Here are four Canadian books you need to read this November

Margaret Atwood’s latest ‘memoir of sorts’ is just one highlight from a stellar list of Canadian authors.

Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts

Margaret Atwood

McClelland & Stewart

Margaret Atwood in the flesh is witty, personable, funny. On the page she’s a shrewd visionary — insightful, amusing, sometimes dangerous. Like Jekyll and Hyde, she maintains every writer is “at least two beings: the one who lives, and the one who writes.”

In Book of Lives, we get both beings. Her “material” is naturally drawn from her life and times, which cover a lot of ground, starting with her birth in November 1939.

She writes about her life partner, the late writer Graeme Gibson, encounters with wildlife and celebrity life, politics and art, with chapters devoted to each of her major works. Weighing in at