12 Canadian novels that should be made into movies
We wish someone would adapt these 12 great Canadian novels for the silver screen already.
The book is always better than the movie, right? Well, that may be true, but it isn't stopping us from wishing that these 12 great Canadian novels get adapted for the silver screen already.
- The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O'Neill
- 419 by Will Ferguson
- Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
- Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb
- This One Summer by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki
- Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
- The Amazing Absorbing Boy by Rabindranath Maharaj
- A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
- A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
- Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
- The Crooked Maid by Dan Vyleta
- Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood
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