Greenwood—Michael Christie
It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one of the world's last remaining forests. It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, fallen from a ladder and sprawled on his broken back, calling out from the concrete floor of an empty mansion. It's 1974 and Willow Greenwood is out of jail, free after being locked up for one of her endless series of environmental protests: attempts at atonement for the sins of her father's once vast and violent timber empire. It's 1934 and Everett Greenwood is alone, as usual, in his maple syrup camp squat when he hears the cries of an abandoned infant and gets tangled up in the web of a crime that will cling to his family for decades.
(From https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39328584-greenwood?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=Pn5WbJTrTA&rank=2)
The Dutch House—Ann Patchett
Set over the course of five decades, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who cannot overcome their past. Despite every outward sign of success, Danny and Maeve are only truly comfortable when they’re together. Throughout their lives, they return to the well-worn story of what they’ve lost with humor and rage. But when at last they’re forced to confront the people who left them behind, the relationship between an indulged brother and his ever-protective sister is finally tested.
(From https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44318414-the-dutch-house?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=bQBvdDhedJ&rank=1)
Seven Fallen Feathers—Tanya Talaga
In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away from a residential school. An inquest was called and four recommendations were made to prevent another tragedy. None of those recommendations were applied.
More than a quarter of a century later, from 2000 to 2011, seven Indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The seven were hundreds of miles away from their families, forced to leave home and live in a foreign and unwelcoming city. Five were found dead in the rivers surrounding Lake Superior, below a sacred Indigenous site. Jordan Wabasse, a gentle boy and star hockey player, disappeared into the minus twenty degrees Celsius night. The body of celebrated artist Norval Morrisseau’s grandson, Kyle, was pulled from a river, as was Curran Strang’s. Robyn Harper died in her boarding-house hallway and Paul Panacheese inexplicably collapsed on his kitchen floor. Reggie Bushie’s death finally prompted an inquest, seven years after the discovery of Jethro Anderson, the first boy whose body was found in the water.
(From https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33154545-seven-fallen-feathers?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=l8yLDBAx0Q&rank=1)
The Picture of Dorian Gray—Oscar Wilde
Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author’s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray’s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel’s corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, “a terrible moral in Dorian Gray.” Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde’s homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment. Of Dorian Gray’s relationship to autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, “Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.”
(From https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5297.The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=m1mGqYi7SM&rank=1)
A Manual for Cleaning Women—Lucia Berlin
A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments of grace in the laundromats and halfway houses of the American Southwest, in the homes of the Bay Area upper class, among switchboard operators and struggling mothers, hitchhikers, and bad Christians. Readers will revel in this remarkable collection from a master of the form and wonder how they'd ever overlooked her in the first place.
(From https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22929586-a-manual-for-cleaning-women?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=BepFiTeXA9&rank=1)
The Samurai's Garden—Gail Tsukiyama
A 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper and a master gardener. Over the course of a remarkable year, Stephen learns Matsu's secret and gains not only physical strength but also profound spiritual insight. Matsu is a samurai of the soul, a man devoted to doing good and finding beauty in a cruel and arbitrary world, and Stephen is a noble student, learning to appreciate Matsu's generous and nurturing way of life and to love Matsu's soulmate, gentle Sachi, a woman afflicted with leprosy.
(From https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51113.The_Samurai_s_Garden?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=fxWYmYl8dV&rank=1)
This Is How It Always Is—Laurie Frankel
This Is How It Always Is is a novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family. And it’s about the ways this is how it always is: Change is always hard and miraculous and hard again, parenting is always a leap into the unknown with crossed fingers and full hearts, children grow but not always according to plan. And families with secrets don’t get to keep them forever.
(From https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40409102-this-is-how-it-always-is?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=oHW453Emrw&rank=1)
The Rest
- Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old—Andrew Steele (CY)
- Banker to the Poor—Muhammad Yunus (PP)
- The Bonfire of the Vanities—Tom Wolfe (CY)
- The Code Breaker—Walter Isaacson (KB)
- Crying in H Mart—Michelle Zauner (IS)
- Educated—Tara Westover (DC)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone—J. K. Rowling (CY)
- Hunchback of Notre Dame—Victor Hugo (PP)
- Keep Sharp—Sanjay Gupta (HL)
- The Midnight Library—Matt Haig (KB)
- The Paris Library—Janet Skelslien Charles (HC)
- Pride and Prejudice—Jane Austin (CY)
- Ragged Company—Richard Wagamese (DC)
- Shuggie Bain—Douglas Stuart (JC)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God—Zora Neale Hurston (IS)
- Who Killed Tom Thompson—John Little (NF)
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