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This page serves as the online home of my "To Read" list.

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The following format is meant to be a rough guide only:

Author - Title - Your name or initials
If you wish, tell me a bit about why you liked this book on the next line.
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Irvin D. Yalom - Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein - Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness Paperback
Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince
Sun Tzu - The Art of War
Michael E. Raynor - The Strategy Paradox: Why Committing to Success Leads to Failure (And What to do About It)
Miyamoto Musashi - The Book of Five Rings Hardcover
Anton Myrer - Once an Eagle
Dandridge M. Malone - Small Unit Leadership: A Commonsense Approach
Roger H Nye - The Challenge of Command: Reading for Military Excellence
John Keegan - The Face of Battle
Dona Schneider & David E. Lilienfeld - Public health: The development of a discipline, from the age of Hippocrates to the Progressive Era
George Rosen - A history of public health
Dorothy Porter - Health, civilization and the state: A history of public health from ancient to modern times
Margaret Atwood - Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
Albert Camus - The Fall - Recommended by MG
Voltaire - Candide
Ben Rawlence - City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp
Jocko Willink & Leif Babin - Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Guy de Maupassant - La Horla - Recommended by EPC
Daoud Kamel - Meursault, contre-enquête - Recommended by D
Thomas Piketty - Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-five
John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
Gabriel García Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude One Hundred Years of Solitude
David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
Zadie Smith - White Teeth
Italo Calvino - If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
Neil Strauss - The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships
Murray Brewster - The Savage War: The Untold Battles of Afghanistan
Pamela Druckerman - Lust in Translation: Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee
Pamela Druckerman - Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
Christopher Andreae - Lines of Country: An Atlas of Railway and Waterway History in Canada
R. Kent Weaver - The Politics of Industrial Change: Railway Policy in North America
Patrick Leigh Fermor - A Time of Gifts
Patrick Leigh Fermor - Between the Woods and the Water
Patrick Leigh Fermor - The Broken Road
Mark Miodownik - Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
Jeswald W. Salacuse - Leading Leaders: How to Manage Smart, Talented, Rich and Powerful People
Daron Acemoglu & James Robinson - Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract
Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow - A Briefer History of Time
Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (reread)
Nicholas Carr - The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Ben Kaplan - Feet, Don't Fail Me Now: The Rogue's Guide to Running the Marathon
Sheryl Sandberg - Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Slavoj Zizek, Eric L. Santne & Kenneth Reinhard - The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology (Religion and Postmodernism) - Recommended by MT
Jared Diamond - The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? - Recommended by JY
Neil Hutcheon & Gunter Handegord - Building Science for a Cold Climate
Rob Dietz & Daniel O'Neill - Enough Is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources
Jonah Berger - Contagious: Why Things Catch On
Gordon Gibson - A New Look at Canadian Indian Policy: Respect the Collective-promote the Individual
Daniel Parrott - Tall Ships Down: The Last Voyages of the Pamir, Albatross, Marques, Pride of Baltimore, and Maria Asumpta
Bruce K. Siddle - Sharpening the Warriors Edge: The Psychology & Science of Training
General Bruce C. Clarke - Guidelines for the leader and the commander
Ozzie Zehner - Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism
Nelson Mandela - Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
Thomas R. Berger - Northern Frontiers, Northern Homeland: The Report of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry
Jack Lagan - The Barefoot Navigator: Navigating with the skills of the ancients
Timothy C. Winegard - Oka: A Convergence of Cultures and the Canadian Forces
Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms
Samuel Shen & Janet Surrey - We Have to Talk
Niall Ferguson - The Ascent of Money
Howard G. Coombs - The Insubordinate and the Noncompliant: Case Studies of Canadian Mutiny and Disobedience, 1920-Present
Mark A. R. Kleiman - When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment
Amartya Sen - The Idea of Justice
The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English
James Loney - Captivity: 118 Days In Iraq And The Struggle For A World Without War
Ian D. Clark, David Trick & Richard Van Loon - Academic Reform: Policy Options for Improving the Quality and Cost-effectiveness of Undergraduate Education in Ontario
Roger Morris - Between the Graves: America, Afghanistan and the Politics of Intervention
Michael Lewis - Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
Paul G. Bahn & John Flenley - Easter Island, Earth Island: A message from our past for the future of our planet
William Golding - The Inheritors
William Golding - Pincher Martin
J.-H. Rosny Aîné - La Guerre du feu
Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo - Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Ray Moynihan & Alan Cassels - Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies are Turning Us All into Patients
John & Jean Silverwood - Black Wave: A Family's Adventure at Sea and the Disaster That Saved Them
Ian Mulgrew - Bud Inc.: Inside Canada's Marijuana Industry
Witold Rybczynski - Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities
Bob Shacochis - The Immaculate Invasion
Seth Mnookin - The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
Sue Shephard - Pickled, Potted, and Canned: How the Art and Science of Food Preserving Changed the World
Erwin H. Ackerknecht - A Short History of Medicine
Kenneth J. Carpenter - The History of Scurvy and Vitamin C
David Burch - Emergency Navigation: Pathfinding Techniques for the Inquisitive and Prudent Mariner
Alexander H. Harcourt & Fans B. M. De Waal - Coalitions and Alliances in Humans and Other Animals
André Cédilot and André Noël - Mafia Inc.: Grandeur et Misère du Clan Sicilien au Québec
Robert Engen - Canadians Under Fire: Infantry Effectiveness in the Second World War
Martin Horn - Britain, France, and the financing of the First World War
John MacFarlane - Triquet's Cross: A Study of Military Heroism
Carroll Quigley - Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time
John Rae - Practical Hints for Arctic Travelling
Michael E. O'Hanlon - The Science of War: Defense Budgeting, Military Technology, Logistics, and Combat Outcomes
Audrey Kurth Cronin - How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns
Peter Singer - Animal Liberation
Wendell Berry - The Whole Horse
John Berger - Why Look at Animals?
Daniel Bell - The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
Lieutenant-Colonel John Conrad - What the Thunder Said: Reflections of a Canadian Officer in Kandahar
Albert Feavearyear - The Pound Sterling: A History of English Money
Robert D. Putnam - Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Dan Chiras & Dave Wann - Superbia!: 31 Ways to Create Sustainable Neighbourhoods
David Kilcullen - The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
Steve Coll - Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Dan Ariely - Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Rick Smith, Bruce Lourie & Sarah Dopp - Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health
Bruce Mau, Jennifer Leonard & The Institute Without Boundaries - Massive Change
Daniel H. Pink - A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch & Stuart Rutherford - Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day
Daniel Sekulich - Terror on the Seas: True Tales of Modern-Day Pirates
Ori Brafman & Rom Brafman - Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior - Recommended by SD
Alexander H. Harcourt & Frans B. M. de Waal - Coalitions and Alliances in Humans and Other Animals
Michael R. LeGault - Think!: Why Crucial Decisions Can't Be Made in the Blink of an Eye
Robert B. Reich - Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
Dandridge M. Malone - Small Unit Leadership: A Commonsense Approach
J.D. Pendry - The Three Meter Zone: Common Sense Leadership for NCOs
Jonathan Barnett, F. Kaid Benfield, Paul Farmer, Shelley Poticha, Robert Yaro and Armando Carbonell - Smart Growth in a Changing World
Alan Weisman - Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World
Chris Carlsson - Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-Lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today! - Recommended by MW
Michel Foucault - Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 (Colin Gordon, Ed.) - Recommended by SK
Yevgeny Zamyatin - We - Recommended by MW
Jane Jacobs - The Question of Separatism: Quebec and the Struggle over Separation
Jane Jacobs - Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics
Scott E. Page - The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies
Michael Pollan - In Defense of Food
John Kenneth Galbraith - Economics in Perspective
C. K. Prahalad - The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits
E.F. Schumacher - Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
William Marsden - Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (and Doesn't Seem to Care)
Douglas Coupland - Generation X
Mikhail Bulgakov - Master and Margarita
Vine Deloria, Jr. - Red Earth White Lies - Recommended by LQ
Noam Chomsky - Hegemony or Survival
Jeffrey Sachs - The End of Poverty
Amartya Sen - Development as Freedom
Steven E. Landsburg - The Armchair Economist: Economics And Everyday Experience
Mancur Olson & Satu Kahkonen - A Not-So-Dismal Science: A Broader View of Economies and Societies
Mancur Olson and Hans J. Landsberg - The No Growth Society
Anne Power & John Houghton - Jigsaw Cities: Big Places, Small Spaces
Thomas C. Schelling - Choice and Consequence: Perspectives of an Errant Economist
Ngakpa Chogyam - Roaring Silence: Discovering the Mind of Dzogchen - Recommended by CS
Richard Dawkins - A Devil's Chaplin - Recommended by AB