AVP & CTO 2020/21 Booklist

Gayleen’s book lists from 2020/2021:

1. The Fifth Season: The Broken Earth Book 1 by N. K. Jemison 
2. The Light Behind the Window – Lucinda Riley 
3. They Called Me Number One by Bev Sellars (Canadian)
4. The Beekeeper of Aleppo: A Novel by Christy Lefteri (Canadian)
5. The Skin We’re In – Desmond Cole (Canadian)
6. Hellgoing by Lynn Coady (Canadian)
7. How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan 
8. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon 
9. Runaway by Alice Munro (Canadian)
10. All Adults Here by Emma Straub 
11. Sadie by Courtney Summers (Canadian)
    
12. Love Lives Here by Amanda Jette Knox (Canadian)
    
13. Big Sky by Kate Atkinson 
14. Brother by David Cariandy (Canadian)
    
15. The Innocents by Michael Crummey (Canadian)
    
16. The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford 
17. Keeper’n Me by Richard Wagamese (Canadian)
18. The Four Winds: A Novel by Kristin Hannah 
19. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson 
20. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (a millionth read) 
21. The Midnight Library: A Novel by Matt Haig 
22. The Centaur’s Wife by Amanda Leduc (Canadian)
23. Opening Heaven’s Door by Patricia Pearson (Canadian)
24. Tools of Titans by Tim Ferris 
25. The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd 
26. The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud (Canadian)
    
27. A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott Canadian 
28. White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo 
29. 419 by Will Ferguson (Canadian)
    
30. Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis (Canadian)
31. Alanis Morissette Words + Music by Alanis Morissette (Canadian)
32. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande 
33. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson 
34. American War by Omar El Akkad (Canadian and just won the Giller Prize for “What Strange Paradise”) 
35. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah 
36. American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins 
37. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe 
38. The Break by Katherena Vermette (Canadian)
39. Catch and Kill Ronan Farrow 
40. The Prophet Kahlil Gibran 
41. This Fallen Prey by Kelley Armstrong 
42. A Banquet of Consequences by Elizabeth George 
43. Please Stay: How Women in Tech Survive and Thrive by Debra Christmas and Kelley Irwin (Canadian)

Want more book lists? Check out the lists from 2019 and 2018.