What Is Stephen Harper Reading?

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Author Yann Martel (Life of Pi) has started (on Apr. 16, 2007) sending Canada’s prime minister Stephen Harper a book every two weeks to encourage him to think about the arts. Since Stephen Harper’s government has reduced arts funding to anemic proportions, Mr. Martel hopes to "make suggestions to his stillness" and possibly show Mr. Harper that the arts are not mere entertainment but a vital part of a country’s culture and the very lives of its people.

Any response from the prime minister will be posted here: http://www.whatisstephenharperreading.ca/

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  1. 1.
    The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  2. 2.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

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    Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
    by Agatha Christie

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    By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
    by Elizabeth Smart

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  5. 5.
    The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous

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  6. 6.
    Bonjour Tristesse
    by Francoise Sagan

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  7. 7.
    Candide: Or, Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Francois Voltaire

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  8. 8.
    Short and Sweet (Faber Poetry)

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  9. 9.
    Chronicle of a Death Foretold
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  10. 10.
    Three Plays: The Father, Easter & Miss Julia
    by August Strindberg

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  11. 11.
    Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  12. 12.
    The Complete Maus
    by Art Spiegelman

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  13. 13.
    To Kill A Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

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  14. 14.
    Le Petit Prince
    by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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  15. 15.
    Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Winterson, Jeanette)
    by Jeanette Winterson

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  16. 16.
    Letters to a Young Poet
    by Rainer Maria Rilke

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    The Island Means Minago
    by Milton Acorn

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  18. 18.
    The Metamorphosis
    by Franz Kafka

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  19. 19.
    The Brothers Lionheart
    by Astrid Lindgren

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  20. 20.
    Imagine a Day (Byron Preiss Book)
    by Sarah L. Thomson

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    THE MYSTERIES OF HARRIS BURDICK
    by Chris Van Allsburg

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  22. 22.
    The Educated Imagination (Cbc Massey Lectures Series)
    by Northrop Frye

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    The Cellist of Sarajevo
    by Steven Galloway

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  24. 24.
    Meditations (Penguin Classics)
    by Marcus Aurelius

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  25. 25.
    Artists and Models (Pocket Penguins 70's S.)
    by Anais Nin

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  26. 26.
    Waiting for Godot
    by Samuel Beckett

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    The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi
    by Larry Tremblay

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  28. 28.
    Birthday Letters
    by Ted Hughes

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  29. 29.
    To the Lighthouse (Annotated)
    by Virginia Woolf

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    Read All About It!
    by Laura Bush

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  31. 31.
    Drown
    by Junot Diaz

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  32. 32.
    The Kreutzer Sonata (Penguin Great Loves)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  33. 33.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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  34. 34.
    The Rez Sisters: A Play in Two Acts
    by Tomson Highway

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  35. 35.
    Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
    by Marjane Satrapi

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    The Bluest Eye
    by Toni Morrison

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    Under Milk Wood
    by Dylan Thomas

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    Everything That Rises Must Converge
    by Flannery O'Connor

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    A Modest Proposal +

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    Anthem
    by Ayn Rand

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  41. 41.
    Mister Pip
    by Lloyd Jones

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  42. 42.
    Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  43. 43.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

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    Gilgamesh
    by Stephen Mitchell

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  45. 45.
    Gilgamesh
    by Derrek Hines

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  46. 46.
    The Uncommon Reader: A Novella
    by Alan Bennett

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    The Good Earth
    by Pearl S. Buck

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  48. 48.
    Ficciones (English Translation)
    by Jorge Luis Borges

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  49. 49.
    The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror
    by Michael Ignatieff

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  50. 50.
    Gilead: A Novel
    by Marilynne Robinson

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Comments

Untitled — 2 years ago

I took the liberty of posting #15, which I found at the site you listed. Hope you don’t mind.