The Book Mine Set

Book discussion blog with a Canadian bias.

: Name: John Mutford

The 6th Annual
Canadian Book Challenge

What is it? How do I join? And other facts (Click)

The 6th Annual
Canadian Book Challenge

The standings so far...
MAPLE SYRUP (13 or more books read)
Heather 13
Sarah at Workaday Reads 20
Claire 13
Swordsman 13
Shonna 31
Pussreboots 23
Melwyk 26
Sharon (Faith Hope Cherrytea) 13
Eric 20
Sarah at Goodreads 18
Rasiqra Revulva 17
Teena 19
Raidergirl 14
Shannon 21
Gypsysmom 29
Shan 22
Luanne 15
Jo 22
John 46
Jules 50
Perogyo 26
Irene 56
Barb in B.C. 60
Nicola 42
POUTINE (12 books read)
Lee-Anne
CANADA DRY GINGER ALE (11 books read)
Braedonnal
Linda
CANADIAN BACON (10 books read)
NANAIMO BAR (9 books read)
Bill
Mary R
Christa
Riedel
BANNOCK (8 books read)
Kim
TracyK
Steve
SamLamb
Corey
KRAFT DINNER(7 or more books read)
Danielle
Paulina
Peggy
Gavin
Cat
Indiscriminate Critic
YELLOW PEA SOUP (6 books read)
Deb
Chris
Kerrie
Darlene
Sam
DOUBLE DOUBLE (5 books read)
Bybee
Kate
MOOSEHEAD BEER (4 books read)
ChrisHarding
Gypsysmom
Kim
DONAIR (3 books read)
Barbara
CAESAR (2 books read)
Caroline
Fleur Fisher
Julie
Nan
FISH & BREWIS (1 book read)
Honest Variety Books
Shelley (Dancin' Momma)
Check out the results and fantastic book lists from the first five Canadian Book Challenges:
1st Canadian Book Challenge
2nd Canadian Book Challenge
3rd Canadian Book Challenge
4th Canadian Book Challenge
5th Canadian Book Challenge
Canadian Book Trivia?
*Margaret Atwood Novels
*Robert Munsch books
*Mordecai Richler Fiction
*Cremation of Sam McGee Rhymes
*Canada Reads Books
*Canadian Authors

GLARING OMISSIONS! Books I should have read but haven't-- yet (International edition) ~~1. Harper Lee- To Kill A Mockingbird~~
~~2. Jane Austen- Pride and Prejudice~~
~~3. Joseph Conrad- Heart of Darkness~~
~~4. Bill Bryson- A Short History of Nearly Everything~~
~~5. Joseph Heller- Catch 22~~
~~6. Vladimir Nabokov- Lolita~~
7. Gabriel Garcia Marquez- One Hundred Years of Solitude
~~8. J. R. R. Tolkien- The Hobbit~~
~~9. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle- The Hound of The Baskervilles~~
~~10. Charles Dickens- A Tale of Two Cities~~
11. Louisa May Alcott- Little Women
12. Ian McEwan- Atonement
~~13. Douglas Adams- The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy~~
14. Don Delilo- White Noise
~~15. Carson McCullers- The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter~~
~~16. Richard Adams- Watership Down~~
~~17. Scott O'Dell- Island Of The Blue Dolphins~~
18. Salman Rushdie- The Satanic Verses
19. Madeleine L'Engle- A Wrinkle In Time
~~20. Katherine Patterson- Bridge To Terebithia~~
GLARING OMISSIONS! Books I should have read but haven't-- yet (Canadian edition)
1. Rohinton Mistry- A Fine Balance
2. Jane Urquhart- Stone Carvers
3. Margaret Laurence- Stone Angel
4. Donna Morrissey- Kit's Law
~~5. Richard B. Wright- Clara Callan~~
6. Hugh McClennan- The Watch That Ends The Night
7. William Gibson- Neuromancer
8. W.P. Kinsella- Shoeless Joe
9. Ethel Wilson- Swamp Angel
10. Wayson Choy- Jade Peony
11. Brian Moore- The Luck of Ginger Coffey
12. Marie-Claire Blais- A Season in the Life of Emmanuel
13. Michel Tremblay- The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant
14. Sheila Watson- Double Hook
~~15. Stephen Leacock- Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town~~
~~16. Joseph Boyden- Through Black Spruce~~
17. Kenneth Oppel- Silver Wing
~~18. Thompson Highway- The Rez Sisters~~
~~19. Susannah Moodie- Roughing it in the Bush~~
~~20. David Adams Richards- For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down~~
GLARING OMISSIONS! Books I should have read but haven't-- yet (Northern edition)
1. Yellowknife - Dennis St. John
~~2. Dennison's Ice Road- Edith Iglauer~~
3. ~~Gold Mountain- Vicki Delany~~
4. Bad Latitudes- Al Pope
5. Pale Indian- Robert Alexie
6. Uqalurait- John Bennett
7. ~~The Inuk Mountie Adventure- Eric Wilson~~
8. Bloody Falls of the Coppermine- Mackay Jenkins
~~9. The Wildfire Season- Andrew Pyper~~
~~10. Bones Are Forever- Kathy Reichs~~
~~11. Mountie in Mukluks- Patrick White~~
12. The Hudson's Bay Boy- John Seagrave
13. Midnight Sun- Lawrence Osgood
14. The Man Who Mapped the Arctic- Peter Steele
15. Nunaga- Duncan Pryde
GLARING OMISSIONS! Books I should have read but haven't-- yet (Graphic novels edition)
1. ~~Stitches- David Small~~
2. Fun Home- Allison Bechdel
3. 300- Frank Miller
4. Binky the Space Cat- Ashley Spires
5. ~~The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen- Alan Moore~~
6. Ghost in the Shell- Shirow Masamune
7. ~~Something Old, Something New- Lynn Johnston~~
8. ~~Blankets- Craig Thompson~~
9. ~~Naruto, Vol 1. – Masashi Kishimoto~~
10. ~~Tangles- Sarah Leavitt~~
11. My New York Diary- Julie Doucet
12. ~~Paul Has A Summer Job - Michel Rabagliati~~
GLARING OMISSIONS! Books I should have read(?) but haven't-- yet (Populist edition) 1. ~~Twilight- Stephenie Meyer~~
2. ~~Fifty Shades of Grey- E.L. James~~
3. Confessions of a Shopaholic- Sophie Kinsella
4. the Sisters Brothers- Patrick deWitt
5. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo- Stiegg Larsson
~~6. The Gargoyle- Andrew Davidson~~
7. Outlander- Gil Adamson
8. Flashforward- Robert J. Sawyer
9. Fear the Worst- Linwood Barclay
10. ~~No One Here Gets Out Alive- Jerry Hopkins~~
11. A Fatal Grace- Louise Penny
12. Room- Emma Donoghue
13. Bitten- Kelley Armstrong
~~14. The Book of Awesome- Neil Pasricha~~
~~15. Outliers- Malcolm Gladwell~~
16. The Lightning Thief- Rick Riordan
~~17. Freakonomics- Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner~~
18. Water For Elephants- Sara Gruen
19. Book Thief- Markus Zusak
20. The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini
GLARING OMISSIONS! Books I should have read but haven't-- yet (Plays edition):
1. Ann-Marie MacDonald- Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
2. Joseph Kesselring- Arsenic and Old Lace
3. Thorton Wilder- Our Town
4. Oscar Wilde- The Importance of Being Earnest
5. Tennessee Williams- A Streetcar Named Desire
6. Eugene O'Neill- The Iceman Cometh
7. Edward Albee- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
8. David Mamet- Glengarry Glen Ross
9. Tom Stoppard- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
10. Neil Simon- Lost in Yonkers
11. Agatha Christie- The Mousetrap
12. ~~Moliere- Tartuffe~~
13. ~~George Ryga- The Ecstasy of Rita Joe~~
14. Daniel David Moses- Coyote City
15. Sally Clark- Moo
16. Anton Chekov- The Cherry Orchard
17. ~~Euripides- Medea~~
18. ~~Tony Kushner- Angels in America~~
19. Lorraine Hansberry- A Raisin in the Sun
20. Bertolt Brecht- Galileo