| Date
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Title |
Author |
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| 1832 |
Wacousta |
John Richardson |
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| 1836 |
The Sayings and Doings of Sam Slick |
Thomas Chandler Haliburton |
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| The Clockmaker |
Thomas Chandler Haliburton |
|
|
| The Backwoods of Canada |
Catherine Parr Traill |
|
|
| 1852 |
Roughing It in the Bush |
Susanna Moodie |
|
|
| 1886 |
In Divers Tones |
Charles G.D. Roberts |
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| 1893 |
Low Tide on Grand Pre |
Bliss Carmen |
|
|
| The Magic House and Other Poems |
Duncan Campbell Scott |
|
|
| 1895 |
Lyrics of Earth |
Archibald Lampman |
|
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| 1902 |
The Man from Glengarry |
Ralph Connor |
|
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| 1904 |
The Imperialist |
Sarah Jeannette Duncan |
|
|
| 1907 |
Songs of a Sourdough |
Robert Service |
|
|
| 1908 |
Anne of Green Gables |
Lucy Maude Montgomery |
|
|
| 1910 |
My Financial Career |
Stephen Leacock |
|
|
| 1912 |
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town |
Stephen Leacock |
|
|
| 1914 |
Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich |
Stephen Leacock |
|
|
| 1921 |
Maria Chapdelaine |
Louis Hémon |
|
|
| 1923 |
Newfoundland Verse |
E.J. Pratt |
|
|
| 1925 |
Settlers of the Marsh |
Frederick Philip Grove |
|
|
| 1927 |
Jalna |
Mazo de la Roche |
|
|
| The Master’s Wife |
Andrew MacPhail |
|
|
| 1928 |
Strange Fugitive |
Morley Callaghan |
|
|
| Green Pitcher |
Dorothey Livesay |
|
|
| 1929 |
White Narcissus |
Raymond Knister |
|
|
| 1933 |
Fruits of the Earth |
Frederick Philip Grove |
|
|
| Lyrics of Earth |
Archibald Lampman |
|
|
| 1934 |
Such is My Beloved |
Morley Callaghan |
|
|
| 1935 |
They Shall Inherit the Earth |
Morley Callaghan |
|
|
| 1937 |
More Joy in Heaven |
Morley Callaghan |
|
|
| 1941 |
Barometer Rising |
Hugh MacLennan |
|
|
| As For Me and My House |
Sinclair Ross |
|
|
| 1942 |
His Majesty’s Yankees |
Thomas H. Raddall |
|
|
| David |
Earl Birney |
|
|
| 1943 |
News of the Phoenix and Other Poems |
A.J.M. Smith |
|
|
| 1944 |
The Master of the Mill |
Frederick Philip Grove |
|
|
| Earth and High Heaven |
Gwethalyn Graham |
|
|
| 1945 |
Two Solitudes |
Hugh MacLennan |
|
|
| The Tin Flute |
Gabrielle Roy |
|
|
| By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept |
Elizabeth Smart |
|
|
| 1946 |
When We Are Young |
Raymond Souster |
|
|
| East of the City |
Louis Dudek |
|
|
| 1947 |
Music at the Close |
Edward McCourt |
|
|
| Hetty Dorval |
Ethel Wilson |
|
|
| Under the Volcano |
Malcolm Lowry |
|
|
| Who Has Seen the Wind? |
W.O. Mitchell |
|
|
| Poems for People |
Dorothey Livesay |
|
|
| 1949 |
Turvey |
Earl Birney |
|
|
| The Innocent Traveller |
Ethel Wilson |
|
|
| 1950 |
Home is the Stranger |
Edward McCourt |
|
|
| Cabbagetown |
Hugh Garner |
|
|
| The Nymph and the Lamp |
Thomas H. Raddall |
|
|
| 1951 |
The Loved and the Lost |
Morley Callaghan |
|
|
| Tempest Tost |
Robertson Davies |
|
|
| The Second Scroll |
A.M. Klein |
|
|
| Where Nests the Water Hen |
Gabrielle Roy |
|
|
| 1952 |
The Mountain and the Valley |
Ernest Buckler |
|
|
| The Equations of Love |
Ethel Wilson |
|
|
| Towards the Last Spike |
E.J. Pratt |
|
|
| 1954 |
Swamp Angel |
Ethel Wilson |
|
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| Leaven of Malice |
Robertson Davies |
|
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| 1955 |
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne |
Brian Moore |
|
|
| 1956 |
Let Us Compare Mythologies |
Leonard Cohen |
|
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| 1958 |
Canada Made Me |
Norman Levine |
|
|
| Execution |
Colin McDougall |
|
|
| 1959 |
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz |
Mordecai Richler |
|
|
| The Double Hook |
Sheila Watson |
|
|
| Morley Callaghan’s Stories |
Morley Callaghan |
|
|
| 1960 |
Winter Sun |
Margaret Avison |
|
|
| Mad Shadows |
Marie-Claire Blais |
|
|
| The Luck of Ginger Coffey |
Brian Moore |
|
|
| 1961 |
The Stone Angel |
Margaret Laurence |
|
|
| Jake and the Kid |
W.O. Mitchell |
|
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| 1962 |
Flying a Red Kite |
Hugh Hood |
|
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| 1963 |
Never Cry Wolf |
Farley Mowat |
|
|
| Hugh Garner’s Best Stories |
Hugh Garner |
|
|
| 1964 |
The Stone Angel |
Margaret Laurence |
|
|
| 1965 |
Next Episode |
Hubert Aquin |
|
|
| 1966 |
A Season in the Life of Emmannuel |
Marie-Claire Blais |
|
|
| Beautiful Losers |
Leonard Cohen |
|
|
| A Jest of God |
Margaret Laurence |
|
|
| St. Urbain’s Horseman |
Mordecai Richler |
|
|
| 1967 |
I Heard the Owl Call My Name |
Margaret Craven |
|
|
| Bread, Wine and Salt |
Alden Nowlan |
|
|
| 1968 |
Les Belles-Soeurs |
Michel Tremblay |
|
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| 1969 |
I’ve Tasted My Blood |
Milton Acorn |
|
|
| The Edible Woman |
Margaret Atwood |
|
|
| Five Legs |
Graeme Gibson |
|
|
| The Studhorse Man |
Robert Kroetsch |
|
|
| Selected Poetry |
Irving Layton |
|
|
| The Shadow-Maker |
Gwendolyn MacEwen |
|
|
| 1970 |
Fifth Business |
Robertson Davies |
|
|
| Kamouraska |
Anne Hébert |
|
|
| The Ecstasy of Rita Joe |
George Ryga |
|
|
| The Weekend Man |
Richard B. Wright |
|
|
| 1970–71 |
Creeps |
David Freeman |
|
|
| 1971 |
Power Politics |
Margaret Atwood |
|
|
| Lives of Girls and Women |
Alice Munro |
|
|
| 1972 |
More Poems for People |
Milton Acorn |
|
|
| The Great Canadian Novel |
Harry J. Boyle |
|
|
| Selected Poems |
Al Purdy |
|
|
| 1972-87 |
The Martyrology |
bpNichol |
|
|
| 1973 |
The Book of Eve |
Constance Beresford-Howe |
|
|
| The Temptations of Big Bear |
Rudy Wiebe |
|
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| 1974 |
The Diviners |
Margaret Laurence |
|
|
| Alligator Pie |
Dennis Lee |
|
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| 1975 |
The Swing in the Garden |
Hugh Hood |
|
|
| Farewell, Babylon |
Naïm Kattan |
|
|
| A Suit of Nettles |
James Reaney |
|
|
| 1976 |
Bear |
Marian Engel |
|
|
| Spit Delaney’s Island |
Jack Hodgins |
|
|
| 1977 |
The Invention of the World |
Jack Hodgins |
|
|
| The Wars |
Timothy Findlay |
|
|
| 1978 |
Judith |
Aritha van Herk |
|
|
| 1979 |
The Hockey Sweater and Other Stories |
Roch Carrier |
|
|
| Balconville |
David Fennario |
|
|
| Jitters |
David French |
|
|
| Pélagie |
Antoine Maillet |
|
|
| 1980 |
Selected Poem: Beyond Even Faithful Legends |
Bill Bissett |
|
|
| 1981 |
The Alley Cat |
Yves Beauchemin |
|
|
| Famous Last Words |
Timothy Findlay |
|
|
| Obasan |
Joy Kogawa |
|
|
| Collected Poems |
F.R. Scott |
|
|
| 1982 |
Shoeless Joe |
W.P. Kinsella |
|
|
| Man Descending |
Guy Vanderhaege |
|
|
| 1983 |
A Time for Judas |
Morley Callaghan |
|
|
| 1984 |
Neuromancer |
William Gibson |
|
|
| The Engineer of Human Souls |
Josef Skvorecký |
|
|
| 1984-86 |
The Fionavar Tapestry |
Guy Gavriel Kay |
|
|
| 1985 |
Black Robe |
Brian Moore |
|
|
| The Handmaid’s Tale |
Margaret Atwood |
|
|
| 1987 |
The Stone Diaries |
Carol Shields |
|
|
| In the Skin of A Lion |
Michael Ondaatje |
|
|
| 1988 |
Volkswagen Blues |
Jacques Poulin |
|
|
| Nights Below Station Street |
David Adams Richards |
|
|
| 1989 |
Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love |
Brad Fraser |
|
|
| Mister Sandman |
Barbara Gowdy |
|
|
| 1990 |
Mauve Desert |
Nicole Brossard |
|
|
| Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing |
Tomson Highway |
|
|
| Lives of the Saints |
Nino Ricci |
|
|
| 1991 |
Generation X |
Douglas Coupland |
|
|
| 1992 |
We So Seldom Look on Love |
Barbara Gowdy |
|
|
| The English Patient |
Michael Ondaatje |
|
|
| 1993 |
Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs |
Leonard Cohen |
|
|
| Away |
Jane Urquhart |
|
|
| 1995 |
A Fine Balance |
Rohan Mistry |
|
|
| The Maestro |
Tim Wynn-Jones |
|
|
| 1996 |
Fall on Your Knees |
Ann-Marie MacDonald |
|
|
| Selected Stories |
Mavis Gallant |
|
|
| 1997 |
The Hidden Room: Collected Poems |
P.K. Page |
|
|
| 1998 |
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) |
Ann-Marie MacDonald |
|
|
| 1999 |
Elizabeth and After |
Matt Cohen |
|
|
| The Drawer Boy |
Michael Healey |
|
|
| No Great Mischief |
Alistair Macleod |
|
|
| Barney’s Version |
Mordecai Richler |
|
|
Christian Kresall 