Canadian stories made into films or miniseries
A young boy unhappily receives a Toronto Maples Leafs sweater -- when he's a true fan of the Montreal Canadiens.
The Hockey Sweater
Novel about a young Indigenous girl who disappears as a young child, resurfacing years later
The Berry Pickers
Washington Black
Esi Edugyan
Offred
The Handmaid's Tale
Anne of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montgomery
A classic of nature writing that is the author Farley Mowat's personal account of the summer he lived in the frozen tundra along studying the wolf population and developing a deep affection for wolves
Never Cry Wolf
Indigenous anthology of horror stories; the grade 12 presentation won the Judges' Choice Award
Never Whistle at Night
The Cure for Crushes and Other Deadly Diseases
Karen Rivers
James Howlett, also known as Logan and as "Wolverine"
X-men comics
Alice, I Think
Susan Juby
A well-known mid 90s novel by Michael Ondaatje about a burned pilot in World War II who is tended to by a nurse at an Italian villa.
The English Patient
It wasn't shortlisted by classes but is a wonderful novel about an eleven year old girl who is abandoned by her mother who suffers from mental illness, and feelings of not fitting in as an immigrant to Canada.
Dandelion
White Jade Tiger & her newest book Out of the Dark
Julie Lawson
Parvana
Parvana's Journey
Guests of War trilogy
Kit Pearson
A modern novel about mother who is held captive by an abductor for seven years, with her child being born into captivity.
Room
The author's personal story about being Metis, homeless, and finding his way out of homelessness
From the Ashes
Pride: Celebrating Diversity & Community
Robin Stevenson
Pi Patel
Life of Pi
Thomas' Brown Snowsuit
Robert Munsch
A novel about a woman who is abducted from Africa and sold into slavery in South Carolina, where she begins her journey to freedom in Nova Scotia
The Book of Negroes
The only graphic novel on the list; it's about a woman discovering her parents' younger lives in Communist China before emigrating to Canada
All Our Ordinary Stories
Klee Wyck & Growing Pains: An Autobiography
Emily Carr
Hagar Shipley
The Stone Angel
The Marrow Thieves
Cherie Dimaline