As 2014 draws to a close, we asked some of our CNQ editors and contributors to pick their favourite Canadian books of the past year.
Steven W. Beattie:
Ghalib Islam, Fire in the Unnameable Country
Brian Busby:
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven
K. D. Miller, All Saints
Kerry Clare:
Caroline Adderson, Ellen in Pieces
Emily Donaldson:
David Bezmozgis, The Betrayers
Bill Gaston, Juliet Was a Surprise
Eric McCormack, Cloud
Mireille Silcoff, Chez l’Arabe
Jesse Eckerlin:
Jacob Wren, Polyamorous Love Song
Alex Good:
K. D. Miller, All Saints
Jeet Heer:
K. D. Miller, All Saints
Johanna Skibsrud, Quartet for the End of Time
Kim Thúy, Mãn
Kathleen Winter, The Freedom in American Songs and Boundless
Stephen Henighan:
Andrée A. Michaud, Bondrée
Kirsten Weld, Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala
Amanda Jernigan:
Anita Lahey, The Mystery Shopping Cart: Essays on Poetry and Culture
Kerry-Lee Powell, Inheritance
Peter Sanger, Oikos
Shane Neilson:
Wayne Clifford & bp Nichol, Theseus: A Collaboration
Michael Winter, Into the Blizzard: Walking the Fields of the Newfoundland Dead
Rebecca Rosenblum:
Kathleen Winter, The Freedom in American Songs
Mark Sampson:
Jane Woods, The Walking Tanteek
Marko Sijan:
Ingrid Ruthig (ed.), The Essential Anne Wilkinson
Carmine Starnino:
Kerry Clare, The M Word: Conversations about Motherhood
Marius Kociejowski, The Pebble Chance: Feuilletons and Other Prose
Andrew Steeves, Smoke Proofs: Essays on Literary Publishing, Printing and Typography
Michael Winter, Into the Blizzard: Walking the Fields of the Newfoundland Dead
Zach Wells:
Adam Sol, Complicity
Bruce Whiteman:
Phyllis Webb, Peacock Blue: The Collected Poems