The choice of books for the 2013 edition of Canada Reads is emerging as a regional turf war, with readers from five different geographic areas across the country putting forward their favourite local authors.

The choices range from established classics, like Who Has Seen the Wind by W.O. Mitchell and Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery to this year’s Giller nominees Ru by Kim Thuy and Inside by Alix Ohlin.

There’s been hot debate on CBC Books as readers submitted thousands of titles.

Just one book from each of the regions — British Columbia and Yukon, Prairies and North, Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic Provinces – will be debated during Canada Reads 2013.

Now each region has whittled it down to 10 books, all works of fiction, as determined by online voting,

The top 10 were announced Wednesday on CBC Radio.

The top 10 from the Atlantic provinces:

Annabel by Kathleen Winter

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

The Bay of Love and Sorrows by David Adams Richards

Come Thou Tortoise by Jessica Grant

February by Lisa Moore

Galore by Michael Crummey

Glass Boys by Nicole Lundrigan

No Great Mischief by Alistair McLeod

Ragged Islands by Don Hannah

The Town that Drowned by Riel Nason

The top 10 from the Prairies and the North:

Stolen by Annette Lapointe

Cool Water by Dianne Warren

Fall from Grace by Wayne Arthurson

The Garneau Block by Todd Babiak

Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay

The Trade by Fred Stenson

The Age of Hope by David Bergen

The Diviners by Margaret Laurence

Who Has Seen the Wind by W.O. Mitchell

The Englishman’s Boy by Guy Vanderhaeghe

The top 10 from Ontario:

The Amazing Absorbing Boy by Rabindranath Maharaj

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

Away by Jane Urquhart

Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright

The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Buchanan

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

Far to Go by Alison Pick

Fifth Business by Robertson Davies

Helpless by Barbara Gowdy

Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb

The top 10 from Quebec:

The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny

The Darling of Kandahar by Felicia Mihali

De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage

How to make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired by Dany Laferrière

Illustrado by Miguel Syjuco

Inside by Alix Ohlin

Ru by Kim Thuy

Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler

The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy

Two Solitudes by Hugh McLennan

The top 10 from British Columbia and the Yukon: