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{{quote|''"[[Canada]]'s [[Once a Season|Annual]] [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Title Fight]]"''|From the opening credits}}
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At first, this was all in fun. However, people noticed that the nominated books had sales bumps in the
A French version, ''Le combat des livres'', ran from 2004 to 2014. It was revived in 2018 as ''[http://ici.radio-canada.ca/special/combat-des-livres/ Le combat national des livres]'' (with Katherena Vermette's ''[[Ligne brisée]]'' winning the competition) and
The books for ''Canada Reads'' 2024 (with the theme "one book to carry us forward") are:
* <s>''[[Meet Me at the Lake]]'' by [[Carley Fortune]], championed by Mirian Njoh</s> — ''voted off the bookshelf on Monday''
* <s>''[[Denison Avenue]]'' by [[Christina Wong]] and [[Daniel Innes]], championed by Naheed Nenshi</s> — ''voted off the bookshelf on Tuesday''
* <s>''[[Bad Cree]]'' by [[Jessica Johns]], championed by Dallas Soonias</s> — ''voted off the bookshelf on Wednesday''
* <s>''[[Shut Up You're Pretty]]'' by [[Téa Mutonji]], championed by [[Kudakwashe Rutendo]]</s> — ''voted off the bookshelf on Thursday''
* ''[[The Future (novel)|The Future]]'' by [[Catherine Leroux]] (translation by Susan Ouriou), championed by [[Heather O'Neill]] (whose book ''[[Lullabies for Little Criminals]]'' won ''Canada Reads'' in 2007) — ''the winner of '''Canada Reads''' 2024!''
Capsule descriptions of the books, authors, and champions are available [https://www.cbc.ca/books/meet-the-canada-reads-2024-contenders-1.7073689 here]. The 2024 debate took place on March 4-7.
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** [[Margaret Atwood]] has been nominated six times (three in the English competition, three in the French competition), but has never won.
** Collections of poetry or short stories tend to get voted off the bookshelf first - none have ever won.
** "Genre" fiction – fantasy, science fiction, and superhero novels – aren't always voted off first (or second if there's poetry or a collection of short stories), but they didn't win until ''[[The Future (novel)|The Future]]'' won in 2024.
* [[Colbert Bump]]: If a book wins, watch it go out of stock at bookstores in Canada. ''Quickly.''
* [[Product Placement]]: [[Played With]], because playing this trope straight is frowned upon by the [[
* [[Spoiler]]s: Occasionally slip out, given the assumption that everybody who's watching or listening to the discussion has read all of the books.
* [[There Can Be Only One]]: As much as the defenders might like some or all of the books, only one book each year can be named the book that [[Title Drop|Canada reads]].
* [[Voted Off the Island
* [[X Meets Y]]: Your friendly neighbourhood book club meets ''[[Survivor (TV series)|Survivor]]''
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