Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Rebecca and Tara’s good friend Jolene (@BookwormAdventureGirl) put together a list of the 67 Best CanLit Books of the 21st Century with her friend Lindy (@Lindy’sMagpieReads) based on votes from their YouTube and Instagram communities. This was in response to the New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Check out Jolene’s video of the 67 Best CanLit Books and Lindy’s YouTube channel:

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Rebecca and Tara participated in the CanLit survey and their top ten are below:
Rebecca’s Top 10:
- From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle
- Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga
- The Boy on the Beach by Tima Kurdi
- Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese
- Where the Falcon Flies by Adam Shoalts
- Greenwood by Michael Christie
- Suzanne by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette; translated by Rhonda Mullins
- Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club by Megan Gail Coles
- What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad
- Denison Avenue by Christina Wong; illustrations by Daniel Innes
Tara’s Top 10:
- Care Of: Letters, Connections and Cures by Ivan Coyote
- Galore by Michael Crummey
- Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
- Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
- Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
- What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad
- The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
- Remembering the Bones by Frances Itani
- Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards
- Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast by John Vaillant

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