2021

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)