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Neil Peart's top ten Atlantic Canadian books

Tue, Oct 13, 2009@11:24AM | comments removed/disabled

Stephen Clare and Trevor Adams of Halifax Magazine are conducting an internet poll of writers, readers and literary luminaries to determine the top 100 Atlantic Canadian books ever written. They then plan on publishing the results in an upcoming book titled Spindrift: The 100 Greatest Atlantic Canadian Books Ever Written. They are also running a contest to guess what the top 5 books will be. According to QuillandQuire.com one of the writers polled was Neil Peart. Here is Neil's top 10 list:

Barometer Rising by Hugh MacLennan
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams: A Novel by Wayne Johnston
The Custodian of Paradise: A Novel by Wayne Johnston
Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie Macdonald
The Way the Crow Flies: A Novel by Ann-Marie Macdonald
The Republic of Nothing by Lesley Choyce
An Avalanche of Ocean: The Life and Times of a Nova Scotia Immigrant by Lesley Choyce
Shipping News: A Novel by E. Annie Proulx
Architects Are Here by Michael Winter
The Wreckage by Michael Crummey

Thanks to Andrew Olson for the heads up.

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