Coach House Titles Among the Twenty Most Iconic Toronto Books

Have you ever been to literary Toronto? It’s the city where Patrick Lewis swam the murky tunnels of the H.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant; where David Staunton interrupted a magic show at the Royal Alexander Theatre to publicly accuse Paul Dempster of murder; where Scott Pilgrim goaded Lucas Lee into attempting a suicidal skateboard stunt along the Baldwin Steps.

As a primer to this quixotic milieu, BlogTO has put out a list of Toronto’s twenty most iconic novels. In additional to the obvious canonical choices, and a whopping three Margaret Atwood titles, the list includes two Coach House books: Maggie Helwig’s anxiety-fueled melodrama Girls Fall Down and Andrew Kaufman’s urban-nerd mock epic All My Friends are Superheroes. Both are available from Coach House, and both are required reading for literary Torontonians.

For the full list, see here.