Canada Reads Longslist 2024

It seems so early, but here it is.

Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
Bad Medicine by Christopher Twin no touchstone yet
Denison Avenue by Daniel Innes & Christina Wong
Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados
Junie by Chelene Knight
Mamaskatch by Darrel J. McLeod
Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune
Reuniting with Strangers by Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio no touchstone yet
Shut Up You're Pretty by Téa Mutonji
Sunshine Nails by Mai Nguyen
The Future by Catherine Leroux, translated by Susan Ouriou
The Innocents by Michael Crummey
The Winter Knight by Jes Battis
What Comes Echoing Back by Leo McKay Jr.
Woke Up Like This by Amy Lea

Here is a link to CBC with information about each book .

https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-canada-reads-2024-longlist-is-here-1.7056323

Has anyone read from the list, or are you interested in any of the titles?

I love Michael Crummey! The Innocents was good. I’ve been meaning to get to Mamaskatch so I’ll use this as a kick in the pants.

I've been meaning to get to Bad Cree and I saw Mamaskatch in the library last time I was there. Perhaps after Christmas I will get to one or the other.

Thanks Deborah for posting the list. There are many unknowns for me but it will be very interesting to follow the selections. Yes, I read The Innocents and loved it. I have just finished his new one and thought it was very good too. The Adversary. What is the theme for CR 2024?

I just had a peek on the CBC Canada Reads page looking for the theme for 2024.

Here it is!

This year, the great Canadian book debate is looking for one book to carry us forward.

When we are at a crossroads, when uncertainty is upon us, when we have faced challenges and are ready for the future, how do we know where to go next? This collection of books is about finding the resilience and the hope needed to carry on and keep moving forward.

Thanks, Mary, for posting. Thanks for the finding the theme for 2024. I was in the library yesterday and was able to find Junie by Chelene Knight. I hope to get to reading it fairly soon. A busy time right before Christmas , for most of us.

>1 vancouverdeb: Thanks for posting this. By pure coincidence, my hold for Sunshine Nails just came through and I read The Innocents when it was nominated for the Giller. So, it would be nice if those two made it to the short list. Denison Avenue looks interesting as does The Future. But you never know what will tweak the defenders' interests.

>9 gypsysmom: Let us know what you think of Sunshine Nails and The Innocents if you want to do so. I can see you liked The Innocents as did Mary.

Very true, who knows what will catch the defenders interests.

Hurray! I love Canada Reads! Thanks for getting this thread started this year.

I've read The Innocents but none of the others were on my radar.

The panelists and the five book they will be debating will be released on January 11th.

Anounced today!

CBC Canada Reads,
Here is the short list and those who will be pleading their case!

Athlete and CBC Sports contributor Dallas Soonias champions Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

Former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi champions Denison Avenue by Christina Wong & Daniel Innes

Fashion influencer Mirian Njoh champions Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune

Actor Kudakwashe Rutendo champions Shut Up You're Pretty by Téa Mutonji

Author Heather O'Neill champions The Future (Biblioasis International Translation Series, 44) by Catherine Leroux, translated by Susan Ouriou

The debates will take place March 4-7, 2024.

Interesting list - should be a fun debate this year

Well, I've read none of those books. I just finished Sunshine Nails from the longlist and I liked it quite a bit. Too bad it didn't make it.

>13 mdoris: FYI, the touchstone for The Future goes to The Once and Future King, a great book but not the one that is chosen for Canada Reads.

>16 gypsysmom: Thank you, hopefully corrected!

>13 mdoris: I am so excited! I knew Naheed back in university! And I still live in Calgary - he was a great mayor!

No idea about any of the books, though.

>18 LibraryCin: I tried to put Denison Avenue on reserve at the library today as I would really like to read it but so far only available as an ebook. Perhaps now that it is on the short list for Canada Reads it will be purchased in our system as a regular book.

>19 mdoris: Yeah, I bet they'll add a bunch of copies in a variety of formats. Hopefully, anyway!

I haven't read any of these books but, as usual, I will read them all before the debates. That way I can yell at the radio like my dad used to yell at the TV during NHL games.

I'm excited about Heather O'Neill as a panelist. I love her writing. Her When We Lost our Heads was one of my top reads for 2023

>21 LynnB: I have never read anything by H. O'Neill. I must!

>22 mdoris: Heather O'Neill's latest book, When We Lost our Heads was one of my top five books last year (out of 120). One of her early novels, Lullabies for Little Criminals won Canada Reads in 2007.

Thanks Lynn. I have put it on reserve. Do you have a thread? I have tried to find you! Wondering about your others in the top five.

I've now finished Bad Cree and liked it much more than I thought I would. I think whoever wrote the blurb for the book did it a disservice by saying it was horror. I have never been a fan of horror so maybe I'm out of touch with what horror fiction entails but I wouldn't classify this as horror. It is about indigenous beliefs and spirituality and there are some graphic scenes but since they take place in dreams/visions it's not like some Stephen King novel where everything supposedly takes place in real life.