The Stone Angel
by Margaret Laurence | 
Cocksure
by Mordecai Richler | 
Famous Last Words
by Timothy Findley | 
You Went Away
by Timothy Findley | 
Solomon Gursky Was Here
by Mordecai Richler | 
Wild Geese
by Martha Ostenso | 
The Diviners
by Margaret Laurence | 
Headhunter
by Timothy Findley |
The Watch That Ends the Night
by Hugh MacLennan |
Two Solitudes
by Hugh MacLennan | 
Who Has Seen the Wind
by W. O. Mitchell | 
The Englishman's Boy
by Guy Vanderhaeghe | 
A Jest of God
by Margaret Laurence | 
The Cure For Death By Lightning
by Gail Anderson-Dargatz | 
Joshua Then and Now
by Mordecai Richler |
A Boy of Good Breeding
by Miriam Toews | 
Medicine River
by Thomas King | 
Pilgrim
by Timothy Findley | 
Washington Black
by Esi Edugyan | 
The Cat's Table
by Michael Ondaatje |
Narrated by Charlie Kilworth, whose birth is an echo of his mother's own illegitimate beginnings, The Piano Man's Daughter is the lyrical, multilayered tale of Charlie's mother, Lily, his grandmother Ede, and their family. Lily is a woman pursued by her own demons, "making off with the matches just when the fires caught hold," "a beautiful, mad genius, first introduced to us singing in her mother's belly." It is also the tale of people who dream in songs, two Irish immigrant families facing a new and uncertain future in turn-of-the-century Toronto. Finally, it is a richly detailed tribute to a golden epoch in our history and of a generation striking the last, haunting chord of innocence.