Canada Reads on CBC

Starts next Monday! Check it out.

Five great works of Canadian fiction. Five celebrity panelists. One week of heated debates about CanLit. Let the battle of the books begin…

Jian Ghomeshi hosts Canada Reads, a week-long radio special that celebrates books. Tune in to CBC Radio One from February 25–29, 2008, to hear the panelists make the case for why their favourite Canadian fiction should be picked as the Canadian book to read in 2008.

Brown Girl in the Ring
Defended by
Jemeni
From the Fifteenth District
Defended by
Lisa Moore
Icefields
Defended by
Steve MacLean
King Leary
Defended by
Dave Bidini
Not Wanted on the Voyage
Defended by
Zaib Shaikh