IMAGINING TORONTO
Intersections of Literature and Place in the Toronto Region

The Imagining Toronto Library

The following is a regularly expanding library of literary and critical works about Toronto. Suggestions and additions are eagerly welcomed; please send them to Amy Lavender Harris at alharris@yorku.ca . A searchable database is in development.

Please click on the following headings to view literature by category, or scroll down.

Abram, Alvin, 2002. The Unlikely Victims (A Gabe Garshowitz Mystery). Toronto: AMA Graphics.

Akler, Howard, 2005. The City Man. Toronto: Coach House Books.

Ali, Ansara, 1992. The Sacred Adventures of a Taxi Driver. London, Ontario: Third Eye. (memoir and
incantation; reads rather like a Toronto version of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Management)

Allen, Sol, 1949. Toronto Doctor. Toronto: Rock Publishing.

Allen, Sol, 1965. The Gynecologist. Toronto: Rock Publishing.

Anderson, Gordon Stewart, 2006. The Toronto You are Leaving. Toronto: Untroubled Heart.

Arima, Philip, 2003. Broken Accidents. Toronto: Insomniac.

Armstrong, Kelley, 2001. Bitten. Toronto: Random House of Canada. (wherewolf novel)

Arnason, David, ed., 1976. Nineteenth Century Canadian Stories. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada. [The introductory essay is useful, although few if any of the stories are actually 'set' in Toronto.]

Atwood, Margaret, 1969. The Edible Woman. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Atwood, Margaret, 1970. "Resurrection" and "A Bus Along St. Clair: December", from The Journals of Susanna Moodie. Toronto: Oxford University Press.

Atwood, Margaret, 1976. Lady Oracle. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Atwood, Margaret, 1977. Dancing Girls & Other Stories. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Atwood, Margaret, 1988. Cat's Eye. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Atwood, Margaret, 1993. The Robber Bride. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Atwood, Margaret, 1996. Alias Grace. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Atwood, Margaret, 1987 [1999]. "Freeforall" (short story). Published in Northern Suns: The New Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction, ed. David G. Hartwell and Glenn Grant, pp.17-24. New York: Tor.

Atwood, Margaret, 2000. The Blind Assassin. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Atwood, Margaret, 2007. The Door. Poems. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Aubert, Rosemary, 1997. Free Reign. Bridge Works / Beckley. See also the other novels in Aubert's Ellis Portal series: The Feast of Stephen (1999, Bridge Works / Beckley), The Ferryman Will Be There (2001, McArthur), Leave Me By Dying (2003, McArthur), and Red Mass (2006, McArthur).

Avison, Margaret, 2006. Momentary Dark. Toronto: MCClelland & Stewart. [poems]

Bailey, Don, 1979. The Sorry Papers. stories. Oberon.

Bailey, Don, 1981. Making Up. stories. Oberon. [especially worth reading is "Shared Accommodation"]

Baker, Nancy, 1993. The Night Inside. Toronto: Viking. Later re-released as Kiss of the Vampire.

Barclay, Linwood, 2004. Bad Move. New York: Bantam.

Barr, Robert, [1907] 1973. The Measure of the Rule. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. [Set at the Toronto Normal School in 1870s Toronto.]

Bates, Judy Fong, 2003. Midnight at the Dragon Cafe. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Battan, Jack, 1991. Blood Count. Toronto: Macmillan. (detective / mystery)

Beasley, David, 1996. Hamilton Romance: A Hamilton - Toronto Nexus. Simcoe, ON: Davus Publishing.

Berry, Michelle, 2005. Blind Crescent. Toronto: Penguin Canada.

Betts, Gregory, ed., 2003. After Exile: A Raymond Knister Poetry Reader. Toronto: Exile Editions.

Bezmozgis, David, 2004. Natasha and Other Stories. Toronto: Harper Collins Canada.

Bishop-Stall, Shaunessy, 2004. Down to This: Squalor and splendor in a big-city shantytown. Toronto: Random House Canada.

Blake, Yashin, 2001. Titanium Punch. Toronto: ECW Press.

Bourne, Lesley-Anne, 1998. The Bubble Star. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill.

Boissonneau, Alice, 1991. There Will Be Gardens. Toronto: Exile Editions.

Bradshaw, Mel, 2004. Death in the Age of Steam. Toronto: Rendezvous Press. [mystery set in 1850s Toronto]

Bradshaw, Mel, 2005. Quarrel with the Foe. Toronto: Rendezvous Crime. [mystery set in 1920s Toronto]

Brady, Liz, 2001. Bad Date. (A Jane Yeats Mystery) Toronto: Second Story Press.

Brand, Dionne, 1994. "Driving North, Driving Home", "Bathurst". In Bread out of Stone. Toronto: Vintage.

Brand, Dionne, 1996. In Another Place, Not Here. Toronto: Knopf.

Brand, Dionne, 2002. Thirsty (poems). Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Brand, Dionne, 2005. What We All Long For. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf.

Brandis, Marianne, 1990. The Sign of the Scales. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill. (historical novel suitable for adult and young adult readers; see also The Tinderbox (Porcupine's Quill, 1982 and The Quarter-pie Window (Porcupine's Quill, 1985. Brandis has also written other historical novels set in nineteenth century York, including Fire Ship ; Porcupine's Quill, 1982.)

Bruce, Harry, 1968. The Short, Happy Walks of Max MacPherson. Toronto: MacMillan of Canada.

Brunhuber, Kim Barry, 2003. Kameleon Man. Vancouver: Beach Holme. (a mixed race man models in Toronto; Brunhuber's psoe style reminds me of Russell Smith; see below)

Bryden, Diana Fitzgerald, 2004. Clinic Day. Poems. London, ON: Brick Books.

Burgess, Tony, 1998. Pontypool Changes Everything. Toronto: ECW Press.

Burstow, Bonnie, 2006. The House on Lippincott. Toronto: Inanna.

Bush, Catherine, 1993. Minus Time. Toronto: Harper Collins Canada. (revised 2000; Harper Perennial paperback)

Bush, Catherine, 2000. The Rules of Engagement. Farrar Straus Giroux. (paperback edition 2001, Harper Perennial)

Bush, Catherine, 2004. Claire's Head. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. (revised 2005; Emblem Edition paperback)

Butler, Juan, 1970. Cabbagetown Diary: A Documentary. (a novel) Toronto: Peter Martin Associates Limited.

Cain, Stephen, 2002. Torontology. Toronto: ECW Press.

Callaghan, Barry, 1978. The Hogg Poems and Drawings. Don Mills, Ontario: General Publishing.

Callaghan, Barry,  1982. The Black Queen Stories. Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys.

Callaghan, Barry, ed., 1995. This Ain't No Healing Town: Toronto Stories. Toronto: Exile Editions.

Callaghan, Barry, 1998. Barrelhouse Kings. Memoir. Toronto: McArthur.

Callaghan, Morley, 1973. Strange Fugitive. Toronto: MacMillan of Canada. See also: It's Never Over, They Shall Inherit the Earth,  More Joy in Heaven, A Broken Journey,  Such is My Beloved, and Close to the Sun Again. Callaghan also published several collections of short stories, many dealing with Toronto themes.

Callaghan, Morley, 1985. Our Lady of the Snows. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada.

Callaghan, Morley, 1985. The Lost and Found Stories of Morley Callaghan. Toronto: Exile / Lester and Orpen Denys; paperback edition published in 1986 by Totem Press.

Capponi, Pat, 1992. Upstairs in the Crazy House. Toronto: Viking. (memoir of life as a psychiatric survivor; Capponi is a well-known advocate and writer).

Capponi, Pat, 1997. Dispatches from the Poverty Line. Toronto: Penguin.

Capponi, Pat, 2006. Last Stop Sunnyside. Toronto: Harper Collins Canada.

Carpenter, J.D., 2001. The Devil in Me. (A Campbell Young Mystery). Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Chariandry, David, 2007. Soucouyant. Vancouver: Anvil.

Christakos, Margaret, 2000. Charisma. Toronto: Pedlar Press.

Christakos, Margaret, 2005. Sooner. Toronto: Coach House.

Clark, Hilary, ed., 1996. Stories from Blood & Aphorisms, Volume Two. Toronto: Gutter Press. (see also Paleczny, Timothy, ed., 1993. Stories from Blood & Aphorisms. Toronto: Steel Rail / Gutter Press.)

Clark, Trevor, 1989. Born to Lose. Toronto: ECW.

Clarke, Austin, 1967. The Meeting Point. Vintage Canada. (the first book of Clarke's Toronto Trilogy)

Clarke, Austin, 1971. When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks. Stories. Toronto: Anansi.

Clarke, Austin, 1973. Storm of Fortune.  Little, Brown & Company. (the second book of Clarke's Toronto trilogy; released in 1998 as a Vintage Canada paperback)

Clarke, Austin, 1975. The Bigger Light.  (the third book of Clarke's Toronto trilogy)

Clarke, Austin, 1986. Nine Men Who Laughed. Stories. Toronto: Penguin.

Clarke, Austin, 1997. The Origin of Waves. McClelland & Stewart.

Clarke, Austin, 1999. The Question. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart / Emblem Editions.

Cohen, Matt, 1993. The Bookseller. Toronto: Vintage Canada.

Cole, Trevor, 2006. The Fearsome Particles. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Coles, Don, 2004. Doctor Bloom's Story. Toronto: Knopf Canada.

Cooper, Douglas, 1992. Amnesia. Toronto: Random House.

Cooper, Susan, 1993. The Boggart. Toronto: Aladdin. (Children's story)

Corbeil, Carole, 1992. Voice-Over. Toronto: Stoddart.

Corbeil, Carole, 1997. In The Wings. Toronto: Stoddart.

Cornish, John, 1968. Sherbourne Street. Toronto: Clarke Irwin.

Crosbie, Lynn and Michael Holmes, 1995. Plush. Selected poems of Sky Gilbert, Courtnay McFarlane, Jeffery Conway, R.M Vaughan & David Trinidad. Toronto: Coach House.

Crosbie, Lynn, 1998. Queen Rat: New and Selected Poems. Toronto: House of Anansi. (see "Alphabet City" in particular)

Czerneda, Julie E. and Genevieve Kierans, eds., 2006. Mythspring. From the Lyrics and Legends of Canada. Calgary, Alberta: Red Deer Press. [Stories based on Canadian myths; look for Roben Goodfellow's "After November", set in Toronto.]

Davies, Robertson, 1981. The Rebel Angels. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada. (see also What's Bred in the Bone; Macmillan, 1985)

Davies, Robertson, 1991. Murther & Walking Spirits. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Davies, Robertson, 1994. The Cunning Man. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Davis, Lauren B., 2002. The Stubborn Season. Toronto: Harper Perennial Canada.

Dearing, Sarah, 2001. Courage My Love. Toronto: Stoddart.

Dempster, Barry, 1993. The Ascension of Jesse Eapture. Kingston: Quarry Press.

den Hartog, Kristen, 2002; 2005. The Perpetual Ending. San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage.

Denoon, Anne, 2002. Back Flip. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill.

Deverell, William, 1995. Street Legal: The Betrayal. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. (Deverell is the creator of the CBC Street Legal series.)

Dewdney, Christopher, 2000. Signal Fires. Poems. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Dewdney, Christopher, 2002. The Natural History. Poems. Toronto: ECW.

di Cicco, Pier Giorgio, 1977. "6 Months of the CN Tower" (poem) The Sad Facts. Vancouver: Fiddlehead.

di Cicco, Pier Giorgio, 2002. The Honeymoon Wilderness. Toronto: The Mansfield Press.

Doctor, Farzana, 2007. Stealing Nasreen. Toronto: Inanna.

Doctorow, Cory, 2005. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. New York: Tor. (also available on-line at http://www.craphound.com/someone/) Doctorow's work frequently mentions or is set partly in Toronto and environs. See also Overclocked (stories, 2006), Eastern Standard Tribe (2004), A Place So Foreign and Eight More (stories, 2003), and Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003). Cory Doctorow's website: http://craphound.com , where all of these works may be read and downloaded.

Donnell, David, 2004. Sometimes a Great Notion. Poems. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Duncan, Jennifer, 1999. Sanctuary & Other Stories. Montreal: Livres DC Books.

Dunford, Warren, 2005. The Scene Stealer. Toronto: Cormorant.

Dunford, Warren, 2001. Making a Killing. Toronto: Penguin (reissued 2005 by Cormorant).

Dunford, Warren, 1998. Soon to be a Major Motion Picture. Toronto: Riverbank Press (reissued 2005 by Cormorant).

Dunlop, Rishma, 2005. Metropolis. Poems. Toronto: Mansfield Press.

Durie, Anna, 1933. John Dangerfield's Strange Reappearance. Toronto: Best.

Eddie, David, 1996. Chump Change. Toronto: Random House of Canada.

Engel, Howard and Eric Wright, 2001. My Brother's Keeper. Toronto: Book City / Bookmasters Limited.

Engel, Marian, 1970. The Honeyman Festival. Toronto: Anansi.

Engel, Marian, 1981. Lunatic Villas. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Engel, Marian, 1990 (originally published 1968). Sarah Bastard's Notebook. Toronto: Insomniac.

Espinet, Ramabai, 1992. The Princess of Spadina. A Tale of Toronto. Toronto: Sister Vision Press. [Children's story about Toronto, Spadina, and Kensington Market. Richly illustrated by Veronica Sullivan.]

Fagan, Cary and Robert MacDonald, eds., 1990. Streets of Attitude: Toronto Stories. Toronto: Yonge & Bloor Publishing.

Fielding, Joy, 2003. Lost. Simon & Schuster / Atria. (mystery novel; intersects with Toronto International Film Festival)

Findley, Timothy, 1993. Headhunter. Toronto: Harper Collins Canada.

Fiorito, Joe, 2006. Union Station: Love, Madness, Sex and Survival on the Streets of the New Toronto. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Fleming, Anne, 1998. Pool Hopping and Other Stories. Vancouver: Polestar. [Several stories in this collection are set in Toronto]

Fleming, Anne, 2005. Anomaly. Vancouver: Raincoast.

Foran, Charles, 1998. The Story of My Life (So Far). Toronto: Harper Collins. [A fictionalized memoir of childhood in Toronto]

Foster, Marion, 1991. Legal Tender. Firebrand Books.

Fraser, Sylvia, 1975. The Candy Factory. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. [Appears to be set in a factory in Hamilton]

Freedman, Zelda, 2005. Rosie's Dream Cape. Ronsdale Press. (Children's story; deals with working conditions in the Toronto garment industry, circa 1921.)

Galt, George, 1997. Scribes & Scoundrels. Toronto: ECW Press.

Garner, Hugh, [first published in abridged form in 1950 by White Circle] 1968. Cabbagetown. Markham, Ontario: Simon & Schuster. Note that the two versions differ significantly and are both worth reading.

Garner, Hugh [under the pseudonym Jarvis Warwick], 1950. Waste No Tears. News Stand / Export Publishing.

Garner, Hugh, 1962. The Silence on the Shore. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Garner, Hugh,1970. A Nice Place to Visit. Toronto: Ryerson.

Garner, Hugh, 1975. Death in Don Mills. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson.

Garner, Hugh, 1976. The Intruders. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson. (A follow-up, in some ways, to Cabbagetown.)

Garner, Hugh, [1978] 1979. Murder Has Your Number. Toronto: Seal. (A sequel to Death in Don Mills; an Inspector McDumont Mystery)

Garnet, Eldon, 2007. Lost Between the Edges. Semiotext(e).

Gibson, Brian, 2004. Bleeding Daylight. Thornhill, Ontario: Oubliette Press. (York University is prominently featured in this novel.)

Gibson, Graeme, 1971. Communion. Toronto: Anansi.

Gibson, Margaret (Margaret Gibson Gilboord), 1976. The Butterfly Ward. Toronto: Oberon.

Gibson, Shirley, 1973. I am Watching. Poems. Toronto: Anansi.

Gildiner, Catherine, 2005. Seduction. Toronto: Vintage Canada.

Gilmour, David, 1993. An Affair with the Moon. Toronto: Random House of Canada.

Gilmour, David, 2005. A Perfect Night to go to China. Toronto: Thomas Allen.

Gordon, Alison, 1995. Striking Out. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. (detective / mystery). See also: Safe at Home (1991).

Govier, Katherine, 1982. Going Through the Motions. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Govier, Katherine, 1985. Fables of Brunswick Avenue: Stories. Toronto: HarperPerennial.

Govier, Katherine, 1994. The Immaculate Conception Photography Gallery (stories). Boston; Toronto: Little, Brown & Company.

Govier, Katherine, 2000. The Truth Teller. Toronto: Random House Canada.

Gowdy, Barbara, 1989. Fallen Angels. Toronto: Random House of Canada.

Gowdy, Barbara, 1995. Mister Sandman. Toronto: Somerville House. (paperback, 2001, Harper Collins).

Gowdy, Barbara, 2007. Helpless. Toronto: Harper Collins.

Grainger, James, 2004. The Long Slide. Stories. Toronto: ECW Press.

Granatstein, Morris, 2000. Toronto, My City (poems new & selected). Toronto: Tortoise Books / Printed by Coach House Press.

Green, Terence M., 1996. Shadow of Ashland. New York: Forge.

Green, Terence M., 1999. A Witness to Life. New York: Forge.

Green, Terence M., 1997. Blue Limbo. New York: Tor.

Green, Terence M., 1988. Barking Dogs. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Gutteridge, Don, 2003. Turncoat. (A Mark Edwards Mystery). Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Gutteridge, Don, 2003. Solemn Vows: A Mark Edwards Mystery. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Hartwell, David G. and Glenn Grant, eds., 1994. Northern Stars: The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction. New York: Tor.

Hartwell, David. G. and Glenn Grant, eds., 1999. Northern Suns: The New Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction. New York: Tor. [Includesseveral stories set in Toronto, including Margaret Atwood's "Freeforall", Nalo Hopkinson's "A Habit of Waste" and Cory Doctorow's "Craphound"]

Hayward, Steven, 2005. The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf.

Helwig, Maggie, 1989. Talking Prophet Blues. Poetry. Kingston, Ontario: Quarry Press.

Hill, Lawrence, 2001. Black Berry, Sweet Juice. Toronto: Harper Collins. (a memoir of growing up in Toronto's  Don Mills area)

Hill, Lawrence, 1997. Any Known Blood.  Toronto: Harper Collins Canada.
Lawrence Hill's website: http://www.lawrencehill.com/index.html

Hines, Karen, 2004. The Pochsy Plays. Toronto: Coach House. [theatre]

Holmes, Michael, 2000. Watermelon Row. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press.

Holz, Cynthia, 1999. Semi Detached. Toronto: Patrick Crean / Key Porter.

Hood, Hugh, 1973. The Governor's Bridge is Closed. Essays. Oberon.

Hood, Hugh, 1975. The Swing in the Garden. Toronto: General Publishing. Hugh Hood's "The New Age / Le Nouvelle Siecle" series consists of twelve novels tracing Ontario life through most of the twentieth century. Toronto appears recurringly in these novels, particularly in The Swing in the Garden (the first) and Black and White Keys. The full set: The Swing in the Garden (1975), A New Athens (1977), Reservoir Ravine (1979), Black and White Keys (1982), The Scenic Art (1984), The Motor Boys in Ottawa (1986), Tony's Book (1988), Property and Value (1990), Be Sure to Close Your Eyes (1993), Dead Men's Watches  (1995), Great Realizations (1997), and Near Water (2000).

Hood, Hugh, 1987. Five New Facts About Giorgione. Windsor, Ontario: Black Moss Press. (Begins in Toronto; proceeds to Venice.)

Hopkinson, Nalo, 1998. Brown Girl in the Ring. New York: Warner.

Hughes, Isabelle, 1947. Serpent's Tooth. Toronto: Collins. [First book of the Telforth family saga, set in the Kingsway area of west Toronto. Made a stir in Toronto when first published.]

Hughes, Isabelle, 1949. Time in Ambush. Toronto: Collins. [second book of the Telforth family saga]

Hughes,Isabelle, 1952. Lorena Telforth. London: Peter Davies.
[part of the Toronto-set Telforth family saga.]

Hughes, Isabelle, 1954. The Wise Brother. Toronto: Ryerson. [Book four, perhaps the last, of the Telforth family saga.]

Humphries, Helen, 1997. Leaving Earth. Toronto: Harper Perennial.

Huff, Tanya, 1991. Blood Price. New York: Daw. Part of the Vicki Nelson detective series, which also includes Blood Trail (1992), Blood Lines (1992), Blood Pact (1993), and Blood Debt (1997).

Hunter, Bernice Thurman, 1981. That Scatterbrain Booky. Toronto: Scholastic. [Children's book set in Depression-era Toronto. First volume of the 'Booky' series. Highly recommended.]

Hunter, Bernice Thurman, 1983. With Love From Booky. Toronto: Scholastic. [Children's book set in Depression-era Toronto. Second volume of the 'Booky' series.]

Hunter, Bernice Thurman, 1984. A Place for Margaret. Toronto: Scholastic. [First book of the 'Margaret' series, set partially in Toronto; latter books are set in the Shelburne area.]

Hunter, Bernice Thurman, 1985. As Ever, Booky. Toronto: Scholastic. [Children's book set in Depression-era Toronto. Third volume of the 'Booky' series.]

Hunter, Bernice Thurman, 1992. The Firefighter. Toronto: Scholastic. [Young adult; set in 1950s-era Toronto.]

Hunter, Bernice Thurman, 1993. Hawk and Stretch. Toronto: Scholastic. [A follow-up, in some ways, to the 'Booky' series; the principal character in this novel is Booky's younger brother, Billy. Set in WWII-era Toronto.]

Hunter, Bernice Thurman, 1995. Amy's Promise. Toronto: Scholastic. [Young adult novel set mainly in 1920s-era Toronto.]

Hunter, Bernice Thurman, 1998. Janey's Choice. Toronto: Scholastic. [Young adult novel set in Winnipeg and Toronto.]

Hunter, Bernice Thurman, 2005 [published posthumously]. The Girls They Left Behind. Fitzhenry & Whiteside. [Young adult novel set in WWII-era Toronto.]

Imagining Toronto / Seventeen Geographers, 2006. Urban TEXTures: Imaginative Renderings of Toronto. Toronto: Imagining Toronto. Chapbook. Features contributions from Aisha Ahmed, Liza Badaloo, Kris Bellissimo, Carmela Beninato, Alessandra Caschera, May Chew, Jessica DeSantis, Kelly Falcioni, Rob Halko, Laura Hatcher, Thersa Ip, Shakib Khan, Stephanie Nunes, Katherine Rudzik, Tyler Starzynski, Vangela Valle, and Alessandro Vescio. Details here.

Ishawaran, Wobine, 2007. The Fly Away Kite: Centre Island Picnic. UK: Authorhouse. [children's book)

Jailall, Peter, 1997. Yet Another Home. Poems. Natural Heritage.

Jenkins, Herbert, 1920. John Dene of Toronto. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited. [Set in London but an interesting representation of a fictional Torontonian's character.]

Jennings, Maureen, 2006. Vices of My Blood. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. Book 6 of the Detective William Murdoch series, set in 1890s Toronto. See also: Night's Child (no. 5, 2005), Let Loose the Dogs (no. 4, 2002), Poor Tom is Cold (no. 3, 2001), Under the Dragon's Tail (no. 2, 1998), Except the Dying (no. 1, 2001). Maureen Jenning's website.

Johnston, Wayne, 1994. Human Amusements. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Jones, Daniel, 1985. The Brave Never Write Poetry. Toronto: Coach House.

Jones, Daniel, 1989. South of Queen Street. Toronto: Streetcar Editions.

Jones, Daniel, 1992. Obessions. A Novel in Parts. Toronto: Mercury.

Jones, Daniel, 1994. The People One Knows: Toronto Stories. Stratford, Ontario: Mercury Press.

Jones, Daniel, 1998. 1978. Toronto: Rush Hour Revisions.

Kennedy, Barry, 1998. The Hindmost. Toronto: Doubleday Canada.

Knezic, Nebojsa, 2001. People who Die Twice a Day. Toronto: Nebojsa Knezic / N.D.J. Books.

Kosar, Richelle, 2003. A Streak of Luck. Toronto: Cormorant.

Kreisel, Henry, 1948. The Rich Man. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Krueger, Lesley, 2003. The Corner Garden. Toronto: Penguin.

Lam, Desmond, 2006. Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures. Toronto: Doubleday Canada.

Lambert, Shaene, 2002. The Falling Woman. Toronto: Vintage.

Leclair, Didier, 2000. Toronto, je t'aime: Roman. Du Vermillon. (Langiage: French). See also Leclair's Ce Pays Qui est le Mien.

Lee, Dennis, 1974 (reissued1994). Civil Elegies. Toronto: Anansi.

Lee, Dennis, 1987. The Difficulty of Living on Other Planets. Toronto: Macmillan.

Leenders, Gordon J. H., 2005. To Be Continued ... Toronto: ECW.

Lepp, John, 1995. City People: Sights and Sounds. Toronto: Strangelove Publishing. [self-published chapbook of poems.]

Livesay, Dorothy, 1972. Collected Poems: The Two Seasons. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson. See especially "Queen City".

Lonergan, Peter, 1993. Leslieville. Toronto: Lugus Publishing. [A dystopian novel set in 2020 Toronto.]

Lunn, Janet, 1968. Double Spell. Toronto: Peter Martin Associates Limited. [Children's or young adult novel, historical mystery, republished as Twin Spell in 1968 by Harper & Row.]

Lyons, Don, 1984. Yorkville Diaries. Toronto: Elephant Press. [Set in late 1960s Yorkville]

Macdonald, Bruce, 2007. Coureurs De Bois. Toronto: Cormorant. [First Nations perspective on Toronto. FUnny and well written.]

MacEwen, Gwendolyn, 1972. Noman. Stories. Toronto: Oberon.

MacEwen, Gwendolyn, 1985. Noman's Land. Stories. Toronto: Coach House Books.

MacEwen, Gwendolyn, 1987. Afterworlds. (poems). Toronto: McLelland & Stewart.

MacKay, Scott, 2003. Old Scores. (Detective Barry Gilbert series) St. Martins Minotaur. See also: Fall Guy (2001) and Cold Comfort (1998). Mystery / thriller. Scott MacKay's website. MacKay also writes science fiction.

Marche, Stephen, 2005. Raymond and Hannah. Toronto: Doubleday.

Marshall, Joyce, 1957. Lovers and Strangers. Toronto [?]: Lippincott.

Marshall, Tom, 1976. The White City. poems. Oberon.

McAree, J.V., 1953. Cabbagetown Store. (memoir). Toronto: Ryerson Press.

McClement, Fred, 1974. The Strange Case of Ambrose Small. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. [Strictly speaking this is a thoroughly researched non-fiction account, but its narrative character is fictional and it is worth reading alongside any of Toronto's detective and mystery novels.]

McCormack, Louisa, 2006. Six Weeks to Toxic. Toronto: Key Porter.

McFetridge, John, 2006.  Dirty Sweet. Toronto: ECW Press. (mystery / thriller)

Mcnamee, Graham, 2003. Acceleration. Wendy Lamb Books. Young adult.

Meredith, Alden G., 1928. Mary's Rosedale and Gossip of "Little York". Ottawa: Graphic Publishers. [A fictionalized biography of the district and its inhabitants. Quaint.]

Meyer, Vivian, 2006. Bottom Bracket. Toronto: Sumach.

Michaels, Anne, 1996. Fugitive Pieces. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Michaels, Anne, 1997. "Phantom Limbs", from The Weight of Oranges / Miner's Pond. Poems. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Michaels, Anne, 1999. "There is No City that Does Not Dream", from Skin Divers. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Miller, Jeffrey, 2004. Murder at Osgoode Hall. Toronto: ECW. [mystery]

Miller, John, 2006. A Sharp Intake of Breath. Toronto: Simon & Pierre / Dundurn.

Millner, George F., 1914. The Sergeant of Fort Toronto. Boston: Gorham. [A novel about Toronto under the French regime. The complete text of this book is available electronically here.

Moir, John S., 1965. Rhymes of Rebellion. Being a Selection of Contemporary Verses About the "Recent Unpleasantness" in Upper Canada, 1837. Toronto: Ryerson. [An anthology of poems and lyrics about the 1837 rebellion.]

Morey, Mike, 2003. Uncle Dirty. Toronto: Escape Media.

Moritsugu, Kim, 1996. Looks Perfect. Fredericton, New Brunswick: Goose Lane Editions.

Mortisugu, Kim, 1999. Old Flames. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill.

Moritsugu, Kim, 2003. The Glenwood Treasure. Toronto: Dundurn.

Moritsugu, Kim, 2006. The Restoration of Emily. Toronto: Dundurn.
Kim Moritsugu's website:  http://www.kimmoritsugu.com/

Munroe, David, 1990. Mahoney in Control and Other Stories. Willowdale, Ontario: Hounslow Press.

Munroe, Jim, 1998. Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask. Toronto: No Media Kings.

Murphy, Phil, 1984. Summer Island. (memoir) Canada: Oberon.

Ngui, Marc, 2003. Enter Avariz: A Zak Meadow Adventure. Graphic novel.
Marc Ngui's website: http://www.bumblenut.com

Nichol, bp, 1982. The Martyrology, Book V. Toronto: Coach House Books. (see also Peters, Carl, ed., 2002. bp nichol comics. Vancouver: Talonbooks.)

Nichol, Barbara, 1997. Dippers. Tundra. (Children's story about the Don River, circa 1912.) See also One Small Garden (2004).

Niedzviecki, Hal, ed., 1998. Concrete Forest: The New Fiction of Urban Canada. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Niedzviecki, Hal, 2001. Ditch. Toronto: Random House of Canada.

Nurse, Donna Bailey, ed., 2006. Revival: An Anthology of Black Canadian Writing.  Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. (see especially Nurse's excellent introductory essay)

O'Donnell, Darren, 2004. Your Secrets Sleep With Me. Toronto: Coach House Books.

O'Donnell, Darren, 2006. Social Acupuncture. Toronto: Coach House Books.

Ondaatje, Michael, 1987. In the Skin of a Lion. Toronto: Vintage.

Onstad, Katrina, 2006. How Happy to Be. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Paleczny, Timothy, ed., 1993. Stories from Blood & Aphorisms. Toronto: Steel Rail / Gutter Press. (Anthology of stories published in the literary journal Blood & Aphorisms.; see also Clark, Hilard, ed., 1996. Stories from Blood & Aphorisms, Volume Two. Toronto: Gutter Press.)

Papdimos, Basil, 1989. The Hook of it Is. Enismore, Ont.: Emergency Press.

Pederson Chew, Kristen, ed., 2002. The Bakka Anthology. Toronto: Bakka Books. (anthology of stories by science fiction writers who have worked at the Bakka -- now Bakka-Phoenix -- Bookstore in Toronto.)

Philip, Marlene Nourbese, 1988. Harriet's Daughter. Toronto: The Women's Press. (Children's novel)

Plantos, Ted, 1977. The Universe Ends at Sherbourne & Queen. Toronto: Steel Rail Publishing.

Plantos, Ted, 1993. Mosquito Nirvana. Toronto: Wolsak & Wynn.

Plantos, Ted, 2000. The Shanghai Noodle Killing. Toronto: Seraphim.

Powe, Bruce W., 1995. Outage. Toronto: Random House of Canada.

Prince, Althea, 2001. Loving This Man. Toronto: Insomniac Press.

Prince, Althea, 2005. Ladies of the Night: Stories. Toronto: Insomniac Press.

Pyper, Andrew, 1996. Kiss Me. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill.

Qureshi, Mobashir, 2006. R.A.C.E. Toronto: Mercury.

Rakoff, Alvin, 2007. Baldwin Street. New York; Charlottetown: Bunim & Bannigan.

Redhill, Michael, ed., 1996. Blues & True Concussions: Six New Toronto Poets. Toronto: Anansi.

Redhill, Michael, 2001. Building Jerusalem. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press.

Redhill, Michael, 2001. Night-crossing. (poems) Toronto: Anansi.

Redhill, Michael, 2001. Martin Sloane. Toronto: Doubleday.

Redhill, Michael, 2006. Consolation. Toronto: Doubleday / Random House.

Rehner, Jan, 2003. Just Murder. Toronto: Sumach.

Reid, Barbara, 2003. The Subway Mouse. Toronto: Scholastic. [Children's story]

Remski, Matthew, 1997. Dying for Veronica. Toronto: Insomniac Press.

Ricci, Nino, 1995. In a Glass House. The follow-up to Ricci's Lives of the Saints (1990); the trilogy concludes with Where Has She Gone (1997). The second and third volumes focus on Victor's progress through undergraduate and graduate studies in Toronto, punctuated by returns to Italy and elsewhere. York University appears in In a Glass House as "Centennial University" (see chapters 18-20).

Richardson, Karen and Steven Green, eds., 2004. T Dot Griots: An Anthology of Toronto's Black Storytellers. Trafford.

Robertson, Ray, 1997. Home Movies. Dunvegan, Ontario: Cormorant.

Robertson, Ray, 2000. Heroes. Dundurn.

Robertson, Ray, 2002. Moody Food. Doubleday.

Robertson, Ray, 2005. Gently Down the Stream. Toronto: Cormorant.

Ross, Stuart, 1986. Wooden Rooster. Toronto: Proper Tales Press.

Ross, Stuart, 2001. Razovsky at Peace. Toronto: ECW Press.

Ross, Stuart, 2003. Hey, Crumbling Balcony! Poems New & Selected. Toronto: ECW Press.

Ross, Stuart, 2005. Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer. Vancouver: Anvil.

Ross, Stuart, 2007. I Cut my Finger. Poems. Vancouver: Anvil.

Rowe, Neil J., 1993. History Notes of a Hogtown Hustler. Kingston, Ontario: Quarry Press.

Sandman, John, 1976. Declining Gracefully. Toronto: Coach House Press.

Savigny, Annie G., 1888 [reprinted 1973]. A Romance of Toronto. Toronto: William Briggs [reissued by University of Toronto Press].

Sawyer, Robert J., 2000. Calculating God. New York: Tor. (Parts of Toronto also appear in Sawyer's other novels, particularly the Hominids series, which features York University, among other places.)

Schultz, Emily, 2006. Joyland. Toronto: ECW Press.

Scrimger, Richard, 1996. Crosstown. Toronto: The Riverbank Press.

Shields, Carol, 2002. Unless. Toronto: Random House Canada.

Sileika, Antanas, 2002. Buying on Time. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill.

Silvera, Makeda, 2002. The Heart Does Not Bend. Toronto: Random House of Canada.

Skene-Melvin, David, ed.1996. Bloody York: Tales of Mayhem, Murder and Mystery in Toronto. Toronto: Simon & Pierre. [An Anthology of crime, detective, and mystery stories set in Toronto, dating to 1888. The introductory essay is thoughtful and revelatory.]

Skvorecky, Joseph, trans. Paul Wilson, 1977 (this reprint 1999). The Engineer of Human Souls. Normal, Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press.

Smith, Brad, 2001. One-Eyed Jacks. Toronto: Random House of Canada.

Smith, Rusell, 1994. How Insensitive. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill.

Smith, Russell, 1998. Noise. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill.

Smith, Russell, 1999; 2001. Young Men (stories). Toronto: Anchor Canada.

Smith, Russell, 2005 (p.b. 2005). Muriella Pent. Toronto: Anchor Canada.

Smith, Vern, 1996. Glue for Breakfast and other Stories. Toronto: Rush Hour Revisions.

Souster, Raymond. Collected Poems. Volumes One (1980) through Ten (2004). Oberon.

Souster, Raymond, 1964. The Colour of the Times. Toronto: Ryerson.  (Winner of the Governor General's Award for poetry)

Souster, Raymond, 1965. Ten Elephants on Yonge Street. Toronto: Ryerson.

Souster, Raymond, 1967. As Is. Toronto: Oberon. (poems: Souster was probably Toronto's most dedicated poet, writing and publishing poems about the city over a half-century span.)

Souster, Raymond, 1968. Lost and Found. Toronto: Oberon.

Souster, Raymond, 1971. The Years. Toronto: Oberon.

Souster, Raymond, 1972. Selected Poems. Oberon. [Includes a good introduction written by Michael Macklem.]

Souster, Raymond, 1984. Queen City. Oberon.

Souster, Raymond, 1986. It Takes All Kinds. Oberon.

Souster, Raymond, 1996. Close to Home. Oberon.

Souster, Raymond, 2006. Uptown Downtown. New Poems of the GTA. Shelburne, Ontario: Battered Silicon Dispatch Box.

Sparling, Ken, 1996. Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall. New York: Knopf.

Stevens, John, ed., 1975. The urban Experience. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada. [An anthology of urban-focused stories and poems by some prominent Canadian writers. Toronto content of note include Hugh Garner's "The Happiest Man in the World", Lawren Harris' "Greetings", Raymond Souster's "Yonge Street Saturday Night", Earle Birney's "I Think You Are A Whole City", Miriam Waddington's "Toronto the Golden-Vaulted City".]

Strube, Cordelia, 2002. The Barking Dog.  Toronto: Thomas Allen Publishers.

Strube, Cordelia, 2004. Blind Night. Toronto: Thomas Allen Publishers.

Swan, John, 2004. Sap. Toronto: Insomniac Press.

Symon, Scott, 1969. Civic Square. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Tanner, Mike, 2002. Acting the Giddy Goat. Toronto: Cormorant.

Tulchinsky, Karen X., 2003. The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky. Vancouver: Polestar / Raincoast.

Vassanji, M.G., 1991. No New Land. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Vassanji, M.G., 2005. When She Was Queen. Stories. Toronto: Random House of Canada.

Vella, Lewis, 1997. Poet for Sale. Toronto: Subcutaneous Publications.

Vermeersch, Paul, 2001. The I.V. Lounge Reader. Toronto: Insomniac Press.

Waddington, Miriam, [1973] "Toronto the Golden-Vaulted City".

Wallen, James, 1994. Boy's Night Out. Toronto: Gutter Press.

Wallen, James, 1999. Her Smoke Rose Up. Toronto: Gutter Press.

Walsh, Helen, ed, 2006. TOK: Writing the New Toronto. Toronto: Zephyr Press. An annual worksop-based anthology: see also TOK -- Book 2: Writing the New Toronto (2007).

Ward, Roxanne, 1999. Fits Like a Rubber Dress. Toronto: Simon & Pierre / Dundurn.

Warsh, Sylvia Maultash, 2001. To Die in Spring. (A Rebecca Temple Mystery). Memento Mori Mystery.

Weizweig, Helen, 1973. Passing Ceremony. Toronto: Anansi. [Only peripherally set in Toronto; the narrative is essentially psychological.]

Weinzweig, Helen, 1980. Basic Black With Pearls. Toronto: Anansi.

Weizweig, Helen, 1989. A View from the Roof. Stories. Toronto: Goose Lane.

Wilcox, Alana, 2000. A Grammar of Endings. Toronto: Mercury.

Wilson, Carleton, 1999 [reprinted 2002]. Junction Sonnets. Toronto: Junction Books. [Poems about the west Toronto Junction. Winner of the E.J. Pratt Medal in Poetry in 1998.] See also Wilson, 2002. Eight Poems. Toronto: Junction Books, which is not especially about Toronto.

Wodson, Harry M., 1917. The Whirlpool: Scenes from Toronto Police Court. Toronto: Wodson. The complete text of this book is available electronically here.

Wolfe, Morris and Douglas Daymond, eds., 1977. Toronto Short Stories. Toronto: Doubleday Canada.

Wright, Eric, 2002. The Last Hand. Dundurn. The final installment of the Charlie Salter Mysteries, which also includes The Night the Gods Smiled (1984; winner of the City of Toronto book award), Smoke Detector (1984), Death in the Old Country (1985), A Single Death (1986), A Body Surrounded by Water (1987), A Question of Murder (1988), A Sensititve Case (1990), Final Cut (1991), A Fine Italian Hand (1992), and Death By Degrees (1993).

Wright, Richard B., 2004. Adultery. Toronto: R.B.W. Books / Harper Collins Canada.

Young, Phyllis Brett, 1959. Psyche. Toronto: Longmans.

Young, Phyllis Brett, 1960. The Torontonians. Toronto: Longmans, Green & Company. Reissued 2007 by McGill-Queen's University Press.

Young, Kendal (pseudonym of Phyllis Brett Young), 1962. The Ravine. Toronto: Longmans.

Algoo-Bakish, Stella, 1994. Austin C. Clarke: A Biography. Toronto: ECW Press.

Bentley, D.M.R., 2005 (presumed date). "Me and the City That's Never Happened Before: Dionne Brand in Toronto". In D.M.R. Bentley, Canadian Architexts: Essays on Literature and Architecture in Canada, 1759-2005. Chapter 14. Canadian Poetry Press. Electronically accessible at http://www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/architexts/essays/brand.htm

Bentley, D.M.R., 2005 (presumed date). "The Centre in the Square: Civic Spaces and Places". In D.M.R. Bentley, Canadian Architexts: Essays on Literature and Architecture in Canada, 1759-2005. Chapter 6. Canadian Poetry Press. Electronically accessible at http://www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/architexts/essays/centre_in_the_square.htm

Bull, Jeoffrey S., 1998. Giving the Sickness a Name: Reading Timothy Findley's Headhunter and Walker Percy's The Thanatos Syndrome as Diagnostic Fictions. Journal of Canadian Studies, 33(4): 153-165.

Burke, Nancy, 2003. Cityscapes -- Canadian Urban Space as Portrayed in Selected Fiction and Non-Fiction. In Place and Location: Studies in Environmental Aesthetics and Semiotics III, (pp: 303-312) eds. Virve Sarapik and Kadri Tuur. Estonia: The Research Group of Cultural and Literary Theory, Estonian Literary Museum Institute of Art History, Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonian Semiotics Association. Available electronically at  http://www.eki.ee/km/place/koht_3.htm .

Burnham, Clint, 1991. Allegories of Publishing: The Toronto Small Press Scene. Toronto: Streetcar Editions.

Burrill, William, 1994. Hemingway: The Toronto Years. Toronto: Doubleday.

Cain, Stephen, 2002. Imprinting identities: An examination of the emergence and developing identities of Coach House Press and House of Anansi Press (1967-1982). Unpublished PhD dissertation. York University.

Cain, Stephen, 2005. Mapping Raymond Souster's Toronto. Pages 59-79 in The Canadian Modernists Meet. Ed. Dean Irvine. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press.

Cain, Stephen, 2006. Annexing a space for poetry in the new Toronto, in The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto, ed. Alana Wilcox, Christina Palassio, and Jonny Dovercourt. Toronto: Coach House Books. Pages 90-99.

Caldwell, Rebecca, 2005. "CanLit's latest hero:Toronto" Globe & Mail, Saturday April 30, 2005, page M4.

Chariandy, David John, 2002. Land to light on: Black Canadian literature and the language of belonging (George Elliott Clarke, Austin Clarke, Dionne Brand). Unpublished PhD dissertation. York University.

City of Toronto (Carl Benn, Chief Curator), 2005. Bibliography of Toronto History Published Since 1990. Toronto: City of Toronto Museums and Heritage Services. Available electronically at http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/culture/brochures/bibliography_toronto.doc (note: clicking on this link opens a Microsoft Word document).

Criglington, Meredith Anna, 2004. Constructions of Home: The City as a Site of Spatial History and Post-Settler Identity in Four Commonwealth Novels. Unpublished PhD Dissertation. University of Toronto.

Cullen, Don, 2007. The Bohemian Embassy: Memories and Poems. Hamilton, Ontario: Wolask & Wynn.

Davey, Frank, 1980. Louis Dudek & Raymond Souster. Studies in Canadian Literature Series. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre.

Davis, Robert Murray, 2001. Everything old / new is new / old again: The fiction of Russell Smith. Essays on Canadian Writing, vol. 73: 151-167.

Dennis, Richard, 1999. Morley Callaghan and the moral geography of Toronto. British Journal of Canadian Studies, 14(2): 35-.

Doucet , Michael J., 1998. A City " ... Waiting for the Sunrise": Toronto in Song and SOund. Canadian Journal for Traditional Music, 26: 17-34.

Duffy, Dennis, 2001. "Furnishing the Pictures: Arthur S. Gross, Michael Ondaatje, and the imag(in)ing of Toronto". Journal of Canadian Studies, 36(2): 106-129.

Edwards, Justin D., 1998. Strange Fugitive, Strange City: Reading Urban Space in Morley Callaghan's Toronto. Writing Canadian Space: Studies in Canadian Literature, 23(1): 213-227.

Elson, Christopher, 1998. Dear Reader: Selected Scott Symons. Toronto: Gutter Press.

Farr, Moira, 1999. After Daniel: A Suicide Survivor's Tale. Toronto: Harper Collins. [A memoir about surviving the suicide ot Toronto writer Daniel Jones.]

Fox, C.J., 1996. "Through Toronto's Fire and Ice: Wyndham Lewis: A Waspish writer at war with Canada". The Beaver, December 1996/January 1997. Pages 4-11.

Fulford, Robert, 1996. "The Invention of Toronto: A City defined by its artists". William Kilbourn Lecture, Toronto Historical Board, 12 June 1996. Text available electronically at
http://www.robertfulford.com/kilbourn.html

Gatenby, Greg, 1999. Toronto: A Literary Guide. Toronto: McArthur & Company.

Gauthier, Jennifer L., 2005. Where is Here? Local Visions in Three Canadian Films. Canadian Journal of Film Studies, 14(2): 38-53.

Gilbert, Emily J., 1994. Home/City/Nation: Identity, Ideology and Place in Toronto Women's Literature. Unpublished Master's Thesis. York University.

Gilbert, Emily and Paul Simpson-Housley, 1997. "Places and Spaces of Dislocation: Lady Oracle's Toronto". Canadian Geographer, 41(3): 235-248.

Harris, Amy Lavender, 2006. Toronto's Tower of Babel, in The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto, ed. Alana Wilcox, Christina Palassio, and Jonny Dovercourt. Toronto: Coach House Books. Pages 162-167.

Jarrett, Mary, 1990. "The Presentation of Montreal in Mavis Gallant's "Between Zero and One" and of Toronto in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye". Etudes Canadiennes I Canadian Studies, vol. 29: 173-181.

Keith, W.J., 1992. Literary Images of Ontario. A project of the Ontario Historical Studies Series for the Government of Ontario. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Keith, W.J., 2002. Canadian Odyssey: A Reading of Hugh Hood's The New Age/Le Nouveau Siecle. Montreal; Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press.

Kilbourn, William, ed., 1976. The Toronto Book: An Anthology of Writings, Past and Present. Toronto: MacMillan of Canada.

Lecker, Robert, 2006. Dr. Delicious: Memoirs of a Life in Canlit. Montreal: Vehicule Press.

Levy, Sophie, 2001. Torontology. Unpublished Master's Thesis. University of Toronto.  Available electronically through the National Library of Canada's Canada Thesis Portal at http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ63041.pdf .

Marche, Stephen, 2005. "Drab and dull, yes, but we write a mean novel". Globe & Mail, December 31, 2005, Page M2. Available electronically at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20051231/LITERARY31

Marchand, Philip, 2003. "The heart of darkness is true Toronto". Toronto Star, November 29, 2003, page J.06.

Mathews, Vanessa, 2004. The art of ideology: Theorizing artists and gentrification in the space of Yorkville, Toronto (Ontario). Unpublished master's thesis. York University.

Matthews, Robin, 1978. Morley Callaghan and the New Colonialism: The Supreme Indivisual in Traditionless Society. Studies in Canadian Literature, 3(1): 78-92.

Metcalf, John, ed., 1986. The Bumper Book. Toronto: ECW. [Essays and satire on Canadian literary politics. Toronto and Toronto writers are mentioned occasionally.]

Morrell, Carol, ed., 1994. Grammar of Dissent. Poetry and Prose by Claire Harris, M. Nourbese Philip, Dionne Brand. Fredericton, New Brunswick: Goose Lane Edition.

Murray, Heather, 1997. "Frozen Pen, Fiery Print, and Fothergill's Folly: Cultural organizations in Toronto, winter 1836-37. Essays in Canadian Writing, vol. 61: 41-70.

Richler, Noah, 2006 (forthcoming: September 2006). This is My Country, What's Yours: A Literary Atlas of Canada. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. (look for commentary on the rise of the city)

Smith, Stephen, 1999. "For whom the books toll: why literary history (local or otherwise) matters [review of Greg Gatensby's Toronto: A Literary Guide]. Quill & Quire, 65(6): page 54.

Tepper, Anderson, 2005. "Northern Exposure: Can you hear that literary buzz? It's coming from Toronto". Vanity Fair, 12 December 2005. Available electronically at http://vanityfair.com/commentary/content/articles/051212roco02

Verduyn, Christi and Kathleen Garay, eds., 2004. Marian Engel: Life in Letters. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Wagner, Vit, 1989. "Now Starring Toronto". Toronto Star, March 18, 1989, page F1.

Whiteman, Bruce, 1985. Raymond Souster and His Works. Toronto: ECW.

Wilson, Edmund, 1970 [1964]. A Turgenev in Toronto? In Canada: A Guide to the Peaceable Kingdom, ed. William Kilbourn, pp: 58-69. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada. [an essay on Morley Callaghan published in an anthology of essays on Canadian culture]

Woodcock, George, 1972. Callaghan's Toronto: The Persona of a City. Journal of Canadian Studies, 7(2): 21-24.

Allen, Robert Thomas, 1961. When Toronto was for Kids. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. [memoir; informal social history.]

Batten, Jack, 2004. The Annex: The Story of a Toronto Neighbourhood. Boston Mills Press.

Bonis, Robert R. ed., 1968. A History of Scarborough. Scarborough: Scarborough Public Library.

Brown, Rob, 1997. Toronto's Lost Villages. Toronto: Polar Bear Press.

Burr, Christina, 1999. Spreading the Light: Work and Labour Reform in Late-Nineteenth-Century Toronto. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press.

Byers, Mary, Jan Kennedy, Margaret McBurney, Junior League of Toronto, 1976. Rural Roots: Pre-Confederation Buildings of the York Region of Ontario. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Byrtus, Nancy, Mark Fram, and Michael McClelland, eds., 2000. East/West: A Guide to Where People Live in Toronto. Toronto: Coach House Books.

Caulfield, Jon, 1992. Augurs of "Gentrification": City Houses of Four Canadian Painters. In A Few Acres of Snow: Literary and Artistic Images of Canada, eds. Paul Simpson-Housley and Glen Norcliffe, pages 189-202. Toronto: Dundurn.

Caulfield, John, 1994. City Form and Everyday Life: Toronto's Gentrification and Critical Social Practice. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Capponi, Pat, 1999. The War at Home: An Intimate Portrait of Canada's Poor. Toronto: Penguin. See also Pat Capponi's memoirs and novel, listed above under Literary Works.

Chinese Canadian National Council, 1992. Jin Guo: Voices of Chinese Canadian Women. Toronto: Women's Book Committee, Chinese Canadian National Council.

Colantonio, Frank, 1997. From the Ground Up: An Italian Immigrant's Story. Toronto: Between the Lines.

Colombo, John Roberts, 1996. Haunted Toronto. Toronto: Hounslow Press.

Coopersmith, Penina, 1998. Cabbagetown: The Story of a Victorian Neighbourhood. Toronto: James Lorimer.

Crichlow, Wesley, 2004. Buller Men & Batty Bwoys. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (bioethnographic / 'biomythographic' study of the lives of black gay men in Toronto and Halifax.)

de Klerck, Denis and Corrado Paina, eds., 2006. College Street, Little Italy: Toronto's Renaissance Strip. Toronto: Mansfield Press.

Del Giudice, Luisa, 1994. Italian Traditional Song in Toronto: from autobiography to advocacy. Journal of Canadian Studies, 29(1): page 74-.

Diamond, Etan, 2002. And I Will Dwell in their Midst: Orthodox Jews in Suburbia. Scholarly Books Services.

Fagan, Cary, 1990. City Hall and Mrs. God: A Passionate Journey Through a Changing Toronto. Stratford, Ontario: The Mercury Press.

Filey, Mike, 1970. A Toronto Album: Glimpses of the City that Was. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Filey, Mike, 1982. I Remember Sunnyside: The Rise and Fall of a Magical Era. Toronto: Brownstone Press.

Filey, Mike, 2002. A Toronto Album 2: More Glimpses of the City that Was. Toronto: Dundurn.

Fiorito, Joe, 2006. Union Station: Love, Madness, Sex and Survival on the Streets of the New Toronto. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Firth, Edith G., 1983. Toronto in Art: 150 Years Through Artists' Eyes. Toronto: Fitzhenry & Whitside in cooperation with the City of Toronto.

Frager, Ruth, 1992. Sweatshop Strife: Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto, 1900-1939. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Fulford, Robert, 1993. Towering Ambitions: The Architecture of Modern Toronto. Americas, 45(3): 30-39.

Fulford, Robert, 1996. Accidental City: The Transformation of Toronto. Boston; New York: Peter Davidson / Houghton Mifflin.

Gibson, Sally, 2006. Inside Toronto: Urban Interiors, 1880-1920. Toronto: Cormorant.

Grady, Wayne, 1995. Toronto the WIld: Field Notes of an Urban Naturalist. Toronto: Macfarlane Walter & Ross.

Grigsby, Wayne, ed., 1984. A Toronto Lampoon. Montreal: Eden Press.

Harney, Nicholas DeMaria, 1998. Eh, paesan!: Being Italian in Toronto. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Harney, Robert F., ed., 1985. Gathering Place: Peoples and Neighbourhoods of Toronto, 1834-1945. Toronto: Multicultural History Society of Ontario.

Harris, Richard, 1996. Unplanned Suburbs: Toronto's American Tragedy, 1900 to 1950. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Henry, Frances, 1994. The Caribbean Diaspora in Toronto. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Henry, Frances, 1994. Afro-Caribbean People in Toronto: Cultural Continuity and Conflict. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Hill, Donna, 1981. A Black Man's Toronto, 1914-1980: The Reminiscences of Harry Gairey. Toronto: Multicultural History Society of Ontario.

Iacovetta, Franca, 2003. Such Hardworking People: Italian Immigrants in Postwar Toronto. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.

Irving, Allan, 1998. Neighbours: Three Social Settlements in Downtown Toronto. Canadian Scholars Press.

Iyer, Pico, 2000. The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home. Knopf. See especially Iyer's essay on Toronto, "The Multiculture".

Jones, Donald, 1992. Fifty Tales of Toronto. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (collection of short historical essays by a Toronto Star writer)

Kenniff, Thomas-Bernard, 2005. Assembly: A Reevaluation of Public Space in Toronto. Master's thesis. School of Architecture, University of Waterloo. Available electronically at
http://www.tbkenniff.com/assembly/assembly.html

Khan, Shahnaz, 2002. Aversion and Desire: Negotiating Muslim Female Identity in the DIaspora. UK; Women's Press.

Kilbourn, William, ed., 1976. The Toronto VBook: An Anthology of Writings Past and Present. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada. (contains stories, essays, and poems by Dennis Lee, Robert Fulford, Peter Gzowski, Hugh Hood, Austin Clarke, Al Purdy, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Souster, and Mrshall McLuhan, among many others)

Lambton, Gunda, 2003. Sun in WInter: A Toronto Wartime Journal, 1942-1945. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.

Levitt, Cyril, 1987. The Riot at Christie Pitts. Toronto: Key Porter Books.

Maynard, Steven, 1996. Through a Hole in the Lavatory Wall: Homosexual Subcultures, Police Surveillance, and the Dialects of Discovery, Toronto, 1880-1930. In Gender and History in Canada, ed. Joy Parr and Mark Rosenfeld. Toronto: Copp Clark. 165-184.

Mays, John Bentley, 1994. Emerald City: Toronto Visited. Toronto: Penguin.

McBride, Jason and Wlcox, Alana, eds., 2005. Utopia: Towards a New Toronto. Toronto: Coach House Books.

Murray, Terry, 2006. Faces on Places: A Grotesque Tour of Toronto. Toronto: Anansi.

Ninjalicious, 2005. Access All Areas: A User's Guide to the Art of Urban Exploration. Toronto: Ninjalicious / Infiltration (distributed in part by Coach House Books).

Nolan, Helen, 2003. Sculpture in the City: Twelve Walks in Downtown Toronto. Artworks Press.

O'Donohue, Tony, 2005. The Tale of a City: Re-engineering the Urban Environment. Toronto: Dundurn. (Toronto's urban infrastructure.)

Petroff, Lillian, 1995. Sojourners and Settlers: The Macedonian COmmunity in Toronto to 1940. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Pitfield, Jane, 2000 [2nd ed., 2000]. Leaside. Toronto: Natural Heritage.

Porter, Jane, 1865. Six Weeks' Tour in Western Canada. Montreal: John Lovell. A 40-page travelogue "By a Lady" of tours in Toronto and elsewhere. Amusing descriptions of the city. Available electronically at http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?doc=23291

Prince, Althea, 2000. Being Black: Essays. Toronto: Insomniac Press.

Rust-D'Eye, George, [1984] 1993. Cabbagetown Remembered. Toronto: Stoddart.

Salnek, Margo, 2005. Coach Houses of Toronto. Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press.

Sewell, John, 1993. The Shape of the City: Toronto Struggles with Modern Planning. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Sharpe, David, 1987. Rochdale, the Runaway College. Toronto: Anansi.

Slaight, Annabel (ed.) and members of the Toronto Chapter of Architects, 1972. Exploring Toronto. Toronto: Architecture Canada.

Speisman, Stephen A., 1979. The Jews of Toronto: A History to 1937. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

Stiegelbauer, Suzanne M., 1996. What is an elder? What do elders do? First nation elders as teachers in culture-based urban organizations [in Toronto]. Canadian Journal of Native Studies, 16(1): 37-.

Strange, Carolyn, 1995. Toronto's Girl Problem: The Perils and Pleasures of the City, 1880-1930. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Stevens, John, ed., 1975. The Urban Experience. A volume of the Themes in Canadian Literature series. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada. [short stories, prose and poetry focused on urban Canada, including a number of works set in Toronto.]

Thompson, Richard H., 1988. Toronto's Chinatown: The Changing Social Organization of An Ethnic Community.

Walden, Keith, 1997. Becoming Modern in Toronto: The Industrial Exhibition and the Shaping of a Late Victorian Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

White, Randall, 1993. Too Good to be True: Toronto in the 1920s. Toronto: Dundurn.

Wilcox, Anana, Christina Palassio, and Jonny Dovercourt, eds., 2006. The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto. Toronto: Coach House Books.

Williams, Allison M., 1997. Canadian urban aboriginals: a focus on aboriginal women in Toronto. Canadian Journal of Native Studies, 17(1): 75-

Zapparoli, David, 1999. Regent Park: The Public Experiment in Housing. A Photographic Exhibit at the Market Gallery, March 12 - July 11, 1999. Toronto: The Market Gallery.

Zucchi, John E., 1988. Italians in Toronto: Development of a National Identity, 1875-1935. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.

Ball, John Clement, 2004. Imagining London: Postcolonial Fiction and the Transnational Metropolis. Toronto: University of Toronto press.

Barnes, T.J. and J. Duncan, eds., 1992. Writing Worlds: Discourse, Text, and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape. London: Routledge.

Barry, Peter, 2000. Contemporary British Poetry and the City. Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press.

Berman, Marshall, 1982. All that is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity. London; New York: Verso. (selections; e.g., from parts III, IV and V)

Blair, Sara, 1998. Cultural Geography and the Place of the Literary. In American Literary History, 19(3): 544-567.

Bridge, Gary and Sophie Watson, eds., 2002. A Companion to the City.  Blackwell.

Caws, Mary Ann, ed., 1991. City Images: Perspectives from Literature, Philosophy, and Film. UK: Routledge.

Cosgrove, D. and S. Daniels, eds., 1988. The Iconography of Landscape. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Curry, Michael R., 1996. The Work in the World: Geographical Practice and the Written Word. Minneapolis; London: University of Minnesota Press.

Edwards, Justin D. and Douglas Ivison, eds., 2005. Downtown Canada: Writing Canadian Cities. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

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