Books

The following are a list of books that I have read. Suggestions welcomed! Note that as part of ongoing reading I have a subscription to Macleans as well.

Books in the queue

Currently reading

Patterson, James, Alex Cross's Trial, Vision, 2010.

Books that I have read

2012

Clark, Ian D, Trick, David, and Van Loon, Richard, Academic Reform: Policy Options for Improving the Quality and Cost-effectiveness of Undergraduate Education in Ontario, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011.

Unger, Lisa, Beautiful lies: A novel, Shaye Areheart Books, 2006.

DeGeneres, Ellen, Seriously...I'm Kidding, AudioGO, 2011.

Hamilton, Denise, Damage Control, Blackstone Audio,, 2011.

Bain, Ken, What the best college teachers do, Harvard University Press, 2004.

Locke, John, The love you crave, Telemachus Press, 2011.

Wasdin, Howard E and Templin, Stephen, SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper, St. Martin's Press, 2011.

Locke, John, A Girl Like You, Telemachus Press, 2011.

Lore, Pittacus, The Power of Six, Harper Collins, 2011.

Lore, Pittacus, I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Six's Legacy, Harper Collins, 2011.

Kahneman, Daniel, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.

Collins, Susan, Mockingjay, Scholastic Press, 2010.

Collins, Susan, Catching Fire, Scholastic Press, 2009.

Collins, Susan, The Hunger Games, Scholastic Press, 2008.

Barss, Patchen, The Erotic Engine: How Pornography has Powered Mass Communication, from Gutenberg to Google, Anchor Canada, 2011.

2011

Unger, Lisa, Beautiful Lies: A Novel, Shaye Areheart Books, 2006.

Hamilton, Tyler, Mad Like Tesla: Underdog Inventors and their Relentless Pursuit of Clean Energy, ECW Press, 2011.

Palmer, Parker J., The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life, 10th edition, Jossey-Bass, 2007.

Chilton, Dave, The Wealthy Barber Returns: Significantly Older and Marginally Wiser, Financial Awareness Corp, 2011.

Eagleman, David, Incognito: Secret Lives of the Brain, Penguin, 2011.

Kepler, Lars, The Hypnotist, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.

Hill, Lawrence, The book of negros, HarperCollins, 2007.

Chua, Amy, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Penguin Press, 2011.

Locke, John, Follow the Stone, Telemachus Press, 2011.

Foer, Joshua, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, Penguin Press, 2011.

Locke, John, Now and Then, Telemachus Press, 2010.

Locke, John, Lethal Experiment, Telemachus Press, 2009.

Locke, John, Lethal People, Telemachus Press, 2009.

Donoghue, Emma, Room: A Novel, Little, Brown and Company, 2010.

Locke, John, Wish List, Telemachus Press, 2010.

Hocking, Amanda, Ascend, CreateSpace, 2011.

Hocking, Amanda, Torn, CreateSpace, 2010.

Hocking, Amanda, Switched, CreateSpace, 2010.

Locke, John, Saving Rachel, iuniverse.com, 2009.

Lore, Pittacus, I am Number Four, Harper Collins, 2010.

Gawande, Atul, The checklist manifesto: How to get things right, Picador, 2011.

Heath, Chip and Heath, Dan, Switch: How to change things when change is hard, Random House, 2010.

Skibsrud, Johanna, The Sentimentalists, Douglas & McIntyre, 2010, 2008.

Larsson, Steig, The girl who kicked the hornet's nest, Viking Canada, 2010.

Boyle, Eleanor and Rothstein, Harley, Essentials College/University Train: A Practical Guide, Steller Distrbution, 2008.

2010

Patel, Raj, The value of nothing, Harper Collins, 2010.

Levant, Ezra, Ethical oil, McClelland, 2010.

Larsson, Stieg, The girl who played with fire, Vintage, 2010.

Larsson, Stieg, The girl with the dragon tatoo, Vintage Crime / Black Lizard, 2009.

Kurzweil, Ray, The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, Penguin, 2006.

Babiak, Todd, The book of Stanley, McClelland & Stewart, 2007.

Hellenga, Robert, Philosophy made simple, Back Bay Books, 2007.

Gawande, Atul, Complications: A surgeon's notes on an imperfect science, Picador, 2003.

Heath, Chip and Heath, Dan, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, Random House, 2007.

Tong, Rosemarie, New Perspectives in Healthcare Ethics: An Interdisciplinary and Crosscultural Approach, Prentice Hall, 2006.

Kline, Nancy, Time to think - Listening to ignite the human mind, Cassell Illustrated, 1998.

Galloway, Stephen, The Cellist of SaraJevo, Riverhead Trade, 2008.

Pullman, Philip, The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book III), Random House, 2000.

Pullman, Philip, The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book II), Random House, 2000.

Pullman, Philip, The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book I), Random House, 2000.

Munroe, David, The Unexpected and Fictional Career Change of Jim Kearns, Dundurn Press, 2005.

Ganek, Danielle, Lulu meets God and doubts him, Viking USA, 2007.

Niffenegger, Audrey, Her fearful symmetry, Scribner, 2009.

2009

Tang, Camy, Sushi for one?, Zondervan, 2007.

Ogawa, Yoko, The Housekeeper and the Professor, Picador, 2009.

Dunn, Matt, Best Man, Simon & Schuster, 2005.

Brooks, Michael, 13 things that don't make sense: The most baffling scientific mysteries of our time, Double Day, 2008.

McDonough William, Braunqart, Michael, Cradle to cradle: Remaking the way we make things, North point Press, 2002.

Towes, Miriam, A complicated kindness, Knopf Canada, 2004.

Holding, Ian, Unfeeling: A novel, Key Porter Books, 2007.

Pollan, Michael, In defense of food, Penguin Press, 2008.

Gilbert, Elizabeth, Eat, Pray, Love, Penguin Paperbacks, 2007.

Gladwell, Malcolm, Outliers: The story of success, Little, Brown and Company, 2008.

Levant Ezra, Shakedown, McClelland & Stewart, 2009.

Boyden Joseph, Three day road, Penguin, 2005.

Polak, P, Out of povery: What works when traditional approaches fail, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2008.

Mortenson, G, Three cups of tea, Penguin, 2007.

2008

Patterson, J, Pop goes the weasel, Grand Central Publishing, 2000.

Young WP, The shack, Windblown media, 2008.

Patterson, J, The big bad wolf, Grand Central Publishing, 2004.

Gross P, Passchendaele, Harpercollins Canada, 2008.

Hosseini K, A thousand splendid suns, Riverhead, 2007.

Bryson B, Notes from a small island, Harper Perennial, 1997.

Goleman, D, Emotional Intelligence: Why it can matter more than IQ, Bantam, 2006.

Senge PM, Scharmer CO, Jarworski J, Flowers BS, Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future, Doubleday Business, 2008.

Gottman J, Declair J, Raising an emotionally intelligent child, Simon & Schuster, 1998.

Murkoff H, Eisenberg A, Hathaway, What to expect when you're expecting, 3rd edition, Workman Publishing Company, 2002.

Morris D, The naked ape, Dell Publishing Company, 1967.

Clinton, B, Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World, Knopf, 2007.

Downey P, So you're going to be a dad, Fisher Books, 2000.

Nasar, S, A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash. Touchstone, 2001.

2007

Whiteley, Nigel, Design for Society, Reaktion Books, 1997.

Fox, Michael J., Lucky Man, Ebury, 2002.

Fuller, R. Buckminster, Guinea Pig B: The 56 Year Experiment, Critical Path Publishing, 2004.

Edwards, Kim, The Secrets of a Fire King: Stories, Penguin, 2007.

McCarthy, C., The Road, Vintage Books, 2007.

Gore, A., The Assault on Reason, Penguin Press HC, 2007.

Papanek, Victor, Design For The Real World: Human Ecology And Social Change, Academy Chicago Publishers, 1999.

Rowling, J. K, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Arthur A. Levine Books, 2007.

The Declaration of Independence - with short biographies of its signers, Applewood Books, Bedford MA.

Tzu, Sun (translated by Griffith, Samuel B), Art of War, Blue Heron Books, 2006.

Feynman, Richard P., Leighton, Ralph, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character), W. W. Norton & Company, 1997.

Rombauer, Irma S., The Joy of Cooking, 75th anniversary editions, Simon & Schuster, 2006. (I have not read this cover-to-cover but I find it an excellent cooking book. Very comprehensive!)

Gombrich, E. H., A little history of the world, Yale University Press, 2005.

Hosseini, Khaled, The Kite Runner, Riverhead, 2003.

White, E. B., Charlotte's Web, Harper Collins, 1952.

White, E. B., Stuart Little, Harper Trophy, 1945.

White, E. B., The Trumpet of the Swan, Harper Trophy, 1970.

2006

Niffenegger, Audrey, The Time Traveler's Wife, Harvest Books, 2004.

Gilbert, Daniel, Stumbling on Happiness, Knopf, 2006.

Haddon, Mark, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Doubleday, 2003.

Sachs, Jeffrey D. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, Penguin Press, 2005.

Levitt, Steven; Dubner, Stephen J., Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, William Morrow, 2005.

Gladwell, Malcolm, Blink, Little, Brown, 2005.

Gladwell, Malcolm, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Little, Brown, 2002.

Fishman, Ted C., China, Inc.: How The Rise Of The Next Superpower Challenges America And The World, Simon & Schuster, 2006.

Gignac, Robert; Townshend, Michael, Rich Is A State Of Mind: Building Wealth and Happiness - A Blueprint, Wealth Advisory Services, 2003.

Clark, Ron, The Essential 55, Hyperion, 2004.

Chilton, David, The Wealthy Barber: The Common Sense Guide to Successful Financial Planning, Stoddart, 2002.

Rowling, J. K, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Raincoast Books, 2006.

Dallaire, Roméo; Power, Samantha, Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda, Carroll & Graf, 2004.

Guest, Robert, The Shackled Continent - Africa's Past, Present, and Future, Pan, 2005.

Lewis, C. S., The Magician's Nephew, HarperTrophy, 1994.

Lewis, C. S., The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, HarperTrophy, 1994.

Lewis, C. S., The Horse and His Boy, HarperTrophy, 1994.

Lewis, C. S., Prince Caspian, HarperTrophy, 1994.

Lewis, C. S., The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, HarperTrophy, 1994.

Lewis, C. S., The Silver Chair, HarperTrophy, 1994.

Lewis, C. S., The Last Battle, HarperTrophy, 1994.