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Discussion for Canadian non-fiction

I'd like to mention a few Canadian non-Fiction books I've read in the past couple of years that stick with me:
The Secret of the Blue Trunk
The Concubine's Children
Common Ground
The Reason You Walk
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
Between Gods: A Memoir
The Juggler's Children: A Journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us

Here are a few more suggestions that I have read this year (and have Canadian Authors):
All Out: A Father and Son Confront the Hard Truths That Made Them Better Men - fabulous book about a son coming out and the relationship and misunderstandings over the years of loving each other.
The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything - a great book by the author of Book of Awesome with easy tips to happiness.
They Left Us Everything: A Memoir - A great perspective on caregiving and learning about parents through cleaning out their home.
The Prison Book Club - inspiring project
Under an Afghan Sky: A Memoir of Captivity - i can add this to the memoir section too - a terrible story of a journalist being kidnapped but also of bravery and resilience.

@Allison - I'm struggling finishing The Reason You Walk, his style didn't work for me and his subject matter is so depressing. I'll have to try again.
@Susan, I enjoyed Under an Afghan Sky. Have you read A Thousand Farewells by Nahlah Ayed? It took me a while to get into it but 100 pages in I'm quite enjoying it.

I'd like to recommend Ross King for a Canadian non-fiction writer. He writes predominantly on arts and architecture. I just finished Michaelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling and loved it.

His newest book, Mad Enchantment, is about Claude Monet, and it recently won the RBC Taylor prize and was shortlisted for the Weston prize.

He lives in the UK now, but was born, raised and educated in Saskatchewan.

Thanks CynthiaA!! Great to have some new suggestions to add to the TBR piles!

Here is another list of books to look forward to: http://www.cbc.ca/books/25-works-of-c...

this will be an interesting read in 2019 - https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapt...

I recently listened to Rowing the Northwest Passage: Adventure, Fear, and Awe in a Rising Sea by Kevin Vallely.
I listened to the audio and found the narrator sounded bored. This took away from the adventurousness of the story for me. However, in print, this book would be pretty good, I think.

@Susan -- I am really looking forward to that! I have heard Heather O'Neill speak about her father at author events and am hopeful that voice holds up in a narrative.

I always enjoy Gladwell's anecdotes and connections: https://www.cbc.ca/books/new-malcolm-...