Virtual Book Club Books

2026
Jan: The Sisters Brothers (Patrick DeWitt)
Feb: Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mar: Trust (Hernan Diaz)
Apr: Foundation (Isaac Asimov)
May: Atonement (Ian McEwan)
June: Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
July: The Last Mandarin (Louise Penny and Mellissa Fung)
Aug: Empire of the Sun (J G Ballard)
Sept:
Oct:
Nov:
Dec:

2025
Jan: A Man Called Ove (Fredrick Backman)
Feb: Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Mar: The Kitchen House (Kathleen Grissom)
Apr: The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
May: Now, Voyager (Olive Higgins Prouty)
June: The Vegetarian (Han Kang)
July: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo)
Aug: Still Life (Louise Penny)
Sept: Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
Oct: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Alan Bradley)
Nov: Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
Dec: Mr Dickens and His Carol (Samantha Silva)

2024
Jan: Dr Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
Feb: 419 (Will Ferguson)
Mar: Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Apr: The Toss of a Lemon (Padma Viswanathan)
May: The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
June: Siddhartha (Herman Hesse)
July: Grandma Gatewood's Walk (Ben Montgomery)
Aug: Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Sept: Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
Oct: Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Nov: The Illegal (Lawrence Hill)
Dec: The Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)

2023
Jan: Letters to Singapore (Kelly Kaur)
Feb: The Virgin Cure (Ami McKay)
Mar: Nicholas Nickleby (Charles Dickens)
Apr: Crazy Rich Asians (Kevin Kwan)
May: Around the World in 80 Days (Jules Verne)
June: The Midnight Library (Matt Haig)
July: The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
Aug: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (Gail Honeyman)
Sept: Arabian Nights/Tales of One Thousand and One Nights
Oct: The Circus Train (Amita Parikh)
Nov: East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
Dec: Christmas at the Vinyl Cafe (Stuart McLean)

2022
Jan: Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Feb: The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas)
Mar: Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens)
Apr: Indian Horse (Richard Wagamese)
May: Reading Lolita in Tehran (Azar Nafisi)
June: The Huntress (Kate Quinn)
July: Persuasion (Jane Austen)
Aug: Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Ingrid Rojas Contreras)
Sept: Five Little Indians (Michelle Good) *Eric's last meeting
Oct: The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
Nov: The Color Purple (Alice Walker)

2021
Jan: Little Fires Everywhere (Celeste Ng)
Feb?: Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Mar?: Washington Black (Esi Edugyan)
Apr?: Born a Crime (Trevor Noah)
May?: Exit West (Mohsin Hamid)
June? ??
July: The Marrow Thieves (Cherie Dimaline)
Aug: The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
Sept: How to Pronounce Knife (Souvankham Thammavongsa)
Oct: The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead)
Nov: The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)

2020
Sept: The Tattoist of Auschwitz (Heather Morris)
Oct: The Inconvenient Indian (Thomas King)
Nov: Circe (Madeline Miller)

Books Read: Winter 2026

27. Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham (audio book)
26. My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward by Mark Lukach
25. Trust by Hernan Diaz
24. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (audio book)
23. Free Range Knitter by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
22. Reading Magic by Mem Fox
21. Wintering by Katherine May (audio book)
20. Hip Healthy Asana by Charlotte Bell
19. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
18. Yoga Myths by Judith Hanson Lasater
17. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (print version)
16. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (audio book)
15. Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan (WoT#8; audio book)
14. The Bounce Back Book: Building Resiliency Skills in Your Preschooler by the Alberta Mental Health Board
13. Until the Streetlights Come On by Ginny Yurich
12. A Brief History of the Female Body by Deena Emera
11. Breasts by Florence Williams (audio book)
10. Wild Walking: A Guide to Forest Bathing Through the Seasons by Melanie Choukas-Bradley
9. Forest Bathing by Qing Li
8. Yoga Therapy as a Whole-Person Approach to Health by Lee Majewski and Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani
7. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
6. The Joy of Yoga by Emma Silverman
5. The Nature Fix by Florence Williams (audio book)
4. The Burning Library by Gilly MacMillan
3. Your Guide to Forest Bathing by M Amos Clifford
2. Mr Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva (audio book)
1. The Japanese Art of Shinrin Yoku by Yoshifumi Miyazaki

Reading Statistics 2025

In 2025, I read...

83 books (LY:54)
... 48 fiction books (LY:23)
... 35 non-fiction books (LY:31)
..... 25 audio books (LY:21)
..... 58 paper books (LY:33)

9 parenting books (LY:21)
11 personal growth books (LY:8)
7 books about yoga or forest bathing
11 young adult books
13 books for book clubs (LY:11)
4 Canada Reads recommendations
12 books that I've purchased at the book sale (LY:12)

Books Read: Fall 2025

19. How to Survive in Medieval England by Toni Mount
18. Trash Animals by Rachel Federman
17. Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card (EG #4; audio book)
16. Forest Bathing: The Rejuvenating Practice of Shinrin Yoku by Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles
15. The Manager Mom Epidemic by Thomas Phelan
14. Caffeine by Michael Pollan (audio book)
13. The Secret Therapy of Trees: Harnessing the Healing Energy of Forest Bathing and Natural Landscapes by Marco Mencagli and Marco Nieri
12. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
11. Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card (audio book)
10. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (audio book)
9. The Little Book of Forest Bathing: Discovering the Japanese Art of Self-Care ed. Kevin Kotur (ebook)
8. Forest Bathing: A Start Here Guide for Beginners by Cyndi Gilbert
7. Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors by Janina Fisher (audio book)
6. Morgan is My Name by Sophie Keech
5. Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
4. Chair Yoga by Karen McGee
3. All the Little Monsters by David Robertson
2. Yoga Life by Brett Larkin
1. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley (audio book)

Books Read: Summer 2025

17. Still Life by Rebecca Pacheco
16. Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout (audio book)
15. The Complete Guide to Pressure Canning by Diane Devereaux
14. The Family Firm by Emily Oster
13. A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford (audio book)
12. Still Life by Louise Penny
11. Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card (EG #1.5, audio book)
10. Unwritten Rules of Social Relationship by Temple Grandin and Sean Barron
9. Xenocide by Orson Scott Card (EG #3, audio book)
8. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (audio book)
7. Extra Life by Steven Johnson (Young Readers Edition)
6. The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
5. Speaker For the Dead by Orson Scott Card (EG #2, audio book)
4. Averil Offline by Amy Noelle Parks
3. How to Raise a Reader by Pamela Paul and Maria Russo
2. First Meetings by Orson Scott Card
1. The Crysalids by John Wyndham

Books Read: Spring 2025

26. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (audio book)
25. Jennie's Boy by Wayne Johnston (CR25)
24. Ender's Game Alive by Orson Scott Card (audio drama)
23. Julia's Last Hope by Janette Oak
22. Momma Zen by Karen Maezen Miller (audio book)
21. How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
20. Now Voyager by Olive Higgins Prouty (audio book)
19. Thanks a Thousand by A J Jacobs
18. Baby Hearts by Linda Acredolo and Susan Goodwyn (started long ago)
17. Agatha by Anne Cathrine Bomann
16. The Power of Why by Amanda Lang
15. The Myth of Ability by John Mighton
14. The Power of Showing Up by Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson (audio book)
13. Watch Out For Her by Samantha Bailey (CR25)
12. Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
11. Getting Near to Baby by Audrey Couloumbis
10. You Are the One You've Been Waiting For by Richard Schwartz (audio book)
9. The Age of Selfishness by Darryl Cunningham
8. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (audio book)
7. Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
6. French Kids Eat Everything by Karen Le Billion
5. Crooked House by Agatha Christie
4. A Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan (WoT #7, audio book)
3. The Science of Accelerated Learning by Peter Hollins
2. Etta and Otto and Russel and James by Emma Hooper (CR25)
1. Dandelion by Jamie Chai Yun Liew (Canada Reads 2025)

Book Sale 2025

38 Books for me! (14 of them - plus 10 gifts - were $20 for the box)**! plus 6 free ones (*)!
36 Books for Emilia!

No-Drama Discipline by Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
The No-Cry Discipline Solution by Elizabeth Pantley
The Myth of Ability by John Mighton (read 05/2025)
French Kids Eat Everything by Karn Le Billion (read before buying)
Building Moral Intelligence by Michele Borba
The Bounce Back Book by the Alberta Mental Health Board**(read 02/2026)
Handbook of Preschool Mental Health ed. Joan Luby
If Our Bodies Could Talk by James Hamblin
Gulp by Mary Roach
Gastrophysics by Charles Spence**
Thanks a Thousand by A J Jacobs (read 05/2025)
The Gift of Thanks by Margaret Visser
The Language Imperative by Suzette Haden Elgin
In an Unspoken Voice by Peter Levine
No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz (read before buying)
Internal Family Systems Therapy by Richard Schwartz
The Mindful Way through Depression by Mark Williams, John Teasdale, et al.**
Lost Connections by Johann Hari**
Betrayal, Trust and Forgiveness by Beth Hedva**
The Holisitic Way by Billy Roberts
Caring is Everything by David Irvine**
The Compassionate Brain by Gerald Huther**
The Compassion Book by Thom Bond**
Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting by Lynn Grabhorn**
I Don't Have to Make Everything All Better by Gary and Joy Lundberg**
Words That Hurt, Words That Heal by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin**
Living Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg
Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships by Temple Grandin and Sean Barron (read 08/2025)
Hey Hun: Multilevel Marketing by Emily Lynn Paulson**
He's Just Not Up for It Anymore by Bob Berkowitz and Susan Yager-Berkowitz**
Myths and Legends by Anthony Horowitz**
Still Life by Louise Penny (read 08/2025)
The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel
Elevator Pitch by Linwood Barclay
Agatha by Anne Catherine Bomann (read 05/2025)
The Orenda by Joseph Boyden
Dutch in 3 Months by Jane Fenoulhet
Civis Romanus by J M Cobban and R Colebourn
Teach Yourself Latin by Gavin Betts*
Cassell's Compact Latin English Dictionary*
Teach Yourself Modern Greek by S A Sofroniou*
Chinese English Dictionary by Chik Hon Man and Ng Lam Sim Yuk*
Collins Easy Learning Spanish Conversation*
Merriam Webster's Vocabulary Builder*

Llama Llama Misses Mama
Llama Llama Holiday Drama
The Gruffalo's Child
Zog
A Cheese and Tomato Spider
Giraffe Trouble
Elephant Walk
Rhino Romp
Gorilla Gang
Ping Pong Pig
Steam Train, Dream Train
I Knew You Could!
I Love You, Baby Shark
Wash Your Fins, Baby Shark
Listening to My Body
I Have Feelings
The Runaway Wok
Lucy Tries Soccer
The Letters Are Lost
Little Bear's Big Adventure
Roxy The Last Unisaurus Rex
Does a Tiger Go To The Dentist
What's a Fraggle
The Case of the Missing Socks
Baby Otter
Goose
Dinosaurs From Head to Tail
From Seed to Dandelion
Treetop Twins x2
The Tiny Detectives x2
Where's Waldo x4

Books Read: Winter 2025

21. The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
20. The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
19. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins (audio book)
18. Tiny Traumas by Meg Arroll
17. Toxic Positivity by Whitney Goodman
16. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
15. Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan (WoT #6, audio book)
14. Kids Beyond Limits by Anat Baniel
13. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah (audio book)
12. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
11. Discipline Without Damage by Vanessa LaPointe (audio book)
10. Night Owl by Sarah Mlynowski, Lauren Myracle and Emily Jenkins (UDM #8)
9. Hide and Seek by Sarah Mlynowski, Lauren Myracle and Emily Jenkins (UDM #7)
8. The Big Shrink by Sarah Mlynowski, Lauren Myracle and Emily Jenkins (UDM #6)
7. Weather or Not by Sarah Mlynowski, Lauren Myracle and Emily Jenkins (UDM #5)
6. Dragon Overnight by Sarah Mlynowski, Lauren Myracle and Emily Jenkins (UDM #4)
5. Showing Off by Sarah Mlynowski, Lauren Myracle and Emily Jenkins (UDM #3)
4. Sticks and Stones by Sarah Mlynowski, Lauren Myracle and Emily Jenkins (UDM #2)
3. Bone and Cane by David Belbin
2. Unidentified Woman by Mignon Eberhart
1. The Burning Room by Michael Connelly (audio book)

Reading Stats 2024

In 2024, I read...

54 books
... 23 fiction books
... 31 non-fiction books
..... 21 audio books
..... 33 paper books

21 parenting books
8 personal growth books
11 books for book club
12 books that I've purchased at the book sale

Books Read: Fall 2024

18. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
17. Hold Onto Your Kids by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Mate (audio book)
16. Upside Down Magic by Sarah Mlynowski, Lauren Myracle and Emily Jenkins
15. Rest Play Grow by Deborah MacNamara (audio book)
14. Introduction to Internal Family Systems by Richard Schwartz (audio book)
13. No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz (audio book)
12. The Illegal by Lawrence Hill
11. The Yes Brain by Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson (audio book)
10. Oh Crap! I Have a Toddler by Jamie Glowacki (audio book)
9. House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
8. Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
7. Nourished by Deborah MacNamara (audio book)
6. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
5. Wolf in Man's Clothing by Mignon Eberhart
4. What To Do When Your Child Isn't Talking by Nicola Lathey and Tracey Blake
3. Killing Thyme by Leslie Budewitz
2. Assault and Pepper by Leslie Budewitz
1. Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Books Read: Summer 2024

17. You Are Your Child's First Teacher by Rahima Baldwin Dancy (audio book)
16. The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
15. Welcome to Your Toddler's Brain by Lise Eliot (The Great Courses; audio book)
14. Push Back: Assert Yourself in Relationships by Monica Johnson (The Great Courses; audio book)
13. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (audio book)
12. Autism and Asperger Syndrome in Children by Luke Beardon
11. 8 Minute Meditation by Victor Davich
10. How Toddlers Thrive by Tovah Klein
9. How Babies Talk by Roberta Golinkoff and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek (audio book)
8. Baroque-a-Nova by Kevin Chong
7. Grandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben Montgomery
6. Confident Parents, Confident Kids by Jennifer Miller (audio book)
5. Burnout by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski
4. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V E Schwab (audio book)
3. The Rested Child by W Chris Winter
2. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
1. Mother Brain by Chelsea Connaboy

Books Read: Spring 2024

14. The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan (WoT #4; audio book)
13. The Fires of Heaven by Robert Jordan (WoT #5)
12. How Not to Hate Your Family After Having Kids by Jancee Dunn
11. The Attachment Parenting Book by William and Martha Sears (audio book)
10. Understanding the Human Being: The Importance of the First Three Years of Life by Silvanna Quattrocchi Montanaro
9. Scientific Secrets for Raising Kids Who Thrive by Peter Vishton (audio book; The Great Courses)
8. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams (HHGG #2)
7. The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (HHGG #1)
6. Mindset by Carol Dweck
5. Feeling Seen by Jody Carrington
4. The Emotionally Intelligent Child by Rachael Katz and Helen Shwe Hadani
3. Busy Toddler's Guide to Actual Parenting by Susie Allison (audio book; abridged)
2. The Toss of a Lemon by Padma Viswanathan
1. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Daily Life by Jason Satterfield (audio book; The Great Courses)

Book Sale 2024!

31 books for me! and 23 more free ones(*)!
35 books for Emilia!
41 free books for other people!
61 free CDs to explore, plus 142 Christmas CDs to (mostly) share

Kids These Days by Jody Carrington
The Yes Brain by Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson (audio book 10/2024)
Parenting With Presence by Susan Stiffelman
The Family Virtues Guide by Linda Kavelin Popov
Healing Through the Dark Emotions by Miriam Greenspan
Emotional Intimacy by Robert Augustus
8 Minute Meditation by Victor Davich (read 08/2024)
Start Where You Are by Pema Chodron
When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
The Places That Scare You by Pema Chodron
The Beauty of Discomfort by Amanda Lang
Resilient by Rick Hanson
Emotional Resilience by David Viscott
Mindset by Carol Dweck (read 05/2024)
Burnout by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski (read 06/2024)
Feeling Seen by Jody Carrington (read 05/2024)
What Happened to You? by Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey
Build the Life You Want by Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When the Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson et al.
The Tending Instinct by Shelley Taylor*
Women Food and God by Geneen Roth*
How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran* (read 06/2025)
Moranthology by Caitlin Moran* (released without reading)
Women Who Love Books Too Much by Brenda Knight* (re-donated without reading)
Canadians at the Table: A Culinary History of Canada by Dorothy Duncan*
A Number of Things: Stories of Canada Told Through Fifty Objects by Jane Urquhart*
Who We Are by Elizabeth May
Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World by Craig Kielburger and Marc Kielburger*
Stupid White Men by Michael Moore* (re-donated without reading)
Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore* (re-donated without reading)
The Overton Window by Glenn Beck*
The Templar Throne by Paul Christopher*
While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams*
Tay John by Howard O'Hagan* (NCL)
Of Things Not Seen by Don Aker*
Baroque-A-Nova by Kevon Chong* (read 07/2024)
Nuts in May by Peggy Freeman* (local) (re-donated without reading)
Wind Across the Wheat by Olive Evanson* (re-donated without reading)
Helen Keller by Margaret Davidson - in French*
Le destin d'Aurelie Lafreniere 1: L'officier anglais by Stephanie Martin*
Le destin d'Aurelie Lafreniere 2: Les rebelles by Stephanie Martin*
L'apprenti d'Araluen 1: L'ordre des rodeurs by John Flanagan*
The Church of Christ by G A Gantadjiantoniou - in Greek
Latin: A New Grammar by Juan Coderch
Oxford Latin Grammar by James Morwood
Essential Latin Vocabulary by Mark Williams
Key Latin Vocabularies by Johan Franz Ahn
Latin Vocabulary Study Cards by SparkNotes
A Little Latin Reader by Mary English and Georgia Irby
The Science and Philosophy of Teaching Yoga and Yoga Therapy by Jacqueline Koay and Theodora Barenholtz
The Penguin U G Krishnamurti Reader ed. by Mukunda Rao*
Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero
Easy Guitar
Garth Brooks piano music

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog!
The Pigeon Wants a Puppy!
The Duckling Gets a Cookie?!
If You Give a Mouse a Brownie
If You Give a Pig a Pancake
Llama Llama Red Pajama
Llama Llama Hoppity Hop
That's Not My Llama
That's Not My Dragon
Penguin on Vacation
Hippos Go Berserk!
Geckos 12 Days of Christmas
You Are My Magical Unicorn
Who Goes Roar?
Bear Feels Scared
Bear Snores On
Bear Feels Sick
Bear's Big Day
Scaredy Squirrel
Scardey Squirrel at Night
Kiss Kiss!
Finding Robin
Marshmallow
ABCs of Gratitude
I Matter!
Pat the Bunny
Minnie book set
DK Visual Encyclopedia of Animals
National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of Birds
Kids World Birds of Canada
National Geographic Little Kids Magazine x 5
Treetop Twins x 7
The Tiny Detectives x 5
I Can Be a Brilliant Scientist

and...
15 books for Free Little Libraries
14 books for Mom (11 Danielle Steele and 3 Pat Conroy)
2 books for Auntie Marian
2 books for Gill (about wedding flowers and wedding poems)
5 books for Steve (about golf and Russia)
3 books for Chris and Jimmy

Books Read: Winter 2024

5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
4. 419 by Will Ferguson
3. Good Inside by Becky Kennedy
2. 2-at-a-Time Socks by Melissa Morgan-Oakes
1. The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan (WoT #3, audio book)

Books Read: Autumn 2023

11. Raising Good Humans by Hunter Clark-Fields (audio book)
10. Ancient Greek Civilization by Jeremy McInerney (The Great Courses; audio)
9. World War II: A Military and Social History by Thomas Childers (The Great Courses; audio)
8. Gnomes by Wil Huygen
7. The Death Cure by James Dashner (MR #3)
6. The Scorch Trials by James Dashner (MR #2)
5. The Maze Runner by James Dashner (MR #1)
4. The Secret of NIMH by Robert O'Brien
3. Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau (audio book)
2. The Circus Train by Amita Parikh (audio book)
1. Arabian Nights: Volume 2 by Marty Ross (audio book)