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As a dual citizen, my home land is Canada, so that's my region. I don't include books newer than 25 years on this list (sure, there are modern classics) and my time is short so I'll miss a few. I'll also skip the oh-so-famous Margaret Atwood's older novels because a. everyone's heard of her, and b. she is an author people seem to love or hate, and even though I liked 2 of her novels to be read once only, for the most part, I'm in the second camp.

Gabrielle Roy's The Tin Flute and Where Nests the Water Hen are two important Canadian Classics, (first published in French as she was Quebecois--the s is silent and there is NO w sound in Quebeck or Quebecois!)

Margaret Lawrence The Diviners and The Stone Angel

Whoops--got an important phone call and have to leave now. There are plenty more.

(She was actually Franco-Manitoban, she just ended up living in Montreal later and got folded into Québecois canon, but since she's a woman there WOULD be an "s" sound at the end as it would be Québecoise).

But, to add to Karin's list - Anne of Green Gables is the ultimate Canadian classic in my mind. I'd add Michael Ondaatje, and Carol Shields's [The Stone Diaries].

And, of course, Mordecai Richler for Jewish Montreal. Anne Hebert's Kamouraska. Emile Nelligan's poetry.

I'm bicoastal and it's much harder for me to think of Western-centric classics.

siriusedward wrote: "These are said to be good

Ravan & Eddie
God's Little Soldier
Cuckold
Seven Sixes Are Forty Three

I haven't read any yet... but I just came..."

These are really interesting titles. I'd love to read a few of them, I think I'll start by trying to get ahold of Cuckold. Thanks siriusedward!

I'm from Illinois, but grew up in the southern part of the state in the Saint Louis metro area, so I'll go with authors who were born or lived near Saint Louis.

(1) Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and others. (He was born in Florida, Missouri, lived for a time in Saint Louis, and his childhood home is a few hours away in Hannibal, Missouri--I visited it as a kid and loved it since I had just read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer that summer!)

(2) Kate Chopin: The Awakening, The Story of an Hour, etc. (She was born in St. Louis and spent her childhood here.)

(3) Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, etc. (He moved here with his family in 1918 and lived in the city for over 20 years, despite apparently hating the city and its people, who he found cold, aloof, and smug. Many of his plays were written and produced here.)

(4) Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and others. (Maya was born in Saint Louis and spent part of her youth here, some described in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.)

(5) T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land, etc. (Eliot was born and raised in Saint Louis, though he later left the U.S. for England at 25.)

Kathleen wrote: "siriusedward wrote: "These are said to be good

Ravan & Eddie
God's Little Soldier
Cuckold
Seven Sixes Are Forty Three

I haven't read any y..."

you are welcome Kathleen.. I think they look interesting too..

then of course there are

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Golden Gate
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh

Twilight in Delhi by Ahmed Ali

Malgudi Days by R.K. Narayan