Canadian Literature

Canadian literature is literature originating from Canada. Collectively it is often called CanLit.
Some criticism of Canadian literature has focused on nationalistic and regional themes, although this is only a small portion of Canadian Literary criticism. Critics against such thematic criticism in Canadian literature, such as Frank Davey, have argued that a focus on theme diminishes the appreciation of complexity of the literature produced in the country, and creates the impression that Canadian literature is sociologically-oriented.
While Canadian literature, like the literature of every natio
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Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
Pick a Color
Endling
A Truce That Is Not Peace
Waiting for the Long Night Moon: Stories
Five Little Indians
Dearly
A Town Called Solace
How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
Held
Fight Night
What Strange Paradise
Watch Out for Her
Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
Study for Obedience
Em
The Handmaid's Tale
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
Life of Pi
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
Alias Grace
The Blind Assassin
Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2)
The English Patient
The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
Station Eleven
Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)
Cat’s Eye
Surfacing
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
The Penelopiad

J.M. Lavallee
You know, Dorothy, you can’t let people bring you down so easily or you’ll have your nose in the dirt for the rest of your life. From what I make of it, for every person with a good thought, there are about fifty who’d try to spoil it. We have to guard our good ideas, our happy thoughts, and fight for them. Because if we let those others snuff them out, well, we didn’t after all deserve them.
J.M. Lavallee, The Wishing Stone and Other Myths Learned on Gull Cliff Island

Helen Humphreys
I don't think any more that my life is about what has happened to me. It's about what I choose to believe. It's not what I can see, but what I think is out there. And in the end, this end, here is what I believe. The heart is a wild and fugitive creature. The heart is a dog who comes home. ...more
Helen Humphreys, Wild Dogs

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