JANUARY
John Gawsworth, Poems: 1930-1932 (1933)
Wayne Gretzky with Rick Reilly, Gretzky: An Autobiography (1990) (CDN)
Jorge Carrión, Bookshops: A Reader’s History (2013, trans. Peter Bush)
Roberto Bolaño, The Return (1997/2001, trans. Chris Andrews)
Helen Potrebenko, Taxi! (1975) (CDN)
Boris Kachka, Hothouse (2013)
Errol Morris, Hear, All Ye People; Hearken, O Earth (2015)
FEBRUARY
Merilyn Simonds, Gutenberg’s Fingerprint (2017) (CDN)
Joseph Mitchell, Joe Gould’s Secret (1964)
Thomas Kunkel, Man in Profile (2015)
Wieslaw Mysliwski, Stone Upon Stone (1999, trans. Bill Johnston)
Nicholas Hirshon, We Want Fish Sticks (2018)
MARCH
Emily Schultz, The Blondes (2012) (CDN)
Susan Orlean, The Library Book (2018)
Jill Lepore, Joe Gould’s Teeth (2016)
M. P. Shiel, How the Old Woman Got Home (1927)
Enrique Vila-Matas, Vampire in Love (2016, trans. Margaret Jull Costa)
APRIL
Bruce Cinnamon, The Melting Queen (2019) (CDN)*
David Albahari, Learning Cyrillic (2012, trans. Ellen Elias-Bursac) (CDN)*
Robin Sloan, Sourdough (2017)
Robert Williamson, The Cruise of the Schooner Driftwood (1962) (CDN)
Nicholson Baker, Double Fold (2001)
Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Satantango (1985, trans. George Szirtes)
MAY
Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (1894)
Bruce Handy, Wild Things (2017)
Waubgeshig Rice, Moon of the Crusted Snow (2018) (CDN)
Lucy Ellmann, I Dated Graham Greene (2019)
Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch (1992)
Jason Purcell, A Place More Hospitable (2019) (CDN)*
Dave Cullen, Columbine (2009)
JUNE
Roy MacSkimming, The Perilous Trade (2003, updated 2007) (CDN)
Marc Weingarten, The Gang That Wouldn’t Write Straight (2006)
Lynne Tillman, American Genius (2006)
Elizabeth Hardwick, Herman Melville (Penguin Lives) (2000)
Heidi L. M. Jacobs, Molly of the Mall (2019) (CDN)*
Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road (1970)
JULY
John Metcalf, An Aesthetic Underground (2003) (CDN)
John Metcalf, Going Down Slow (1972) (CDN)
Haruki Murakami, Birthday Girl (2002, trans. Jay Rubin)
Kristen Roupenian, Cat Person (2018)
Stephen King, It (1986)
AUGUST
Anthony Rota, Books in the Blood (2002)
Javier Marias, Voyage Along the Horizon (1972, trans. Kristina Cordero)
Martha Cooley, The Archivist (1998)
Alejandro Zambra, Multiple Choice (2014, trans. Megan McDowell)
Roberto Bolaño, The Spirit of Science Fiction (2016, trans. Natasha Wimmer)
Jon Wynne-Tyson, Finding the Words (2004) (re-read)
Charles Wrey Gardiner, The Answer to Life Is No (1960)
Jon Wynne-Tyson, Anything Within Reason (1994)
SEPTEMBER
Jon Wynne-Tyson, The Civilised Alternative (1972)
A. Reynolds Morse, The Quest for Redonda (1979)
Rachel Cusk, The Lucky Ones (2004)
John Orrell, Fallen Empires (1981) (CDN)*
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) (CDN)
Tom McCarthy, Remainder (2005)
OCTOBER
Don DeLillo, Libra (1988)
David Albahari, Checkpoint (2010, trans. Ellen Elias-Bursac) (CDN)*
Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon (1865, trans. uncredited)
Jules Verne, Round the Moon (1870, trans. uncredited)
Helen Macdonald, H Is for Hawk (2014)
NOVEMBER
Naguib Mahfouz, Adrift on the Nile (1966, trans. Frances Liardet)
Jon Wynne-Tyson, So Say Banana Bird (1984)
Robert Coram, Caribbean Time Bomb (1993)
Richard Kelly Kemick, I Am Herod (2019) (CDN)*
Gabriel Zaid, So Many Books (2003, trans. Natasha Wimmer)
Gillian Flynn, The Grownup (2014)
DECEMBER
John McPhee, Encounters with the Archdruid (1971)
Margaret Atwood, The Testaments (2019) (CDN)
Frank Cowper, Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk (1889)
Elizabeth Gaskell, The Old Nurse’s Story (1852)
H. Russell Wakefield, The Red Lodge (1928)
Walter de la Mare, The Green Room (1925)
Summer Brennan, High Heel (2019)
Alvaro Enrigue, Sudden Death (2013, trans. Natasha Wimmer)
Sally Rooney, Normal People (2018)
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SOME NUMBERS NOW
Fiction: 42/75 (56%)
Non-fiction: 31/75 (41%)
Poetry: 2/75 (3%)
Books in translation: 16/75 (21%)
Male authors: 55/75 (73%)
Female authors: 20/75 (27%)
Canadian authors: 18/75 (24%)
Most-read author: Jon Wynne-Tyson (4)
Favourite book: Stone Upon Stone (fiction), Joe Gould’s Teeth (non-fiction)
Obvious five-star classics: Taxi!, Joe Gould’s Secret, The Great God Pan, From the Earth to the Moon
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PUBLICATION DATES
2019: 7
2010s: 22
2000s: 13.5
1990s: 6.5
1980s: 6
1970s: 7
1960s: 4
1930s: 1
1920s: 3
1800s: 5