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2017 Favourites

The Futures

Spinster

Pachinko

Secondhand Time

Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries

One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays

Exit West

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24 books

2018 Favourites

La femme qui fuit

Conversations with Friends

How to Behave in a Crowd

The Boat People

Beartown

The Heart's Invisible Furies

Educated: A Memoir

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30 books

2019 Favourites

Belonging a German reckons with home and history

The Great Believers

A Ladder to the Sky

My Ex-Life

Lake Success

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death

The Library Book

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43 books

2020 Favourites

Ask Again, Yes

Know My Name

Fleishman Is in Trouble

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

Paul à la maison

A Gentleman in Moscow

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

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45 books

2021 Favourites

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

The Yellow House

Les années

Hamnet

Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

We Run the Tides

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Those Who Forget

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76 books

2022 Favourites

The Border: A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, and the Northeast Passage

The Secret to Superhuman Strength

Our Woman in Moscow

Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch

The Passenger

Love in Case of Emergency

Civilizations

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4 books

2023 Favourites

My Best Stories

Foster

The Marriage Portrait

Horse

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24 books

Advice

How to Be a Person in the World: Ask Polly's Guide Through the Paradoxes of Modern Life

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

168 Hours

The Happiness Project

Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life

Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

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37 books

All Time Favourites

Anna Karenina

The Golem and the Djinni

Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea

To End All Wars

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir

TransAtlantic

Americanah

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30 books

Arts Entertainment

Bossypants

I Love Your Laugh

Laughing All the Way to the Mosque

Yes Please

Where I Belong

Drama high

No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf

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26 books

Biography

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life

No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf

Clarence Darrow

Ada's Algorithm

Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

Appetite for life : the biography of Julia Child

Long Walk To Freedom

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192 books

Canadian

Kanata

The Birth House

A Fair Country

I Love Your Laugh

The Virgin Cure

Anne of Green Gables

Jan Wong's China

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33 books

Classics

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Candide

Emma

Doctor Zhivago

Animal Farm

Great Expectations

The Odyssey

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86 books

Current Events

It's What I Do : A Photographer's Life of Love and War

The Terror Years

Jan Wong's China

American Fascists : the Christian Right and the War on America

The Unwinding

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea

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39 books

Essays

Me Talk Pretty One Day

Bad Feminist

This is the Story of a Happy Marriage

Around the world in seventy-two days and other writings

Naked

One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays

Vous n'aurez pas ma haine

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54 books

Favourite Fiction

Cutting for Stone

Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen

The Thorn Birds

Empire Falls

The seamstress

The Time of Our Singing

Fall on Your Knees

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17 books

Favourite History

The Sleepwalkers

The Girls of Atomic City

To End All Wars

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

The Story of French

The French Intifada

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23 books

Favourite Memoirs

Fire Shut Up in My Bones

Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything

This is the Story of a Happy Marriage

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir

The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress

Day of Honey

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28 books

Favourite Nonfiction

Just Mercy

What We See When We Read

In Cold Blood

Far from the Tree

Straphanger

Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea

Ninety Percent of Everything

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792 books

Fiction

The Wonder

You Will Know Me

The one-in-a-million boy

Started Early, Took My Dog

When Will There Be Good News?

Le mystère Henri Pick

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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31 books

Food Drink

A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table

The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City

My Life in France

Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen

As Always, Julia

Day of Honey

The Apprentice

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75 books

Francophone

Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea

Les étoiles de Sidi Moumen

La part de l'autre

Joséphine Tome 2

La Vérité sur l'Affaire Harry Quebert

Le Magasin des suicides

Les yeux jaunes des crocodiles

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59 books

Gender Sexuality

Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

Full Frontal Feminism

Cinderella Ate My Daughter

Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture

Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

Price of Honor

The Feminine Mystique

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86 books

Geography Travel

An Age Of License

Skyfaring

The New Global Student

I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away

Visit Sunny Chernobyl

The Geography of Bliss

The Lost Girls

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46 books

Graphic Books

The Encyclopedia of Early Earth

Paul a un travail d'été

An Age Of License

Paul à la campagne

V for Vendetta

Blankets

Burma Chronicles

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