Canada's Hundred Most Important Books
In 2005 The Literary Review of Canada announced their list of Canada's Hundred Most Important Books. This page relists the 100 titles and indicates when the titles are owned by the ASU Libraries and/or available in electronic format.
According to the The Literary Review of Canada, the first two 2006 issues of the journal "will include brief defenses of all 100 titles, written by many of this country's finest writers and thinkers."
- Titles are listed in chronological order (according to date of first publication).
- When a title is owned by the ASU Libraries, the following information is provided: call number, library name, collection name.
- When a title is owned, then a hyperlink to it record within the ASU Libraries' Catalog is provided; see ("catalog record").
- Note: Titles or copies restricted to "Library Use Only" are not included in this listing.
Titles
1. Bref récit et succincte narration de la navigation faite en MDXXXV et MDXXXVI (Account of the Second Voyage of the Navigation of 1535 and 1536) (1545)
Jacques Cartier
(free full-text version)
2. A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean (1795)
Samuel Hearne
(free full-text version); ([restricted access] through Eighteenth Century Collections Online)
F1060.7 .H445 West Stacks (catalog record)
FICHE 4x6 1508 Hayden Microforms (catalog record)
Notes: Additional print copies are available from Storage Stacks.
3. Wacousta; or The Prophecy: A Tale of the Canadas (1832)
John Richardson
(free full-text version)
PR9199.2.R53 W33 1998 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
4. Report on the Affairs of British North America (1839)
Lord Durham
(free full-text version)
5. Roughing It in the Bush, or Life in Canada (1852)
Susanna Moodie
(free full-text version)
F1057 .M82 1988 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
6. Report of Progress from Its Commencement to 1863 (1863)
Geological Survey of Canada
(free full-text version)
7. Canada and the Canadian Question (1891)
Goldwin Smith
F1027 .S64 1971 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
8. Wild Animals I Have Known and 200 Drawings: Being the Personal Histories of Lobo, Silverspot, Raggylug, Bingo, the Springfield Fox, the Pacing Mustang, Wully and Redruff (1898)
Ernest Thompson Seton
(free full-text version)
QL791 .S53 Science 3rd Floor (catalog record)
9. The Poems of Archibald Lampman (1900)
Archibald Lampman
(free full-text version)
PR9199.2 .L29 A17 1900 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
10. The Imperialist (1904)
Sara Jeanette Duncan
(free full-text version)
PR9199.2.C68 I4 1988 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
11. Anne of Green Gables (1908)
Lucy Maud Montgomery
(free full-text version)
Fic M7668ag 1977 West Curriculum (catalog record)
Fic M7668ag 1997 West & Hayden Curriculum (catalog record)
813 M767aco Hayden Curriculum (catalog record)
PR9199.3.M6 A66 2004 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
12. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912)
Stephen Leacock
(free full-text version)
PR6023 .E15 S8 1970 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
PR6023.E15 S8 2002 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
13. Flint and Feather (1912)
E. Pauline Johnson
(free full-text version)
PR9199.3 .J59 A17x 1913 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
14. Maria Chapdelaine (1914)
Louis Hémon
(free full-text version)
PQ2615.E35 M3 1924 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
PQ2615 .E35 M3 1980 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
15. Jalna (1927)
Mazo de la Roche
PR9199.3.D42 J3 West Stacks (catalog record)
PR9199.3 .D42 J3 1928 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
16. The Fur-Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History (1930)
H.A. Innis
F1060 .I58 1956 West & Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
17. Such Is My Beloved (1934)
Morley Callaghan
PR9199.3 .C27 S8 1957 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
18. The Commercial Empire of the St. Lawrence, 1760-1850 (1937)
Donald Creighton
F1026 .C74 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
19. Menaud, maître-draveur (Boss of the River) (1937)
Félix-Antoine Savard
PQ3919.S28 M46 1964 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
20. As for Me and My House (1941)
Sinclair Ross
PR9199.3 .R599 A8 1970 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
21. Two Solitudes (1945)
Hugh MacLennan
PR9199.3.M334 T96 1945 West Stacks (catalog record)
PR6025.A2594 T84 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
22. Bonheur d'occasion (The Tin Flute) (1945)
Gabrielle Roy
PQ3919 .R74 B613 West & Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
PQ3919 .R74 B637 1982 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
23. Report of the Royal Commission to Investigate the Facts Relating to and the Circumstances Surrounding the Communication by Public Officials and Other Persons in Positions of Trust of Secret and Confidential Information to Agents of a Foreign Power (1946)
Kellock-Taschereau Commission
Not owned by the ASU Libraries.
24. Who Has Seen the Wind (1947)
W.O. Mitchell
PR9199.3.M54 W56 2001 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
25. Les Plouffe (The Plouffe Family) (1948)
Roger Lemelin
PQ3919.L53 P4 1982 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
PQ3919.L53 P4 1982b Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
26. Refus Global (Complete Refusal) (1948)
Paul-Émile Borduas
NX513.A3 Q4x 1972 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
27. Empire and Communications (1950)
Harold A. Innis
P90 .I5 1975 West Stacks (catalog record)
P90 .I52 1972 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
28. Report of the Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences, 1949-1951 (1951)
Massey-Lévesque Commission
(free full-text version)
29. People of the Deer (1952)
Farley Mowat
E99 .E7 .M86 West & Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
E99.E7 M86 2005 West Stacks (catalog record)
30. So Little for the Mind (1953)
Hilda Neatby
LA411.82 .N4 1953 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
31. John A. Macdonald: The Young Politician (1952) and The Old Chieftain (1955)
Donald Creighton
F1033 .M125 C7 v.1-2 West & Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
32. Insight: A Study in Human Understanding (1957)
Bernard Lonergan
BD161 .L6 West & Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
BD161 .L6 1970 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
B29 .L59 1988 v.3 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
33. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957)
Northrop Frye
PN81 .F75 West & Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
PN81 .F75 1971 West Stacks (catalog record)
34. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959)
Mordecai Richler
PR9199.3.R5 A66 1959 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
PR9199.3.R5 A8619 1976 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
35. The Spice-Box of Earth (1961)
Leonard Cohen
PR9199.3 .C57 S68 1973 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
36. The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (1962)
Marshall McLuhan
Z116 .M15 West & Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
37. Renegade in Power: The Diefenbaker Years (1963)
Peter C. Newman
F1034.3.D5 N48 1963 West Stacks (catalog record)
38. Report of the Canada Royal Commission on Health Services (1964)
Hall Commission
Not owned by the ASU Libraries.
39. The Stone Angel (1964)
Margaret Laurence
PR9199.3 .L33 S86 1964 West & Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
PR9199.3.L33 S7 1993 West Stacks (catalog record)
40. In Praise of Older Women: The Amorous Recollections of András Vajda (1965)
Stephen Vizinczey
PR6072.I9 I37 1986 West Stacks (catalog record)
41. Lament for a Nation: The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism (1965)
George Grant
F1034 .G7 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
42. Prochain épisode (Next Episode) (1965)
Hubert Aquin
PQ3919.2 .A66 P7 1969 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
PQ3919.2 .A66 P713 2001 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
43. The Vertical Mosaic: An Analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada (1965)
John A. Porter
HN103.5 .P6 Hayden & Storage Stacks (catalog record)
44. Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel (A Season in the Life of Emmanuel) (1965)
Marie-Claire Blais
PQ3919 .B6 S3513 1966 West Stacks (catalog record)
45. Combat Journal of Place d'Armes: A Personal Narrative (1967)
Scott Symons
PR6037.Y8 C5x Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
46. The Ecstasy of Rita Joe (1967)
George Ryga
PR9199.3.R9 E37 1970b West Stacks (catalog record)
PR9199.3.R9 E37 1971 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
47. Final Report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (1967-69)
Laurendeau-Dunton Commission
Not owned by the ASU Libraries.
48. Les belles-soeurs (1968)
Michel Tremblay
PQ3919.2 .T73 B4 1968 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
PQ3919.2 .T73 B413 1992 West Stacks (catalog record)
PQ3919.2 .T73 B45 2000 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
PQ3919.2.T73 B4 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
49. Federalism and the French Canadians (1968)
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
JL27 .T713 1968 West & Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
50. Nègres blancs d'Amérique (White Niggers of America) (1968)
Pierre Vallières
F1027 .V313 West Stacks (catalog record)
F1027 .V3x 1979 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
51. Fifth Business (1970)
Robertson Davies
PR9199.3.D3 F54 1977 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
52. Gentlemen, Players and Politicians (1970)
Dalton Camp
Not owned by the ASU Libraries.
53. Silent Surrender: The Multinational Corporation in Canada (1970)
Kari Levitt
HD2809 .L46 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
54. The Blacks in Canada: A History (1971)
Robin Winks
F1035 .N3 W5 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
F1035 .N3 W5x 1997 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
55. The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination (1971)
Northrop Frye
PR9189.6 .F7x Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
56. Lives of Girls and Women (1971)
Alice Munro
PR9199.3 .M8 L5 1971 West Stacks (catalog record)
PR6063 .U49L5 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
PR9199.3 .M8 L5819 1991 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
57. Paul Kane's Frontier (1971)
J. Russell Harper
ND249.K3 H3 West & Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
58. Red Lights on the Prairies (1971)
James H. Gray
HQ148 .G7 West Stacks (catalog record)
59. La Sagouine (1971)
Antonine Maillet
PQ3919.2 .M26 S2 1973 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
60. The Last Spike (1972)
Pierre Berton
TF27.C3 B47 West Stacks (catalog record)
HE2810 .C2 B44 1972 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
61. Leaving Home (1972)
David French
Not owned by the ASU Libraries.
62. Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972)
Margaret Atwood
PR9184.3 .A8 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
PR9199.3 .A8 1996 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
63. Howie Meeker's Hockey Basics (1973)
Howie Meeker
Not owned by the ASU Libraries.
64. The Temptations of Big Bear (1973)
Rudy Wiebe
PR9199.3.W47 T46 1984 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
65. Ten Lost Years: 1929-1939; Memories of Canadians Who Survived the Depression (1973)
Barry Broadfoot
HB3717 1929 .B7 West & Storage Stacks (catalog record)
66. Alligator Pie (1974)
Dennis Lee
Not owned by the ASU Libraries.
67. The Siren Years: A Canadian Diplomat Abroad (1974)
Charles Ritchie
D413 .R57 A36 1974 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
68. Bear (1976)
Marian Engel
Not owned by the ASU Libraries.
69. A Very Double Life: The Private World of Mackenzie King (1976)
C.P. Stacey
F1033 .K53 S72 West & Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
70. Duplessis (1976)
Conrad Black
Not owned by the ASU Libraries.
71. A New Athens (1977)
Hugh Hood
PR9199.3 .H59 N4 1977b Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
72. The Wars (1977)
Timothy Findley
PR9199.3.F52 W3 1978 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
73. Obasan (1981)
Joy Kogawa
PR9199.3 .K63 O2 1982 West & Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
74. None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933'1948 (1982)
Irving Abella and Harold Troper
F1035.J5 A23 1982 West Stacks (catalog record)
F1035 .J5 A23 1983 West & Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
75. Radical Tories: The Conservative Tradition in Canada (1982)
Charles Taylor
JA84 .C3 T39 1982 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
76. Banting: A Biography (1984)
Michael Bliss
R464.B3 B58 1984 West Stacks (catalog record)
77. Neuromancer (1984)
William Gibson
PS3557 .I2264 N48 1984 West Stacks (catalog record)
PS3557 .I2264 N48 1994 West Stacks (catalog record)
78. The Canadian Encyclopedia (1985)
AG5 .C27 1985 v.1-3 West & Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
AG5 .C27 1988 v.1-4 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
Notes: 1988/2nd ed. available in West Reference collection; 3rd/1999 ed. available in Hayden Reference.
79. The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
Margaret Atwood
PR9199.3 .A8 H3 1986 West & Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
PR9199.3 .A8 H3 1998 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
80. Report on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada (1985)
Macdonald Commission
Not owned by the ASU Libraries.
81. Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (1989)
Modris Eksteins
D523 .E37 1989 West & Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
82. Solomon Gursky Was Here (1989)
Mordecai Richler
PR9199.3.R5 S55 1990 West Stacks (catalog record)
PR9199.3.R5 S65 1989 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
PR9199.3.R5 S5519 1994 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
83. Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing (1989)
Tomson Highway
PR9199.3.H474 D77x 1989 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
84. Trudeau and Our Times: The Heroic Delusion (1990) and The Magnificent Obsession (1994)
Stephen Clarkson and Christina McCall
Neither title is owned by the ASU Libraries.
85. The Malaise of Modernity (1991)
Charles Taylor
Not owned by the ASU Libraries.
86. Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism (1993)
Michael Ignatieff
JC311 .I42 1994 West Stacks (catalog record)
87. Green Grass, Running Water (1993)
Thomas King
PR9199.3 .K4422 G7 1993 West & Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
88. The Stone Diaries (1993)
Carol Shields
PR9199.3.S514 S76 1994 West & Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
89. A Fine Balance (1995)
Rohinton Mistry
PR9199.3.M494 F56 1996 West Stacks (catalog record)
PR9199.3.M494 F56 1995 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
90. The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation (1995)
Charles Hill
ND245.5.S4 H55 1995 Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
91. The Jade Peony (1995)
Wayson Choy
PR9199.3.C4967 J33 1997 West & Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
92. Nationalism Without Walls: The Unbearable Lightness of Being Canadian (1995)
Richard Gwyn
Not owned by the ASU Libraries.
93. The Unconscious Civilization (1995)
John Ralston Saul
Not owned by the ASU Libraries.
94. Yankee Go Home? Canadians and Anti-Americanism (1996)
J.L. Granatstein
F1029.5.U6 G73x 1996 West & Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
95. The Colony of Unrequited Dreams (1998)
Wayne Johnston
PR9199.3.J599 C65 1998 West & Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
96. A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879 to 1986 (1999)
John Milloy
On order for Fletcher Library
97. No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (1999)
Naomi Klein
Not owned by the ASU Libraries.
98. Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History (2000)
Erna Paris
Not owned by the ASU Libraries.
99. Fire and Ice: The United States, Canada and the Myth of Converging Values (2003)
Michael Adams
Not owned by the ASU Libraries.
100. Dark Age Ahead (2004)
Jane Jacobs
(ebook) [restricted to ASU users]
CB19 .J33 2004 West & Hayden Stacks (catalog record)
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