Recommended Reading

Where on earth would we be without books?

These are but a few of the titles that have inspired and kept me grounded through the years.  I am very proud to say that most of my favourite authors are Canadian!

Margaret Atwood:  Cat’s Eye, Oryx and Crake

Martha Baillie:  My Sister Esther, Madame Balashavkaya’s Apartment

 June Callwood:  Jim, Emotions, Twelve Weeks in Spring, The Man Who Lost Himself

Elspeth Cameron:  No Previous Experience

Pat Capponi:  Upstairs in the Crazy House, Dispatches from the Poverty Line, The War at Home, Bound by Duty, Beyond the Crazy House

Wayson Choy:  The Jade Peony, Paper Shadows

Carol Corbeil:  In the Wings

 Jim Crace:  Quarantine

 Emma Donoghue:  Stir Fry, Slammerkin

Bernadette Dyer:  Villa Fair, Waltzes I Have Not
Forgotten (Women's Press, January 2004)

Timothy Findley:  The Wars, Piano Man’s Daughter, Inside Memory, The Stone Orchard, Spadework

Jane Finlay-Young:  From Bruised Fell

Janet Fitch:  White Oleander

Beth Follett:  Tell it Slant

Sylvia Fraser: My Father’s House

Jonathan Franzen:  The Corrections

Michael Frayn:  Headlong

Jill Frayne:  Starting out in the Afternoon

Margaret Gibson:  Butterfly Ward, Opium Dreams, The Fear Room, Sweet Poison

Catherine Gildiner:  Too Close to the Falls

Nathalie Goldberg:  Writing Down the Bones

Judith Guest:  Ordinary People

Radycliffe Hall:  The Well of Lonliness, The Unlit Lamp

Thompson Highway:  Kiss of the Fur Queen

Helen Humphreys: Leaving Earth, The Lost Garden

Nancy Huston: Dolce Agonia

Wally Lamb:  I Know this Much is True

Margaret Laurence:  Stone Angel, The Diviners

Anne MacDonald:  Fall on your Knees

Helen McLean:  Details from a Larger Canvas, Significant Things

Donna Morrissey:  Kit’s Law

Iris Murdoch:  The Severed Head

Athea Prince: Loadies of the Night and Other Stories, Being Black, Loving this Man

Michael Riordon:  Out our Way, Eating Fire

Jane Rule: Desert of the Heart, Memory Board, After the Fire, Hot-Eyed Moderate

Elizabeth Ruth:  Ten Good Seconds of Silence, Bent

Kerri Sakamoto:  Electrical Field, One Hundred Million Hearts

May Sarton: Joanna and Ulysses, Education of Harriet Hatfield, Journal of a Solitude, House by the Sea, Recovering

Bernard Schlink: The Reader

Carole Shields:  Unless

Ken Sparing: Dad Says He Saw you at the Mall

Eva Stachniak :  Necessary Lies

Sarah Waters:  Tipping the Velvet, Affinity Fingersmith,

Marnie Woodrow:  In the Spice House, Spelling Mississippi

 Recommended Links

Women's Press
Toronto Public Library

 Support your Canadian Independent Booksellers

Another Story (Toronto, ON)
Book City (Toronto, ON)
Books on the Bay (Piction, ON)
Caversham (Toronto, ON)
Different Drummer Books (Burlington, ON)
Glad Day Bookstore (Toronto, ON)
Lighthouse Books (Brighton, ON)
Pages (Toronto, ON)
Prince Books (Hamilton, ON)
This Ain't the Rosedale Library (Toronto, ON)
Toronto Women's Bookstore (Toronto, ON)
Wonderworks (Toronto, ON)

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