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Fiction Non-Fiction Fiction • 419 by Will Ferguson • The House Girl by Tara Conklin • Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda • Above All Things - Tanis Rideout • The House on Fortune Street by Margot Livesey • The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Non-Fiction • The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker • The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins • The Sentimentalists: a novel by Johanna Skibsrud • 127 Hours: between a rock and a hard place • Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin • I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith • Shades of Blue by Karen Kingsbury by Aron Ralston • All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews • I’d Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman • The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon • Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel • All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr • The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman • The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick • Below Stairs by Margaret Powell • Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • The Imposter Bride by Nancy Richler • The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt • Bossypants by Tina Fey • Annabel by Kathleen Winter • The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd • The Slap: a novel by Christos Tsiolkas • The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel - Garth Stein • Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende • State of Wonder by Ann Patchett • Cleopatra: a life by Stacy Schiff • Barney’s Version by Mordecai Richler • Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay • Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel • The Glass Castle: a memoir by Jeannette Walls • Beatrice & Virgil by Yann Martel • Leota’s Garden by Francine Rivers • The Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood • I Feel Bad About My Neck: and other thoughts on being a • The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb • Little Bee by Chris Cleave • The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry : a novel by Gabrielle woman by Nora Ephron • The Bees - Laline Paull • The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters Zevin • I Shall Not Hate: a Gaza doctor’s journey • Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson • Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez • Still Alice by Lisa Genova by Izzeldin Abuelaish • Before the Poison by Peter Robinson • Lyrics Alley by Leila Aboulela • Still Missing by Chevy Stevens • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot • Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis • Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear • The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen • The King’s Speech by Mark Logue • The Bishop’s Man by Linden MacIntyre • Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson • Sussex Drive by Linda Svendsen • Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey by the • The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill • A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman • Sweetland by Michael Crummey Countess of Carnarvon • Bride of New France by Suzanne Desrochers • The Man in the Blue Moon by Michael Morris • The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley • Let’s Take the Long Way Home: a memoir of friendship by • Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel • The Martian : a novel by Andy Weir • Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb Gail Caldwell • Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín • Me Before You - Jojo Moyes • A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki • Little Princes by Conor Grennan • The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje • Midwife of Venice by Roberta Rich • The Ten-Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer • Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen • The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway • Missing Steps by Paul Cavanagh • That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo • My Life in France by Julia Child • Nomad by Ayaan Hirsi Ali • The Children Act by Ian McEwan • Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones • The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell • The Circle: A Novel - Dave Eggers • The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger • The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine • Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre • Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright • Mostly Happy by Pam Bustin • The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht • Proof of Heaven by Eben Alexander • Cool Water by Diane Warren • Mudbound: a novel by Hillary Jordan • Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro • Quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can’t stop • Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith • The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith talking by Susan Cain • Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin • The Narrow Road To The Deep North by Richard • The Virgin Cure by Ami McKay • Sisters in the Wilderness by Charlotte Gray • The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan Flanagan. • A Walk Across the Sun by Corban Addison • The Sixth Extinction : An Unnatural History by • The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood • Netherland by Joseph O’Neill • We Need to Talk About Kevin: a novel by Lionel Shriver Elizabeth Kolbert • The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery • The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern • The Weight Of Blood by Laura McHugh • They Left Us Everything : A Memoir by Plum Johnson • Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey • Nineteen Minutes: a novel by Jodi Picoult • What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty • This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate • Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada • Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger • When We Were Strangers by Pamela Schoenewaldt by Naomi Klein • The Fault in Our Stars - John Green • Orphan Train - Christina Baker Kline • Wife 22 by Melanie Gideon • The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a • The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson • The Orenda - Joseph Boyden • The Wife’s Tale by Lori Lansens Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan by Jenny Nordberg • For Today I Am A Boy by Kim Fu • The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan • The Woefield Poultry Collective by Susan Juby • Speaking my truth: reflections on reconciliation & • Friday Nights by Joanna Trollope • The Paris Wife by Paula McLain • Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel residential school - selected by: Shelagh Rogers, Miike • The Gathering by Anne Enright • The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender • You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz DeGagné • Getting Over Edgar by Joan Barfoot • The Postmistress by Sarah Blake • A Train in Winter by Caroline Moorehead • The Girls by Lori Lansens • The Promise of Stardust by Priscille Sibley • What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim by Jane Christmas • The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins • A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving • Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal by Jeanette • The Good Daughters by Joyce Maynard • Predator by Terri Blackstock Winterson • Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott • The Rainbow Troops by Andrea Hirata • Wild by Cheryl Strayed • The Great Gatsby by F. 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