Recommended Reading

The Canada Council for the Arts is celebrating the best in Canadian literature: our Governor General’s Literary Awards recognize finalists and winners in seven categories, in both official languages, for readers of all ages. The English language winners are listed below.

Almost-tweens and those already tweening might just love one of these under the tree.

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Congratulations to all the authors whose work was celebrated at the 2019 Writers' Trust Awards, and whose words are shaping the world.

These books are all critically acclaimed, and they feature characters across the mosaic of culture, gender, ethnicity, and identity. Some characters face mental or physical challenges, and some deal with poverty. All make for incredible discussion points for classrooms and family dinner conversations and open teens' minds to the myriad ways we all encounter the world, and each other.

THE TRUSTEES of the Charles Taylor Foundation are pleased to announce that jurors Margaret Atwood, Coral Ann Howells and Peter Theroux have named twelve titles to the 2020 RBC Taylor Prize longlist. The jury noted that “Distilling these diverse riches, embracing the social, personal, political and historical, into a mere list of ten was a profound but rewarding challenge – our list could have been much longer, and indeed is longer than we were asked for! Readers globally can be thankful for a year of such exceptional Canadian contributions.” Also on the longlist are the following books: The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World by Ziya Tong, published by Allen Lane , and he Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love and Britain Becomes Modern by Robert Morrison, published by W.W. Norton