Books Read 2024
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blogcutterListed in the order I read them. F= Fiction; NF=Nonfiction; A=Anthology
1. The Cat's Meow: How cats evolved from the savannah to your sofa - Jonathan B. Losos (NF)
2. Charlotte Illes is not a detective - Katie Siegel (F)
3. I go by sea, I go by land - P.L.Travers (NF)
4. Les prénoms épicènes - Amélie Nothomb (F)
5. Rilke: the last inward man - Lesley Chamberlain (NF)
6. Torrid tales from the creative trenches: Instant classic that no one will read - various (A-F)
7. Waiting for Gertrude - Bill Richardson (F)
8. Midnight Sweatlodge - Waubgeshig Rice (F)
9. Moon of the Crusted Snow - Waubgeshig Rice (F)
10. Moon of the Turning Leaves - Waubgeshig Rice (F)
11. Myth and Mayhem: A leftist critique of Jordan Peterson - various (A-NF)
12. The Library of Heartbeats - Laura Imai Messina (F)
13. Two Solitudes - Hugh MacLennan (F)
14. Your Brain On Art: How the arts transform us - Susan Massamen & Ivy Ross (NF)
15. Bookworm - Robin Yeatman (F)
16. Not your child - Lis Angus (F)
17. A Different Kind of Evil - Andrew Wilson (F)
18. Legacy - Waubgeshig Rice (F)
19. On Rereading - Patricia Meyer Sparks (NF)
20. Anna O. - Matthew Blake (F)
21. Le Påtissier d'Hitler - Peter Bevore (F)
22. Barbara isn't dying - Alina Bronsky (F)
23. Blue Notes - Anne Cathrine Bomann (F)
24. Library for the war-wounded - Monika Helfer (F)
25. The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections - Eva Jurczyk (f)
26. Agatha - Anne Cathrine Bomann (F)
27. Wonder World - K. R. Byggdin (F)
28. Where's the mother? Stories from a transgender dad - Trevor MacDonald (NF)
29. La définition du bonheur - Catherine Cusset (F)
30. Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin (F)
31. Beauty and the Beat - Lisa Whittington-Hill (NF)
32. The Call of the Toad (Unkenruhe) - Guenter Grass (tr. Ralph Mannheim) - F
33. Health for All: A doctor's prescription for a healthier Canada - Jane Philpott (NF)
34. An elderly lady must not be crossed - Helene Tursten (F)
35. Kallocain - Karin Boye (F)
36. Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood (F)
37. Mr. Norris changes trains - Christopher Isherwood (F)
38. Siblings - Brigitte Reimann (F)
39. The Wall Jumper - Peter Schneider (F)
40. Félix et la source invisible - Albin Michel (F)
41. I love Russia - Elena Kostyuchenko (NF)
42. Tough on Crime - David Holdsworth (F)
43. Perilous Passage - Arthur Mayse (F)
44. The girls dressed for murder - Lynn McPherson (F)
45. Case of the Curious Collection - Carolyn Keene (F)
46. Paradise Pending - Kris Purdy (F)
47. Secrets in the Water - Alice Fitzpatrick (F)
48. Laughing on the outside: The life of John Candy - Martin Knelman (NF)
49. The Vampire Cat & Poems by Robert Thomas Payne (A)
50. Mike Harris made me eat my dog - Linwood Barclay (NF/humour)
51. The Secret History of Audrey James - Heather Marshall (F)
52.The Mystery Guest - Nita Prose (F)
53. Kairos - Jenny Erpenbeck (F)
54. The Paris Network - Siobhan Curhan (F)
55. Let sleeping cats lie - Louise Clark (F)
56. Altered Boy - Jim McDonald (F)
57. Meeting my treaty kin: A journey toward reconciliation - Heather Menzies (NF)
58. The Fells - Cath Staincliffe (F)
59. Death in Fine Condition - Andrew Cartmel (F)
60. The List of Suspicious Things - Jennie Godfrey (F)
61. Not a novel: A memoir in pieces - Jenny Erpenbeck (NF)
62. Dandelion Daughter - Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay (F)
63. Café Babanussa - Karen Hill (NF)
64. The Circle - Katherine Vermette (F)
65. Bury the Lead - Kate Hilton & Elizabeth Renzetti (F)
66. IRL: Finding realness, meaning & belonging in our digital lives - Chris Stedman (NF)
67. Kukum - Michel Jean (NF)
68. Death at the Sign of the Rook - Kate Atkinson (F)
69. Woman of Interest - Tracy O'Neill (NF)
70. The Wall Between: What Jews & Palestinians don't want to know about each other - Raja G. Khouri & Jeffrey J. Wilkinson (NF)
71. Murder crossed her mind - Stephen Spotswood (F)
72. Teach me, I can learn - Alice Martel (NF)
73. In all things: A return to the drooling ward - Ed Davis (NF)
74. What she left behind - Ellen Marie Wiseman (F)
75. Women in Prison - Joan Henry (NF)
76. Lizards hold the sun - Dani Trujillo (F)
77. Swiss Sonata - Gwethalyn Graham (F)
78. Book and Dagger: How scholars & librarians became the unlikely spies of World War II - Elyse Graham (NF)
79. Crooked Seeds- Karen Jennings (F)
80. Honor the Dead - Amy Tector (F)
81. The Mistletoe Mystery - Nita Prose (F)
82. The Foulest Things - Amy Tector (F)
83. The Grey Wolf - Louise Penny (F)
84. Memories before and after The Sound of Music - Agathe von Trapp (NF)
85. Montréal-Nord - Mariana Mazza (NF)
86. Double Vision - Peggy Blair (F)
87. The Lost Book of Bonn - Brianna Labuskes (F)
88. Breaking Canadians: Health care, advocacy & the toll of COVID-19 - various, ed. by Nili Kaplan-Myrth (NF)
89. Norman's Conquest - Don Butler (F)
90. Vampires of Ottawa - Eric Wilson (F)
91. I who have never known men - Jacqueline Harpman (F)
92. How to protect bookstores & why - Danny Caine (NF)
93. Shapes of Wrath - Melissa Yi (F)
94. How to solve your own murder - Kristen Perrin (F)
95. The Diapause - Andrew Forbes (F)
96. Fatal Harvest - Brenda Chapman (F)
97. Everyone in my family has killed someone - Benjamin Stevenson (F)
98. The Hard Road Out: One woman's escape from North Korea - Jihyun Park & Seh-Lynn Cho (NF)
99. Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North - Rachel Joyce (F)
1. The Cat's Meow: How cats evolved from the savannah to your sofa - Jonathan B. Losos (NF)
2. Charlotte Illes is not a detective - Katie Siegel (F)
3. I go by sea, I go by land - P.L.Travers (NF)
4. Les prénoms épicènes - Amélie Nothomb (F)
5. Rilke: the last inward man - Lesley Chamberlain (NF)
6. Torrid tales from the creative trenches: Instant classic that no one will read - various (A-F)
7. Waiting for Gertrude - Bill Richardson (F)
8. Midnight Sweatlodge - Waubgeshig Rice (F)
9. Moon of the Crusted Snow - Waubgeshig Rice (F)
10. Moon of the Turning Leaves - Waubgeshig Rice (F)
11. Myth and Mayhem: A leftist critique of Jordan Peterson - various (A-NF)
12. The Library of Heartbeats - Laura Imai Messina (F)
13. Two Solitudes - Hugh MacLennan (F)
14. Your Brain On Art: How the arts transform us - Susan Massamen & Ivy Ross (NF)
15. Bookworm - Robin Yeatman (F)
16. Not your child - Lis Angus (F)
17. A Different Kind of Evil - Andrew Wilson (F)
18. Legacy - Waubgeshig Rice (F)
19. On Rereading - Patricia Meyer Sparks (NF)
20. Anna O. - Matthew Blake (F)
21. Le Påtissier d'Hitler - Peter Bevore (F)
22. Barbara isn't dying - Alina Bronsky (F)
23. Blue Notes - Anne Cathrine Bomann (F)
24. Library for the war-wounded - Monika Helfer (F)
25. The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections - Eva Jurczyk (f)
26. Agatha - Anne Cathrine Bomann (F)
27. Wonder World - K. R. Byggdin (F)
28. Where's the mother? Stories from a transgender dad - Trevor MacDonald (NF)
29. La définition du bonheur - Catherine Cusset (F)
30. Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin (F)
31. Beauty and the Beat - Lisa Whittington-Hill (NF)
32. The Call of the Toad (Unkenruhe) - Guenter Grass (tr. Ralph Mannheim) - F
33. Health for All: A doctor's prescription for a healthier Canada - Jane Philpott (NF)
34. An elderly lady must not be crossed - Helene Tursten (F)
35. Kallocain - Karin Boye (F)
36. Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood (F)
37. Mr. Norris changes trains - Christopher Isherwood (F)
38. Siblings - Brigitte Reimann (F)
39. The Wall Jumper - Peter Schneider (F)
40. Félix et la source invisible - Albin Michel (F)
41. I love Russia - Elena Kostyuchenko (NF)
42. Tough on Crime - David Holdsworth (F)
43. Perilous Passage - Arthur Mayse (F)
44. The girls dressed for murder - Lynn McPherson (F)
45. Case of the Curious Collection - Carolyn Keene (F)
46. Paradise Pending - Kris Purdy (F)
47. Secrets in the Water - Alice Fitzpatrick (F)
48. Laughing on the outside: The life of John Candy - Martin Knelman (NF)
49. The Vampire Cat & Poems by Robert Thomas Payne (A)
50. Mike Harris made me eat my dog - Linwood Barclay (NF/humour)
51. The Secret History of Audrey James - Heather Marshall (F)
52.The Mystery Guest - Nita Prose (F)
53. Kairos - Jenny Erpenbeck (F)
54. The Paris Network - Siobhan Curhan (F)
55. Let sleeping cats lie - Louise Clark (F)
56. Altered Boy - Jim McDonald (F)
57. Meeting my treaty kin: A journey toward reconciliation - Heather Menzies (NF)
58. The Fells - Cath Staincliffe (F)
59. Death in Fine Condition - Andrew Cartmel (F)
60. The List of Suspicious Things - Jennie Godfrey (F)
61. Not a novel: A memoir in pieces - Jenny Erpenbeck (NF)
62. Dandelion Daughter - Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay (F)
63. Café Babanussa - Karen Hill (NF)
64. The Circle - Katherine Vermette (F)
65. Bury the Lead - Kate Hilton & Elizabeth Renzetti (F)
66. IRL: Finding realness, meaning & belonging in our digital lives - Chris Stedman (NF)
67. Kukum - Michel Jean (NF)
68. Death at the Sign of the Rook - Kate Atkinson (F)
69. Woman of Interest - Tracy O'Neill (NF)
70. The Wall Between: What Jews & Palestinians don't want to know about each other - Raja G. Khouri & Jeffrey J. Wilkinson (NF)
71. Murder crossed her mind - Stephen Spotswood (F)
72. Teach me, I can learn - Alice Martel (NF)
73. In all things: A return to the drooling ward - Ed Davis (NF)
74. What she left behind - Ellen Marie Wiseman (F)
75. Women in Prison - Joan Henry (NF)
76. Lizards hold the sun - Dani Trujillo (F)
77. Swiss Sonata - Gwethalyn Graham (F)
78. Book and Dagger: How scholars & librarians became the unlikely spies of World War II - Elyse Graham (NF)
79. Crooked Seeds- Karen Jennings (F)
80. Honor the Dead - Amy Tector (F)
81. The Mistletoe Mystery - Nita Prose (F)
82. The Foulest Things - Amy Tector (F)
83. The Grey Wolf - Louise Penny (F)
84. Memories before and after The Sound of Music - Agathe von Trapp (NF)
85. Montréal-Nord - Mariana Mazza (NF)
86. Double Vision - Peggy Blair (F)
87. The Lost Book of Bonn - Brianna Labuskes (F)
88. Breaking Canadians: Health care, advocacy & the toll of COVID-19 - various, ed. by Nili Kaplan-Myrth (NF)
89. Norman's Conquest - Don Butler (F)
90. Vampires of Ottawa - Eric Wilson (F)
91. I who have never known men - Jacqueline Harpman (F)
92. How to protect bookstores & why - Danny Caine (NF)
93. Shapes of Wrath - Melissa Yi (F)
94. How to solve your own murder - Kristen Perrin (F)
95. The Diapause - Andrew Forbes (F)
96. Fatal Harvest - Brenda Chapman (F)
97. Everyone in my family has killed someone - Benjamin Stevenson (F)
98. The Hard Road Out: One woman's escape from North Korea - Jihyun Park & Seh-Lynn Cho (NF)
99. Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North - Rachel Joyce (F)
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Date: 2025-01-16 11:33 am (UTC)