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Away From The Dead by David Bergen
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The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose
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Cold Skies by Thomas King
The Slip The New York City Street that Changed American Art Forever by Prudence Peiffer
A Matter of Malice by Thomas King

Favourite Books Read in 2023

The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
The Spy Next Door Agent Sonya by Ben Macintyre
Revenge of the Librarians by Tom Gauld
Run Towards The Danger by Sarah Polley
Leopoldstadt by Tom Stoppard
Morgenthau Power, Privilege and The Rise of an American Dynasty by Andrew Meier
Optic Nerve by Maria Gainza
One Hundred Saturdays Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World by Michael Frank
Department of Mind-Blowing Theories by Tom Gauld
Shy The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers by Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green
This Time, This Place Selected Stories by Clark Blaise
The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit
Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra
In The Serpent's Wake by Rachel Hartman
The Glass Pearls by Emeric Pressburger
All The Colour In The World by CS Richardson
In The Wings by Carole Corbeil
Snow Road Station by Elizabeth Hay
Street Gang The Complete History of Sesame Street by Michael Davis
Instructions for the Drowning Stories by Steven Heighton
Ducks Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
The Good Wife of Bath by Karen Brooks
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre
Bachelor Brothers Bed & Breakfast by Bill Richardson
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
A Florence Diary by Diana Athill
I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai
Babel by R.F. Kuang
Haven by Emma Donoghue
The Magician by Colm Toibin
Double Eagle by Thomas King
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
The North Star Canada and The Civil War Plots Against Lincoln by Julian Sher
A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti
DreadfulWater by Thomas King
The Red Power Murders by Thomas King
Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman
Trust by Hernan Diaz
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein

Favourite Books Read in 2022

The Gilded Page The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts by Mary Wellesley
The Black Rose by Thomas B. Costain
Flower Diary In Which Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries & Opens A Door by Molly Peacock
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers by Ken Krimstein
The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen
Matrix by Lauren Groff
The Art of the Jewish Family A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects by Laura Arnold Leibman
Still Life by Sarah Winman
The Book of V. by Anna Solomon
State of Terror by Hilary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn
Three Rings A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate by Daniel Mendelsohn
The Women of Troy by Pat Barker
Return of the Trickster by Eden Robinson
What The Ermine Saw The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo's Most Mysterious Portrait by Eden Collinsworth
The Promise by Damon Galgut
Pandora's Jar Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes
Michelangelo & the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King
The Maid by Nita Prose
Last Call at The Hotel Imperial The Reporters Who Took On a World At War by Deborah Cohen
Sea of Tranquilty by Emily St.John Mandel
Zabar's A Family Story with Recipes by Lori Zabar
French Braid by Anne Tyler
Painters Eleven The Wild Ones of Canadian Art by Iris Nowell
The Family Mashber by Der Nister
Unstoppable Us How Humans Took Over the World Vol. 1 by Yuval Noah Harari
Chagall and Music -Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr

Favourite Books Read in 2021

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Redhead By the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler
To Be A Man stories by Nicole Krauss
Ridgerunner by Gil Adamson
From Memory to Transformation, Jewish Women's Voices edited by Sarah Silberstein Swartz and Margie Wolfe
Execution by S. J. Parris
The Tailor Project by Andrea Knight, Paula Draper, and Nicole Bryck
Downfall by Robert Rotenberg
Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Under Occupation by Alan Furst
A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
Spring by Ali Smith
Corby Falls by Robert Carr
Klara and The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Paper Bullets by Jeffery H. Jackson
The Light of Days The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos by Judy Batalion
Actress by Anne Enright
The Toronto Book of Love by Adam Bunch
The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck
Seven by Farzana Doctor
The Bookseller of Florence by Ross King
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel
A Russian Sister by Caroline Adderson
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy by
Gary Barwin
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
Trickster Drift by Eden Robinson
Letters to Camondo by Edmund De Waal
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
The Book Smugglers by David E. Fishman
Uprooted by Lyn Julius
The Last Kings of Shanghai by Jonathan Kaufman
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
Fight Night by Miriam Toews
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
More Than I Love My Life by David Grossman
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Putting It Together How Stephen Sondheim and I created Sunday in The Park With George by James Lapine
The Break by Katherena Vermette
Silverview by John Le Carre
The House of Fragile Things Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France by James McAuley
These Precious Days Essays by Ann Patchett
Mrs. Osmond by John Banville
Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci

Favourite books Read in 2020

Black Earth The Holocaust As History and Warning by Timothy Snyder
My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Orange World by Karen Russell
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Archive Thief by Lisa Moses Leff
Dreaming in French :The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag and Angela Davis by Alice Kaplan
House of Names by Colm Toibin
Pogrom Kishinev and the Tilt of History by Steven J. Zipperstein
A Bookshop in Berlin by Francoise Frenkel
Brazen Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Penelope Bagieu
Family Papers A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century by Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Women Talking A Novel by Miriam Toews
A Legacy by Sybille Bedford
The Europeans by Orlando Figes
Old in Art School by Nell Painter
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
The Night Manager by John Le Carre
Savage Feast a Memoir with Recipes by Boris Fishman
English Music by Peter Ackroyd
The First Moderns by William R. Everdell
Beaufort by Ron Leshem
Soot by Dan Vyleta
Second Person Singular by Sayed Kashua
Village of Secrets Defying the Nazis in Vichy France by Caroline Moorehead
Natasha's Dance A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes
To End All Wars A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 by Adam Hochschild
The Second World War by Antony Beevor
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
Turbulent Souls by Stephen J. Dubner
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
Hamnet & Judith by Maggie O'Farrell
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
The Art of Leaving by Ayelet Tsabari
Villa Air-Bel by Rosemary Sullivan
How To Read the Bible by James L. Kugel
The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
Here The Dark by David Bergen
How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
Field Notes From An Unintentional Birder by Julia Zarankin
Indians On Vacation by Thomas King
The Grammarians by Cathleen Schine
The Women's Torah Commentary edited by Rabbi Elyse Goldstein
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt by Anonymous

Favourite Books Read in 2019

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Lost A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
Winter by Ali Smith
Christian Dior History and Modernity 1947-1957 by Alexandra Palmer
Strangers with the Same Dream by Alison Pick
Elizabeth The Struggle for The Throne by David Starkey
Dear Evelyn by Kathy Page
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Stroll Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto by Shawn Micallef
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Days by Moonlight by Andre Alexis
Greeks Bearing Gifts by Philip Kerr
Melmoth by Sarah Perry
Spies of No Country by Matti Friedman
Stealing the Mystic Lamb by Noah Charney
Been Hoping We Might Meet Again by Elaine Kahn
The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman
Rome A History in Seven Sackings by Matthew Kneale
Immigrant City by David Bezmozgis
You're All Jealous of My Jetpack by Tom Gauld
Motherhood by Sheila Heti
They Left Us Everything by Plum Johnson
The Map of Knowledge by Violet Moller
The Victorian and The Romantic by Nell Stevens
An Odyssey A Father, A Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn
A Boy in Winter by Rachel Seiffert
Memories of the Future by Siri Hustvedt
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Happiness by Aminatta Forna
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
A Table for One Under the Light of Jerusalem by Aharon Appelfeld
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
All Things Consoled by Elizabeth Hay
Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga
Fly Already by Etgar Keret
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Lampedusa by Steven Price
SPQR A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Girl, Woman,Other by Bernadine Evaristo
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Antisemitism Here and Now by Deborah E. Lipstadt

Favourite Books Read in 2018

Bad Rabbi and Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press by Eddy Portnoy
Minds of Winter by Ed O'Loughlin
Autumn by Ali Smith
Who Will Write Our History? Rediscovering A Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto by Samuel D. Kassow
My 20th Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs The Nobel lecture by Kazuo Ishiguro
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
Lincoln in The Bardo by George Saunders
Defectors by Joseph Kanon
A Bold and Dangerous Family by Caroline Moorehead
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by MG Vassanji
The Warburgs by Ron Chernow
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
Prussian Blue by Philip Kerr
The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
Go, Went. Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
Circe by Madeline Miller
Jacob Isaac Segal A Montreal Yiddish Poet and His Milieu by Pierre Anctil
Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
The Ward Uncovered The Archaeology of Everyday Life edited by Holly Martelle, Michael McClelland, Tatum Taylor, and John Lorinc
Defiant Spirits The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven by Ross King
Forgiveness A Gift from My Grandparents by Mark Sakamoto
The Patriots by Sana Krasikov
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss
The Assassin's Song by M.G. Vassanji
Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga
Little Sister by Barbara Gowdy
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Ecology and the Jewish Spirit edited by Ellen Bernstein
The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John LeCarre
Tinker, Tailor,Soldier, Spy by John LeCarre
Transcription by Kate Atkinson
The Secret Pilgrim by John LeCarre
Tales From The Inner City by Shaun Tan
Smiley's People by John Le Carre
Recipes for Victory edited by Elizabeth Baird & Bridget Wranich
Fools and Mortals by Bernard Cornwell
An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim

Favourite Books Read in 2017

The Singapore Grip by J.G. Farrell
Nonstop Metropolis A New York City Atlas by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
Mad Enchantment Claude Monet and the painting of The Water Lilies by Ross King
The Vanishing Velazquez by Laura Cumming
In Montmartre Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art by Sue Roe
Yiddish for Pirates by Gary Barwin
Judas by Amos Oz
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Willem De Kooning's Paintbrush by Kerry Lee Powell
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann
The Stalin Epigram by Robert Littell
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Return: Fathers,Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar
The Vale of Tears by Rabbi Pinchas Hirschprung
A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker
The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain
Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
Bachelor Brothers Bed and Breakfast Pillow Book by Bill Richardson
The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neill
A Hero of France by Alan Furst
By Gaslight by Steven Price
The Virgin Cure by Ami McKay
The Aleppo Codex by Matti Friedman
Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains by Yasuko Thanh
The Private Lives of the Impressionists by Sue Roe
What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami
Absolutely on Music Conversations with Seiji Ozawa by Haruki Murakami
The Mark and The Void by Paul Murray
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild
Heart Of The City by Robert Rotenberg
Pumpkin Flowers An Israeli Soldier's Story by Matti Friedman
The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson
Rough Crossings: Britain, The Slaves and The American Revolution by Simon Schama
The Underground RailRoad by Colson Whitehead
The Berlin Novels by Christopher Isherwood
A Horse Walks Into a Bar by David Grossman
An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
Vera ( Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) by Stacy Schiff
Tell by Frances Itani
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Christmas at The Vinyl Cafe by Stuart McLean
Bellevue Square by Michael Redhill
First Snow, Last Light by Wayne Johnston
Granta 141 Canada
The Pigeon Tunnel Stories from My Life by John Le Carre

Favourite Books Read in 2016

The Crimean War by Orlando Figes
The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
Outline by Rachel Cusk
Coming Ashore by Catherine Gildiner
Slade House by David Mitchell
Nixon in China by Margaret MacMillan
Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck
My Kitchen Year by Ruth Reichl
Ivory Vikings by Nancy Marie Brown
The Relic Master by Christopher Buckley
Born With a Tooth by Joseph Boyden
Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
Bettyville a memoir by George Hodgman
The Lady from Zagreb by Phillip Kerr
Ostend Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth and the Summer Before the Dark by Volker Weidermann
Forty-one False Starts by Janet Malcolm
By Chance Alone by Max Eisen
Treachery by S.J. Parris
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Run You Down by Julia Dahl
Degenerate Art The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany 1937
Reader, I Married Him Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre edited by Tracy Chevalier
The Hill Top by Assaf Gavron
The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard
Davy The Punk by Bob Bossin
Epitaph a Novel of The O.K. Corral by Mary Doria Russell
The Pursuit of Pearls by Jane Thynne
When Everything Feels Like the Movies by Raziel Reid
Just Send Me Word A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag by Orlando Figes
Stalins' Daughter by Rosemary Sullivan
Smoke by Dan Vyleta
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
Conspiracy by S.J. Parris
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
Kay's Lucky Coin Variety by Ann Y.K. Choi
The Edge of the World How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are by Michael Pye
The Darkest Dark by Chris Hadfield
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing by Tomson Highway
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
My Mother's Sabbath by Chaim Grade
Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Nutshell by Ian McEwan
Berlin in Lights The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler ( 1918-1937)
Adolfo Kaminsky A Forger's Life by Sarah Kaminsky

Favourite Books Read in 2015

Dvorak in Love by Joseph Skorecky
The Hockey Sweater by Roch Carrier and Sheldon Cohen
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
Original Minds Conversations with Eleanor Wachtel
Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Reading Pictures A History of Love and Hate by Alberto Manguel
History of the Rain by Niall Williams
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Priscilla The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare
Gossip from the Forest by Thomas Keneally
Imagining Toronto by Amy Lavender Harris
A Replacement Life by Boris Fishman
Canadian Haggadah Canadienne edited and complied by Rabbi Adam Scheier and Richard Marceau
Midnight in Europe by Alan Furst
Lamentation by C.J.Sansom
A Man Lies Dreaming] by Lavie Tidhar
Transit by Anna Seghers
Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
As It Is Written Judaic Treasures from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library by Barry Dov Walfish
Honeydew by Edith Pearlman
The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O"Neill
The Ward The Life and Loss of Toronto's First Immigrant Neighbourhood edited by John Lorinc, Michael Mcclelland, ellen Scheinberg, and Tatum Taylo
And Home Was Kariakoo by M.G. Vassanji
A Spy Among Friends Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
Daydreams of Angels by Heather O'Neill
Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan
The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler
The Children Act by Ian McEwan
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
The Seven Good Years by Etgar Keret
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World by George Prochnik
Step Aside, Pops a Hark! A Vagrant Collection by Kate Beaton
Under Major Domo Minor by Patrick DeWitt
This is Happy by Camilla Gibb
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville

Favourite Books Read in 2014

Prague by Arthur Phillips
Empress Dowager Cixi by Jung Chang
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler
Rouse up O Young Men of the New Age! by Kenzaburo Oe
The Riddle of the Labyrinth by Margalit Fox
Winter in Madrid by C.J. Sansom
The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
Sacre Bleu A Comedy D'Art by Christopher Moore
Between Friends by Amos Oz
Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Tastemakers by David Sax
A Thousabd Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li
Unscrolled 54 Writers and Artists Wrestle With the Torah edited by Roger Bennett
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War 1 by Miranda Carter
A Man Without Breath by Phillip Kerr
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Anya Von Bremzen
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li
Journey to the Abyss The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler 1880-1918 edited by Laird M. Easton
The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna
The Marrying of Chani Kaufman by Eve Harris
The Bees by Laline Paull
A Basket of Apples Stories by Shirley Faessler
Longbourn by Jo Baker
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
Old School by Tobias Wolff
Caught by Lisa Moore
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Baldwin Street by Alvin Rakoff
The War that Ended Peace-The Road to 1914 by Margaret MacMillan
A Tale for The Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
Stone Mattress- Nine Tales by Margaret Atwood
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis
Between Gods by Alison Pick
Jews and Words by Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger
The Dinner by Herman Koch
Mr. Mani by AB Yehoshua
Kicking the Sky by Anthony De Sa
The Massey Murder by Charlotte Gray
Sweetland by Michael Crummey
Mr. Selden's Map of China by Timothy Brook
Us Conductors by Sean Michaels
Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
The Wondrous Woo by Carrianne K.Y. Leung
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
Wonder of Wonders A Cultural History of A Fiddler on the Roof by Alisa Solomon
The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig
Charles Dickens A Life by Claire Tomalin
By the Book Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review edited by Pamela Paul
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis

Favourite Books Read in 2013

Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro
The Churchills in Love and War by Mary S. Lovell
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
Crossing Borders Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting Place of Cultures edited by Piet van Boxel and Sabine Arndt
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
Dirt Candy a cookbook by Amanda Cohen
Walter Benjamin The Story of a Friendship by Gershon Scholem
After Midnight by Irmgard Keun
Yiddishkeit edited by Harvey Pekar & Paul Buhle
The Orientalist by Tom Reiss
Where'd You Go,Bernadette by Maria Semple
Last Friends by Jane Gardam
Railsea by China Mieville
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
The Black Count Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and The Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
Ryszard Kapuscinski A Life by Artur Domoslawski
The Property by Rutu Modan
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Gotz and Meyer by David Albahari
Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman
The Exile Book of Yiddish Women Writers edited by Frieda Johles Forman
The Magic of Saida by M.G. Vassanji
The Suitcase by Sergei Dovlatov
TransAtlantic by Colum McCann
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer
Merivel A Man of His Time by Rose Tremain
Harvest by Jim Crace
The Sea by John Banville
Maddaddam by Margaret Atwood
The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
The Quiet Twin by Dan Vyleta
The Crooked Maid by Dan Vyleta
Astray by Emma Donoghue
Pavel and I by Dan Vyleta
Dear Life by Alice Munro

Favourite Books Read in 2012

When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
MetaMaus by Art Spiegelman
Scenes from Village Life by Amos Oz
Stalingrad The Fateful Siege 1942-1943 by Antony Beevor
The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch by Amos Elon
The Reinvention of Love by Helen Humphreys
Hot Breakfast for Sparrows: My Life with Harold Town by Iris Nowell
Ashenden by Somerset Maugham
A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
Walking since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II and The Heart of Our Century by Modris Eksteins
The Tragedy of Arthur by Arthur Phillips
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst
The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life's Work at 72 by Molly Peacock
Gillespie and I by Jane Harris
Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov
Stalin The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Suddenly A Knock On the Door by Etgar Keret
The Birth House by Ami McKay
The Same Sea by Amos Oz
The Liberated Bride by A.B. Yehoshua
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Zoo Station by David Downing
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Kraken by China Mieville
Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding
The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grusin
Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick
Leo the African by Amin Maalouf
The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor
Metrostop Paris History From the City's Heart by Gregor Dallas
The Blondes by Emily Schultz
Embassytown by China Mieville
Catherine the Great Portrait of a Woman by Robert Massie
Ru by Kim Thuy
Almost Dead by Assaf Gavron
Love and the Mess We're In by Stephen Marche
Ivan's War Life and Death in the Red Army 1939-45 by Catherine Merridale
Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy
One Good Hustle by Billie Livingston
Restoration by Rose Tremain
Siege 13 by Tamas Dobozy

Favourite Books Read in 2011

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday
A Dead Man in Deptford by Anthony Burgess
Cleopatra A Life by Stacy Schiff
Mordecai: The Life & Times by Charles Foran
Annabel by Kathleen Winter
Berlin Noir by Philip Kerr
Your Sad Eyes and Unforgettable Mouth by Edeet Ravel
Shadow Maker The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen by Rosemary Sullivan
Irving Layton A Portrait by Elspeth Cameron
The Mitfords Letters Between Six Sisters edited by Charlotte Mosley
The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning
The Better Mother by Jen Sookfong Lee
The Road by Vasily Grossman edited by Robert Chandler
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru
A Rage to Live A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton by Mary S. Lovell
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Grace Williams Says It Loud by Emma Henderson
The Boy in the Moon A Father's Search for His Disabled Son by Ian Brown
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obecht
The Tiger A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels by Janet Soskice
The French Father by Alain Elkann
Alone in the Classroom by Elizabeth Hay
The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
The Song is You by Arthur Phillips
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund De Waal
Cool Water by Dianne Warren
Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
Lost and Found by Shaun Tan
The Glatstein Chronicles by Jacob Glatstein
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Drood by Dan Simmons
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Favourite Books Read in 2010

Molly Fox's Birthday by Deirdre Madden
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Amazing Absorbing Boy by Rabindranath Maharaj
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes
Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
George Steiner at the New Yorker edited by Robert Boyers
The Painter of Battles by Arturo Perez-Revert
The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon
Writing in the Dark: Essays on Literature and Politics by David Grossman
The Waterproof Bible by Andrew Kaufman
The Emergence of Memory:Conversations with W.G. Sebald edited by Lynne Sharon Schwartz.
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner and translated by Lazer Lederhendler
The War Memoir of (HRH) Wallis Duchess of Windsor, a novel by Kate Auspitz
The City and The City by China Mieville
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
Forever Flowing by Vasily Grossman
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell
Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
Come, Thou Tortoise by Jessica Grant
The Angel of Forgetfulness by Steve Stern
Other Colors: Essays and a Story by Orhan Pamuk
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
Sanctuary Line by Jane Urquhart
Light Lifting ( stories) by Alexander MacLeod
Far To Go by Alison Pick
Fool by Christopher Moore
Vermeer's Hat:The Seventeenth Century and The Dawn of the Global World by Timothy Brook.
Songs for the Butcher's Daughter by Peter Manseau
The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel edited by Nathalie Babel
Bess of Hardwick by Mary S. Lovell
Great House by Nicole Krauss
The Bishop's Man by Linden MacIntyre

Favourite Books Read in 2009

The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant.
The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
The Girls by Lori Lansens
Property by Valerie Martin
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia by Orlando Figes
The Outlander by Gil Adamson
The Cobra's Heart by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Fabulous Small Jews:Stories by Joseph Epstein
Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
Frida's Bed by Slavenko Drakulic
Dangerous Laughter: 13 Stories by Steven Milhauser
Farthing by Jo Walton
Klezmer: Book One: Tales of the Wild East by Joann Sfar
New Orleans, Mon Amour. Twenty Years of Writings from the City by Andrei Codrescu
Ha'Penny by Jo Walton
The Girl on the Fridge: Stories by Etgar Keret
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Flights of Love by Bernhard Schlink
Annie's Ghosts by Steve Luxenberg
A Scandalous Life: The Biography of Jane Digby by Mary S. Lovell
Land of Marvels by Barry Unsworth
Lucia in The Age of Napoleon by Andrea di Robilant
Dictation by Cynthia Ozick
Chess by Stefan Zweig
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant
number9dream by David Mitchell
February by Lisa Moore
Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
From The Fifteenth District by Mavis Gallant
Aleppo Tales by Haim Sabato
Galore by Michael Crummey
The Wife's Tale by Lori Lansens
The Disappeared by Kim Echlin
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The German Mujahid by Boualem Sansal
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada

Favourite Books Read in 2008

The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
A Writer at War by Vasily Grossman
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
The Translator A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari
The Nimrod Flipout by Etgar Keret
Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay
Shining At The Bottom of The Sea by Stephen Marche
Triangle by Katharine Weber
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
A Delightful Compendium of Consolation-A Fabulous Tale of Romance, Adventure and Faith in the Medieval Mediterranean by Burton L. Visotzky
The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood( a reread but well worth it!)
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit by Lucette Lagnado
A Journey to the End of the Millennium by A.B. Yehoshua
Conceit by Mary Novik
Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill
Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
A Royal Affair George III and His Troublesome Siblings by Stella Tillyard
Troll a Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo
The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
Cultural Amnesia by Clive James
The Last Train to Kazan by Stephen Miller
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
Continuums by Robert Carr
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books by Aaron Lansky
Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
Love's Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie Letters and Diaries edited by Victoria Glendinning

Really Favourite books read in 2007

The Ruby in Her Navel by Barry Unsworth
Death of a Monk by Alon Hilu
Bodies and Souls-The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced into Prostitution in the Americas by Isabel Vincent
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Istanbul, Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte ( not the first time nor the last time read! )
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Six Wives of Henry VIII by David Starkey
The Foreign Correspondent by Alan Furst
The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar
Trickster Travels-A Sixteenth Century Muslim Between Worlds by Natalie Zemon Davis
The World to Come by Dara Horn
The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al-Aswany
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Archivist's Story by Travis Holland
Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
The Arrival by Shawn Tan
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Tyrants by Marshall N. Klimasewiski

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