Lists of Bests: What Is Stephen Harper Reading?

Send to Printer What Is Stephen Harper Reading? 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.		The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
	2.		Animal Farm by George Orwell
	3.		Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie
	4.		By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
	5.		The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
	6.		Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
	7.		Candide: Or, Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Francois Voltaire
	8.		Short and Sweet (Faber Poetry)
	9.		Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
	10.		Three Plays: The Father, Easter & Miss Julia by August Strindberg
	11.		Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
	12.		The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
	13.		To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
	14.		Le Petit Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
	15.		Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Winterson, Jeanette) by Jeanette Winterson
	16.		Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
	17.	?	The Island Means Minago by Milton Acorn
	18.		The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
	19.		The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren
	20.		Imagine a Day (Byron Preiss Book) by Sarah L. Thomson
	21.	?	THE MYSTERIES OF HARRIS BURDICK by Chris Van Allsburg
	22.		The Educated Imagination (Cbc Massey Lectures Series) by Northrop Frye
	23.	?	The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
	24.		Meditations (Penguin Classics) by Marcus Aurelius
	25.		Artists and Models (Pocket Penguins 70's S.) by Anais Nin
	26.	?	Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
	27.	?	The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi by Larry Tremblay
	28.		Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
	29.		To the Lighthouse (Annotated) by Virginia Woolf
	30.	?	Read All About It! by Laura Bush
	31.		Drown by Junot Diaz
	32.		The Kreutzer Sonata (Penguin Great Loves) by Leo Tolstoy
	33.		Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
	34.		The Rez Sisters: A Play in Two Acts by Tomson Highway
	35.		Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
	36.	?	The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
	37.		Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
	38.		Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
	39.	?	A Modest Proposal +
	40.		Anthem by Ayn Rand
	41.		Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
	42.		Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
	43.		A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
	44.		Gilgamesh by Stephen Mitchell
	45.		Gilgamesh by Derrek Hines
	46.		The Uncommon Reader: A Novella by Alan Bennett
	47.	?	The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
	48.		Ficciones (English Translation) by Jorge Luis Borges
	49.		The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror by Michael Ignatieff
	50.		Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
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