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READING LIST –  (BOOKS CHOSEN IN DOUGLAS GIBSON’S SHOW CELEBRATING CANADA’S GREATEST STORYTELLERS FROM 1867 TO 2017)

 

  1. A STORY AS SHARP AS A KNIFE   Robert Bringhurst, Douglas & MacIntyre

  2. LES ANCIENS CANADIENS   Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, Fides, Translated by Jane Brierley, CANADIANS OF OLD, Vehicule

  3. THE GOLDEN DOG    William Kirby, McGill-Queen’s Press

  4. ANGÉLINE de MONTBRUN   Félicité Angers/ Laure Conan,  La Bibliothéque Electronique du Québec

  5. THE IMPERIALIST   Sarah Jeanette Duncan, New Canadian Library/M&S

  6. ANNE OF GREEN GABLES   Lucy Maud Montgomery, Tundra Books /M&S (Other Montgomery titles are also published by Penguin/M&S)

  7. THE MAN FROM GLENGARRY   Charles Gordon/Ralph Connor, New Canadian Library/M&S

  8. MARIA CHAPDELAINE    Louis Hémon, Illustrated by Clarence Gagnon (unillustrated edition published by Boréal)

  9. SUNSHINE SKETCHES OF A LITTLE TOWN   Stephen Leacock, New Canadian Library/ M&S

  10. UN HOMME SE PENCHE SUR SON PASSÉ    Maurice Constantin-Weyer, Presses Universitaires de France

  11. MORE JOY IN HEAVEN   Morley Callaghan, New Canadian Library/M&S

  12. TRENTE ARPENTS   Philippe Panneton/Ringuet Translated as THIRTY ACRES Philippe Panneton/Ringuet, New Canadian Library/M&S

  13. BONHEUR D’OCCASION   Gabrielle Roy, Boréal, Translated as THE TIN FLUTE Gabrielle Roy, New Canadian Library/ M&S

  14.  TWO SOLITUDES   Hugh MacLennan, New Canadian Library/M&S

  15.  LES PLOUFFE   Roger Lemelin, Stanké, Translated as THE PLOUFFE FAMILY, New Canadian Library /M&S

  16. WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND W.O. Mitchell, Illustrated by William Kurelek, M&S (Unillustrated edition also M&S)

  17. FIFTH BUSINESS   Robertson Davies, Penguin

  18. AGAGUK   Yves Thériault, Éditions de l’Homme, Translated as SHADOW OF THE WOLF    M&S

  19. THE DIVINERS   Margaret Laurence, New Canadian Library /M&S

  20. LE CIEL DE QUÉBEC  Jacques Ferron,  VLB Éditeur/ Bibliothéque Québecoise

  21. THE APPRENTICESHIP OF DUDDY KRAVITZ Mordecai Richler, New Canadian Library/M&S

  22. KAMOURASKA Anne Hébert, Éditions du Seuil, Translated as KAMOURASKA by Norman Shapiro, House of Anansi

  23. THE INVENTION OF THE WORLD Jack Hodgins, M&S and New Canadian Library

  24. ALIAS GRACE Margaret Atwood, M&S/ Vintage

  25. LE MATOU Yves Beauchemin, Fidès, Translated by Sheila Fischman as THE ALLEY CAT         M&S

  26. THE ENGLISH PATIENT Michael Ondaatje, M&S/Vintage

  27. THE STONE DIARIES Carol Shields, Vintage

  28. A FINE BALANCE  Rohinton Mistry, M&S/Vintage

  29. PÉLAGIE –LA- CHARRETTE Antonine Maillet, Leméac / Translated by Philip Stratford  as  PELAGIE, Goose Lane

  30. NO GREAT MISCHIEF Alistair MacLeod, M&S

  31. UNE SAISON DANS LA VIE D’EMMANUEL   Marie-Claire Blais, Boréal Translated as A SEASON IN THE LIFE OF EMMANUEL, Exile Editions

  32. LIFE OF PI   Yann Martel , Vintage

  33. COMMENT FAIRE L’AMOUR AVEC UN NÈGRE….  Dany Laferriere, Le serpent a plumes / Translated by David Homel as HOW TO MAKE LOVE…Douglas & MacIntyre

  34. THE ORENDA Joseph Boyden, Penguin

  35. THE PROGRESS OF LOVE Alice Munro, Penguin

 

GOOD READING!      Doug Gibson – doug1929@rogers.com