Great reading that provides a sense of the city, from the Traveler online Ultimate Travel Library.
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Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World, by Rex Weyler (2004)
With some friends in a Vancouver living room, Weyler co-founded Greenpeace. This book chronicles how the environmental organization grew from a grassroots protest group to an international force for change.
JPod, by Douglas Coupland (2006)
Building on the themes he developed in Generation X and Microserfs—of the influences, burdens, and ridiculousness of pop-culture—Coupland follows a quirky Vancouver video-game developer, fluent in Internet vernacular but unfulfilled in his corporate job.
The Concubine’s Children, by Denise Chong (1994)
This true-life family history follows a Chinese peasant who left his family in China in 1913 and came to Vancouver in search of gold. Always intending to return to China, he starts a family with his concubine; this 60-year family history echoes the experience of many Chinese immigrants.
The Jade Peony, by Wayson Choy (1995)
Award-winning novel set in Vancouver’s Chinatown in the 1930s. Tells the story of three siblings’ search for separate identities as they struggle against history, culture, family, and poverty.
The Love of a Good Woman, by Alice Munro (1998)
Arguably one of Canada's finest short story writers, Munro lived in and around Vancouver for 22 years. This collection travels from Vancouver to Toronto, capturing both the splendor and aching limitations of love.
