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
  2. 2.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell
  4. 4.
    By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
    by Elizabeth Smart
  5. 5.
    The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous
  6. 6.
    Bonjour Tristesse
    by Francoise Sagan
  7. 7.
    Candide: Or, Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Francois Voltaire
  8. 8.
    Short and Sweet (Faber poetry)
    by Simon Armitage
  9. 9.
    Chronicle of a Death Foretold
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  10. 10.
    Three Plays: The Father, Easter & Miss Julia
    by August Strindberg
  11. 11.
    Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  12. 12.
    Maus: A Survivor's Tale
    by Art Spiegelman
  13. 13.
    To Kill A Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee
  14. 14.
    Le Petit Prince
    by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
  15. 15.
    Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
    by Jeanette Winterson
  16. 16.
    Letters to a Young Poet
    by Rainer Maria Rilke
  17. 17.
    ?
    The Island Means Minago
    by Milton Acorn
  18. 18.
    The Metamorphosis
    by Franz Kafka
  19. 19.
    The Brothers Lionheart
    by Astrid Lindgren
  20. 20.
    Imagine a Day (Byron Preiss Book)
    by Sarah L. Thomson
  21. 21.
    ?
    THE MYSTERIES OF HARRIS BURDICK
    by Chris Van Allsburg
  22. 22.
    The Educated Imagination (Cbc Massey Lectures Series)
    by Northrop Frye
  23. 23.
    ?
    The Cellist of Sarajevo
    by Steven Galloway
  24. 24.
    Meditations (Penguin Classics)
    by Marcus Aurelius
  25. 25.
    Artists and Models (Pocket Penguins 70's)
    by Anais Nin
  26. 26.
    Waiting for Godot
    by Samuel Beckett
  27. 27.
    ?
    The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi
    by Larry Tremblay
  28. 28.
    Birthday Letters
    by Ted Hughes
  29. 29.
    To the Lighthouse (Annotated)
    by Virginia Woolf
  30. 30.
    ?
    Read All About It!
    by Laura Bush
  31. 31.
    Drown
    by Junot Diaz
  32. 32.
    The Kreutzer Sonata (Penguin Great Loves)
    by Leo Tolstoy
  33. 33.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston
  34. 34.
    The Rez Sisters: A Play in Two Acts
    by Tomson Highway
  35. 35.
    Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
    by Marjane Satrapi
  36. 36.
    The Bluest Eye
    by Toni Morrison
  37. 37.
    Under Milk Wood
    by Dylan Thomas
  38. 38.
    Everything That Rises Must Converge
    by Flannery O'Connor
  39. 39.
    ?
    A Modest Proposal +

  40. 40.
    Anthem
    by Ayn Rand
  41. 41.
    Mister Pip
    by Lloyd Jones
  42. 42.
    Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  43. 43.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess
  44. 44.
    Gilgamesh
    by Stephen Mitchell
  45. 45.
    Gilgamesh
    by Derrek Hines
  46. 46.
    The Uncommon Reader: A Novella
    by Alan Bennett
  47. 47.
    ?
    The Good Earth
    by Pearl S. Buck
  48. 48.
    Ficciones (English Translation)
    by Jorge Luis Borges
  49. 49.
    The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror
    by Michael Ignatieff
  50. 50.
    Gilead: A Novel
    by Marilynne Robinson

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tassini

Untitled — 4 years ago

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

Oct 31, 07:16AM | 0 comments | Reply to this



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