There's no question I could read all these books, but that wouldn't leave much space for other things, and that approach is too extreme (and thus un-Canadian). Still, I'll be aiming for about 25 from this list (update -- now it looks like it will only be 21). I think for the duration of the challenge I'll track them in both places, but then close down this list in July 2017.
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Mavis Gallant Home Truths
Findley Dinner Along the Amazon
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Bissoondath Digging Up the Mountains
Skvorecky Miss Silver's Past
Russell Smith Muriella Pent
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Bissoondath A Casual Brutality
Munro Friend of My Youth
Atwood Moral Disorder
Laurence The Tomorrow-Tamer (short stories set in Africa - much different from her other work)
Mordecai Richler The Street
Miriam Toews A Complicated Kindness
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Guy Vanderhaeghe Homesick
Richler The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Bissoondath Doing the Heart Good
* Davies The Salterton Trilogy
Findley The Piano Man's Daughter
Skvorecky Dvorak in Love
Ringuet Thirty Acres
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Atwood's dystopian trilogy (Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, MaddAddam)
It's not that likely I will get all the way to Oryx and Crake and the others by next June, so I will roll them over to the 11th Challenge, assuming someone picks up the baton from John. In Challenge 11, I would focus on Atwood, Margaret Laurence, Marie-Claire Blais and perhaps rereading some classic Carol Shield's novels (at least those I haven't reviewed previously).
Edit (7/1): I am seriously considering bumping Carol Shields up, and adding Unless (her final novel) to the top* of the list and The Stone Diaries (which would be a re-read) to the end. The rest could be carried over into the 11th Challenge.
* At least towards the top, though I would probably be better off reading it in the late fall, since it seems so autumnal. Maybe November?
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