Summer 2018 Reading List

I’m often the butt of jokes in my social circle because I haven’t seen a lot of iconic movies (Goodfellas, Psycho, etc.) but when it comes to reading the classics I’ve got most of them beat. I read a lot of classical literature when I was a teenager and in recent years I’ve made more of an effort to include some of these older titles on my reading lists.

Now that I have more time on my hands this summer, I’m challenging myself to include more classics on my reading list, both old and modern, all critically celebrated, featuring authors that are new-to-me. Even you might be surprised to learn that I haven’t read some of the titles on my bookshelf this month.

No spoilers, please. Let me catch up first and then we’ll talk.

1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2. House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
3. Barney’s Version by Mordecai Richler
4. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
5. Last Orders by Graham Swift

Psst- wanna see which books have previously graced my bookshelves? Click here. Want even more fun reading recommendations? I’ve got some for you here. Don’t forget to find me on Goodreads so we can snoop each other’s bookshelves and dish about our favourites.

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Spring 2018 Reading List

 

You guys know I love to read pretty much anything. All it takes is a glance for me to start speed reading anything that comes across a desk. I would describe myself as a pretty curious person as well, so the types of reading materials that catch my eye are usually pretty varied.

My primary love is fiction but this season I’ll be taking a break from my usual fallback reads by nerding out to some non-fiction books that will take me to infinity and beyond, from the confines of the psychiatrist’s office to the sociology of a city block. Who knows where my curiosity will take me next?

1. The Book of Lists (Canadian edition) edited by Ira Basen, Jane Farrow, David Wallenchinksy and Amy Wallace
2. How Can I Help? A Week in My Life as a Psychiatrist by David Goldbloom and Pier Bryden
3. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
4. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
5. Happy City: Transforming our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery

Psst- wanna see which books have previously graced my bookshelves? Click here. Want even more fun reading recommendations? I’ve got some for you here. Don’t forget to find me on Goodreads so we can snoop each other’s bookshelves and dish about our favourites.

Fall 2016 Reading List

I love hearing about the books that people read and what they like to recommend to me (whether it’s because I’ve snooped their bookshelves, because they’ve been saving books for us to trade back and forth, or because they were looking to unload one of their bookshelves).

I’ve been feeling like I’ve been in a little bit of a reading rut lately, so I decided for my fall reading list I would let one of my fellow book-ish friends dictate what I read. I asked my friend and photographer for the blog, D, to pick out things that were unusual, shocking or out of character for me. And of course when I heard that I hadn’t read one of his personal favorites (Watership Down by Richard Adams) he was shocked and disappointed, and demanded that I read it, like, yesterday.

Here are the other books he chose:

1. Automated Alice by Jeff Noon
2. Blindness by José Saramago
3. The Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennett
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

What are some of the books that you’ve read at other people’s suggestion?

Psst- wanna see which books have previously graced my bookshelves? Click here. Want even more fun reading recommendations? I’ve got some for you here. Don’t forget to find me on Goodreads so we can snoop each other’s bookshelves and dish about our favourites.