What we have read

• The Accordionist, Fred Vargas
  
• After the Falls, Catherine Gildiner
  
• The Alchemist, Paolo Coello
  
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay, Michael Chabon
  
• Anything is Possible, Elizabeth Strout
  
• The Artist's Way, Julia Cameron
  
• As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
  
• Atonement, Ian McEwan
  
• Atwood (anything by Margaret Atwood)
  
• Autobiography of a Face, Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy
  
• Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
  
• The Believers, Zoe Heller
  
• Bellweather, Connie Willis
  
• The Best Laid Plans, Terry Fallis
  
• A Bird In The House, Margaret Laurence
  
• The Birth House, Ami McKay
  
• Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
  
• Book of Negroes, Laurence Hill
  
• The Bookseller Of Kabul, Asne Seierstad
  
• Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín
  
• A Child's Christmas in Wales, Dylan Thomas
  
• City of Falling Angels, John Berendt
  
• Coming ashore, Catherine Gildiner
  
• Crow, Amy Spurway
  
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
  
• Dona Flora and Her Two Husbands, Jorge Amado
  
• East of Eden, John Steinbeck
  
• Emancipation Day, Wayne Grady
  
• The Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry
  
• Euphoria, Lily King
  
• A Fair Country: telling truths about Canada, John Ralston Saul
  
• The Female Brain, Louann Brizendine
  
• The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and a Son, David Gilmour
  
• The Flying Troutmans, Miriam Toews
  
• Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
  
• The Gargoyle, Andrew Davidson
  
• A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towle
  
• Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
  
• Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls
  
• Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
  
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
  
• Happiness, Will Ferguson
  
• Hillbilly Elegy, J. D. Vance
  
• Himself, Jess Kidd
  
• History of Love, Nicole Krauss
  
• Hope Makes Love, Trevor Cole
  
• Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
  
• The House of All Sorts, Emily Carr
  
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
  
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
  
• The In-between World of Vikram Lall, MG Vissanji
  
• In the midst of winter, Isabel Allende
  
• Journal of Susanna Moodie, Margaret Atwood
  
• The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
  
• Late Nights On Air, Elizabeth Hay
  
• Light Between Two Oceans, M.L. Stedman
  
• Little sister, Barbara Gowdy
  
• Longitude, Dava Sobel
  
• Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
  
• Lullabies for Little Criminals, Heather O'Neill
  
• A Map of Glass, Jane Urquhart
  
• The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Roberto Calasso
  
• Medicine Walk, Richard Wagamese
  
• The Memory-Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards
  
• Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
  
• Motorcycles and Sweetgrass, Drew Hayden Taylor
  
• My Sister the Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite
  
• Never Cry Wolf, Farley Mowat
  
• Nightwing, Martin Cruz Smith
  
• Nobody Nowhere, Donna Williams
  
• Norman Bray in the Performance of His Life, Trevor Cole
  
• Practical Jean, Trevor Cole
  
• The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford
  
• Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi
  
• Reckless, Chrissie Hynde
  
• Red notice : a true story of high finance, Bill Browder
  
• The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
  
• Remembering Babylon, David Malouf
  
• A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf
  
• Rosie Project, Graeme Stimson
  
• The Round House, Louise Erdrich
  
• Runaway, Alice Munro
  
• Saturday Night Ghost Club, Craig Davidson
  
• The Sentimentalists, Johanna Skibsrud
  
• The Sisters Brothers, Patrick de Witt
  
• Some Hope, Edward St. Aubyn
  
• Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson
  
• Still Alice, by Lisa Genova
  
• Sunset Park, Paul Auster
  
• The Tattoist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris
  
• The Telling of Lies, Timothy Findley
  
• They left us everything, Plum Johnson
  
• Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome (print, audio)
  
• Too Close to the Falls, Catherine Gildener
  
• The Water is Wide, Pat Conroy
  
• What Alice Forgot, Liane Moriarty
  
• Where I Belong, Alan Doyle
  
• The White Hotel, D.M. Thomas
  
• White Noise, Don DeLillo
  
• Who has seen the wind, W.O. Mitchell
  
• Wild, Cheryl Strayed
  
• The Windfall, Diksha Basu
  
• Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  
• The Wonder, Emma Donoghue
  
• The World Before Us, Aislinn Hunter
  
• Young Once, Patrick Modiano
  

Book Ideas

Paper books

• WPL
• KPL
• Book Depository
• Amazon
• Chapters 886-4015
• ABE used books
• Alibris
• Old Goat 880-9595
• Bookworm 885-9523
• Words Worth 884-2665
• Casablanca 576-0026
• Bookmill (St Jacobs) 664-1195

Online books

• My Favorite Iliad
• Shakespeare
• Internet Archive
• Project Gutenberg
• Scribd
• Adelaide U. Lib.
• Google Books
• Authorama
• British Library
• U. Penn
• Smithsonian
• Johnstonia
• eMule
• Simply Audiobooks
• Authors talk
• Tor Com

Related Sites

• Yappa Ding Ding
• Words Worth blog

Book Ideas From Linda:

• Paris Wife, Paula McLain
  
• 419, Will Ferguson
  
• Half Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan
  
• The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion
  
• Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  
• And the Mountain Echoed, Khaled Hosseini
  
• Maya's Notebook, Isabelle Allende
  
• The Light Between Oceans, ML Stedman
  

Bill Clinton recommends (summer 2017)

• Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann
• Empire of Cotton: A Global History, by Sven Beckert
• House of Spies, by Daniel Silva
• A Great Reckoning (A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel), by Louise Penny
• The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, by Eric Hoffer
• Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman, by Itamar Rabinovich
• Boys in the Trees: A Memoir, by Carly Simon
• How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, by Mohsin Hamid
• Blindsided: The True Story of One Man's Crusade Against Chemical Giant DuPont for a Boy with No Eyes, by Jim Ferraro
• Gratitude, by Oliver Sacks
• Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes, by Richard A. Clarke and R.P. Eddy
• High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic, by Glenn Frankel

From book club members: (With links to their online location, if available for free online.)

• Maps of Meaning, Jordan B. Peterson
• Golden Days, Carolyn See
• Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, by Mark Kurlansky
• The Fearsome Particles, Trevor Cole
• The Anubis Gates, Tim Powers (Coleridge and cohorts in time-travel adventure)
• To Reign in Hell, Steven Brust (about the fall of Lucifer)
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
• The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper (link)
• Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane (link)
• Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope (link)
• Castle Rackrent, Maria Edgeworth (link)
• Private Memoirs of a Justified Sinner, James Hogg (link)
• John Steinbeck
• the sequel to Too Close to the Falls , Catherine Gildiner
• a beat book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, or something like that

Links to book ideas:

• 1000 books everyone should read
• Top 100 books of all time
• Hack Writer's reviews
• Cdn Book Club
• Chapters Paperback bookclub list * Schmoozer's bookclub list
• Silicon Valley book club list
• Not Your Mother's Book Club
• Adelante!
• Writer's Cafe
• UCI Libraries
• SFU Book Club List
• Bruce's book page
• WPL book club blog
• KPL book club

From Nat

African Genesis, Robert Ardrey
• All The Kings' Men, Robert Penn Warren
• Of Time and the River, Thomas Wolfe
• You Gotta Dance With Them That Brung You, Molly Ivins
• Fridays With Red, Bob Edwards
• Family of Spies, Pete Earley
• First in His Class, David Maraniss 4+
• Is Paris Burning?, Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
• Cat Stories, James Herriot
• The Grass Widow's Tale, Ellis Peters
• Booknotes Life Stories, Brian Lamb
• The Climb, Anatoli Bookreev and Weston DeWalt
• Stickin': The Case for Loyalty, James Carville
• The Last Hurrah, Edwin O'Connor
• Until the Last Trumpet Sounds, Gene Smith
• Growing Up, Russell Baker
• Spy, David Wise
• Born This Day, Ed Morrow
• The Love You Make, Peter Brown and Steven Gaines
• The Bureau and the Mole, David A. Vise
• John Adams, David McCullough
• Thieves in High Places, Jim Hightower
• Moneyball, Michael Lewis
• The Beatles Come to America, Martin Goldsmith
• Fanatics and Fools, Arianna Huffington
• The Politics of Truth, Joseph C. Wilson, IV
• House of Bush, House of Saud, Craig Unger 4+
• Little House in the Ozarks, Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Ten Big Ones, Janet Evanovich 4+
• Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston
• The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
• Collapse, Jared Diamond
• If Photos Could Talk, Andy Oliver
• Come As You Are, Coates Redmon
• One Step Behind, Henning Mankell
• Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin
• Our Endangered Values, Jimmy Carter
• Tibet, Kazuyoshi Nomachi
• The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Frank Rich

More suggestions:

• The Cairo Trilogy (first book is The Palace Walk)
• Sagas of the Icelanders (Penguin edition with 17 sagas)
• Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps, Peter Galison

Sci-fi:

• Frederick Pohl's Gateway books
• Illegal Alien, Robert Sawyer
• Birthright, the book of Man, Mike Resnick
• The Well of Souls series, Jack L Chalker
• Beggars in Spain (trilogy), Nancy Kress
• Xenogenesis trilogy (Lilith's Brood), Octavia Butler.
• Last and First Men, Olaf Stapledon
• Up the Walls of the World, James Tiptree

Ruth's Top Ten Fiction

1. Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey
2. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
3. The Last of the Wine, Mary Renault
4. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
5. The Last Coin, James P. Blaylock
6. Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler
7. Passage, Connie Willis
8. The Solid Mandala, Patrick White
9. Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
10. Dust, Yael Dayan

Ruth's Top Ten Non-Fiction

1. The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Roberto Calasso
2. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power, Robert Caro
3. Religion and the Decline of Magic, Keith Thomas
4. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, Harriet Jacobs
5. The Inmates are Running the Asylum, Alan Cooper
6. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
7. Land of Lost Content, Ian Smillie
8. From Beirut to Jerusalem, Thomas Friedman
9. A Theory of Econometrics, Anna Koutsoyiannis
10. The New Joy of Cooking, Ethan Becker

Tom's Top Ten Non-Fiction

1. The Making of the English Working Class, EP Thompson
2. The Extended Phenotype, Richard Dawkins
3. The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism, Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman
4. Micromotives and Macrobehaviour, Thomas Schelling
5. Consciousness Explained, Daniel Dennett
6. The Electronic Structure and Chemistry of Solids, P. A. Cox
7. Protest and Survive, EP Thompson again
8. Memory of Fire, Eduardo Galeano
9. The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
10. Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell <\li>
    

Jim's Top Ten Fiction (20th century)

1. For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway
2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
3. Johnny Get Your Gun, Dalton Trumbo
4. Either The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner or The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
5. The Eight by Neville
6. Semi Tough, Dan Jenkins
7. Bernard Cornwell's King Arthur trilogy
8. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
9. Bless the Beasts and the Children, Swarthout
10. The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier

Ruth's Top Sci-fi & Fantasy (in alphabetical order by author; one book per author)

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
• The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
• The Last Coin, James P. Blaylock
• Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
• The Sheep Look Up, John Brunner
• To Reign in Hell, Steven Brust
• War for the Oaks, Emma Bull
• Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
• Babel-17, Samuel R. Delany
• Time Out of Joint, Philip K. Dick
• Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson
• Red Shift, Alan Garner
• The Rose, Charles Harness
• Dune, Frank Herbert
• Beggars in Spain, Nancy Kress
• Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
• Star Fraction, Ken MacLeod
• A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller
• The Condition of Muzak, Michael Moorcock
• Ringworld, Larry Niven
• The Anubis Gates, Tim Powers
• Pavane, Keith Roberts
• Singularity Sky, Charles Stross
• More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
• Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
• Where Late the Sweet Bird Sang, Kate Wilhelm
• Passages, Connie Willis
• The Chrysalids, John Wyndham
• Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny