88 books
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23 voters
Canlit Books
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The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as canlit)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,418,661 ratings — published 1985
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as canlit)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,752,659 ratings — published 2001
A Complicated Kindness (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as canlit)
avg rating 3.69 — 28,298 ratings — published 2004
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as canlit)
avg rating 4.00 — 287,209 ratings — published 2003
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as canlit)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,112,228 ratings — published 1908
Alias Grace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as canlit)
avg rating 4.04 — 156,691 ratings — published 1996
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as canlit)
avg rating 4.07 — 612,302 ratings — published 2014
The Book of Negroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as canlit)
avg rating 4.47 — 91,446 ratings — published 2007
Fall on Your Knees (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as canlit)
avg rating 3.97 — 68,131 ratings — published 1996
In the Skin of a Lion (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as canlit)
avg rating 3.84 — 19,259 ratings — published 1987
Fifteen Dogs (Quincunx, #2)
by (shelved 56 times as canlit)
avg rating 3.80 — 28,299 ratings — published 2015
The English Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as canlit)
avg rating 3.86 — 139,238 ratings — published 1992
The Marrow Thieves (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as canlit)
avg rating 3.94 — 43,937 ratings — published 2017
All My Puny Sorrows (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as canlit)
avg rating 4.01 — 32,511 ratings — published 2014
Indian Horse (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as canlit)
avg rating 4.40 — 34,417 ratings — published 2012
The Break (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as canlit)
avg rating 4.27 — 22,292 ratings — published 2016
Half Blood Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as canlit)
avg rating 3.70 — 17,687 ratings — published 2011
The Sisters Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as canlit)
avg rating 3.85 — 103,146 ratings — published 2011
Three Day Road (Bird Family Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as canlit)
avg rating 4.28 — 25,877 ratings — published 2005
Son of a Trickster (Trickster, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as canlit)
avg rating 3.80 — 14,146 ratings — published 2017
Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as canlit)
avg rating 3.92 — 24,194 ratings — published 2016
Lullabies for Little Criminals (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as canlit)
avg rating 4.05 — 29,771 ratings — published 2006
The Orenda (Bird Family Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 45 times as canlit)
avg rating 4.22 — 19,056 ratings — published 2013
The Stone Angel (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as canlit)
avg rating 3.78 — 13,437 ratings — published 1964
Fifth Business (The Deptford Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as canlit)
avg rating 4.06 — 20,485 ratings — published 1970
Washington Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as canlit)
avg rating 3.95 — 72,573 ratings — published 2018
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 42 times as canlit)
avg rating 4.07 — 132,903 ratings — published 2009
Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 42 times as canlit)
avg rating 4.08 — 834,424 ratings — published 2010
The Blind Assassin (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as canlit)
avg rating 3.96 — 163,447 ratings — published 2000
Late Nights on Air (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as canlit)
avg rating 3.58 — 12,657 ratings — published 2007
Cat’s Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as canlit)
avg rating 3.95 — 72,666 ratings — published 1988
Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2)
by (shelved 38 times as canlit)
avg rating 4.23 — 225,136 ratings — published 1909
The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
by (shelved 38 times as canlit)
avg rating 4.20 — 422,791 ratings — published 2019
Women Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as canlit)
avg rating 3.62 — 67,274 ratings — published 2018
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as canlit)
avg rating 3.73 — 9,301 ratings — published 1959
The Stone Diaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as canlit)
avg rating 3.89 — 42,047 ratings — published 1993
Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as canlit)
avg rating 3.97 — 12,155 ratings — published 2017
The Wars (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as canlit)
avg rating 3.85 — 9,899 ratings — published 1977
No Great Mischief (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as canlit)
avg rating 4.02 — 12,231 ratings — published 1999
The Diviners (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as canlit)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,011 ratings — published 1974
Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as canlit)
avg rating 3.82 — 43,525 ratings — published 2018
Jonny Appleseed (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as canlit)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,730 ratings — published 2018
MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3)
by (shelved 36 times as canlit)
avg rating 4.02 — 82,546 ratings — published 2013
Through Black Spruce (Bird Family Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 36 times as canlit)
avg rating 4.12 — 15,514 ratings — published 2008
Lives of Girls and Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as canlit)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,007 ratings — published 1971
The Edible Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as canlit)
avg rating 3.70 — 40,585 ratings — published 1969
The Birth House (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 36 times as canlit)
avg rating 4.04 — 46,287 ratings — published 2006
The Glass Hotel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as canlit)
avg rating 3.69 — 195,694 ratings — published 2020
“Say your fears into the dark, my darling, and they will go away.”
― Deafening
― Deafening
“The question, then, is not whether boy should meet girl in Winnipeg or in New York; instead it is, What happens in Canadian literature when boy meets girl? And what sort of boy, and what sort of girl? If you've got this far, you may predict that when boy meets girl she gets cancer and he gets hit by a meteorite. . . .”
― Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
― Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature














