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The editors at Amazon.ca and at 49th Shelf, a unique website dedicated to Canadian books, weigh in on the top 100 Canadian books to read in a lifetime, helped along by crowdsourced reading lists from 49th Shelf fans and contributors. Let us know what you think – vote for your favourite at Goodreads.
See the Amazon.ca and 49th Shelf editors' list here: http://www.amazon.ca/100canadianbooks
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The Diviners
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4.18 avg rating — 7,944 ratings
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The Stone Diaries
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 2,351,937 ratings
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Three Day Road (Bird Family Trilogy, #1)
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In the Skin of a Lion
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3.84 avg rating — 19,064 ratings
score: 863,
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The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
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3.95 avg rating — 7,639 ratings
score: 853,
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The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
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4.24 avg rating — 17,471 ratings
score: 844,
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The Book of Negroes
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4.47 avg rating — 90,606 ratings
score: 840,
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Annabel
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3.84 avg rating — 11,952 ratings
score: 767,
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Fall on Your Knees
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3.97 avg rating — 67,783 ratings
score: 747,
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How the Light Gets In (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #9)
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Louise Penny (Goodreads Author)
4.48 avg rating — 95,740 ratings
score: 652,
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Come, Thou Tortoise
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February
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
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score: 558,
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The Blue Castle
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4.31 avg rating — 53,623 ratings
score: 537,
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Shake Hands with the Devil
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4.25 avg rating — 13,680 ratings
score: 528,
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Station Eleven
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Emily St. John Mandel (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 597,068 ratings
score: 484,
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The Fionavar Tapestry (The Fionavar Tapestry, #1-3)
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Guy Gavriel Kay (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 7,782 ratings
score: 482,
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Through Black Spruce (Bird Family Trilogy, #2)
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4.12 avg rating — 15,425 ratings
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The Way the Crow Flies
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4.12 avg rating — 15,215 ratings
score: 465,
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The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 131,588 ratings
score: 462,
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We So Seldom Look on Love
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4.11 avg rating — 1,162 ratings
score: 459,
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This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall! (Macdonald Hall, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 2,903 ratings
score: 457,
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The Sisters Brothers
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3.85 avg rating — 102,075 ratings
score: 454,
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Unless
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3.63 avg rating — 16,998 ratings
score: 441,
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A Tale for the Time Being
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Ruth Ozeki (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 132,769 ratings
score: 388,
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Der englische Patient
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3.86 avg rating — 137,995 ratings
score: 387,
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4 people voted
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The Summer Tree (The Fionavar Tapestry, #1)
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Guy Gavriel Kay (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 26,358 ratings
score: 384,
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The Darkest Road (The Fionavar Tapestry, #3)
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Guy Gavriel Kay (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 18,783 ratings
score: 380,
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De Niro's Game
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3.78 avg rating — 4,067 ratings
score: 379,
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The Wandering Fire (The Fionavar Tapestry, #2)
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Guy Gavriel Kay (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 18,935 ratings
score: 376,
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Elle: A Novel
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3.35 avg rating — 665 ratings
score: 367,
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Garbage delight
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4.46 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Hark! A Vagrant
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4.20 avg rating — 24,739 ratings
score: 363,
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The Bishop's Man (The Cape Breton Trilogy #2)
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3.74 avg rating — 8,151 ratings
score: 362,
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Dry Lips Oughta Move To Kapuskasing
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3.40 avg rating — 631 ratings
score: 361,
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The Breadwinner (The Breadwinner #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 31,159 ratings
score: 356,
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Not Wanted on the Voyage
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3.98 avg rating — 7,179 ratings
score: 356,
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Nikolski
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3.50 avg rating — 5,032 ratings
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All My Puny Sorrows
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4.01 avg rating — 31,803 ratings
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Do Not Say We Have Nothing
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3.92 avg rating — 23,921 ratings
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Indian Horse
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4.41 avg rating — 33,468 ratings
score: 290,
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The Orenda (Bird Family Trilogy, #3)
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4.22 avg rating — 18,944 ratings
score: 289,
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Latitudes of Melt
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3.90 avg rating — 1,155 ratings
score: 288,
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The Disappeared
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Kim Echlin (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 3,748 ratings
score: 285,
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Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 239,022 ratings
score: 280,
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Cat’s Eye
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 71,789 ratings
score: 276,
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Eating Dirt
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Charlotte Gill (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 1,565 ratings
score: 272,
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The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen
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Susin Nielsen (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 2,995 ratings
score: 271,
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Fifth Business (The Deptford Trilogy, #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 20,224 ratings
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The White Bone
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3.77 avg rating — 3,767 ratings
score: 268,
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Bear
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3.40 avg rating — 10,394 ratings
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Home Truths
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3.86 avg rating — 169 ratings
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Les Belles-Soeurs
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3.63 avg rating — 4,026 ratings
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Better Living Through Plastic Explosives
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3.28 avg rating — 756 ratings
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Katzentisch
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3.62 avg rating — 27,259 ratings
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Pathologies: A Life in Essays
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Susan Olding (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Headhunter
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3.85 avg rating — 1,640 ratings
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The Deptford Trilogy
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4.33 avg rating — 8,207 ratings
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Devil's Hump
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Syr Ruus (Goodreads Author)
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Manticore (The Deptford Trilogy, #2)
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4.02 avg rating — 6,760 ratings
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The Break
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Katherena Vermette (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 21,735 ratings
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Eunoia
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4.04 avg rating — 1,762 ratings
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Kiss of the Fur Queen
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3.89 avg rating — 2,935 ratings
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Amanda in Alberta: The Writing on the Stone
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Darlene Foster (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 39 ratings
score: 186,
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World of Wonders (The Deptford Trilogy, #3)
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4.09 avg rating — 5,312 ratings
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What's Bred in the Bone (Cornish Trilogy, #2)
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4.27 avg rating — 6,428 ratings
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The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
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Fruit
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Brian Francis (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 1,897 ratings
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Just Pretending
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Lisa Bird-Wilson (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 101 ratings
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The Antagonist
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Lynn Coady (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 2,014 ratings
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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Life of Pi
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A Fine Balance
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The English Patient
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Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life
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The Lost Garden
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Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography
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A Taste of Hot Apple Cider: Words to Encourage and Inspire
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3.73 avg rating — 120 ratings
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A Possible Life
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Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age
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The Wild Heavens
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3.94 avg rating — 197 ratings
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Cabbagetown Diary: A Documentary
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3.81 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Bow Grip
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4.08 avg rating — 702 ratings
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Trickster: The Venom of Vipers
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Telling of Lies
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The Silence: A Novel
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Brown Girl in the Ring
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Pilgrim
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Articles on Novels by Guy Gavriel Kay, Including: Tigana, the Fionavar Tapestry, the Sarantine Mosaic, the Lions of Al-Rassan, the Summer Tree, Ysabel, the Last Light of the Sun, the Wandering Fire, the Darkest Road, Jad
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Bagels Come Home
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Earth and High Heaven (Cormorant Classic Reprint Series)
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4.06 avg rating — 375 ratings
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The Stone Carvers
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The Underpainter
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The Cornish Trilogy
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Agaguk
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A Boy at the Leafs Camp
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Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake
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Field Marks: The Poetry of Don McKay
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No Great Mischief
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I'll make an attempt to clean up the list. (There aren't 100 book titles on the Amazon list for which the link is given though...)@Sophie
Did you keep a copy of the original list, by any chance? Or did you vote for all the books on the Amazon list given, maybe?
Anyone can add books to this list.
How to Vote
To vote on existing books from the list, beside each book there is a link vote for this book clicking it will add that book to your votes.
To vote on books not in the list or books you couldn't find in the list, you can click on the tab add books to this list and then choose from your books, or simply search.
I only got to rank 50 before giving up.
Could the owner of this list please clean it up?