Neil Peart's favorite top 10 Atlantic Canada books
Stephen Clare and Trevor Adams of Halifax Magazine are holding a web poll to find the top 100 Atlantic Canadian books ever written. The results will be published in Spindrift: The 100 Greatest Atlantic Canadian Books Ever Written.
As they write on their website:
By way of methodology, we are polling over 1,500 writers, readers and literary people of all sorts across the country to submit their "Top 10" list of fiction/non-fiction works from the East Coast.
According to QuillandQuire.com, one of the writers polled was Neil Peart, who weighs in with his top 10:
Barometer Rising by Hugh MacLennan
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams: A Novel by Wayne Johnston
The Custodian of Paradise: A Novel by Wayne Johnston
Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie Macdonald
The Way the Crow Flies: A Novel by Ann-Marie Macdonald
The Republic of Nothing by Lesley Choyce
An Avalanche of Ocean: The Life and Times of a Nova Scotia Immigrant by Lesley Choyce
Shipping News: A Novel by E. Annie Proulx
Architects Are Here by Michael Winter
The Wreckage by Michael Crummey
Thanks to Kjmastaw for the head's up.
Labels: NEP favorites, web article