The 2021 CBC Canada Reads Longlist Selections are…

The 20th edition of Canada Reads is being held in 2021.

Stories of perseverance, discovery and resilience will transport you across our great country of Canada and around the rest of the world. 

The 2021 longlist includes:

• Yiddish for Pirates by Gary Barwin

• All Together Now by Alan Doyle

• Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi

• Autopsy of a Boring Wife by Marie-Renée Lavoie, translated by Arielle Aaronson

• Two Trees Make a Forest by Jessica J. Lee

• Dirty Birds by Morgan Murray

• The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neill

• The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk

• Tatouine by Jean-Christophe Réhel, translated by Katherine Hastings and Peter McCambridge

• Thunder Through My Veins by Gregory Scofield

• Wendy, Master of Art by Walter Scott

• You Are Eating An Orange. You Are Naked. by Sheung-King

• Tilly and the Crazy Eights by Monique Gray Smith

• Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots

• Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead

The panellists and the books they choose to champion will be revealed on Jan. 14, 2021.

The debates will take place March 8-11, 2021.

Debates will be hosted by Ali Hassan and broadcast on CBC Radio One, CBC TV, CBC Gem and on CBC Books.