List of fiction set in Toronto

A list of fiction set in Toronto, Canada, in whole or in part.

This literature-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

English

Novels

• Lovers and Strangers by Joyce Marshall (1957)
• The Meeting Point by Austin Clarke (1967)
• Cabbagetown by Hugh Garner (1968)
• The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood (1969)
• A Fine and Private Place by Morley Callaghan (1975)
• The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies (1981)
• The Martyrology Book 5 by bpNichol (1982)
• Fables of Brunswick Avenue by Katherine Govier (1985)
• In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje (1987)
• Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (1988)
• Born To Lose (novella and stories) by Trevor Clark (1989)
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1989)
• Barking Dogs by Terence M. Green (1989)
• "Losing Joe's Place" by Gordon Korman (1991)
• Murther and Walking Spirits by Robertson Davies (1991)
• No New Land by M. G. Vassanji (1991)
• Headhunter by Timothy Findley (1993)
• The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood (1993)
• The Innocence of Age by Neil Bissoondath (1993)
• The Cunning Man by Robertson Davies (1994)
• How Insensitive by Russell Smith (1994)
• Deadly by Nature by Meredith Andrew (1995)
• The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer (1995)
• Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (1996)
• To Dance At The Palais Royale by Jane McNaughton (1996)
• Blue Limbo by Terence M. Green (1997)
• Buying On Time by Antanas Sileika (1997)
• Where She Has Gone by Nino Ricci (1997)
• Brown Girl in the Ring Nalo Hopkinson (1998)
• Noise by Russell Smith (1998)
• Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask by Jim Munroe (1999) [ISBN 9780380810437]
• A Witness to Life by Terence M. Green (1999)
• Sanctuary & Other Stories by Jennifer Duncan (1999)
• Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer (2000) [ISBN 0812580354]
• Courage My Love by Sarah Dearing (2001)
• Thirsty by Dionne Brand (2001)
• Margery Looks Up by Meredith Andrew (2002)
• Back Flip by Anne Denoon (2002)
• Making a Killing by Warren Dunford (2002)
• The Neanderthal Parallax by Robert J. Sawyer
  • Hominids (2002)
  • Humans (2003)
  • Hybrids (2003)
• Cat's Crossing by Bill Cameron (2003)
• Doctor Bloom's Story by Don Cole (2004)
• Death in the Age of Steam by Mel Brandshaw (2004)
• An opening act of unspeakable evil by Jim Munroe (2004) [ISBN 9780968636336]
• The City Man by Howard Ackler (2005)
• Gently Down the Stream by Ray Robertson (2005)
• What We All Long For by Dionne Brand (2005)
• Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2005)(available online)
• The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke by Steven Hayward (2005)
• Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam
• How Happy to Be by Katrina Onstad (2006)
• Consolation by Michael Redhill (2006)
• Girls Fall Down by Maggie Helwig (2008)
• Barnacle Love by Anthony de Sa (2008)
• Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving (2009) [ISBN 9780307398369]
• The Victoria Nelson series by Tanya Huff
• "The Carnivore" by Mark Sinnett (2009)
• Dragging The River by Trevor Clark (2009)
• Holding Still for as Long as Possible by Zoe Whittall (2009)
• The Charlie Salter mysteries by Eric Wright
• The Jane Yeats mystery series by Liz Brady
• Ghosted by Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall (2010)
• Old City Hall by Robert Rotenberg (2010)
• Love On The Killing Floor by Trevor Clark (2010)
• Dawn at the Royal Star by Jeff Sinasac (2011)

Graphic Novels

• Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley (2004-2010)
• Skim by Mariko Tamaki (2008)

Short stories

• Toronto Short Stories by Morris Wolfe and Douglas Daymond (1977)
• Streets of Attitude: Toronto Stories by Cary Fagan and Robert MacDonald  (1990)
• This Ain't No Healing Town by Barry Callaghan (1995)
• Canada Geese and Apple Chatney by Sasenarine Persaud (1998)
• Concrete Forest by Hal Niedzviecki (1998)
• Natasha and Other Stories by David Bezmozgis (2004)

TV series

• Being Erica
• Billable Hours
• Blood Ties (TV series)
• Blue Murder (Canadian TV series)
• The Border (TV series)
• Da Kink in My Hair (TV series)
• Degrassi, including:
  • The Kids of Degrassi Street
  • Degrassi Junior High
  • Degrassi High
  • Degrassi: The Next Generation
• Drop the Beat
• Flashpoint
• Forever Knight
• Hangin' In, 1981–1987
• King of Kensington, 1975–1980
• Material World (TV series)
• Metropia (TV series)
• Murdoch Mysteries
• The Newsroom
• Rookie Blue
• Riverdale (TV series)
• Seeing Things (TV series)
• Side Effects (TV series)
• Street Legal (TV series)
• The Listener
• This Is Wonderland
• Traders (TV series)
• Train 48
• Twitch City

Film

• Chloe (film) (2009)
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World - Universal Studios (2010)

Overviews

• Greg Gatenby's Toronto: A Literary Guide (McArthur, 1999) provides an encyclopaedic literary tour of Toronto places.
• Robert Fulford’s lecture from 1996 called: “The Invention of Toronto”.
• Amy Lavender Harris' Imagining Toronto (Mansfield, 2010), a comprehensive study of literary representations of Toronto.

French

Novels

• Toronto je t’aime by Didier Leclair (2000)
• Ce pays qui est le mien by Didier Leclair (2003)

Chinese

Novels

• Sun Bo (孙博)，《男人三十》 (Nanren sanshi) (Men in 30's)。北京：文化艺术，2000. [ISBN 9787503919350]
• Yu Xi 余曦，《安大略湖畔》 (Andalue hupan) (The Shores of Lake Ontario)。北京：作家，2005. [ISBN 9787506331623]
• Zhang Ling 张翎，《邮购新娘》(Dougou xinniang) (Mail order wife) 北京：作家，2004. [ISBN 9787506328180]

Short stories

• Zhang Ling 张翎，《雁过澡溪》(Yan guo zaoxi) (四川成都：成都时代，2006.
• Zhang Ling 张翎，《盲约》(Mang yue)。广东广州：花城，2005. [ISBN 9787536043923]
• Zhang Ling 张翎，《尘世》(Chen shi) (The world of flesh)。广西南宁：广西人民，2004. [ISBN 9787219050132]

Hindi

Movies

• Bollywood/Hollywood. Deepa Mehta, 2002.
• Kismat Konnection. Aziz Mirza, 2008.

References

• Imagining Toronto
• Essential Toronto Reads, Reading Toronto

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