Books from Canada Reads True Stories Top 40
Great nonfiction picks
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Adventures in Solitude
What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound
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And No Birds Sang
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Baltimore's Mansion
A Memoir
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The Boy in the Moon
A Father's Search for His Disabled Son
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Burmese Lessons
Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for New Writers and the Governor General's Literary Award
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The Cello Suites
J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, And The Search For A Baroque Masterpiece
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Cockeyed
A Memoir
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Down to This
Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown
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The Golden Spruce
A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed
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The Last Spike
The Great Railway, 1881-1885
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The Love Queen of Malabar
Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das
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On a Cold Road
Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock
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One Bird's Choice
A Year in the Life of an Overeducated, Underemployed Twenty-Something Who Moves Back Home
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Shake Hands with the Devil
The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
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Sixtyfive Roses
A Sister's Memoir
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Tangles
A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
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Too Close to the Falls
A Memoir
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Two Generals
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The Year of Finding Memory
A Memoir
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Mrs. King
The Life and Times of Isabel Mackenzie King
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Paper Shadows
Penguin Modern Classics Edition
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Paris 1919
Six Months That Changed the World
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Prisoner of Tehran
A Memoir