100 true stories that make you proud to be Canadian

Canada has a wealth of writers telling today's tales, revisiting our past and imagining our future. Here are 100 works of nonfiction that will make you proud to be a Canadian.

1. 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa by Stephanie Nolen
2. A Geography of Blood by Candace Savage
3. A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
4. A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout & Sara Corbett
5. A Place Within by M.G. Vassanji
6. A Thousand Farewells by Nahlah Ayed
7. Anatomy of Criticism by Northrop Frye
8. And No Birds Sang by Farley Mowat
9. Arrival City by Doug Saunders
10. An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
11. Baltimore's Mansion by Wayne Johnston
12. Between Gods by Alison Pick
13. Black Berry, Sweet Juice by Lawrence Hill
14. Boundless by Kathleen Winter
15. Burmese Lessons by Karen Connelly
16. Burning Down the House by Russell Wangersky
17. Cockeyed by Ryan Knighton
18. Corked by Kathryn Borel, Jr.
19. Damned Nations by Samantha Nutt
20. Defiant Spirits by Ross King
21. Eating Dirt by Charlotte Gill
22. Empire of the Beetle by Andrew Nikiforuk
23. Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
24. From Harvey River by Lorna Goodison
25. Gold Diggers by Charlotte Gray
26. How Poetry Saved My Life by Amber Dawn
27. Into the Silence by Wade Davis
28. Intolerable by Kamal Al­-Solaylee
29. Jerusalem by Guy Delisle
30. Klee Wyck by Emily Carr
31. Laughing All the Way to the Mosque by Zarqa Nawaz
32. Listen to the Squawking Chicken by Elaine Lui
33. Louis Riel by Chester Brown
34. Me Funny edited by Drew Hayden Taylor
35. Missing Sarah by Maggie de Vries
36. Mordecai by Charles Foran
37. Most of Me by Robyn Michele Levy
38. Nation Maker by Richard Gwyn
39. Nice Recovery by Susan Juby
40. No Logo by Naomi Klein
41. Norval Morrisseau by Armand Garnet Ruffo
42. On a Cold Road by Dave Bidini
43. On the Farm by Stevie Cameron
44. On the Outside Looking Indian by Rupinder Gill
45. One Hour in Paris by Karyn L. Freedman
46. One Native Life by Richard Wagamese
47. Open Heart, Open Mind by Clara Hughes
48. Paper Shadows by Wayson Choy
49. Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan
50. Photobooth by Meags Fitzgerald
51. Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat
52. Projection by Priscila Uppal
53. Room for All of Us by Adrienne Clarkson
54. Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie
55. Runaway by Evelyn Lau
56. Shake Hands with the Devil by Roméo Dallaire
57. Something Fierce by Carmen Aguirre
58. Stalin's Daughter by Rosemary Sullivan
59. Stolen Life by Rudy Wiebe & Yvonne Johnson
60. Straphanger by Taras Grescoe
61. Survival by Margaret Atwood
62. Swing Low by Miriam Toews
63. Tangles by Sarah Leavitt
64. The 100-­Mile Diet by Alisa Smith & J.B. MacKinnon
65. The Boy in the Moon by Ian Brown
66. The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary by Andrew Westoll
67. The Concubine's Children by Denise Chong
68. The Dogs Are Eating Them Now by Graeme Smith
69. The Education of Augie Merasty by Joseph Merasty with David Carpenter
70. The Game by Ken Dryden
71. The Gutenberg Galaxy by Marshall McLuhan
72. The Hanging of Angélique by Afua Cooper
73. The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
74. The Last Spike by Pierre Berton
75. The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
76. The Love Queen of Malabar by Merrily Weisbord
77. The Measure of a Man by JJ Lee
78. The Morning After by Chantal Hébert with Jean Lapierre
79. The Oil Man and the Sea by Arno Kopecky
80. The Reason You Walk by Wab Kinew
81. The Right to Be Cold by Sheila Watt-­Cloutier
82. The Russian Album by Michael Ignatieff
83. The Sacred Balance by David Suzuki with Amanda McConnell & Adrienne Mason
84. The Tiger by John Vaillant
85. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
86. The World Is Moving Around Me by Dany Laferriere, translated by David Homel
87. The Year of Finding Memory by Judy Fong Bates
88. Theatre of the Unimpressed by Jordan Tannahill
89. There Is a Season by Patrick Lane
90. They Called Me Number One by Bev Sellars
91. They Left Us Everything by Plum Johnson
92. This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
93. This Is Happy by Camilla Gibb
94. Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Gildiner
95. Trauma Farm by Brian Brett
96. Tree: A Life Story by David Suzuki & Wayne Grady
97. Two Generals by Scott Chantler
98. Under An Afghan Sky by Mellissa Fung
99. Up Ghost River by Edmund Metatawabin with Alexandra Shimo
100. What Disturbs Our Blood by James FitzGerald