourite Canadian reads. Here’s what you told us:
Magdalena: River of Dreams by Wade Davis. -Chris & Nancy Jones
The Very Marrow of Our Bones by Christine Higdon is my favorite Canadian book and one I periodically reread. A book about women’s lives, secrets and how we are all trying to do our best. -Darcy Kozak
The Danger Tree by David MacFarlane is tied with Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden.
I would say these are two of my top favorite Canadian books. Together they cover a great deal of what makes Canada “Canada.” -Ellen Bielawski
'Every Canadian should read this book:' Globe staff share their favourite Canadian book
My favourite Canadian book would have to be the fabulous dystopian novel Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. It’s one of my all-time favourite novels, and I have read a lot of novels. With characters the reader cares about, Canadian and global settings, it’s a terrific tribute to the power of art, even in a world decimated by a flu epidemic. -Sheryl Irwin
Tomson Highway’s Permanent Astonishment. Wow! Not only is this a literary tour de force, it is the quintessentially Canadian book. The story of an Indigenous boy raised on a trap line in the North, who was sent to residential school, and then became a highly successful author. -Chris Bruce
Books we're reading and loving this week
I’ve recently read Kate MacIntosh’s The Champagne Letters. Really good. Strong female characters, champagne, Paris. Well written in that I started caring for the characters (rare for me).
My other favourite writer is Robyn Harding. So good. I couldn’t put down The Drowning Woman. -Sharlene Ford
Greenwood by Michael Christie. -Chris Murphy
Two of my favourite Canadian books are The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood and The Diviners by Margaret Laurence. I have re-read each at least three times. -Connie Charlton
Juiceboxers by Benjamin Hertwig. It is about a platoon of Canadian army reservists preparing to serve in Afghanistan, and about their six-month deployment and the aftermath. It is a novel based on Hertwig’s own service, and it’s as raw as a slab of frozen beef in its depiction of wartime in Afghanistan and peacetime in Edmonton. I don’t think there has ever been a Canadian novel quite like it. -Patrick Sullivan
It’s a tie between The Diviners by Margaret Laurence and The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood.-Wendy Rogers
There are so many wonderful Canadian books it’s a challenge to just pick one, so here are three fiction titles that stand out for me:
Sailing to Sarantium and its sequel, Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay; The River Thieves by Michael Crummey, and, in spite of the issues surrounding its author, The Orenda by Joseph Boyden. -Evan Tarleton
Rough Magic by Miranda Newman, a Governor General prize winner. It’s a story of living with borderline personality disorder. Exceedingly good writing. -Gregory Colford
The Spoon Stealer by Lesley Crewe gets my vote. A very creative story that keeps one engaged and curious from start to finish. And of course, Anne of Green Gables is my all-time favourite. -Cathy Dodge Smith
Here are two of my favourites: Michael Crummey’s The Innocents and Lisa Moore’s February. -Deborah Toogood