Best Canadian authors
Canadian authors ranked by the scores readers give their books. Canada punches above its weight in fiction, from Margaret Atwood's speculative novels and William Gibson's cyberpunk to Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic stories of Prince Edward Island. This list orders Canadian writers by how highly readers rate their books, a quick way to find the country's strongest voices in one place.
Ranked by each author’s score — the average of their books’ reader ratings on BookRank. Citizenship data: Wikidata.
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- 1Rohinton Mistry8.48.4
- 2Jon Klassen8.38.3
- 3Robert N. Munsch8.28.2
- 4Lucy Maud Montgomery8.18.1
- 5Steven Pinker8.18.1
- 6Guy Delisle8.08.0
- 7James De Mille8.08.0
- 8Louise Penny8.08.0
- 9Eckhart Tolle7.97.9
- 10Emily St. John Mandel7.97.9
- 11Xiran Jay Zhao7.97.9
- 12Danielle L. Jensen7.87.8
- 13Margaret Atwood7.87.8
- 14Emma Donoghue7.87.8
- 15Yann Martel7.87.8
- 16Peter Watts7.87.8
- 17Sara Gruen7.77.7
- 18Cory Doctorow7.77.7
- 19William Gibson7.77.7
- 20Sylvain Neuvel7.77.7
- 21Silvia Moreno-Garcia7.77.7
- 22Alan Bradley7.67.6
- 23Dacre Stoker7.67.6
- 24Marcus Kliewer7.57.5
- 25Michael Ondaatje7.57.5
- 26Eric Berne7.47.4
- 27Nita Prose7.47.4
- 28Jordan Peterson7.37.3
- 29Iain Reid7.37.3
- 30Robin Sharma7.37.3
