Our Top 10 CanLit Books of the 21st Century
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Rebecca and Tara’s good friend Jolene (@BookwormAdventureGirl) put together a list of the 67 Best CanLit Books of the 21st Century with her friend Lindy (@Lindy’sMagpieReads) based on votes from their UA-cam and Instagram communities. This was in response to the New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Check out Jolene’s video of the 67 Best CanLit Books and Lindy’s UA-cam channel:
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Rebecca and Tara participated in the CanLit survey and their top ten are below:
Rebecca’s Top 10:
- From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle
- Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga
- The Boy on the Beach by Tima Kurdi
- Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese
- Where the Falcon Flies by Adam Shoalts
- Greenwood by Michael Christie
- Suzanne by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette; translated by Rhonda Mullins
- Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club by Megan Gail Coles
- What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad
- Denison Avenue by Christina Wong; illustrations by Daniel Innes
Tara’s Top 10:
- Care Of: Letters, Connections and Cures by Ivan Coyote
- Galore by Michael Crummey
- Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
- Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
- Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
- What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad
- The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
- Remembering the Bones by Frances Itani
- Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards
- Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast by John Vaillant
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Thanks for participating in our project. I am so glad you each shared your top ten here! Care Of nearly made my top ten-I would probably have a different top ten list every day because there are so many great books.
I really love Denison Avenue too. I can think of another two on the subject of gentrification:
In the City of Pigs by André Forget.
Little Yellow House by Carissa Halton.
@@lindysmagpiereads Thank you for the recs on gentrification. I’ll definitely check them out. I agree that a top ten list is ever changing. Thank you for doing this protect. It was fun to consider.
Thank you both so much for sharing your lists this way. Lindy and I will be sharing all 352 books that were submitted. Stay tuned. 😊💙
@@BookwormAdventureGirl Thank you for coordinating this great project/list!! You’ve given us all so much to work with going forward. And I can’t wait to see/hear the entire list!
@@canadareadsamericanstyle It's been so much fun and I enjoy hearing people's reaction to it. Plus, there's so much more to share. The entire list is pretty exciting.
I've read 33 of the top 67 on the list.
Top 10 I entered at the time:
The Inconvenient Indian -- Thomas King
Unless -- Carol Shields
The Stone Carvers -- Jane Urquhart
The Cellist of Sarajevo -- Steven Galloway
Station Eleven -- Emily St. John Mandel
Seven Fallen Feathers -- Tanya Talaga
The Cello Suites -- Eric Siblin
The Life of Pi -- Yann Martel
The Outlander -- Gil Adamson
The Blind Assassin -- Margaret Atwood
@@pjreads You have a few on your list that I’m unfamiliar with, so I’ll look into them-Galloway & Siblin. Thanks for sharing!
@pjreads great list! I also loved Outlander. I think it made the final list which I was happy to see.
I've also read 33, and I think DNFed 3 others. I've fully forgotten what was on my own list though. I should ask Jolene.
@@justineetzkorn9594 Curious about what you dnf’d if you’re willing to share. I’ll have to go back through the list and see if I had any.
@@justineetzkorn9594 I only dnf’d The Sleeping Car Porter.
@@canadareadsamericanstyle Sleeping Car Porter (Myer isn't my thing), When We Lost Our Heads (ditto), The Marrow Thieves (too bleak).
@@justineetzkorn9594 Marrow Thieves was not big on my list. I gave it 3 stars on GR.