JANUARY
Jay Baruchel, Born Into It (2018) (CDN)
Emily Chu (and friends), On-Location YEG (2019) (CDN)*
Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda (1894)
W. G. Sebald, The Emigrants (1992, trans. Michael Hulse)
Javier Marias, All Souls (1989, trans. Margaret Jull Costa) (re-read)
David Shields and Matthew Vollmer (eds.), Fakes (2012)
Mark Forsyth, The Unknown Unknown (2014)
Javier Marias, Dark Back of Time (1998, trans. Esther Allen) (re-read)
FEBRUARY
Javier Marias, Between Eternities (2017, trans. Margaret Jull Costa)
Leah Price, What We Talk About When We Talk About Books (2019)
George Bowering, No One (2018) (CDN)
Douglas Hunter, The Glory Barons (1999) (CDN)
David Markson, Wittgenstein’s Mistress (1988)
MARCH
Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth, The Space Merchants (1953)
Seth, Clyde Fans (2019) (CDN)
Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing (2019)
Paul Myers and S. W. Lauden (eds.), Go All the Way (2019)
APRIL
Dubravka Ugresic, Baba Yaga Laid an Egg (2007, trans. Ellen Elias-Bursac, Celia Hawkesworth, and Mark Thompson)
M. P. Shiel, The Rajah’s Sapphire (1896)
Eva Holland, Nerve (2020) (CDN)
Charles Portis, True Grit (1968)
Elizabeth Von Arnim, The Enchanted April (1922)
Giorgio van Straten, In Search of Lost Books (2016, trans. Simon Carnell and Erica Segre)
B. S. Johnson, The Unfortunates (1969)
MAY
Shaun Assael and Mike Mooneyham, Sex, Lies, and Headlocks (2002)
Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing (1989)
Roald Dahl, The Witches (1983)
Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon, Where Wizards Stay Up Late (1996)
Jon Mooallem, This Is Chance! (2020)
M. Ann Hall, The Grads Are Playing Tonight! (2011) (CDN)*
Tove Jansson, The Summer Book (1972, trans. Thomas Teal)
Janet Abbate, Inventing the Internet (1999)
JUNE
Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City (2003)
Fritz Leiber, The Second Book of Fritz Leiber (1975)
Nicholson Baker, U and I (1991) (re-read)
James Baldwin, Another Country (1962)
Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
JULY
Katie Hafner, A Romance on Three Legs (2008)
Sally Dennison, Alternative Literary Publishing (1984)
Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark (1932)
Tom O’Neill (with Dan Pienpenbring), Chaos (2019)
Brice Matthieussent, Revenge of the Translator (2009, trans. Emma Ramadan)
Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House (2019)
Didier Van Cauwelaert, One-Way (1994, trans. Mark Polizzotti)
Nicholas A. Basbanes, Among the Gently Mad (2002)
AUGUST
Ngozi Ukazu, Check, Please! (Vol. 1: #Hockey) (2018)
Barbara Comyns, The Vet’s Daughter (1959)
César Aira, Ema, The Captive (1981, trans. Chris Andrews)
Andy Mulvihill (with Jake Rossen), Action Park (2020)
Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year (1722)
Steve “Dangle” Glynn, This Team Is Ruining My Life (But I Love Them) (2019) (CDN)
SEPTEMBER
B. Traven, The Night Visitor and Other Stories (1966)
Rick Gekoski, Nabokov’s Butterfly (2004)
Elvis Costello, Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink (2015)
David Walliams, Fing (2019)
Arthur Machen, Tales of Horror and the Supernatural (1948)
M. P. Shiel, Science, Life and Literature (1950)
Sandrine Revel, Glenn Gould: A Life Off Tempo (2016, trans. Montana Kane)
Aubrey Beardsley, Under the Hill (1904)
Roald Dahl, The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me (1985)
A. Kendra Greene, The Museum of Whales You Will Never See (2020)
OCTOBER
Irmgard Keun, Gilgi (1931, trans. Geoff Wilkes)
Robert Musil, Young Torless (1906, trans. Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser)
Steve Martin, Born Standing Up (2007)
Peter Goddard, The Great Gould (2017) (CDN)
Flann O’Brien, The Dalkey Archive (1964)
R. H. Malden, The Sundial (1943)
Daphne du Maurier, The Apple Tree (1952)
Juan Pablo Villalobos, Quesadillas (2012, trans. Rosalind Harvey)
NOVEMBER
Albert Camus, The Plague (1947, trans. Robin Buss)
Tom Wolfe, Hooking Up (2000)
Andy Stanton, You’re a Bad Man, Mr. Gum! (2006)
Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern, Old Books, Rare Friends (1997)
Kevin Chong, The Plague (2018) (CDN)
Andrew Delbanco, Melville: His World and Work (2005)
Jean Giono, Melville (1941, trans. Paul Eprile)
Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror (2019)
DECEMBER
Andy Stanton, Mr. Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire (2007)
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1869)
Samantha Irby, Wow, No Thank You (2020)
Colson Whitehead, The Noble Hustle (2014)
Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987)
Colson Whitehead, The Colossus of New York (2003)
Vivan Gornick, Unfinished Business (2020)
Nathaniel Philbrick, Why Read Moby-Dick? (2011)
Roy Harley Lewis, Antiquarian Books (1978)
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SOME NUMBERS NOW
Fiction: 45/86 (52%)
Non-fiction: 41/86 (48%)
Books in translation: 16/86 (19%)
Male authors: 59/86 (69%)
Female authors: 27/86 (31%)
Canadian authors: 9/86 (10%)
Most-read author: Javier Marias (3)
Favourite book: True Grit (fiction), The Grads Are Playing Tonight! (non-fiction), Chaos (audiobook)
Obvious five-star classics: Another Country, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Plague (Camus), The Space Merchants, True Grit
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PUBLICATION DATES
2020: 6
2010s: 25
2000s: 13
1990s: 8
1980s: 8
1970s: 3
1960s: 5
1950s: 4
1940s: 4
1930s: 2
1920s: 2
1900s: 2
1800s: 3
1700s: 1