New Canadian Library
The New Canadian Library is a publishing imprint of the Canadian company McClelland and Stewart. The series aims to present classic works of Canadian literature in paperback. Each work published in the series includes a short essay by another notable Canadian writer, discussing the historical context and significance of the work. These essays were originally forewords, but after McClelland and Stewart's 1985 sale to Avie Bennett, the prefatory material was abandoned and replaced by afterwords.
It was founded by Malcolm Ross with the intention of providing affordable material for his students; David Staines has been the general editor of the series since 1986. In 2007 the University of Toronto Press published New Canadian Library: The Ross-McClelland Years, 1952-1978, a work by Janet Beverly Friskney that provides an account of the New Canadian Library during the years of Ross's editorship.
Titles in the New Canadian Library
Numbered series
Originally, all titles in the series were numbered sequentially.| Spine No. | Title | Author | Foreword by |
| 1 | Over Prairie Trails | ||
| 2 | Such Is My Beloved | ||
| 3 | Literary Lapses | ||
| 4 | As for Me and My House | ||
| 5 | The Tin Flute | ||
| 6 | The Clockmaker | ||
| 7 | The Last Barrier and Other Stories | ||
| 8 | Barometer Rising | ||
| 9 | At the Tide's Turn and Other Stories | ||
| 10 | Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich | ||
| 11 | Habitant Poems | ||
| 12 | Thirty Acres | ||
| 13 | Earth and High Heaven | ||
| 14 | The Man from Glengarry | ||
| 15 | Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town | ||
| 16 | The Stepsure Letters | ||
| 17 | More Joy in Heaven | ||
| 18 | Wild Geese | ||
| 19 | The Master of the Mill | ||
| 20 | The Imperialist | ||
| 21 | Delight | ||
| 22 | The Second Scroll | ||
| 23 | The Mountain and the Valley | ||
| 24 | The Rich Man | ||
| 25 | Where Nests the Water Hen | ||
| 26 | The Town Below | ||
| 27 | The History of Emily Montague | ||
| 28 | My Discovery of England | ||
| 29 | Swamp Angel | ||
| 30 | Each Man's Son | ||
| 31 | Roughing it in the Bush | ||
| 32 | White Narcissus | ||
| 33 | They Shall Inherit the Earth | ||
| 34 | Turvey | ||
| 35 | Nonsense Novels | ||
| 36 | Grain | ||
| 37 | Last of the Curlews | ||
| 38 | The Nymph and the Lamp | ||
| 39 | Judith Hearne | ||
| 40 | The Cashier | ||
| 41 | Under the Ribs of Death | ||
| 42 | Woodsmen of the West | ||
| 43 | Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy | ||
| 44 | Sarah Binks | ||
| 45 | Son of a Smaller Hero | ||
| 46 | Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada | ||
| 47 | Remember Me | ||
| 48 | Frenzied Fiction | ||
| 49 | Fruits of the Earth | ||
| 50 | Settlers of the Marsh | ||
| 51 | The Backwoods of Canada | ||
| 52 | Music at the Close | ||
| 53 | My Remarkable Uncle | ||
| 54 | The Double Hook | ||
| 55 | Tiger Dunlop's Upper Canada | ||
| 56 | Street of Riches | ||
| 57 | Short Circuits | ||
| 58 | Wacousta | ||
| 59 | The Stone Angel | ||
| 60 | Further Foolishness | ||
| 61 | Marchbanks' Almanack | ||
| 62 | The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories | ||
| 63 | The Harbor Master | ||
| 64 | The Canadian Settler's Guide | ||
| 65 | The Golden Dog | ||
| 66 | The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | ||
| 67 | Behind the Beyond | ||
| 68 | A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder | ||
| 69 | Last Leaves | ||
| 70 | The Tomorrow-Tamer | ||
| 71 | Odysseus Ever Returning | ||
| 72 | The Curé of St. Phillipe | ||
| 73 | The Favourite Game | ||
| 74 | Winnowed Wisdom | - | |
| 75 | The Seats of the Mighty | ||
| 76 | A Search for America | ||
| 77 | The Betrayal | ||
| 78 | Mad Shadows | ||
| 79 | The Incomparable Atuk | ||
| 80 | The Luck of Ginger Coffey | ||
| 81 | Essays, Controversies and Poems | ||
| 82 | Peace Shall Destroy Many | ||
| 83 | A Voice from the Attic | ||
| 84 | Next Episode | ||
| 85 | Roger Sudden | ||
| 86 | Mist on the River | ||
| 87 | The Fire-Dwellers | ||
| 88 | The Deserter | ||
| 89 | Antoinette de Mirecourt | ||
| 90 | Allegro | ||
| 91 | The End of the World and Other Stories | ||
| 92 | In the Village of Viger and Other Stories | ||
| 93 | The Edible Woman | ||
| 94 | In Search of Myself | ||
| 95 | Feast of Stephen | - | |
| 96 | A Bird in the House | ||
| 97 | The Wooden Sword | ||
| 98 | Pride's Fancy | ||
| 99 | Ox Bells and Fireflies | ||
| 100 | Above Ground | ||
| 101 | New Priest in Conception Bay | ||
| 102 | The Flying Years | ||
| 103 | Wind Without Rain | ||
| 104 | Tête Blanche | ||
| 105 | Tay John | ||
| 106 | Canadians of Old | ||
| 107 | Headwaters of Canadian Literature | ||
| 108 | The Blue Mountains of China | ||
| 109 | The Hidden Mountain | ||
| 110 | The Heart of the Ancient Wood | ||
| 111 | A Jest of God | ||
| 112 | Self-Condemned | ||
| 113 | Dust Over the City | ||
| 114 | Our Daily Bread | ||
| 115 | The Canadian Novel in the Twentieth Century | ||
| 116 | The Viking Heart | ||
| 117 | Down the Long Table | ||
| 118 | Glengarry School Days | ||
| 119 | The Plouffe Family | ||
| 120 | Windflower | ||
| 121 | The Disinherited | ||
| 122 | The Temptations of Big Bear | ||
| 123 | Pandora | ||
| 124 | House of Hate | ||
| 125 | A Candle to Light the Sun | ||
| 126 | This Side Jordan | ||
| 127 | The Red Feathers | ||
| 128 | I Am Mary Dunne | ||
| 129 | The Road Past Altamont | ||
| 130 | Knife on the Table | ||
| 131 | The Manawaka World of Margaret Laurence | - | |
| 132 | Consider Her Ways | ||
| 133 | His Majesty's Yankees | ||
| 134 | Jean Rivard | ||
| 135 | Bogle Corbet | ||
| 136 | A Choice of Enemies | ||
| 137 | Responses and Evaluations: Essays on Canada | ||
| 138 | The Master's Wife | ||
| 139 | The Cruelest Month | ||
| 140 | The Atonement of Ashley Morden | ||
| 141 | Wild Animals I Have Known | ||
| 142 | Scann | ||
| 143 | On Poetry and Poets | ||
| 144 | Crackpot | ||
| 145 | Sawbones Memorial | ||
| 146 | The Diviners | ||
| 147 | High Bright Buggy Wheels | ||
| 148 | Big Lonely | ||
| 149 | Wooden Hunters | ||
| 150 | God's Sparrows | ||
| 151 | The Outlander | ||
| 152 | Great Comic Book Heroes and Other Essays | ||
| 153 | Beautiful Losers | ||
| 154 | The Emperor of Ice-Cream | ||
| 155 | Garden in the Wind | ||
| 156 | The Scorched Wood People | ||
| 157 | The Lost Salt Gift of Blood | ||
| 158 | Lord Nelson Tavern | ||
| 159 | Everything in the Window | ||
| 160 | The Camera Always Lies | ||
| 161 | The Selena Tree | ||
| 162 | Watchers at the Pond | ||
| 163 | Two in the Bush and Other Stories | ||
| 164 | Bloody Harvest | ||
| 165 | The Neighbour and Other Stories | ||
| 166 | The Manuscripts of Pauline Archange | ||
| 167 | Sandbars | ||
| 168 | Selected Stories | ||
| 169 | The Angel of the Tar Sands | ||
| 170 | The Innocent Traveller | ||
| 171 | The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone | ||
| 172 | Bear | ||
| 173 | Spirit Wrestler | ||
| 174 | The Coming of Winter | ||
| 175 | Five Legs and Communion | ||
| 176 | Laugh with Leacock | ||
| 177 | The Book of Eve | ||
| 178 | The Channel Shore | ||
| 179 | Amongst Thistles and Thorns | ||
| 180 | Flowers of Darkness | ||
| 181 | The New Ancestors | ||
| 182 | Judith | ||
| 183 | St. Lawrence Blues | ||
| 184 | Blood Ties | ||
| 185 | St. Urbain's Horseman | ||
| 186 | The Lark in the Clear Air | ||
| 187 | Lives of Short Duration | ||
| 188 | A Population of One | ||
| 189 | Lunatic Villas | ||
| 190 | Cocksure | ||
| 191 | The Township of Time | ||
| 192 | Bayo | ||
| 193 | The Sparrow's Fall | ||
| 194 | The Tiger in the Tiger Pit | ||
| 195 | The Mangan Inheritance | ||
| 196 | The Tent Peg |
Unnumbered series
Books published in the collection after the sequential numbering ceased were:| Title | Author | Essay |
| ' | ||
| Across the Bridge | ||
| ' | ||
| ' | ||
| Ancient Lineage and Other Stories | ||
| Anne of Green Gables | ||
| Any Time at All and Other Stories | ||
| As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories | ||
| Black Robe | ||
| Deep Hollow Creek | ||
| Digging Up the Mountains | ||
| Emily Climbs | ||
| Emily of New Moon | ||
| Emily's Quest | ||
| ' | ||
| Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace | ||
| Execution | ||
| ' | ||
| ' | ||
| For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down | ||
| Good Bones | ||
| Hetty Dorval | ||
| ' | ||
| Joshua Then and Now | ||
| ' | ||
| Life in the Clearings versus the Bush | ||
| Light Shining Out of Darkness and Other Stories | ||
| Love and Salt Water | ||
| Man Descending | ||
| ' | ||
| ' | ||
| Mrs. Golightly and Other Stories | ||
| Murder in the Dark | ||
| My Financial Career and Other Follies | ||
| Nights Below Station Street | ||
| No Love Lost | ||
| Perpetual Motion | ||
| ' | ||
| ' | ||
| Running in the Family | ||
| ' | ||
| ' | ||
| Solomon Gursky Was Here | ||
| Spit Delaney's Island | ||
| ' | ||
| Such a Long Journey | ||
| Surfacing | ||
| Tales from Firozsha Baag | ||
| Tales from the Uncertain Country and Other Stories | ||
| Two Solitudes | ||
| ' | ||
| Who Has Seen the Wind |
Poetry collections
- Canadian Poetry: From the Beginnings Through the First World War edited by Carole Gerson and Gwendolyn Davies
- Poets Between the Wars edited by Milton Wilson
- Poets of Contemporary Canada 1960-1970 edited by Eli Mandel