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[Anonymous No.19651792]

Top 10 bestselling Canadian books of 2021... scroll down and see how long you have to scroll before you go "hmmmm"0

https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-top-10-bestselling-canadian-books-of-2021-1.6295635

[Anonymous No.19651817]

>>19651792
Absolutely embarrassing.

[Anonymous No.19651835]

>>19651817
I was scrolling and I thought my schizo was acting up

[Anonymous No.19651922]

Okay guys nice trolling where's the real list?

[Anonymous No.19651944]

>>19651792
Looks like a list about a nation that hates itself.

[Anonymous No.19651952]

>>19651792
wow plebs gonna pleb great insights leaf day of the rake any day now

[Anonymous No.19651983]

>>19651817
I swear to god Canada is satire

[Anonymous No.19651991]

>>19651792
So canada venerates indians like america does blacks. Noted.

[Anonymous No.19651996]

How many copies of The Shitkickers would need to be sold to get on this list in 2022 hahaha

[Anonymous No.19652017]

>>19651792
>https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-top-10-bestselling-canadian-books-of-2021-1.6295635
> Scroll down till I see the first man.
> Of course he's Native
> "Jonny Appleseed is a novel about a two-spirit Indigiqueer young man who has left the reserve and becomes a cybersex worker in the city to make ends meet. "
> Scroll past. Oh, another man, how surprising!
> Also Native.
> "Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to understanding the 1876 Indian Act and its repercussions on generations of Indigenous Peoples."
If I wasn't a Separatist and already wanted the death of this horrible joke of a nation, I'd be worried.

[Anonymous No.19652099]

>>19652017
Over the last few years, people no longer give me funny looks when I suggest that the straight white male has been pushed out of culture and the arts in Canada. It is amazing to witness how this country has become so extremely woke, all mainstream media must pay homage to the flavour of the day. Of course, the entire banking system, government, social media, news organizations, intelligence agencies, big tech, they all do conspire to push narratives, it is actually happening and all of our arts and culture glows now.

The culture that doesn't glow? You'll laugh and most people aren't ready to accept this, but; many of the "First Nation" or aboriginal artists are all fake. Many white people have acknowledged subconsciously that their identity works against them, so some don a false identity that they buy into 110% and begin living as a pretendian. Recently a big name female director working on The Trickster, a CBC show, was outed, and a 2nd author woman was as well. Then some UBC professor was found out to be a fake, and the list goes on, and on, and on...

[Anonymous No.19652164]

I'm sure this is because the average Canadian reader is buying internationally.

[Anonymous No.19652187]

>indigiqueer
i fucking spat out my coffee

[Anonymous No.19652214]

>>19652187
Young indian guys will tell you now that whenever they are having problems as teens, if they go to talk to a "professional", they are pushed towards being gay as a reason for why they have anger or other issues. A young indian guy I worked with said at high school the gay club had a big budget to spend on troubled teens but if you weren't LGBT there wasn't any help for kids from broken homes. Indian boys are being feminized as it totally disarms the power of their ethnic group. If you watch any of their protests, it is almost always women protesting in the government-sanctioned ways of clogging traffic and banging drums.

[Anonymous No.19652324]

>>19652214
hot

[Anonymous No.19652333]

>>19652324
Big government loves big gay!

[Anonymous No.19652376]

>>19651792
>5. Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead

>Jonny Appleseed is a novel about a two-spirit Indigiqueer young man who has left the reserve and becomes a cybersex worker in the city to make ends meet. But he must reckon with his past when he returns home to attend his stepfather's funeral.

>Jonny Appleseed won Canada Reads 2021, when it was championed by actor Devery Jacobs.

>The novel was on the longlist for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the shortlist for the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction and was a finalist for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. It also won the Lambda Literary Award for gay fiction and has been optioned for a screen adaptation.

>Joshua Whitehead is a two-spirit, Oji-nêhiyaw member of Peguis First Nation, currently pursuing his PhD. He is also the author of the poetry collection full-metal indigiqueer and is the editor of the anthology Love after the End. Jonny Appleseed is his first novel.

[Anonymous No.19652404]

>>19652376
Life in Canada in 2021 is extremely difficult to parody

[Anonymous No.19652429]

>>19651792

Normies read. You are not special. Accept it.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/the-new-york-times-bestsellers/_/N-1p3n

[Anonymous No.19652448]

>>19652429
>https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/the-new-york-times-bestsellers/_/N-1p3n

Damn #1 link is Amanda Gorman

[Anonymous No.19652467]

>>19651792
ehhhh it's not that bad... the top two seem good

[Anonymous No.19652468]

>>19652017
>I don't care because I believe in this separatist movement that's never gonna do anything xD

[Anonymous No.19652474]

>>19652376
I don’t even know what half of these words mean.

[Anonymous No.19652522]

>>19652468
Soon...

[Anonymous No.19652531]

>>19652522
would somebody PLEASE end this joke country once and for all

[Anonymous No.19652554]

I refuse to even click that link to support the blood-sucking parasite on the Canadian taxpayer that is the CBC but I assume it's all degenerate shit by a LGBT/First Nation/immigrant author. Almost certainly

>Canadians pay millions of dollars to be directly propagandized by the federal government

>>19652531
Once either Que or Alberta go, it's all over

[Anonymous No.19652577]

>>19652376
good lord, what a disgusting creature.

[Anonymous No.19652585]

>>19652554
Well when a straight white male writes and releases a book, it seems like nobody really supports that person who is actually making culture. Here it is I'm completely banned off all social media and there are zero opportunities to promote my work in person anywhere.

How exactly is an anti-establishment, straight white male supposed to gain any sort of fan base when the system is designed to alienate people like me?

[Anonymous No.19652600]

>>19651792
>The Madness of Crowds is the latest book in Louise Penny's popular Armand Gamache series. This time, the Chief Inspector's family holiday is interrupted by a simple request. He's asked to provide security for a visiting professor of statistics who will be giving a lecture at a nearby university. But he soon discovers the professor's agenda, one so repulsive he begs the university to cancel the lecture, to no avail. They accuse Gamache of censorship and intellectual cowardice. Before long, the professor's views start seeping into conversations and it becomes nearly impossible to tell truth, reality and delusion apart.

lmao

[Anonymous No.19652648]

>>19651996
Probably 2500 but it would help if school districts and libraries needed to buy it to meet an indigenous reconciliation goal for year end and you're okay with it never being checked out or read

[Anonymous No.19652662]

>>19652376
This is from his first book

>When I got a little older, I think I was fifteen, I remember watching Dan Savage and Terry Miller on the internet telling me that it gets better. They told me that they knew what I was going through, that they knew me. How so, I thought? You don’t know me. You know lattes and condominiums—you don’t know what it’s like being a brown gay boy on the rez. Hell, I’d never even seen a Starbucks and I sure as hell couldn’t tell you why a small coffee is called “tall.” That’s also around the time when I began to collect clients like matryoshka dolls, so I suppose at least my income got better. This was of course before the photo-sharing apps and cam sites that I use now to conduct my business, but at that time, the internet was packed with people wanting to connect with other people, especially there in Peguis. We had Facebook and cellphones to keep us in the loop. I used to sext with others in chatrooms on a gaming website, Pogo. I went by the name Lucia and pretended to be a girl to flirt with other boys. Often we’d play virtual pool or checkers and just dabble in small talk. Then I’d start putting ideas of sex into their heads by playing naïve and directing the conversation toward dirty subjects. I always liked to let them think they were the ones in control. I’m a sadist like that, I guess. I may be the sexual fantasy but I’m also the one in the driver’s seat. Once the image of sweaty, naked bodies got in their heads, there was no going back. Sex does strange things to people—it’s like blacking out or going on cruise control. Your body knows what it wants and goes for it. This can be dangerous, as I’d learn later, but if you can manipulate the urge, you can....

[Anonymous No.19652682]

>>19652662
the tranny discord groomer 'write what you know'-advice follower

[Anonymous No.19652689]

>>19652662
Literally grooming?

[Anonymous No.19652695]

>>19652522
God we need to purge Montreal.

[Anonymous No.19652700]

>>19652682
Ikr. The entire novel is like that. No insight, nothing. Just banal statements about his pathetic life in extremely basic "vary the sentences for rhythm bro" prose.

[Anonymous No.19652739]

>>19652700
I should have been born a gay chug

https://www.amazon.ca/City-Singles-Jason-Bryan/dp/0991825705

[Anonymous No.19652805]

The list is gathered from sales in independent bookstores. Not even chapters or used book stores... So you can imagine the demographic ... The about of sales to hit first place probably isn't even 5,000

Now pull most sold books on amazon.ca ... Probably a lot different.

[Anonymous No.19652814]

>>19652805
True, but it is typical CBC to present this trash as somehow indicative of the entire nation's tastes. Not that the actual top 10 would be any great bastion of culture either, but at least it would be better than this tripe.

[Anonymous No.19652820]

>>19652805
your just a racist chud... Canada is changing: finally its diversity and strength is displayed in the lit world! you should educate yourself on the Indian act

[Anonymous No.19652821]

>>19652376
Great head of hair though. Unironically jelly, now that I'm in my late 20s and my hairline is maturing, while the rest slowly grows more sparse on my white male scalp.

[Anonymous No.19652826]

>>19652814
it is incomprehensible how a once-beloved public broadcasting monopoly lost all their market share doing this stuff

[Anonymous No.19652845]

>>19652826
Just being a straight white male in Canada trying to make art and culture should be enough to snap you back to reality... basically we are being genocided and we do not support anyone who creates in this country. It has been bred into us to hate the creative and worship the land owners.

[Anonymous No.19652847]

>>19652826
You could say the same thing for NPR in the states, although they always were a little mealy mouthed but in the past decade they really have gone through the floor quality wise. Something about publicly aligned broadcasters I suppose.

[Anonymous No.19652868]

>>19652820
>>19652814
The amazon.ca list wouldn't be great... But it would reflect the actual taste of Canadians, not just liberal, selfhating, white, female urbanites. This CBC list is quite simply antiwhite, antimale propaganda, but CBC caters to it's paypigs (the gov) not to the schmucks watching.

[Anonymous No.19652877]

>>19651996
Never forget this nigga writes homoerotica

[Anonymous No.19652896]

>>19652877
Literally none of my books at all, I've only written City of Singles and The Shitkickers.