CBC's 100 True Stories

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Nonfiction by Canadians that will make you proud to be Canadian
1
Huset i himlen
af Amanda Lindhout
1,067 medlemmer
60 anmeldelser
4.1
3 Members
mathgirl40, gypsysmom, ahef1963
2
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
af Roméo Dallaire
1,697 medlemmer
32 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
2 Members
gypsysmom, ahef1963
3
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
af Jane Jacobs
4,215 medlemmer
38 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
2 Members
mathgirl40, gypsysmom
4
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
af John Vaillant
1,238 medlemmer
68 anmeldelser
4
2 Members
mathgirl40, gypsysmom
5
Det magiske vendepunkt
af Malcolm Gladwell
21,728 medlemmer
331 anmeldelser
3.8
2 Members
mathgirl40, gypsysmom
6
Klee Wyck
af Emily Carr
332 medlemmer
7 anmeldelser
3.9
2 Members
mathgirl40, gypsysmom
7
Roughing it in the Bush
af Susanna Moodie
529 medlemmer
8 anmeldelser
½ 3.5
2 Members
gypsysmom, ahef1963
8
Intolerable
af Kamal Al-Solaylee
84 medlemmer
9 anmeldelser
3.9
2 Members
mathgirl40, gypsysmom
9
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
af Thomas King
1,029 medlemmer
47 anmeldelser
4.1
2 Members
mathgirl40, gypsysmom
10
Af læsningens historie
af Alberto Manguel
3,789 medlemmer
54 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
11
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
af Margaret MacMillan
3,229 medlemmer
53 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
mathgirl40
12
And No Birds Sang
af Farley Mowat
465 medlemmer
12 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
gypsysmom
13
No logo
af Naomi Klein
6,558 medlemmer
54 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
Member
ahef1963
14
The Last Spike
af Pierre Berton
302 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
3.9
Member
gypsysmom
15
They Left Us Everything: A Memoir
af Plum Johnson
237 medlemmer
15 anmeldelser
4
Member
mathgirl40
16
Into the silence
af Wade Davis
702 medlemmer
35 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
mathgirl40
17
Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
af Margaret Atwood
327 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
Member
ahef1963
18
Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography
af Chester Brown
762 medlemmer
18 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
gypsysmom
19
Konkubinens børn
af Denise Chong
491 medlemmer
17 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
gypsysmom
20
The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son
af Ian Brown
287 medlemmer
24 anmeldelser
4
Member
mathgirl40
21
Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
af Sarah Leavitt
157 medlemmer
8 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
gypsysmom
22
Paper Shadows: A Memoir of a Past Lost and Found
af Wayson Choy
127 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
½ 3.5
Member
mathgirl40
23
One Native Life
af Richard Wagamese
130 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
Member
gypsysmom
24
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
af Naomi Klein
2,230 medlemmer
51 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
mathgirl40
25
Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe
af Charlotte Gill
153 medlemmer
12 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
mathgirl40
26
Too Close to the Falls
af Catherine Gildiner
559 medlemmer
23 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
gypsysmom
27
Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
af Carmen Aguirre
203 medlemmer
11 anmeldelser
4
Member
mathgirl40
28
Burmese Lessons: A true love story
af Karen Connelly
132 medlemmer
17 anmeldelser
½ 3.3
Member
mathgirl40
29
The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A True Story of Resilience and Recovery
af Andrew Westoll
109 medlemmer
8 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
Member
gypsysmom
30
Between Gods
af Alison Pick
76 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
mathgirl40
31
The Reason You Walk: A Memoir
af Wab Kinew
165 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
4
Member
gypsysmom
32
Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black And White In Canada
af Lawrence Hill
54 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
½ 3.4
Member
gypsysmom
33
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything
af Chris Hadfield
2,252 medlemmer
56 anmeldelser
4.1
34
Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays
af Northrop Frye
1,513 medlemmer
11 anmeldelser
4
35
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
af Marshall McLuhan
1,017 medlemmer
16 anmeldelser
3.8
36
Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City
af Guy Delisle
803 medlemmer
41 anmeldelser
4.1
37
Fængslet i Teheran : erindringer fra et pigeliv
af Marina Nemat
711 medlemmer
33 anmeldelser
4.1
38
The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature
af David Suzuki
586 medlemmer
6 anmeldelser
4.1
39
Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally
af Alisa Smith
544 medlemmer
23 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
40
The Game: A Thoughtful and Provocative Look at a Life in Hockey
af Ken Dryden
486 medlemmer
12 anmeldelser
4
41
Stalins datter : Svetlana Allilujevas utrolige og turbulente liv
af Rosemary Sullivan
387 medlemmer
9 anmeldelser
4
42
Tree: A Life Story
af David Suzuki
224 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
4
43
28: Stories of AIDS in Africa
af Stephanie Nolen
223 medlemmer
10 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
44
Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World
af Doug Saunders
205 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
4
45
Swing Low: A Life
af Miriam Toews
200 medlemmer
9 anmeldelser
4.2
46
Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir
af Wayne Johnston
199 medlemmer
½ 3.6
47
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile
af Taras Grescoe
170 medlemmer
22 anmeldelser
4.2
48
Cockeyed: A Memoir
af Ryan Knighton
169 medlemmer
7 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
49
The Russian Album
af Michael Ignatieff
163 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 3.7
50
What the Stones Remember: A Life Rediscovered
af Patrick Lane
149 medlemmer
6 anmeldelser
3.9
51
They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School
af Bev Sellars
142 medlemmer
6 anmeldelser
4.1
52
Stolen Life: Journey Of A Cree Woman
af Rudy Wiebe
142 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
3.2
53
The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal
af Afua Cooper
136 medlemmer
6 anmeldelser
3.8
54
Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid
af Evelyn Lau
135 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
4
55
The Right to Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet
af Sheila Watt-Cloutier
124 medlemmer
6 anmeldelser
½ 3.3
56
Two Generals
af Scott Chantler
119 medlemmer
7 anmeldelser
4
57
Corked: A Memoir
af Kathryn Borel
114 medlemmer
20 anmeldelser
2.8
58
Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times
af Richard J. Gwyn
109 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
4.2
59
The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir
af Joseph Auguste (Augie) Merasty
108 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
4.1
60
On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women
af Stevie Cameron
106 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
61
Gold Diggers: Striking it Rich in the Klondike
af Charlotte Gray
102 medlemmer
8 anmeldelser
4.2
62
From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island
af Lorna Goodison
101 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
63
On a Cold Road: Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock
af Dave Bidini
100 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
½ 3.5
64
Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life
af Brian Brett
84 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
4.1
65
Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies, and Aid
af Samantha Nutt
82 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
3.8
66
Laughing All the Way to the Mosque
af Zarqa Nawaz
80 medlemmer
6 anmeldelser
3.9
67
Listen to the Squawking Chicken: When Mother Knows Best, What's a Daughter To Do? A Memoir (Sort Of)
af Elaine Lui
76 medlemmer
14 anmeldelser
3.2
68
Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage
af Kathleen Winter
75 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
3
69
Mordecai: The Life & Times
af Charles Foran
74 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
3.9
70
A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape
af Candace Savage
73 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
4.2
71
Open Heart, Open Mind
af Clara Hughes
73 medlemmer
6 anmeldelser
3.8
72
How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir
af Amber Dawn
73 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
73
The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan
af Graeme Smith
72 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
4.1
74
Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History
af Edmund Metatawabin
70 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
76
The World is Moving Around Me: A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake
af Dany Laferrière
66 medlemmer
7 anmeldelser
½ 3.3
77
A Place Within: Rediscovering India
af M. G. Vassanji
62 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
3.9
78
The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day that Almost Was
af Chantal Hébert
62 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
79
On the Outside Looking Indian: How My Second Childhood Changed My Life
af Rupinder Gill
62 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
3.1
80
Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven
af Ross King
60 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 3.6
81
Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister
af Maggie de Vries
59 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
4.1
82
This Is Happy
af Camilla Gibb
58 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
3.8
83
Under an Afghan Sky: a Memoir of Captivity
af Mellissa Fung
56 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
½ 3.4
84
The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit
af Jj Lee
50 medlemmer
6 anmeldelser
4.1
85
Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America's Great Forests
af Andrew Nikiforuk
47 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
4.1
86
Photobooth: A Biography
af Meags Fitzgerald
47 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
3.9
87
A Thousand Farewells: A Reporter's Journey from Refugee Camp to the Arab Spring
af Nahlah Ayed
46 medlemmer
½ 3.6
88
Me Funny
af Drew Hayden Taylor
44 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 3.6
89
Nice Recovery
af Susan Juby
38 medlemmer
3.8
90
Theatre of the Unimpressed: In Search of Vital Drama (Exploded Views)
af Jordan Tannahill
33 medlemmer
½ 4.5
91
One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery
af Karyn L. Freedman
30 medlemmer
3.9
92
The Year of Finding Memory: A Memoir
af Judy Fong Bates
30 medlemmer
½ 3.4
93
Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself
af Russell Wangersky
27 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
4.1
94
Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother
af Priscila Uppal
25 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
4
95
The Oil Man and the Sea: A Modern Misadventure on the Pacific Tanker Route
af Arno Kopecky
23 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
96
Most of Me: Surviving My Medical Meltdown
af Robyn Michele Levy
21 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
½ 4.7
97
What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past
af James Fitzgerald
21 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
3.2
98
Norval Morrisseau: Man Changing into Thunderbird
af Armand Garnet Ruffo
21 medlemmer
1
99
Room for All of Us
af Adrienne Clarkson
13 medlemmer
3
100
The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das
af Merrily Weisbord
9 medlemmer