Sunday, January 1, 2017

Booklist 2016

Booklist 2016

January 1-March 19

1.       The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
2.       The Empty Throne by Bernard Cornwell
3.       Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
4.       Paper: An Elegy by Ian Sansom
5.       Buddhism: A Brief Introduction by the Faculty of Developing Virtue Seconda
6.       Dune by Frank Herbert
7.       The BFG by Roald Dahl
8.       The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordechai Richler
9.       The Educated Imagination by Northrop Frye
10.   Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
11.   A Devil on One Shoulder and an Angel on the Other by Greg Prato
12.   Fear and Loathing at the Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson
13.   The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
14.   Hawk by Steven Brust

March 20-June 21

15.   Rush: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Excellence by Robert Freedman
16.   How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Vand Doren
17.   Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
18.   House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
19.   The Incrementalists by Steven Brust and Skyler White
20.   Windflower by Gabrielle Roy
21.   A Good Year by Peter Mayle
22.   J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey
23.   Lifting Shadows: The Authorized Biography of Dream Theater by Rich Wilson
24.   Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
25.   Kaupang: the Viking Town by Dafinn Skre and Frans-Arne Stylegar
26.   Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
27.   Marvel Superheroes: Secret Wars by Jim Shooter and Mike Zeck

June 22-Sept 20
28.   Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
29.   As You Like It by William Shakespeare
30.   The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
31.   War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
32.   Lisey’s Story by Stephen King
33.   Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov
34.   The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
35.   Sitting Still Like a Frog Eline Snel
36.   Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
37.   Age of Ultron by Brian Michael Bendis
38.   Midnight’s Children by Salmon Rushdie


Sept 20-Dec 31
39.   The Gathering Storm by Winston Churchill
40.   Klondike by Pierre Berton
41.   The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
42.   The Once and Future King by T.H.White
43.   Paradise Lost by John Milton
44.   Writing Through Literature by Linda Anstendig and David Hicks
45.   The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
46.   The Three Sisters Bar and Hotel by Katherine Govier
47.   The Great Blackfoot Treaties by Hugh A. Dempsey
48.   The Long Walk by Stephen King
49.   The Fort by Bernard Cornwall
50.   The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
51.   Smashing Pumpkins: Tales of a Scorched Earth by Amy Hanson
52.   A Perfect Union of Contrary Things by Sarah Jensen
53.   Dust by Arthur Slade
54. The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien