I’m happy to hear you are reading Tomb of Sand: I loved it! Split Tooth and Spilexm are both excellent choices for the Read Across Canada challenge. I listened to them in audio as well as reading print editions-in any format they are fabulous.
(Thank you for saying that about Eleanor Catton, I get so annoyed that she gets nominated for all the Canadian awards!) Such an interesting challenge! One of my fave reads: Adrift by Brideau who is a BC author and the book is set in BC, if you need another BC option (it fits your mystery/thriller genre category too). It's really smart climate fiction with a strong mystery at the core. It just won the Evergreen Award, is a finalist for some mystery/crime awards too. I loved it and wish more people were talking about it! :)
Thank you so much for doing this! Really enjoyed hearing about your journey with Reading Across Canada. You also have the added challenge of being out of the country and a more limited access to Can Lit. Nunavut is tricky because the population is small and therefore the population of writers is even smaller. Tanya Tagaq and Sheila Watt-Cloutier are two that I have read from there. For PEI, there is the PEI book award which has Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry and Children's books. That might help introduce you to more authors besides LM Montgomery. Thanks again for taking on the challenge and I look forward to seeing what else you read this year. 😊💙
Thanks so much for commenting Jolene! I have The Right to be Cold on my TBR actually! Although I thought she was from the northern territory of Quebec! I see she lived in Nuvanut for a long time too! Will definitely look up the PEI book award too! Thanks for the local tips :)
I'm going to do this challenge for next year and aim to read an author from each province and territory. I'm Japanese Canadian from (London) Ontario and currently live in Halifax. Since I'm travelling in Ontario to visit family at the moment, I don't have my TBR with me, but I am ALSO struggling to find a writer from Nunavut. Also, I LOVED "Fayne" and almost everything Ann-Marie MacDonald has written :) I have a few recommendations. They're just a few that I've read and enjoyed: - I'm Afraid of Men (nonfiction) by Vivek Shraya - A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle Porter - The Way the Crow Flies, Ann-Marie MacDonald - My Conversations with Canadians by Lee Maracle - 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act by Bob Joseph - Noopiming by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Happy reading!
Thanks so much for commenting and adding some recommendations! Always fab to get more! You know I never read anything by Vivek Shraya, need to remedy that! I always love reading Ann-Marie MacDonald yes! I actually found an audio of Fayne since I filmed this video, so keen to add it to my tbr now! 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is such a good one for the Canadian Non-Fiction prompt! Might see if I can squeeze it in for Non-Fiction November! Oh I enjoy reading Leanne Betasamosake Simpson! I have Rehearsals for Living (with Robyn Maynard) on my tbr!
I second the recommendation for Vivek Shraya-anything by her! A multi-talented queer South Asian Canadian from Alberta. I was also going to suggest Ann-Marie MacDonald, but a different title, her debut: Fall on Your Knees. Camila, that would satisfy the prompts for marginalized voices, over 500 pages, and New Brunswick… but I am glad to hear you now have access to a copy of Fayne.
What a great challenge! I re as Five Little Indians which was really good. A book that I saw heavily advertised by my library is Hotline by Dimitri Nasrallah, I haven’t read it myself but I heard good reviews! It takes place in MTL in the 80s
I asked my Canadian friend about writers from PEI, and she suggested Valerie Compton (Tide Road). I guess she now lives elsewhere, but she was born and grew up on PEI.
I recommend Candy Palmater’s posthumous memoir Running Down a Dream. She was a queer Indigenous celebrity from NB and her memoir is amazing! For a chiac author from NB, what about France Daigle? I don’t have any PEI suggestions, but the province has book awards every year so you might find something browsing through those.
I’m happy to hear you are reading Tomb of Sand: I loved it!
Split Tooth and Spilexm are both excellent choices for the Read Across Canada challenge. I listened to them in audio as well as reading print editions-in any format they are fabulous.
(Thank you for saying that about Eleanor Catton, I get so annoyed that she gets nominated for all the Canadian awards!) Such an interesting challenge! One of my fave reads: Adrift by Brideau who is a BC author and the book is set in BC, if you need another BC option (it fits your mystery/thriller genre category too). It's really smart climate fiction with a strong mystery at the core. It just won the Evergreen Award, is a finalist for some mystery/crime awards too. I loved it and wish more people were talking about it! :)
Thank you so much for doing this! Really enjoyed hearing about your journey with Reading Across Canada. You also have the added challenge of being out of the country and a more limited access to Can Lit. Nunavut is tricky because the population is small and therefore the population of writers is even smaller. Tanya Tagaq and Sheila Watt-Cloutier are two that I have read from there. For PEI, there is the PEI book award which has Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry and Children's books. That might help introduce you to more authors besides LM Montgomery. Thanks again for taking on the challenge and I look forward to seeing what else you read this year. 😊💙
Thanks so much for commenting Jolene! I have The Right to be Cold on my TBR actually! Although I thought she was from the northern territory of Quebec! I see she lived in Nuvanut for a long time too!
Will definitely look up the PEI book award too! Thanks for the local tips :)
I'm going to do this challenge for next year and aim to read an author from each province and territory. I'm Japanese Canadian from (London) Ontario and currently live in Halifax. Since I'm travelling in Ontario to visit family at the moment, I don't have my TBR with me, but I am ALSO struggling to find a writer from Nunavut. Also, I LOVED "Fayne" and almost everything Ann-Marie MacDonald has written :)
I have a few recommendations. They're just a few that I've read and enjoyed:
- I'm Afraid of Men (nonfiction) by Vivek Shraya
- A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle Porter
- The Way the Crow Flies, Ann-Marie MacDonald
- My Conversations with Canadians by Lee Maracle
- 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act by Bob Joseph
- Noopiming by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Happy reading!
Thanks so much for commenting and adding some recommendations! Always fab to get more! You know I never read anything by Vivek Shraya, need to remedy that!
I always love reading Ann-Marie MacDonald yes! I actually found an audio of Fayne since I filmed this video, so keen to add it to my tbr now!
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is such a good one for the Canadian Non-Fiction prompt! Might see if I can squeeze it in for Non-Fiction November!
Oh I enjoy reading Leanne Betasamosake Simpson! I have Rehearsals for Living (with Robyn Maynard) on my tbr!
I second the recommendation for Vivek Shraya-anything by her! A multi-talented queer South Asian Canadian from Alberta. I was also going to suggest Ann-Marie MacDonald, but a different title, her debut: Fall on Your Knees. Camila, that would satisfy the prompts for marginalized voices, over 500 pages, and New Brunswick… but I am glad to hear you now have access to a copy of Fayne.
What a great challenge! I re as Five Little Indians which was really good. A book that I saw heavily advertised by my library is Hotline by Dimitri Nasrallah, I haven’t read it myself but I heard good reviews! It takes place in MTL in the 80s
I asked my Canadian friend about writers from PEI, and she suggested Valerie Compton (Tide Road). I guess she now lives elsewhere, but she was born and grew up on PEI.
Oh my gosh thank you so much! Sounds perfectly up my alley, added it to my tbr!
Realised I forgot to comment last night. I want to do this challenge next year. ❤
What's your favourite book by a Canadian author?
Do you have any suggestions for me from New Brunswick or PEI?
Thank you!
I recommend Candy Palmater’s posthumous memoir Running Down a Dream. She was a queer Indigenous celebrity from NB and her memoir is amazing! For a chiac author from NB, what about France Daigle?
I don’t have any PEI suggestions, but the province has book awards every year so you might find something browsing through those.