Fiction Set on the Canadian Prairie

 

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.

 

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Author

Title

Anderson-Dargatz, Gail

Recipe for Bees
Rhinestone Button
The Miss Hereford stories

Arthurson, Wayne

Final Season

Babiak, Todd

Choke Hold

Bacon, Charlotte

Lost Geography

Badami, Anita Rau

Tamarind Mem

Barclay, Byrna

Summer of the Hungry Pup

Bergen, David

See the Child

Birdsell, Sandra

Agassiz
The Chrome Suite
Two-Headed Calf

Bowen, Gail

Burying Ariel
A Colder Kind of Death
Deadly Appearances
Glass Coffin
A Killing Spring
Love and Murder
Murder at the Mendel
1919 Love Letters of George & Adalaide
Verdict in Blood
Wandering Soul Murders

Bowering, Marilyn

Visible Worlds

Butala, Sharon

Fever
The Fourth Archangel
The Garden of Eden
The Gates of the Sun
Luna
Queen of Headaches (short stories)
Real Life: short stories
Upstream

Carpenter, David

Banjo Lessons
God’s Bedfellows (short stories)

Endicott, Marina

Open Arms

Estleman, Loren D.

White Desert

Forrester, Loren D.

The Latchkey Kid

Glover, Douglas

Dog Attempts to Drown Man in Saskatoon

Gordon, Alison

Prairie Hardball

Gowan, Lee

Make Believe Love
The Last Cowboy

Gray, Muriel

The Trickster

Grove, Frederick Phillip

Settlers of the Marsh

Haley, Suan Charlotte

Getting Married in Buffalo Jump
Murder of Medicine Bear

Hawkins, Norma

Chokecherry

Hay, Elizabeth

A Student of Weather

Hetherton, Michael

Grasslands

Hogg, Peter

Crimes of War

Hunter, Catherine

In the First Early Days of My Death

Huston, Nancy

Plainsong

Johnson, Harold

Billy Tinker

King, Thomas

Green Grass Running Water
Medicine River
Truth and Bright water

Kinsella W. P.

Box Socials
Dance Me Outside
The Silas Stories (short stories)

Kogawa, Joy

Itsuka
Obasan
The Rain Ascends

Kroetsch, Robert

Alibi
Badlands
But We are Exiles
Gone Indian
What the Crow Said
The Words of My Roaring

Laurence, Margaret

A Bird in the House (short stories)
The Diviners
Two-Headed Calf

Macdonald, Malcolm

Goldeneye

Mitchell, W.O.

According to Jake and the Kid
For Art’s Sake
Jake and the Kid
Roses are Difficult Here
Vanishing Point
Who Has Seen the Wind

Nixon, Rosemary

Mostly Country (short stories)

North, Suzanne

Bones to Pick

Oke, Janette

Beyond the Gathering Storm
Bluebird and the Sparrow
A Quiet Strength
The Tender Years
When Tomorrow Comes

Ostenso, Martha

Wild Geese

Rocke

The Rocket the Flower the Hammer & Me (short stories)

Ross, Sinclair

As for Me and My House
Saw Bones Memorial

Rougeau, Remy

All We Know of Heaven

Roy, Gabrielle

Road Past Altamont
Street of Riches
Where Nests the Water Hen

Ryga, George

Ballad of a Stonepicker
Hungry Hills

Seitz, Ann

Shelterbelt

Shields, Carol

Box Garden
Larry’s Party

Stenson, Fred

Last One Home
Working Without a Laugh Track (short stories)

Sweatman, Margaret

Fox
When Alice Lay Down With Peter

Sawai, Gloria

Song for Nettie Johnson

Toews, Miriam

A Complicated Kindness

Vanderhaeghe, Guy

Englishman’s boy
Homesick
The Last Crossing

Von Kampen, Bettina

Blue Becomes You

Wiebe, Rudy

Blue Mountains of China
Great Canadian Adventure stories
Peace Shall Destroy Many
Sweeter Than all the World
Temptations of Big Bear

York, Alissa

Mercy

 

 

 

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