Here’s what I read in 2018….
December 2018
Tin Man, by Sarah Winman
I’d Rather Be Reading, by Anne Bogel
The Four, by Scott Galloway
Conversations With Friends, by Sally Rooney
Medicine Walk, by Richard Wagamese
The Compassionate Kitchen, by Thubten Chodron
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, by Shunryu Suzuki
Atomic Habits, by James Clear
A Writer’s Life, Ed Writers’ Trust
Hallelujah Anyway, by Anne Lamott
November 2018
Imperfect Birds, by Anne Lamott
Heartburn, by Nora Ephron
Almost Everything, Note on Hope, by Anne Lamott
The Great Alone, by Kristan Hannah
The Sense of Style, by Steven Pinker
Margaret Atwood on Writers and Writing, by Margaret Atwood
Bad Blood, by John Carreyrou
Unsheltered, by Barbara Kingsolver
The Truth of this Life, by Katherine Thanas
October 2018
Everything’s Eventual, by Stephen King
Light the Dark – Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Creative Process, ed. Joe Fassler
Difficult Women, by Roxanne Gay
Vanity Fair, Writers on Writers, ed. Craydon Carter
The Bookshop of Yesterdays, by Amy Meyerson
Flash! Writing the Very Short Story, byJohn Dufresne
Different Seasons, by Stephen King
September 2018
Manhattan Beach, by Jennifer Egan
Educated, by Tara Westover
Rest – Why You Get More Done When You Work Less, by Alex Soonjung-Kim Pang
If Beale Street Could Talk, by James Baldwin
On Poetry, by Glyn Maxwell
Poetry – The Basics, by Jeffrey Wainwright
Dear Current Occupant, by Chelene Knight
This Messy Magnificent Life, by Geneen Roth
August 2018
Writing About Your Life, by William Zinsser
Lost and Found, by Gennen Roth
Women Food and God, by Geneen Roth
Grand Avenue, by Joy Fielding
On Writing Well, by William Zinsser
Little Green, by Tish Cohen
Best Canadian Essays 2016, ed Christopher Doda
Brain on Fire, by Susannah Cahalan
The Writer’s Diet: A Guide to Fit Prose, by Helen Sword
Awakenings, by Oliver Sacks
July 2018
State of Fear, by Michael Crichton (abandoned)
My Year of Rest and Relaxation, by Ottesa Moshfegh
Elizabeth is Missing, by Emma Healey
Advice Not Given, by Mark Epstein
June 2018
Ragged Company, by Richard Wagamese
Problems, by Jade Sharma
Late Nights on Air, by Elizabeth Hay
The Shock Doctrine, by Naomi Klein
Writing Without Rules, by Jeff Somers
Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, by Joseph Murphy
Upstream, by Mary Oliver
May 2018
The Heart's Invisible Furies, by John Boyne
Poetry Will Save Your Life, by Jill Bialosky
The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown
When You Find Out the World is Against You, by Kelly Oxford
O's Little Book of Happiness
The Perfect Nanny, Leila Slimani
Woman No. 17, by Edan Lepucki
April 2018
Fierce on the Page, by Sage Cohen
Everything Here is Beautiful, by Mira T. Lee
Mrs., by Caitlin Macy
Girls Burn Brighter, by Shobha Rao
When Women Were Birds, by Terry Tempest Williams
Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer
March 2018
Swimming Lessons, by Claire Fuller
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, by Lisa See
Trumpocracy, by David Frum
The Lying Game, by Ruth Ware
Solomon's Oak, by Jo-Ann Mapson
Writing Down the Bones, by Natalie Goldberg (again and again)
Still Writing, Dani Shapiro
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, by Balli Kaur Jaswal
February 2018
Mary Coin, by Marisa Silver
All the Missing Girls, by Megan Miranda
The Sellout, by Paul Beatty
Keep it Real, by Lee Gutkind
Why Poetry, by Matthew Zapruder
Canadian Short Stories (Fifth Series), Selected by Robert Weaver
You Can't Make This Stuff Up, by Lee Gutkind
January 2018
Fearless Writing, by William Kenower
Pep Talks for Writers, by Grant Faulkner
Being a Writer, by T. Elborough & H. Gordon
Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, by Joe Dispenza
News of the World, by Paulette Jiles
The Improbability of Love, by Hannah Rothschild
Swing Time, by Zadie Smith
Ego is the Enemy, by Ryan Holiday
Silence, by Thich Nhat Hanh
Life without Envy, by Camille De Angelis
Present over Perfect, by Shauna Niequist
What Do You Do with an Idea, by Kobi Yamanda
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You, by Alice Munro