Thursday, June 30, 2011

The #spbkchat Canadian lit list


Last night's Canadian Lit topic sparked a very interesting discussion and a lot of titles and authors were bandied about. :-)

On to the list:



Titles:
Wild Trek
Big Red
Snow Dog
Swamp Cat
Room
Desert of the heart
Clara Callan
Larry's Party
Beautiful Losers
Flashforward
The Diviners
The Bronze Horseman
The Cellist of Sarajevo
Never Cry Wolf
Deptford Trilogy (series)
The English Patient
Blood Ties (series)
Four Quarters (series)
Running in the Family
Scott Pilgrim (graphic novel)
A Complicated Kindness
Bruno & Boots (series)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series)
Little Criminals
Vanishing and Other Stories
Conceit
The Shipping News
Tigana
Beatrice and Virgil
Life of Pi
Griffin & Sabine (series)

Authors:
Jim Kjelgaard
Emma Donoghue
Jane Rule
Nalo Hopkinson
Inge Ashe Wolfe
Cory Doctorow
Candas Dorsey
William Gibson
Nalo Hopkinson
Tanya Huff
Spider Robinson
Margaret Atwood
Charles de Lint
Richard B. Wright
Kelley Armstrong
Carol Shields
Leonard Cohen
Robert Sawyer
Margaret Laurence
Robertson Davies
Farley Mowat
Michael Ondaatje
Tanya Huff
Pauline Gedge
Jean Little
Miriam Toews
Gordon Korman
Heather O'Neill
Tara Moss
Deborah Willis
Alice Munro
Mary Novik
Philip K Dick
David Adams Richards
David Malouf
Timothy Findley
Guy Gavriel Kay
Robertson Davies
Dionne Brand
Elisabeth Vonarburg
Ivan E. Coyote
Bryan Lee O'Malley
Nick Bantock
R J Anderson

Links:
http://bookmineset.blogspot.com/2011/06/5th-annual-canadian-book-challenge-what.html
http://www.the2rsblog.com/2011/06/what-does-margaret-atwood-read.html?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
http://www.robertfulford.com/CanadianNovelists.html
http://www.canadacouncil.ca/prizes/ggla
http://www.scotiabankgillerprize.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQbQGn_rqTw
http://www.scottpilgrimthemovie.com/avatarCreator/

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