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Canada Reads (All years)

A list of all the nominees for Canada Reads, a yearly event on CBC Radio that pits five books chosen by five personalities against one another. Canada Reads began in 2002.

1. A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club)
by Rohinton Mistry
 
2. In the Skin of a Lion
by Michael Ondaatje
 
3. The Handmaid's Tale (Everyman's Library)
by Margaret Atwood
 
4. The Stone Angel (Phoenix Fiction Series)
by Margaret Laurence
 
5. Whylah Falls
by George Elliott Clarke
 
6. Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
 
7.
?
Next Episode
by Hubert Aquin
 
8. Sarah Binks
by Paul G Hiebert
 
9. The Colony of Unrequited Dreams: A Novel
by Wayne Johnston
 
10. The Lost Garden: A Novel
by Helen Humphreys
 
11. Barney's Version
by Mordecai Richler
 
12. Green Grass, Running Water
by Thomas King
 
13. The Heart Is an Involuntary Muscle
by Monique Proulx
 
14. The Last Crossing: A Novel
by Guy Vanderhaeghe
 
15. The Love of a Good Woman : Stories
by Alice Munro
 
16. Beautiful Losers
by Leonard Cohen
 
17. Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
 
18. Rockbound
by Frank Parker Day
 
19. No Crystal Stair
by Mairuth Sarsfield
 
20. Volkswagen Blues
by Jacques Poulin
 
21. A Complicated Kindness
by Miriam Toews
 
22. Deafening: A Novel
by Frances Itani
 
23. Three Day Road
by Joseph Boyden
 
24. Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems 1962-1996
by Al Purdy
 
25.
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Cocksure
by Mordecai Richler
 
26. Children of My Heart
by Gabrielle Roy
 
27. Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel (P.S.)
by Heather O'Neill
 
28. Natasha: And Other Stories
by David Bezmozgis
 
29. The Song of Kahunsha
by Anosh Irani
 
30. Stanley Park
by Timothy L. Taylor
 
31. Brown Girl in the Ring
by Nalo Hopkinson
 
32.
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From the Fifteenth District
by Mavis Gallant
 
33. Icefields
by Thomas Wharton
 
34. King Leary
by Paul Quarrington
 
35.
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Not Wanted on the Voyage
by Timothy Findley
 
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Created by janeycanuck on Feb 21, 2008.