30 works of Canadian fiction to read before you're 30
30 pivotal, engaging books every Canadian should read before they turn the big 3-0.
30 pivotal, engaging books every Canadian should read before they turn the big 3-0.

- Bear by Marian Engel
- Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

- Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler
- De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage
- The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill

- Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
- Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
- Fifth Business by Robertson Davies

- A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
- Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo
- The Orenda by Joseph Boyden

In the Skin of a Lion was a finalist for the 1987 Governor General's Literary Award for fiction. (St. Martin's Griffin/Douglas & McIntyre/Vintage)

- Generation X by Douglas Coupland
- Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
- In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje

- When Everything Feels like the Movies by Raziel Reid
- Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill
- No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod

- Obasan by Joy Kogawa
- Skim by Mariko Tamaki & Jillian Tamaki
- Two Solitudes by Hugh MacLennan

- Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Neuromancer by William Gibson

- The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis
- Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen
- The Book of Secrets by M.G. Vassanji

- All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
- Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
- Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley