 | The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $0.03 Simply the best Canadian fiction ever written, by Canada's greatest novelist.
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 | Lives Of The Saints by Nino Ricci
Buy used from: $1.39 First in a series of 3. Book 1 - Italian boy follows his father to Canada under tragic circumstances. Books 2 and 3 (darker in tone), he comes of age in Ontario farm country and Toronto.
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 | The Colony of Unrequited Dreams: A Novel by Wayne Johnston
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $0.01 Fictional biography of Newfoundland's first premier, Joe Smallwood. A love story, a mystery, and an ode to Newfoundland.
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 | An Anthology of Canadian Literature in English: Volume I
Buy new: $31.95 / Used from: $2.50 Get the newer edition (2002, Bennett & Brown, ISBN: 0195416872) - not sure why Amazon doesn't have it. The alpha and omega of Canadian literature, includes almost every Canadian writer of consequence.
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 | Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: $12.44 / Used from: $9.37 An investigation of the key themes of Canadian fiction, written in an accessible style. Published in the 1970s, but still a good starting point for understanding Canadian literature.
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 | No Great Mischief: A Novel by Alistair MacLeod
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 How the past colours the present, following Clan MacDonald from emigration to Nova Scotia in the 1700s to the present day.
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 | Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $0.49 Timeless story of a young man's desire to make it big, played out in Montreal's Jewish ghetto of Montreal, written by the legendary satirist.
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 | As for Me and My House (New Canadian Library) by Sinclair Ross
Buy used from: $0.01 Straightforward tale of small-town prairie life during the Depression, or a post-modern novel with an unreliable narrator? Either way, a great story.
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 | Crow Lake (Today Show Book Club #7) by Mary Lawson
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 Life in Northern Ontario, and the fates of those who leave for the bright lights of Toronto and those who stay behind.
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 | Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.25 A wild ride that brings together Native American legends and modern-day reality on and around an Alberta reserve. A little confusing at first, but it all comes together in the end.
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 | The Invention of the World (The New Canadian Library) by Jack Hodgins
Buy used from: $0.79 The myths and legends that people create to explain their lives, set on Vancouver Island.
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