Over the course of a week, five prominent Canadians each defend a book they believe everyone should read. One title is eliminated every day until only one remains. Canada Reads airs on CBC radio and television annually.

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2006

• A Complicated Kindness – Miriam Toews

The other contenders:

• Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems, 1962-1996 – Al Purdy
• Three Day Road – Joseph Boyden
• Deafening – Frances Itani
• Cocksure – Mordecai Richler

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Added 10 December 2005.
Updated 19 May 2014.