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