Canadian Book Meme

For those of us participating in the Book Mine Set's Canadian reading challenge, John has adapted his amazing list of provincial reads into a meme. The rules? Highlight in red those you've read, highlight in blue authors you've read (just not that particular book), and leave the rest black.

This is his list as of today's date; but I've altered the meme a bit. I've taken out most of the children's books, as I 'm not planning on reading any as part of my challenge. And, I've added in purple books I've read and would recommend in these provincial categories.

Newfoundland and Labrador

Cassie Brown- Death On The Ice (Non-fiction)

Lisa Moore- Open (Short Stories)

Lisa Moore- Alligator

Wayne Johnston- Colony of Unrequited Dreams

Al Pittman- Down By Jim Long’s Stage (Children’s poems)

Al Pittman- West Moon (play)

Harold Horwood- White Eskimo

Harold Horwood- Bartlett

The Great Explorer (Non-fiction)

Michael Crummey- River Thieves

E. J. Pratt- Complete Poems (Poetry)

Mary Dalton- Merrybegot (Poetry)

Dillon Wallace- The Lure of The Labrador Wild

Ted Russell- The Holdin’ Ground (play)

Percy Janes- House of Hate

E. Annie Proulx- The Shipping News

Claire Mowat- Outport People (Non-fiction)

Jim Defede- The Day The World Came To Town (Non-fiction)

Donna Morrissey- Kit’s Law

Ken Babstock- Airstream Land Yacht (Poetry)

Bernice Morgan- Random Passage

Joan Clark- An Audience of Chairs (read Latitudes of Melt - very good!)

Earl B. Pilgrim- The Ghost of Ellen Dower

Dale Jarvis- Haunted Shores: True Ghost Stories of Newfoundland and Labrador

Paul Butler- Easton

Edward Riche- Rare Birds

Kenneth J. Harvey- The Town That Forgot How To Breathe

Prince Edward Island

Lucy Maud Montgomery- Anne of Green Gables

David Helwig- Saltsea

Michael Hennessey- The Betrayer

J. J. Steinfeld- Would You Hide Me? (Short Stories)

Anne Compton- Processional (Poetry)

Milton Acorn- I Shout Love and Other Poems (Poetry)

Nova Scotia

Frank Parker Day- Rockbound

Alistair MacLeod- Island (Short Stories)

Alistair MacLeod- No Great Mischief

George Elliott Clarke- Whylah Falls (Poetry)

Anne Simpson- Loop (Poetry)

Alden Nolan- The Best Of (Poetry)

Hugh MacLennan- The Watch That Ends The Night

Thomas Chandler Haliburton- The Clockmaker

Ernest Buckler- The Mountain and the Valley

Ann-Marie MacDonald- Fall On Your Knees

Linden MacIntyre- Causeway (Non-fiction)

Brad Kessler- Birds In Fall

Ami McKay- The Birth House

Lesley Choyce - The Republic of Nothing

New Brunswick

David Adams Richards- Mercy Among The Children

Charles G. D. Roberts- The Collected Poems (Poetry)

T. G. Roberts- The Red Feathers

Donna Allard- Minago Streets (Poetry)

Linda Hall- Black Ice

Antonine Maillet- Pelagie: The Return To Acadie

Elisabeth Harvor- Fortress Of Chairs

Quebec

Mordecai Richler- Barney’s Version

Gabrielle Roy- The Tin Flute

Roch Carrier- The Hockey Sweater (Children’s Book)

Markoosie- Harpoon of the Hunter

Michel Tremblay- The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant

Michel Tremblay- Forever Yours Marie-Lou (Play)

Saul Bellow- Humboldt’s Gift

Hubert Acquin- Next Episode

Heather O’Neill- Lullabies For Little Criminals

Mavis Gallant- Home Truths (Short Stories)

Gaetan Soucy- The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond Of Matches

Leonard Cohen- Beautiful Losers

Leonard Cohen- Let Us Compare Mythologies (Poetry)

Jacques Poulin- Volkswagen Blues (one of my favourite books, ever)

Yves Theriault- Agaguk

Frances Brooke- The History of Emily Montague

Nicole Brossard- Museum of Bone and Water

Colin McDougall- Execution

Anne Hebert- Kamouraska

Mairuth Sarsfield- No Crystal Stair

Naomi Klein- No Logo (Non-fiction)

Irving Layton- Dance With Desire (Poems)

Stuart McLean- Stories From The Vinyl Café (Short Stories)

Yann Martel- Life of Pi

Romeo Dallaire- Shake Hands With The Devil (Non-fiction)

Monique Proulx- The Heart Is An Involuntary Muscle

Peter Behrens- The Law of Dreams

Willa Cather- Shadows On The Rock

Colleen Curran - Something drastic

Ontario

Margaret Atwood- Handmaid’s Tale

Robertson Davies- Fifth Business

Stephen Leacock- Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (Short Stories)

Alice Munro- Who Do You Think You Are? (Short Stories)

Timothy Findley- The Wars

Jane Urquhart- The Stone Carvers

Barbara Gowdy- White Bone

Joan Barfoot- Luck

David Glimour- A Perfect Night To Go To China

Douglas Glover- Elle

Michael Ondaatje- In The Skin Of A Lion

Rohinton Mistry- A Fine Balance

Al Purdy- Beyond Remembering (Poetry)

Farley Mowat- Never Cry Wolf

Marian Engel- Bear

Joseph Boyden- Three Day Road

Charles de Lint- Moonlight and Vines

Thomas King- Green Grass, Running Water

Austin Clarke- The Polished Hoe

Mary Lawson- Crow Lake

Matt Cohen- Elizabeth and After

Christian Bok- Eunoia (poetry)

Richard B. Wright- Clara Callan

M. G. Vassanji- The In-Between World of Vikram Lalli

Vincent Lam- Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures (Short stories)

David Bezmozgis- Natasha and Other Stories (Short Stories)

Morley Callaghan- More Joy In Heaven

M. T. Kelly- A Dream Like Mine

Helen Humphries- Afterimage

Paul Quarrington- Whale Music

Nino Ricci- Lives of The Saints

Leon Rooke- Shakespeare's Dog

Diane Schoemperlen- Forms of Devotion

Gordon Downie- Coke Machine Glow (Poetry)

Anne Michaels- Fugitive Pieces

Frances Itani- Deafening (you know what my recommendation for a novel by Frances Itani is!)

Marian Keith - The Grand Lady

Luella Creighton - High Bright Buggy Wheels

Manitoba

Margaret Laurence- A Bird In The House (Short Stories)

Margaret Laurence- A Jest of God

Carol Shields- The Stone Diaries

David Godfrey- The New Ancestors

Bill Richardson- Bachelor Brothers’ Bed and Breakfast

Miriam Toews- A Complicated Kindness

Tomson Highway- The Rez Sisters (Play)

David Bergen- The Time In Between

Adele Wiseman- The Sacrifice

Larry Warwaruk - The Ukrainian wedding

Vera Lysenko - Yellow Boots

Saskatchewan

Tim Lilburn- Kill-Site (Poetry)

Guy Vanderhaeghe- The Last Crossing

Guy Gavriel Kay- The Summer Tree

Sinclair Ross- As For Me and My House

W. O. Mitchell- Who Has Seen The Wind

Rudy Wiebe- The Temptations of Big Bear

Dianne Warren- Serpent In The Night Sky (play)

Sharon Butala- Lilac Moon (Non-fiction)

Paul Hiebert- Sarah Binks

Kate Sutherland - All in together girls (short stories)

Leona Theis - The Art of Salvage

Alberta

Will Ferguson- Why I Hate Canadians (Nonfiction)

Earle Birney- One Muddy Hand (Poetry)

Thomas Wharton- Salamander (also read "Ice Fields" which is set in Alberta and is wonderful)

W. P. Kinsella- Shoeless Joe

Robert Kroetsch- The Studhorse Man

Gloria Sawai- A Song For Nettie Johnson

Greg Holingshead- The Roaring Girl (Short stories)

Katherine Govier- Three Views of Crystal Water

Christopher Wiseman- In John Updike’s Room (Poetry)

Anita Rau Badami- Can You Hear The Nightbird Call?

Gail Anderson Dargatz - A Recipe for Bees, or another one, A Rhinestone Button

British Columbia

George Bowering- The Gangs of Kosmos

Douglas Coupland- Generation X

Timothy Taylor- Stanley Park

Jack Hodgins- The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne

bpNichol- The Martyrology (Poetry)

Susan Musgrave- What The Small Day Cannot Hold (Poetry)

Michael Turner- Hard Core Logo

Joy Kogawa- Obasan

P.K. Page- Planet Earth (Poetry)

Anosh Irani- The Song of Kahunsha

Wayson Choy- The Jade Peony

John Gould- Kilter (Short stories)

Sheila Watson- The Double Hook

Eden Robinson- Monkey Beach

Gayla Reid- To Be There With You (Short stories)

Margaret Craven- I Heard The Owl Call My Name

Audrey Thomas- Coming Down From Wa

Kevin Chong- Baroque-a-Nova

Ethel Wilson - any of hers: Swamp Angel, The Innocent Traveller, or Hetty Dorval

Yukon

Robert Service- The Best Of (Poetry)

Pierre Berton- The National Dream (Non-fiction)

Al Pope- Bad Latitudes

Dick North- The Mad Trapper of Rat River (Non-fiction)

Pj Johnson- Rhymes of the Raven Lady (Poetry)

Jack London- Call of the Wild

Northwest Territories

Mackay Jenkins- Bloody Falls of the Coppermine (nonfiction)

Richard Van Camp- Lesser Blessed

Robert Alexie- Pale Indian

Rene Fumoleau- Here I Sit (Poetry)

Steve Zipp- Yellowknife

Elizabeth Hay- Late Nights On Air

James Raffan- Emperor of The North (Non-fiction)

Nunavut

James Houston- The White Dawn

Kevin Patterson- Consumption

Tom Lowenstein (translator)/ Knud Rasmussen (compiled by)- Eskimo Poems (Poetry)

Pierre Berton- The Arctic Grail (nonfiction)

John Bennett and Susan Rowley (Ed. and compilers) Uqalurait: An Oral History of Nunavut (Non-fiction)

Kenn Harper- Give Me My Father’s Body (Non-fiction)

Robert Ruby- Unknown Shore (Non-fiction)