Our Reading List for 2022-2023

Here is the list of books we plan to read this year:

Date Host Book Author September 13 Shirley The Diamond Eye Kate Quinn October 11 Doris We Were Dreamers Simu Lui November 8 Diane The Good Women of Safe Harbour Bobbie French December 13 Carolyn and Paul Talking to Canadians Rick Mercer January 10 Marie Lessons in Chemistry Bonnie Garmus February 14 Marie Therese The Tuscan Secret Angela Petch March 14 Melinda My Remarkable Journey Katherine Johnson April 11 Bob and Donna Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood Cheryl Diamond May 9 Sandy The Giver of Stars Jojo Moyes June 13 Gisele The Reading List Sarah Nisha Adams

We usually meet on the second Tuesday of the month at 7:30 PM. Because of the ongoing pandemic, last year some of the meetings were held online. We may be able to hold the first few meetings outdoors, Once the cold weather arrives, we will have to assess the pandemic conditions and whether continuing meeting in person is prudent.

Our Reading List for 2021-2022

Here is the list of books we plan to read this year:

Month	Title	Author	Suggested by	Host
September	The Dutch House	Anne Patchet	Carolyn Scott-McIntyre	Linda Miller
October	The Four Winds	Kristin Hannah	Shirley Curtis	Shirley Curtis
November	The Paris Library	Janet Skeslien Charles	Carolyn Scott-McIntyre	??
December	Hamnet	Maggie O'Farrell	Diane McKinnon	Diane??
January	Dear Edward	Ann Napolitano	Bob and Donna	??
February	The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules	Catherina Ingelman-Sundberg	Marie Harris	??
March	Shuggie Bain	Douglas Stuart	Bob and Donna	??
April	A Quantum Life	Hakim Oluseyi and Joshua Horwitz	Anne Hamor	??
May	The Rose Code	Kate Quinn	Shirley Curtis	??
June	Nomadland	Jessica Bruder	Gisele Neil	Gisele Neil

We usually meet on the second Tuesday of the month at 7:30 PM. Because of the ongoing pandemic, last year we met online. The first few meetings this year have been held in person outside as the weather has been mild. Once the cold weather makes outside meetings unpleasant we will have to decide whether we will continue meeting online or restart in-person meetings indoors. For reference, here is the complete list of book suggestions we voted on this year:

Author	Title
Kate Quinn	The Rose Code
Kristin Hannah	The Four Winds
Janet Skeslien Charles	The Paris Library
Anne Patchet	The Dutch House
William Ken Krueger	This Tender Land
Isabelle Allende	A Long Petal of the Sea
Kim Edwards	The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Jessica Bruder	Nomadland
Maggie O'Farrell	Hamnet
Peter Frankopan	The Silk Roads
Carol Anderson	White Rage
Paulette Jiles	News of the World
Thomas King	The Inconvenient Indian
Ann Napolitano	Dear Edward
Douglas Stuart	Shuggie Bain
Michelle Good	Five Little Indians
Daniel Kalla	Lost Immunity
Hakim Oluseyi and Joshua Horwitz	A Quantum Life
Natalie Jenner	The Jane Austen Society
Catherina Ingelman	The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules

Our Reading List for 2020-2021

Here is the list of books we plan to read this year:

Month	Book	Author	Host
September	American Dirt	Jeanine Cummins	Online
October	The Prison Book Club	Ann Walmsley	Online
November	The Color of Water	James McBride	Online
December	The Boat Runner	Devin Murphy	Online
January	Two Pints	Roddy Doyle	Online?
February	From the Ashes	Jesse Thistle	Online?
March	The Splendid and the Vile	Erik Larson	Online?
April	Sold on a Monday	Kristina McMorris	Online?
May	The North-West is Our Mother	Jean Teillet	Online?
June	Greenwood	Michael Christie	Online?

We usually meet on the second Tuesday of the month at 7:30 PM. Since we are currently in a pandemic, we are meeting online. Perhaps sometime in the new year we will be able to get back to our regular meeting format. For reference, here is the complete list of book suggestions we considered:

	Author	Title
1	Rachel Kadish	The Weight of Ink
2	Esi Edugyan	Washington Black
3	James McBride	The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
4	Ian Williams	Reproduction
5	Erik Larson	The Splendid and The Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz
6	Glendy Vanderah	Where the Forest Meets the Stars
7	Devin Murphy	The Boat Runner
8	Chris Cleave	Little Bee
9	Michael Christie	Greenwood
10	Kristina McMorris	Sold on a Monday
11	Jesse Thistle	From the Ashes
12	Curtis Sittenfeld	American Wife
13	Curtis Sittenfeld	Sisterland
14	Jeanine Cummins	American Dirt
15	Lisa Wingate	The Book of Lost Friends
16	Ann Napolitano	Dear Edward
17	Sama Habib	We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
18	Angie Thomas	The Hate U Give
19	Nic Pissolatto	Galveston
20	Margaret Atwood	The Testaments
21	Anand Giridharadas	Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
22	Ann Walmsley	The Prison Book Club
23	Jean Teillet	The North-West is Our Mother - The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Metis Nation
24	Peter Diamandis & Stephen Kotler	Abundance : The Future is Better Than You Think
25	Roddy Doyle	Two Pints
26	Stephen Leacock	Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
27	Isseldin Abuelaish	I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
28	Kristen Hannah	The Nightingale

Our Reading List for 2019-2020

Here is the list of books we plan to read this year and who will be hosting the meeting:

Month	Book	Author	Host
September	Bury Your Dead	Louise Penny	in Quebec City
October	The Things We Cannot Say	Kelly Rimmer	Shirley
November	Love and Ruin	Paula McLean	Gisele
December	The Moment of Lift	Melinda Gates	Diane
January	A Gentleman in Moscow	Amor Towles	Marie Therese
February	The Alice Network	Kate Quinn	Marie
March	The Bush Runner	Mark Bourrie	Carolyn S.M.
April	Where the Crawdads Sing	Delia Owens	Sandy
May	A History of Canada in 10 Maps	Adam Shoalts	Carolyn B.
June	Midnight in Chernobyl	Adam Higginbotham	Linda & Dave

We usually meet on the second Tuesday of the month at 7:30 PM.

For reference, here is the complete list of book suggestions we considered:

1	Isabella Hammond	The Parisian
2	Amor Towles	A Gentleman in Moscow
3	Kate Quinn	The Huntress
4	Armando Lucas Correa	The Daughter’s Tale
5	Melinda Gates	The Moment of Lift
6	Kelly Rimmer	The Things We Cannot Say
7	Erik Larson	Dead Wake
8	Isabel Vincent	Dinner With Edward
9	Paula McLean	Love and Ruin
10	Cathal Kelly	Boy Wonder
11	Etaf Rum	A Woman Is No Man
12	Delia Owens	Where the Crawdads Sing
13	Carol Shaben	Into the Abyss
14	Michelle McNamara	I’ll Be Gone By Dark
15	Kate Quinn	The Alice Network
16	Ann Walmsley	The Prison Book Club
17	Adam Higginbotham	Midnight in Chernobyl
18	Fredrik Backman	My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises
19	Aida Edemaniam	The Wife’s Tale
20	Trevor Noah	Born a Crime
21	Mark Bourrie	The Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson
22	Scott A. Stern	The Trials of Nina Mccall
23	Diane Ackerman	The Zookeeper’s Wife
24	Lisa Wingate	Before We Were Yours
25	Adam Shoalts	A History of Canada in Ten Maps
26	Devin Murphy	The Boat Runner
27	Kristen Hannah	The Nightingale

For the Record - The 2018-2019 Book List

Here is the list of books we read in 2018-2019 and who hosted the meeting:

Month	Book	Author	Host
Sept	Sapiens, a Brief History of Humankind	Yuval Noah Harari	Sandy
Oct	Gone to Pot	Jennifer Craig	Gisele
Nov	Forgiveness	Mark Nakamoto	Marie Therese
Dec	Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine	Gail Honeyman	Diane
Jan	Educated	Tara Westover	Doris
Feb	Seven Fallen Feathers	Tanya Talaga	Marie H
Mar	The Woman Who Smashed Codes	Jason Fagone	Tom
Apr	The Home for Unwanted Girls	Joanna Goodman	Carloyn B
May	The Great Alone	Kristin Hannah	Linda & Dave
Jun	Sisters in the Wilderness	Charlotte Gray	Ginette

For the Record - the 2017-2018 Book List

What we read and who hosted in 2017-2018:

Month	Book	Author	Host
Sept	Umbrella Man	Peggy Blair	Anne
Oct	Do not Say we have Nothing	Madeleine Thien	Sandy
Nov	The Last man Standing	Davide Longo	Ginette
Dec	The Underground Railroad	Colson Whitehead	Diane M
Jan	The Blue Coyote Motel	Dianne Harman	Marie H
Feb	Hillbilly Elegy	J.D. Vance	Doris
Mar*	The Lying Game	Ruth Ware	Carolyn B
Apr	Fifteen Dogs	Andre Alexis	TBD
May	The Last Neanderthal	Claire Cameron	Dave & Linda
Jun*	7 Days in May	Kim Izzo	Marie Therese

A List of Summer Reading Suggestions

At our summer BBQ and pot-luck this summer we all contributed the titles and brief descriptions of books we had read recently, enjoyed and wished to share. Fortunately Diane took notes, added the names of the authors and made this list:

Name	Book Title/Author	Description
Doris	Brain on Fire-Susannah Cahalan	A memoir describing a woman's struggle to recapture her identity
	The Art of Racing in the Rain-Garth Stein	Narrated from the Dog's point of view- philosophical
Anne	Louise Penny -Trilogy of books and A Great Reckoning	Mysteries from a reknowned Canadian author, newest title: A Great Reckoning
Diane	I Let You Go- Claire MacIntosh	A cunning thriller with lots of plot twists
	Barkskins- Annie Proulx	Two penniless Frenchmen arrive in New France, 1693- plot follows 300 years of them and descendants
	She's not There- Joy Fielding	A child disappears and years later a call from a woman who claims to be that girl
	The Swans of Fifth Avenue- Melanie Benjamin	New York High Society in the 1960's - the arrival of Truman Capote into the mix
Marie	The Canterbury Sisters-Kim Wright	A Woman's Pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral and the women she meets along the way
	The Sherlock Holmes books
Marie Therese	Belcanto-Ann Patchett	A hostage situation evolves into a romantic and beautiful plotline
	The Day I started to Live-translation from French
Gisele	Weird Sisters-Eleanor Brown	three sisters named after Shakespearean characters return home to deal with life's problems/answers
Tom	Sutton- J R Moehringer	A novel based o the life of Willy Sutton -a master thief rooted for by the public
	The Philosophical Breakfast Club-Laura Snyder	Four remarkable young men who transformed the meaning of science in a modern world
Terry	Elon Musk biography	The brilliant engineer, inventor and explorer
	Sweetland-Michael Crummey	One man's refusal to relocate from his Newfoundland island
Donna	Left Neglected- Lisa Genoa	A supermom/business exec's journey to recovery after a brain injuring accident
	An Astronomer's Guide to Life on Earth-Chris Hadfield	Chris Hadfield's stories of life as an astronaut
Ginette	The World Until Yesterday- Jared Diamond	explores what western societies can learn from traditional societies, based on studies in New Guinea