Reading Across Canada 🍁 2025 (Bookworm Adventure Girl) - hosted by bookwormadventuregirl

A Canadian book ... that is nonfiction
Here are 28 nonfiction books that were submitted for the Best Can Lit books of the 21st Century Project.
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Jennie's Boy: A Newfoundland Childhood by Wayne Johnston

Jennie's Boy: A Newfoundland Childhood

Wayne Johnston

320 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional funny reflective medium-paced
Jasper on Fire: Five Days of Hell in a Rocky Mountain Paradise by Matthew Scace

Jasper on Fire: Five Days of Hell in a Rocky Mountain Paradise

Matthew Scace

100 pages • first pub 2025 (editions)

nonfiction history nature politics
Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti

Alphabetical Diaries

Sheila Heti

221 pages • first pub 2024 (editions) user-added

nonfiction essays memoir poetry
Missing from the Village: The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System That Failed Toronto's Queer Community by Justin Ling

Missing from the Village: The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System That Failed Toronto's Queer Community

Justin Ling

280 pages • first pub 2020 (editions) user-added

nonfiction lgbtqia+ politics true crime challenging dark informative slow-paced
22 Murders: Investigating the Massacres, Cover-up and Obstacles to Justice in Nova Scotia by Paul Palango

22 Murders: Investigating the Massacres, Cover-up and Obstacles to Justice in Nova Scotia

Paul Palango

587 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction politics true crime dark informative sad medium-paced
Les saumons de la Mitis by Christine Beaulieu, Caroline Lavergne

Les saumons de la Mitis

Christine Beaulieu, Caroline Lavergne

95 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction essays graphic novel literary nature emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Kate Beaton

430 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction graphic novel memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance by Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel

When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance

Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel

300 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction memoir hopeful informative reflective medium-paced
Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter by Carmen Aguirre

Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter

Carmen Aguirre

277 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir emotional reflective fast-paced
Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas by Karen Pinchin

Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas

Karen Pinchin

336 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction nature science hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced