2024 Reading List

Bold = Favourites

  1. The Librarianist – Patrick DeWitt
  2. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen R Covey (re-read)
  3. Wonder – RJ Palacio
  4. The PARA Method – Tiago Forte
  5. Whisky Classified: Choosing Single Malts by Flavour
  6. The Border – Don Winslow
  7. The Secret World of Slugs and Snails: Life in the Very Slow Lane by David George Gordon
  8. Good Inside – Dr. Becky Kennedy
  9. The Wager – David Grann
  10. At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
  11. Stolen Focus: Why you can’t pay attention— and how to think deeply again by Johann Hari
  12. Romantic Comedy – Curtis Sittenfeld
  13. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store – James McBride
  14. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
  15. Opening Up by Writing it Down – James Pennebaker
  16. Working – Robert A Caro
  17. The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin
  18. Holly – Stephen King
  19. The Hard Life: An exegesis of squalor by Flann O’Brien
  20. Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland by Henry Hemming
  21. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool, James Kaplan
  22. The Demon of Unrest – Erik Larsen
  23. Novelist as a vocation – Haruki Murakami
  24. Die Trying (Reacher) – Lee Child
  25. Let the elephants run – David Usher
  26. The Devil’s Best Trick – Randall Sullivan
  27. Slow Productivity – Cal Newport
  28. The Six Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Wrestlemania – Brad Balukjian
  29. Hip Hop is History – Questlove
  30. All that Happiness Is – Adam Gopnik
  31. Begin Again – Oliver Jeffers
  32. Traveling, Traveling Traveling on the path of Joni Mitchell – Ann Powers
  33. Glory Days – Simon Rich
  34. Persuader – Lee Child
  35. Shakespeare for Squirrels – Christopher Moore
  36. You like it darker – Stephen King
  37. Second Son – Lee Child
  38. Still Writing – Dani Shapiro
  39. Art & Fear – David Bayles & Ted Orland
  40. The Puppet Master – Sam Holland
  41. The Wander Society – Keri Smith
  42. Danny the Champion of the World- Roald Dahl
  43. Get out of my life! But first could you drive me and Cheryl to the mall? – Anthony Wolf
  44. Lift: fitness culture, from naked Greeks and acrobats to jazzercise and ninja warriors by Daniel Kunitz
  45. Anarchaos- Donald Westlake
  46. Toast – Nigel Slater
  47. Loot – Tania James
  48. I Will Do Better – Charles Bock
  49. Blood, Bones & Butter – Gabrielle Hamilton
  50. The Message – Ta-Nehisi Coates
  51. The Fifth Risk – Michael Lewis
  52. Dirt – Bill Buford
  53. Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
  54. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro
  55. Meditation for mortals by Oliver Burkeman
  56. Built to Move – Kelly and Juliet Starrett
  57. Slapstick! Or, Lonliness no more – Kurt Vonnegut
  58. Can’t hurt me – David Goggins

2023 Reading List

  1. Designing your Life – Bill Burnett
  2. Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
  3. Man vs Child – Doug Moe
  4. Bedroom Rapper – Rollie Pemberton
  5. Percy Jackson and the Lightning thief – Rick Riordan
  6. Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters – Rick Riordan
  7. No Plan B – Lee Child
  8. HBR On Managing Yourself
  9. The Duel – Anton Chekhov
  10. The Song of the Machine: From Disco to DJs by David Blot and Mathias Cousin
  11. The Devil’s Guide to Hollywood -Joe Eszterhas
  12. Screenplay – Syd Field
  13. The Cartel – Don Winslow
  14. The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics Book – John Pollack
  15. 80/20 Running – Matt Fitzgerald
  16. The Future is Analog – David Sax
  17. Koresh- Stephan Talty
  18. Serious Eater – Ed Levine
  19. Better Off Dead – Lee Child
  20. The Cabin at the End of the World – Paul Tremblay
  21. Tooth and Nail – Ian Rankin
  22. Fairy Tale – Stephen King
  23. The Revenant – Michael Punke
  24. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorroe by Gabrielle Zevin
  25. Franklin Smoke: Wood. Fire. Food by Aaron Franklin and Jordan Mackay
  26. Holes – Louis Sachar
  27. A Waiter in Paris – Edward Chisholm
  28. Binge – Douglas Coupland
  29. Malice – Keigo Higashino
  30. French Exit – Patrick DeWitt
  31. Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast – John Vaillant
  32. Our Fermented Lives: A History of How Fermented Foods Have Shaped Cultures and Communities by Julia Skinner
  33. The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson by Jeff Pearlman
  34. The Practitioner’s Guide to Product Management. – Jock Busuttil
  35. Girl on the Block – Jessica Wragg
  36. How to be Idle – Tom Hodgkinson
  37. City of Dreams – Don Winslow
  38. The Woks of Life: Recipes to Know and Love From a Chinese American Family by Bill Leung, Kaitlin Leung, Judy Leung and Sarah Leung

2022 Reading List

  1. Alpha: The Eddie Gallagher story
  2. Half of a Yellow Sun
  3. The Happy Writing Book – Elise Valmorbida
  4. Sell Out – Dan Ozzi
  5. How to Host a Dinner Party – Corey Mintz
  6. The Spy Who Came in from the cold – John Le Carre
  7. Say Nothing: Patrick Radden Keefe
  8. history of magic by David copper field
  9. Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
  10. THE NEXT SUPPER: THE END OF RESTAURANTS AS WE KNEW THEM, AND WHAT COMES AFTER, COREY MINTZ
  11. 4000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
  12. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
  13. All About Me: Mel Brooks
  14. Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of 1990s New York Knicks by Chris Herring
  15. Blood, Sweat, and Chrome: The wild true story of Mad Max Fury Road by Kyle Buchanan
  16. Mating in captivity – Esther Perel
  17. DOG PARK, SOFI OKSANEN
  18. Bloody Rose (The Band) by Nicholas Eames
  19. Talking to Canadians – Rick Mercer
  20. Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
  21. Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
  22. Nasty Brutish and Short: Adventures in philosophy with my kids by Scott Hershovitz
  23. In the Margins – Elena Ferrante
  24. I’m Not Scared – Niccolo Ammaniti
  25. Beneath Her Skin – CS Porter
  26. Judd Apatow – Sick in the head
  27. The Temptation to be Happy – Lorenzo Marone
  28. Fuzz – Mary Roach
  29. Em – Kim Thúy
  30. Eugene Marten PURE LIFE
  31. The Storyteller – Dave Grohl
  32. Rogues, True stories of grifters, killers, rebels, and crooks – Patrick Radden Keefe
  33. Bad Luck and Trouble – Lee Child
  34. Gumbo Tales – Sarah Roahen
  35. City on Fire – Don Winslow
  36. Worth Dying For – Lee Child
  37. Sweet Nothing: How a pointless life can set you free – Wendy Syfret
  38. The Ballad of Black Tom – Victor Lavalle
  39. Make Me – Lee Child
  40. The Sell Out – Paul Beatty
  41. Heat – Bill Buford
  42. Satori – Don Winslow
  43. 10 Tomatoes that Changed the World – William Alexander
  44. The Atmospherians – Alex McElroy
  45. Read Dangerously: The subversive power of literature in troubled times by Azar Nafisi
  46. Let the Games Begin – Niccolo Ammanti
  47. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
  48. The Design of Childhood – Alexandra Lange
  49. Ingredients: The Strange Chemistry of what we put in us and on us – George Zaidan
  50. Art of the Chicken – Jacques Pépin
  51. Come Closer – Sarah Gran
  52. The Power of the Dog – Don Winslow
  53. The Pilo Family Circus – Will Elliott
  54. Cinema Speculation – Quentin Tarantino

2021 Reading List

2020 Reading List

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2019 Reading List

2018 reading List

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