BOOKS READ

 

Here are the books I’ve read over the past five years with the most recent books listed first. 

For the most part, the list is complete, although I haven’t always been diligent in keeping it up-to-date.

 

  • Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences. Jan Zwicky

  • Mugged by a Moose. Edited by Matt Jackson

  • MetaMorph ~ poetry of change. Nancy Olwen Morrey

  • A Cloud of Dust. Charlie Boxer

  • A Man Without A Country. Kurt Vonnegut

  • Weight. Jeannette Winterson

  • Stories from the Vinyl Café. Stuart McLean

  • Kabloona in the Yellow Kayak. One Woman’s Journey through the Northwest Passage. Victoria Jason

  • A Leg to Stand On. Oliver Sacks

  • Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon. Marjorie Kellogg

  • Whetstone. Lorna Crozier

  • Momentary Dark. Margaret Avison

  • Seal up the Thunder. Erin Noteboom

  • Cantos From the Small Room. Robert Hilles

  • Forever the last time. Jim Slominski

  • Praise. Robert Haas

  • Let Us Compare Mythologies. Leonard Cohen

  • Ariel. Sylvia Plath

  • Selected Poems. Edna St. Vincent Millay

  • morning in the burned house. Margaret Atwood

  • String to Bow. A collection of love poems. Edited by Ursula Vaira

  • The Attitude of the Tree. Sixteen Tao Poems. Leanne McIntosh

  • My Sentence was a Thousand Years of Joy. Robert Bly

  • The Night Abraham Called to the Stars.  Robert Bly

  • Riding a Wooden Horse. Wendy Visser

  • Hell or High Water. Surviving Tibet’s Tsangpo River. Peter Heller

  • casemate poems. joe blades

  • Poems for the Pornographer’s Daughter. John B. Lee

  • Step Across the Line. Collected Non-fiction 1992-2002. Salman Rushdie

  • The Island Walkers. John Bemrose

  • The Oblivion Seekers. Isabelle Eberhard

  • Ghost Maps. Poems for Carl Hruska. Erin Noteboom

  • At the edge of the Frog Pond. Nelson Ball

  • Last Lands, Forgotten Stories. A Women’s Journey to the Heart of Labrador. Alexandra Pratt

  • Stolen. Kelley Armstrong

  • The Life of Pi. Yann Martel

  • Eat, Shoots and Leaves. Lynne Truss

  • The Orange Fish. Carol Shields

  • Deep Water Passage. A Spiritual Journey of Mid-life. Ann Linnea

  • Bonfires. Chris Banks

  • A Song for Nettie Johnson. Gloria Sawai

  • What Do We Know. Mary Oliver

  • Long Life. Mary Oliver

  • Iris and Her Friends. A Memoir of Memory and Desire. John Bayley

  • Elegy For Iris. John Bayley

  • Anger. Thich Nhat Hanh

  • A Woman Alone. Travel Tales from Around the Globe. Edited by Faith Conlon, Ingrid Emerick, Christina Henry de Tessan

  • The Close, Chloe Breyer

  • Edna Staebler. A Life. To Experience Wonder. Veronica Ross

  • Making a Literary Life, Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers. Carolyn See

  • A Grief Observed. CS Lewis

  • Calculating God. Robert Sawyer

  • Caught in the Fading Light. Mountain Lions, Zen Masters and Wild Nature. Gary Thorpe

  • Sea Kayaking Illustrated. A Visual Guide to Better Paddling. John Robinson

  • Intensive Care. A Memoir. Alan Twigg

  • Morning Sun on a White Piano. Dr. Robin R Meyers

  • A Distance of Years. Notes and Memories. Miep Verkley

  • It is a good day to die. Indian Eyewitnesses tell the story of the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Herman J. Viola with Jan Shelton Davis

  • The Medium is the Massage. An Inventory of Effects. Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore

  • Kingdom of Fear. Hunter S. Thompson

  • Agnes in the Sky. Di Brandt

  • Mimosa and other poems. Mary DiMichle

  • Beatitudes of Ice. Rienzi Crusz

  • The Sorcerers’ Crossing. Taisha Abelar

  • The Active Side of Infinity. Carlos Casteneda

  • Growing Pains: An Autobiography. Emily Carr

  • Beloved Land. The World of Emily Carr. Intro by Robin Laurence

  • Elephant Winter. Kim Echlin

  • Good Bone and Simple Murders. Margaret Atwood

  • Life is so good. George Dawson and Richard Glaubman

  • No Great Mischief. Alistair MacLeod

  • one. Marion Woodman

  • ravel Light. Naomi Mitchison

  • Inward to the Bones. Kate Braid

  • Fight Club. Chuck Palahniuk

  • The Man Who Feel in Love with the Moon. Tom Spanbauer

  • Starting Out in the Afternoon. Jill Frayne

  • The Invitation. Oriah Mountain Dreamer

  • The Drunkard’s Path. Deanna Young

  • The Ferryman and Other Poems. Henry Wiebe

  • A Life in Pictures. Glen Gould. Foreword by Yo-Yo Ma, Introduction by Tim Page

  • Glenn Gould . Some Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man. Jack Carroll

  • Behind the Blue Gate. Carol Rose

  • The Prairie Wife. Arthur Stringer

  • Good Beito. Alan Lightman

  • Bitten. Kelley Armstrong

  • Conversation: How Talk Can Change our Lives. Theodore Zeldin

  • Creating a Life: Finding Your Individual Path. James Hollis

  • Writing from the Inside Out. Dennis Palumbro

  • The Cat. A Tale of Feminine Redemption. Marie-Louise Von Franz

  • By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept. Elizabeth Smart

  • When God was a Woman. Merlin Stone

  • The Alphabet Versus the Goddess. Leonard Shlain

  • Bury Me Standing. The Gypsies and Their Journey. Isbel Fonseca

  • Angela’s Ashes. Frank McCourt

  • ‘Tis. Frank McCourt

  • Unearthing the Lost Words of Jesus. The Discovery and Text of The Gospel of Thomas. John Dart & Ray Riegert

  • In My Own Way. Alan Watts.

  • The Widow Down by the Brook. Mary MacNeill

  • Taken on Trust. Terry Waite

  • The Power Book. Jeannette Winterson

  • Written on the Body. Jeannette Winterson

  • Gut Symmetries. Jeannette Winterson

  • The Passion. Jeannette Winterson

  • The World and Other Places. Jeannette Winterson

  • Art Objects. Jeannette Winterson

  • Watching the Tree. Adeline Yen Mah

  • The Art of H appiness. The Dalai Lama

  • Old Souls. Tom Shroder

  • Reason for Hope. Jane Goodall

  • Chocolat. Joanne Harris

  • Five Quarters of the Orange. Joanne Harris

  • Bones of the Master. George Crane

  • The Legacy of Luna. Julia Butterfly Hill

  • Dance of a Fallen Monk. George Fowler

  • The Man in the Mirror. Carole Jerome

  • I Am Legend. Richard Matheson

  • Bury Me Deep in the Green Wood. Rob McLennan

  • The Fledging. Jane Langton

  • The Long Quiet Highway. Natalie Goldberg

  • Wild Mind. Natalie Goldberg

  • Enistein’s Dreams. Alan Lightman

  • the white bone. Barbara Gowdy

  • Diary of a Left-Handed Bird Watcher. Leonard Nathan

  • Outsider. Nathaniel Lachenmeyer

  • Emotionally Weird. Kate Atkinson

  • Human Croquet. Kate Atkinson

  • Inside Out. Evelyn Lau

  • Stardust. Neil Gaiman

  • Treehouses. Peter Nelson

  • Crossings. Richard A. Heckler

  • The Vagina Monlogues. Eve Ensler

  • On Writing. Stephen King.

  • Bird by bird. Anne Lamont

  • The City of Shy Hunters. Tom Spanbauer

  • Am I disturbing you? Anne Hebert

  • The Coming Anarchy. Robert Kaplan

  • Exploded View. Joan McKay

  • Awakening the Buddha Within. Lama Surya Das

  • The Many Faces of Archie Belaney. Jane Billinghurst