For Canada, I suggest "Anne of Green Gables" by Lucy Maud Montgomery. I think it's the canadian novel that's the most well-known around the world.
As an avid reader, I've decided to make things a bit interesting with my reading list and I'm planning a little experiment I like to call my World Literature Tour. Basically, I'm reading a classic or beloved book from as many countries as I can, with the only requirement being that the book's story has to be strongly related to the country in which it was written. Thus far I have the following books in my WLT list:
USA - "The Virginian" by Owen Wister
South Africa - "Cry, the Beloved Country" by Alan Paton
Spain - "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes
France - "The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas
Britain - "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens
Denmark - "Fairy Tales" by Hans Christian Andersen
Germany - "Faust, Part I" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Switzerland - "Heidi" by Johanna Spyri
Italy - "The Inferno" by Dante Alighieri
Greece - "The Iliad" by Homer
Middle East (several countries) - "The Arabian Nights"
China - "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" by Luo Guanzhong
Russia - "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy
Japan - "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu
As you can see, most of the literature I have is European, with only one from the Americas, one from Africa, and a couple from Asia. I would love to add more countries to this list to increase the variety, so if anyone has any suggestions of literature from countries I haven't yet listed, I'd love to hear them. And also, if anyone would like to make up their own WLT list, I'd love to see them.
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For Canada, I suggest "Anne of Green Gables" by Lucy Maud Montgomery. I think it's the canadian novel that's the most well-known around the world.
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