Read Across Canada: A 2013 Challenge discussion

Klee Wyck (setting)
The Forest Lover (setting)

These two books are both about the artist Emily Carr. I've heard that the first book is better than the second. I haven't read either so I can't vouch for that.

I Heard the Owl Call My Name (setting)

If you are looking for a quick read, this is the ticket. It may only be 146 pages, but it is a powerful story. I gave this book 5 stars.

Never Knowing (setting)

The Concubine's Children (Setting)

Janice wrote: "I Heard the Owl Call My Name

If you are looking for a quick read, this is the ticket. It may only be 146 pages, but it is a powerful story. I gave this book 5 stars."

Thanks for the information on that. I'll probably create a quick reads thread later on, as people start planning more. I'm sure there will be a couple people who want quick reads, due to other groups and challanges and real life.

The Lynching of Louie Sam (setting)

This book is expected to be released July 24, 2012. It's historical fiction. There's also a movie currently in production that has the same title. I don't know if it is an adaptation of the book or not.

If you're interested in historical fiction or children's fiction set in British Columbia, these might be good books:
Torn Apart: The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi
An Ocean Apart: The Gold Mountain Diary of Chin Mei-Ling, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1922
When the Cherry Blossoms Fell: A Cherry Blossom Book
Counting on Hope

The Beggar's Garden
Jade Peony and its sequel All That Matters
Cure for Death by Lightning
The Gathering (this is a YA series)
Seaweed on the Street (mystery series)

Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter (Setting) This book was the winner of last year's Canada Reads.

The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
Monkey Beach: A Novel

Chevy Steven's novels both take place on Vancouver Island and both were excellent reads - Still Missing was the first and Never Knowing.

Robin, moderator hat on here.... could you link books and authors so that others can easily look them up? To link, just click on the "Add book/author" link above the comment box. Thanks. :)

Thanks guys.. wasn't sure how to link it but now I've figured it out.

Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound

I woke up this morning to see that my toddler had taken yet another book off my shelf and left it lying where it didn't belong. It happened to be this book: Sorry, Walter which proclaims on the cover: "Set in Vancouver!"

I also turned up Two Houses Half Buried in Sand, a collection of traditional stories from the first nations of Vancouver Island/Kuper Island (Coast Salish).

Stanley Park by Timothy Taylor (BC author.)

Just found a new book set in Vancouver! Everything Was Good-bye by Gurjinder Basran -- her debut.

Turns out Everything Was Good-bye is on sale in the Kobo store this weekend: $4.99!

Disappearing Moon Cafe: A Novel

Found some more! The Whole Truth by Kit Pearson (an author born in Alberta, but who has spent a lot of her life in BC and currently lives there.) I have actually met her! I expect it's a youth novel. (On sale on Kobo for $4.99) and After River by Donna Milner, (a very BC author,) which is set on a southern BC dairy farm (and also happens to be on sale at Kobo for only $2.99!)

The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed is set in, I believe, Haida Gwaii, and is about a radical enviromentalist.
On a side note, Autumn posted a really pretty picture of Haida Gwaii in the picture section.

The Jade Peony-Wayson Choy

My review confirms GateGypsy's recommendation about this coming-of-age story in a Chinese immigrant family in Vancouver during in the 30’s.

Setting British Columbia--author U.S.

Reamde—Neal Stephenson

My review covers the pleasures of this compelling and fun techno thriller by this well known sci fi writer. A lot of the focus has to do with a massive role-playing computer game called T’Rain and the kidnapping of the company CEO's daughter. A diverse characters team up to deal with Russian gangsters in Seattle, China, and the Philipines and then with a group of jihadists trying to come through British Columbia into the U.S.

If I understand correctly, it's okay for me to mention my own mystery novels, set primarily in British Columbia. Each novel's title contains the name of a highway.

Slow Curve on the Coquihalla
Ice on the Grapevine
Sea to Sky

Great little book by a BC author, with stories from the Cariboo-Chilcotin region of BC. Breaking Smith's Quarter Horse

My science fiction book The Zen Gene is set on Vancouver Island, as am I.The Zen Gene

If you want a mystery with a court case and environmental issues tied together, try April Fool by William Deverell.