Reading
Books I have been reading
2024
- Le Monde sans fin by Jean-Marc Jancovici, Christophe Blain (Illustrator) (2021)
- Frida Kahlo: Her Life, Her Work, Her Home by Francisco de la Mora (2023)
2023
- Police lunaire by Tom Gauld (2016)
- El Mesías by Mark Bellido and illustrated by Wauter Mannaert (2015)
- Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better by Jennifer Pahlka (2023)
- Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives by Melissa Bruntlett and Chris Bruntlett (2021)
- The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity by Robin Ince (2021)
- Chroniques de jeunesse by Guy Delisle (2021)
- Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias by John Lorinc (2022)
- Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It by M. Nolan Gray (2022)
2022
- How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth by The Moth, Meg Bowles, Catherine Burns, Jenifer Hixon, Sarah Austin Jenness, Kate Tellers, Padma Lakshmi, Chenjerai Kumanyika (2022) [Audiobook]
- Bâtisseurs d’Amérique: Des canadiens français qui ont fait l’histoire (2016)
- J’aime les filles by Diane Obomsawin (2014)
- Indians on Vacation by Thomas King (2020)
- I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf by Grant Snider (2020)
- Ru by Kim Thúy (2009)
- The Elusive Trait by Eric Li (n.d.)
2021
- 100 ans de bus à Montréal by Benoît Clairoux, Jaysen Constantineau, Robert Lacombe, Jean-François Lacourse (2019)
- Anglo Guide to Survival in Quebec by Josh Freed (1983)
- Limes by Corey Mintz (2021)
- Rebecca & Lucie mènent l’enquête by Pascal Girard (2021)
- The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America by Matt Kracht (2019)
- Portraits du Mile End by Pascal Girard, Michel Hellman (2019)
- The Case of the Missing Men by Kris Bertin, Alexander Forbes (Visual Art) (2017)
- The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles by Gary Krist (2018)
- Making Comics by Lynda Barry (2019)
- Simone Simoneau: chronique d’une femme en politique by Valérie Plante (scénariste), Delphie Côté-Lacroix (illustratrice) (2020)
- How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell (2019)
- Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of Our World by Dan Davies (2018)
2020
- The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad by Mike Birbiglia (2020)
- Eat Sleep Work Repeat: 30 Ways to Fix Your Work Culture and Fall in Love with Your Job Again by Bruce Daisley (2020)
- Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool by Emily Oster (2019)
- The Wagers by Sean Michaels (2019)
- The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson (2019)
- Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor by Lynda Barry (2014)
- This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone (2019)
- Once Upon a Time in France (Il était une fois en France #1-6) by Fabien Nury, Sylvain Vallée (Illustrator) (2019)
- Marcher sur un Lego et autres raisons d’aimer la vie by Stéphane Dompierre (2019)
- Saga, Vol. 3 (Saga #3) by Brian K. Vaughan (Writer), Fiona Staples (Artist) (2014)
- Normal People by Sally Rooney (2019)
- Every Tool’s a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It by Adam Savage (2019)
- Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale by Adam Minter (2019)
- Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking by Samin Nosrat (2017)
- Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World by Rutger Bregman (2014)
2019
- Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms by Hannah Fry (2018)
- Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life by Eric Klinenberg (2018)
- Rues de Montréal by Collectif (2019)
- Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch (2019)
- Why I Love the Habs: A Memoir of Love and Loss at the Hands of the Montreal Canadiens by Jay Baruchel (2018)
- The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving A F*Ck by Sarah Knight (2015)
- Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris (2013)
- 7 Générations : Cicatrices (Volume 2) by David Alexander Robertson (Author), Scott Henderson (2014)
- 7 Générations : Pierre (Volume 1) by David Alexander Robertson (Author), Scott Henderson (Illustrator) (2014)
- Sex Criminals, Vol. 5: Five-Fingered Discount by Matt Fraction (Story), Chip Zdarsky (Artist) (2018)
- Design Is Storytelling by Ellen Lupton (2017)
- Boom Town by Sam Anderson (2018)
- Arbitrary Stupid Goal by Tamara Shopsin (2017)
2018
- The Library Book Susan Orlean (2018)
- Bossypants by Tina Fey (2011)
- Motherhood by Sheila Heti (2018)
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (2016)
- French Exit by Patrick deWitt (2018)
- Saga, Vol. 2 (Saga #2) by Brian K. Vaughan (Writer), Fiona Staples (Artist) (2013)
- The Beast: Making a Living on a Dying Planet The Beast: Making a Living on a Dying Planet
by Hugh Goldring, Nicole Marie Burton (Contributor) (2018)
- The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English by Lynne Murphy (2018)
- Eat More Better: How to Make Every Bite More Delicious by Dan Pashman, Alex Eben Meyer (Illustrations) (2014)
- Hard To Do: The Surprising, Feminist History of Breaking Up by Kelli María Korducki (2018)
- Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (1963)
- The Utility of Boredom: Baseball Essays by Andrew Forbes (2016)
- How to Talk to Girls at Parties by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) (Writer), Fábio Moon (Adaptation, Art, & Lettering), Gabriel Bá (Adaptation, Art, & Lettering) (2016)
- Next Year, for Sure: A Novel by Zoey Leigh Peterson (2017)
- The Shoe on the Roof by Will Ferguson (2017)
- The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis (2016)
- Boys: What It Means to Become a Man in the 21st Century by Rachel Giese (2018)
- The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla (Editor), Varaidzo, Chimene Suleyman, Vera Chok, Daniel York Loh, Himesh Patel, Nish Kumar, Reni Eddo-Lodge , Wei Ming Kam, Darren Chetty, Kieran Yates, Coco Khan, Inua Ellams, Sabrina Mahfouz, Riz Ahmed, Sarah Sahim, Salena Godden, Miss L., Bim Adewunmi, Vinay Patel, Musa Okwonga (2016)
- Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches by John Hodgman (2017)
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote (1958)
- One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul (2017)
- La Perdida by Jessica Abel (2002)
- Maximum Canada: Why 35 Million Canadians Are Not Enough by Doug Saunders (2017)
- Baseball Life Advice by Stacey May Fowles (2017)
- Out on the Wire: Uncovering the Secrets of Radio’s New Masters of Story with Ira Glass by Jessica Abel (2015)
- Snacks: A Canadian Food History by Janis Thiessen (2017)
- Saga, Vol. 1 (Saga #1) by Brian K. Vaughan (Writer), Fiona Staples (Artist) (2012)
- Worry-Free Money: The guilt-free approach to managing your money and your life by Shannon Lee Simmons (2017)
- The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Make Your Loved Ones’ Lives Easier and Your Own Life More Pleasant by Margareta Magnusson (2017)
- Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez (2017)
- Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well by Douglas Stone, Sheila Heen (2014)
- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (1895)
2017
- Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan (2014)
- Atlantic Hotel by João Gilberto Noll, Adam Morris (Translator) (Translation 2017 / Original 1986)
- Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give by Ada Calhoun (2017)
- The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain (1934)
- Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir by Martha Gellhorn (1979)
- Sex Criminals, Vol. 4: Fourgy! by Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky (Contributor) (2017)
- Sex Criminals, Vol. 3: Three the Hard Way by Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky (Artist) (2016)
- Expecting Better by Emily Oster (2013)
- The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (contributor) (2008)
- Amusing Ourselves to Death: public discourse in the age of show business by Neil Postman (1985)
- The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa (1981)
- Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power by Michael Reid (2014)
- Discovering Prices: Auction Design in Markets with Complex Constraints by Paul R Milgrom (2017)
- The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J. Levitin (2014)
- Literary Lapses by Stephen Leacock (1910)
- The First Tycoon by T.J. Stiles (2009)
- Solitude: A Singular Life in a Crowded World by Michael Harris (2017)
- Take Us To Your Chief And Other Stories by Drew Hayden Taylor (2016)
- Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters (2016)
- Time Travel: A History by James Gleick (2016)
- The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter by David Sax (2016)
- But What If We’re Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past by Chuck Klosterman (2016)
- Unseen City: The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness by Nathanael Johnson (2016)
- Frontier City: Toronto on the Verge of Greatness by Shawn Micallef (2017)
- This Is a Book About the Kids in the Hall by John Semley (2016)
- The Maintenance of Headway by Magnus Mills (2009)
- The Wealthy Renter: How to Choose Housing That Will Make You Rich by Alex Avery (2016)
- World of Wonders by Robertson Davies (1975)
- Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil (2016)
- Photobooth: A Biography by Meags Fitzgerald (2014)
- Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick (2016)
2016
- Fermat’s Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World’s Greatest Mathematical Problem by Simon Singh (1997)
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, William Weaver (translator) (1972)
- The Manticore by Robertson Davies (1972)
- The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing (2016)
- Fifth Business by Robertson Davies (1970)
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson (2004)
- The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1930)
- A Burglar’s Guide to the City by Geoff Manaugh (2015)
- The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson (2015)
- Rio de Janeiro: Extreme City by Luiz Eduardo Soares, Anthony Doyle (Translator) (2016)
- Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy by Robert H. Frank (2016)
- Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Stephen Leacock (1914)
- Brazillionaires: Chasing Dreams of Wealth in an American Country by Alex Cuadros (2016)
- Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone) by Kamal Al-Solaylee (2016)
- Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin (2009)
- Dance, Gladys, Dance by Cassie Stocks (2012)
- Us Conductors by Sean Michaels (2014)
- The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood (2015)
- The Time Machine Did It by John Swartzwelder (2006)
- Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto by Shawn Micallef (2010)
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1871)
- Better Living Through Economics by John J. Siegfried (Editor) (2010)
- King Leary by Paul Quarrington (2007)
- Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ by Giulia Enders, Jill Enders (Illustrator) (2014)
- How to Host a Dinner Party by Corey Mintz (2013)
- Dancing with the Devil in the City of God: Rio de Janeiro on the Brink by Juliana Barbassa (2015)
- Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City by Guy Delisle, Helge Dascher (Translator) (2012)
2015
- The History of Montreal: The Story of a Great North American City by Paul-André Linteau, Peter McCambridge (Translator) (2013)
- Walking Home: The Life and Lessons of a City Builder by Ken Greenberg (2012)
- Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg (2015)
- Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut (1985)
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899)
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo (2014)
- You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack by Tom Gauld (2013)
- Up, Up, and Away: The Kid, the Hawk, Rock, Vladi, Pedro, le Grand Orange, Youppi!, the Crazy Business of Baseball, and the Ill-fated but Unforgettable Montreal Expos by Jonah Keri (2014)
- Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design by Alvin E. Roth (2015)
- Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín (2009)
- Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!: Requiem for a Divided Country by Mordecai Richler (1992)
- The Unwritten Rules of Baseball: The Etiquette, Conventional Wisdom, and Axiomatic Codes of Our National Pastime by Paul Dickson (2009)
- The Trouble with Brunch: Work, Class and the Pursuit of Leisure by Shawn Micallef (2014)
- Sex Criminals, Vol. 2: Two Worlds, One Cop (Sex Criminals #6-10) by Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky (Illustrations) (2015)
- Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcón (2007)
- Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives by Jarrett Walker (2011)
- The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (1950)
- Seconds: A Graphic Novel by Bryan Lee O’Malley (2014)
2014
- Sex Criminals, Vol. 1: One Weird Trick (Sex Criminals #1-5) by Matt Fraction (Writer), Chip Zdarsky (Artist) (2014)
- Things We Set On Fire by Deborah Reed (2013)
- Proof: The Science of Booze by Adam Rogers (2014)
- The Complete Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman (1996)
- May Day: A Graphic History of Protest by Robin Folvik, Mark Leier, Sean Carleton, Sam Bradd (Illustrations), Trevor McKilligan (Illustrations) (2012)
- An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield (2013)
- One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson (2013)
- It’s a Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken by Seth (1998)
- Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott (1884)
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012)
- The War on Science: Muzzled Scientists and Wilful Blindness in Stephen Harper’s Canada by Chris Turner (2013)
- The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, Contributions by Jason Zweig and Warren Buffett (2003)
- Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay (2007)
- The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets by Simon Singh (2013)
2013
- The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light by Paul Bogard (2013)
- One Thousand Mustaches: A Cultural History of the Mo by Allan Peterkin (2012)
- When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro (2001)
- The Laws of Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life by John Maeda (2006)
- Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World by Doug Saunders (2010)
- Some Great Idea: Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto by Edward Keenan (2013)
- I‘ll Seize the Day Tomorrow by Jonathan Goldstein (2012)
- Born Weird by Andrew Kaufman (2012)
- The Family Took Shape by Shashi Bhat (2013)
- Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile by Taras Grescoe (2012)
- Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner, Lazer Lederhendler (Translator) (2009)
- The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos by Neil Turok (2012)
- Spanish Fly by Will Ferguson (2008)
2012
- The Skule Story by Richard White (2000)
- Up and Down by Terry Fallis (2012)
- The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives by Deirdre N. McCloskey and Steve Ziliak (2008)
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré (1974)
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (2010)
- Watchmen by Alan Moore (1995)
- To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure by Henry Petroski (2012)
- Monoceros by Suzette Mayr (2011)
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
- Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer (2012)
- An Engineer’s Alphabet: Gleanings from the Softer Side of a Profession by Henry Petroski (2011)
- The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt (2011)
- The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje (2011)
- Louis Riel by Chester Brown (2003)
- Nonsense Novels by Stephen Leacock (1911)
- Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis (2011)
- Canadian Pie by Will Ferguson (2011)
- The Chairs Are Where the People Go: How to Live, Work, and Play in the City by Misha Glouberman and Sheila Heti (2011)
2011
- Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly by John Kay (2010)
- Pyongyang A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle (2005)
- Apocalypse for Beginners by Nicolas Dickner, Lazer Lederhendler (Translator) (2010)
- Is That a Fish in Your Ear? by David Bellos (2011)
- At Home by Bill Bryson (2010)
- Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton (2011)
- Local Motion: The Art of Civic Engagement in Toronto edited by Christina Palassio, Alana Wilcox, Dave Meslin (2010)
- Urban Nation by Alan Broadbent (2008)
- The Death of Environmentalism by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus
- In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway (1925)
- Happiness by Will Ferguson (2003)
- The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud (2009)
- When Gadgets Betray Us by Robert Vamosi (2011)
- Marshall McLuhan by Douglas Coupland (2010)
- Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy by Stephen Leacock (1915)
- Red Tory: How Left and Right have broken Britain and how we can fix it by Phillip Blond (2010)
- Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock (1912)
- Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer) by Stan Cox (2010)
- The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle (2010)
2010
- Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins (2008)
- Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman (2009)
- The High Road by Terry Fallis (2010)
- Post Office by Charles Burkowski (1971)
- Filthy Lucre: Economics for people who hate capitalism by Joseph Heath (2009)
- I was told there’d be cake : essays by Sloane Crosley (2008)
- Into the Hurricane: Attacking socialism and the CCF by John Boyko (2006)
- From Hope to Higher Ground: 12 Steps to restoring America’s greatness by Mike Huckabee (2007)
- Cyclist’s Manifesto: the case for riding on two wheels instead of four by Robert Hurst (2009)
- How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer (2009)
2009
- Amusing Ourselves to Death: public discourse in the age of show business by Neil Postman (2006)
- Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (1986)
- Unbuilt Toronto: a history of the city that might have been by Mark Osbaldeston (2008)
- The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham (1951)
- Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bible! by Jonathan Goldstein (2009)
- Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs: a low culture manifesto by Chuck Klosterman (2003)
- The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon (2007)
- HTO: Toronto’s Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers and Low-flow Toilets by Christina Palassio (2008)
- A Fair Country by John Ralston Saul (2008)
- The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis (2007)
- The Upside of Down: catastrophe, creativity and the renewal of civilization by Thomas Homer-Dixon (2006)
- Proust was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer (2007)
- Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson (2006)
- Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene (1958)
2008
(There are more I just didn’t keep very good track of them.)
- Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth by Margaret Atwood (2007)
- Homage to Barcelona by Colm Tóibín (2002)
- The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawkins (1993)
- GreenTOpia: Towards a Sustainable Toronto edited by Alana Wilcox and Jonny Dovercourt (2007)
- Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow (2003)
2007
- The New City: How the Crisis in Canada’s Urban Centres is Reshaping the Nation by John Lorinc (2006)
- The City of Words by Alberto Manguel (2007)
- Microserfs by Douglas Coupland (1995)
- The State of the Arts: Living With Culture in Toronto edited by Alana Wilcox (2006)
- Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctrow (2004)
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926)
2006
- Collapse by Jared Diamond (2005)
- How to Save the World in Your Spare Time by Elizabeth May (2006)
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
- Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby (1992)
- Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2005)
- The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford (2005)
- The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman (2005)
- In Praise of Slow by Carl Honore (2004)
- uTOpia: Towards a New Toronto edited by Jason McBride & Alana Wilcox (2005)
- Union Station by Joe Fiorito (2006)
- The Tale of a City: Re-Engineering the Urban Environment by Tony O’Donohue (2005)
- A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (1998)
- The Cult of Efficiency by Janice Gross Stein (2001)
- Paper or Plastic by Daniel Imhoff (2005)
- The Polite Revolution by John Ibbitson (2005)
- The Rights Revolution by Michael Ignatieff (2000)
- Hitching Rides with Buddha by Will Ferguson (1998)
- The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (2000)
- Small Things Considered by Henry Petroski (2003)
2005
- A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright (2004)
- Accidental City by Robert Fulford (1996)
- Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson (1993)
- What’s the Matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank (2004)
- How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization by Franklin Foer (2004)
- The Efficient Society by Joseph Heath (2002)
- Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner (2005)
- The Rebel Sell by Joseph Heath & Andrew Potter (2004)
- Spin by Robert Wilson (2005)
- Spoken Here by Mark Abley (2003)
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt (1994)
- Mindscan by Robert J. Sawyer (2005)
- Before the Flood by Alan R. Wilson (2003)
- Why I Hate Canadians by Will Ferguson (1997)
- How to be a Canadian by Will and Ian Ferguson (2001)
- Plan B by Lester Brown (2003)
- Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1901)
- The Chosen by Chaim Potok (1967)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey (1962)
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon (2003)
- Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw by Will Ferguson (2004)
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)
2004
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (1951)
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (2003)
- Fuzzy Logic: Dispatches from the Information Revolution by Matthew Friedman (1998)
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss (2003)
- Jennifer Government by Max Barry (2003)
- The Scientist, the Madman, the Thief and their Lightbulb by Keith Tutt (2003)
- WE by Eugene Zamiatin (1924)
- A History of Latin America by George Pendle (1969)
- Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King (1993)
- In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson (2001)
- Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje (2000)
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958)
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2001)
2003
- Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)
- In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje (1987)
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932)
2002
- Red China Blues by Jan Wong (1996)
2001
- Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell (1933)
2000
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)
- Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg (1987)
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (1895)
- Davita’s Harp by Chaim Potok (1985)
- The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954)
1999
- The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954)
1995
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (1929)
1994
- The Giver by Lois Lowry (1993)
Other time
- Banker to the Poor: micro-lending and the battle against world poverty by Muhammad Yunus (1999)
- The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth (1971)
- 1984 by George Orwell (1949)
- The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz (2004)
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1955)
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952)
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937)
- The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942)
- The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien (1955)
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (1937)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (1962)
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (1993)
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (1915)
- The Cider House Rules by John Irving (1994)
- A Room With a View by E.M. Forster (1908)
- Cannery Row by John Steinbeck (1945)
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu (1910)
- The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler (1959)