Books I have Read

	Author	Title	Subject	Year Read	Rank (Out of 10)	Recommended By
Details	Diamond, Jared	Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Suceed	Environment / History	2005	10	N/A
Details	Schlosser, Eric	Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-America	Health / Corporate Truths	2003	10	Sheila Hyatt / David Brown
Details	Pelligrino, Charles	Dust	Sci-Fi	2003	10	David Brown
Details	Diamond, Jared	Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societie	Science / Ecology / History	2003	10	David Brown
Details	Ferguson, Will	Happiness (formerly "Generica")	Humour	2002	10	CBC
Details	Krakaur, John	Into thin Air	Adventure / Travel	1998	10	Many People
Details	Vonnegut, Kurt	Bluebeard	Satire / Art	1998	10	David Brown
Details	Orwell, George	1984	Classic / Political	1990	10	English 30
Details	Hage, Rawi	De Niro's Game	Fiction / Lebanon	2008	9	Book Award (CBC)
Details	Krakauer, Jon	Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Fai	Religion / Mormonism / Fundamentalism	2008	9	Kristen
Details	Orwell, George	Animal Farm	Politics / Satire	2007	9
Details	Stephenson, Neal	Crytonomicon	Sci-Fi / Cryptography	2007	9	Scott
Details	Zeppa, Jamie	Beyond the Sky and the Earth	Teaching in Bhutan	2006	9	Kristen
Details	Khoo Thwe, Pascal	Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey	Myanmar / Burma / Biography	2006	9
Details	Hanson, Eric	Motoring with Mohammed	Yemen, Travel	2006	9	NA
Details	Swarup, Vikas	Q&A: A Novel	India / Drama / Storytelling	2006	9	Lori
Details	Rosenthal, Jeffrey	Struck by Lightning: The Curious World of Probabil	Mathematics / Chance	2006	9	CBC
Details	Sagan, Carl	Demon Haunted World	Science / Astronomy	2005	9	David Brown
Details	Schlosser , Eric	Reefer Madness: Tales from the American Undergroun	Sociology / Econimics	2004	9	Kristen Higgins
Details	Martel, Yann	Life of Pi	Religeon, Philosphy, storytelling	2004	9
Details	Moore, Michael	TV Nation	Humour / social commentary	2003	9	NA
Details	Clark, Auther C.	Rendevous with Rama	Sci-Fi	2002	9	NA
Details	Harden, Blaine	Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile Continent	Dispatches / Africa / Journalism	2002	9	Suzanne Hill
Details	Irving, John	The Fourth Hand	Humour	2002	9	NA
Details	Thomas, Gordon	Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad	Israel / War / Politics	2001	9	CBC Book Discussion
Details	de'Bernieres, Louis	The War of Don Emmanuals Nether Parts	South America / Satire	2001	9	NA
Details	Freedman, Thomas	From Beruit to Jerusalem	Dispatches / Middle East / Politics	2001	9	Ross Smith (Toronto)
Details	Mistri, Rohinton	A Fine Balance	India (1970's)	2000	9	Traveler in India
Details	de'Bernieres, Louis	Captain Corelli's Mandolin	WW II in Greece / Satire	2000	9	Traveler in Australia
Details	Steinbeck	Of Mice and Men	Classic	1999	9	NA
Details	Proulx, Anne	the Shipping News	Canada / Satire	1999	9	Public Radio International (USA)
Details	Bryson, Bill	Notes from a Big Country	Travel / US / Humor	1999	9	Traveler
Details	Alex Garland	The Beach	Travel / Thailand	1998	9	Traveler in India
Details	Heinlein, Robert	The Moon is a harsh mistress	Sci-Fi	1998	9	NA
Details	Irving, John	Son of the Circus	India / Mystery	1998	9	NA
Details	Suthcliff, William	Are you experienced	Travel / India	1998	9	Traveler in India
Details	Vonnegut, Kurt	Galapagos	Social Commentary / Satire	2008	8
Details	Keret, Etgar	The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God & Other Storie	Weird Short Stories	2008	8	CBC Ideas
Details	Vaillant, John	The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness a	Environmental / BC	2008	8	Sheila H
Details	North, Dick	The Mad Trapper of Rat River	Canada / Yukon	2008	8	David Brown
Details	Diamond, Jared	Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the	Evolution / Science	2008	8
Details	Coupland, Douglas	JPod	Fiction / Gaming Industry / Vancouver	2008	8
Details	Olszewski, Peter	Land of a Thousand Eyes	Travel / Myanmar	2007	8
Details	Atwood, Margaret	Oryx and Crake: a Novel	Unique Sci-Fi	2006	8	N/A
Details	Strauss, Neil	The Game: Secret Society of Pickup Artists	Sociology / Entertainment	2006	8	Macleans
Details	Sagan, Carl	Contact	Sci-Fi	2006	8	David Brown
Details	Irving, John	A Prayer for Owen Meany	Fiction	2005	8
Details	Hosseini, Khaled	The Kite Runner	Afghanistan / War	2005	8	Kristen
Details	Coupland, Douglas	Generation-X	Satire/ Society / Gen-X	2004	8	Sheila
Details	Pelton, Robert Young	The World's Most Dangerous Places	Travel / Politics / True Stories	2004	8	CBC Radio
Details	Dyer, Gwynn	Future: Tense	Geopolitics	2004	8	UC Lecture
Details	Rifkin, Jeremy	The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the World-Wi	Economics / Energy	2004	8	Craig Axten
Details	Davies, Paul	How to Build a Time Machine	Science	2003	8	Mark Cooper
Details	Naomi Klein	No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies	Marketing / Corporate Branding	2003	8	David Stewart
Details	Armstrong, Lance	It's Not About the Bike	Biography / Sports	2003	8	Many People
Details	Faber, Marc	Tomorrow's Gold	Economic History / Global Finance	2003	8	Mike Long
Details	Wong, Jan	Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now	China / Journalism / Dispatches	2003	8	Kristen Higgins
Details	Fellows, Warren	4000 Days: in a Bangkok Prison	Non-Fiction / Thailand	2002	8	Eva
Details	Barclay, Nigel	The Innocent Anthropologist	Travel / Africa?	2002	8	Suzanne
Details	Brooks, Geraldine	Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic	Travel / Middle East	2002	8	Peter Reid (Australia)
Details	Foden, Giles	Last King Of Scotland	Africa / Historical Fiction	2002	8	Lonely Planet
Details	Seagrave, Sterling	Lords of the Rim	China / History	2002	8	NA
Details	Reader, John	Africa: Biography of a Continent	Africa / Non-Fiction	2002	8	Karen (Ireland)
Details	Adams, Michael	Better Happy Than Rich	Social Commentary / Canada	2002	8
Details	Moore, Michael	Stupid White Men	Political / US	2002	8	NA
Details	Peck, M Scott	People of the Lie	Psychology	2001	8	Sheila Hyatt
Details	Sawyer, Robert J.	Calculating God	Sci-Fi	2001	8	CBC Book Review
Details	Bryson, Bill	Into the Woods	Travel / Nature	2000	8	NA
Details	Suskind, Patrick	Perfume	1800's France / Strange	1999	8	Babara Dessers (Belgium)
Details	Mahfouz, Naguib	Midaq Alley	Egypt / Life	1999	8	Lonely Planet
Details	Steinbeck	Cannery Row	Classic / California	1999	8	Rick Geisenger
Details	Krakaur, John	Into the Wild	Adventure / Travel	1999	8	NA
Details	Clancy, Tom	Red Storm Rising	WW III / US/USSR	1999	8	Joe (Toronto)
Details	Heller, Joseph	Catch-22	Satire / WW II	1998	8	David Brown
Details	Irvine, John	World according to Garp	General / Humour	1998	8	NA
Details	Rushdie, Salmon	Jaguar's Smile	Nicaragua 1986 / Political	1998	8	Babara Dessers (Belgium)
Details	Vonnegut, Kurt	Hocus Pocus	Satire / Military / / American Elite	1997	8	David Brown
Details	Irving, John	The World According To Garp	Fiction	1997	8
Details	Heinlein, Robert	Starship Troopers	Sci-Fi / Political	1997	8	David Brown
Details	Severin, Tim	Corsair: The Adventures of Hector Lynch	Adventure at Sea	2008	7
Details	Dick, Phillip K	The Man In The High Castle	Sci-Fi	2008	7	BradJ
Details	McEwan, Ian	Saturday	Fiction	2008	7	Craig Axten
Details	Gladwell, Malcolm	The Tipping Point	Sociology / Social Networking	2007	7	Sheila Hyatt / Dave Long
Details	Lewis, Stephen	Race Against Time	Africa / HIV/AIDS	2007	7
Details	Womack, James	Lean Thinking: Banish Waste And Create Wealth In	Business / Efficiency	2007	7	Scott M
Details	Norton, Andre	Plague Ship (1954)	Sci-FI	2007	7	Librivox.org
Details	Llosa, Mario Vargas	Feast of the Goat	Dominican Repubic	2006	7	Casa Hood, Ecuador
Details	Gould, Stephen J.	Panda's Thumb	Science	2006	7	David Brown
Details	Marshall, Andrew	The Trouser People: Burma in the Shadow of Empire	MyanMar / Burma / Journalism	2006	7
Details	Clancy, Tom	Sum of All Fears	War / Politics	2005	7	Stephen B
Details	Gorman, Dave	Dave Gorman's Googlewhack! Adventure	Internet / Travel	2005	7	Estelle Tanguay
Details	Pelligrino, Charles	Flying to Valhalla	Sci-Fi	2005	7	David Brown
Details	Coupland, Douglas	Microserfs	Satire/ Silicon Valley / Gen-X	2005	7	Craig Axten
Details	Theroux, Paul	The Great Railway Bazaar	Travel	2004	7	Paul Zemanek , L.A.
Details	Wackernagel / Rees	Our Ecological Footprint	Environmental	2004	7	Greg Strauch
Details	Adams, Michael	Fire and Ice: US/Canada Myth of Converging Values	Social Commentary	2004	7
Details	Goodall, Jane	In the Shadow of Man	Africa / Wildlife	2002	7	Suzanne Hill
Details	Golden, Arthur	Memoirs of a Geisha	Japan	2002	7	Sheila Hyatt / Sandy Sauer
Details	Carnegie, Dale	How to Win Friends and Influence People	Self-Help / Business	2002	7	Dave Long
Details	Will Ferguson	Why I Hate Canadians	Humour / Canada	2002	7	Daymon Miller
Details	Tony Horwitz	Bagdad without a map	Travel / Middle East	2001	7	Traveler
Details	Niven, Larry	Legacy of Herowat	Sci-Fi	2001	7	David Brown
Details	Kureishe, Hanif	Bhudda of Suburbia	Zen / Humour/ Drama	2001	7	Traveler Somewhere
Details	Russon, Anne E.	Orangutans : Wizards of the Rain Forest	Science / Travel	2001	7	CBC Author Interview
Details	Suzuki, David	The Sacred Balance	Enviromental / Science	2000	7	NA
Details	McNab, Andy	Bravo Two Zero	SAS in the Gulf War	2000	7	Traveler in Jordan
Details	Vonnegut, Kurt	God Bless You, Mr Rosewater	Satire / American Elite	1999	7	NA
Details	Huxley, A	Brave New World	Classic / Sci-Fi	1998	7	NA
Details	Kipling, Rudyard	Captains Couragous	Classic / Newfoundland	1998	7	NA
Details	Unknown	Gecko's Tales: A Journey through Cambodia	Dispatches / Journalism/ Cambodia	1998	7	NA
Details	Vonnegut, Kurt	Breakfast of Champions	Satire / Writing	1998	7	NA
Details	Adams, Douglas	The Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul	Holistic!	1998	7	NA
Details	Wells, Orsen	The Time Machine	Classic / Sci-Fi	1996	7	NA
Details	Wells, H.G.	War of the Worlds	Classic / Sci-Fi	1996	7	NA
Details	Thompston, Hunter S	Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail	Politics / Drugs	2008	6
Details	Hadleman, Joe	The Coming	Sci-Fi	2008	6
Details	Matsuoka, Takashi	Cloud of Sparrows	Nineteenth Century Japan - Fiction	2007	6	David Brown
Details	Margolis, Eric	War at the Top of the World: The Struggle for Afgh	War / Politics	2007	6	Erin Leahy
Details	Pirsiq, Robert	Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance	Zen / Motorcycles / Buddhism	2006	6	Traveller
Details	Dyer, Gwynn	With Every Mistake	Middle East / Politics	2006	6	David Brown
Details	Maddox, Bruno	My little Blue Dress	Weird	2005	6	Paul From New York
Details	Capote, Truman	In Cold Blood	True Crime	2003	6	David Brown/Sheila Hyatt
Details	Simpson, Joe	Touching the Void	Sport / Adventure	2002	6	David Long
Details	Hamilton, Ian	The Taking of the Stone of Destiny	History / Scotland	2002	6	NA
Details	Ondaatje, Michael	Anil's Ghost	Sri Lanka / War	2002	6
Details	Rowling, JK	Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone	Fantasy / Childrens	2002	6	NA
Details	Findley, Timothy	Famous Last Words	Fiction and Non	2002	6	Jill Simpson
Details	Adamson, Joy	Born Free: The Complete Story	Africa / Wildlife	2002	6	Suzanne Hill
Details	Harris, Robert	Enigma	Historical Fiction	2002	6	NA
Details	De Bernieres, Louis	Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord	South America / Satire	2002	6	NA
Details	Kapuscinski,  Ryszard	The Shadow of the Sun	Africa / Story-telling	2002	6	Suzanne Hill
Details	Harris, Robert	Fatherland	Alternate History	2001	6	NA
Details	Varley, John	Steel Beach	Sci-Fi	2001	6	David Brown
Details	Pournell, Jerry	A Step Farther Out	Sci-Fact / Enviromental	2000	6	David Brown
Details	Fitzgerald, F-Scott	The Great Gatsby	Classic	2000	6	Sheila Hyatt
Details	Granatstein, Jack	Who Killed Canadian History	History / Politics / Education	2000	6	David Brown
Details	Misc (Pub Del-Rey)	Roads Not Taken	Alternate History	2000	6	NA
Details	Adams, Douglas	Last Chance to See	Environment / Travel	2000	6	David Brown
Details	Leacock, Steven	Arcadian Adventures of the Idle Rich	Canadian Satire (1914)	2000	6	Sheila Hyatt
Details	Gibson, William	Neuromancer	Sci-Fi	1999	6	Mike (New Zealand)
Details	Verne, Jules	Around the world in 80 days	Classic / Travel	1998	6	NA
Details	Heinlein, Robert	Time enough for love	Sci-Fi	1998	6	NA
Details	Salinger, J D	The Catcher In the Rye	Classic	2008	5
Details	Robbins, Anthony	Awaken The Giant Within	Motivation / Business	2007	5	Dave Long
Details	White, E.B.	Elements of Style	Writing	2006	5	David Brown
Details	Murphy, Dervla	Wheels Within Wheels	Early Travel	2004	5	Greg Strauch
Details	Ruiz, Don Migual	The Four Agreements	Self-Help / Toltec Wisdom	2003	5	Robin M
Details	Moore, Peter	The Wrong Way Home	Travel / Humor	2002	5	Traveler (Australia)
Details	Moore, Peter	The "Anti-GuideBook"	Travel / Humor	2002	5	Traveler (Australia)
Details	Crichton, Michael	Timeline	Sci-Fi / Adventure	2002	5	Mark Cooper
Details	Easten-Ellis, Brett	American Psycho	American Pop	2000	5	David (Norway)
Details	Clancy, Tom	Net Force	Sci-Fi / Action	1999	5	NA
Details	Hancock, Graham	Lords of Poverty	Politics / Africa / Economics		5	Lonely Planet
Details	Zinsser, William	On Writing Well	Writing		5	David Brown
Details	Niven, Larry	Rainbow Mars	Sci-Fi	2002	4	NA
Details	Robinson	Escape from Kathmandu	Travel / Nepal	2001	4	Taz (England)
Details	Kerouac, Jack	On the Road	Travel	2001	4	NA
Details	Unknown	The first $20 million is always the hardest	Silicon Valley Fiction	1998	4	NA
Details	Verne, Jules	Five weeks in a Baloon	Classic / Travel	1998	4	NA
Details	Friedman, Thomas	The World Is Flat: A Brief History Of The Twenty-f	Economics / Globalization	2008	3
Details	Eggers, Dave	A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius	Drama / California	2003	3
Details	Banks, Iain	Canal Dreams	Panama / Drama	2002	3	NA
Details	Rushdie, Salman	Midnights Children	Fiction / India	2000	3	NA
Details	Grisham, John	The Runaway Jury	Fiction / Law	2000	3	NA
Details	Unknown	Last of the Mohicans	Classic / Adventure	1998	3	NA
Details	Calvino, Italo	Invisible Cities	Geography / descriptive	2008	2	BradJ
Details	Marquez, Gabriel-Garcia	100 Years of Solitude	South America	1999	2	NA
Details	The author of "Get Shorty"	Be Cool	Fiction / L.A.	2000	1	CBC Book Review