14th Annual Canadian Book Challenge Book List

Here are the books our challenge participants have read for this year's challenge, which runs July 2020 to June 2021.

Adamson, Gil

Ridgerunner  Swordsman

Ali, S.K.
Once Upon an Eid  Puss Reboots  Irene Roth

Allenby, Victoria

Shape Up, Construction Trucks  Shonna

Arden, Jann

If I Knew Then: Finding Wisdom in Failure and Power in Aging  Teena in Toronto

Armstrong, Kelley

City of the Lost  Tracy K

The Gryphon's Lair  Puss Reboots

Led Astray  Shonna

Arntfield, Michael and Joan Swart

Social Media and Mental Health  Irene Roth

Atwood, Margaret
Dearly: New Poems  Mary R

The Handmaid's Tale  April
The Testaments  April  Mary R

Audrain, Ashley

The Push  Shonna

Bagby, David

Dance with the Devil: A Memoir of Murder and Loss  Teena in Toronto

Band, Julie

The Ever Open Door  Shonna

Barclay, Linwood

Fear the Worst  Swordsman

Barnes, Julian

The Man in the Red Coat  Irene Roth

Bascaramurty, Dakshana

This Is Not the End of Me  Irene Roth

Beck, Alison

Gardening by the Month  Irene Roth

Bhadra, Sangeeta and France Cormier

The Nut That Fell From the Tree  Irene Roth

Bhathena, Tanaz
Hunted by the Sky  Puss Reboots

Bonenfant, Maude

Old Quebec  Irene Roth

Bouchard, Natasha
Oh Brother  Irene Roth

Bradley, Brian
Outrageous Misfits: Female Impersonator Craig Russell and His Wife Lori Russell Eadie  Teena in Toronto

Buchanan, Cathy Marie

Daughter of Black Lake  Melwyck

Bulgutch, Mark

That's Why I'm a Journalist  Swordsman

Burrows, Steve

A Pitying of Doves  Mary R

Callan, Kevin

A Paddler's Guide to Algonquin Park  Irene Roth

Campbell, Maria

Halfbreed  Puss Reboots

Canadian Jewish Congress
Jewish War Heroes  John Kerry

Carnavas, Peter (published in Canada)

The Elephant  Irene Roth

Chapman, Brenda
Cold Mourning  Swordsman

Chase, Eva

Captive of Wolves  Deanie

Chinn, Adrienne
The English Wife  Teena in Toronto

Cooke, Stephanie, Insha Fitzpatrick, and Juliana Moon

Oh My Gods!  Puss Reboots

Cooper, Amanda

Tempest in a Teapot  Puss Reboots

Corrigan, Kathleen

Canadian Shield  Irene Roth

Government and Climate Change  Irene Roth

Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowlands  Irene Roth

Curtis, Andrea
A Forest in the City  Irene Roth

D
Delaney, Vicki
In the Shadow of the Glacier  Puss Reboots

Valley of the Lost  Puss Reboots
Winter of Secrets  Puss Reboots

Delvaux, Martine

Bitter Rose  Melwyk

Dickson, Barbara

Bomb Girls  Shonna

Donovan, Kelly

Silencing a Canadian Police Whistleblower  Irene Roth

Doornink, Richard
1967: A Coming of Age Story  Shonna

Dovercourt, Jonny

Any Night of the Week: A D.I.Y. History of Toronto Music 1957-2001  Teena in Toronto

Doyle, Alan

All Together Now: A Newfoundlander's Light Tales for Heavy Times  Teena in Toronto

Dupuis, J.J.
Roanoke Ridge  Shonna

Dyson, George

Analogica  Irene Roth

Espinet, Ramabai
The Swinging Bridge  Shonna

Ferguson, Will

The Finder  Irene Roth

Ferry, Steven

Quebec  Irene Roth

Findley, Timothy

The Wars  Shonna

Fox, Darrell

Forever Terry: A Legacy in Letters  Teena in Toronto

Fox, Michael J.

No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality  Teena in Toronto

Fung, Jason and Nadia Brito Pateguana

The PCOS Plan  Irene Roth

Gates, Eva

A Death Long Overdue  Puss Reboots

Ghosh, Bhaswati

Victory Colony, 1950  Shonna

Glenn,Ted

Riding into Battle  Irene Roth

Green, John Willison

On the Track of the Sasquatch: Encounters with Bigfoot from California to Canada, Book 1  John Kerry

Hamilton, Victoria
Bran New Death  Puss Reboots

Breaking the Mould  Puss Reboots
Cast Iron Alibi  Puss Reboots
No Grater Danger  Puss Reboots

Hansen, Emma
Still  Irene Roth

Hemon, Louis
Maria Chapdelaine  Shonna  Irene Roth

Hibbs, Monika
Gather at Home  Irene Roth

Holler, Sue Farrell and Jennifer Faria Lipke

Raven, Rabbit, Deer   Shonna

Howard, Leslie
The Brideship Wife  Teena in Toronto

Howden, Sarah
5-Minute Stories for Fearless Girls  Irene Roth

Hudak, Heather

Fall Fairs  Irene Roth

Pride Festivals  Irene Roth

Remembrance Day  Irene Roth

Humphreys, Helen

Leaving Earth  Swordsman

Rabbit Foot Bill  Swordsman

Humphreys, Jessica Dee and Rona Ambrose

The International Day of the Girl: Celebrating Girls Around the World  Irene Roth

Itani, Frances
Best Friend Trouble  Irene Roth
Tell  Irene Roth
That's My Baby  Irene Roth

Isabella, Jude

Bringing Back the Wolves  Irene Roth

Jeffery, Amanda
The Fourth Year Spell  Irene Roth

Johnson, Harold R
Cry Wolf  Irene Roth

Jones, Gordon K.

Saving Tiberius   Teena in Toronto  Swordsman

Jonmie, Brianna and Nahani Shingoose

If I Go Missing  John

Jorsvik, Connie

Advance Care Planning  Irene Roth

Juby, Susan

Nice Recovery  Irene Roth

Kagawa, Julie
The Iron Queen  Shonna

Kearsley, Susanna; C.S. Harris; Anna Lee Huber and Christine Trent

The Deadly Hours  Shonna

Kendall, Brian

Great Moments in Canadian Baseball  John Kerry

Kerbel, Deborah and Marianne Ferrer

Slow Moe  Irene Roth

Kerbel, Deborah and Miki Sato

Snow Days  Shonna

King, Lily
Writers and Lovers  Irene Roth

Kirkby, Bruce

Blue Sky Kingdom: An Epic Family Journey to the Heart of the Himalaya  Shonna

Klukas, Lauren

The Complete Plate  Irene Roth

Kogawa, Joy
Obasan  Irene Roth

Kylie, Aaron

Canada for Kids  Irene Roth

Lalonde, Julie S.

Resistence is Futile  Irene Roth

Lapena, Shari

The End of Her  Teena in Toronto

Leach, Sara and Elizabeth Bender

Duck Days  Shonna

Lebeuf, Darren
My Forest is Green  Irene Roth

Lemire, Jeff

Batman: The Smile Killer  Puss Reboots

Joker: Killer Smile  Puss Reboots

Lemire, Jeff and Dustin Nguyen
Ascender, Volume 2: The Dead Sea  Puss Reboots

Descender, Volume 4: Orbital Mechanics  Puss Reboots

Descender, Volume 5: Rise of the Robots  Puss Reboots

Descender, Volume 6: The Machine War  Puss Reboots


Lemire, Jeff and Phil Hester

Family Tree: Volume 1: Sapling  Puss Reboots

Light, Alex
The Upside of Falling  Elyse

Lim, Roselle

Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune  Puss Reboots

London, Stefanie

Her Aussie Holiday  Shonna

Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet's Best of Canada  Irene Roth

Macartney, Sue
Benjamin's Blue Feet  Shonna

Maclear, Kyo and Esme Shapiro
Yak and Dove  Puss Reboots

MacLeod, Elizabeth

Canadian Women, Now and Then  Irene Roth

Meet Terry Fox  Irene Roth

Mallery, Susan

The Friends We Keep  Irene Roth

Mansbridge, Peter and Mark Bulgutch

Extraordinary Canadians: Stories from the Heart of Our Nation  Teena in Toronto

Manthorpe, Jonathan

Restoring Democracy  Irene Roth

Marroquin, M.L.

My Hair is Magic  Irene Roth

Mason, Paul Nicholas

The Rogue Wave  Shonna

McCall Smith, Alexander

The Lost Art of Gratitude  Irene Roth

McCann, Sean and Andrea Aragon
One Good Reason  John

McCulloch, Derek and Shepherd Hendrix

Stagger Lee  John

McKenzie, Bob and Jim Lang

Everyday Hockey Heroes: Volume III  Teena in Toronto

McLean, Stuart
Vinyl Cafe Turns the Page  Irene Roth

McMillan, Rachel 

The London Restoration  Shonna

McWatt, Tessa

Shame on Me  Irene Roth

Mlynowski, Sarah
Just a Boy and a Girl in a Little Canoe  Puss Reboots

Mlynowski, Sarah, Lauren Myracle and Emily Jenkins

Upside Down Magic: Hide and Seek  Puss Reboots

Mofina, Rick
Their Last Secret  Teena in Toronto

Moore, Brian

Black Robe  Tracy K

Moreno-Garcia, Silvia

Mexican Gothic  Puss Reboots  Melwyk

Mutch, Maria
When We Were Birds  Shonna

Nelson, Colleen and Alice Carter

Teaching Mrs. Muddle  Shonna

Nichol, James W.

Midnight Cab  Shonna

O'Brien, Cynthia

Black History Month  Irene Roth

Exploring Nova Scotia  Irene Roth

Exploring Ontario  Irene Roth

Groundhog Day  Irene Roth

The Impact of Food and Farming  Irene Roth

Innovations in Communication  Irene Roth

Innovations in Safety  Irene Roth

Spirit Days  Irene Roth

Victoria Day  Irene Roth

Oldland, Nicholas

Hockey in the Wild  Irene Roth

Olsen, Debbie

150 Nature Hot Spots in Canada  Irene Roth

Ondaatje, Michael

Coming Through Slaughter  Mary R

Oppel, Kenneth

Bloom  Puss Reboots

Pajama Press editors and illustrators

A World of Mindfulness  Shonna

Parise, Michelle
Alone: A Love Story  Irene Roth

Park, Linda Sue

Gurple and Preen: A Broken Crayon Cosmic Adventure  Irene Roth

Pasricha, Neil
Awesome is Everywhere  Irene Roth

You Are Awesome  Irene Roth

Pavlick, Leon and Ann

Red Pines on the Ridge  John Kerry

Penny, Louis
All the Devils Are Here  Mary R

The Beautiful Mystery  Tracy K

The Cruelest Month  Puss Reboots

Dead Cold  Puss Reboots

How the Light Gets In  Tracy K

Still Life  Puss Reboots

A Trick of the Light  Tracy K

Philippe, Ben

Charming as a Verb  Puss Reboots

Preus, Margi
The Littlest Voyageur  Irene Roth

Quiquilim, Rachel
What's Growing in Mommy's Tummy  Irene Roth

Rahman, Bahram and Gabrielle Grimard

The Library Bus  Shonna

Ramji, Beyer

Growing Up Canadian  Irene Roth

Rils, Sharon
The True Story of Ida Johnson  Shonna

Robinson, Eden
Trickster Drift  April

Robinson, Peter
A Necessary End  Mary R  Tracy K

Past Reason Hated  Mary R

Rogak, Lisa
Who Is Alex Trebek?  Teena in Toronto

Ross, Ailsa and Amy Blackwell
The Girl Who Rode a Shark  Shonna

Rotenberg, Robert

Downfall  Teena in Toronto

Sacks, Oliver

Gratitude  Irene Roth

Sands, Patricia
Drawing Lessons  Puss Reboots

Sawyer, Robert J.

Quantum Night  Swordsman

Schultz, Emily

The Blondes   Shonna

Schwartz, Larry

Montreal Expos  John Kerry

Schwartz, Roslyn
The Mole Sisters and the Blue Egg  Irene Roth
The Mole Sisters and the Cool Breeze  Irene Roth
The Mole Sisters and the Moonlight Night  Irene Roth
The Mole Sisters and the Piece of Moss  Irene Roth
The Mole Sisters and the Question  Irene Roth
The Mole Sisters and the Rainy Day  Irene Roth
The Mole Sisters and the Wavy Wheat  Irene Roth
The Mole Sisters and the Way Home  Irene Roth
Splat  Irene Roth
The Vole Brothers  Irene Roth

Seaward, Ed
Fair  Swordsman

Seely, Kim Brown

Uncharted: A Couple's Epic Empty-Nest Adventure Sailing from One Life to Another  Shonna

Sherman, Josepha

Samuel de Champlain  Irene Roth

Shraya, Vivek and Ness Lee

Death Threat  John

Siegel, Rachel

Explore Quebec  Irene Roth

Sevigny, Alisha

Summer Constellations  Shonna

Soh, Debra

The End of Gender  Irene Roth

St. James, Simone
The Sun Down Motel  Melwyk

St. John Mandel, Emily
The Glass Hotel  Mary R

State, Hannah D

Journey to the Hopewell Star  Shonna

Steffler, John
The Afterlife of George Cartwright  Shonna

Stinson, Kathy
The Dance of the Violin  Irene Roth
The Man with the Violin  Irene Roth

Stuart, Amy
Still Here  Irene Roth
Still Mine  Irene Roth
Still Water  Irene Roth

Thomas, David M. and David N. Biette

Canada and the United States  Irene Roth

Tomlinson, Marla

Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change  Irene Roth

Land Use and Climate Change  Irene Roth

Water and Climate Change  Irene Roth

Trebek, Alex
The Answer Is ... Reflections on My Life  Teena in Toronto  Swordsman  Irene Roth

Unger, Andrew

Once Removed  Shonna

Unknown
Banff, Jasper & Glacier National Parks  Irene Roth

Canada's Best Trips: 32 Amazing Road Trips  Irene Roth

Urquhart, Emily

The Age of Creativity  Irene Roth

Beyond the Pale  Irene Roth

Urquhart, Jane
A Number of Things  Irene Roth

Van Camp, Richard

May We Have Enough to Share  Irene Roth

Van Poelgeest, Darcy
Little Bird, Vol. 1  Elyse

Vannicola, Joanne
All We Knew But Couldn't Say  Teena in Toronto

Vreeland, Susan

the Forest Lover  Mary R

Wagamese, Richard
Embers  Irene Roth
Medicine Walk  Irene Roth
One Story, One Song  Irene Roth
Ragged Company  Irene Roth
Starlight  Irene Roth   Shonna

Wagstaffe, Johanna and Julie McLaughlin
Little Cloud  Irene Roth

Wees, Frances Shelley

The Keys of My Prison  Tracy K

Wells, Greg

The Ripple Effect  Irene Roth

Wiebe, Sam

Never Going Back  Teena in Toronto

With, Cathleen
Having Faith in the Polar Girls' Prison  April

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Zaman, Farida

I Want to Be  Irene Roth

Zaraska, Marta

Growing Young  Irene Roth