January
- William Gibson, Burning Chrome (1986)
- Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife (2020)
- John le Carre, The Spy who Came In From the Cold (1963)
- Mary Gaitskill, Because They Wanted To (1997)
- Edmund White, The Married Man (2000)
- Patricia Highsmith, Ripley’s Game (1974)
February
- Ursula K le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
- Erin Arvedlund, Too Good to be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff (2009)
- Connie Bruck, The Predator’s Ball (1988)
- Lauren Wright Douglas, The Always Anonymous Beast (1987)
March
- ed. Jenni Ferrari-Adler, Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone (2007)
- P Djeli Clark, The Black God’s Drums (2018)
- Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die (1954)
- Tracie McMillan, The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields, and the Dinner Table (2012)
- Eddy Boudel Tan, After Elias (2020)
- Carmen Maria Machado, In The Dream House (2019)
- Sally Rooney, Normal People (2018)
- Thomas McNamee, Alice Walters and Chez Panisse (2007)
April
- John F Love, McDonalds: Behind the Arches (1986, 2nd ed. 1995)
- Michelle Paver, Thin Air (2016)
- Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: the dark Side of the All-American Meal (2001)
- Katherine V Forrest, Amateur City (1984)
- Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth (2019)
- John Wyndham, The Chrysalids (1955)
- John le Carre, A Most Wanted Man (2008)
- Jane Mayer, The Dark Side (2008)
May
- Randall Rothenberg, Where the Suckers Moon: The Life and Death of an Advertising Campaign (1995)
- Ben Hamper, Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line (1992)
- Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem (2006)
- George Abbott, Big Promises, Small Government: Doing Less with Less in the BC Liberal New Era (2020)
- Jan Wong, A Comrade Lost and Found (2007)
June
- Taras Grescoe, Shanghai Grand (2018)
- Judy Fong Bates, The Year of Finding Memory (2010)
- Paul French, Midnight in Peking (2012)
- Alice Bolin, Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession (2018)
- Joan Didion, After Henry (1992)
- Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower (1993)
- Brandon Taylor, Real Life (2020)
- Sharon Butala, Real Life (2002)
- Russell Smith, Noise (1998)
- Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004)
July
- John Le Carre, The Honourable Schoolboy (1977)
- Christopher Diraddo, The Family Way (2021)
- Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)
- Nathan Ripley, Find You In The Dark (2018)
- Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman is in Trouble (2019)
- Helen Zia, Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese who Fled Mao’s Revolution (2019)
August
- Patricia Highsmith, Edith’s Diary (1977)
- Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour (2020)
- William Gibson, All Tomorrow’s Parties (1999)
- Cory Doctorow, Radicalized (2019)
- Diane Cook, The New Wilderness (2020)
- Claire Fuller, Bitter Orange (2018)
- Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic (2020)
- Paul Theroux, Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train through China (1988)
- Alex Garland, The Beach (1997)
- Robert Twigger, White Mountain: A Cultural Adventure Through the Himalayas (2017)
- Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2013)
- Michael LaPointe, The Creep (2021)
- Susan Delacourt, Shopping for Votes: How Politicians Choose Us and We Choose Them (2013 2nd ed. 2016)
September
- Brad Lavigne, Building the Orange Wave: The Inside Story Behind the Historic Rise of Jack Layton and the NDP (2013)
- Susan Delacourt, Juggernaut: Paul Martin’s Campaign for Jean Chretien’s Crown (2003)
- Alison Loat and Michael MacMillan, Tragedy of the Commons: Former MPs Speak Out About Canada’s Failing Democracy (2014)
- Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun (2020)
- Paul Wells, Right Side Up: The Fall of Paul Martin and the Rise of Stephen Harper’s New Conservatism (2006)
- Rob Boffard, Adrift (2018)
- Garth Greenwell, What Belongs to You (2016)
- Slavenka Drakulic, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed (1991)
- Don DeLillo, The Silence (2020)
October
- Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, Roseanna (1967)
- Alex Mar, Witches of America (2015)
- Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962)
- ed. Hugh Lamb, A Wave of Fear: A Classic Horror Anthology (1973)
- Rebecca Mead, One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding (2007)
- Carrie Jenkins, Victoria Sees It (2021)
- Bernard Lefkowitz, Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb (1997)
November
- Kevin Donovan, Secret Life: The Jian Ghomeshi Investigation (2016)
- Elizabeth de Mariaffi, The Retreat (2021)
- Jon Krakauer, Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town (2015)
- ed. Stephen King and Bev Vincent, Flight or Fright (2018)
- Sarah Henstra, The Red Word (2018)
- Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion (2018)
- Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (2019)
- Ashley Mears, Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit (2020)
- Sam Wiebe, Invisible Dead (2016)
- Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1951)
- Emily Mackay, Homogenic (2017)
December
- Dan Gawthrop, Affirmation: the AIDS Odyssey of Dr. Peter (1994)
- Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire (1952)
- Jill Ciment, The Body in Question (2019)
- Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation (1953)
- Susan Sanford Blades, Fake It So Real (2020)
- Alan Furst, Mission to Paris (2012)
- Thomas Childers, The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (2017)
- Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin (1939)
- Garth Greenwell, Cleanness (2020)
- Eric Schlosser, Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Incident, and the Illusion of Safety (2013)