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Home / 2025 / June / 30 / Canadian creators: books and films

Canadian creators: books and films

June 30, 2025

Browse this selection of books and films by Canadian creators to help celebrate the diverse experiences, voices, and stories of those who call this beautiful land their home.

Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

The Sleeping Car porter

The sleeping car porter by Suzette Mayr

Fight night

Fight night by Miriam Toews

Fubar, the movie

one day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter

One day we’ll all be dead and none of this will matter by Scaachi Koul

The called us enemy

They called us enemy by George Takei

Fiction

Beautiful losers by Leonard Cohen

The double life of Benson Yu by Kevin Chong

Fifth business by Robertson Davies

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

Five little Indians by Michelle Good

Motherhood by Sheila Heti

All the quiet places by Brian Thomas Isaac

Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

The fire-dwellers by Margaret Laurence

Station eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

The sleeping car porter by Suzette Mayr

The English patient by Michael Ondaatje

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Moon of the crusted snow by Waubgeshig Rice

Monkey beach by Eden Robinson

Son of a trickster by Eden Robinson

Split tooth by Tanya Tagaq

Fight night by Miriam Toews

Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese

Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead

Denison Avenue by Christina Wong with illustrations by Daniel Innes


Essays and non-fiction

One day we’ll all be dead and none of this will matter by Scaachi Koul

Gender studies and Indo-Canadian literature edited by Mateti Prabhakar

Screening justice in Canada: Canadian crime films and society edited by Steven Kohm, Sonia Bookman, & Pauline Greenhill

From oral to written: a celebration of Indigenous literature in Canada, 1980-2010 by Tomson Highway

Graphic novels and comics

They called us enemy by George Takei

Essex County by Jeff Lemire

The great northern brotherhood of Canadian cartoonists by Seth

Louis Riel: a comic-strip biography by Chester Brown

The outside circle by Patti LaBoucane-Benson

Films

Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Fubar, the movie

Trailer park boys: big plans, little brains: the complete 1st and 2nd seasons.

Stories we tell

Strange brew

Bon cop, bad cop

Scott Pilgrim

Men with brooms

Passchendaele

My American cousin

Ginger snaps

Posted in Booklist | Tagged Books, Canada, Canadian, Films

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