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Fifth Business by Robertson DaviesFall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonaldGoing Down Swinging by Billie LivingstonThe Romantic by Barbara GowdyA Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
100 Novels that Make You Proud To Be Canadian
171 books — 65 voters
Bear by Marian EngelGoing Down Swinging by Billie LivingstonThe Cunning Man by Robertson DaviesNot Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy FindleyFifth Business by Robertson Davies
Canadian Fiction
1,039 books — 605 voters

The Crooked Heart of Mercy by Billie LivingstonSweetgirl by Travis MulhauserNutshell by Ian McEwanThe Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
Goodreads Picks for Tournament of Books 2017
512 books — 2,001 voters
Play It As It Lays by Joan DidionThe Crooked Heart of Mercy by Billie LivingstonThe Outlander by Gil AdamsonPost Office by Charles BukowskiRoom by Emma Donoghue
2016: What Women Born In The 1970s Read in 2016
6,075 books — 686 voters

Greedy Little Eyes by Billie LivingstonMother of Sorrows by Richard McCannJesus’ Son by Denis JohnsonBirds of America by Lorrie MooreThe Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender
Contemporary Short Story Collections
551 books — 335 voters
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughThe Crooked Heart of Mercy by Billie LivingstonThe End of the Affair by Graham GreeneThe Diary of a Country Priest by Georges BernanosThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Good Catholic Novels
80 books — 48 voters

One Good Hustle by Billie LivingstonGoing Down Swinging by Billie LivingstonHouse of Games by David MametThe Grifters by Jim ThompsonThe Godfather by Mario Puzo
Con Men, Gamblers and Hustlers
326 books — 141 voters
The Crooked Heart of Mercy by Billie LivingstonBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerThe Shoes of the Fisherman by Morris L. WestThe Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Best Catholic Fiction
362 books — 291 voters

The Crooked Heart of Mercy by Billie LivingstonDeath Comes for the Archbishop by Willa CatherThe Complete Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Diary of a Country Priest by Georges BernanosThe Devil's Advocate by Morris L. West
Catholic Fiction
543 books — 426 voters
The Crooked Heart of Mercy by Billie LivingstonThe Double Hook by Sheila WatsonThe Edible Woman by Margaret AtwoodFifth Business by Robertson DaviesAll My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
Oh, Canada!
1,345 books — 505 voters

The Crooked Heart of Mercy by Billie LivingstonMy Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
2016 New Releases
51 books — 34 voters
Mere Christianity by C.S. LewisWise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
Best Christian Fiction & Non-Fiction
697 books — 292 voters

The Crooked Heart of Mercy by Billie LivingstonMere Christianity by C.S. LewisThe Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo TolstoyConfessions by Augustine of HippoOrthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
Thought Provoking Books Every Christian Should Read
467 books — 296 voters
Going Down Swinging by Billie LivingstonA Complicated Kindness by Miriam ToewsRoom by Emma DonoghueThe Wars by Timothy FindleyNot Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley
Best Canadian Literature
2,331 books — 1,144 voters

My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth StroutThe Girls by Emma ClineThe Crooked Heart of Mercy by Billie Livingston
2016 Best Books
287 books — 410 voters
The Crooked Heart of Mercy by Billie LivingstonMemory Wall by Anthony DoerrRoom by Emma DonoghueAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,644 books — 14,148 voters

Going Down Swinging by Billie LivingstonThe Bay of Love and Sorrows by David Adams RichardsThe Memento by Christy Ann ConlinThe Knife Sharpener's Bell by Rhea Tregebov
The Unknown, Hidden Gems of Historical Fiction
2,275 books — 1,249 voters
The Crooked Heart of Mercy by Billie LivingstonBel Canto by Ann PatchettHoly Bible by AnonymousA Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Over 35 List: Books You Most Want to Read in 2015
1,107 books — 1,722 voters

The Crooked Heart of Mercy by Billie LivingstonThe Memento by Christy Ann ConlinThe Noise of Time by Julian BarnesHeat & Light by Jennifer Haigh
The "Can't Wait" Books of 2016 that are not part of a series
203 books — 298 voters
The Crooked Heart of Mercy by Billie Livingston
Anticipated 2016 Literary Fiction
325 books — 699 voters

Cease to Blush by Billie LivingstonStrange Heaven by Lynn CoadyGeek Love by Katherine DunnGoing Down Swinging by Billie Livingston
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies
32,198 books — 68,030 voters