Thursday, May 13, 2010

What are Canada's greatest 100 books?

by: Mark Medley

Fifth Business? Life of Pi? The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz? A Fine Balance? From the Fifteenth District? Beautiful Losers? The Collected Works of Billy the Kid? The Stone Angel? Not Wanted on the Voyage? Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town? The Tin Flute? I Love You Forever? I Want to Go Home?

The search is on for Canada's 100 greatest books of all-time. Over the next six months, Stephen Patrick Clare and Trevor J. Adams, authors of Atlantic Canada's Greatest 100 Books, are asking readers from coast-to-coast for their ten favourite Canadian books. The results will be compiled and published in a book due out in the fall of 2011.

Participants can vote for fiction or non-fiction, poetry or drama, as long as it was written by a Canadian author and that it "involve(s) Canada in some capacity."

Visit the website here and the Facebook group here.

From: National Post

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