6 books Caught novelist Lisa Moore loves

Set in Newfoundland in 1978, Lisa Moore's Caughtfollows the misadventuresof David Slaney, a recent prison escapee looking for one final job to set him up for life. Allan Hawco wrote and stars in the CBC Television adaptation ofCaught, which airs on Mondays at 9:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. in Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Below, Moore, who was shortlisted for the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize for Caught, describes six books that have shaped her life.

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

"She's L.M. and I am L.M.! But I love Anne for more than all that. Lucy MaudMontgomery is hilarious, and though the P.E.I landscape is not as ragged and dangerous as Newfoundland, (more lush and peaceful, more root vegetables), Anne is the kind of girl who could have come from Newfoundland! She loses her temper, has a big imagination, an elevated vocabulary beyond her yearsand shebursts the seams of every female convention for polite behaviour that ever there was. She is vain and dangerously smart and feels deeply andsmashes a slate chalkboard over a boy's head and hates her red hair. But the reader loves her every utterance."

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This All Happened by Michael Winter

"Michael Winter's novel is sexy, vivid, funny and sharp. It plays with the line between fiction and autobiography. Did this all happen or not? Taking its structure from a ship's log, the novel unfolds in journal entries over the course of a year. I defy any reader to find a single sentence that's not gorgeous. A single moment that doesn't ring true."

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Mrs. Dallowayby Virginia Woolf

"Virginia Woolf explores not just the creation of a character but, as she says, the very spirit of a human being by following the torrents of memory as they touch down the consciousness of Mrs. Dalloway. We know what she thinks and feels!We don't have to like her, or identify with her she's a bit superficial, a snoband on the conservative side but we know her inside out. We know her the moment she flings open the windows of her house to air the place out for her grand party. Woolf revolutionized plot. Shemade it all about formation ofcharacter, minute by minute, second by second, the flux of being."

Irma Vothby Miriam Toews

"I love this book for its humour, and the powerful depiction of the life of an artist in this case a film director in Mexico, willing to die for his art and maybe bring down everybody with him. On the one hand, Toews is making fun of this guy the director in her novel is so beautifully rendered in all his passion and struggle and bombast.And on the other hand the reader is left unsettled, wondering what art is, what life would be worth without it."

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The Wild Palmsby William Faulkner

"This novel splices together two very separate stories:a woman dying from an illegal abortion in a rented cottage by the seaand the fate of a group of prisoners shackled together in the back of a truck during a flood. As the Mississippi rises around their chained ankles, they beg to be let go. One of the prisoners, a lifer, desperately wants to get back to prison, the only place hefeels safe. Hefinds himself a row boat and heads back to incarceration, floating amongthe uprootedpalm trees and dead cows, only to come upon a pregnant woman stuck in a tree, about to give birth. This is where the two distinct stories touch up and rub against each other. One story is hilariously ironic, the freed man who cannot leave his cage; the other story desperate and prescient when it comes to women's rights concerning reproduction. Because Faulkner experimentally smashed these two plots together and let the pieces fall where they may, the themes in each story intertwine to beautiful effect."

Running in the FamilybyMichael Ondaatje

"This autobiography, like Winter's This All Happened,plays fast and free with the facts. In Ondaatje's case, magic realism makes this family saga more true than the truth; it is poetically charged, spare, elegiac and mesmeric."