I read books by the bucketful (at least, it feels that way sometimes)! I adore words and well-structured narrative, and I’m particularly drawn to memoirs, travelogues and written records of lived experiences.

Wondering what I’m reading? Here’s my running list…

March 2023

• What Makes Olga Run? The Mystery of the 90-Something Track Star, and What She Can Teach Us About Living Longer, Happier Lives by Bruce Grierson
• Aren’t You Forgetting Someone? Essays from My Mid-Life Revenge by Kari Lizer
• Feral: Losing Myself and Finding My Way in America’s National Parks by Emily Pennington

February 2023

• All the Way to the Tigers: A Memoir by Mary Morris
• The Wild Places by Robert MacFarlane
• She Explores: Stories of Life-Changing Adventures on the Road and in the Wild by Gale Straub

January 2023

• Can’t Stop Thinking: How to Let Go of Anxiety & Free Yourself from Obsessive Rumination by Nancy Colier
• How to be Loving… As Your Heart is Breaking Open and Our World is Waking Up by Danielle LaPorte

December 2022

• No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol
• Unsweetined: A Memoir by Jodie Sweetin with Jon Warech
• Braver Than You Think: Around the World on the Trip of My (Mother’s) Lifetime by Maggie Downs
• The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed by John Vaillant

November 2022

• Kings of the Yukon: A River Journey in Search of the Chinook by Adam Weymouth
• The Best Women’s Travel Writing Vol. 12 edited by Lavinia Spalding
• Becoming Wild: Living the Primitive Life on a West Coast Island by Nikki Van Schyndel
• The Modern House Bus: Mobile Tiny House Inspirations by Kimberley Mok
• Best Canadian Stories 2020 edited by Paige Cooper

October 2022

• US: Getting Past You & Me to Build a More Loving Relationship by Terrence Real
• Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find — and Keep — Love by Amir Levine and Rachel S.F. Heller
• The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage into Self-Mastery by Brianna Wiest
• Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad

September 2022

• Balancing Bountiful: What I Learned About Feminism from my Polygamist Grandmothers by Mary Jayne Blackmore

July 2022

• Influence is Your Superpower: The Science of Winning Hearts, Sparking Change, and Making Good Things Happen by Zoe Chance

June 2022

• The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel
• The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Inflamed Mind: A Radical New Approach to Depression by Edward Bullmore
• 30 Great Short Stories by W. Somerset Maugham

April 2022

• The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Survival, Success, Surfing…And Love by Jaimal Yogis

March 2022

• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Wait, It Gets Worse: Love, Death and My Transformation from Control Freak to Human Being by Lydia Slaby
• Unbound: Finding Myself on Top of the World by Steph Jagger

February 2022

• The Last Layer of the Ocean: Kayaking Through Love and Loss on Alaska’s Wild Coast by Mary Emerick
• An American Marriage: A Novel by Tayari Jones
• The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Highly Sensitive Person in Love by Elaine N. Aron

January 2022

• 30 Lessons for Loving: Advice from the Wisest Americans on Love, Relationships and Marriage by Karl Pillemer
• When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress by Gabor Maté
• Santa Claus: A Biography by Gerry Bowler
• The Heaviness of Things that Float by Jennifer Manuel
• Starting Out in the Afternoon: A Mid-Life Journey into the Wild by Jill Frayne

December 2021

• Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing by Caroline Myss

November 2021

• A Season on the Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration by Kenn Kaufman

October 2021

• Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History by Kalee Thompson
• The Lost Whale: The True Story of an Orca Named Luna by Michael Parfitt and Suzanne Chisholm
• The Thing With Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human by Noah Strycker

September 2021

• The Killer Whale Who Changed the World by Mark Leiren-Young

August 2021

• Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family in Crisis by J. D. Vance

July 2021

• The Power of Off: The Mindful Way to Stay Sane in a Virtual World by Nancy Colier
• Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked by Adam Alter

June 2021

• Renovate Your Relationships: A Proven Guide to Setting Boundaries and Building Bridges With Those Who Matter Most by Scott Vaudrey

May 2021

• Row for Freedom: Crossing an Ocean in Search of Hope by Julia Immonen with Craig Borlase
• Mountain Man: 446 Mountains, Six Months, One Record-Breaking Adventure by James Forrest

April 2021

• And the Birds Rained Down by Jocelyne Saucier, translated by Rhonda Mullins
• Amazon Woman: Facing Fears, Chasing Dreams, and a Quest to Kayak the World’s Largest River from Source to Sea by Darcy Gaechter
• A Short History of Women: A Novel by Kate Walbert
• The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

March 2021

• The Ice Cave: A Woman’s Adventures from the Mojave to the Antarctic by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
• The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

February 2021

• The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
• Unmedicated: The Four Pillars of Natural Wellness by Madisyn Taylor

January 2021

• The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts by Gary Chapman
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• Running Away: A Memoir by Robert Andrew Powell
• The Amazing Thing About the Way it Goes: Stories of Tidiness, Self-Esteem and Other Things I Gave Up On by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
• Miles from Nowhere: A Round-the-World Bicycle Adventure by Barbara Savage

December 2020

• The Ragged Edge of Silence: Finding Peace in a Noisy World by John Francis
• The Rough Patch: Marriage and the Art of Living Together by Daphne de Marneffe, PhD

November 2020

• The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel

October 2020

• The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir by Dee Williams
• Calypso by David Sedaris

September 2020

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

July 2020

• Slow Road to Brownsville: A Journey Through the Heart of the Old West by David Reynolds

May 2020

• The Tastemakers: Why We’re Crazy for Cupcakes But Fed Up With Fondue by David Sax
• Not Afraid: On Fear, Heartbreak, Raising a Baby Girl and Cage Fighting by Daniele Bolelli

April 2020

• Walking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time By Andrew Forsthoefel
• Do Cool Sh*t: Quit Your Day Job, Start Your Own Business & Life Happily Ever After by Miki Agrawal

March 2020

• Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever by Reed Albergotti and Vanessa O’Connell
• Too Fat To Go To the Moon: Gay Sasquatch Saved My Life by Rob McCleary

February 2020

• The Boundless Life: 13 Lessons Learned the Hard Way by Simon Donato
• Challenge the Pacific: The First Woman to Row the Kon-Tiki Route by Maud Fontenoy
• The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda

January 2020

• Somewhere in France: A Novel of the Great War by Jennifer Robson
• She Explores: Stories of Life-Changing Adventures on the Road and in the Wild by  Gale Straub
• Boy on Ice: The Life and Death of Derek Boogaard by John Branch

December 2019

• The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today by Ted Conover

November 2019

• Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World by Rita Golden Gelman
• The Art of Sleeping Alone: A Memoir by Sophie Fontanel
• Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt
• Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence

October 2019

• Fire Season: My Journey from Ruin to Redemption by Hollye Dexter
• The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
• Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Hawking

September 2019

• The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
• Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Fast Into the Night: A Woman, Her Dogs and Their Journey North on the Iditarod Trail by Debbie Clarke Moderow
• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
• Age is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life by Dara Torres

August 2019

• Chasing Waves: A Surfer’s Tale of Obsessive Wandering by Amy Waeschle
• Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean by Roz Savage
• Stop Drifting, Start Rowing: One Woman’s Search for Happiness and Meaning Alone on the Pacific by Roz Savage
• No Barriers: A Blind Man’s Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon by Erik Weihenmayer
• Inside: One Woman’s Journey Through the Inside Passage by Susan Marie Conrad
• Mudgirls Manifesto: Handbuilt Homes, Handcrafted Lives by the Mudgirls Natural Building Collective
• Small Feet, Big Land: Adventure, Home and Family on the Edge of Alaska by Erin McKittrick

July 2019

• Snowshoes and Spotted Dick: Letters from a Wilderness Dweller by Chris Czajkowski
• The Beggar’s Garden: Stories by Michael Christie
• The Boat People by Sharon Bala
• Love, Castro Street: Reflections of San Francisco edited by Katherine V. Forrest and Jim Van Buskirk

June 2019

• The Best of Canada’s New Writers: The Journey Prize: Stories (Year 23) selected by Alexander MacLeod, Alison Peck and Sarah Selecky
• The Best of Canada’s New Writers: The Journey Prize: Stories (Year 26) selected by Steven W. Beattie, Craig Davidson and Saleema Nawaz
• On the Rocks with Jack Knox: Islanders I will Never Forget by Jack Knox
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
• The Pelee Project: One Woman’s Escape from Urban Madness by Jane Christmas

May 2019

• The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir by Dee Williams
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel

April 2019

• Running Home: A Memoir by Katie Arnold
• The Temporary Bride: A Memoir of Love and Food in Iran by Jennifer Klinec

March 2019

• Alone Time: Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasures of Solitude by Stephanie Rosenbloom
• Forget Me Not: A Memoir by Jennifer Lowe-Anker

February 2019

• The Jaguar’s Children by John Vaillant
• Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
• Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier by Mark Adams
• To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret by Jedidiah Jenkins

January 2019

• The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy
• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
• Human Happiness by Brian Fawcett
• Half-Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel by Jeannette Walls
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo

December 2018

• Track of the Grizzly by Frank C. Craighead, Jr.
• The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age by Sherry Turkle
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain

November 2018

• The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King
• Move Along Please: Land’s End to John O’Groats by Local Bus by Mark Mason
• Walking to Camelot: A Pilgrimage Through the Heart of Rural England by John A. Cherrington
• Northern Wild: Best Contemporary Canadian Nature Writing edited by David R. Boyd

October 2018

• Bomber Offensive by Sir Arthur Harris, Marshal of the R.A.F.

September 2018

• Mud, Sweat and Gears: Cycling from Land’s End to John O’Groats (Via the Pub) by Ellie Bennett
• And the Band Played On: The Enthralling Account of What Happened After the Titanic Sank by Christopher Ward
• The Lonely Planet Travel Anthology: True Stories from the World’s Best Writers edited by Don George

August 2018

• Better Than Fiction 2: True Adventures from 30 Great Fiction Writers edited by Don George
• Little Ship of Fools: 16 Rowers, 1 Improbable Boat, 7 Tumultuous Weeks on the Atlantic by Charles Wilkins
• Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
• Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone edited by Jenni Ferrari-Adler

July 2018

• Breakfast at the Exit Cafe: Travels Through America by Wayne Grady and Merilyn Simonds
• Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers edited by Don George
• The Wonder Down Under by Ellen Støkken Dahl and Nina Brochmann, MD

June 2018

• Rowing the Northwest Passage: Adventure, Fear and Awe in a Rising Sea by Kevin Vallely
• Road Trip Rwanda: A Journey into the New Heart of Africa by Will Ferguson

April 2018

• All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love and Petty Theft by Geraldine DeRuiter
• The Yellow Envelope: One Gift, Three Rules, and a Life-Changing Journey Around the World by Kim Dinan
• The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection by Michael Harris

March 2018

• Waiting for the Cyclone: Stories by Leesa Dean
• Living Large in Our Little House: Thriving in 480 Square Feet with Six Dogs, a Husband and One Remote — Plus More Stories of How You Can Too by Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell
• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
• The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

February 2018

• Someone You Love is Gone by Gurjinder Basran
• The Good Little Book by Kyo Maclear, illustrated by Marion Arbona (Kid Lit)
• Yak and Dove by Kyo Maclear, illustrated by Esmé Shapiro (Kid Lit)
• Spork by Kyo Maclear, illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault (Kid Lit)
• Solitude: A Singular Life in a Crowded World by Michael Harris
• Glory by Gillian Wigmore
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

January 2018

• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie

December 2017

• I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame by Brené Brown
• Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead by Brené Brown
• Three Seasons in the Wind: 950 Kilometres by Canoe Down Northern Canada’s Thelon River by Kathleen Pitt and Michael Pitt
• Paddlenorth: Adventure, Resilience and Renewal in the Arctic Wild by Jennifer Kingsley

November 2017

• Annabel by Kathleen Winter
• Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
• A Fork in the Road: Tales of Food, Pleasure and Discovery on the Road edited by James Oseland

October 2017

• The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais
• The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well by Meik Wiking
• Sea Kayak Guide Manual by Sea Kayak Instruction & Leadership Systems (SKILS)
• Navigation, Sea State & Weather: A Paddler’s Manual (Freedom of the Seas Volume 1) by Michael Pardy, JF Marleau, Andrew Woodford & Piper Harris

September 2017

• Fearless: One Woman, One Kayak, One Continent by Joe Glickman
• The Best Women’s Travel Writing: Volume 10 edited by Lavinia Spalding

August 2017

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• The Concubine’s Children by Denise Chong
• Drifting Home: A Family’s Voyage of Discovery Down the Wild Yukon by Pierre Berton
• Cabin Fever: Sizzling Secrets of a Virgin Airlines Flight Attendant by Mandy Smith with Nicola Stow
• Still Alice by Lisa Genova
• Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant
• Wenjack by Joseph Boyden

July 2017

• Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
• Eat the Beetles: An Exploration into Our Conflicted Relationship with Insects by David Waltner-Toews
• Ragged Company by Richard Wagamese

June 2017

• Daydreams of Angels by Heather O’Neill

May 2017

• The Woods: A Year on Protection Island by Amber McMillan
• The Postmistress by Sarah Blake

April 2017

• Queen of the North Disaster: The Captain’s Story by Colin Henthorne
• The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve
• Next Year, For Sure by Zoey Leigh Peterson
• The House of Wives by Simon Choa-Johnston
• Separation Anxiety: A Coming of Middle Age Story by Miji Campbell
• The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World’s Happiest Country by Helen Russell
• Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress by Debra Ginsberg

March 2017

• The Bee Cottage Story: How I Made a Muddle of Things and Decorated My Way Back to Happiness by Frances Schultz
• Western Architecture: A Survey from Ancient Greece to the Present by Ian Sutton
• The Woman Who Fell From the Sky: An American Journalist in Yemen by Jennifer Steil
• At One with the Sea: Alone Around the World by Naomi James
• Drawn to the Rhythm: A Passionate Life Reclaimed by Sara Hall
• Godforsaken Sea: Racing the World’s Most Dangerous Waters by Derek Lundy
• The Courtesan by Alexandra Curry

February 2017

• Princess Margaret: A Biography by Theo Aronson
• Above Stairs: Social Life in Upper Class Victoria 1843-1918 by Valerie Green
• They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School by Bev Sellars
• Never Shoot a Stampede Queen: A Rookie Reporter in the Cariboo by Mark Leiren-Young
• Three Souls by Janie Chang
• The Song of Kahunsha by Anosh Irani
• The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O’Neill

January 2017

• Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O’Neill
• Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound by Grant Lawrence
• The Miss Hereford Stories by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
• Vancouver Vanishes: Narratives of Demolition and Revival by Caroline Adderson
• A Man Called Moses: The Curious Life of Wellington Delaney Moses by Bill Gallaher

December 2016

• Stanley Park by Timothy Taylor
• A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller by Frances Mayes
• The Heaviness of Things That Float by Jennifer Manuel

November 2016

• Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin

October 2016

• A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
• Fall Line: A Woman’s Survival in the Andes and Return to a Life of Balance by Carol Grant Sullivan
• Breaking Wild by Diane Les Becquets
• The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
• The Mountain Story by Lori Lansens

September 2016

• The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
• The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett
• A House of Straw: A Natural Building Odyssey by Carolyn Roberts

August 2016

• You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know: A True Story of Family, Face Blindness, and Forgiveness by Heather Sellers
• Phenomenal: A Hesitant Adventurer’s Search for Wonder in the Natural World by Leigh Ann Henion
• Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage by Kathleen Winter
• The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer

July 2016

• The English Country House: An Art and a Way of Life by Olive Cook, with photographs by A. F. Kersting
• Starting Out in the Afternoon: A Mid-Life Journey into Wild Land by Jill Frayne
• Thunder and Sunshine – Around the World by Bike: Part Two – Riding Home from Patagonia by Alastair Humphreys
• Wildflower by Drew Barrymore

June 2016

• Coming Ashore: A Memoir by Catherine Gildiner
• The Knitting Sutra: Craft as a Spiritual Practice by Susan Gordon Lydon
• The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance that Changed the World by Greg King and Sue Woolmans

May 2016

• Innumerable historical placards, museum displays and information books in the United Kingdom!
• Annie Freeman’s Fabulous Traveling Funeral by Kris Radish

April 2016

• Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd by Richard Zacks
• A Splintered History of Wood: Belt-Sander Races, Blind Woodworkers and Baseball Bats by Spike Carlsen
• The Stone Boudoir: Travels Through the Hidden Villages of Sicily by Theresa Maggio
• Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own by Kate Bolick

March 2016

• Recipes for a Beautiful Life: A Memoir in Stories by Rebecca Barry
• The Wishing Year: A House, a Man, My Soul – A Memoir of Fulfilled Desire by Noelle Oxenhandler
• The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan
• A House in Fez: Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco by Suzanna Clarke
• The Big Tiny: A Built-it-Myself Memoir by Dee Williams (again; this book was so good, I read it twice in a row!)
• The Big Tiny: A Built-it-Myself Memoir by Dee Williams
• Cabin Lessons: A Nail-by-Nail Tale – Building Our Dream Cottage from 2x4s, Blisters and Love by Spike Carlsen
• The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane

February 2016

• The Map of Enough: One Woman’s Search for Place by Molly Caro May
• Open Heart, Open Mind by Clara Hughes

January 2016

• In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson
• Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne

December 2015

• Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens (includes A Christmas Carol, The Chimes and The Cricket on the Hearth)
• Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #152 – The Key in the Satin Pocket by Carolyn Keene

November 2015

• Nancy Drew: Girl Detective #19 – The Orchid Thief by Carolyn Keene
• Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #30 – The Clue of the Velvet Mask by Carolyn Keene
• Nancy Drew: Girl Detective #24 – Murder on the Set by Carolyn Keene
• Nancy Drew: Girl Detective #23 – Troubled Waters by Carolyn Keene
• Nancy Drew: Girl Detective #11 – Riverboat Ruse by Carolyn Keene

October 2015

• Seeking Serenity: The 10 New Rules for Health and Happiness in the Age of Anxiety by Amanda Enayati
• Monarchy: England and Her Rulers from the Tudors to the Windsors by David Starkey
• The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris by John Baxter

September 2015

• The Forgotten Trail: One Man’s Adventures on the Canadian Route to the Klondike by Larry Pynn
• Hideaway: Life on the Queen Charlotte Islands by James Houston
• Oar & Sail: An Odyssey of the West Coast by Kenneth Macrae Leighton
• The Woman Who Walked to Russia by Cassandra Pybus
• Running Like a Girl: Notes on Learning to Run by Alexandra Heminsley

August 2015

• The Ungarnished Truth: A Cooking Contest Memoir by Ellie Mathews
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
• Faith of Cranes: Finding Hope and Family in Alaska by Hank Lentfer
• The Outport People by Claire Mowat
• Miles From Nowhere: A Round-the-World Bicycle Adventure by Barbara Savage

July 2015

• A Blistered Kind of Love: One Couple’s Trial by Trail by Angela and Duffy Ballard
• Following Atticus: Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship by Tom Ryan
• A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from my Kitchen Table by Molly Wizenberg
• I Promise Not To Suffer: A Fool for Love Hikes the Pacific Crest Trail by Gail D. Storey
• Spirited Waters: Soloing South Through the Inside Passage by Jennifer Hahn

June 2015

• Travels with Farley: A Memoir by Claire Mowat
• Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman
• Lillian Alling: The Journey Home by Susan Smith-Josephy

May 2015

• Corked: A Memoir by Kathryn Borel
• Looking for Anne of Green Gables: The Story of L.M. Montgomery and her Literary Classic by Irene Gammel
• The Wild Truth by Carine McCandless
• Sanditon by Jane Austen
• The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge, M.D.

April 2015

• The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
• Ginty’s Ghost: A Wilderness Dweller’s Dream by Chris Czajkowski
• The Fisher Queen: A Deckhand’s Tales of the BC Coast by Sylvia Taylor

March 2015

• The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
• Atlin’s Anguish: Bush Pilot Teresa Bond and the Crash of Taku Air Flight 2653 by Brendan Lillis
• I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
• How to Walk a Puma (And Other Things I Learned While Stumbling Through South America) by Peter Allison
• Don’t Look Behind You: A Safari Guide’s Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants and Lovesick Rhinos by Peter Allison
• Harold Moffat and the Northern Hardware: Prince George Icons by Valerie Giles
• Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War by Helen Thorpe

February 2015

• Whatever You Do, Don’t Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide by Peter Allison
• The Islandman by Tomas O’Crohan
• How I Won the War for the Allies: One Sassy Canadian Soldier’s Story by Doris Gregory
• The Present Heart: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Discovery by Polly Young-Eisendrath
• Buried by Ken Wylie
• Lonesome: Memoirs of a Wilderness Dog by Chris Czajkowski
• And the River Still Sings: A Wilderness Dweller’s Journey by Chris Czajkowski

January 2015

• The Great Bear Rainforest: Canada’s Forgotten Coast by Ian McAllister and Karen McAllister with Cameron Young
• The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway by Arno Kopecky
• Kiss the Sunset Pig: A Canadian’s American Road Trip (with Exotic Detours) by Laurie Gough
• The Fish Come In Dancing: Stories from the West-Coast Fishery edited by Kate Braid
• North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both by Cea Sunrise Person
• Tracks: One Woman’s Journey Across 1,700 Miles of Australian Outback by Robyn Davidson
• Cabin at Singing River by Chris Czajkowski
• Journeywoman: Swinging a Hammer in a Man’s World by Kate Braid
• The Grande Dames of the Cariboo: Discovering Vivien Cowan and Sonia Cornwall and their intriguing friendship with A.Y. Jackson and Joseph Plaskett by Julie Fowler

December 2014

• Mexico, A Love Story: Women Write about the Mexican Experience edited by Camille Cusumano
• Nuk Tessli: The Life of a Wilderness Dweller by Chris Czajkowski
• Diary of a Wilderness Dweller by Chris Czajkowski
• Every Day in Tuscany: Seasons of an Italian Life by Frances Mayes
• France, a Love Story: Women Write about the French Experience edited by Camille Cusumano

November 2014

• Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes by Elizabeth Bard
• The Olive Farm: A Memoir of Life, Love and Olive Oil in the South of France by Carol Drinkwater
• Gumboot Girls: Adventure, Love and Survival on British Columbia’s North Coast compiled by Jane Wilde and edited by Lou Allison
• The Road is How: A Prairie Pilgrimage through Nature, Desire and Soul by Trevor Herriot
• It Happened in British Columbia: A Pictorial Review – 1871 to 1971 by the British Columbia Centennial ’71 Committee
• Outside by Barry Lopez

September 2014

• Falling in Honey: Life and Love on a Greek Island by Jennifer Barclay
• Unsinkable: My Untold Story by Silken Laumann
• Without a Paddle: Racing Twelve Hundred Miles Around Florida by Sea Kayak by Warren Richey
• The Pelee Project: One Woman’s Escape from Urban Madness by Jane Christmas
• The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter and Tears at the Word’s Most Famous Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn
• Butter Cream: A Year in a Montreal Pastry School by Denise Roig
• The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

August 2014

• The Ladies of Missalonghi by Colleen McCullough
• The Second Journey: The Road Back to Yourself by Joan Anderson

July 2014

• Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor
• Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou
• The Florist’s Daughter by Patricia Hampl

June 2014

• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Drinking the Rain by Alix Kates Shulman

May 2014

• The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd

April 2014

• Love Illuminated: Exploring Life’s Most Mystifying Subject (with the Help of 50,000 Strangers) by Daniel Jones
• The Priority List: A Teacher’s Final Quest to Discover Life’s Greatest Lessons by David Menasche
• A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle

March 2014

• Where We Belong by Emily Giffin
• The Longest Day – June 6, 1944 by Cornelius Ryan
• Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
• The Cure for Everything: Untangling the Twisted Messages about Health, Fitness, and Happiness by Timothy Caulfield
• Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

February 2014

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
• The Animal Dialogues:  Uncommon Encounters in the Wild by Craig Childs

January 2014

• Wild West Women: Travellers, Adventurers and Rebels by Rosemary Neering
• No Highway by Nevil Shute
• The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed by John Vaillant

December 2013

• Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
• The Cure for Death by Lightning by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
• The Good Girl’s Guide to Getting Lost: A Memoir of Three Continents, Two Friends, and One Unexpected Adventure by Rachel Friedman

November 2013

• Finding Jim by Susan Oakey-Baker
• We are Born with the Songs Inside Us: Lives and Stories of First Nations People in British Columbia by Katherine Palmer Gordon
• The Endangered Species Road Trip: A Summer’s Worth of Dingy Motels, Poison Oak, Ravenous Insects, and the Rarest Species in North America by Cameron MacDonald
• Only Pack What You Can Carry: My Path to Inner Strength, Confidence and True Self-Knowledge by Janice Holly Booth

October 2013

• I Married the Klondike by Laura Beatrice Berton
• A Recipe for Bees by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
• The Samurai’s Garden: A Novel by Gail Tsukiyama

September 2013

• Have Mother, Will Travel: A Mother and Daughter Discover Themselves, Each Other, and the World by Claire and Mia Fontaine
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence

August 2013

• Visit Sunny Chernobyl (And Other Adventures in the World’s Most Polluted Places) by Andrew Blackwell
• Three Against Time by Margaret Taylor
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

July 2013

• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
• Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
• Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat
• Wilderness Seasons: Life and Adventure in Canada’s North by Ian and Sally Wilson
• Love and Friendship and Other Early Works by Jane Austen

June 2013

• Into the Abyss:  How a Deadly Plane Crash Changed the Lives of a Pilot, a Politician, a Criminal and a Cop by Carol Shaben
• Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
• Charlie and he Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
• Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho

May 2013

• Eiger Dreams:  Ventures Among Men and Mountains by Jon Krakauer
• Savage Summit:  The True Stories of the First Five Women who Climbed K2 by Jennifer Jordan
• Epic:  Stories of Survival from the World’s Highest Peaks edited by Clint Willis

April 2013

• She Matters:  A Life in Friendships by Susanna Sonnenberg
• The Necklace:  Thirteen Women and the Experiment that Transformed their Lives by Cheryl Jarvis
• Wild:  From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
• Lonely Soldier:  The Memoir of an American in the Israeli Army by Adam Harmon
• Walking Home:  A Woman’s Pilgrimage on the Appalachian Trail by Kelly Winters
• The Raven’s Gift:  A Scientist, A Shaman, and Their Remarkable Journey Through the Siberian Wilderness by Jon Turk

March 2013

• Beyond One:  Growing a Family and Getting a Life by Jennifer Bingham Hull
• Go Your Own Way:  Women Travel the World Solo edited by Faith Conlon, Ingrid Emerick and Christina Henry de Tessan
• Climbing High:  A Woman’s Account of Surviving the Everest Tragedy by Lene Gammelgaard
• Outdoor Safety and Survival in British Columbia’s Backcountry by Mike Nash

January 2013

• Front Lines:  Portraits of Caregivers in Northern British Columbia by Sarah de Leeuw and Tim Swanky
• The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
• I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
• Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
• The Translator:  A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari
• Plastiki:  Across the Pacific Ocean on Plastic – An Adventure to Save Our Oceans by David de Rothschild
• Beyond the Sky and the Earth:  A Journey into Bhutan by Jamie Zeppa
• Unmarked:  Landscapes Along Highway 16 by Sarah de Leeuw
• The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg

December 2012

• The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
• Small Beneath the Sky:  A Prairie Memoir by Lorna Crozier
• Before the End, After the Beginning by Dagoberto Gilb

November 2012

• Rowboat in a Hurricane:  My Amazing Journey Across a Changing Atlantic Ocean by Julie Angus
• The Odyssey of KP2:  An Orphan Seal, a Marine Biologist, and the Fight to Save a Species by Terrie M. Williams
• Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog:  The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman by Lisa Scottoline
• Homeland and Other Stories by Barbara Kingsolver
• Tales of a Female Nomad:  Living at Large in the World by Rita Golden Gelman
• Salish Elders by Wim Tewinkel
• Secret Coastline II:  More Journeys and Discoveries Along B.C.’s Shores by Andrew Scott

October 2012

• Mayne Island and the Outer Gulf Islands:  A History by Marie Elliott
• Women of the West Coast:  Then and Now by Marnie Anderson
• Sleeping Naked is Green:  How an Eco-Cynic Unplugged her Fridge, Sold her Car, and Found Love in 366 Days by Vanessa Farquharson
• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

September 2012

• The Hills of Tuscany – A Memoir:  A New Life in an Old Land by Ferenc Máté
• A Thousand Days in Tuscany:  A Bittersweet Adventure by Marlena de Blasi
• Starting Out in the Afternoon: A Mid-life Journey into Wild Land by Jill Frayne
• Monkey Dancing: A Father, Two Kids, and a Journey to the Ends of the Earth by Daniel Glick
• Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw:  Travels in Search of Canada by Will Ferguson

August 2012

• Life with My Sister Madonna by Christopher Ciccone with Wendy Leigh
• A Pig in Provence:  Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France by Georgeanne Brennan
• Wandering Home.  A Long Walk Across America’s Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont’s Champlain Valley and New York’s Adirondacks by Bill McKibben
• The Color of Earth, The Color of Water, and the Color of Heaven by Kim Dong Hwa
• Alone With You:  Stories by Marisa Silver

July 2012

• Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
• Make Your Creative Dreams Real:  A Plan for Procrastinators, Perfectionists, Busy People and People Who Would Really Rather Sleep All Day by SARK
• The Lonely Planet Guide to the Middle of Nowhere
• The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

June 2012

• Blue Diamond Journey:  The Healing of a Reluctant Seer by Esther Supernault
• The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
• Firstlight by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Previously Read and Recommended:

• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
• Three Wishes:  A True Story of Good Friends, Crushing Heartbreak, and Astonishing Luck on Our Way to Love and Motherhood by Carey Goldberg, Beth Jones and Pamela Ferdinand
• The Lost Girls:  Three Friends, Four Continents, One Unconventional Detour Around the World by Jennifer Baggett, Holly C. Corbett and Amanda Pressner
• Sideways on a Scooter:  Life and Love in India by Miranda Kennedy
• All Over the Map by Laura Fraser
• Island of the Human Heart / Kite Strings of the Southern Cross by Laurie Gough