Booklist 2017
January 1-March 19
- Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan
- Lock In by John Scalzi
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O’Brien
- Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
- Warriors of the Storm by Bernard Cornwell
- Windflower by Gabrielle Roy
- Those Who Knew by Kortnee Paiha
- Talking Back to OCD by John S. March
- The Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
March 20-June 21
- The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
- Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
- Redshirts by John Scalzi
- The Structure of Canadian History by J.L. Finlay and D.N. Sprague
- News of the World by Paulette Jiles
- Imaginative Writing: Elements of Craft by Janet Burroway
- The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
- Buddhism Without Beliefs by Stephen Batchelor
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- Gonzo: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson by Jann Wenner and Corey Seymour
- It by Stephen King
- Preacher: Gone to Texas by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
- “The Dead” by James Joyce
- Preacher: Until the End of the World by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
- The Gunslinger by Stephen King
- Preacher: Proud Americans by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
- The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
- The Golden Thread by Bruce Meyer
- Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
- Bossypants by Tina Fey
- The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel
- The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Niagara by Pierre Berton
June 22-Sept 20
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Norse Myths by Neil Gaiman
- Comfortable with Uncertainty by Pema Chodron
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- whiskey words and a shovel II by r.h. Sin
- Beren and Luthien by J. R. R. Tolkien
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
- This Is That: Travel Guide to Canada by Pat Kelly and Peter Oldring
- Undermajordomo Minor is by Patrick deWitt
- The Waste Lands by Stephen King
- Champlain’s Dream by David Hackett Fischer
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Exploring the Hobbit by Corey Olsen
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
- The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant
- A New Buddhist Path by David R. Loy
Sept 20-Dec 31
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
- Beowulf translated by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Macbeth by A.J. Hartley
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
- Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
- Canada by Mike Myers
- Buddha’s Brain by Richard Mendius and Rick Hanson
- The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant by Drew Hayes
- History’s People by Margaret MacMillan
- The Compassion Book by Pema Chödrön
- The Only Café by Linden MacIntyre
- Gone for Lunch by Laura Archer
- In Flanders Fields 100 Years by Amanda Betts, ed.
- The Complete Chronicle of the Who 1958-1978 by Andy Neil and Matt Kent
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
- Fools and Mortals by Bernard Cornwell
- Global Chorus by Todd E. Maclean