2012
| Date | Title |
Author |
Date |
Type |
| Jan 03/12 | The Cat's Table | Michael Ondaatje | 2011 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Jan 14/12 | A Good Man | Guy Vanderhaeghe | 2011 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Jan 17/12 | Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | 1857 | fiction: novel - France |
| Jan 18/12 | god is not Great | Christopher Hitchins | 2007 | non-fiction: essays - USA |
| Jan 21/12 | The Two Gentlemen of Verona | William Shakespeare | 2011 | fiction: play - England |
| Feb 4/12 | Reamde | Neal Stephenson | 2011 | fiction: novel - USA |
| Feb 9/12 | A World Elsewhere | Wayne Johnston | 2011 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Feb 10/12 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | 1962 | fiction: novel - Russia |
| Feb 11/12 | The Taming of the Shrew | William Shakespere | 2011 | fiction: Play - England |
| Mar 3/12 | The Stand | Stephen King | 1990 | fiction: novel - USA |
| Mar 5/12 | Empire of Illusion | Chris Hedges | 2009 | non-fiction: culture - USA |
| Mar 15/12 | The Talisman | Sir Walter Scott | 1825 | fiction: novel - Scotland |
| May 2/12 | The Street Sweeper | Elliot Perlman | 2011 | fiction: novel - Australia |
| May 5/12 | Nikolski | Nicolas Dickner | 2008 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| May 8/12 | The Song of Achilles | Madeline Miller | 2012 | fiction: novel - USA |
| May 11/12 | All My Enemies | Barry Maitland | 1996 | fiction: novel - Australia |
| May 12/12 | Winter | Rick Bass | 1991 | non-fiction: memoir - USA |
| May 23/12 | The Complete Original Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant | Guy de Maupassant | 1893 | fiction: short stories - France |
| June 1/12 | The Troubled Man | Henning Mankell | 2011 | fiction: novel - Sweden |
| June 10/12 | Farther Away | Jonathan Franzen | 2012 | non-fiction: essays - USA |
| June 18/12 | No Trace | Barry Maitland | 2004 | fiction: novel - Australia |
2011
| Date | Title |
Author |
Date |
Type |
| Jan 02/11 | The Sentamentalists | Johanna Skibsrud | 2009 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Jan 06/11 | Room | Emma Donaghue | 2011 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Jan 18/11 | Freedom | Jonathan Franzen | 2010 | fiction: novel - USA |
| Jan 20/11 | The Illuminated Rumi | Coleman Barks/Michael Green | 1997 | poetry: Persian |
| Jan 29/11 | Dead Souls | Nikolai Gogol | 1915 | fiction: novel - Russia |
| Feb 3/11 | Cool Water | Dianne Warren | 2010 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Mar 5/11 | The Conference of the Birds | Farid ud-Din Attar | 1984 | poetry: Persian |
| Mar 25/11 | Decoded | Jay-Z | 2010 | non-fiction: autobiography |
| Apr 3/11 | Solar | Ian McEwan | 2011 | fiction: novel - England |
| Apr 12/11 | The Lacuna | Barbara Kingsolver | 2009 | fiction: novel - USA |
| Apr 17/11 | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | 1891 | fiction: novel - Ireland |
| May 8/11 | Irma Voth | Miriam Toews | 2011 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| May 30/11 | The Beginning of Infinity | David Deutsch | 2011 | non-fiction: science |
| Jun 10/11 | Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science | Lawrence M. Krauss | 2011 | non-fiction: science |
| Jun 15/11 | Picturing the Land | Marylin McKay | 2011 | non-fiction: history, art |
| Jun 23/11 | Surface Detail | Iain M. Banks | 2010 | fiction: novel - Scotland |
| Jul 3/11 | Champlain's Dream | David Hackett Fischer | 2008 | non-fiction: history |
| Jul 10/11 | Sanctuary Line | Jane Urquhart | 2010 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Jul 19/11 | Ward No. 6 and Other Stories | Anton Chekhov | 2003 | fiction: short stories - Russia |
| Jul 23/11 | State of Wonder | Ann Patchett | 2011 | fiction: novel - USA |
| Aug 5/11 | Come, Thou Tortoise | Jessica Grant | 2010 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Aug 13/11 | Notes From Underground | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1993 | fiction: novel - Russia |
| Aug 27/11 | Zero History | William Gibson | 2010 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Sep 05/11 | The Hidden Connections | Fritjof Capra | 2002 | non-fiction: science |
| Sep 17/11 | The Solace of Open Spaces | Gretel Ehrlich | 1985 | fiction: autobiography - USA |
| Sep 20/11 | The Elephant's Journey | Jose Saramago | 2010 | fiction: novel - Portugal |
| Sep 22/11 | Deep Time | David Darling | 1989 | non-fiction: science |
| Sep27/11 | The Last Stand | Nathaniel Philbrick | 2010 | non-fiction: history |
| Oct 04/11 | Alone in the Classroom | Elizabeth Hay | 2011 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Oct 11/11 | Microcosmos | Lynn Margolis | 1986 | non-fiction: science |
| Oct 25/11 | Guards! Guards! | Terry Pratchett | 1989 | fiction: novel - England |
| Nov 19/11 | Bone: The Adventure Begins | Jeff Smith | 2010 | fiction: comic - USA |
| Nov 30/11 | Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | 1996 | fiction: novel - USA |
| Dec 04/11 | The Tree of Knowledge (rev. ed.) | H. Maturana, F. Varela | 1998 | non-fiction: science |
| Dec 04/11 | Bone: The Saga Continues | Jeff Smith | 2011 | fiction: comic - USA |
| Dec 15/11 | 1Q84 | Hiruki Murakami | 2011 | fiction: novel - Japan |
| Dec 18/11 | Carte Blanche | Jeffery Deaver | 2011 | fiction: novel - USA |
| Dec 20/11 | Micro | Michael Crichton | 2011 | fiction: novel - USA |
| Dec 20/11 | The Doll's House | Henrik Ibsen | 1879 | drama: Norway |
| Dec26/11 | The Sisters Brothers | Patrick DeWitt | 2011 | fiction: novel - Canada |
2010
| Date | Title |
Author |
Date |
Type |
| Jan 10/10 | Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel | 2009 | fiction: novel - England |
| Jan 17/10 | The Golden Mean | Annabel Lyon | 2009 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Jan 18/10 | The Map that Changed the World | Simon Winchester | 2002 | non-fiction: geology |
| Jan 26/10 | A Case of Exploding Mangoes | Mohammed Hanif | 2008 | fiction: novel - Pakistan |
| Feb 01/10 | Daughter of Fortune | Isabel Allende | 1999 | fiction: novel - USA |
| Feb 08/10 | Imagining Head-Smashed-In | Jack W. Brink | 2008 | non-fiction: history |
| Feb 18/10 | The Library at Night | Alberto Manguel | 2006 | non-fiction: literature |
| Feb 27/10 | Total Recall | Gordon Bell & Jim Gemmell | 2009 | non-fiction: technology |
| Mar 09/10 | Les Miserables | Victory Hugo | 1862 | fiction: novel - France |
| Mar 11/10 | All the Strange Hours | Loren Eiseley | 1975 | non-fiction: autobiography |
| Mar 19/10 | Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert Heinlein | 1961 | fiction: novel - USA |
| Mar 21/10 | Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works | Petrarch | 1985 | fiction: poetry - Italy |
| Apr 08/10 | House of Leaves | Mark Z. Danielewski | 2000 | fiction: novel - USA |
| Apr 09/10 | The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Mohsin Hamid | 2007 | fiction: novel - England |
| Apr 18/10 | Too Much Happiness | Alice Munro | 2009 | fiction: short stories - Canada |
| Apr 21/10 | beatrice & virgil | Yann Martel | 2010 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| May 02/10 | Motorcycles & Sweetgrass | Drew Hayden Taylor | 2010 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| May 27/10 | 2666 | Roberto Bolano | 2008 | fiction: novel - Chile |
| Jun 02/10 | Of Rocks, Mountains and Jasper | Chris Yorath & Ben Gadd | 1995 | non-fiction: geology |
| Jun 03/10 | Mountaineering Essays | John Muir | 1997 | non-fiction: journals |
| Jun 15/10 | Stones From the River | Ursula Hegi | 1994 | fiction: novel - USA |
| Jun 17/10 | Old Indian Trails of the Canadian Rockies | Mary T. S. Schaffer | 1911 | non-fiction: journals |
| Jun 23/10 | The Notebook | Jose Saramago | 2010 | non-fiction: journals |
| Jun 27/10 | Wanting | Richard Flanagan | 2008 | fiction: novel - Australia |
| Jul 03/10 | Blindness | Jose Saramago | 1995 | fiction: novel - Portugal |
| Jul 11/10 | The Windup Girl | Paolo Bacigalupi | 2009 | fiction: novel - USA |
| Jul 17/10 | The Science of Leonardo | Fritjof Capra | 2007 | non-fiction: science |
| Aug 01/10 | Kanata | Don Gillmor | 2010 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Aug 05/10 | The Math Book | Clifford A. Pickover | 2009 | non-fiction: mathematics |
| Aug 13/10 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith | 1943 | fiction: novel - USA |
| Aug 21/10 | The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest | Stieg Larsson | 2009 | fiction: novel - Sweden |
| Aug 27/10 | Tinkers | Paul Harding | 2009 | fiction: novel - USA |
| Oct 2/10 | The Grand Design | Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow | 2010 | non-fiction: science |
| Oct 9/10 | The Children's Book | A. S. Byatt | 2009 | fiction: novel - England |
| Oct 13/10 | In Search of the Multiverse | John Gribbin | 2009 | non-fiction: science |
| Oct 24/10 | Look at the Birdie | Kurt Vonnegut | 2009 | fiction: short stories - USA |
| Oct 24/10 | On Writing | Stephen King | 2000 | non-fiction: literature |
| Oct 31/10 | Under the Dome | Stephen King | 2009 | fiction: novel - USA |
| Nov 15/10 | The Museum of Innocence | Orhan Pamuk | 2009 | fiction: novel - Turkey |
| Nov 24/10 | The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet | David Mitchell | 2010 | fiction: novel - Ireland |
| Nov 27/10 | Player One | Douglas Coupland | 2010 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Dec 07/10 | Stone's Fall | Iain Pears | 2009 | fiction: novel - England |
| Dec 23/10 | Conversations with Myself | Nelson Mandela | 2010 | non-fiction: history |
| Dec 25/10 | My Father's Notebook | Kader Abdolah | 2000 | fiction: novel - Iran |
| Dec 30/10 | Rumi's World | Annemarie Schimmel | 1992 | non-fiction: history |
2009
| Date | Title |
Author |
Date |
Type |
| Jan 1/09 | Poincare's Prize | George G. Szpiro | 2008 | non-fiction: mathematics |
| Jan 1/09 | The Poincare Conjecture | Donal O'Shea | 2007 | non-fiction: mathematics |
| Feb 26/09 | The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories | Jane Urquhart (Ed.) | 2007 | fiction: short stories - Canada |
| Apr 16/09 | The Story of the Stone, vol. 1 | Cao Xueqin | 1973 | fiction: novel - China |
| Apr 29/09 | The Soul of the World | Christopher Dewdney | 2008 | non-fiction: science |
| May 5/09 | The Thirteenth Tale | Diane Setterfield | 2006 | fiction: novel - USA |
| May 10/09 | Good to a Fault | Marina Endicott | 2008 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Jun 10/09 | The Canadian Rockies: New and Old Trails | A. P. Coleman | 2006 | non-fiction: travel |
| Jun 13/09 | The Tenth Circle | Jodi Picoult | 2006 | fiction: novel - USA |
| Jun 13/09 | Armageddon in Retrospect | Kurt Vonnegut | 2008 | fiction: short stories - USA |
| Jun 15/09 | The Unknown Terrorist | Richard Flanagan | 2006 | fiction: novel - Australia |
| Jun 25/09 | Life: A User's Manual | Georges Perec | 1978 | fiction: novel - France |
| Jun 27/09 | The Elegance of the Hedgehog | Muriel Barbery | 2007 | fiction: novel - France |
| Jul 02/09 | Dark Waters Dancing to a Breeze | Wayne Grady (Ed.) | 2007 | fiction: short stories - Canada |
| Jul 04/09 | So Many Ways to Begin | Jon McGregor | 2006 | fiction: novel - England |
| Jul 15/09 | Lost Illusions | Honore du Balzac | 1843 | fiction: novel - France |
| Jul 19/09 | Atmospheric Disturbances | Rivka Galchen | 2008 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Jul 24/09 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Steig Larsson | 2008 | fiction: novel - Sweden |
| Jul 27/09 | The Retreat | David Bergen | 2008 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Jul 28/09 | Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Shiguro | 2005 | fiction: novel - England |
| Aug 03/09 | The Immense Journey | Loren Eiseley | 1959 | non-fiction: science |
| Aug 11/09 | Special Topics in Calamity Physics | Marisha Pessl | 2006 | fiction: novel - USA |
| Aug 14/09 | The Girl Who Played With Fire | Stieg Larsson | 2009 | fiction: novel - Sweden |
| Sep 17/09 | The Magic Mountain | Thomas Mann | 1924 | fiction: novel - Germany |
| Sep 27/09 | The Lost Symbol | Dan Brown | 2009 | fiction: novel - USA |
| Oct 10/09 | The Year of the Flood | Margaret Atwood | 2009 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Oct 14/09 | Deaf Sentence | David Lodge | 2008 | fiction: novel - England |
| Oct 17/09 | Breath | Tim Winton | 2008 | fiction: novel - Australia |
| Oct 27/09 | The Favourite Game | Leonard Cohen | 1963 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Oct 30/09 | And Another Thing ... | Eoin Colfer | 2009 | fiction: novel - England |
| Nov 08/09 | Beautiful Losers | Leonard Cohen | 1966 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Nov 09/09 | The White Tiger | Aravind Adiga | 2008 | fiction: novel - India |
| Nov 13/09 | Generation A | Douglas Coupland | 2009 | fiction: novel - Canada |
| Nov 14/09 | In Bed with the Word | Daniel Coleman | 2009 | non-fiction: Literature |
| Dec 5/09 | Ulysses | James Joyce | 1922 | fiction: novel - Ireland |
| Dec 12/09 | Mountains Beyond Mountains | Tracy Kidder | 2003 | non-fiction: biography |
| Dec 17/09 | Gretzky's Tears | Stephen Brunt | 2009 | non-fiction: sports |
| Dec 21/09 | Canada's First Railway | Nick & Helma Mika | 1985 | non-fiction: history |
| Dec 26/09 | The Bishop's Man | Linden MacIntyre | 2009 | fiction: novel - Canada |