Canadian Literature Best selling Fiction Controversial Books Book to Movie Adaptations
100
Life of Pi
Yann Martel won Britain's prestigious Man Booker Prize for writing this adventure novel which features a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
100
Lewis Carroll
Alice in Wonderland is known as one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. Who was is written by?
100
On the Origins of Species
Charles Darwin wrote this book in 1859 that contradicted creationism.
100
The Godfather
Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola wrote a screenplay based on what gangster crime novel by Puzo?
200
Douglas Coupland
Generation X:Tales for an Accelerated Culture was written as a frame narrative by which author from Vancouver?
200
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings is the sequel to what children's fantasy novel also called There and Back Again?
200
The Satanic Verses
In 1988 Salman Rushdie was almost assassinated for writing this book in which the magical realism genre is used.
200
A Clockwork Orange
This book, by Anthony Burgess, is set in a dystopian and not-so-distant future English society. It was later made into a feature film by Stanley Kubrick.
300
Alice Munro
What is the name of the author who wrote Lives of Girls and Women in the short story cycle format?
300
Ulysses
Irish writer James Joyce used a stream-of-consciousness technique and a lexicon of 30,030 to write this novel which takes place in Dublin in 1904.
300
American Psyco
This novel, by Bret Easton Ellis, is told in the first person by a shallow and materialistic Manhattan businessman. It's Controversial because of its graphic descriptions of cannibalism, murder, and torture.
300
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak wrote this novel, named after its protagonist Yuri Zhivago, that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature.
400
Anne of Green Gables
What is the name of the novel about a red-haired orphan from P.E.I by Lucy Maud Montgomery?
400
One Hundred Years of Solitude
In this novel the Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez chronicles the story of a family that founds the town of "Macondo" for 100 years.
400
The Harry Potter Series
This popular series for children has been banned and burned for depicting witchcraft.
400
Fight Club
David Fincher adapted this novel, by Chuck Palahniuk, into a movie in which the protagonist suffers from insomnia and meets a mysterious man named "Tyler Durden" while on a plane.
500
Dracula
What is the name of the gothic novel Bram Stoker wrote in epistolary format?
500
Leonard Cohen
This poet, musician, and author from Montreal won the Prince of Asturias Award for literature in 2011.
500
Lolita
This book, written in 1955 by Vladimir Nabokov, is disputed for its narrator instigating a sexual relationship with his twelve year old stepdaughter.
500
Trainspotting
Scottish writer Irvine Welsh wrote this book about a group of heroin addicts in the form of several short stories. The novel is written in a combination of Scots, Scottish English, and British English.






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