Who are some of your favourite Canadian authors? Remember to share the author’s website if available, instead of an Amazon link. Your local library may have a lot of Canadian books too!
I saw a Silverwing book by Kenneth Oppel at a clearance sale and that took me on a nostalgia train. Looked him up and I didn’t realize he’s quite a prolific Canadian author!
Not sure if its all YA/easy reading, but that’s what I grew up with. Both the Silverwing series and Airborn are top notch for that sorta thing and still hold up well for a re-read occassionally.
Monica Hughes had some good books, and at least a few were set in Canada. I’m too lazy to google, but I bet she’s a Canuck. Gordon Korman. (YA books. Reaching into my childhood.)
Peter Watts. Dude is a Canadian sci-fi master. His stuff is not optimistic. But it’s compelling.
As far as I can tell, all of his books (including Blindsight) are available for free on his website.
Michael Ondaatje comes to mind, and In the Skin of a Lion is an excellent Canadian story.
I remember in secondary school, we had to do independent reading units. There were pages and pages containing lists of novels we could choose from, exclusively from Canadian authors. Wish I still had access to this.
This is the author I picked: Cary Fagan.
Margaret Atwood is also infamous for the The Handmaid’s Tale.
