Corvus by Johnson

Corvus / Harold Johnson
Saskatoon: Thistledown Press, c2015. 
277 p.

I first read Johnson's The Cast Stone some years ago, and was always interested in finding a copy of this one as well, a novel which takes the collapse of the world's environment into 2084 to see the outcomes.

This year, with all the dystopian fiction I've been reading, I thought it was time to fit this one in! 

In this world, two wars over resources have been fought, and people have overwhelmingly moved north in search of water and soil that can still grow things. Most of the previous fertile soil of the prairie farmlands has been rendered into desert, dead earth, by the practices of chemical farming in the 20th/21st century. Water has dried up as the glaciers melted,  and the setting, the northern town of La Ronge, Saskatchewan, is no longer a small town of 3000 or so residents -- it's now quite a large city, with suburbs, a slum called Regis, and elite suburbs tethered in the sky above the massive storms that regularly hit these days. There's also an ashram just out of town, in which we find some of our main characters.

There's Lenore, a prosecutor and troubled war veteran, and George, a coworker who she has her eye on, who both live in La Ronge. The ashram gives us Richard, a war vet, and Katherine, a woman taken in by the ashram at 17 and who seems to be a natural, though unofficial, leader.

As the story opens George has a disappointment at work and ends up buying himself an expensive ORV (organic recreational vehicle). These are partly organic and partly tech - George buys himself a raven and takes to regular flights when he needs to think. In one storm, he crashes near an Indigenous settlement far from town. Experiencing their hospitality as he recovers, and the wisdom of an elder, Two Bears, changes the way he thinks about his life. 

Richard works on the land on the ashram and spends summers harvesting algae from the lake. He has a brief affair with Lenore before she settles on George and he settles on Katherine, but this links their stories throughout. 

Johnson tackles things that were issues in 2015, but in 2018 are scarily top of mind. Intrusive tech, government surveillance, the widening gap between rich and poor, climate change & its resultant extreme weather and soil/water conditions, valuing the economic story over the human one, and much more. He extends all of these things to likely outcomes, and it's quite plausible, and also alarming. But he uses creative storytelling to provide a way to take all this in, and includes brief segments from the viewpoint of Raven, giving an overview of history in a sense.  

There are many philosophical asides, which simultaneously are the point of the book and slow down the narrative. There is much Indigenous wisdom shared, in a natural way, during these asides. But the thing that most niggled for me was the role of Lenore and Katherine - their stories are dramatic and could have been explored much more deeply, but it's the men who get the guidance and insight here.The women are more valued for their ability to give life.  I'd hope that dynamic would have changed by 2084. There's also George's last case in which begins to think he should no longer punish people and take part of their lives away as a prosecutor - the circumstances of this crisis of faith didn't sit well with me at all. 

Still, this was a fresh take on a likely future if we keep going the way we are -- he points out that leadership is lacking politically in our world, that chasing the economy is destroying the earth and our relationship with it -- all quite resonant today. The story didn't so much build a world as explore our current world from a wider vantage point. The focus was on these characters and their existential journeys. It was intriguing, and a good addition to the world of  "Cli-Fi". He was ahead of his time in tackling this!

The Amateurs

The Amateurs / Liz Harmer
Toronto: Knopf Canada, c2018.
336 p.

Another book in my favourite genre this year, post-apocalyptic fiction. Why am I reading so many of these? Are there just more around? Do they just suit the end-of-the-world mood I seem to be feeling every time I watch the news?

In any case, I've found quite a few this year and they've all had their appeal. The Amateurs is a quieter apocalypse - no pandemic, no climate disaster, but even more frightening for its dailiness - massive tech firm PINA has created Ports. The Ports allow for nostalgic or adventurous daydreamers to travel through time: step through a Port and you will end up in the place you are dreaming of. The problem is that people are stepping through, and never coming back.

Turns out that the technology isn't as bug-free as promised, and the creators don't actually know how it works, except that Port seems to be alive, and enticing people into stepping through to a new life.

Why, and how? That's the question among those left behind in a tiny population decimated by mass disappearances. The story focuses on Marie, an artist in her 30s who is convinced that her ex-husband will return from the other side of PORT, and find her again. She still lives in her small apartment over her art store in Hamilton, even while the other 40-some people left around are rehoming themselves in the huge expensive mansions now left empty. They all gather daily at a local church though, keeping track of one another and their survival. The problem is, they are all amateurs -- they have no doctors, no engineers, no farmers. And winter is coming around again. Do they stay, connected to their city, or leave for warmer climes? It's a constant thread.

There's also another settlement across the continent, the fancy complex that houses PINA and its eccentric founder, Albrecht Doors. For some reason he never used his own Port technology, and now there is a circle of 100 or so PINA employees living in the compound with him. Brandon, his right-hand man, is beginning to have doubts about Doors' brilliance; he steals an electric car and heads cross-country to Hamilton to see if his mother is still on this side. There he meets Marie and her gang of survivors. 

The story has a great premise. And it's told well, with smooth and appealing writing. It has the feel of Station Eleven in its quietness and look at art and what makes life worth living. Where I felt it was a bit weaker is in its tendency to explain and set the scene, a lot, rather than get the action moving. It builds up Marie's obsession with ex-husband Jason, but when the crisis comes he seems to be an afterthought in the end. The end of the book is also unresolved, as if the story hasn't been carried to any conclusion. 

I found it really unsettling in a way that was slightly different from other books of this kind. It seems like the world is ending with a whimper, not a bang. The people we meet don't seem to have many practical survival skills, and I don't feel too much hope for them. Or from them, for that matter. The undertone of the book seems to be one of helplessness, of powerlessness in the face of this disaster, of a cosmic shrug instead of a sense of humanity gathering together in our urge to continue on. I think that was what was most striking about the mood of the book - I really believed after closing this that humanity was simply going to die out, without much more fuss. A hint toward the future or toward something positive, a sense of the potential of the new order, or something along those lines would have changed the impression I had of this book's pessimistic outlook. 

But that could be just my take - have you read it? What were your impressions of the zeitgeist of the story? Did you like it/dislike it/enjoy it/fling it across the room?

Cait Flanders' Year of Less

The Year of Less / Cait Flanders 
Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, c2018.
189 p.

These kind of minimalist books always appeal to me in a weird way -- since I am not a minimalist, and I dislike the obsession for getting rid of All The Things.

Still. Thought I'd give this one a go as everyone was talking about it in my library. There's a long holds list for it as well, so I guess others are also compelled to read these stories of decluttering in hopes of catching the bug.

The summary for this book reads:

The author decides that for twelve months she will only buy consumables, consume less of many other things, declutter her apartment, get rid of 70 percent of her belongings and learn to repair things as opposed to tossing them away.

I can get behind some of this. I'm all for buying less, and repairing instead of throwing away. Most of my own buying happens at thrift stores these days, either that or fabric stores! There are frequent "shopping bans" in the sewing world, with people pledging to buy no Ready To Wear clothing for a year, or going on fabric or pattern fasts, etc. So I see people wanting to buy less, even while consumerism rages all around us and tempts even the best of us to overspend & overbuy.

But both this book and Marie Kondo's book left me cold. Both authors seem obsessive to me, using decluttering as just another extreme lifestyle choice. Flanders notes down what percentage of her belongings she's removed at the start of each chapter. After a year it's 80%. Either she had hoarder level stuff in the beginning, or she now lives like a Zen monk.

I don't feel that the advice for extreme clearing out will really help that many people. Maybe a few with the same personality type. But I'm never going to have a wardrobe of 23 items -- I love clothes and sewing. And I'm never getting rid of 80% of my books. The whole point of having books is that you haven't yet read them. 

That said, I could do with a general clearing out. Some of the ideas are useful. Consuming less to begin with is a fine idea. I am also reading through some books on sustainable fashion right now, and many of those have the same direction -- buy less & take care of your belongings. 

This book also delves into Canadian author Flanders' own life and personality, though. Her struggles with family dissolution, addictions and other troubles explain a lot about her need to place limits on herself in the area of spending, which may not be the same for other readers. The book thus has a little more complexity than simply a decluttering story. If you are interested in a memoir of better living through drastic decluttering, this one will be for you. 

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Further Reading:

The obvious readalike is Marie Kondo's Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up -- but for some reason the memoir part of this book also reminded me of the tone of Clara Hughes' Open Heart, Open Mind, a story of her journey through a difficult life and her successes in the sports world.

A Season Among Psychics

A Season Among Psychics / Elizabeth Greene
Toronto: Inanna, c2018.
304 p.

This was a bit of an odd read -- it's a serious and in-depth look at the "Results System" created by Margaret Kean (an energetic healing process) through the main character Judith's presence in a study group, but also a wry story of Judith's life as a professor, skeptic and mother.

Judith is 50, a professor of English, and the mother of an autistic son. She's also a bit at loose ends in her life, feeling adrift and missing Brian, a writing instructor she feels she has a telepathic connection with.

She and a friend decide to go to a local psychic fair as the book opens, and there Judith meets Rosetta Kempffer, someone she knows slightly. Rosetta is now a working healing practitioner, and draws Judith in to her small, individualized class on personal healing. Her very expensive class.

Judith is simultaneously cynical and naive. She comments on the class like a skeptic, but also believes it wholeheartedly. The author describes each class fully - basically you've taken it yourself, without the practice runs, by the end of the book. It's weirdly boring and compelling at the same time. Judith tries this system out on her son, and takes a road trip to meet up with Brian near the end, to do the same. Brian is odd and unwelcoming and I couldn't really see why an educated, grown woman was obsessing over him in the way that Judith was. There were even hints that he was in a relationship with his 'roommate', but Judith didn't seem to pick those up.

I am not really sure what to say about this book. It was unique; it had some interesting characters, especially Vivienne, a friend Judith makes in the class. There is a leavening of humour in the very earnest descriptions of the "Results Method", most of which reminds me of people I've met who are really into 'energy' and chakras and so forth.  It's another book in which I'm not sure if the author is 100% believing in what she's writing or satirizing it, even gently.

I can say that I loved the cover of this book, and its descriptions of the clothes Vivienne makes and wears. I liked the rest, even while finding it mildly perplexing. What was the point of this novel? I'm not quite sure, and I am not sure about the conclusion either. It's all a bit up in the air. And how much is novel and how much reportage? This story read like a report on this 'results system', mixed in with a diary, mixed in with a sprinkle of fictional fairy dust. I don't know what to make of it, but it did keep me reading steadily all the way through. I think I will have to leave it there!

Radiant Shimmering Light

Radiant Shimmering Light / Sarah Selecky
Toronto: HarperAvenue, c2018.
358 p.

I read this book as soon as it was released -- I enjoyed Selecky's first book of short stories, and in this new one she is tackling a fascinating subject.

It's a furtherance to the story of Lilian Quick, a character in one of the stories from This Cake is for the Party. What has happened to Lilian? Well, she is still in Toronto, and in her early 40s, and she is muddling along painting pet portraits for people; her specialty is seeing and painting the pets' auras. Into this struggling artist life comes Lilian's cousin Florence, whom she hasn't seen in years. Florence is now going by the name of "Eleven", and running a large and financially successful women's empowerment lifestyle brand. Think a mix of Oprah &Tony Robbins with some multilevel marketing thrown in.

Eleven invites Lilian to become a part of her office staff, only for Lilian's benefit of course. So Lilian up and moves to New York, becomes involved in this work, and starts making money. Lots and lots of money.

She also becomes more fit, more confident, and has a fling -- which unfortunately doesn't end the way she had imagined.

This novel is all about empowerment, the commercialization of spirituality, and the tension between being successful and being true to yourself. Selecky has said she didn't intend this as satire, and it does read a little uncomfortably at times -- is the author being disingenous or gently satirizing these kind of organizations? I'd hope there is a balance there.

Lilian is an interesting character, too. Slightly naive, slightly more 'small town' than Eleven despite living in Toronto. She has connections and friends (and possibly more than a friend) in Toronto - should she give them up to become a guru of sorts, or remain committed to her own path as a pet portraitist?

It's a fascinating conundrum, all the more so because Selecky does not indicate to us which path is "better" for Lilian. There is no authorial hint as to her own opinion, and the ending is quite ambiguous. Lilian could choose either way in the final pages, and there seem to be possibilities for either one to work out.

Because of this noncommittal narrative, this would be a great book club book -- there are so many potential threads to follow. Nothing ends up set in stone, and there could be solid arguments for many outcomes. I think the story is really timely in theme, and in style. There's lots of reference to Instagram, branding, sales, etc. that roots it firmly in its 2016 setting (Selecky says she had to decide on a year and stick with it as online life is changing so fast). Sometimes the 2016 tags are inserted a little clunkily, and sometimes big things that you'd think would be mentioned in a book set in America in 2016 were glossed over.

Still, I read this very quickly, and really enjoyed the way it feels modern, timely, relevant, and yet is also a thoughtful and engaging novel. Definitely a must read for those who enjoy contemporary fiction.

Also: I went to a local book event when this book was launching, and most coincidentally (although Eleven might ask if things are ever really a coincidence...) I had made a dress that matched the cover perfectly - in another literary sewing challenge. So of course I had to wear it!

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Readalikes:

This seems to mirror, somewhat, Kerry Clare's Mitzi Bytes in the look at online life and how our public personas can take over. Both books also offer a thoughtful examination of female life in our modern era.

Chaotic Good, a geeky discovery

Chaotic Good / Whitney Gardner
New York: Knopf, c2018.
256 p.

I picked this one up solely on the strength of that cover. Just look at it! So much fun. 

Main character Cameron is a cosplayer and sewist who dreams of getting into CalTech with her costume portfolio. After a recent win for her costume at a Con, however, she's being harassed online by male comic fans (quelle surprise).  Her family has just moved so she now has a summer without friends or responsibilities to sew up a storm.

However, she encounters sexism in real life as she heads into the new-to-her local comic shop and is mansplained by the guy working there. She vows not to go back, but since she shortly after gets an order for a costume she needs to return to do some research. On her twin brother Cooper's suggestion she dresses up like a boy to head back, and magically everything is now peachy keen. She begins to get drawn into the comic shop's world when they begin a D&D game, and she's accepted as one of the boys. 

There's romance, humour, ambition, family dynamics, and lots of sewing in this book, all reasons I really enjoyed it. The story is fast paced, creative and super entertaining for anyone with geeky interests like comics, D&D, or sewing! I am so clueless about D&D that I had no idea the title referred to the game until halfway through the book. So it was definitely more the sewing aspect that appealed to me at the start.

There were a few things about the book that I questioned upon reflection. Cameron is very conveniently given a non-gendered name to work with, and is not very girly -- she has no bosom to speak of and can easily disguise herself as a boy. She is supposed to be dedicated to her portfolio for the fall, but ends up sewing mostly when she's upset and overtired (and as any sewist knows that's usually a recipe for disaster but Cameron always ends up with a triumph, I don't know how she does it!)

But otherwise, there was a great mix of diverse characters in this book, some wonderful older characters (like Lincoln's gran), and lots to think about in the storyline. This would make a great group read for teens. 

I'm counting this book toward the Canadian Book Challenge since the author, though being from New York, now lives in BC with her family.

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Readalikes

This book goes very well alongside Susan Juby's The Fashion Committee, which is focused more exclusively on fashion & sewing but is also about teen ambition and drama, laced with humour and pathos.

11th Annual Canadian Book Challenge: Final Round Up!

Congratulations to all the readers this year -- here is our massive roundup of titles read and reviewed for the 11th Canadian Book Challenge!

You've all done very well indeed, and given me a lot of titles to gather up -- lots of variety -- some interesting debut authors, fiction in translation, nonfiction, children's books, graphic novels, just to mention a few. And not many duplicated titles -- I'm astonished at how many different authors and titles we've all read, with very few repeats! I hope you've all enjoyed reading and discovering new and exciting authors - you can see from this roundup of reviews that there are hundreds of Canadian authors representing the great diversity of our country. Hopefully you will find a few to start reading for the 12th Canadian Book Challenge!

And now for some fun stats:

• We've read and reviewed a total of  652 Books!
• The grand total for all 11 years combined is 8298!
• Of the 26 people who signed on, 19 people finished
• Irene read the most with a whopping 190 (again beating her old record)
• Kenneth Oppel & Jeff Lemire tied for the highest number of distinct titles read (6 each)
•  There was also a tie for the most read book for the challenge with 5 reviews each: Alan Bradley's The Grave's a Fine & Private Place and Louise Penny's The Glass Houses
• The first author to have had more than one title reviewed was Sarah Mlynowski
• Strangest author so far? Twitter account @stats_canada!
• Strangest title? Leanne Shapton's "Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry" 
• The most numerous author names began with "M"! The only letters we are missing from our list of authors are Q & X.

And now to the reviews! Enjoy!


@stats_canada
-150 Years of Stats Canada! (Red 5, Irene Roth)

Abbott, Elizabeth
-Dogs and Underdogs (Teena)

Abdou, Angie
-Between (Naomi)
-The Bone Cage (Naomi)
-The Canterbury Trail  (Naomi)

Abel, Jordan 
-Injun (John Mutford)

Adams, Michael
-Could It Happen Here? (Swordsman)

Agg, Jen
-I Hear She's A Real Bitch (Teena, Irene Roth)

Aguirre, Carmen
-Mexican Hooker (Lara Maynard)

Alexis, André
-Fifteen Dogs (Pussreboots, Janet)

Allenby, Victoria
-Timo Goes Camping (Shonna)

Ali, S.K.
Saints & Misfits (Pussreboots, Crystal)

Amir & Khalil
-Zahra's Paradise (John Mutford)

Anderson, R.J.
-Knife (Heather)
-Rebel (Heather)
-Arrow (Heather)

Andra-Warner, Elle
-The Mounties (RIEDEL Fascination)

Arden, Jann
-Feeding My Mother (Teena)

Armstrong, Hugh & Pat Armstrong
-Universal Health Care (Irene Roth)

Armstrong, Kelley
-Missing (Kristilyn)
-Bitten (John Mutford)
-A Darkness Absolute (Pussreboots)
-This Fallen Prey (Luanne, Pussreboots)

Ashby, Madeleine
-Company Town (Swordsman)

Asher, Damian
-Inside the Inferno (Swordsman)

Assiniwi, Bernard
-The Beothuk Saga (Buried in Print)

Atinuke
-Have Fun Anna Hibiscus! (Sherrie)

Atkinson, Cale
-Where Oliver Fits (Irene Roth)

Atlee, Harold Benge
-Black Feather (Brian Busby)

Atwood, Margaret
-Angel Catbird (Lara Maynard)
-Moral Disorder (Eric P.)
-Stone Mattress (Lara Maynard)
-Surfacing (RIEDEL Fascination)

Bailey, Chris
-The Productivity Project (Irene Roth)

Bailey, Linda
-Carson Crosses Canada (Pussreboots)

Baker, Carleigh
-Bad Endings (John Mutford, Melwyk)

Barber, Terry
-Laura Secord (Irene)

Barclay, Linwood
-Chase (Heather)
-The Twenty Three (Shonna)
-Parting Shot (Luanne, Teena)

Barnett, Mac & Jon Klassen
-Square (Pussreboots)

Barr, Robert
-Revenge! (Brian Busby)

Bass, Karen
-Two Times a Traitor (Shonna)

Beaton, Bruce
-Little Athletes, Big Leaders (Irene Roth)

Beck, Andrea
-Goodnight, Canada (Irene Roth)

Becker, Helaine
-Our Great Prime Ministers (Irene Roth)

Bennett, John & Susan Rowley
-Uqalurait: An Oral History of Nunavut (John Mutford)

Bergen, David
-The Retreat (Wendy)

Berkhout, Nina
-The Mosaic (Heather)

Berry, Michelle
-The Prisoner & the Chaplain (Naomi)

Best, Gillian
-The Last Wave (Shonna)

Bissoondath, Neil
-Digging Up the Mountains (Eric P)

Bogart, Jo Ellen & Sydney Snith
-The White Cat & the Monk (Irene Roth)

Boone, Ezekiel
-Skitter (Darlene, Luanne)
-Zero Day (Luanne)

Bordeleau, Virginia Pésémapéo
-Winter Child (Shonna)

Bouchard, Hervé
-Harvey (John Mutford)

Bourgeois, Paulette
-Franklin in the Dark (RIEDEL Fascination)
-Franklin's Halloween (RIEDEL Fascination)

Boutilier, Alicia & Tobi Bruce
-The Artist Herself (Buried in Print)

Bowen, Gail
-A Colder Kind of Death (RIEDEL Fascination)
-The Winner's Circle (Bill)

Boyden, Joseph
-Wenjack (Buried in Print)

Bozak, Nadia
-Thirteen Shells (Janet)

Braden, Bill
-Aurora Up! (John Mutford)

Bradley, Alan
-The Grave's a Fine & Private Place (Luanne, Mary R., Pussreboots, Melwyk, Shonna)
-The Sweetness At The Bottom of the Pie (Darlene)

Braithwaite, Max
-The Mystery of the Muffled Man (Brian Busby)

Brand, Dionne
-What We All Long For (Eric P)

Brandt, Gerald
The Courier (Crystal)

Britt, Fanny
-Hunting Houses (Shonna)

Brooks, Martha
-Queen of Hearts (Darlene)

Brown, Karma
-In This Moment (Teena)

Bruneau, Carol
-A Bird on Every Tree (Naomi)

Buchanan, Cathy Marie
-The Painted Girls (Melwyk)

Bunch, Adam
-Toronto Book of the Dead (Teena)

Burnford, Sheila
-The Incredible Journey (RIEDEL Fascination)

Butala, Sharon
-The Girl in Saskatoon (Irene Roth)
-The Perfection of the Morning (Irene Roth)
-Garden of Eden (Irene Roth)
-Lilac Moon (Irene Roth)
-Where I Live Now (John Mutford)

Butler, Paul
-The Widow's Fire (Naomi)

Butts, Ed
-She Dared (Irene Roth)

Caldwell, Wayne J.
-Planning for Rural Resilience (Irene Roth)

Callan, Kevin
-Ontario's Lost Canoe Routes (Irene Roth)

Callow, Pamela
-Damaged (Teena)
-Indefensible (Teena)
-Tattooed (Teena)
-Exploited (Teena)

Camani, Andrew
-100 Hikers, 100 Hikes (Irene Roth)

Cameron, Claire
-The Line Painter (Wendy)
-The Last Neanderthal (Crystal, Buried in Print)

Cameron, Janet E.
-Cinnamon Toast & The End of the World (Mary)

Capogna, Laurie & Barbara Pelletier, Drs.
-Eyefoods (Red 5)

Carr, Charlene
-One Good Thing (John Mutford)

de Castell, Sebastien
-Tyrant's Throne (Swordsman)

Catling, Libby Whittall
-The Mundane & the Holy (John Mutford)

Caulfield, Timothy
-The Cure for Everything (Teena)

Cerveny, Catherine
-The Rule of Luck (Melwyk)

Champniss, Kim Clarke
-Skinheads, Fur Traders & DJs (Teena)

Chapman, Brenda
-Shallow End (Shonna)
-Bleeding Darkness (Teena)
-No Trace (Teena)
-Missing Her (Teena)

Chariandy, David
-Brother (Teena, Naomi, Luanne)
-I've Been Meaning to Tell You (Buried in Print)

Chow, Lauralyn
-Paper Teeth (Melwyk)

Choy, Wayson
Not Yet (Raidergirl)

Choyce, Lesley
-The Thin Place (Teena)
-The Unlikely Redemption of John Alexander MacNeil (Naomi)

Christmas, Jane
-What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim (Raidergirl)

Chuvalo, George & Murray Greig
-Chuvalo (Swordsman)

Clare, Kerry
-Mitzi Bytes (John Mutford)

Cohen, Robert Z.
-Canada's First Nations and Cultural Genocide (Irene Roth)

Cole, Trevor
-The Whiskey King (Teena)

Comeau, Joey
-Malagash (Shonna, Naomi)

Comeau, Joey & Emily Horne
-Anatomy of Melancholy (John Mutford)

Connelly, Karen
-The Change Room (Naomi)

Coupland, Douglas
-Marshall McLuhan (Raidergirl)
-Generation A (Swordsman)

Coyote, Ivan
-Tomboy Survival Guide (Crystal)

Crate, Joan
-Black Apple (Red 5)

Crummey, Michael
-Galore (Irene Roth)
-Newfoundland (Irene Roth)
-Hard Light (Irene Roth)

Cull, Kerri
-Rock Paper Sex (Naomi)

Curtis, Christopher Paul
-The Madman of Piney Woods (Sherrie)
-The Journey of Little Charlie (Heather, Pussreboots)

Curtis, Sky
- Flush (Melwyk)

Cusk, Rachel
-Transit (Naomi)

Cutter, Nick
-The Troop (Darlene)
-The Deep (Darlene)

Davidson, Craig
-Cataract City (Wendy)

Davies, Robertson
-The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies (Mary)

Davis, Tanya & Andrea Dorfman
-How to Be Alone (John Mutford)

Davis, Wade
-Wayfinders (Irene Roth)

Deforge, Michael
-Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero (John Mutford)

Delaney, Rachelle
-Clara Voyant (Shonna)

Delaney, Vicki
-Body on Baker Street (Bill)

Delisle, Guy
Burma Chronicles (Barbara)

Demchuk, David
-The Bone Mother (Melwyk)

Demerson, Velma
-Incorrigible (Buried in Print)

Dent, John Charles
-The Gerrard Street Mystery (Brian Busby)

Deverell, William
-Whipped (Bill)

DeWitt, Patrick
-The Sisters Brothers (Mary R)
-Undermajordomo Minor (Mary R)

Dickson, Jason
-Glenn Piano by Gladys Priddis (Buried in Print)

Dimaline, Cherie
-The Marrow Thieves (Buried in Print, Melwyk)

Donaldson, Chelsea
-Chris Hadfield (Sherrie)

Donoghue, Emma
-The Lotterys Plus One (Pussreboots)
-Room (Irene Roth)

Doyle, Alan
-A Newfoundlander in Canada (Teena)

Dunn, Philippa
-Mysterious Rescue (RIEDEL Fascination)

Dumbrille, Dorothy
-All This Difference (Brian Busby)

Dyer, Hadley
-Here So Far Away (Shonna)

Early, Chris & Tracy C. Read
-110 Nature Hot Spots in Ontario (Irene Roth)

Edgar, Keith
-Arctic Rendezvous (Brian Busby)

El Akkad, Omar
-American War (Crystal)

Ellis, Sarah & Kim LaFave
-Ben & the Scaredy-Dog (Shonna)

Endicott, Marina
-Close to Hugh (Irene Roth)
-The Little Shadows (Irene Roth)

Engel, Howard 
-A Victim Must Be Found (RIEDEL Fascination)
-Dead and Buried (RIEDEL Fascination)

Engel, Marian
-The Tattooed Woman (Eric P)

Enns, Karen
-Cloud Physics (Eric P)

Esrock, Robin
-Great Canadian Bucket List (Irene Roth)

Faber, Sarah
-All is Beauty Now (Naomi)

Fallis, Terry
-Best Laid Plans (Lisa)
-One Brother Shy (John Mutford)

Farrar, John Laird
-Trees in Canada (Irene Roth)

Favro, Terri
-Sputnik's Children (Melwyk, Irene Roth)
-Generation Robot (Irene Roth)

Ferguson, Jenny
-Border Markers (Melwyk)

Ferguson, Will
-419 (Red 5)

Ferrier, Ryan
-D4ve (Pussreboots)

Field, Luke Gordon & Alex Huntley
-The Beaverton Presents: Glorious & Free (Irene Roth)

Findley, Timothy
-You Went Away (Eric P.)
-Dust to Dust (Irene Roth)

Fitzpatrick, Jamie
-The End of Music (Naomi)

Flanders, Cait
-The Year of Less (Irene Roth)

Flieger, Jon R.
-You Are Among Monsters (Naomi)

Fleming, May Agnes
-Edith Percival (Brian Busby)
-The Heiress of Castle Cliffe (Brian Busby)

Flett, Julie
-Wild Berries (Irene Roth)

Florence, Elinor
-Bird's Eye View (Lara Maynard)

Florida, Richard 
-Who's Your City? (Irene Roth)

Forsberg, Lois
-Prairie Ghosts (RIEDEL Fascination)

Fortier, Anne
-The Lost Sisterhood (Shonna)

Fu, Kim
-The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore (Melwyk)

Gallagher, John
-Big League Babble On (Teena)

Gallant, Mavis
-Montreal Stories (Lara Maynard)

Gardiner, Nancy
-Hairy Leg News (Irene Roth)

Gardner, Whitney
-Chaotic Good (Heather)

Gaudet, Judy
-150+: Canada's History in Poetry (Irene Roth)

Gay, Marie-Louise & David Homel
-Travels With My Family (Irene Roth)
-On The Road Again (Irene Roth)
-Summer in the City (Irene Roth)

George, Kallie
-Heartwood Hotel (Irene Roth)

George, Stephen R.
-Grandma's Little Darling (Brian Busby)

Ghigna, Charles & Kristi Bridgeman
-A Carnival of Cats (Irene Roth)

Ghigna, Charles & Vlasta von Kampen
-Who Can? (Irene Roth)

Giardini, Anne & Nicholas Giardini
Startle & Illuminate: Carol Shields on Writing (Janet)

Goobie, Beth
-Pain Eater (Irene Roth)

Goodman, Joanna
-Home For Unwanted Girls (Teena)

Graham, Genevieve
-Tides of Honour (Red 5)
-Come From Away (Luanne)

Gravel, Elise
-The Mushroom Fan Club (Pussreboots)

Gray, Charlotte
-Promise of Canada (Irene Roth)

Gray Smith, Monique
-Speaking Our Truth (Irene Roth)
-You Hold Me Up (Irene Roth)

Green, Shari
-Macy McMillan & the Rainbow Goddess (Pussreboots)
-Missing Mike (Shonna)

Greene, Trevor & Debbie Greene
-March Forth (Irene Roth)

Greenwood, Bill
-Montrose County (Shonna)

Grescoe, Taras & Audrey Grescoe
-Book of Letters (Irene Roth)

Griffin, Daniel
-Two Roads Home (Buried in Print)

Gunnery, Sylvia
-Road Signs That Say West (Shonna)

Hadfield, Chris
-An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Crystal)
-The Darkest Dark (Sherrie)

Halle, Karina
-After All (Marie)
-Hot Shot (Kaley)
-Sins & Needles (Darlene)

Hardcastle, Kevin
-In the Cage (Naomi)

Harlick, R.J.
-Purple Palette for Murder (Shonna)

Harris, Mark & George Fischer
-Waterfalls of Ontario (Irene Roth)

Hart-Green, Sharon
-Come Back For Me (Lara Maynard)

Hartman, Rachel
-Tess of the Road (Pussreboots)

Helwig, David
-The Stand In (Naomi)

Henstra, Sarah
-The Red Word (Naomi)

Hepburn, Janet
-Flee, Fly, Flown (Irene Roth)

Heras, Theo & Renné Benoit
-Baby Cakes (Shonna)
-Hat on, Hat off (Irene Roth)
-Where's Bunny? (Shonna)

Herriot, Trevor
-River in a Dry Land (Irene Roth)
-The Road is How (Irene Roth)

Hicks, Faith Erin
-War at Ellsmere (Pussreboots)

Higgins, Tim
-Bears on Broadway (RIEDELFascination)

Hill, Dan
-The Comeback (Brian Busby)

Hill, Lawrence
-The Illegal (Red 5)

Hill-Lehr, Andria
-Mona Parsons (Naomi)

Hilton, Kate
-Just Like Family (Shonna, Kristilyn)

Hohn, Nadia L. & Irene Luxbacher
-Malaika's Winter Carnival (Pussreboots)

Hornby, Lance
-Toronto and the Maple Leafs (Teena)

Horvath, Polly
-The Night Garden (Pussreboots)

Hosking, Jay
-Three Years with the Rat (Pussreboots)

Houran, Lori Haskins
-Warts and All (Irene Roth)

Howe, Murray
-Nine Lessons I Learned From My Father (Teena, Irene Roth)

Huebert, David
-Peninsula Sinking (Naomi)

Humphries, Helen
-The Ghost Orchard (Irene Roth, Shonna)

Hustak, Alan & Johanne Norchet
-Montreal (Irene Roth)

Hutchison, Margaret
-Tamarac (Leaves & Pages)

Hynes, Joel Thomas
-We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night (Naomi, Heather)

Igloliorte, Heather, ed.
-Sakkijajuk: Art & Craft from Nunatsiavut (Buried in Print)

Ignatieff, Michael
-Scar Tissue (Irene Roth)

Innes, Hammond
-The Land God Gave to Cain (Leaves & Pages)

Ipellie, Alootook
-Arctic Dreams & Nightmares (John Mutford)

Iskwé & Erin Leslie
-Will I See (John Mutford)

Jackson, Marni
-Don't I Know You? (Shonna)

Jacobs,Jesse
-Crawl Space (John Mutford)

Jenkins, Carrie
-What Love Is (Irene Roth)

Jenkins, Steve, Derek Walter & Caprice Crane
-The True Adventures of Esther the Wonder Pig (Luanne)

Jennings, Maureen
-Under the Dragon's Tail (Pussreboots)

Johnson, Elena
-Field Notes for the Alpine Tundra (Buried in Print)

Johnson, Pamela
-Canada: A Country for All Seasons (Irene Roth)

Johnson, Tyrell
-Wolves of Winter (Luanne, Swordsman, Shonna, Crystal)

Johnston, Angela Hovak
-Reawakening Our Ancestor's Lines (John Mutford)

Johnston, E.K.
-Exit, Pursued By a Bear (Sherrie)
-That Inevitable Victorian Thing (Crystal, Heather)

Johnston, Lyla June & Joy de Vito
-Lifting Hearts Off the Ground (Red 5)

Jones, Adam Garnet
-Firesong (Heather)

Kaan, Michael
-The Water Beetles (Buried in Print)

Kacer, Kathy
-To Hope and Back (Irene Roth)

Kalman, Bobbie
-Splash It Swimming (Irene Roth)

Katz, Anne & Monika Melnychuk
-Girl in the Know (Irene Roth)

Kaur, Rupi
-Milk & Honey (John Mutford)
-The Sun & Her Flowers (Irene Roth)

Kearsley, Susanna
-The Firebird (Red 5)
-Bellewether (Melwyk)

Kellough, Janet
-Wishful Seeing (Bill)

Kent, Jamie
-Paddling the Grand River (Irene Roth)

Kenyon, Laurie
-Learning to Yearn (Irene Roth)

Kerbel, Deborah & Suzanne del Rizzo
-Sun Dog (Shonna)

Kerr, Michael
-The Humor Advantage (Teena)

Kershaw, Linda
-Trees of Ontario (Irene Roth)

Khan, Ausma Zehanat
-The Unquiet Dead (Red 5)

Kidman Cox, Rosamund
-Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Portfolio 25 (Pussreboots)

King, Thomas
-The Back of the Turtle (Buried in Print)
-The Truth About Stories (Irene Roth)

King, Wesley
-OCDaniel (Irene Roth)

Kita-Bradley, Linda
-How to Save Time (Irene Roth)

Klassen, Jon
-Triangle (Pussreboots)

Klengenberg, Christian
-Klengenberg of the Arctic (John Mutford)

Knowles, Mike
-Tin Men (Teena)
-Rocks Beat Paper (Teena)

Kobayashi, Tamai
-Prairie Ostrich (Janet)

Korman, Gordon
-Island: Shipwreck (Darlene)
-Island: Survival (Darlene)
-Island: Escape (Darlene)

Krishnaswami, Uma
-Step Up to the Plate, Maria Singh (Pussreboots)

Kureluk, William
-A Northern Nativity (RIEDEL Fascination)

Ladner, Keira L. & Myra J. Tait
-Surviving Canada (Irene Roth)

Laffoley, Steven
-A Halifax Christmas Carol (Naomi)

Langridge, Roger & Gisèle Lagacé
-Betty Boop (John Mutford)

Lapeña, Shari
-A Stranger in the House (Shonna, Darlene)

Lappano, Jon-Erik & Kellen Hatanaka
-Tokyo Digs a Garden (Irene Roth)

Latosik, Jeff
-Dreampad (Eric P)

Lau, Evelyn
-Fresh Girls & Other Stories (Eric P)

Laurence, Margaret
-The Stone Angel (Janet)
-The Fire-Dwellers (RIEDEL Fascination)

Lawson, Jon Arno & Sydney Smith
-Sidewalk Flowers (Irene Roth)

Leach, Norman S.
-Cavalry of the Air (Swordsman)

Leach, Sara
-Slug Days (Shonna)

LaRue, Monique
-Between Books: A Writer's Time (Buried in Print)

Lee, Nancy
-Dead Girls (Eric P.)

Lekich, John
-The Prisoner of Snowflake Falls (Shonna)

Lemire, Jeff
-Descender: Tin Stars (John Mutford)
-Roughneck (Pussreboots, Shonna)
-Black Hammer (Pussreboots)
-Black Hammer 2 (Pussreboots)
-Royal City (John Mutford)
-Sweet Tooth (Pussreboots)

Lennox, Doug
-Now You Know Canada (Irene Roth)

Lethbridge, Ann
-More Than a Lover (Shonna)

Lindhout, Amanda & Sara Corbett
-A House in the Sky (Irene Roth, Lisa)

Lisson, Lisa
-Resilience (Irene Roth)

Little, Jean
-His Banner Over Me (RIEDEL Fascination)

Lloyd Kyi, Tanya
-Nova Scotia (RIEDEL Fascination)

Lorinc, John et al
-The Ward (Swordsman, Teena)

Lui, Elaine
Listen to the Squawking Chicken (Irene Roth)

Lundrigan, Nicole
-Glass Boys (Janet)

Lyttle, Alex
-From Ant to Eagle (Pussreboots)

MacBeth, Hilliard
-When the Bubble Bursts (Irene Roth)

MacGregor, Roy & Kerry MacGregor
-The Ice Chips & the Magical Rink (Heather)

Mackenzie, Lee
-Charming Predator (Teena)

Maclear, Kyo 
-The Fog (with Kenard Pak (Pussreboots)
-Flo (with Jay Fleck) (Shonna, Pussreboots)
-Good Little Book (with Marion Arbona) (Pussreboots)
-Bloom (with Julie Morstad)  (Pussreboots)

Maclennan, Hugh
-Barometer Rising (RIEDEL Fascination)

Macleod, Alistair
-No Great Mischief (Leaves & Pages)

MacLeod, Elizabeth
-Canada's Trees (Irene Roth)

Macmillan, Margaret
-History's People (Irene Roth)

Maharaj, Rabindranath
-Homer in Flight (Eric P)
-The Amazing Absorbing Boy (Eric P)

Majumdar, Anita
-The Fish Eyes trilogy (Eric P.)

Mandel, Emily St John
-Station Eleven (Crystal)

Maracle, Lee
-My Conversations with Canadians (Irene Roth)

Marais, Bianca
-Hum if you don't know the words (Naomi)

Marie, Annette
-The Red Winter trilogy (Crystal)

Marineau, Michele & Manon Gauthier
-Wash On! (Shonna)

Marquis, Greg
-Truth & Honour (Teena, Swordsman)

Marsden Mariah & Brenna Thummler 
-Anne of Green Gables adaptation (John Mutford)

Marshall, Debbie
-Firing Lines (Shonna)

Marshall, Susan
-Nemesis (Shonna)

Martel, Yann
-High Mountains of Portugal (Janet)

Marvin, Lee J.
-Li Bai's Shadow (Irene Roth)

Mastai, Elan
-All Our Wrong Todays (Pussreboots)

Matejova, Maria
-Wherever I Find Myself (Irene)

Mayr, Suzette
-Dr. Edith Vane & the Hares of Crawley Hall (Melwyk)

McBean, Marnie
-The Power of More (Irene Roth)

McCartney, Tania & Tina Snerling
-A Canadian Year (Irene Roth)

McClintock, Norah
-Break and Enter (Sherrie)

McCreesh, Alison
-Norths (John Mutford)

McCurdy, Diane
-How Much is Enough?  (Teena)

McFarlane, Leslie aka Franklin W. Dixon
-Mystery at Cabin Island (RIEDEL Fascination)

McGrath, Robin
-Coasting Trade (Lara Maynard)

McInnes,Craig
-The Mighty Hughes (Bill)

McKenzie, Andrea & Jane Ledwell
-LM Montgomery & War (Irene Roth)

McKenzie, Catherine
-The Good Liar (Shonna)

McLachlin, Beverly
-Full Disclosure (Bill)

Mclayne, Alyson
-Highland Promise (Heather)

McMillan, Rachel
-The Bachelor Girl's Guide to Murder (Sherrie)
-The White Feather Murders (Sherrie)

McNamee, Graham
-Acceleration (Heather)

McPherson, David
-The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern (Teena)

Melick, Angela
-We Are the Engineers (Pussreboots)
-Welcome to the Real World (Pussreboots)

Merasty, Joseph Auguste with David Carpenter
-The Education of Augie Merasty (Red 5)

Mercer, George
-Dyed in the Green (Bill)

Meredith, Patricia & James L. Darroch
-Stumbling Giants (Irene Roth)

Michaels, F.S.
-Monoculture (Irene Roth)

Michaels, Sean
-Us Conductors (Pussreboots)

Michaud, Andrée A.
-Boundary (Naomi)

Miettunen, Anita
-Big Blue Forever (Irene Roth)

Millar, Margaret
-The Invisible Worm (Brian Busby)
-The Lively Corpse/Rose's Last Summer (Brian Busby)

Miller, Tony
-Daddy Hall (Buried in Print)

Mixter, Helen & Margarita Sada
-The Dog (Irene Roth)

Mlynowski, Sarah
-Fairest of All (Heather)
-Ten Things We Did (Pussreboots)
-Dragon Overnight (Pussreboots)

Montgomery, L.M.
-After Many Years (Melwyk, Irene Roth)
-Anne of Avonlea (Red 5)
-Jane of Lantern Hill (Raidergirl)

Moore, Christopher
-Miss Confederation: the diary of Mercy Anne Coles (Irene Roth)
-Big Book of Canada (Irene Roth)

Morgan, Lael
-Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush (John Mutford)

Morgan-Cole, Trudy J.
-Most Anything You Please (Naomi)

Moroney, Shannon
-Through the Glass (Teena)

Moss, Marissa & John Hendrix
-Nurse, Soldier, Spy (Pussreboots)

Mount, Nick
-Arrival:the story of Canlit (Buried in Print)

Munro, Alice
-Friend of My Youth (Eric P)
-Runaway (Janet)

Munsch, Robert & Mile Bolt
-Get Me Another One (Irene Roth)

Murphy, Matthew
-A Beckoning War (Naomi)

Nason, Riel
-Modern Selvage Quilting (Lisa)

Nawaz, Saleema
-Bone & Bread (Irene Roth)

Nemat, Marina
-Prisoner of Tehran (Irene)
-After Tehran (Irene)

Nesbitt, Karen
-Subject to Change (Irene Roth)

Newhouse, David R., et al.
-Hidden in Plain Sight (Irene Roth)

Neuvel, Sylvain
-Waking Gods (Shonna)

Norrie, Helen
-He Saw Himself in All His Creatures (RIEDEL Fascination)

Oachs, Emily Rose
-Canada (Irene Roth)

O'Connor, D'Arcy
-Secret Treasure of Oak Island (RIEDEL Fascination)

Ogilvie, C.L.
-Some Assistance Required (Janet)

O'Leary, Sara & Qin Leng
-A Family is a Family is a Family (Pussreboots)

O'Loughlin, Ed
-Minds of Winter (Naomi)

O'Neill, Heather
-The Lonely Hearts Hotel (Lara Maynard)

Oppel, Kenneth
-Skybreaker (Pussreboots)
-Airborn (Raidergirl)
-The Boundless (Sherrie)
-The Nest (Pussreboots)
-Every Hidden Thing (Pussreboots)
-Silverwing (John Mutford)

Ozeki, Ruth
-A Tale for the Time Being (Heather, Raidergirl)

Parker, Gilbert
-The Lane That Had No Turning (Brian Busby)

Parr, Jean
-Manitoba Stories (RIEDEL Fascination)

Pawelski, Ele
-The Finest Supermarket in Kabul (Shonna)

Pecover, J.
-Works of Justice: the Trials of Robert Raymond Cook (Bill)

Penny, Louise
-Glass Houses (Luanne, Shonna, Raidergirl, Mary R., Bill)
-The Murder Stone (RIEDEL Fascination)
-Still Life (Janet)

Person, Cea Sunrise
-North of Normal (Luanne)

Peterkin, Allan D.
-The Flyaway Blanket (Irene Roth)

Peterman, Michael
-Sisters in Two Worlds (Raidergirl)

Peters, P.J.
-Driftwood & other poems (RIEDELFascination)

Peterson, Zoey Leigh
-Next Year For Sure (Naomi, Crystal)

Picard, André
-Matters of Life and Death (Irene Roth)

Pickersgill, J.W.
-Louis St Laurent (Irene Roth)

Plett, Casey
-A Safe Girl to Love (Pussreboots)

Poplak, Lorna
-Drop Dead (Teena)

Porter, Helen
-Below the Bridge (Lara Maynard)

Poulin, Jacques
-Volkswagen Blues (Pussreboots, Leaves & Pages)

Poulson, David A.
-Serpents Rising (Teena)
-Dead Air (Teena)
-Last Song Sung (Teena)

Pountney, Christine
-Sweet Jesus (Irene Roth)

Priemaza, Anna
-Kat and Meg Conquer the World (Heather)

Preston, Brent
-The New Farm (Teena)

Purchase, Elizabeth
-Warm for Winter (Irene Roth)

Pyper, Andrew
-The Only Child (Lisa, Irene Roth)

Rakoff, Ruth
-When My World Was Very Small (Irene Roth)

Ramadan, Ahmed Danny
-The Clothesline Swing (Crystal)

Raughley, Sarah
-Fate of Flames (Shonna)

Redhill, Michael
-Bellevue Square (Luanne, Naomi, Lisa)

Reichs, Kathy
-Devil Bones (Lisa)
-Cross Bones (Lisa)
-Grave Secrets (Lisa)
-Bones of the Lost (Mary R)

Reid, Iain
-I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Wendy, Pussreboots, Irene Roth)

Renzetti, Elizabeth
-Shrewed (Shonna, Irene Roth)

Reynolds, Christopher & Wendy Moran
-East Coast Crafted (Teena)

Richardson, Sarah
-At Home Sarah Style (Irene Roth)

Richler, Mordecai
-Joshua Then & Now (Mary R)
-O Canada, O Quebec (Mary R)
-The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (Eric P)
-The Street (Eric P.)
-The Great Comic Book Heroes (Leaves & Pages)

Ripley, Nathan
-Find You in the Dark (Luanne)

Robinson, Eden
-Son of a Trickster (Naomi)

Robinson, Peter
-Sleeping in the Ground (Luanne)
-Gallows View (Mary R)
-A Dedicated Man (Mary R)

Rose, Rachel
-Thirteen Ways of Looking at Canlit (Buried in Print)

Rosenblum, Rebecca
-So Much Love (Naomi)

Ross, W.E.D.
-Lust Planet (Brian Busby)
-Backstage Nurse; written as Jane Rossiter (Brian Busby)

Rotenberg, Robert
-Heart of the City (Teena, Luanne, Bill)

Roy, Gabrielle
-The Tin Flute (RIEDEL Fascination)

Sadai, Jenn
-Cottage Cheese Thighs (Shonna)

Sadler, Judy Ann & Vigg
-Nothing Happens in this Book (Luanne)

Saunders, Doug
-Maximum Canada (Irene Roth)

Savage, Candace
-Crows (Raidergirl, Melwyk, Irene Roth)

Schatzker, Mark
-The Dorito Effect (Raidergirl)

Schwarz, Herbert T.
-Tuktoyaktuk 2-3 (John Mutford)

Sellars, Bev
-They Called Me Number One (Red5, John Mutford)

Seth
-Dominion (Eric P)
-Wimbledon Green (Eric P)
-GNBCC (Eric P)

Shapton, Leanne
-Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry (Buried in Print)

Shields, Carol
-Box Garden (Brian Busby)

Shields, Carol and Patrick Crowe
-Susanna Moodie: Roughing It In The Bush (Raidergirl)

Shirtliffe, Leanne & Georgia Graham
-Saving Thunder the Great (John Mutford)

Sibbeston, Nick
-You Will Wear a White Shirt (John Mutford)

Silverthorne, Judith
-Ghosts of Government House (RIEDEL Fascination)

Simmons, Shannon Lee
-Worry Free Money (Irene Roth)

Simpson, Anne
-An Orange from Portugal (Red 5)

Sinclair, Bertrand W.
-Land of Frozen Suns (Brian Busby)

Skuy, David
-Run (Irene Roth)

Smith, Goldwin
-Canada and the Canadian Question (Pussreboots)

Snyder, Carrie 
-Girl Runner (Irene Roth)

Snyder, Scott & Jeff Lemire
-A.D. After Death (John Mutford)

Somerville, Alana
-Holding On To Normal (Irene Roth)

Sooley, Jill
-The Widows of Paradise Bay (Irene Roth)

Spalding, Linda
-The Purchase (Heather)

Spence, Janis
-On the Beach in Spanish Room (Lara Maynard)

Stapley, Marissa
-Things to Do When It's Raining (Shonna)

St James, Simone
-Lost Among the Living (RIEDEL Fascination)
-The Broken Girls (Melwyk)

St John, Dennis
-Yellowknife (John Mutford)

Stein, Murray B & John R. Walker
-Triumph Over Shyness (Irene Roth)

Stevens, Chevy
-Those Girls (Sherrie)
-Never Let You Go (Darlene)

Stewart, Ron
-Mystery of the Lost Lemon Mine (RIEDEL Fascination)

Stocks, Cassie
-Dance, Gladys, Dance (Irene Roth)

Stone, Danika
-Internet Famous (Pussreboots)

Stratten, Scott
-Unmarketing (Teena)
-QR Codes Kill Kittens (Teena)
-The Book of Business Awesome/UnAwesome (Teena)

Strobel, Tony
-Walt Disney's Pluto (RIEDEL Fascination)

Summers, Courtney
-All the Rage (Crystal)
-This Is Not A Test (Darlene)
-Please Remain Calm (Darlene)

Swanson, Diane 
-Canada's Bugs (Irene Roth)

Szalay, David
-All That Man Is (Shonna)

Taggart, Jeremy & Jonathan Torrens
-Canadianity (Irene Roth, Teena, Raidergirl)

Talkington, Bruce
-Boo To You, Winnie the Pooh (RIEDEL Fascination)

Tamaki, Jillian
-Boundless (Pussreboots)

Taylor, Kate
-Serial Monogamy (Janet)

Taylor, Sara
-Boring Girls (Janet)

Thomas, Mike
-You Might Remember Me (Teena)

Thuy, Kim
-Vi (Eric P., Melwyk)

Timmer, Julie Lawson
-Mrs. Saint and the Defectives (Pussreboots)

Todd, Jack
Rose & Poe (Naomi)

Toews, Miriam
-The Flying Troutmans (Pussreboots, Irene Roth)
-Swing Low (Red5)
-A Complicated Kindness (Eric P.)

Tootoo, Jordin & Stephen Brunt
-All the Way: My Life on Ice (John Mutford)

Trachsel Green, Tarra
-Sammy Swan's Summer Adventure (Irene Roth)

Treliving, Jim
-Decisions (Bill)

Trotter, Kathleen
-Finding Your Fit (Teena)

Trudell, William and Lorene Shyba
-More Tough Crimes (Bill)

Tucker, K.A.
-Keep Her Safe (Teena, Kaley)
-Until It Fades (Irene Roth)

Turok, Neil
-Universe Within (Irene Roth)

Urquhart, Doug
-Eyes of the Husky (John Mutford)

Urquhart, Jane
-Night Stages (Lara Maynard)
-The Underpainter (Mary R.)

Van Camp, Richard & Monique Gray Smith
-When We Play our Drums They Sing / Lucy & Lola (John Mutford)

Vanderhaeghe, Guy
-Things As They Are? (Eric P)

Vanier, Jean
-Signs of the Times (Irene Roth)

VanSickle, Vikki
-Summer Days, Starry Nights (Irene Roth)

Vasey, Paul
-A Troublesome Boy (Shonna)

Vermette, Katherena 
-A Girl Called Echo (with Scott B. Henderson)  (John Mutford)
-North End Love Songs  (Red5)

Verstraete, Larry
-Lost Treasures (Irene Roth)

Wagamese, Richard
-Embers (Red 5, Swordsman)
-Indian Horse (Red 5)

Wagner, Harmony
-Queen of the Crows (Janet)

Wallin, Pamela
-The Comfort of Cats (RIEDEL Fascination)

Walmsley, Ann
-The Prison Book Club (Red5)

Walsh, Mary
-Crying for the Moon (John Mutford, Teena)

Walter, Emmanuelle
-Stolen Sisters (Red 5)

Watson, Sophie B.
-Cadillac Couches (Pussreboots, Irene Roth)

Watt, Alison
-Dazzle Patterns (Naomi)

Watt-Cloutier, Sheila
-The Right to Be Cold (Red 5)

Webb, Phyllis
-Peacock Blue (Eric P)

Wees, Frances Shelley
-Where is Jenny Now? (Brian Busby)

Wesley, Gloria Ann
-Chasing Freedom (Janet)

Whitehead, Ruth Holmes
-The Mi'kmaq (Lara Maynard)

Whittingham, Jane & Noel Tuazon
-Wild One (Shonna, Irene Roth)

Wiebe, Sam
-Cut You Down (Teena, Bill)

Weinzweig, Helen
-Passing Ceremony (Eric P)

Wiersma, Robert J.
-Before I Wake (Darlene)

Wilkshire, Nick
-The Moscow Code (Teena)

Willems-Snopek, Roxanne
-Great Cat Stories (RIEDELFascination)

Willis, Deborah
-The Dark and other love stories (Shonna)

Wilson, Ethel
-Hetty Dorval (Leaves & Pages, Eric P.)
-Swamp Angel (Leaves & Pages, John Mutford)

Wilson, M.A.
-Adventure on Whalebone Island (Pussreboots)

Wilson, Tom
-Beautiful Scars (Teena, Heather)

Wilton Katz, Welwyn
-Time Ghost (Pussreboots)

Winters, Michelle
-I Am a Truck (Naomi)

Wolfe, Margie
-150 Fascinating Facts about Canadian Women (Teena)

Wronski, Gareth
-Holly Farb & the Princess of the Galaxy (Irene Roth)

Wynne-Jones, Tim
-Blink & Caution (Sherrie)

Yaffe, David
-Reckless Daughter: a Portrait of Joni Mitchell (Mary R)

Yakeleya, Raymond & Deborah Desmarais
-The Tree By the Woodpile (John Mutford)

Young, Nora
-The Virtual Self (Irene Roth)

Zentner, Alexi
-Touch (Naomi)


If you find any missing or incorrect links please let me know either in the comments or a quick email. Thanks!

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And here are the final challenge levels we reached in the 11th Annual Canadian Book Challenge!

TransCanada Highway (13+)

Irene Roth (190)

Teena in Toronto (52)

Pussreboots (52)

Shonna at Canadian Bookworm (49)

Naomi at Consumed by Ink (35)

Red 5's Book Nook (20)

John Mutford at The BookMineSet (35)

Carolyn @ RIEDEL Fascination (30)

Eric at Eric's Hangout (24)

Brian Busby at The Dusty Bookcase (18)

Buried in Print (17)

Melwyk (17)

Luanne at Bookworm's World (16)

Darlene's Book Nook (14)

Bill Selnes at Mysteries & More (14)

Heather at Books & Quilts

Sherrie at Food for Thought

Crystal at Goddess In The Stacks

Mary R at Bibliographic Manifestations

Janet Cameron

CanAm Highway (12)

Lara

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TransLabrador Highway (11)

Queen Elizabeth Way (10)

Swordsman

James Bay Road (9)

Dempster Highway (8)

Lisa at Bibliographic Manifestations

Coquihalla Highway (7)

Barb at Leaves & Pages

ALCAN (Alaska-Canadian) Highway (6)

Klondike Highway (5)

Icefields Parkway (4)

Cabot Trail (3)

Wendy

Charlottetown Perimeter Highway (2)

Alert to Alert Airport Road (1)

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