Every year, I try to read as many books as possible. Here are the lists. Happy reading!
Summer Reads: 2017
Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Madeline Thien
Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence, Nick Bantaock
Griffin & Sabine
The Fate of the Tearling, Erika Johansen
The Fate of the Tearling
Girl At War, Sara Novic
Girl At War
We Are All Made of Molecules, Susin Nielsen
We Are All Made of Molecules
The Invasion of the Tearling, Erika Johansen
The Invasion of the Tearling
Lullabies for Little Criminals, Heather O’Neill
Lullabies for Little Criminals
Summer Reads: 2016
Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables
The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
The Shipping News
The Heart Goes Last, Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last
Becoming Human, Jean Vanier
Becoming Human
Bride of New France, Suzanne Desrochers
Bride of New France
Undermajordomo Minor, Patrick deWitt
Undermajordomo Minor
milk and honey, Rupi Kaur
milk and honey
The Massey murder: A Maid, her Master, and the Trial that Shocked a Country, Charlotte Gray
Massey Murder
Things You’ve Inherited From your Mother, Hollie Adams
Things You’ve Inherited From your Mother
The Time of Your Life: Choosing a Vibrant, Joyful Life, Margaret Trudeau
The Time of Your Life
Away, Jane Uquhart
Away
Summer Reads: 2015
Handfuls of Bone, Monica Kidd
Handfuls of Bone
The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy and “Women’s Work”, Kathleen Norris
Quotidian Mysteries
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking, Susan Cain
Quiet
Keep’N Me, Richard Wagamese
Keeper’N Me
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles, Steven Pressfield
The War of Art
Greener Grass, Caroline Pignat
Greener Grass
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church, Rachel Held Evans
Searching for Sunday
God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships, Matthew Vines
God and the Gay Christian
Baygirl, Heather Smith
Baygirl
Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Half of a Yellow Sun
God Loves Hair, Vivek Shraya
God Loves Hair
Shadow in Hawthorn Bay, Janet Lunn
Shadow in Hawthorn Bay
Summer Reads: 2014
Small Island, Andrea Levy
Small Island
Big Bear, Rudy Wiebe and Indian Horse, Richard Wagamese
Big Bear / Indian Horse
Fall of Giants, Ken Follett
Fall of Giants
Something Fierce, Carmen Aguirre
Something Fierce
The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor, Sally Armstrong
The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor
Coventry, Helen Humphreys
Coventry
Summer Reads: 2013
Late Nights on Air, Elizabeth Hay.
Late Nights on Air
Leaving Church, Barbara Brown Taylor.
Leaving Church
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Paul Torday
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Five Days in Skye, Carla Laureano
Five Days in Skye
Wither, Lauren DeStefano
Wither
The Forest Lover, Susan Vreeland
The Forest Lover
The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt
The Sisters Brothers
The Bar U, Simon Evans
The Bar U
Galore, Michael Crummey
Galore
February, Lisa Moore
February
Fall on Your Knees, Ann-Marie MacDonald
Fall on Your Knees
Plaid Heart 