The Great Wednesday Compare #4- Robinson Crusoe VERSUS Island of the Blue Dolphins

The winner of the last Great Wednesday Compare ( One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest vs. Robinson Crusoe), with a final score of 5-1 was Robinson Crusoe.

You know, I might never make it around to actually reading One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. While I know books are usually far superior to their movie counterparts, I'm still less likely to read the book when I've seen the movie. I'd almost say that I don't have an interest in a story I'm already familiar with, but I will watch a movie of a book that I've read, so that theory doesn't hold up. Maybe it's having the actors stuck in my head that I don't like. Or maybe it's the time commitment a novel takes-- I mean, if I already know the plot, am I going to spend a week or more rehashing it? At least with a movie, you have about an hour and a half to see how well or poorly it was adapted, then you move on. I did enjoy the One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest movie, though. And I didn't know until Remi pointed it out that Kesey's book is told from the perspective of Chief, the believed-to-be deaf and mute Native man. That's intriguing enough to put it back on the ol' tbr pile. Maybe once I hit 80 and have read everything else, I'll pick it up.

This week it's Gilligan's Island vs Lost vs Swiss Family Robinson vs Survivor vs... okay, so none of those, but close enough.

Remember, vote simply by adding your comment below, base it on whatever merit you choose, voting does not end until Tuesday at 11:59 p.m. (July 21st, 2009), and if you want your book to get more votes, feel free to promote them here or on your blog!

Which is better?

Robinson Crusoe or Island of the Blue Dolphins

Reader's Diary #506- Carson McCullers: The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

It's taken me just about forever to finish this book. Not that I didn't thoroughly enjoy it, it's just that life kept getting in the way.

I can see why this has become a classic. And to think that carson McCullers wrote it 23. I spent the entire book just gobsmacked that a 23 year old could write such a thing. It's a gorgeous piece of writing.

However, early into the book it occurred to me that the story might be a metaphor and I became, admittedly, way too fixated with that for the remainder of the book. I began to see John Singer's deaf mute character as representative of a reader and those that came to talk to him as representative of writers. Something about the one way communication that both parties seemed to find therapeutic made me think of the writer/reader relationship. Of course, as anyone who's read The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter knows, there are many details that cannot be worked into such a simple interpretation. But, if the novel wasn't controlled by a metaphor, I certainly was.

About the only thing I didn't like about the whole book was the title, which I found a little cheesy and not all that relevant or reflective. According to Wikipedia, it was an editor's suggestion. I bet McCullers could have come up with something better.

Reader's Diary #505- David Sedaris: It's Catching

"It's Catching" is the first story in David Sedaris' When You Are Engulfed In Flames, which was a Father's Day present from my son. It's also found here at The New Yorker.

You may have noticed that I've reviewed a lot of New Yorker stories lately. It might be somewhat surprising to learn I've never actually held a New Yorker magazine. Long before I discovered their online offerings, I'd assumed it to be snooty (that's elitist, to the snooty). I don't know, maybe it's the top-hatted turtle-necked mascot squinting through a monocle that gave me that impression. I'd just about decided that guy was tongue-in-cheek self-deprecation, but wait...

Along comes my first Sedaris story. Hmmm. This is a tough call. On the one hand, there is a hint of mocking the yuppie set, but there's also a hint of pride in being ridiculously out of touch. Is Sedaris trying to make snobbery campy? If so, I'm not sure I'm in. Leg-lamps and velvet Elvis paintings might be fun, thinly disguised superiority not so much.

I just hope that New Yorker mascot isn't Sedaris himself.

(Did you write a post for Short Story Monday? If so, please leave a link in the comments.)

Saturday Word Play- Ordering The Order of Canada

Please note: In an effort to reclaim my life, some of my regular weekly features are going to be scaled back for the summer, perhaps indefinitely. Short Story Monday, Poetry Friday and Saturday Word Play will not necessarily happen on a weekly basis and will only appear when I'm able to do so. I cannot be cramming in poetry books and short stories last minute-- it's sucking the fun out and it has become more work than pleasure. As for Saturday Word Play, when an idea for a word game strikes me, I'll prepare one, but again, I won't be forcing it. The Great Wednesday Compare will move from a weekly to biweekly basis. I hope you understand and continue to check in...

This week Jay Ingram was made a member of the Order of Canada. Since the Northwords Writers Festival, I see Jay as an author, not just "that science guy on TV." It made me question what other authors have been given the Order of Canada.

I'll tell you ten such authors, but I'll scramble the words in the titles of some of their books. Can you put them in order?

For instance, if I gave you

"Jay Ingram- Life Of Everyday Science, Cool Planet Daily Book of Ideas"

you could tell me that two of his book titles are Science of Everyday Life and Daily Planet Book of Cool Ideas.

Remember: Feel free to answer all 10 at home, but only answer one in the comment section, to allow 9 more people to play along.

1. M.G. Vassanji- Secrets of the Book, In-Between the World of Lall Vikram

2. Tomson Highway- The Sisters Rez, Kapuskasing Oughta Move Lips To Dry

3. Bernice Thurman Hunter- Booky That Scatterbrain, Her Way on Margaret

4. Harold Horwood- Beachy of the Cove Foxes, Eskimo White

5. Jack Hodgins- Grounds Broken, Bourne of the Joseph Resurrection

6. Lynn Johnston- Worse For or Better For, We're Pregnant David

7. Wayson Choy- The Peony Jade, Chinatown Shadows: A Paper Childhood

8. Leon Rooke- Dog Shakespeare's, Gravity of the Fall

9. Sinclair Ross- For As My House and Me, Memorial Sawbones

10. Ted Harrison- Yukon of the Children, Raven The Blue

The Canadian Book Challenge 3- The Prizes!

Here are just some of the prizes that will be up for grabs to people participating in the 3rd Canadian Book Challenge**. Please note that this post may be revised
from time to time as new prizes come up; so keep checking in! If you still haven't joined, follow the instructions in the sidebar.

1. The Bannock Baker's Dozen


The participant who reads the most books and leaves links for reviews by July 1st, 2010, will receive a book* from each province and territory:
I. Newfoundland and Labrador- Death on the Ice by Cassie Brown
II. Prince Edward Island- The Anne of Green Gables Cookbook by Kate Macdonald and illustrated by Barbara Di Lella
III. Nova Scotia- to be announced
IV. New Brunswick- to be announced
V. Quebec- The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler
VI. Ontario- Fifteen Days by Christie Blatchford
VII. Manitoba- The Retreat by David Bergen
VIII. Saskatchewan- The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe
IX. Alberta- Ruby Tuesday by Mike Harrison (generously donated by Johnna Abdou)
X. British Columbia- Stanley Park by Timothy Taylor
XI. Yukon- to be announced
XII. Northwest Territories- White Bird Black Bird by Val Wake (generously donated and autographed by the author)
XIII. Nunavut- James Houston's Treasury of Inuit Legends

*Unless donated, these books are used but in great condition!

2. How Do I Love Poetry Prize


Generously donated by Brick Books, the person who reads the most poetry and leaves links for reviews by July 1st, 2010 will receive:
I. one of my personal favourites, Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems by Randall Maggs
II. Hooked by Carolyn Smart
III. Love Outlandish by Barry Dempster

3. The Olympians!

For the participant who's read the most books by midnight February 28, 2010 (the last day of the Vancouver Olympics) and leaves links for reviews, comes a prize pack generously donated by Random House that highlights British Columbian authors and/or settings:
I. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie Alan Bradley
II. Before I Wake by Robert J. Wiersema
III. Border Songs by Jim Lynch
IV. Red Dog, Red Dog by Patrick Lane

As well, 3 runners up will receive Border Songs.

4. First Out Of The Gate

On August 1st, 2009 the very person to visit the 1st update post and leave a link to a reviewed book for the Canadian Book Challenge will receive Phantom Limb by Theresa Kishkan.

5. Fastest Tour Ever

The very first person to reach 13 books (and leave me links to all reviews), will receive this beautiful scarf designed and knit by Canadian Book Challenge participant Chris. If you start now you might just get it before the cold weather sets in!

(**In the event of a tie for these prizes, a random winner will be drawn.)

The Canadian Book Challenge 3 - On your marks, get set, go eh!

From Canada Day to Canada Day, can you read and review at least 13 Canadian books?

Starting July 1st, 2009 and ending July 1st, 2010, I challenge Canadians and non-Canadians to read 13 or more Canadian books. Pick fiction, pick nonfiction, pick poetry, graphic novels, picture books, plays, etc-- if it's Canadian and if it's a book, it's in. What makes a book Canadian? Let's ask Doug Webster:

"A Canadian book is defined as a book written by Canadians and/or about Canadians."

What makes a Canadian?

"Canadian refers to someone born in or immigrated to Canada."

But you know, Doug Webster isn't related to that other Webster. He's just some guy from Scarborough. Besides, this is your challenge. You decide which books make the cut and which ones don't.

Okay, so you know you have to read Canadian, but which ones? It's entirely up to you. I can think of at least four Canadian authors, so you have a little choice. No, no, no, there are so many possibilities, this should be the fun part. Pick authors and books at random or theme your challenge should you be so inclined. I like to pick at least one book from each province and territory (it's where the magic number 13 came from), but some themes from other participants in the past have included a single author approach (ex. just Lucy Maud Montgomery or Robert Munsch books), a single province approach (ex. British Columbia or Quebec), a single gender (ex. wait, do you need an example for this, really?), and an ABM approach (i.e., just autobiographies, biographies, and memoirs). Of course, you could decide on an entirely different theme, or no theme at all. You do not have to decide ahead of time what books to read, but do so if it helps.

For those participants who have been here before, there will be some small changes. I know I promised major changes, but after formatting issues, I decided against an entirely separate Canadian Book Challenge blog. The biggest change you will notice is with the monthly updates. I cannot provide links to all the reviews this time around. As much as I enjoyed compiling all of the links in the past, it was getting way too time consuming for me, especially as we neared the 1000 mark. But I know the monthly updates were a highlight and I don't want to scrap them entirely so here's what we're going to do:

After each book you read, you review it online as always, whether it be on your blog, Chapters or Amazon, BookCrossing, or wherever. But, instead of emailing me to say you've reviewed it, simply go to my blog at the beginning of each month and leave a comment that includes your last month's links AND the number of books you've read for the challenge so far. Don't worry about forgetting to visit each month, if I have your email I'll send out reminders the day before, and if you still forget, just add them the following month.

Another small change involves the prizes. While I will still be offering prizes, there will be less of an emphasis on them and they won't come monthly. Instead, I'll be rewarding people for certain feats: the first to make it to 13, the one who reads the most poetry, and so on. See the "Canadian Book Challenge Prizes" post.

Optional: Once you've finished each book, consider trading it in for another Canadian book. For more details, go to the Trading Post.

If you wish to join The Canadian Book Challenge 3, email me (jmutford [at] hotmail {dot} com) with the subject header "Sign me up, please!" and let me know where you reside on the internet (your blog page, your Chapters profile page, your BookCrossing profile, etc).

Let's explore, celebrate and promote Canadian books!

Happy Canada Day!!!

The 3rd Canadian Book Challenge begins today! Look for the inaugural post later this evening. It would have been up already but internet difficulties have slowed me down...

The 2nd Canadian Book Challenge- Grand Finale!

It's been one glorious year, with loads of amazing Canadian books being celebrated. Can you believe this year's total? 1137 books read. My initial goal was to just beat the first year total of 415 books. Once that goal was crushed early on, I thought it would be nice to double it. When that happened earlier this spring I started to think of how cool it would be to break 1000. Well, here we are and that number was shattered. I am ecstatic!

And what a huge group of people finishing just in time! Congrats for finishing the Canadian Book Challenge last month goes goes out to Geranium Cat, Mary Ellen, Ripley, Nathan, Melanie, Kaitlin, 3M, Diabhan, April, Jazz, Claire H, Chris, Gautami, Teddy Rose, Claire, Bybee and Becky. Geranium Cat was actually done reading a while ago but held off with her final reviews since she was less than impressed with her final two. Mary Ellen brings us a handful of new reviews, including a review of a poetry book by Afua Cooper. Ripley brings in a bunch of new reviews, not the least of which is one of my new friend Richard Van Camp's book of short stories. Melanie finishes with a collection of short stories from Jessica Grant (you know, the one getting all the attention for her novel, Come, Thou Tortoise). Nathan finishes off with a review of The Gargoyle, making me the last Canadian alive not to have read it. Kaitlin pulls in with a Toews book and more Lucy Maud Montgomery books. I'm forever astounded by Montgomery's legacy. 3M finishes with Skim. Have I mentioned how pleased I am with the graphic novel coverage of this challenge? Daibhan rounds out her choices with a Nick Bantock trilogy. Bantock was one of those authors I'd not heard of until the book challenge started, but more than a few people reviewed him and now I'm intrigued. April puts the finishing touches on with a story set in my home: Late Nights On Air. Jazz, most surprisingly just joined us this past month, but still managed to bring 13 books and reviews to us, pleasantly representing YA authors in the process. Claire finishes with a review of Anosh Irani's debut novel. Chris finishes off with a Newfoundland book that also shares its title with a beer. Gautami rounds things off with a Vicki Delaney book and her 2nd Carol Shields book. Teddy, after taking a suggestion from Nicola, added picture books to her Canadian reading list and reached 16 books this months. Have I mentioned yet how pleased I am that children's writers were so well represented this time around? Claire wraps things up with 3 books, including one of my personal favourites, Steve Zipp's Yellowknife. Bybee has learned how much of a Robertson Davies fan she is with most of her final choices. Becky finishes her single author approach with five more Lucy Maud Montgomery books. Great job everyone!

Some highlights this month include:
- A review of Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff's new book (I wonder if it was inspired by the Red Hot Chili Peppers)
- A review of an Andrew Kaufman book (that's Andrew, not Andy)
- A new arctic book and first time novel for Cathleen With
- A review of Mark Leslie's One Hand Screaming. Mark is a Canadian Book Challenge participant and his book was a prize a few month's back.
- A thought-provoking post about what it means to be entertained while reading using Carol Shields' Unless to make a point
- A book by CBC radio's Jonathan Goldstein

Some authors new to me this month include Christian Cameron, Catherine Jenkins, Judith James, Gord Rollo, Emily St. John Mandel, David Carpentier, James Heneghan, Pamela Porter and Maggie Wheeler.

Thanks to everyone for your wonderful reviews. Keep those conversations happening!

Nunavummiut (13 Books...or more!)

GeraniumCat
- Dead Cold by Louise Penny*
- A Boy of Good Breeding by Miriam Toews*
- Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery*
- Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery*
- Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery*
- Anne of Windy Willows by Lucy Maud Montgomery*
- Anne's House of Dreams by Lucy Maud Montgomery*
- Anne of Ingleside by Lucy Maud Montgomery*
- Rainbow Valley by Lucy Maud Montgomery*
- Rilla of Ingleside by Lucy Maud Montgomery*
- Unless by Carol Shields*
- Once Upon a Time: Myth, Fairy Tales and Legends in Margaret Atwood's Writings edited by Sarah A. Appleton
- Still Life by Louise Penny

Mary Ellen
- Copper Woman by Afua Cooper*
- Chester by Melanie Watt*
- Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt*
- Scaredy Squirrel at the Beach by Melanie Watt*
- Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje*
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood*
- Mariana by Susanna Kearsley
- Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
- Welcome To The Departure Lounge: Adventures in Mothering Mother by Meg Federico
- The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley
- Apologize, Apologize by Elizabeth Kelly
- Not Guilty by Debbie Travis
- Still Life by Louise Penny
- The Impact of a Single Event by R. L. Prendergast
- The Whirlpool by Jane Urquhart
- Margarita Nights by Phyliss Smallman

Ripley
- Mistress of the Sun by Sandra Gulland*
- The Boy Must Die by Jon Redfern*
- No Such Creature by Giles Blunt*
- The Colour of Lightning by Paulette Jiles*
- Darkness at the Stroke of Noon by Dennis Richard Murphy*
- Advice For Italian Boys by Anne Giardini*
- No Time For Goodbye by Linwood Barclay*
- Step Closer by Tessa McWatt*
- Megiddo's Shadow by Arthur Slade*
- Amuse Bouche by Anthony Bidulka*
- One Hand Screaming by Mark Leslie*
- Angel Wing Splash Pattern by Richard Van Camp*
- Snitch by Allison van Diepen*
- Wicked Woods: Ghost Stories From Old New Brunswick by Steve vernon*
- The Slow Fix by Ivan E. Coyote
- Scarlet Rose by Julia Madeleine
- Inside Out Girl by Tish Cohen
- The Killing Circle by Andrew Pyper
- The Line Painter by Claire Cameron
- Indigenous Beasts by Nathan Sellyn

Nathan
- The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson*
- Scaredy Squirrel in the Dark by Melanie Watt*
- The Book of Stanley by Todd Babiak*
- The As It Happens Files by Mary Lou Finlay*
- Come, Thou Tortoise by Jessica Grant*
- The Awakening by Kelley Armstrong*
- A Simple Wedding by Lynn Johnston*
- Otherwise by Farley Mowat
- Bookweird by Paul Glennon
- Belle Moral by Ann-Marie MacDonald
- The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong
- A Secret Between Us by Daniel Poliquin
-The Wars by Timothy Findley

Melanie
- Making Light of Tragedy by Jessica Grant*
- Coming Attractions '08 edited by Mark Antony Jarman*
- Come, Thou Tortoise Jessica Grant*
- The Outlander by Gil Adamson*
- Birth of a Bookworm by Michel Tremblay*
- A Thousand Shades of Blue by Robin Stevenson*
- Heave by Christy Ann Conlin
- The Hatbox Letters by Beth Powning
- Plainsong by Nancy Huston
- The Valley by Gayle Friesan
- Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner
- the Retreat by David Bergen
- Blasted by Kate Story
- The Brutal Heart by Gail Bowen
- Prarie Bridesmaid by Daria Salamon
- Saltsea by David Helwig

Kaitlin
- Emily Climbs by Lucy Maud Montgomery*
- Emily's Quest by Lucy Maud Montgomery*
- A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews*
- Emily of New Moon by Lucy Maud Montgomery*
- Unless by Carol Shields*
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel*
- Baroque-A-Nova by Kevin Chong
- The Case of Lena S by David Bergen
- In The Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
- The View From Castle Rock by Alice Munro
- A Student of Weather by Elizabeth Hay
- The Concubine's Children by Denise Chong
- The Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast by Bill Richardson
- Before I Wake by Robert J. Wiersema

3M
- Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki*
- The Tricking of Freya by Christina Sunley*
- Yarrow by Charles de Lint*
- Mistik Lake by Martha Brooks*
- The End of the Alphabet by C.S. Richardson*
- Natasha and Other Stories by David Bezmozgis
- The End of the Alphabet by C.S. Richardson
- Mistik Lake by Martha Brooks
- A Certain Mr. Takahashi by Ann Ireland
- Anne of The Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen
- Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) by Ann-Marie MacDonald
- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Daibhin
- Morning Star by Nick Bantock*
- Alexandria by Nick Bantock*
- The Gryphon by Nick Bantock*
- Canoe Lake by Roy MacGregor*
- Hippolyte's Island: An Illustrated Novel by Barbara Hodgson*
- Vinyl Cafe Unplugged by Stuart McLean*
- Vinyl Cafe Diaries by Stuart McLean*
- Bodily Harm by Margaret Atwood*
- Inside Out Girl by Tish Cohen
- Summer Gone by David MacFarlane
- Island by Alistair MacLeod
- The Ladies' Lending Library by Janice Kulyk Keefer
- Looking for Anne of Green Gables by Irene Gammel
- A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews

April
- Late Nights On Air by Elizabeth Hay*
- Coventry by Helen Humphreys*
- Summer of My Amazing Luck by Miriam Toews
- Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
- The Time In Between by David Bergen
- Can You Hear The Nightbird Call? by Anita Rau Badami
- Simple Recipes by Madeleine Thien
- The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
- The Art of Salvage by Leona Theis
- Crows: Encounters With The Wise Guys of the Avian World by Candace Savage
- The Order of Good Cheer by Bill Gaston
- The Birth House by Ami McKay
- The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart

Jazz
- The Bully Boys by Eric Walters*
- Another Kind of Cowboy by Susan Juby*
- Nothing To Lose by Norah McClintock*
- You Can Run by Norah McClintock*
- Voyageur by Eric Walters*
- Tweaked by Katherine Holubitsky*
- Out of the Cold by Norah McClintock*
- Dooley Takes The Fall by Norah McClintock*
- Gotcha! by Shelley Hrdlitschka*
- The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane by Polly Horvath*
- After River by Donna Milner*
- Frost by Nicole Luiken Humphrey*
- Payback by James Heneghan*

Claire H
- The Cripple and His Talisman by Anosh Irani*
- Tyrant Storm of Arrows by Christian Cameron*
- Blood Sports by Eden Robinson*
- Spook Country by William Gibson*
- Last Stop Sunnyside by Pat Capponi
- Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson
- Nine Planets by Edward Riche
- Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
- Jalna by Mazo de la Roche
- Ten Thousand Lovers by Ravel Edeet
- The Killing Circle by Andrew Pyper
- The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
- Song of the Paddle by Bill Mason

Chris
- 1892 by Paul Butler*
- Ecoholic by Adria Vasil*
- Look at Me by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Michael Martchenko*
- Mmm, Cookies! by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Michael Martchenko*
- Boo! by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Michael Martchenko*
- Love You Forever by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Sheila McGraw*
- Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
- Getting Over Edgar by Joan Barfoot
- Anne's House of Dreams by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Negotiating With The Dead by Margaret Atwood
- Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
- Yellowknife by Steve Zipp
- Loyalists and Layabouts by Stephen Kimber

Claire
- Larry's Party by Carol Shields*
- Ten Thousand Lovers by Edeet Ravel*
- Yellowknife by Steve Zipp*
- De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage
- Dragonflies by Grant Buday
- It's A Good Life, If You Don't Weaken by Seth
- The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
- Away by Jane Urquhart
- Ex-Cottagers In Love by J.M. Kearns
- The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
- Red Dog Red Dog by Patrick Lane
- Barnacle Love by Anthony de Sa
- Stunt by Claudia Dey

Becky
- Emily Climbs by Lucy Maud Montgomery*
- Emily's Quest by Lucy Maud Montgomery*
- Tangled Web by Lucy Maud Montgomery*
- Chronicles of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery*
- Blue Castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery*
- Emily of New Moon by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Anne of Avonleaby Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Rilla of Ingleside by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Rainbow Valley by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Anne of Ingleside by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Anne's House of Dreams by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Anne of Windy Poplars by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Bybee
- Murther and Walking Spirits by Robertson Davies*
- Girlfriend In A Coma by Douglas Coupland*
- The Cunning Man by Robertson Davies*
- The Manticore by Robertson Davies*
- World of Wonders by Robertson Davies*
- Larry's Party by Carol Shields
- Rilla of Ingleside by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Rainbow Valley by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Anne's House of Dreams by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Anne of Ingleside by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- JPod by Douglas Coupland
- Anne of The Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Unless by Carol Shields
- Fifth Business by Robertson Davies

Teddy
- Mud Puddle by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Sami Suomalainen*
- A Promise Is A Promise by Robert Munsch and Michael Kusugak and illustrated by Vladyana Krykorka*
- It's Raining, It's Pouring by Andrea Spalding and illustrated by Leslie Elizabeth Watts*
- Show and Tell by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Michael Martchenko*
- Mister Got To Go and Arnie by Lois Simmie and illustrated by Cynthia Nugent*
- Gordon Loggins and The Three Bears by Linda Bailey and illustrated by Tracy Walker*
- Pigsby Robert Munsch and illustrated by Michael Martchenko
- Mary of Mile 18 by Ann Blades
- Bamboo by Paul Yee and illustrated by Shaoli Wang
- Amos's Sweater by janet Lunn and illustrated by Kim LaFave
- Finklehopper Frog Cheers by Irene Livingston and illustrated by Brian Lies
- The Party by Barbara Reid
- Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
- Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
- Look for Me by Edeet Ravel
- Horseman's Grave by Jacqueline Baker

Gautami
- In The Shadow of the Glacier by Vicki Delany*
- The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields*
- The Horseman's Graves by Jacqueline Baker
- the nine planets by Edward Riche
- Six Seconds by Rick Mofina
- The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
- The Murder Stone by Louise Penny
- The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
- Larry's Party by Carol Shields
- The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
- Sir Cook, The Knight? by Erik Mortensen
- Shelf Monkey by Corey Redekop
- The Time In Between by David Bergen

Ariel
- The Assassin's Song by M.G. Vassanji
- Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner and translated by Lazer Lederhendler
- The Tent by Margaret Atwood
- An Accidental Canadian: Reflections on My Home and (Not) Native Land by Margaret Wente
- The Meaning of Puck: How Hockey Explains Modern Canada by Bruce Dowbiggin
- Fruit by Brian Francis
- The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
- What We All Long For by Dionne Brand
- Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
- Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet by Joanne Proulx
- The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis
- At A Loss For Words by Diane Schoemperlin
- The End of East by Jen Sookfong Lee

Gypsysmom
- Sacrament by Peter Gzowski
- Peace Shall Destroy Many by Rudy Wiebe
- Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood
- A Carra King by John Brady
- The Difference Engine by William Gibson
- Murder in Montparnasse by Howard Engel
- The Lyre of Orpheus> by Robertson Davies
- The New Ancestors by Dave Godfrey
- Murther and Walking Spirits by Robertson Davies
- Itsuka by Joy Kogowa
- Since Daisy Creek by W. O. Mitchell
- Prospero's Daughter by Constance Beresford-Howe

Lynda
- Downhill Chance by Donna Morrissey
- City of Ice by John Farrow
- Ice Lake by John Farrow
- A Gentlewoman of Upper Canada by Anne Langton
- Vinyl Cafe Unplugged by Stuart McLean
- Black Fly Season by Giles Blunt
- Deafening by Francis Itani
- Sugarmilk Falls by Ilona Van Mil
- From Ink Lake: Canadian Stories Collected by Michael Ondaatje
- Life by Drowning: Selected Poems by Jeni Couzyn
- Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
- New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English editted by Margaret Atwood and Robert Weaver
- The Birth House by Ami McKay

Remi
- Spent by Joe Matt*
- Heaven Is Small by Emily Schultz*
- Poor Bastard by Joe Matt
- Overqualified by Joe Comeau
- Girls Fall Down by Maggie Helwig
- Not Yet by Wayson Choy
- Come, Thou Tortoise by Jessica Grant
- Important Artifacts and Personal Property From The Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewellery by Leanne Shapton
- Selected Poems by Alden Nowlan
- The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
- The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
- The Killing Circle by Andrew Pyper
- Fast Forward and Other Stories by Delia de Santis
- The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland
- Selected Poems (1972) by Al Purdy

Heather
- Bitten by Kelley Armstrong*
- Broken Wing by Judith James*
- Once Upon a Time by Barbara Fradkin
- The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
- Do or Die by Barbara Fradkin
- Little Voice by Ruby Slipperjack
- Helpless by Barbara Gowdy
- Child of the Morning by Pauline Gedge
- Wondrous Strange by Lesley Livingston
- White Jade Tiger by Julie Lawson
- Darkness at the Stroke of Noon by Dennis Richard Murphy
- Origin of Species by Nino Ricci
- The Brat by Lynsay Sands
- The Inuit Thought Of It by Alootook Ipellie
- Two Trails Narrow by Stephen McGregor
- The Manitous: The Spiritual World of The Ojibway by Basil Johnston
- April Raintree by Beatrice Culleton
- Furious Observations of a Blue-Eyed Ojibway by Drew Hayden Taylor
- Devil In Deerskins: My Life With Grey Owl by Anahereo
- The Curse of the Shaman by Michael Kusugak
- The Man Who Ran Faster Than Everyone: The Story of Tom Longboat by Jack Batten
- One Native Life by Richard Wagamese
- All My Relations: An Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Native Fiction editted by Thomas King
- Medicine River by Thomas King
- Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomson Highway

Corey
- Overqualified by Joey Comeau
- Coventry by Helen Humphries
- The Town That Forgot How To Breathe by Kenneth J. Harvey
- Inside by Kenneth J. Harvey
- Blackstrap Hawco by Kenneth J. Harvey
- Fruit by Brian Francis
- Brother Dumb by Sky Gilbert
- The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
- Entitlement by Jonathan Bennett
- Cockroach by Rawi Hage
- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere by John McFetridge
- The Killing Circle by Andrew Pyper
- The Order of Good Cheer by Bill Gaston

Mark
- POW! Right Between The Eyes: Profiting From The Power of Surprise by Andy Nulman*
- Crimson by Gord Rollo*
- Beneath The Surface by Simon Stanztas*
- Scar Tissue by Michael Ignatieff*
- The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
- Frozen Blood by Joel A. Sutherland
- Me Minus 173 by Alicia Snell
- The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
- The Killing Circle by Andrew Pyper
- Cricket In A Fist by Naomi K. Lewis
- Wolf Pack by Edo van Belkom
- Lone Wolf by Edo van Belkom
- Cry Wolf by Edo van Belkom
- Wolf Man by Edo van Belkom
- In Tongues of the Dead by Brad Kelln
- Wake by Robert J. Sawyer
- Grown Up Digital by Don Tapscott
- Too Close To Home by Linwood Barclay

Barefootheart
- Gold Digger by Vicky Delany*
- Only In Canada, You Say by Katherine Barber*
- Early Ontario Gravestones by Carole Hanks*
- A Violent End by Maggie Wheeler*
- An Audience of Chairs by Joan Clark*
- Red Fox by Charles G.D. Roberts
- Streets of Riches by Gabrielle Roy
- Front Yard Gardens: Growing More Than Grass by Liz Primeau
- The Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen
- Apples Don't Just Grow by Maida Parlow French
- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
- Margarita Nights by Phyllis Smallman
- The Calling by Inger Ash Wolfe
- Your Loving Anna by Louis Tivy
- Beaver Tales by Audrey Tournay
- Beavers Eh to Bea by Lil Anderson
- The War at Home: An Intimate Portrait of Canada's Poor by Pat Caponi
- Last Stop Sunnyside by Pat Caponi
- The Corpse Will Keep by Pat Caponi
- Before Green Gables by Budge Wilson
- The Courtship by Budge Wilson
- A Fool and Forty Acres by Geoff Heinricks
- Rooms For Rent In The Outer Planets: Selected Poems 1962-1996 by Al Purdy
- Ragged Islands by Don Hannah

Splummer
- Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel
- Starclimber by Kenneth Oppel
- Detective by Arthur Hailey
- Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
- Someone Else's Ghost by Margaret Buffie
- Spook Country by William Gibson
- Mister Sandman by Barbara Gowdy
- The Dark Garden by Margaret Buffie
- By The Time You Read This by Giles Blunt
- Golden Girl and Other Stories by Gillian Chan
- A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
- The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
- The Ideal Wife by Mary Balogh

HistoriaABM
- Free Rider by John Lawrence Reynolds*
- Drifting Home by Pierre Berton
- Serendipity Road by Catherine DeVrye
- Starting Out In The Afternoon by Jill Frayne
- Straight From The Heart by Jean Chretien
- Gifted to Learn by Gloria Mehlmann
- Daring to Dream by Diane Dupuy
- Thumbs Up by Elizabeth Manley
- The Storyteller by Anna Porter
- Hope & Despair by Monia Mazigh, translated by Patricia Claxton and Fred Reed
- Mila by Sally Armstrong
- Flight of the Dragonfly by Melissa Hawach
- Time and Chance by Kim Campbell
- The Fight of My Life by Maude Barlow
- Farley: The Life of Farley Mowat by James King

John
- The Little Man: Short Strips 1980-1995 by Chester Brown*
- The Dog Who Wouldn't Be by Farley Mowat*
- Field Marks by Don McKay*
- Darkness at the Stroke of Noon by Dennis Richard Murphy*
- The Ghost of the Yellowknife Inn by Colin Alexander
- Children of the Yukon by Ted Harrison
- Speaking of Power by Di Brandt
- The Terror by Dan Simmons
- Heroes of Isle aux Morts by Alice Walsh and illustrated by Geoff Butler
- Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
- Songs Of The Great Land edited by John Robert Colombo
- Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler
- Mother Raven Nursery Rhymes by Peter Redvers and illustrated by Don Harney
- What Became of Sigvald, Anyway? by Mark Fremmerlid
- I thought elvis was italian by Domenico Capilongo
- Tom Three Persons by Yvonne Trainer
- Louis Riel: A Comic Biography by Chester Brown
- Fifteen Days by Christie Blatchford
- Grandmother by Elaine Woodward
- It's A Good Life, If You Don't Weaken by Seth
- Visiting Hours by Shane Koyczan
- House of The Wooden Santas by Kevin Major and carvings by Imelda George
- Barnacle Love by Anthony De Sa
- To The Top Canada by Chris Robertson
- Wolf Tree by Alison Calder
- Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems by Randall Maggs
- Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets edited by Zachariah Wells
- Weathers by Douglas Lochhead
- Hand To Hand by Nadine McInnis
- The Retreat by David Bergen
- Big Rig 2 b Don McTavish
- The Clockmaker by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
- Yellowknife by Steve Zipp
- Beatitudes by Herménégilde Chiasson
- The Anachronicles by George McWhirter
- King Leary by Paul Quarrington
- The Secret World of Og by Pierre Berton
- Beneath The Naked Sun by Connie Fife
- A Theft by Saul Bellow
- Arctic Migrants/ Arctic Villagers by David Damas
- White Eskimo by Harold Horwood

Raidergirl
- Remembering The Bones by Frances Itani
- No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod
- The Outlander by Gil Adamson
- Mercy Among The Children by David Adams Richards
- Too Close To Home by Linwood Barclay
- High Spirits by Robertson Davies
- A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
- Exit Lines by Joan Barfoot
- The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
- The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
- Before Green Gables by Budge Wilson
- Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
- The Birth House by Ami McKay

Jo
- Fruit by Brian Francis
- Mercy Among The Children by David Adams Richards
- The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
- Wondrous Strange by Lesley Livingston
- Rotten Apple by Rebecca Eckler
- The Retreat by David Bergen
- Killing Circle by Andrew Pyper
- The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland
- Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
- Yellowknife by Steve Zipp
- Watching July by Christine Hart
- The Green Beauty Guide by Julie Gabriel
- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
- The Game by Teresa Toten

Framed
- Waiting For Gertrude by Bill Richardson
- The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny
- Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
- Dragonflies and Dinosaurs by Kate Austin
- Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp
- Still Life by Louise Penny
- The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston
- Mrs. Mike by Benedict and Nancy Freedman
- The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
- Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs
- Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast by Bill Richardson
- Barometer Rising by Hugh MacLennan
- Niagara, A History of The Falls by Pierre Berton

Monica
- X in Flight by Karen Rivers
- Flight of the Hummingbird by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
- Y in the Shadows by Karen Rivers
- Barnacle Love by Anthony De Sa
- For Now by Gayle Friesan
- First Time by Meg Tilly
- Getting The Girl by Susan Juby
- The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
- The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
- The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
- The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
- Conceit by Mary Novik
- Forage by Rita Wong
- Porcupine by Meg Tilly
- The Alchemist's Dream by John Wilson

Tara
- The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor by Sally Armstrong
- Wild Geese by Martha Ostenso
- The Birth House by Ami McKay
- Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
- The Outlander by Gil Adamson
- The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregant by Michel Tremblay
- The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
- Fruit by Brian Francis
- Mercy Among The Children by David Adams Richards
- Late Nights On Air by Elizabeth Hay
- Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb
- Not Wanted On The Voyage by Timothy Findley
- King Leary by Paul Quarrington
- Brown Girl In The Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
- Lullabies For Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill
- Living Room by Allan Weiss
- Elizabeth and After by Matt Cohen

Joanna
- Niceman Cometh by David Carpentier*
- Breaking Lorca by Giles Blunt*
- Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen*
- The Good Body by Bill Gaston*
- The Lost Highway by David Adams Richards
- The Ravine by Paul Quarrington
- The Retreat by David Bergen
- Icefields by Thomas Wharton
- No Such Creature by Giles Blunt
- Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
- No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod
- Good To A Fault by Marina Endicott
- The Secret World of Og by Pierre Berton
- Claudia by Britt Holmstrom
- The Only Snow in Havanna by Elizabeth Hay
- The Bone Cage by Angie Abdou
- Wolf Tree by Alison Calder

Teena
- Too Close Too Home by Linwood Barclay
- Toronto: The Way We Were by Mike Filey
- Food Pets Die For by Ann N. Martin
- New Rules For Retirement by Warren MacKenzie and Ken Hawkins
- War Brides by Melynda Jarratt
- The New Retirement by Sherry Cooper
- Nova Scotia Drink-O-Pedia by Graham Pilsworth
- Write About Dogs by Keith Ryan
- Notes on a Beermat: Drinking and Why It's Necessary by Nicholas Pashley
- Here For A Good Time by Ra McGuire
- Cheech & Chong: The Unauthorized Autobiography by Tommy Chong
- Before I Wake by Robert J. Wiersema
- The Canadian Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine by Sherry Torkos
- Down The Coal Town Road by Sheldon Currie
- The Story So Far... by Sheldon Currie
- Lauchie, Liza & Rory by Sheldon Currie
- I've Got A Home In Glory Land by Karolyn Smardz Frost
- The War On Women by Brian Vallee
- Truth and Rumors: The Truth Behind TV's Most Famous Myths by Bill Brious

PookerX
- Compalints Department by Susan Haley*
- Magic Eight Ball by Marion Douglas*
- Wild Dogs by Helen Humphreys*
- A Magical Story of the Gimli Trolls by Bonita Hunter-Eastwood and illustrated by Jerry Johnson*
- I Once Knew An Indian Woman by May Ebbitt Cutler*
- Turtle Valley by Gail Anderson-Dargatz*
- Wild Geese by Martha Ostenso
- Fierce by Hannah Holborn
- The New Moon's Arms by Nalo Hopkinson
- Come, Thou Tortoise by Jessica Grant
- Having Faith in the Polar Girls' Prison by Cathleen With
- Good To A Fault by Marina Endicott
- The Tracey Fragments by Maureen Medved
- Fifteen Days by Christie Blatchford
- The Cure For Death by Lightning by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
- Children of the Day by Sandra Birdsell
- The Petty Details of So-and-so's Life by Camilla Gibb
- Frogs and Other Stories by Diane Schoemperlen
- Sisters of Grass by Theresa Kishkan
- The Outlander by Gil Adamson
- A Certain Mr. Takahashi by Ann Ireland
- Innercity Girl Like Me by Sabrina Bernardo
- The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
- Beautiful Girl Thumb by Melissa Steele
- An Audience of Chairs by Joan Clark
- Where The Pavement Ends by Marie Wadden
- Naomi's Road by Joy Kogowa and illustrated by Matt Gould

PookerY
- DreadfulWater Shows Up by Hartley GoodWeather*
- Red Dog, Red Dog by Patrick Lane
- Inside by Kenneth J. Harvey
- Grass, Sky, Song by Trevor Herriot
- Fruit by Brian Francis
- The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
- The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant by Michel Tremblay
- Mercy Among The Children by David Adams Richards
- The Christmas Tree by David Adams Richards
- Sparrow Nights by David Gilmour
- Precious by Douglas Glover
- Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
- Phantom Lake: North of 54 by Birk Sproxton
- This Business With Elijah by Sheldon Oberman
- More by Austin Clarke
- Murmel, Murmel, Murmel by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Michael Martchenko
- Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner
- The Rez Sisters by Tomson Highway
- Yellowknife by Steve Zipp
- Consolation by Michael Redhill

Sandra
- Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen*
- Changing Heaven by Jane Urquhart*
- The Fat Lady Next Door Is Pregnant by Michel Tremblay*
- The Disappeared by Kim Echlin*
- An Audience of Chairs by Joan Clark*
- Last Night In Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel*
- No Such Creature by Giles Blunt
- The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
- Mercy Among The Children by David Adams Richard
- The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
- What We All Long For by Dionne Brand
- The Museum Guard by Howard Norman
- Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
- Ten Thousand Lovers by Edeet Ravel
- Red Dog Red Dog by Patrick Lane
- The Retreat by David Bergen
- The Outlander by Gil Adamson
- The Boys In The Trees by Mary Swan
- The Letter Opener by Kyo Maclear
- The Lizard Cage by Karen O'Connell
- Alligator by Lisa Moore
- Late Nights On Air by Elizabeth Hay
- At A Loss For Words by Diane Schoemperlen
- Mister Sandman by Barbara Gowdy
- Twice Born by Pauline Gedge
- Quintet by Douglas Arthur Brown
- Coventry by Helen Humphreys
- Ex-Cottagers in Love by J. M. Kearns

Wanda
- Turvey by Earle Birney*
- The Crazy Man by Pamela Porter*
- Mary of Mile 18 by Ann Blades
- Shelf Monkey by Corey Redekop
- Coventry by Helen Humphreys
- Belle Moral by Ann-Marie MacDonald
- Bookweird by Paul Glennon
- The Friends of Meager Fortune by David Adams Richards
- Down The Coaltown Road by Sheldon Currie
- You Went Away by Timothy Findley
- Mostly Happy by Pam Bustin
- The House of Wooden Santas by Kevin Major
- A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
- The Divine Ryans by Wayne Johnston
- Whale Song by Cheryl Kaye Tardif
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- Ramasseur by Richard deMuelles
- Passion Fruit Tea by Elenore Schonmaier
- Turtle Valley by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
- a week of this: a novel in seven days by Nathan Whitlock
- The Birth House by Ami McKay
- Baltimores Mansion by Wayne Johnston
- Mercy Among The Children by David Adams Richards
- The Skating Pond by Deborah Joy Corey

Richard
- The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek by Sid Marty
- Winging Home: A Palette of Birds by Harold Rhenisch
- An Ecology of Enchantment by Des Kennedy
- Nature By Design: People, Natural Process, and Ecological Restoration by Eric Higgs
- Malahat Review #165 by various contributors
- The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland
- Vancouver Matters editted by Jamse Eidse, Mari Fujita, Joey Giaimo, Lori Kiessling, and Christine Min
- Saudade by Anik See
- Pathways Into Mountains by Ken Belford
- Interwoven Wild by Don Gayton
- Little Hunger by Philip Kevin Paul
- Almost Green by James Glave
- The Flight of the Hummingbird by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
- The Perfection of the Morning by Sharon Butala
- lan(d)guage by Ken Belford
- Medicine River by Thomas King
- ecologue by Ken Belford
- A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright
- The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant
- Spook Country by William Gibson
- Pear Tree Pomes by Roy Kiyooka
- The Witness Ghost by Tim Bowling
- Forage by Rita Wong
- Slash by Jeannette Armstrong
- Ontological Necessities by Priscilla Uppal
- Time Was Soft There by Jeremy Mercer

Kailana
- The Golden Phoenix and Other Fairy Tales From Quebec edited by Marius Barbeau and Michael Hornyansky*
- Scott Pilgrim: Precious Little Life, Volume 1 by Bryan Lee O'Malley*
- Lost at Sea by Bryan Lee O'Malley*
- The Lights Go On Again by Kit Pearson*
- The Unwritten Girl by James Bow*
- Dust by Arthur Slade*
- JPod by Douglas Coupland*
- Wondrous Strange by Lesley Livingston*
- Turtle Valley by Gail Anderson-Dargatz*
- Only In Canada, You Say by Katherine Barber
- Men of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong
- Cats I Have Known and Loved by Pierre Berton
- Santa Claus: A Biography by Gerry Bowler
- I Was A Child of Holocaust Survivors by Bernice Eisenstein
- The Gargoyleby Andrew Davidson
- Personal Demon by Kelley Armstrong
- Barnacle Love by Anthony De Sa
- What They Wanted by Donna Morrissey
- Conceit by Mary Novik
- The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
- Jolted by Arthur Slade
- Coventry by Helen Humphreys
- Extraordinary Canadians: Lord Beaverbrook by David Adams Richards
-The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
-Don't Lets Go The Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
-Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland
-Traveling Music by Neil Peart

Nicola
- Awakening by Kelley Armstrong*
- The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong*
- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
- The Third Eye by Mahtab Narsimhan
- The Talking Cat and Other Stories of French Canada by Natalive Savage Carlson
- The Golden Phoenix: Eight French-Canadian Fairy Tales by Marius Barbeau and retold by Michael Hornyansky, illustrated by Arthur Price
- Otherwise by Farley Mowat
- Louis Riel: A Comic Strip Biography by Chester Brown
- The Meanest Doll In The World by Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin, Illustrated by Brian Selznick
- The Doll People by Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin, Illustrated by Brian Selznick
- The Line Painter by Claire Cameron
- Too Close To Home by Linwood Barclay
- The Great Karoo by Fred Stenson
- Coventry by Helen Humphreys
- The Ruby Kingdom by Patricia Bow
- The Prism Blade by Patricia Bow
- Red Dog Red Dog by Patrick Lane
- All The Colours of Darkness by Peter Robinson
- Milrose Munce and the Den of Professional Help by Douglas Anthony Cooper
- My Name Is Number 4 by Ting-Xing Ye
- The Shadow of Malabron by Thomas Wharton
- Bookweird by Paul Glennon
- Night Runner by Max Turner
- Getting the Girl by Susan Juby
- Jolted by Arthur Slade
- Starclimber by Kenneth Oppel
- Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
- The Horseman's Grave by Jacqueline Baker
- Newton and the Time Machine by Michael McGowan
- The Shooting of Dan McGrew by Robert W. Service and illustrated by Ted Harrison
- The Seance by Iain Lawrence

Joy
- Big City Bad Blood by Sean Chercover
- Griffin & Sabine by Nick Bantock
- Sabine's Notebook by Nick Bantock
- The Golden Mean by Nick Bantock
- Forty Words For Sorrow by Giles Blunt
- Hate You by Graham McNamee
- The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny
- Runaway by Alice Munro
- Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood
- Gallows View by Peter Robinson
- The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
- Charley's Web by Joy Fielding
- Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery

HistoriaSA
- Up, Up, Down by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Michael Martchenko
- Playhouse by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Michael Martchenko
- Alligator Baby by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Michael Martchenko
- The Sandcastle Contest by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Michael Martchenko
- Class Clown by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Michael Martchenko
- Just One Goal by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Michael Martchenko
- More Pies! by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Michael Martchenko
- No Clean Clothes! by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Michael Martchenko
- Boo! by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Michael Martchenko
- Smelly Socks by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Michael Martchenko
- Get Out of Bed! by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Alan and Lea Daniel
- We Share Everything by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Michael Martchenko
- Look At Me! by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Michael Martchenko

Steve
- The Museum Guard by Howard Norman*
- Pelagie by Antonine Maillet*
- We Were Not The Savages by Daniel Paul*
- Down Home by Harry Bruce*
- Nova Scotia Shaped By The Sea by Leslie Choyce*
- Bluenose Magic by Helen Creighton*
- The Channel Shore by Charles Bruce
- Barometer Risingby Hugh MacLennan
- The Clockmaker by Thomas Haliburton
- My Famous Evening by Howard Norman
- Rockbound by Frank Parker Day
- Roger Sudden by Thomas Raddall
- The Mountain and the Valley by Ernest Buckler
- The Film Club by David Gilmour
- Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner
- What Happened later by Ray Robertson
- King Leary by Paul Quarrington
- The Game by Ken Dryden
- Midnight Hockey by Bill Gaston

JK
- The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
- The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland
- February by Lisa Moore
- Mistress of the Sun by Sandra Gulland
- The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
- Ecoholic by Adria Vasil
- Changing Heaven by Jane Urquhart
- Beyond The Horizon by Colin Angus
- The Killing Circle by Andrew Pyper
- Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
- The Outlander by Gil Adamson
- King Leary by Paul Quarrington
- The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant by Michel Tremblay
- Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
- The Romantic by Barbara Gowdy
- Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters of Jack McCelland editted by Sam Soleki
- Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
- An Imperfect Offering by James Orbinski
- Look For Me by Edeet Ravel
- Cereus Blooms At Night by Shani Mootoo
- Fruit by Brian Francis
- Whylah Falls by George Elliott Clark
- The Wives of Bath by Susan Swan
- Silver Salts by Mark Blagrave
- Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler
- A History Of Reading by Alberto Manguel
- The Wars by Timothy Findley
- Too Close To The Falls by Catherine Gildiner
- The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart
- The Rules of Engagement by Catherine Bush
- Happenstanceby Carol Shields
- The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
- lullabies for little criminals by Heather O'Neill
- Late Nights On Air by Elizabeth Hay
- A History of Forgetting by Caroline Adderson
- JPod by Douglas Coupland
- The End of East by Jen Sookfong Lee

August
- Cockroach by Rawi Hage
- Rust and Bone by Craig Davidson
- Once by Rebecca Rosenblum
- Adult Entertainment by John Metcalf
- Flight Paths and the Emperor by Steven Heighton
- Dancing Nightly in the Tavern by Mark Antony Jarman
- Red Plaid Shirt by Diane Schoemperlen
- The Girls Who Saw Everything by Sean Dixon
- Degrees of Nakedness by Lisa Moore
- The Tracey Fragments by Maureen Medved
- Exotic Dancers by Gerald Lynch
- Stunt by Claudia Dey
- A Week of This by Nathan Whitlock

HistoriaFS
- Wake by Robert J. Sawyer*
- Paddle To The Arctic by Don Starkell
- When We Were Young editted by Stuart McLean
- The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor by Sally Armstrong
- I Married The Klondike by Laura Beatrice Berton
- After by Francis Chalifour
- Going Inside by Alan Kesselheim
- Laughing on the Outside: The Life of John Candy by Martin Knelman
- Rilla of Ingleside by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Anne of Ingleside by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Anne's House of Dreams by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Anne of The Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
- Unknown Shore by Robert Ruby

Kathleen
- The Tattooed Woman by Marian Engel
- Our Lady of the Lost and Found by Diane Schoemperlen
- Moonbeams From the Larger Lunacy by Stephen Leacock
- First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women by Eric McCormack
- Firewing by Kenneth Oppel
- Mud City by Deborah Ellis
- Jeux D'adresseseditted by Julie Huard, Michel-Remi Lafond, and Francois-Xavier Simard
- Slow Lightning by Mark Frutkin
- 13 by Mary-Lou Zeitoun
- Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen
- Run of the Town by Terrence Rundle West
- Volkswagen Blues by Jacques Poulin
- Natasha and Other Stories by David Bezmozgis
- An Acre In Time by Phil Jenkins
- Kiss The Sunset Pig by Laurie Gough
- Psyche's Children by Catherine Joyce
- The Lidek Revolution by James Stark
- Pure Springs by Brian Doyle
- Speak Ill of the Dead by Mary Jane Maffini
- Without Vodka by Aleksander Topolski

Newfoundlanders and Labradorians
(12 Books)

Scribacchina
- The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson*
- The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway*
- The Friday Night Knitting Club (O Clube de Tricô de Sexta à Noite) by Kate Jacobs and translated into Portuguese by Isabel Alves
- A Coyote Columbus Story by Thomas King and illustrated by William Kent Monkman
- What's The Most Beautiful Thing You Know About Horses? by Richard Van Camp and illustrated by George Littlechild
- Medicine River by Thomas King
- Canadian Stars by Maxine Trottier
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
- By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept by Elizabeth Smart
- The Actual by Saul Bellow
- The Song of Kahunsha by Anosh Irani

Ragdoll
- Help Me, Jacques Cousteau by Gil Adamson
- The Sad Truth About Happiness by Anne Giardini
- Once by Rebecca Rosenblum
- The Almost Archer Sisters by Lisa Gabriele
- A Hard Witching by Jacqueline Baker
- The Boys In The Trees by Mary Swan
- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
- Whetstone by Lorna Crozier
- The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
- Quick by Anne Simpson
- Runaway by Alice Munro
- Away by Jane Urquhart

PeachyTO
- The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant by Michel Tremblay
- The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
- Fruit by Brian Francis
- Mercy Among The Children by David Adams Richards
- Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill
- The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
- Generation X by Douglas Coupland
- The Landing by John Ibbitson
- Rhymes With Useless by Terence Young
- An Audience of Chairs by Joan Clark
- Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
- Acceleration by Graham McNamee

Albertans (11 Books)

Sam Lamb
- Swimming in the Ocean by Catherine Jenkins*
- The Line Painter by Claire Cameron
- Sweetness In The Belly by Camilla Gibb
- What It Takes To Be Human by Marilyn Bowering
- The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
- The Body's Place by Elise Turcotte
- Streak of Luck by Richelle Kosar
- Latitudes of Melt by Joan Clark
- A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
- The Given by Daphne Marlatt
- A Map of Glass by Jane Urquhart

Jo-Ann
- The Quilt of Belonging by Janice Weaver*
- Travels With My FamilyOn The Road Again by Marie-Louise Gay and David Homel*
- Sindbad in the Land of Giants retold and illustrated by Ludmila Zeman
- Some of the Kinder Planets by Tim Wynne-Jones
- Hero of Lesser Causes by Julie Johnston
- Lisa by Carol Matas
- Ticket to Curlew by Celia Barker Lottridge
- Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Thumb In The Box by Ken Roberts
- Dippers by Barbara Nichol and illustrated by Barry Moser

MelanieO
- Clockmaker by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
- The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy
- The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
- Mercy Among The Children by David Adams Richards
- The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant by Michel Tremblay
- Fruit by Brian Francis
- The Outlander by Gil Adamson
- As For Me and My House by Sinclair Ross
- Literary Lapses by Stephen Leacock
- Over Prairie Trails by Frederick Philip Grove
- Such Is My Beloved by Morley Callaghan

Saskatchewanies (10 Books)

Tanabata
- Still Life by Louise Penny*
- The Museum Guard by Howard Norman*
- No Great Mischief by Alistair Macleod*
- Last Night In Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel*
- Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
- Mother Superior by Saleema Nawaz
- Lighting The Dark Side by William R. Potter
- Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence by Nick Bantock
- Dingo by Charles de Lint
- How To Be a Canadian by Will Ferguson and Ian Ferguson

Reader Rabbit
- One Lonely Degree by CK Kelly Martin*
- The Ashbury-Brookfield Series by Jaclyn Moriarity
- The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong
- Getting the Girl by Susan Juby
- I Know It's Over by C.K. Kelly Martin
- Shine Coconut Moon by Neesha Meminger
- Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
- Cracked Up To Be by Courtney Summers
- Another Kind of Cowboy by Susan Juby
- Wondrous Strange by Lesley Livingston
- Jenny Green's Killer Junior Year by Amy Bleason and Jacob Osborn

Traveler One
- Swing Low: A Life by Miriam Toews
- Easton by Paul Butler
- Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam
- Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill
- Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp
- The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
- Random Passage by Bernice Morgan
- Kiss The Joy As It Flies by Sheree Fitch
- Late Nights On Air by Elizabeth Hay
- The Mountain and The Valley by Ernest Buckler

Yukoners (9 Books)

Sam
- Border Songs by Jim Lynch*
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Inside by Kenneth J. Harvey
- Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
- Yellowknife by Steve Zipp
- Bones to Ashes by Kathy Reichs
- Consumption by Kevin Patterson
- The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
- No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod

Violette
- Sundowner Ubunto by Anthony Bidulka
- House Report by Deborah Nicholson
- The Chinese Alchemist by Lyn Hamilton
- Small Ceremonies by Carol Shields
- Burden of Desire by Robert MacNeil
- Barrington Street Blues by Anne Emery
- Black Ice by Linda Hall
- Blood Lies by Daniel Kalla
- Bone To Ashes by Kathy Reichs

Paul P
- Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb
- The Wars by Timothy Findley
- Famous Last Words by Timothy Findley
- As For Me And My House by Sinclair Ross
- Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen
- Pilgrim by Timothy Findley
- The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
- Effigy by Alissa York
- Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood

Prince Edward Islanders (8 Books)

Laurie
- Children of my Heart by Gabrielle Roy*
- Dancing Girls by Margaret Atwood
- The Tricking of Freya by Christina Sunley
- Generation X by Douglas Coupland
- Unless by Carol Shields
- All Families Are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland
- Sailor Girl by Sheree-Lee Olson
- What We All Long For by Dionne Brand

British Columbians (7 Books)

Lizzy
- All My Friends Are Superheroes by Andrew Kaufman*
- The Emperor of Ice-Cream by Brian Moore
- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
- The Outlander by Gil Adamson
- Helpless by Barbara Gowdy
- Catholics by Brian Moore
- Late Nights On Air by Elizabeth Hay

Scott
- Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
- The End of the Alphabet by C.S. Richardon
- King Leary by Paul Quarrington
- The Republic of Nothing by Lesley Choyce
- Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
- A Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Icefields by Thomas Wharton

Callista
- The Bite of The Mango by Mariatu Kamara with Susan McClelland
- In Your Face: The Culture of Beauty and You by Shari Graydon
- Chanda's Secrets by Allan Stratton
- Dear Toni by Cyndi Sand-Eveland
- Leslie's Journal by Allan Stratton
- The Reading Solution by Paul Kropp
- Pact of the Wolves by Nina Blazon and translated by Sue Innes

Lesley
- The Museum Guard by Howard Norman
- Latitudes of Melt by Joan Clark
- Before Green Gables by Budge Wilson
- The Girls by Lori Lansens
- The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
- The End of the Alphabet by CS Richardson
- Open Secrets by Alice Munro

Northwest Territorians (6 Books)

Lara
- Broken by Kelley Armstrong
- That Scatterbrain Booky by Bernice Thurman-Hunter
- Ontario Murders by Susan McNicoll
- Jacob Two-Two Meets The Hooded Fang by Mordecai Richler
- Stolen by Kelley Armstrong
- Bitten by Kelley Armstrong

Manitobans (5 Books)

Barbara
- Ladies and Gentlemen: The Bible by Jonathan Goldstein*
- Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent by Andrew Nikiforuk
- The As It Happens Files by Mary Lou Finlay
- The Retreat by David Bergen
- Tales From Firozsha Baag by Rohinton Mistry

Jules
- The Wars by Timothy Findley
- The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart
- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
- The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
- The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro

Charlotte
- A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
- Mercy Among The Children by David Adams Richards
- Robertson Davies: A Portrait in Mosaic by Val Ross
- Widdershins by Charles de Lint
- Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

L.Hill
- Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
- Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
- Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
- As For Me and My House by Sinclair Ross
- A Bird In The House by Margaret Laurence

Shereadsbooks
- Yellowknife by Steve Zipp
- The Wars by Timothy Findley
- Great Canadian Short Stories edited by Alec Lucas
- The Fire Dwellers by Margaret Laurence
- The Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro

New Brunswickers (4 Books)

DebbieM
- Having faith in the Polar Girls' Prison by Cathleen With*
- The Girl From Away by Claire Mowat
- The Sky Is Falling by Kit Pearson
- Dressing Up For The Carnival by Carol Shields

Mrs. Peachtree
- A Perfect Gentle Knight by Kit Pearson*
- The Singing Stone by O.R. Melling
- An Earthly Knight by Janet McNaughton
- Stella Fairy of the Forest by Marie-Louise Gay

Aaron
- The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
- The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
- The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant by Michel Tremblay
- Fruit by Brian Francis

Orchidus
- Obasan by Joy Kogawa
- The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay
- The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
- Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Elizabeth
- Kit's Law by Donna Morrissey
- Latitudes of Melt by Joan Clark
- A Student of Weather by Elizabeth Hay
- The Calling by Inger Ash Wolfe

Nova Scotians (3 Books)

Miriam
- By The Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead by Giles Blunt
- Blue Girl by Charles de Lint
- DeNiro's Game by Rawi Hage

Cheryl
- A Victim of Convenience by John Ballem
- Six Seconds by Rick Mofina
- Honour Among Men by Barbara Fradkin

Bookfool
- Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland
- The Best of Robert Service by Robert Service
- Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Tracy
- A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
- Rollbackby Robert J. Sawyer
- The Birth House by Ami McKay

Nan
- Nova Scotia by Tanya Lloyd Kyi
- Tottering in My Garden by Midge Ellis Keeble
- The Pioneers of Inverness Township by Gwen Rawlings

Quebecois (2 Books)

Stephanie
- The Dreaming Place by Charles de Lint*
- Crow Lake by Mary Lawson

Jen
- Broken by Kelley Armstrong
- Burning Chrome by William Gibson

Paul R
- The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
- Fifth Business by Robertson Davies

Kimiko
- Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
- Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen

Linda/CT
- Map of Glass by Jane Urquhart
- Caedman's Song by Peter Robinson

Stacy
- My One Hundred Adventures by Polly Horvath
- All-Season Edie by Annabel Lyon

Lee
- Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb
- The Droughtlanders by Carrie Mac

Joanna
- Claudia by Britt Holmstrom
- The Bone Cage by Angie Abdou

Monodon
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- The Cure For Death by Lightning

Lillian
- Memories Are Murder by Lou Allin
- Pandemic by Daniel Kalla

Ontarians (1 Book)

Susan
- Wolf Moon by Charles de Lint

Carla
-Coventry by Helen Humphreys

Wayne
-Beaverbrook: A Failed Legacy by Jacques Poitras

Lisa
- Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen

Kayleigh
- Alice, I Think by Susan Juby

DebbieS
- An Imperfect Offering by James Orbinsky

Literary Mom
- Late Nights On Air by Elizabeth Hay

Jake
- Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler

Before we leave, a few facts about the 2nd Canadian Book Challenge:
1. The most popular book was Andrew Davidson's The Gargoyle, followed by Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes and a three way tie for third between Brian Francis' Fruit, David Adams Richards' Mercy Among The Children and Steven Galloway's The Cellist of Sarajevo

2. But don't worry, the women authors were left out in the cold. The most popular author was Lucy Maud Montgomery, followed by Robert Munsch and Margaret Atwood who tied for 2nd, and again Andrew Davidson in 3rd.

3. Of the 100 participants, 45 completed the challenge (13 or more), while many of the rest put in valiant efforts

A few survey questions for the participants, if you wouldn't mind...
1. What was your least favourite book and most favourite read for the challenge?
- My least would be Thomas Chandler Haliburton's The Clockmaker, while my favourite would be either Randall Maggs' Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems or Chester Brown's Louis Riel: A Comic Strip Biography

2. Any authors or books you want to read more because of the challenge?
- Andrew Davidson's The Gargoyle and not just because so many people read it, but almost all the reviews were glowing.

3. Any comments or complaints about how to make the challenge better?

Now, how could I forget the prizes*?

1. The winner of the Breakwater Books Prize pack is Joanna!

Joanna wins copies of Georges Lafontaine's Ashes on Ice, Thomas Rendell Curran's the rossiter file, The March Hare Anthology edited by Adrian Fowler, Jack Fitzgerald's Ghosts, Heroes, and Oddities, and J.M. Sullivan's Newfoundland Portfolia: A History in Portraits

2. The winner of the Lobster Press Prize Pack is Gautami!

Gautami wins copies of Shannon Cowan's Tin Angel, Linda DeMeulemeester's The Secret of Grim Hill, Daren Krill's The Uncle Duncle Chronicles: Escape From Treasure Island, The Hockey Card by Jack Siemiatycki, Avi Slodovnick and illustrated by Doris Barrette, and When Pigs Fly by Valerie Couman and illustrated by Rogé.

3. The winner of the New Canadian Library Prize Pack is Mark Leslie!
Mark wins copies of The Luck of Ginger Coffey by Brian Moore, The Clockmaker by Thomas Chandler Haliburton, and Such Is My Beloved by Morley Callaghan.

4. The winner of the ECW Prize Pack is Ariel!

Ariel wins copies of Pontypool Changes Everything by Tony Burgess, To Be Continued...Volume 1 by Gordon j. h. Leenders, and Joyland by Emily Schultz and illustrated by Nate Powell.

5. The winner of the tuque, designed and created by Canadian Book Challenge participant Sam Lamb, is Claire H!


6. The winner of the the maple syrup is Richard!


Winners, to claim your prizes, please email me jmutford (at) hotmail [dot] com with your mailing addresses.

Thanks to the following people and businesses for donating prizes throughout the 2nd Canadian Book Challenge: Breakwater Books, ECW Press, Lobster Press, McClelland and Stewart, Mary Novik, Susan McMaster, Cheryl Kaye Tardif, Clark-Nova Books, Patricia Storms, Random House, Daron Letts, Mark Leslie, Johnna, and Chumley & Pepys Used Books.

Please help Cheryl Kaye Tardif by giving the thumbs up to "Lancelot's Lady" here. She's been a long time supporter of the Canadian Book Challenge and could use some support in return. The prize is a publishing contract! Sweet, n'est pas?

And of course, thanks to all the participants who made this such a fun challenge! Looking forward to seeing most of you in the Canadian Book Challenge (3rd edition)...

Canadian Books Trading Post

Do you have any Canadian books on hand that you've already read and don't feel like keeping? Perhaps you have a few you haven't read, but have no real interest. Don't you wish there was a way to exchange those books for books you really want? Now there is!

All you have to do is add a comment to this post saying what books you want to get rid of and what books you'd like to get in return. Hopefully you'll strike gold with another trader and you'll both be happy.

A few notes to keep in mind:
1. Postal arrangements will have to be your responsibility. I suggest each trader takes care of her/his own shipping. If you aren't willing to ship outside the country, the courteous thing would be to say so up front.

2. Once you hook up with another trader in the comment section, you'll need a way to make contact and share snail mail addresses. I suggest (and encourage) you to leave your email but in a non-spammable format. Spell out the word at, etc. For instance, jmutford (at) hotmail (dot) com. If you have another idea, I'd love to hear it! Please, if you agree to a trade, follow through.

3. Once a trade is done, I suggest coming back and deleting your initial comment. That way people won't have to sift through all the books that are no longer up for trades. Of course, if you forget, no big deal. If I catch some that are obviously gone, I'll delete those comments as well.

4. I recommend clicking on the "email notification" box once you leave a comment.

5. If there are a lot of books listed in the comment section, remember to use your browser's "find on this page" feature to help. There is also a permanent link for easy access to the "Trading Post" post on the sidebar.

6. Say something about the quality of the book you wish to trade. Is it hardcover? Is the spine broken? And so on.

7. If you're a BookCrosser, feel free to add the tracking numbers to the books you trade.

8. Remember, Canadian books only.

9. Open to everyone, not just participants in the Canadian Book Challenge (but I encourage you to join).

10. Have fun and help spread the word!