The five finalists for the 2010 CBC Canada Reads competition have been unveiled. Take a look:

• Marina Endicott, Good to a Fault (Freehand Press), defended by Simi Sara
• Nicolas Dickner, Lazer Lederhendler, trans., Nikolski (Random House Canada) defended by Michel Vezina
• Douglas Coupland, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (St. Martin’s Press/H.B. Fenn and Company), defended by Roland Pemberton
• Wayson Choy, The Jade Peony (Douglas & McIntyre), defended by Samantha Nutt
• Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees (Random House Canada), defended by Perdita Felicien