CBC Books has announced the longlist for the 14th annual Canada Reads competition. This year’s edition, hosted by journalist Wab Kinew, intends to recognize “one book to break barriers.”

Members of an as yet anonymous panel selected three titles each, which will be culled to one that each panelist will champion in a series of debates.

The panelists and their respective final titles will be announced on Jan. 20 and the debates will take place in front of a live audience March 16-19.

The longlist is as follows:

• Doug Saunders, Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World (Vintage Canada)
• Kim Thúy; Sheila Fischman, trans., Ru (Vintage Canada)
• Dionne Brand, What We All Long For (Vintage Canada)
• Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America (Doubleday Canada)
• Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (Knopf Canada)
• Bart Campbell, The Door is Open: A Memoir of a Soup Kitchen Volunteer (Anvil Press)
• Lee Maracle, Celia’s Song (Cormorant Books)
• Kamal Al-Solaylee, Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes (HarperCollins Canada)
• Saleema Nawaz, Bone & Bread (House of Anansi Press)
• Raziel Reid, When Everything Feels Like the Movies (Arsenal Pulp Press)
• Mariko Tamaki, (You) Set Me on Fire (Razorbill Canada)
• Kim Fu, For Today I Am A Boy (HarperCollins Canada)
• Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows (Knopf Canada)
• Jocelyne Saucier; Rhonda Mullins, trans., And the Birds Rained Down (Coach House Books)
• Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach (Vintage Canada)