It is always great fun to read what others consider to be "Great Books." A list of the "100 Most Important Canadian Books" published by the Literary Review of Canada is certainly no exception. The list contains many of the books you might naturally expect like Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel, Robertson Davies' Fifth Business and Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women. But it also contains titles that might be characterized as both dull and important at the same time such as the Final Report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism and the Report of the Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences, 1949-1951. Bully for the editors of LRC I say. No pandering to cheap and meretricious taste in this instance!
For the complete list of the "100 Most Important Canadian Books" please pay a visit to the LRC website.
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