A very eclectic collection, read by the fire, on planes, in the garden. And/or heard, in bed…
Kate Atkinson, Transcription
Belinda Bauer, Snap
Carleigh Baker, Bad endings: stories *
Sarah Bakewell, At the existentialist café: freedom, being and apricot cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre [and others]
Sharon Bala, The Boat People*
Deirdre Baker, Becca fair and foul*
John Banville, Mrs. Osmond*
Linwood Barclay, A Noise Downstairs
Julian Barnes, The lemon table: stories
Billy-Ray Belcourt, This wound is a world: poems
Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists
Diana Beresford-Kroeger, Arboretum America: a philosophy of the forest; photographs by Christian H. Kroeger; foreword by Edward O. Wilson
Jill Bialosky, Poetry will save your life: a memoir*
Holly Black, Doll bones; with illustrations by Eliza Wheeler *
Leonard Cohen, The Flame
Christopher Paul Curtis, The journey of little Charlie
E.D. Blodgett, Transfiguration*
E.D. Blodgett, Apostrophes: woman at a piano*
George Bowering, No one (Not recommended~!)
Alan Bradley, The Grave’s a Fine and Private Place*
Dionne Brand, Tessa McWatt, Rabindranath Maharaj, editors / Luminous ink: writers on writing in Canada
Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone*
Stephen Harrod Buhner, Plant intelligence and the imaginal
Steve Burrows, A tiding of magpies
Jessie Burton, The miniaturist: a novel *
Rhonda Byrne, The Power*
Heather Cadsby, Standing in the flock of connections
Anne Carson, Red Doc
Kate Cayley, How you were born: stories*
David Chariandy, Brother*
Svetlana Chmakova, Brave*
Noam Chomsky ; created and edited by Peter Hutchinson, Kelly Nyks & Jared P. Scott. Requiem for the American dream: the 10 principles of concentration of wealth & power /
Noam Chomsky; interviews with David Barsamian, Global discontents
Kim Clark and Dawn Marie Kresan, Canadian Ginger: an anthology of poetry & prose*
Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: an American tragedy*
Marina Cohen, The doll’s eye; illustrations by Nicoletta Ceccoli
Billy Collins, The rain in Portugal: poems
Cressida Cowell, The Wizards of Once*
Cressida Cowell, How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury. How to Train Your Dragon Series, Book 12. Read by David Tennant *
Lorna Crozier, What the soul doesn’t want: poems*
Tom Cull, Bad animals*
Rachel Cusk, Outline*
Rachel Cusk, Transit *
Rachel Cusk, Kudos*
Lauren B. Davis, The Grimoire of Kensington Market *
Elisabeth de Mariaffi, Hysteria *
Edmund de Waal, The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
Mai Der Vang, Afterland: poems *
David Demchuk, The Bone Mother
Patrick deWitt, French Exit cd
Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves*
Jeramy Dodds, Drakkar Noir
Brian Doyle, editor. A sense of wonder: the world’s best writers on the sacred, the profane, and the ordinary
Norman Dubie, The quotations of bone
Esi Edugyan, Washington Black: A Novel
Jennifer Egan, Manhattan Beach*
Deborah Eisenberg, Twilight of the Superheroes *
Dave Eggers, Heroes of the frontier: a novel*
Dave Eggers, The monk of Mokha. Mokhtar Alkhanshali *
Cecilia Ekbäck, The midnight sun
Cecilia Ekbäck, Wolf Winter
Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God *
Susan Faludi, In the darkroom*
- A. C. Farrant, The days: forecasts, warnings, advice *
Elena Favilli, Francesca Cavallo. Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
Aminatta Forna, Happiness*
Aminatta Forna,The hired man*
Philip Freeman, Searching for Sappho: the lost songs and world of the first woman poet including new translations of all of Sappho’s surviving poetry*
Patrick Friesen, Songen*
Cornelia Funke, Ruffleclaw; illustrated by the author; translated by Oliver Latsch *
Neil Gaiman, Odd and the Frost Giants; illustrated by Brett Helquist*
Jorie Graham, Fast*
Shari Green, Macy McMillan and the rainbow goddess *
Camilla Grudova, The Doll’s Alphabet
Lisa Halliday, Asymmetry*
Richard Harrison, On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood *
Paula Hawkins, Into the water
Elizabeth Hay, All Things Consoled: A Daughter’s Memoir
Emma Healey, Stereoblind: poems *
Emma Healey, Whistle in the dark*
Chris Hedges, Unspeakable: Chris Hedges on the most forbidden topics in America / with David Talbot
Sheila Heti, Motherhood *
Brenda Hillman, Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire*
Alice Hoffman, Survival Lessons
Alice Hoffman, The rules of magic*
Alice Hoffman, Here on Earth*
Robert Hogg, There is No Falling
Nancy Holmes, Valancy and the new world *
Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine*
Cornelia Hoogland, Trailer park elegy*
Emma Hooper, Our Homesick Songs*
Susan Howe, Debths
David Huebert, Peninsula Sinking *
Helen Humphreys, The ghost orchard: the hidden history of the apple in North America*
Helen Humphreys, Machine Without Horses
Kazuo Ishiguro, My twentieth century evening and other small breakthroughs: the Nobel lecture*
Walter Isaacson, Leonardo da Vinci*
Annie Jacobson, Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government’s Investigations Into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*
Maureen Jennings, Let darkness bury the dead: a Murdoch mystery *
Amanda Jernigan, Years, months, and days: Poems *
Jim Johnstone, editor. The next wave: an anthology of 21st century Canadian poetry
Kij Johnson, The Fox Woman *
The Journey prize stories: the best of Canada’s new writers
Han Kang, Human acts: a novel; translated from the Korean and introduced by Deborah Smith*
Thomas King, Cold Skies*
Barbara Kingsolver, Unsheltered
Larissa Lai, When Fox Is a Thousand *
Danielle LaPorte, White Hot Truth*
- I. Larry, High risk*, Undercover*
Ursula K Le Guin, Words are my matter: writings about life and books, 2000-2016 with a journal of a writer’s week
John Le Carré, A delicate truth
League of Canadian Poets, Measures of astonishment: poets on poetry / presented by the League
Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
David Lehman, Best American Poetry 2016
Donna Leon, Drawing conclusions: a Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery
Donna Leon, The Temptation of Forgiveness
Carrianne Leung, That time I loved you: linked stories
Deborah Levy, Things I Don’t Want to Know
Jennifer LoveGrove, Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes *
Helen M. Luke, Old Age: Journey into Simplicity
Helen M. Luke; edited by Rob Baker. Kaleidoscope: the way of woman and other essays*
Harriet Alida Lye, Honey Farm*
Kari Maaren, Weave a Circle Round*
Anne McDonald, Miss Confederation: The Diary of Mercy Anne Coles*
Gregory Maguire, Hiddensee: a tale of the once and future Nutcracker *
Terese Mailhot, Heart Berries: A Memoir
Alice Major, Memory’s daughter
Mark Manson: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck*
Daphne Marlatt, The Collected Earlier Poems, 1968-2008. Edited by Susan Holbrook*
Monia Mazigh, Hope has two daughters *
Alexander McCall Smith, The House of Unexpected Sisters: The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency *
Ami McKay, Half Spent Was the Night *
Steve McOrmond, Reckon*
W.S. Merwin, Sir Gawain and the green knight / a new verse translation*
W.S. Merwin, The river sound: poems
Anne Michaels, All We Saw*
Madeline Miller, Circe**
Valerie Mills-Milde, The Land’s Long Reach*
Thomas Moore, Ageless soul*
Naomi Novik, Uprooted*
John O’Donohue, Conamara blues: poems *
Michael Ondaatje, Warlight*
Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox*
Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
Richard Powers, The Overstory*
Meredith Quartermain, U girl: a novel *
Sina Queyras, My Ariel*
Matt Rader, Desecrations*
Judy Rebick, Heroes In My Head *
Elizabeth Renzetti, Shrewed*
Noah Richler, The candidate: fear and loathing on the campaign trail*
Eden Robinson, Trickster Drift*
Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens*
Damian Rogers, Dear leader *
Catherine Sheldrick Ross, Lynne McKechnie, Paulette M. Rothbauer, editors. Reading Still Matters: What the Research Reveals about Reading, Libraries, and Community *
Salman Rushdie, The golden house: A Novel *
Karen Russell, Vampires in the Lemon Grove *
Linda Rutenberg, The Garden at Night. Introduction by Christopher Dewdney*
Deborah Samuel, The extraordinary beauty of birds: designs, patterns and details
Richard Sanger, Dark woods. Biblioasis*
Sarah Selecky, Radiant Shimmering Light*
Maria Semple, Where’d You Go, Bernadette*
Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire*
Alexie Sherman, Thunder Boy Jr.*
Merilyn Simonds, Gutenberg’s Fingerprint: Paper, Pixels and the Lasting Impression of Books*
Linda Spalding, The Reckoning*
Barbara Shapiro, The Muralist
Sjon, From the Mouth of the Whale*
Ali Smith, Autumn*
Ali Smith, Winter*
Michael V. Smith, Bad ideas
Murdoch Neil Smith, Boo: a novel
Zadie Smith, Feel Free
Mark Strand, Eavan Boland, editors, The making of a poem: a Norton anthology of poetic forms
J.R. (Tim) Struthers, ed. Clark Blaise: the Interviews
Graham Swift, Tomorrow
Gillian Sze, Panicle
Wisława Szymborska, Map: collected and last poems; edited by Clare Cavanagh
Amy Tan, Where the past begins: a writer’s memoir*
Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch*
Kim Thúy, Vi ; translated from the French by Sheila Fischman
Miriam Toews, Women Talking
Alexandre Trudeau, Barbarian Lost: Travels in the New China*
John Vaillliant, The Jaguar’s Children*
Alberto Villoldo, One Spirit Medicine: Ancient Ways to Ultimate Wellness*
Alberto Villoldo and David Perlmutter, Power up your brain: the neuroscience of enlightenment
Ocean Vuong, Night sky with exit wounds*
Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads. (Julia Zave)
Elizabeth Waterston, Magic island: the fictions of L.M. Montgomery*
Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed: a novel
Anthony Williams, Medical Medium*
Deborah Willis, The dark and other love stories*
Oprah Winfrey, The wisdom of sundays: Life-Changing Insights from Super Soul Conversations. Oprah Winfrey*
Peter Wohlleben, The Inner Life of Animals*
Peter Wohlleben; translated by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp. The weather detective: rediscovering nature’s secret signs
Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion*
Lauren Wolk, Wolf Hollow*
Erin Wunker, Notes from a Feminist Killjoy
,,, and still reading…
