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'''[https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads Canada Reads]''' is an annual event on [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC Radio]]. [[X Meets Y|Part book club, part reality show]], the series selects five books each year and has different famous Canadians defend them in a week of debates. Each day, one book is voted off the list, until only one book remains on the final day of the event. Since this only takes four days, the fifth day of the event's week is given to an interview with the winning book's writer.
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 continued annually until 2021. As of
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* ''[[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
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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
* [[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]].
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