The edition of The Stone Angel shown in this list is a dramatization of the book by James W. Nichol. Is there a Goodreads Librarian who can change the edition to one that is written by Margaret Laurence so that it accurately reflects the correct author?

As far as I can see, both books are actually on this list -- and since Nichol is a Canadian playwright, isn't his dramatization properly included on that basis alone?

That said, is this for authors LIVING in Canada or who are Canadian CITIZENS? Emma Donoghue lives in Ontario now, but she's actually Irish ...

Themis-Athena wrote: "As far as I can see, both books are actually on this list -- and since Nichol is a Canadian playwright, isn't his dramatization properly included on that basis alone?

That said, is this for author..."

According to Wikipedia, she became a Canadian citizen in 2004.

David Guterson is not Canadian, but American. Therefore, I removed Snow Falling on Cedars from the list.

John Grisham? Agatha Christie? Many of these authors are not Canadian...

I agree. Lots of non-canadian here. Someone needs to cull the list...

Tracy Chevalier is not Canadian and has been removed.

Once I'd started, I decided to delete all authors I recognized as 'non-Canadian' (and it was quite a lot of work, because I checked before I deleted). I most probably haven't deleted all non-Canadian authors, just the ones I recognised, so I'm sure there are several others who do not belong on this list (the number of USA authors I had to delete was amazing...)

So please, when adding titles, do make sure the author is CANADIAN and not American (and still living in the States!!!), or whatever. Thanks! :-)

Booklovinglady wrote: "Tracy Chevalier is not Canadian and has been removed.

Once I'd started, I decided to delete all authors I recognized as 'non-Canadian' (and it was quite a lot of work, because I checked before I d..."

Thank you!!

Please tell me how to delete them & I will take all the John Grisham, Agatha Christie, Lois Lowry, Michael Crichton etc out.

There are so many incredible Canadian Authors it is hard to imagine so many people can be so sloppy or else unaware of them!

While trying to figure out how to delete entries I was surprised to find that most of them were added by someone called yesucan - could it be that someone is spamming this list??

Mariellen wrote: "While trying to figure out how to delete entries I was surprised to find that most of them were added by someone called yesucan - could it be that someone is spamming this list??"

I don't know if you deleted these, but the 'yesucan' person certainly has added Agatha Christie, Michael Crichton, Patricia Cornwell, James Patterson... I have deleted those I was sure of.

Please. The Canadian (and correct) title of Lawrence Hill's novel is 'The Book of Negroes' and not 'Someone Knows My Name'. (#16) Kindly amend.

The Distant Hours, Kate Morton is Australian. Once more added by 'yesucan'

Thanks, Bernadine! I double checked that she was indeed Australian and removed the book from the list. I also noticed that Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass was on there and removed it as well as he is British.

Seems like user vote https://www.goodreads.com/list/user_v... may be more suspicious than most. I spotted Lois Lowry again and Geraldine Brooks and S. J. Watson - none of which seem to have been born or live in Canada.

Removing Before I Go To Sleep by S. J. Watson (from the UK)

RemovingNumber the Stars by Lois Lowry (from Hawaii, Mass, Maine)

Removing Double Standards and A Kingdom of Dreams by Judith McNaught (from California, Missouri and Texas)

Mauberley wrote: "Please. The Canadian (and correct) title of Lawrence Hill's novel is 'The Book of Negroes' and not 'Someone Knows My Name'. (#16) Kindly amend."

I guess it depends on whether the person adding it to the list read it in Canada or the States ( Don't know which version is available in other countries)

It does mess up the stats a lot but I can understand that people who have read the book under the "sanitized(?)" name would use that when voting.

Should The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (#99) really be in this list? It looks like John Boyne was born in Ireland and still lives there.

Hi Angélique, I removed The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Thanks for spotting it!

Booklovinglady wrote: "Tracy Chevalier is not Canadian and has been removed.

Once I'd started, I decided to delete all authors I recognized as 'non-Canadian' (and it was quite a lot of work, because I checked before I d..."

I nominated several books which got deleted. I honestly wish someone had notified me before having them deleted, tbh, since despite the fact that they now don't fulfill the above description re: the authors, as I did put some thought into the nominations/suggestions I made.

I definitely have deleted books from this list and would do so again. It is too bad that people can't follow clearly stated list directions but in a great great great number of goodreads lists they can't. Does that mean all books deleted are deleted correctly? no. I'm sorry that Coucher de soleil feels badly about this - badly enough to repeat a fairly obnoxious comment in https://www.goodreads.com/list/user_v...

"All right, several of my votes got deleted, which is annoying (especially since I tried to reflect the breadth of Canadian experience in my choices). It would have been nice to have been notified of this. More Goodreads censorship?"

The message a librarian sees before deleting books is as follows:

"Note: Only delete books from the list that are totally miscategorized. Deleting books that aren't will result in a loss of librarian privileges, and possible deletion of account. We're super serious!"

I've yet to see a librarian being capricious around deleting books from lists.