The unstoppable Book of Negroes

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By Scott MacDonald
February 13, 2009
12:47 PM

Filed under: Awards, book, Book of Negroes, Canada Reads, CBC, CBC Canada Reads, Evergreen Award, HarperCollins, Lawrence Hill, library, Ontario, The Book of Negroes

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At this point, you gotta wonder: has anyone in Canada not read Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes? Released by HarperCollins Canada more than two years ago, the book has grown from a solid word-of-mouth sleeper to an out-and-out sales juggernaut, and it doesn’t look to be slowing down anytime soon. Not only was it recently chosen as one of the 2009 CBC Canada Reads selections, but Ontario Library patrons have just picked it as the winner of the Evergreen Award for most popular book of 2008. Oh, and Trent University has selected it for its 2009 Trent Reads initiative, which encourages every student to read and discuss the book.

angel guerra

Has anyone in Canada not read the book? Yes the jurors of the Giller Prize.
Sarah

Well…… I had never heard of it until it was picked for Canada Reads.
And I read at least 2 books a month.

Like many, I’m not much into CanLit, so it had completely passed me by.

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