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Any good books by Canadian Authors? I need to read one for school
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Any good books by Canadian Authors? I need to read one for school and I want to actually take on something enjoyable.
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Sunshine Sketches of a little town

Fifth business

Handmaiden s tale
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sticky
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>>7693757
this nigga here
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>>7693823
>no Canadian recommendations
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>>7693757
CANADA MADE ME
the book canada hates because it rips canada for being boring as fuck
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>>7696144
>CANADA MADE
That sounds interesting! I'd love to read more books like this, written by people from a specific country who shit on the place, like Horne's The Lucky Country for Australia
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R Scott Bakker is Canadian
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>>7696157
please read it and start a thread here
i've never been able to discuss it w/ anyone
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Le libraire - GĂ©rard Bessette
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life of poo
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stephen leacock's sunshine sketches
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>>7693757

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
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>>7693829
I wish he was alive to witness this online mental illness repository. he'd have a lot of interesting things to say about it
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>>7693757
dumb frogposter
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Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen
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Read this op
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Prestigious Canadian-award-winning literature here
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>>7693757
Any novel by Mordechai Richler is recommended. Or either of Leonard Cohen's. I think, consequently, that Canadian writers are necessarily cranky Montreal yudes.
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>>7697075
ffs.
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>>7697075
yiff in hell canada haha
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>no Northrop Frye mention
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Robertson Davies.
The Handmaid's Tale is fun.
I like In the Skin of A Lion as well.
Also The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, if you can tolerate Jews.
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Jason Heroux, Poet

http://jasonheroux.blogspot.com/
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>>7693757
Munro's "Who Do You Think You Are" is decent
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