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.
These are all obvious choices, but William Gibson, Margaret Atwood, Douglas Copeland and Cory Doctorow.
Libraries can bring titles in for you, too. Just ask, they want to help. They want you to get a card even if you never use it because it helps their numbers and their funding. Hell, take out books just in case you feel like reading over the next month, no one cares if you never touch them. Plus, you can renew and reserve things online and download ebooks for free.
Last month my library did a “Blind date with a book” thing where they gift-wrapped books and wrote the first sentence on the outside. I got a fun read I would have never picked up otherwise.
Wanna support local? Using your library helps you and your community.
Yes!! Libraries are so important for our communities.
Getting a library card also may also get you access to Libby and Hoopla, which have free ebooks and audio books, as well as magazines and graphic novels! Hoopla has music albums as well, and Kanopy which has tv shows, documentaries, and movies.
Insert the “having fun isn’t hard when you’ve got a library card” meme here.
Robert J. Sawyer! He’s a sci-fi author and many of his books are based in Canadian cities.
I really liked FlashForward and The Neanderthal trilogy.
TIL Brendan Fraser narrated the audio version of his newest book, The Downloaded, and it looks like it’s set in Waterloo.
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.
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.
