Classic Canadian Fiction

 

Listed below are selected novels which fall into this category. This list is not comprehensive; rather, it is a list of some of the more popular titles within this category.

 

See more Booklists

 

 

Author

Title

Andre Alexis

Childhood

Gail Anderson-Dargatz

The Cure For Death by Lightning
A Recipe for Bees

Margaret Atwood

A Handmaid’s Tale
Alias Grace
The Edible Woman

Sandra Birdsell

The Two-Headed Calf
The Missing Child

Marie-Claire Blais

A Season in the Life of Emmanuel

George Bowering

Caprice
Burning Water

Ernest Buckler

The Mountain and the Valley

Bonnie Burnard

A Good House

Morley Callaghan

They Shall Inherit the Earth
The Many Colored Coat
Such is My Beloved

Philip Child

Mr. Ames Against Time

Wayson Choy

Jade Peony

Leonard Cohen

Beautiful Losers

Matt Cohen

The Disinherited
Elizabeth and After

Ralph Connor

The Man from Glengarry

Douglas Coupland

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

Margaret Craven

I Heard the Owl Call My Name

Sheldon Currie

The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum

Robertson Davies

Leaven of Malice
Fifth Business
The Lyre of Orpheus
The Manticore

Mazo De La Roche

The Building of Jalna

Marian Engel

Bear

Timothy Findley

The Wars
The Piano Man’s Daughter
Pilgrim
Not Wanted on the Voyage

Mavis Gallant

Across the Bridge
Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant
Home Truths

Dave Godfrey

New Ancestors

Barbara Gowdy

The White Bone
Falling Angels

Gwethalyn Graham

Earth and High Heaven

Frederick Grove

Settlers of the Marsh

Germaine Guevremont

The Outlander

Elizabeth Hay

A Student of Weather

Anne Hebert

Kamouraska

Steve Heighton

The Shadow Boxer

Jack Hodgins

Broken Ground

Greg Hollingshead

The Roaring Girl

Wayne Johnston

The Colony of Unrequited Dreams

M.T. Kelly

A Dream Like Mine

Thomas King

Green Grass, Running Water

W. P. Kinsella

Shoeless Joe

Joy Kogawa

Obasan

Robert Kroetsch

The Studhorse Man

Margaret Laurence

The Stone Angel
The Diviners
The Fire Dwellers

Stephen Leacock

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Sky Lee

Disappearing Moon Cafe

Malcolm Lowry

Under the Volcano

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Fall On Your Knees

Linden MacIntyre

The Long Stretch 

David MacFarlane

Summer Gone 

Nelly McClung

Sowing Seeds in Danny 

Hugh MacLennan

Two Solitudes
Barometer Rising 

Alistair MacLeod

The Lost Salt Gift of Blood
No Great Mischief

John Marlyn

Under the Ribs of Death

Yann Martel

Life of Pi

Anne Michaels

Fugitive Pieces 

Rohinton Mistry

Such a Long Journey
A Fine Balance 

W. O. Mitchell

Who Has Seen the Wind
Jake and the Kid 

L. M. Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables 

Brian Moore

Black Robe
The Luck of Ginger Coffey 

Farley Mowat

Owls in the Family 

Alice Munro

Lives of Girls and Women
The Love of a Good Woman 

Howard O’Hagen

Tay John

Michael Ondaatje

Anil’s Ghost
The English Patient
In the Skin of a Lion

Martha Ostenso

Wild Geese 

Paul Quarrington

Whale Music 

Thomas H. Raddall

The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek

Nino Ricci

Lives of the Saints 

David A. Richards

Nights Below Station Street 
Mercy Among the Children

Mordecai, Richler

Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Joshua Then and Now
St. Urbain’s Horseman

Eden Robinson

Monkey Beach 

Sinclair Ross

As For Me and My House 

Gabrielle Roy

The Tin Flute 

Laura Goodman Salverson

The Dark Weaver

Gloria Sawai

A Song for Nettie Johnson 

Lionel Shapiro

Sixth of June 

Carol Shields

The Stone Diaries
Larry’s Party 

Diane Shoemperlen

Forms of Devotion  

Alan Sullivan

Three Came to Ville Marie 

Audrey Thomas

Songs My Mother Taught Me
Coming Down From Wa 

Miriam Toews

A Complicated Kindness 

Jane Urquhart

The Underpainter
Away: a novel 

 

 

 

 

See more Booklists