2017

 

  1. The Heart Goes Last (Margaret Atwood)* – book club pick
  2. Everyone’s An Artist (Ron Tite, Scott Kavanagh & Christopher Novais)*
  3. The Legend of Zippy Chippy (William Thomas)*
  4. Extraordinary (David Gilmour)*
  5. The Reason You Walk (Wab Kinew)*
  6. David and Goliath (Malcolm Gladwell)*
  7. Up Ghost River (Edmund Metatawabin)*
  8. Damned Nations (Samantha Nutt)
  9. A Jest of God (Margaret Laurence)*
  10. Bear (Marian Engel)*
  11. Small Great Things (Jodi Picoult) – book club pick
  12. Still Mine (Amy Stuart)*
  13. Books for Living (Will Schwalbe)
  14. Weology (Peter Aceto)*
  15. Halfblood Blues (Esi Edugyan)*
  16. Optimists Die First (Susin Neilsen)*
  17. Twelve Years a Slave (Northrup Solomon)
  18. Faithful (Alice Hoffman) – book club pick
  19. Real Food, Fake Food (Larry Olmstead)
  20. Company Town (Madeline Ashby)*Canada Reads
  21. Milk and Honey (Rupi Kaur)*
  22. Nostalgia (M.G. Vassangi)*Canada Reads
  23. The Translation of Love (Lynne Kutsukake)*
  24. The Break (Katherena Vermette)*Canada Reads
  25. My Reading Life (Pat Conroy)
  26. The Best of Adam Sharp (Graeme Simsion)
  27. Hatchet (Gary Paulsen)
  28. Fifteen Dogs (Andre Alexis)*Canada Reads
  29. One Day We’ll All be Dead and None of this Will Matter (Saachi Koul)*
  30. for Joshua (Richard Wagamese)*
  31. Son of a Trickster (Eden Robinson)*
  32. Lion (Saroo Brierly)
  33. The Two-Family House (Lynda Cohen Loigman)
  34. Home from the Vinyl Cafe (Stuart McLean)*
  35. The Girl Who Was Saturday Night (Heather O’Neill)*
  36. The Nightingale (Kristin Hannah)
  37. Thirteen Reasons Why (Jay Asher)
  38. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
  39. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)*
  40. Juliet’s Answer (Glenn Dixon)*
  41. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot)
  42. The Weekend Effect (Katrina Onstad)*
  43. Rainbow Valley (L.M. Montgomery)*
  44. The One-In-A-Million Boy (Monica Wood)
  45. Start with Why (Simon Sinek)
  46. The Island of the Blue Dolphins (Scott O’Dell)
  47. The Underpainter (Jane Urquhart)*
  48. Commonwealth (Ann Patchett)
  49. The Greatest Hits of Wanda JaynesThe Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes (Bridget Canning)*
  50. Kit’s Law (Donna Morrissey)*
  51. Plainsong (Kent Haruf)
  52. Keeper’N Me (Richard Wagamese)*
  53. Eventide (Kent Haruf)
  54. Benediction (Kent Haruf)
  55. Rilla of Ingleside (L.M. Montgomery)*
  56.  Girl in Snow (Danya Kukafka)
  57. The Outlander (Gil Adamson)*
  58. The Love of a Good Woman (Alice Munro)*
  59. Tell (Frances Itani)*
  60. Hagseed (Margaret Atwood)*
  61. One Brother Shy (Terry Fallis)*
  62. Drifting Home (Pierre Berton)*
  63. The Lesser Blessed (VanCamp)*
  64. How to Be Bawse (Lilly Singh)*
  65. I Found You (Lisa Jewell)
  66. Manhattan Beach (Jennifer Egan)
  67. Juliet in August (Dianne Warren)*
  68. The Confidence Code (Kay & Shipman)
  69. Uncommon Type (Tom Hanks)
  70. The Tin Flute (Gabrielle Roy)*
  71. Holding Still for as Long as Possible (Zoe Whittall)*
  72. Stone Mattress (Margaret Atwood)*
  73. The Piano Maker (Kurt Palka)*
  74. The Fire-Dwellers (Margaret Laurence)*
  75. Unplug:  A Simple Guide to Meditation
  76. The Town that Drowned (Riel Nason)*
  77. Consumption (Kevin Patterson)*
  78. The Spawning Grounds (Gail Anderson-Dargatz)*
  79. Happier (Tal Ben-Shahan)
  80. Five Love Languages (Gary Chapman)
  81. Alias Grace (Margaret Atwood)*
  82. Five Love Languages for Teens (Gary Chapman)
  83. Beneath the Wake (Ross Pennie)*
  84. I am a Truck (Michelle Winters)*
  85. Calm (Michael Acton Smith)
  86. Smile (Roddy Doyle)
  87. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (Lisa See)
  88. Outline (Rachel Cusk)*
  89. Caroline (Sarah Miller)
  90. Bellevue Square (Michael Redhill)*
  91. Zero Waste Home (Bea Johnson)
  92. Make Your Bed (Admiral McRaven)
  93. Transit (Rachel Cusk)*
  94. Fast Food Genocide (Joel Fuhrman)
  95. The Party (Robyn Harding)*

*Canadian authors