CanLit Challenge List (by chronology)

The History of Emily Montague (1769) - Frances Brooke
Wacousta (1832) - John Richardson
The Clockmaker: The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville (1835-6) - Thomas Chandler Haliburton
The Backwoods of Canada (1836) - Catharine Parr Traill
Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838) - Anna Brownell Jameson
Roughing It in the Bush (1852) - Susanna Moodie
Life in the Clearings versus the Bush (1853) - Susanna Moodie
Antoinette de Mirecourt (1864) - Rosanna Leprohon
Armand Durand (1868) - Rosanna Leprohon *
In the Village of Viger (1896) - Duncan Campbell Scott
Wild Animals I Have Known (1898) - Ernest Thompson Seton
The Man from Glengarry (1901) - Ralph Connor
Glengarry School Days (1902) - Ralph Connor
The Imperialist (1904) - Sara Jeannette Duncan
Anne of Green Gables (1908) - L.M. Montgomery
Woodsmen of the West (1908) - M. Allerdale Grainger
Literary Lapses (1910)- Stephen Leacock
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912) - Stephen Leacock
Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich (1914) - Stephen Leacock
Canadian Poetry: From the Beginnings Through the First World War - Carole Gerson (ed.), and Gwendolyn Davies (ed.)
Over Prairie Trails (1922) - Frederick Philip Grove
Emily of New Moon (1923) - L.M. Montgomery
Emily Climbs (1925) - L.M. Montgomery
Settlers of the Marsh (1925) - Frederick Philip Grove
Wild Geese (1925) - Martha Ostenso
Grain (1926) - Robert Stead
Emily’s Quest (1927) - L.M. Montgomery
A Search for America (1927) - Frederick Philip Grove
White Narcissus (1929) - Raymond Knister
Fruits of the Earth (1933) - Frederick Philip Grove
Such is My Beloved (1933)- Morley Callaghan
They Shall Inherit the Earth (1935) - Morley Callaghan
More Joy in Heaven (1937) - Morley Callaghan
Thirty Acres (1938) - Ringuet
Poets Between the Wars - Milton Wilson (ed.)
Tay John (1939) - Howard O’Hagan
As For Me and My House (1941) - Sinclair Ross
Barometer Rising (1941) - Hugh MacLennan
My Financial Career and Other Follies (1944) - Stephen Leacock
My Remarkable Uncle (1944) - Stephen Leacock
The Tin Flute (1945) - Gabrielle Roy
Two Solitudes (1945) - Hugh MacLennan
Hetty Dorval (1947) - Ethel Wilson
Sarah Binks (1947) - Paul Hiebert
Who Has Seen the Wind (1947) - W.O. Mitchell
The Innocent Traveller (1949) - Ethel Wilson
Turvey (1949) - Earle Birney
Where Nests the Water Hen (1950) - Gabrielle Roy
Each Man’s Son (1951) - Hugh MacLennan
The Second Scroll (1951) - A.M. Klein
The Equations of Love (1952) - Ethel Wilson
The Mountain and the Valley (1952) - Ernest Buckler
The Acrobats (1954) - Mordecai Richler
The Cashier (1954) - Gabrielle Roy
Last of the Curlews (1954) - Fred Bodsworth
Swamp Angel (1954) - Ethel Wilson
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1955) - Brian Moore
Son of a Smaller Hero (1955) - Mordecai Richler
Street of Riches (1955) - Gabrielle Roy
Love and Salt Water (1956) - Ethel Wilson
A Choice of Enemies (1957) - Mordecai Richler
Under the Ribs of Death (1957) - John Marlyn
Execution (1958) - Colin McDougall
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) - Mordecai Richler
The Double Hook (1959) - Sheila Watson
Mad Shadows (1959) - Marie-Claire Blais
The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1960) - Brian Moore
This Side Jordan (1960) - Margaret Laurence
Mrs. Golightly and Other Stories (1961) - Ethel Wilson
The Kissing Man (1962) - George Elliott
The Favourite Game (1963) - Leonard Cohen
The Incomparable Atuk (1963) - Mordecai Richler
The Prophet’s Camel Bell (1963) - Margaret Laurence
The Tomorrow-Tamer (1963) - Margaret Laurence
Next Episode (1965) - Hubert Aquin
A Season in the Life of Emmanuel (1965) - Marie-Claire Blais
Beautiful Losers (1966) - Leonard Cohen
A Jest of God (1966) - Margaret Laurence
The Road Past Altamont (1966) - Gabrielle Roy
Cocksure (1968) - Mordecai Richler
The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories (1968) - Sinclair Ross
The Coming of Winter (1968) - David Adams Richards
The Edible Woman (1969) - Margaret Atwood
The Fire-Dwellers (1969) - Margaret Laurence
The Street (1969) - Mordecai Richler
A Bird in the House (1970) - Margaret Laurence
The Blue Mountains of China (1970) - Rudy Wiebe
Fifth Business (1970) - Robertson Davies *
Poets of Contemporary Canada 1960-1970 - Eli Mandel (ed.)
Windflower (1970) - Gabrielle Roy
St. Urbain’s Horseman (1971) - Mordecai Richler
The Stone Angel (1971) - Margaret Laurence
The Manticore (1972) - Robertson Davies *
Pandora (1972) - Sylvia Fraser
Surfacing (1972)- Margaret Atwood
The Temptations of Big Bear (1973) - Rudy Wiebe
Crackpot (1974) - Adele Wiseman
The Diviners (1974) - Margaret Laurence
Garden in the Wind (1975) - Gabrielle Roy
World of Wonders (1975) - Robertson Davies *
Bear (1976)- Marian Engel
Blood Ties (1976) - David Adams Richards
The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1976) - Alistair MacLeod
Spit Delaney’s Island (1976) - Jack Hodgins
Children of My Heart (1977) - Gabrielle Roy *
The Invention of the World (1977) - Jack Hodgins
From the Fifteenth District (1979) - Mavis Gallant *
The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne (1979) - Jack Hodgins
Joshua Then and Now (1980) - Mordecai Richler
The Alley Cat (1981) - Yves Beauchemin
Lives of Short Duration (1981) - David Adams Richards
The Rebel Angels (1981) - Robertson Davies *
Man Descending (1982) - Guy Vanderhaeghe
Perpetual Motion (1982) - Graeme Gibson
Running in the Family (1982) - Michael Ondaatje
Murder in the Dark (1983) - Margaret Atwood
Not Wanted on the Voyage (1984) - Timothy Findley *
Digging Up the Mountains (1985)- Neil Bissondath
What’s Bred in the Bone (1985) - Robertson Davies *
As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories (1986) - Alistair MacLeod
Tales from Firozsha Baag (1987) - Rohinton Mistry
The Lyre of Orpheus (1988) - Robertson Davies *
Nights Below Station Street (1988) - David Adams Richards
Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace (1990) - David Adams Richards
A Father’s Kingdom (1938-1990) - Sheila Watson
Such a Long Journey (1991) - Rohinton Mistry
Wilderness Tips (1991) - Margaret Atwood *
The Afterlife of George Cartwright (1992) - John Steffler
Deep Hollow Creek (1992) - Sheila Watson
The Whirlpool (1992) - Jane Urquhart
Across the Bridge (1993) - Mavis Gallant
Any Time At All and Other Stories (1993) - Joyce Marshall
For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down (1993) - David Adams Richards
Good Bones (1994) - Margaret Atwood
The Moslem Wife and Other Stories (1994) - Mavis Gallant
A Fine Balance (1995) - Rohinton Mistry
No Great Mischief (1999) - Alistair MacLeod *
Light Shining Out of Darkness and Other Stories (2000) - Hugh Hood
The Blind Assassin (2000) - Margaret Atwood *
Island (2001) - Alistair MacLeod *
No Love Lost (2003) - Alice Munro