Books on the Nightstand discussion

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Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro are both excellent- Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize in 2013. Douglas Couplandand William Gibsonare also very well-known.

If you like science fiction, try Robert J. Sawyer, if you like fantasy Guy Gavriel Kay or Charles de Lint. If you like classic SF, try A.E. van Vogtor Judith Merril. I read The Guardians by Andrew Pyper a few years ago and really enjoyed it- I'm not usually into horror novels, but it was very good, in a creepy way.

If you want to check out a children's author I'd suggest Robert Munsch. He's been ahead of the game in children's publishing for a while- he's always been a very inclusive writer, and was also one of the first children's authors to speak openly about his mental health issues.

If you want historically important Canadian authors, try L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables (it's kind of Canada's Tom Sawyer), Robertson DaviesW.O. Mitchell, Susanna Moodie, Stephen Leacock(a humourist/satirist whose American counterpart would be Mark Twain), or Mordecai Richler.

For this category I have decided on All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews

Here are a few contemporary Canadian novels:
Stanley Park by Timothy Taylor (Vancouver)
Away by Jane Urquhart: (Ontario)
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson: (Northern Ontario)
Sweetland by Michael Crummey (Newfoundland)
A Complicated Kindness and The Flying Troutmans also by Miriam Toews (pronounced "Taves")

plus author Douglas Coupland
Charlotte Gray writes great biographies.

If you like Mysteries try Louise Penny

Margaret Attwood

Sutherland wrote: "I'm drawing a blank with this one."

How about Vigilant, the second in the Expendables series by James Alan Gardner?

Thanks for all the suggestions! I forgot Gardner was Canadian.

Just a few favourites:

(quirky/literary)
The Girls - Lori Lansens

Born Weird - Andrew Kaufman

Annabel - Kathleen Winter (so beautiful!)

Fauna - Alissa York


(YA)
Monkey Beach - Eden Robinson

Canning Season - Polly Horvath

This One Summer - Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki (graphic novel)

The Woefield Poultry Collective (aka Home to Woefield) or the sequel The Republic of Dirt by Susan Juby - both a super fun/funny light read, and more "new adult" than YA.

Oh and Bone & Bread! About one of my favourite neighbourhoods in Montreal. I haven't read it yet, but it's at the top of my TBR. It's supposed to be great!

To this list I would add Ondaatje Michael's books like In the Skin of a Lion, The English Patient. Also, check out Sean Michaels's Us Conductors

One of my favorite authors: Robertson Davies.

I plan to read Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper.

Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast

Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast Pillow Book

After Hamelin

Check out CBC Canada Reads - an annual contest with a great and diverse list of books by Canadian authors

Barbara Gowdy is one of my fav authors. I especially like Mr Sandman, The White Bone and, a bit freaky, her collection of short stories We So Seldom Look on Love