Volumes that tell B.C.’s story: Titles to consider as a list of the province’s top 100 books is compiled
What are British Columbia’s 100 best books? Linda L. Richards and David Middleton, co-founders of the literary website Januarymagazine.com,want your suggestions, and TouchWood Editions will publish the list in book form next year.
Richards, Middleton and TouchWood publisher Ruth Linka say their definition of a B.C. book is broad: The author can be a British Columbian, the book can be about the province or it can have been written or published here. “If the book has a British Columbian association for you,” they say, “that’s good enough for us.”
Some titles float to the surface right away. There’s Pauline Johnson’s Legends of Vancouver, first published in 1911. There’s the Encyclopedia of British Columbia, a redoubtable reference book published in 2000 after a 10-year, multi-contributor effort orchestrated by Daniel Francis. There’s Stanley Park, Timothy Taylor’s novel about an in-the-weeds chef that really captures the flavour of the city.
To submit suggestions for the list, visit Greatest100books.com.(And if you need help retrieving favourite books from memory’s sinkhole, visit Abcbookworld.com,a comprehensive reference on B.C. writing, and click on “Browse.”)
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