{"id":29758,"count":3,"description":"This is our collection of expert recommended books on Canada. Covering Canadian literature, culture and famous people.\r\n\r\nBestselling, multi-award-winning Canadian author <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/people\/margaret-atwood\/\">Margaret Atwood<\/a> has been recommended many times on Five Books. Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/people\/michael-ondaatje\/\">Michael Ondaatje<\/a> won the 1992 Booker Prize with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/book\/the-english-patient-michael-ondaatje\/\">The English Patient<\/a>. <\/em>Fellow author Esi Edugyan spoke to us about books that have <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/books-that-influenced-her\/\">influenced her<\/a>. Other recommended Canadian authors include <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/people\/rohinton-mistry\/\">Rohinton Mistry<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/people\/alice-munro\/\">Alice Munro<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/people\/joseph-boyden\/\">Joseph Boyden<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/people\/emma-donoghue\/\">Emma Donoghue<\/a>.\r\n\r\nCanadian journalist Tanya Talaga's book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/book\/all-our-relations-tanya-talaga\/\">All Our Relations<\/a> <\/em>focuses on the legacies of colonialism on Canadian First Nations. Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan\u2019s latest book <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/book\/war-how-conflict-shaped-us-margaret-macmillan\/\"><em>War: How Conflict Shaped Us <\/em><\/a>is\u00a0one of our <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/nonfiction-2020-sophie-roell\/\">best nonfiction books of 2020<\/a>.\r\n\r\nFor Canadian history, <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/book\/commissions-high-by-roy-maclaren\/\"><em>Commissions High<\/em><\/a> looks at the relationship between Canada and Britain. Canadian philosopher Paul Thagard has put together a reading list on <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/paul-thagard-meaning-of-life\/\">the meaning of life.<\/a>\r\n<h4 class=\"interview-name\"><\/h4>","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/world\/americas\/canada\/","name":"Canada","slug":"canada","taxonomy":"category","parent":21775,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/29758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/21775"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=29758"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=29758"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=29758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}