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Books I have been reading

2026

• Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet by Will Hunt (2019)
• Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes by Jessica Pan (2019)
• Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile by Aaron Naparstek, Doug Gordon, Sarah Goodyear (2025)

2025

• Simple Sabotage Field Manual by U.S. Office of Strategic Services (1944)
• La langue rapaillée: Combattre l'insécurité linguistique des Québécois by Anne-Marie Beaudoin-Bégin (2015)
• A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers (2022)
• Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall by Alexandra Lange (2022)
• We, the Others: Allophones, Immigrants, and Belonging in Canada by Toula Drimonis (2022)
• Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect by Will Guidara (2022)
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (2021)

2024

• Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away by Annie Duke (2022)
• The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, and Literature of Pedestrianism by Geoff Nicholson (2008)
• Leonard Cohen. Sur un fil by Philippe Girard (2021)
• When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe (2022)
• 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)