AVP & CTO 2019 Booklist

In 2018, Gayleen posted a weekly reading list blog as part of her book-a-week challenge. Gayleen is reading in 2019. Clicking the links takes you away from this site to more information on Goodreads or other related sites.

• Canadianity by Jeremy Taggart and Jonathan Torrens
• Exhalation by Ted Chiang
• Essentialism by Greg McKeown
• By Chance Alone by Max Eisen
• Principles by Ray Dalio
• Wolfpack by Abby Wamback
• Forgiveness by Mark Sakamoto
• Too Close to Home by Linwood Barclay
• The Huntress by Kate Quinn
• February by Lisa Moore
• Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
• Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan M. Metzl
• Dare to Lead by Brene Brown (I read it again!)
• Broad Band, The Untold Story of The Women Who Made the Internet, by Claire L. Evans.
• The Girl With Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story by Hyeonseo Lee (Finished May 17 2019)
• Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
• Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
• The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
• Educated by Tara Westover
• We are Legion (We are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor
• Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
• The Golden Tresses of the Dead by Alan Bradley
• The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
• Steve Jobs – Walter Issacson – It is fascinating (and long!). Jobs faced a very public loss when he was fired from Macintosh at only 30 years old. He used that situation to explore his interests elsewhere, finding success in Pixar, and eventually back at Macintosh. He also experienced a very public health decline through many years of cancer while continuing to steer the emergence of the iPod, iPhone and iPad. To the world, he will always be an innovator and, to many, a genius. His famous commencement speech at Stanford in 2005 is seen as a life lesson for the ages.
• The Diplomat’s Daughter – Karen Tanabe – another historical novel from the second world war with characters and settings that weave American, German, Japanese and Chinese experiences together.
• Starlight Richard Wagamese – his great writing continues in this last book. The author died before it was complete. I am such a fan and it is devastating to know we won’t have any more books from Richard Wagamese.
• The Woo-Woo Lindsay Wong – non fiction and a strangely humorous book on mental illness.
• This is How It Always Is – Laurie Frankel – what an amazing book on raising children and defining gender.
• Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury – a classic written in the 1950s that depicts a (then) future where books are banned, exploring the deep emotional impact books have and the bland artificiality of a society kept from reading. No thank you. It is fascinating to read about Bradbury’s ideas about future technology, too. That gets a wow.
• Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman – one of those books with a young character that definitely doesn’t seem like a child’s book, definitely about unworldly things.
• The Imperfect Board Member by Jim Brown
• China Dolls by Lisa See
• The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
• Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
• Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice