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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The Don: The Story of Toronto's Infamous Jail by Lorna Poplak

The Don: The Story of Toronto's Infamous Jail

Lorna Poplak

208 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction design history true crime dark informative medium-paced
Doppelganger by Naomi Klein

Doppelganger

Naomi Klein

399 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction memoir politics technology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Omar El Akkad

208 pages • first pub 2025 (editions)

nonfiction politics race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant

Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

John Vaillant

432 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction nature science informative reflective medium-paced
Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory by Sarah Polley

Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

Sarah Polley

272 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Call Me Indian: From the Trauma of Residential School to Becoming the Nhl's First Treaty Indigenous Player by Bryan Trottier, Fred Sasakamoose

Call Me Indian: From the Trauma of Residential School to Becoming the Nhl's First Treaty Indigenous Player

Bryan Trottier, Fred Sasakamoose

288 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction sports emotional reflective sad fast-paced
Peace by Chocolate by Jon Tattrie

Peace by Chocolate

Jon Tattrie

208 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction biography emotional medium-paced
Bloom Across Canada: 50 Inspiring Conversations by Beka Shane Denter

Bloom Across Canada: 50 Inspiring Conversations

Beka Shane Denter

224 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction biography
Bloom Where You Are Planted: 50 Conversations with Inspiring British Columbians by Beka Shane Denter

Bloom Where You Are Planted: 50 Conversations with Inspiring British Columbians

Beka Shane Denter

224 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction biography
A Perfect Day for a Walk: The History, Cultures, and Communities of Vancouver, on Foot by Bill Arnott

A Perfect Day for a Walk: The History, Cultures, and Communities of Vancouver, on Foot

Bill Arnott

256 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction history travel