Bernard Assiniwi

THE BEOTHUK SAGA, 2000, 341 pp.
1100-1600 CE, the Beothuk nation is visited first by the Vikings, then 500 years later by John Cabot; the second visit leads to the nation’s annihilation.

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Margaret Atwood

ALIAS GRACE, 1996, 468 pp.
Ontario, 1843, a servant girl is tried for murdering her employers.

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Margaret Atwood

THE BLIND ASSASSIN, 2000, 521 pp.
Toronto, 1945 (with flashbacks to Depression, WWII) - family drama.

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Judith Barnes

SALTHILL, 2002, 376 pp.
B.C. horse ranch, 1946

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William Bell

STONES, 2001, 294 pp.
Rural Ontario, present-day setting with flashbacks to 1850’s – African-American settlers

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George Bowering

SHOOT, 1994, 297 pp.
19th century, British Columbia – Metis brothers are hunted and caught by a posse after their pettry crimes escalate to murder.

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Joseph Boyden

THREE DAY ROAD, 2005, 368 pp.
WWI – two young Cree men join the army and go to France

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Willa Cather

SHADOWS ON THE ROCK, 2, 229 pp.
Quebec, 17th century, Catholic daily life - ***American author

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Wayson Choy

THE JADE PEONY, 1995, 238 pp.
Three young siblings recall their family’s move from China to Vancouver in the 1930’s and 1940’s.

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Joy Kogawa

OBASAN, 1981, 250 pp.
As an adult, Naomi Nakane poignantly recollects her family’s experience with relocation from the Pacific Northwest during World War II, along with other citizens of Japanese descent.

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Robert Kroetsch

THE MAN FROM THE CREEKS, 1998, 307 pp.
Klondike, 1890’s – a 14-year-old and his mother stow away on a ship headed for the Klondike Gold Rush.

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Lori Lansens

RUSH HOME ROAD, 2002, 387 pp.
Near Chatham, Ont., early 20th century - in 1978, residents recall earlier events in this town settled by travelers on the Underground Railroad.

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Sky Lee

DISAPPEARING MOON CAFE, 1990, 237 pp.
Vancouver, various times – young Chinese-Canadian narrator traces her family’s story back to her grandfather’s arrival in Canada in 1892.

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Ann-Marie MacDonald

THE WAY THE CROW FLIES, 2003, 736 pp.
Canadian Air Force Base, 1962 – the Cold War is in full swing when an 8-year-old girl is murdered.

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Hugh MacLennan

BAROMETER RISING, 1941, 396 pp.
Halifax, 1917 - when the Mont Blanc explodes in Halifax harbour, it causes the worst maritime disaster in Canada's history

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James Albert Michener

JOURNEY, 1989, 244 pp.
1897, Yukon – group travels to Klondike gold fields. ***American author

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Brian Moore

BLACK ROBE, 1985, 246 pp.
A 17th-century Jesuit travels from New France to the Canadian wilderness, in search of both souls to convert, and missing brethren.

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Michael Ondaatje

IN THE SKIN OF A LION, 1987, 243 pp.
Set in Toronto in the early part of the twentieth century, this novel includes, among many other things, a description of the building of the Bloor Street viaduct, and the emerging labour and union movement.

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Stef Penney

THE TENDERNESS OF WOLVES, 2007, 352 pp.
In 1867 Ontario, a body is discovered. The solution to this mystery sends a mother through unsettled Canada in search of her missing teenaged son. Did her son murder the dead trapper? And is the disappearance of two young girls from Georgian Bay many years connected to the present tragedy?
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David Adams Richards

THE RIVER OF THE BROKENHEARTED, 2003, 327 pp.
New Brunswick, 1920 – a family drama chronicles the opening of one of North America’s first movie theatres.

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Mordecai Richler

SOLOMON GURSKY WAS HERE, 1989, 413 pp.
Traces the history of a fictional Jewish family from the patriarch’s arrival in the Arctic to present-day Montreal

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Penina Keen Spinka

PICTURE MAKER, 2002, 464 pp.
14th century – a Native woman’s life leads her from the Geneogaono to the Algonquians, Naskapi, Inuit and Norsemen.

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Margaret Sweatman

WHEN ALICE LAY DOWN WITH PETER, 2001, 459 pp.
Manitoba – an epic spanning 100 years of Manitoba history, this is the story of one family and their land

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Jane Urquhart

AWAY, 1993, 356 pp.
Ontario, 19th century – Irish woman flees potato famine and becomes involved in Irish nationalist movement.

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Susan Vreeland

THE FOREST LOVER, 2004, 304 pp.
B.C., 20th century – Emily Carr’s early life and artistic creations are described in this fictional biography.

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Bryan E. Walls

THE ROAD THAT LED TO SOMEWHERE, 1980, 261 pp.
Essex County, 19th century – the life of John Freeman Walls, who traveled to Essex County along the Underground Railroad, is described.

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Rudy Henry Wiebe

THE TEMPTATIONS OF BIG BEAR, 1976, 414 pp.
Canadian prairies, late 19th century – Cree Chief Big Bear struggles to keep his nation united as various pressures threaten its culture.

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Richard B. Wright

CLARA CALLAN, 2001, 327 pp.
Ontario, 1934-1938 – the lives of two sisters are played out against rising interest in the Dionne quintuplets and the rise of fascism in Europe.

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