Urban Grit
AN UPDATED LIST (2017): We called out to friends on Twitter and Facebook to provide us with Canadian books memorable for their depiction of "urban grit": books concerned with the darker, seedier, dirtier, sordid, sometimes violent, sometimes sexual, often exciting side of city life. Here's the list.
![](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/books/b/brother/9780771022906_cover/335398459-1-eng-CA/9780771022906_cover_wide_360.jpg)
Brother
![](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/books/t/the-break2/9781487001117_cover/763448348-1-eng-CA/9781487001117_cover_wide_360.jpg)
The Break
![](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/books/t/the-girl-who-was-saturday-night2/9780002006316_cover/755835019-1-eng-CA/9780002006316_cover_wide_360.jpg)
The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
![](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/books/s/scarborough/9781551526775_cover/766777366-1-eng-CA/9781551526775_cover_wide_360.jpg)
Scarborough
![](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/books/d/de-niro-s-game/9780887848131_cover/153984053-1-eng-CA/9780887848131_cover_wide_360.jpg)
De Niro's Game
![](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/books/l/light-lifting/9781897231944_cover/28857514-1-eng-CA/9781897231944_cover_wide_360.jpg)
Light Lifting
![](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/books/t/the-dead-are-more-visible/9780307397416_cover/755296457-1-eng-CA/9780307397416_cover_wide_360.jpg)
The Dead Are More Visible
![](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/books/b/by-gaslight/9780771069239_cover/335330234-1-eng-CA/9780771069239_cover_wide_360.jpg)
By Gaslight
![](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/books/t/the-nightingales/9781552450895_cover/766733782-1-eng-CA/9781552450895_cover_wide_360.jpg)
The Nightingales
![](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/books/a/all-we-want-is-everything/9781894037846_cover/571388138-1-eng-CA/9781894037846_cover_wide_360.jpg)
All We Want is Everything
![](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/books/c/circle-of-stones/9781459729360_author/763113717-1-eng-CA/9781459729360_author_wide_360.jpg)
Circle of Stones
![](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/books/d/debris/9781771960403_cover/135939805-1-eng-CA/9781771960403_cover_wide_360.jpg)
Debris
![](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/books/a/anatomy-of-a-girl-gang/9781551525297_cover/766573349-1-eng-CA/9781551525297_cover_wide_360.jpg)
Anatomy of a Girl Gang
![](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/books/l/lullabies-for-little-criminals5/9781554687664_cover/764660903-1-eng-CA/9781554687664_cover_wide_360.jpg)
Lullabies for Little Criminals
![](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/books/t/the-city-still-breathing/9781552452837_cover/766523035-1-eng-CA/9781552452837_cover_wide_360.jpg)
The City Still Breathing
![](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/books/c/carnival2/9781770893290_cover/747417783-1-eng-CA/9781770893290_cover_wide_360.jpg)
Carnival
![](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/books/h/heroes7/9781927428993_cover/116392004-1-eng-CA/9781927428993_cover_wide_360.jpg)
Heroes
![](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/books/h/how-to-get-along-with-women/9781926743264_cover/766349008-1-eng-CA/9781926743264_cover_wide_360.jpg)
How to Get Along With Women
Short Stories
![](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/books/c/confidence4/9781771960151_cover/116694503-1-eng-CA/9781771960151_cover_wide_360.jpg)
Confidence
![](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/books/h/how-poetry-saved-my-life/9781551525006_cover/766710272-1-eng-CA/9781551525006_cover_wide_360.jpg)
How Poetry Saved My Life
A Hustler's Memoir
![](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/books/b/bottle-rocket-hearts2/9781770860070_cover/682928750-1-eng-CA/9781770860070_cover_wide_360.jpg)
Bottle Rocket Hearts
![](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/books/d/down-to-the-dirt4/9781554689613_cover/763842165-1-eng-CA/9781554689613_cover_wide_360.jpg)
Down To The Dirt
![](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/books/c/cockroach2/9780887842092_cover/299955557-1-eng-CA/9780887842092_cover_wide_360.jpg)
Cockroach
![](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/books/g/girls-fall-down/9781552451960_cover/766370604-1-eng-CA/9781552451960_cover_wide_360.jpg)