Books I’m reading

Notes

• This listing is also available on LibraryThing. See also: Book reviews.

• Not only am I not maintaining this list anymore (2021–), I am no longer denoting which books I did not bother to read, nor am I tallying up totals.

Listings

1. 2020

2. 2019

3. 2018

4. 2017

5. 2016

6. 2015

7. 2014

8. 2013

9. 2012

10. 2011

11. 2010

12. 2009

13. 2008

14. 2007

15. 2006

16. 2005

Stats

2020

1. Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics by Brett Krutzsch
2. Queering Representation: LGBTQ People and Electoral Politics in Canada by Manon Tremblay
3. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
4. Meat Planet: Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food by Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft
5. Serotonin: A Novel by Michel Houellebecq
6. Party of One: A Memoir in 21 Songs by Dave Holmes
7. Switched On Pop: How Popular Music Works, and Why it Matters by Nate Sloan
8. The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America by Amy Chua
9. Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua
10. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
11. Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob
12. Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Wiener
13. We Are the Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer
14. The Double Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn Iggulden
15. Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch (she’s insufferable)
16. Painted Word by Tom Wolfe
17. Face It: A Memoir by Debbie Harry
18. The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories by Christopher Booker
19. Who Killed My Father by Édouard Louis
20. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations by Christopher Lasch
21. The Skin We’re In by Desmond Cole
22. Savage Messiah: How Dr. Jordan Peterson Is Saving Western Civilization by Jim Proser
23. The Virtue of Nationalism by Yoram Hazony
24. The Testaments: A Novel by Margaret Atwood
25. Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web by Joseph M. Reagle Jr.
26. The American People: Volume 2: The Brutality of Fact by Larry Kramer
27. Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Comic Book by Leighton Gray
28. Legislating Love: The Everett Klippert Story by Natalie Meisner
29. Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
30. The AIDS Pandemic: The Collision of Epidemiology with Political Correctness by James Chin
31. Teardown: Rebuilding Democracy from the Ground Up by Dave Meslin
32. Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different by Chuck Palahniuk
33. Meanwhile, In Another Part of the Forest, Alberto Manguel, ed.
34. Gay Like Me: A Father Writes to His Son by Richie Jackson (abomination)
35. The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power by David Shields
36. When Poverty Mattered: Then and Now by Paul Weinberg
37. Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire by Victor Sebestyen (★★★★)
38. Sexual Landscapes: Why We Are What We Are, Why We Love Whom We Love by James D. Weinrich
39. Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators by Clay Shirky
40. Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class by Charles Murray
41. The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization by Patrick J. Buchanan
42. The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties by Christopher Caldwell
43. Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign by Jonathan Allen
44. How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration by Ellen Winner
45. Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World by Tim Ferriss
46. The Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can’t Do by Edward Tenner
47. The Sport and Prey of Capitalists: How the Rich Are Stealing Canada’s Public Wealth by Linda McQuaig
48. Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada by Rodney Diverlus
49. Agency by William Gibson
50. Human Factors in Air Transport: Understanding Behavior and Performance in Aviation by Erik Seedhouse
51. The Tangled Garden: A Canadian Cultural Manifesto for the Digital Age by Richard Stursberg
52. iBauhaus: The iPhone as the Embodiment of Bauhaus Ideals and Design by Nicholas Fox Weber
53. Animal Logic by Richard Barnes
54. Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il by Michael Malice
55. Ratz Are Nice (PSP): A Novel by Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite (again)
56. The Story of Sexual Identity: Narrative Perspectives on the Gay and Lesbian Life Course by Phillip L. Hammack
57. How to Have a Life Style by Quentin Crisp
58. Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis by Kevin Mumford
59. Black Gay Man: Essays by Robert F. Reid-Pharr
60. My Desire for History: Essays in Gay, Community, and Labor History by Allan Bérubé
61. On Genetic Interests: Family, Ethnicity, and Humanity in an Age of Mass Migration by Frank Salter
62. Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails: Real World Preasymptotics, Epistemology, and Applications (Technical Incerto) by Nassim Taleb
63. Sex And Personality Studies In Masculinity And Femininity by Lewis M. Terman
64. Wilde in America: Oscar Wilde and the Invention of Modern Celebrity by David M. Friedman
65. The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy by Christopher Lasch
66. Masculinity Amidst Madness by Ryan Landry
67. Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution by David Carter
68. Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights by Ann Bausum
69. Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan’s Next Generation by Karl Taro Greenfeld
70. Fruits by Shoichi Aoki
71. Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker
72. Bunker: Building for the End Times by Bradley Garrett
73. Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World! by Andrew Breitbart
74. Lift: Fitness Culture, from Naked Greeks and Acrobats to Jazzercise and Ninja Warriors by Daniel Kunitz
75. Mr. America: How Muscular Millionaire Bernarr Macfadden Transformed the Nation Through Sex, Salad, and the Ultimate Starvation Diet by Mark Adams
76. American Secession: The Looming Threat of a National Breakup by F.H. Buckley
77. Lurking: How a Person Became a User by Joanne McNeil
78. Being a man in the lousy modern world by Robert Twigger
79. Here to Make Friends by Hope Kelaher
80. How to Be an Artist by Jerry Saltz
81. The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite by Michael Lind
82. Macho Man: The Disco Era and Gay America’s Coming Out by Randy Jones
83. Erotics and Politics: Gay Male Sexuality, Masculinity and Feminism by Tim Edwards
84. Understanding Masculinities by Mairtin Mac An Ghaill
85. Modern Homosexualities: Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experiences by Ken Plummer
86. Debating Modern Masculinities: Change, Continuity, Crisis? by S. Roberts
87. Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy by Matthew Scully
88. Soviet Space Graphics: Cosmic Visions from the USSR by Moscow Design Museum
89. Perfumes: The Guide by Luca Turin (entry)
90. In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters by Rick Chapman
91. Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act by Nicholson Baker
92. The Meaning of Being a Man by Ole Bjerg (dud)
93. Encyclopedia of Trees by Sam Benvie
94. International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities by Michael Flood
95. Don We Now Our Gay Apparel: Gay Men’s Dress in the Twentieth Century by Shaun Cole
96. England’s Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of The Esoteric Underground by David Keenan
97. The Butch Manual: The Current Drag and How to Do It by Clark Henley
98. Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism by Peter Drucker
99. Selling Out: The Gay and Lesbian Movement Goes to Market by Alexandra Chasin
100. The Queer Advantage: Conversations with LGBTQ Leaders on the Power of Identity by Andrew Gelwicks
101. Stonewall Strong: Gay Men’s Heroic Fight for Resilience, Good Health, and a Strong Community by John-Manuel Andriote
102. Cub by Jeff Mann
103. Sexual Personæ: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia
104. Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal, of which I read only the introduction by Camille Paglia
105. Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars by Camille Paglia
106. Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism by Camille Paglia
107. Provocations: Collected Essays on Art, Feminism, Politics, Sex, and Education by Camille Paglia
108. The Passion of Michel Foucault by Jim Miller
109. Persona: A Biography of Yukio Mishima by Naoki Inose
110. Mishima: A Biography by John Nathan
111. The Nude Male: A New Perspective by Margaret Walters
112. On Ugliness by Umberto Eco
113. Laud Humphreys: Prophet of Homosexuality and Sociology by John F. Galliher

2019

July through December

1. The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat by Stephan J. Guyenet
2. Autofocus: The Car in Photography by Marta Weiss
3. The Biology of Belief by Bruce H. Lipton
4. Keep Scrolling Till You Feel Something: 21 Years of Humor from McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Chris Monks, ed. (dud)
5. Beautiful on the Outside: A Memoir by Adam Rippon
6. The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St. Clair
7. States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America by Edmund White
8. The Jewish Century: New Edition by Yuri Slezkine
9. Creating Canadian English: The Professor, the Mountaineer, and a National Variety of English by Stefan Dollinger (dishonest and horrifically typeset)
10. What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era by Peggy Noonan
11. Animal Advocacy and Environmentalism: Understanding and Bridging the Divide by Amy J. Fitzgerald
12. How to be Invisible: Lyrics by Kate Bush
13. On Freedom by Cass R. Sunstein
14. A Delicate Aggression: Savagery and Survival in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop by David O. Dowling (dud)
15. The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History by Marc Stein
16. Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back-Row America by Chris Arnade
17. Backward Glances: Cruising Queer Streets in London and New York by Mark W. Turner
18. The Muscular Ideal: Psychological, Social, and Medical Perspectives by J. Kevin Thompson
19. Encyclopedia of Body Image and Human Appearance by Thomas F. Cash
20. Making Comics by Lynda Barry (dud)
21. Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking [sic] of the American Conversation by Andrew Marantz
22. Snøhetta: Collective Intuition
23. The Patriot Game: National Dreams and Political Realities by Peter Brimelow
24. The Assault on American Excellence by Anthony T. Kronman
25. Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society by Thomas Frank
26. The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars by Meghan Daum
27. Language Unlimited: The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power by David Adger
28. Peak: The New Science of Athletic Performance That is Revolutionizing Sports by Dr. Marc Bubbs (★★★)
29. The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists by Neil Strauss
30. Bronze Age Mindset by Bronze Age Pervert
31. Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation by James Howard Kunstler
32. The Queering of Corporate America: How Big Business Went from LGBTQ Adversary to Ally by Carlos A. Ball
33. Drag: The Complete Story by Simon Doonan
34. Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Pénélope Bagieu
35. The Seasons of a Man’s Life by Daniel J. Levinson
36. The Uncollected David Rakoff by David Rakoff
37. Don’t Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff
38. The KunstlerCast: Conversations with James Howard Kunstler by Duncan Crary (dud)
39. Disasterama! Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977 to 1997 by Alvin Orloff
40. The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape by James Howard Kunstler (dud)
41. Busted in New York and Other Essays by Darryl Pinckney
42. Half Empty by David Rakoff
43. The Soul Beneath the Skin: The Unseen Hearts and Habits of Gay Men by David Nimmons (again) (at TRL)
44. A Passion to Preserve: Gay Men as Keepers of Culture by Will Fellows (at TRL)
45. The Changing World of Gay Men by P. Robinson (at TRL)
46. Young Man from the Provinces: A Gay Life before Stonewall by Alan Helms (at TRL)
47. Airline Maps: A Century of Art and Design by Mark Ovenden
48. Queer Heroes by Arabelle Sicardi
49. What Burns by Dale Peck
50. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
51. Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another by Matt Taibbi
52. Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There by David Brooks (again)
53. By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission by Charles Murray (dud)
54. Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities by Eric Kaufmann
55. Primitive Technology: A Survivalist’s Guide to Building Tools, Shelters, and More in the Wild by John Plant
56. White by Bret Easton Ellis
57. Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us by Donald Trump Jr.
58. Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America by Scott Adams
59. The Compassionate Mind Approach to Difficult Emotions: Using Compassion-Focused Therapy by Chris Irons (dud)
60. How Much Is Enough? Money And The Good Life by Edward Skidelsky
61. Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010 by Charles Murray (again)
62. The Memeing of Life: A Journey Through the Delirious World of Memes by Studio Kind (dishonest)
63. Oh, Shit... What Now? by Craig Oldham
64. How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe (dud)
65. Identify: Basic Principles of Identity Design in the Iconic Trademarks of Chermayeff & Geismar by Tom Geismar
66. Type and Color by Mark van Wageningen
67. The Art of Lettering: Perfectly Imperfect Hand-Crafted Type Design by Brooke Robinson
68. To Feel the Music: A Songwriter’s Mission to Save High-Quality Audio by Neil Young
69. The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray (seriously wrong in one respect)
70. How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide by Peter Boghossian (horrific)
71. The Hero’s Body: A Memoir by William Giraldi (again) (dud)
72. Wish I Were Here: Boredom and the Interface by total fag Mark Kingwell
73. And How Are You, Dr. Sacks? A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks by Lawrence Weschler
74. Red: A History of the Redhead by Jacky Colliss Harvey
75. The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi
76. The Language Myth: Why Language Is Not An Instinct by Vyvyan Evans
77. Rusty Brown by Chris Ware
78. The Sewtionary by Tasia St. Germaine
79. Parking the Moose: One American’s Epic Quest to Uncover His Incredible Canadian Roots by Dave Hill (dud)
80. Space Between: Explorations of Love, Sex, and Fluidity by Nico Tortorella
81. Standpoints: 10 Old Ideas In a New World by Svend Brinkmann
82. Global Gay: How Gay Culture Is Changing the World (The MIT Press) by Frédéric Martel
83. Doing Interviews by Svend Brinkmann
84. The Mudd Club by Richard Boch
85. Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man by Sam Keen
86. The Testaments: A Novel by Margaret Atwood
87. Finally, Some Good News by Delicious Tacos
88. The Animal’s Companion by Jacky Colliss Harvey
89. It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office by Dale Beran (dishonest)
90. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
91. The Procrastination Economy: The Big Business of Downtime by Ethan Tussey
92. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell
93. Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
94. Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting by Daniel C. Dennett
95. Gay New York by George Chauncey
96. Zero History by William Gibson
97. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
98. How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
99. The Scramble for Europe: Young Africa on its way to the Old Continent by Stephen Smith
100. Wilde in America: Oscar Wilde and the Invention of Modern Celebrity by David M. Friedman
101. Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews by Oscar Wilde
102. The Feminization of American Culture by Ann Douglas
103. Stand Firm: Resisting the Self-Improvement Craze by Svend Brinkmann
104. Peacocks, Chameleons, Centaurs: Gay Suburbia and the Grammar of Social Identity by Wayne Brekhus (at TRL)
105. Greek Homosexuality by K.J. Dover (at TRL)
106. Roman Homosexuality: Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical Antiquity by Craig A. Williams (at TRL)
107. Crisis: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay in America by Mitchell Gold
108. The Peregrine by J.A. Baker (recall)
109. White Identity Politics by Ashley Jardina
110. Making Men, Making History: Canadian Masculinities Across Time and Place by Peter Gossage (dud)
111. Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights? by Alex Hutchinson
112. Woke Gaming: Digital Challenges to Oppression and Social Injustice by Kishonna L. Gray
113. Manhood in America by Michael Kimmel
114. Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson
115. Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery by Christie Aschwanden
116. The Joy of Missing Out: The Art of Self-Restraint in an Age of Excess by Svend Brinkmann
117. Homosexuality: Power and Politics by Gay Left Collective
118. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes (recall)
119. Out in Time: The Public Lives of Gay Men from Stonewall to the Queer Generation by Perry N. Halkitis (horrendous)
120. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
121. Happy: Why More or Less Everything Is Absolutely Fine by Derren Brown
122. Gay Midlife and Maturity: Crises, Opportunities, and Fulfillment by John Alan Lee
123. The Machiavellians by Stanley S. Guterman (at TRL)
124. Colloquial Hebrew by Zippi Lyttleton
125. Colloquial Breton by Herve Ar Bihan
126. Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy [sic] by Mark Sedgwick
127. Vegan for Life: Everything You Need to Know to Be Healthy and Fit on a Plant-Based Diet by Jack Norris
128. Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination [sic] by Alexandra Minna Stern
129. Becoming Vegan: The Complete Reference to Plant-Based Nutrition by Brenda Davis
130. Bronze Age Mindset by Bronze Age Pervert (★★★)
131. Noblesse Oblige by Nancy Mitford
132. How To Be Straight by Milo Yiannopoulos (dud)
133. Vegan Yack Attack on the Go! by Jackie Sobon
134. The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis--and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance by Ben Sasse
135. Sissy! The Effeminate Paradox in Postwar U.S. Literature and Culture by Harry Thomas Jr.
136. Coming Together: The Cinematic Elaboration of Gay Male Life, 1945–1979 by Ryan Powell
137. Sérotonine by Michel Houellebecq
138. Les particules élémentaires by Michel Houellebecq
139. Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff
140. Screen Violence by Karl French
141. The Children of Harvey Milk: How LGBTQ Politicians Changed the World by Andrew Reynolds
142. Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland [sic] by Jonathan M. Metzl
143. Queer X Design: 50 Years of Signs, Symbols, Banners, Logos, and Graphic Art of LGBTQ by Andy Campbell
144. The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag
145. Manly Traditions: The Folk Roots of American Masculinities by Simon J. Bronner
146. Contacts Desired: Gay and Lesbian Communications and Community, 1940s–1970s by Martin Meeker
147. From Boys to Men: Gay Men Write About Growing Up by Ted Gideonse
148. Insult and the Making of the Gay Self by Didier Eribon
149. Sexual Landscapes: Why We Are What We Are, Why We Love Whom We Love by James D. Weinrich (at TRL) (★★★)
150. Between the Acts: Lives of Homosexual Men, 1885-1967 by Kevin Porter
151. Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
152. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
153. Come Together: Years of Gay Liberation by Aubrey Walter
154. American Homo: Community and Perversity by Jeffrey Escoffier (at TRL)
155. Pink Triangles: Radical Perspectives on Gay Liberation by Pam Mitchell (at TRL)
156. Foucault in California by Simeon Wade
157. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell (one of the nothings I did was read this book)
158. My Butch Career: A Memoir by Esther Newton
159. The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success by Albert-László Barabási
160. Practical Programming for Strength Training by Mark Rippetoe
161. Wit’s End by James Geary
162. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee
163. Linguistics: Why It Matters by Geoffrey K. Pullum
164. Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales by Oliver Sacks
165. Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder by John Waters
166. Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini
167. Canadian Firefighter Exams
168. Design as an Attitude by Alice Rawsthorn
169. The Agony of Eros by Byung-Chul Han (★★★)
170. We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation by Matthew Riemer
171. Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass by Mary L. Gray
172. Then It Fell Apart by Moby
173. Middle Rages: Why The Battle For Medieval Studies Matters To America by Milo Yiannopoulos

April through June

1. One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem by Neil Tennant
2. Too Much Is Not Enough: A Memoir of Fumbling Toward Adulthood by Andrew Rannells
3. The Hero’s Journey by Harold Bloom
4. Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb
5. Our Wretched Town Hall by Eric Williams
6. SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police by Vox Day
7. SJWs Always Double Down: Anticipating the Thought Police by Vox Day
8. Lesbian Communities: Festivals, RVs, and the Internet by Esther Rothblum
9. Delectable Lie: a Liberal Repudiation of Multiculturalism by Salim Mansur
10. Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face by John Eldredge
11. Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World by Clive Thompson
12. Fighting Proud: The Untold Story of the Gay Men Who Served in Two World Wars by Stephen Bourne
13. How To Be Poor by Milo Yiannopoulos (dud)
14. Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic by Sandra Kahn (★★★)
15. Uniforms: Why We Are What We Wear by Paul Fussell
16. The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi (★★★)
17. Class: A Guide Through the American Status System by Paul Fussell
18. The AIDS Activist Project by Bill Bytsura (suggested)
19. The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor by William Easterly
20. In the Swarm: Digital Prospects by Han Byung-Chul
21. Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts by Jill Abramson
22. Symbols of Canada by Michael Dawson
23. Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals by John Gray
24. Saving Beauty by Han Byung-Chul (blog post)
25. White by Bret Easton Ellis
26. The Man I Might Become: Gay Men Write About Their Fathers by Bruce Shenitz
27. Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
28. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield
29. Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level by Leander Kahney
30. Art After Stonewall, 1969–1989 by Jonathan Weinberg
31. The Canadian Manifesto by Conrad Black
32. Bad: Or, the Dumbing of America by Paul Fussell (dud)
33. Working by Studs Terkel
34. Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement by David Johnson
35. Unconventional Candour: The Life and Times of George Smitherman by George Smitherman
36. Stonewall: A Building. An Uprising. A Revolution by Rob Sanders
37. Lie With Me: A Novel by Philippe Besson
38. Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States by Samantha Allen
39. How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories by Alex Rosenberg
40. Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society by Nicholas Christakis
41. The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics by Michael Malice
42. The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics by Michael Malice (audiobook)
43. Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese by Han Byung-Chul
44. What is Power? by Han Byung-Chul
45. Every Tool’s a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It by Adam Savage (dud)
46. The Stonewall Reader by New Library
47. Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life by Natasha Lennard
48. Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Streets by Gayle Pitman
49. The Sniper Mind: Eliminate Fear, Deal with Uncertainty, and Make Better Decisions by David Amerland
50. A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram
51. Color: A Visual History from Newton to Modern Color-Matching Guides by Alexandra Loske
52. Design Is Storytelling by Ellen Lupton
53. Toronto Reborn: Design Successes and Challenges by Ken Greenberg
54. The Killing School: Inside the World’s Deadliest Sniper Program by Brandon Webb
55. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes
56. Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football by John Urschel
57. Race Differences in Ethnocentrism by Edward Dutton
58. Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer (abomination)
59. Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man by Sam Keen
60. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
61. Everyday Chaos by David Weinberger
62. Two-Dimensional Man by Paul Sahre (again)
63. Revival Type: Digital Typefaces Inspired by the Past by Paul Shaw
64. The Eternal Letter: Two Millennia of the Classical Roman Capital by Paul Shaw
65. Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men’s Lives by Walt Odets (severe disappointment)
66. The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World by Lewis Hyde (again)
67. Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste by Nolan Gasser
68. Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership by Lewis Hyde (dud)
69. Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York by Donald Albrecht
70. User by Devin Grayson
71. Get Started in Modern Hebrew by Shula Gilboa
72. When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History by Hugh Ryan
73. Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities by Eric Kaufmann
74. Idea Makers by Stephen Wolfram
75. Manhood: A Journey from Childhood into the Fierce Order of Virility by Michel Leiris (at TRL)
76. The Wit and Wisdom of Quentin Crisp by Quentin Crisp (at TRL)
77. Male Impersonators: Men Performing Masculinity by Mark Simpson (at TRL)
78. Middle Rages: Why The Battle For Medieval Studies Matters To America by Milo Yiannopoulos

January through March

1. Sun & Steel by Yukio Mishima (again)
2. Tomorrow Is Too Late: Toronto Hardcore Punk in the 1980s by Derek Emerson
3. Metodo Simoncini by Antonio Cavedoni (gift)
4. Octopus, Squid, and Cuttlefish: A Visual/Scientific Guide to the Oceans’ Most Advanced Invertebrates by Roger Hanlon
5. Why Young Men: Rage, Race and the Crisis of Identity by Jamil Jivani
6. Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell (again)
7. Digital Type Design for Branding: Designing Letters from Their Source by Stephen Boss
8. Le suicide français by Éric Zemmour
9. Listening to Design: A Guide to the Creative Process by Andrew Levitt (dud)
10. Hockey Fight in Canada: The Big Media Faceoff over the NHL by David Shoalts (dud)
11. How to Build a Shed by Sally Coulthard (dud)
12. Cut and Fold Techniques for Promotional Materials by Paul Jackson
13. InDesign Type by Nigel French (recall)
14. Chair Anatomy: Design and Construction by James Orrom
15. Typographic Design: Form and Communication by Rob Carter
16. Reinventing Print: Technology and Craft in Typography by David Jury
17. A2Z: Alphabets & Signs by Mel Gooding
18. Generative Design: Visualize, Program, and Create with JavaScript in p5.js by Benedikt Gross
19. The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
20. Strong Enough? Thoughts on Thirty Years of Barbell Training by Mark Rippetoe (audiobook)
21. This Is Me by Ian Thorpe (E‑book)
22. The Intergalactic Design Guide: Harnessing the Creative Potential of Social Design by Cheryl Heller
23. Design Thinking at Work: How Innovative Organizations are Embracing Design by David Dunne
24. Talk on the Wild Side: Why Language Can’t Be Tamed by Lane Greene
25. Layout for Graphic Designers: An Introduction by Gavin Ambrose
26. Color Library by Emily King
27. Letterforms: Typeface Design from Past to Future by Timothy Samara
28. The Complete America’s Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook 2001–2018
29. Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America by Monica Obniski
30. The Movie Lover by Friedel
31. Cut in Half: The Hidden World Inside Everyday Objects by Mike Warren
32. Futura: The Typeface by Petra Eisele
33. Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution by Ben Fountain
34. Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain’s Underclass by Darren McGarvey
35. Destroy All Monsters: The Last Rock Novel by Jeff Jackson
36. The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self by Alice Miller
37. Norwegian Wood by Lars Mytting (again)
38. Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies by Dave Addey (★★★)
39. Sagmeister & Walsh: Beauty by Stefan Sagmeister (★★★)
40. How to Judge People by What They Look Like by Edward Dutton (E‑book)
41. Theory of Type Design by Gerard Unger
42. The Practice of Natural Movement: Reclaim Power, Health, and Freedom by Erwan Le Corre (dud)
43. Morrissey: Alone and Palely Loitering by Kevin Cummins
44. Spearhead: 35 Years of Gay Toronto History by Martin Roebuck
45. Playing with Fire: The Art of Chopping and Burning Wood by Paul Heiney (dud)
46. Watching the English by Kate Fox
47. Lesbian and Gay Rights in Canada: Social Movements and Equality-Seeking, 1971–1995 by Miriam Smith
48. Writers under Surveillance: The FBI Files by J. Pat Brown
49. Building Wood Fires: Techniques and Skills for Stoking the Flames Both Indoors and Out by Annette McGivney (dud)
50. The Backyard Lumberjack by Frank Philbrick
51. Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design by Kat Holmes (dud)
52. Claws of the Panda: Beijing’s Campaign of Influence and Intimidation in Canada by John Manthorpe
53. Storey’s Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance by John Storey
54. Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It’s Doing to Us by Will Storr
55. The Woodburner Handbook by Anthony Bailey
56. Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han
57. The Log Book: Getting the Best From Your Wood-Burning Stove by Will Rolls (dud)
58. Black Dog: The Dreams of Paul Nash by Dave McKean
59. Destin français by Éric Zemmour
60. Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life by Colin Ellard
61. Architecture and Surrealism by Neil Spiller
62. Plane Crash: The Forensics of Aviation Disasters by George Bibel
63. Headcase: LGBTQ Writers & Artists on Mental Health and Wellness by Stephanie Schroeder
64. Gay, Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics by Myrl Beam (dud)
65. Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution by Tucker Carlson (★★★)
66. Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff
67. The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man’s Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America by Tommy Tomlinson
68. Don’t Label Me: An Incredible Conversation for Divided Times by Irshad Manji (atrocity)
69. Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe by Roger McNamee
70. Design Works: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Value through Business Design, Revised and Expanded Edition by Heather Fraser (dud)
71. Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself by Dr. Neff
72. The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook: A Proven Way to Accept Yourself, Build Inner Strength, and Thrive by Kristin Neff
73. Buddy Babylon: The Autobiography of Buddy Cole by Scott Thompson, Paul Bellini (suggested)
74. May I Come In? Discovering the World in Other People’s Houses by Wendy Goodman
75. The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
76. Watch Your Tongue: What Our Everyday Sayings and Idioms Figuratively Mean by Mark Abley
77. Spotify Teardown: Inside the Black Box of Streaming Music (The MIT Press) by Maria Eriksson (dud)
78. Love and Resistance: Out of the Closet into the Stonewall Era by Jason Baumann
79. Point of View: Me, New York City, and the Punk Scene by Chris Stein (dud)
80. The Compassionate Mind: A New Approach to Life’s Challenges by Paul Gilbert

2018

June through December

1. Do Men Mother? by Andrea Doucet
2. Potatoes on the Moon by Jim Goad (E‑book)
3. The Wisdom of Wolves: Lessons From the Sawtooth Pack by Jim Dutcher
4. Them: Adventures With Extremists by Jon Ronson
5. Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism by Alexandra Kitty
6. Boys: What It Means to Become a Man by Rachel Giese
7. The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel
8. Just 2 Seconds by Gavin De Becker (suggested)
9. Listening to Design: A Guide to the Creative Process by Andrew Levitt
10. Black-Box Thinking: The Surprising Truth About Success by Howard Hughes
11. Into? by North Morgan
12. Motherhood by Sheila Heti
13. The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions by Peter Brannen
14. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson
15. The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading by Edmund White
16. The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes by Anthony Sadler
17. Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Robert W. Fieseler
18. Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
19. The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly
20. Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality by Jaron Lanier
21. Suicide of the West by Jonah Goldberg
22. The Gift of Injury by Stuart McGill, Brian Carroll (suggested)
23. Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity by Francis Fukuyama
24. Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
25. New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future by James Bridle
26. The War on Normal People: The Truth About America’s Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future by Andrew Yang
27. Sissy! The Effeminate Paradox in Postwar U.S. Literature and Culture by Harry Thomas Jr.
28. We Were Yahoo by Jeremy Ring (dud)
29. The Polaroid Project by William A. Ewing
30. Less by Andrew Sean Greer
31. Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
32. Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America by Vegas Tenold
33. The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English by Lynne Murphy
34. Queer: A Graphic History by Dr. Meg-John Barker
35. Words by Christoph Niemann
36. Sunday Sketching by Christoph Niemann
37. Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric by Madison Moore
38. Has the Gay Movement Failed? by Martin Duberman
39. Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men by Jane Ward
40. Becoming A Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette
41. Hero of Flight 93: Mark Bingham by Jon Barrett
42. Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News by Bernard Goldberg
43. Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation by Jim Downs
44. Own the Day, Own Your Life by Aubrey Marcus (dud)
45. Calypso by David Sedaris (audiobook)
46. Fight by Eugene S. Robinson (dud)
47. Formerly Known As Food by Kristin Lawless
48. Custodians of the Internet by Tarleton Gillespie
49. Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang
50. Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk
51. Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America by Ann Coulter
52. Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past by David Reich
53. All the Things I Lost in the Flood by Laurie Anderson
54. Vodka Is Vegan by Matt Letten
55. Lake Success by Gary Shteyngart (audiobook)
56. Self and Soul: A Defense of Ideals by Mark Edmundson
57. Calypso by David Sedaris
58. Canada in Decay: Mass Immigration, Diversity, and the Ethnocide of Euro-Canadians by Ricardo Duchesne (E‑book)
59. Resistance Is Futile: How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind by Ann Coulter
60. Night Soil by Dale Peck
61. Frenemies by Ken Auletta
62. The Diversity Delusion by Heather MacDonald
63. Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock
64. The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World by Lewis Hyde
65. Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction by Joshua Cohen
66. The Dichotomy of Leadership by Jocko Willink
67. The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff
68. Click Here to Kill Everybody by Bruce Schneier
69. Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs by Ken Kocienda
70. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
71. A More Complete Beast by Jack Donovan (E‑book)
72. A More Complete Beast by Jack Donovan (audiobook)
73. Mostly Straight: Sexual Fluidity Among Men by Ritch C. Savin-Williams
74. Becoming Who I Am: Young Men on Being Gay by Ritch C. Savin-Williams
75. Becoming Gay: The Journey to Self-Acceptance by Richard Isay
76. 弟の夫 by Gengoroh Tagame (suggested)
77. You’re on an Airplane: A Self-Mythologizing Memoir by Parker Posey (audiobook) (★★★)
78. Provocations by Camille Paglia (★★★)
79. Hater: On the Virtues of Utter Disagreeability by John Semley
80. I’m Afraid of Men by Mr. Vivek Shraya
81. National Geographic Infographics by Julius Wiedemann
82. The Seventh Function of Language by Laurent Binet
83. Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford
84. Jordanetics: A Journey Into the Mind of Humanity’s Greatest Thinker by Vox Day (E‑book)
85. The Language of Dogs by Justin Silver
86. The Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy by Paul Myers
87. Impossible Owls: Essays by Brian Phillips
88. My Life as a Goddess: A Memoir through (Un)Popular Culture by Guy Branum
89. Evolution by Eileen Myles
90. The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays by Wesley Yang (dud)
91. Small Things by Sky Gilbert
92. Born into It: A Fan’s Life by Jay Baruchel
93. It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried
94. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
95. Whiteness: The Original Sin by Jim Goad (E‑book)
96. Fox 8: A Story by George Saunders
97. Sun & Steel
98. Tomorrow Is Too Late: Toronto Hardcore Punk in the 1980s by Derek Emerson
99. Metodo Simoncini by Antonio Cavedoni
100. Octopus, Squid, and Cuttlefish by Roger Hanlon
101. Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell
102. Digital Type Design for Branding: Designing Letters from Their Source by Stephen Boss
103. Le suicide français by Éric Zemmour
104. Listening to Design: A Guide to the Creative Process by Andrew Levitt
105. Hockey Fight in Canada by David Shoalts (dud)
106. How to Build a Shed by Sally Coulthard (dud)
107. Cut-and-Fold Techniques for Promotional Materials by Paul Jackson
108. InDesign Type by Nigel French
109. Chair Anatomy: Design and Construction by James Orrom
110. Typographic Design: Form and Communication by Rob Carter
111. Reinventing Print: Technology and Craft in Typography by David Jury
112. A2Z: Alphabets & Signs by Mel Gooding
113. Generative Design by Benedikt Gross
114. The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
115. Strong Enough? Thoughts on Thirty Years of Barbell Training by God-Emperor Mark Rippetoe (audiobook)
116. Fox 8: A Story by George Saunders (audiobook)

Through early June

1. House Industries: The Process Is the Inspiration by House Industries
2. #WeRateDogs: The Most Hilarious and Adorable Pups You’ve Ever Seen by Matt Nelson
3. Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 by M.K. Czerwiec
4. After Silence: A History of AIDS Through Its Images by Avram Finkelstein
5. David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music by Darryl W. Bullock
6. A Visual Inventory by John Pawson
7. The Visual History of Type by Paul McNeil
8. The Story of The Face: The Magazine that Changed Culture by Paul Gorman
9. Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself – While the Rest of Us Die by Garrett M. Graff
10. Libertarianism for Beginners by Todd Seavey
11. Paleo Vegan: Plant-Based Primal Recipes by Ellen Jaffe Jones
12. Plant-Based Paleo by Jenna Zoe
13. The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left by Dinesh D’Souza
14. Chip Kidd: Book Two
15. Monograph by Chris Ware
16. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson (audiobook)
17. The Videofag Book by Jordan Tannahill
18. True Prep: It’s a Whole New Old World by Lisa Birnbach
19. Deviant Globalization: Black-Market Economy in the 21st Century by Nils Gilman
20. Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi by Dan Healey
21. Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything by Kelly Weinersmith
22. Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio García Martínez
23. LiarTown: The First Four Years 2013-2017 by Sean Tejaratchi (suggested)
24. American Pravda: My Fight for Truth in the Era of Fake News by James O’Keefe
25. What Language Do I Dream In? by Elena Lappin
26. Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap by Warren Farrell
27. My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness by Kabi Nagata
28. theMystery.doc by Matthew McIntosh
29. Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection by John T. Cacioppo
30. Self-Made Man: One Woman’s Journey Into Manhood and Back Again by Norah Vincent (again)
31. The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man’s World by Alan Downs (again)
32. The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man’s World, Second Edition by Alan Downs (audio CD)
33. Postmodern Design Complete by Judith Gura
34. A World Without “Whom”: The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age by Emmy J. Favilla (abomination)
35. The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America by Isaac Butler
36. Boys Keep Swinging: A Memoir by Jake Shears
37. On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
38. Kill All Normies by Angela Nagle
39. Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan
40. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber
41. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
42. The Complete Uxbridge English Dictionary by Graeme Naismith (gift)
43. The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst
44. The Seventh Function of Language: A Novel by Laurent Binet
45. Jews Queers Germans: A Novel/History by Martin Duberman
46. Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic by Richard A. McKay
47. Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness by Trevor Hoppe
48. Spectrum by John Pawson
49. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
50. The Rub of Time by Martin Amis
51. Media Madness: Donald Trump, the Press, and the War Over the Truth by Howard Kurtz
52. Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue by Ryan Holiday
53. Barbarians: How Baby Boomers, Immigrants, and Islam Screwed My Generation by Lauren Southern
54. The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics by David Goodhart
55. The Quotable Hitchens, Windsor Mann, ed.
56. The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Kevin Simler
57. Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression by Johann Hari
58. The Thomas Sowell Reader
59. World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech by Franklin Foer
60. Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays by Thomas Sowell
61. The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness by Todd Rose
62. Intellectuals and Race by Thomas Sowell
63. Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries and Meanings of Language by Daniel Tammet
64. Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy by Lynne Segal
65. After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography by Chris Kraus
66. Minitel: Welcome to the Internet by Julien Mailland
67. The Trouble with Canada... Still! by William D. Gairdner
68. The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture by Bonnie J. Morris
69. The Vanishing American Adult by Ben Sasse
70. Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn by Chris Hughes
71. Emotional Success: The Power of Gratitude, Compassion, and Pride by David DeSteno
72. Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich
73. Glorious & Free by Kim Bozak and Rita Field-Marsham
74. The Homo and the Negro by James J. O’Meara (E‑book)
75. The Great New York Subway Map by Emiliano Ponzi (suggested)
76. Why Hono[u]r Matters by Tamler Sommers
77. CP Caps and Spelling by James McCarten (cf.)
78. The Canadian Press Stylebook by James McCarten
79. Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts by Annie Duke
80. The AIGA Guide to Careers in Graphic and Communication Design by Juliette Cezzar (suggested)
81. The Assignment by Walter Hill
82. The New Gay Liberation: Escaping the Fag-End of Feminism by Matthew Lye (E‑book)
83. Do Men Mother? Second Edition by Andrea Doucet

2017

Rest of year

1. GoatMan: How I Took a Holiday from Being Human by Thomas Thwaites
2. Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora, and Black Studies by Rinaldo Walcott (vile)
3. Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years by Sue Townsend (★★★)
4. The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat by Stephan J. Guyenet
5. Aleister & Adolf by Douglas Rushkoff
6. Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society by Cordelia Fine
7. Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World by Rutger Bregman
8. In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State by Charles Murray (at TRL)
9. The Redneck Manifesto by Jim Goad (at TRL)
10. Instant Light: Tarkovsky Polaroids by Giovanni Chiaramonte (at TRL)
11. The Gay Male’s Odyssey in the Corporate World: From Disempowerment to Empowerment by John DeCecco
12. Is God a Racist? the Right Wing in Canada by Stanley R. Barrett
13. A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History by Nicholas Wade
14. The Path to Purpose: Helping Our Children Find Their Calling in Life by William Damon
15. The Animals’ Agenda: Freedom, Compassion, and Coexistence in the Human Age by Marc Bekoff
16. The CanadaLand Guide to Canada by Jesse Brown (vile)
17. Maybe... Maybe Not Again! by Ralf König
18. Maybe... Maybe Not by Ralf König
19. Roy & Al by Ralf König
20. Gorilla Mindset: How to Control Your Thoughts and Emotions and Live Life on Your Terms by Mike Cernovich (E‑book)
21. Ultimate Back Fitness and Performance by Stuart McGill
22. My Brother’s Husband, Vol. 1 by Gengoroh Tagame
23. Back Mechanic: The Secrets to a Healthy Spine Your Doctor Isn’t Telling You by Stuart McGill
24. The Next Big Thing by Rhodri Marsden
25. Don’t Give Up, Don’t Give in: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life by Louis Zamperini
26. Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars by Camille Paglia
27. The Man Who Designed the Future: Norman Bel Geddes and the Invention of Twentieth-Century America by B. Alexandra Szerlip
28. Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World’s Best Poems by Camille Paglia
29. A Queer Love Story: The Letters of Jane Rule and Rick Bébout by Marilyn R. Schuster
30. The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe by Heather MacDonald
31. Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography by Richard Rodriguez (blog post)
32. The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity by Anson Rabinbach (interloan) (dud)
33. They Were White and They Were Slaves: The Untold History of the Enslavement of Whites in Early America by Michael Hoffman (interloan)
34. Oh Canada! Oh Quebec! Requiem for a Divided Country by Mordechai Richler
35. Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, Third Edition by Mark Rippetoe (blog post)
36. Becoming a Supple Leopard by Kelly Starrett
37. Why Dissent Matters: Because Some People See Things the Rest of Us Miss by William Kaplan
38. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
39. Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There by David Brooks
40. Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals by Jonathan Smucker
41. Why I Am Not A Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto by Jessa Crispin (vile) (blog post)
42. The Candidate: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail by Noah Richler
43. My Traitor’s Heart: A South African Exile Returns To Face His Country, His Tribe by Rian Malan
44. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris
45. Lunch with Jan Wong by Jan Wong
46. Viking Economics by George Lakey
47. Low-Back Disorders: Evidence-Based Prevention and Rehabilitation by Stuart McGill
48. United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror by Jamie Glazov
49. The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
50. Flying Saucers Are Real: The UFO Library of Jack Womack by Jack Womack (suggested)
51. Love Is Love by Marc Andreyko (vile)
52. The Russian Kettlebell Challenge: Xtreme Fitness for Hard-Living Comrades by Pavel Tsatsouline
53. The Hard Way Out: My Life with the Hells Angels and Why I Turned Against Them by Jerry Langton
54. Some Go Hungry by J. Patrick Redmond
55. Belling the Cat: Essays, Reports and Opinions by Mordecai Richler
56. Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life by Adam Greenfield
57. Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures by Eric Kandel (★★★★) (blog post)
58. Class by Francesco Pacifico
59. Wind/Pinball by Haruki Murakami
60. Deskbound: Standing Up to a Sitting World by Kelly Starrett
61. 50 Objects That Define Toronto by Spacers
62. How Insensitive by Russell Smith (blog post)
63. Religion and Canadian Party Politics by David Rayside
64. The End of Eddy by Édouard Louis (blog post)
65. En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule by Édouard Louis (blog post)
66. En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule by Édouard Louis (audio CD) (blog post)
67. Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party by Dinesh D’Souza
68. Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell
69. Make Trouble by John Waters (quite clearly derived from my transcript)
70. How to Be Good with Words by Don LePan
71. The Case Against Sugar by Gary Taubes
72. This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture by Whitney Phillips
73. The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain by Dario Fernandez-Morera
74. Language at the Speed of Sight: How We Read, Why So Many Can’t, and What Can Be Done About It by Mark Seidenberg
75. Our Culture, What’s Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses by Theodore Dalrymple
76. Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline by Theodore Dalrymple
77. The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism by Theodore Dalrymple
78. Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer by John Lorinc
79. Our Culture, What’s Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses by Theodore Dalrymple
80. Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline by Theodore Dalrymple
81. The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism by Theodore Dalrymple
82. Body Politic: The Great American Sports Machine by David Shields (★★★★) (at TRL)
83. Dressing for the Culture Wars: Style and the Politics of Self-Presentation in the 1960s and 1970s by Betty Luther-Hillman (at TRL)
84. The Politics of Design: A (Not So) Global Manual for Visual Communication by Ruben Pater
85. Not So Good a Gay Man: A Memoir by Frank M. Robinson
86. Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light by Leonard Shlain
87. The Illustrated Art of Manliness by Brett McKay (dud)
88. JD by Mark Merlis
89. Unplugged: Evolve from Technology to Upgrade Your Fitness, Performance, & Consciousness by Brian MacKenzie
90. Fearless: Portraits of LGBT Student Athletes by Jeff Sheng (suggested)
91. Lay Your Sleeping Head by Michael Nava (suggested)
92. Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America by Ann Coulter
93. Cubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection by Emily Braun (at TRL)
94. American Studies by Mark Merlis
95. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life by Scott Adams
96. War Against the Animals by Paul Russell
97. The Year’s Best Science Fiction by Gardner Dozois
98. The Fountain by Darren Aronofsky
99. Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass by Theodore Dalrymple
100. The Handover by Elaine Dewar (dud, and self-indulgent)
101. Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story by Harvey Pekar (cf. Michael Malice Booklist)
102. Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy by Robert H. Frank
103. Fun: Spies, Puzzle Solvers, and a Century of Crosswords by Paolo Bacilieri
104. The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present by Eric Kandel
105. Norwegian Wood: Chopping, Stacking, and Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way by Lars Mytting (again)
106. The Path to Purpose: Helping Our Children Find Their Calling in Life by William Damon
107. The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels by Alex Epstein
108. The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives by Jesse Eisinger
109. Playing Hurt: My Journey from Despair to Hope by John Saunders
110. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
111. Tomboy Survival Guide by Ivan E. Coyote, who is not male
112. No Campus for White Men: The Transformation of Higher Education into Hateful Indoctrination by Scott Greer
113. LGBTQ Stats: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People by the Numbers by Bennett Singer
114. Could It Happen Here? Canada in the Age of Trump and Brexit by Michael Adams
115. Manxiety by Dylan Jones (dud)
116. Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World by Mitch Prinstein
117. Highlights of My Last Regret by North Morgan (dud)
118. F‑Bomb: Dispatches from the War on Feminism by Jessa Crispin (blog post)
119. Apron Strings: Navigating Food and Family in France, Italy, and China by Jan Wong
120. Hotel Living by Ioannis Pappos
121. The Alhambra by Bruce Bawer (suggested)
122. The Barbell Prescription: Strength Training for Life After 40 by Jonathon M. Sullivan
123. Streampunks: YouTube and the Rebels Remaking Media by Robert Kyncl (dud)
124. What’s Happened To The University? by Frank Furedi
125. Snacks: A Canadian Food History by Janis Thiessen
126. Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories by Chuck Palahniuk
127. Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief by Jordan B. Peterson (page)
128. Oriana Fallaci: The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend by Cristina DeStefano
129. The Hero’s Body: A Memoir by William Giraldi (dud)
130. Skinheads, Fur Traders, and DJs: An Adventure Through the 1970s by Kim Clarke Champniss
131. The War on Sex by David M. Halperin
132. The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks
133. Logical Family: A Memoir by Armistead Maupin
134. Iraq + 100: The First Anthology of Science Fiction to Have Emerged from Iraq by Hassan Blasim (suggested)
135. User Experience Revolution by Paul Boag (dud) (suggested)
136. Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter by Scott Adams
137. Draft Nº 4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee
138. Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook by Mark Bray
139. Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History by Kurt Andersen
140. Into the Fire: The Fight to Save Fort McMurray by Jerron Hawley
141. The Seasons of a Man’s Life by Daniel J. Levinson
142. The Year Canadians Lost Their Minds: The Centennial of 1967 by Tom Hawthorn
143. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson (vile)
144. The Pox Lover: An Activist’s Decade in New York and Paris by Anne-Christine d’Adesky (suggested)
145. Best Canadian Sports Writing by Stacey May Fowles
146. The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct by Thomas S. Szasz
147. Looking for Lenin by Niels Ackermann (suggested)
148. Berlin Calling by Paul Hockenos
149. When Violence Is the Answer: Learning How to Do What It Takes When Your Life Is at Stake by Tim Larkin
150. The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray (suggested)
151. Never Use Futura by Douglas Thomas (★★★) (mention)
152. How to See: Visual Adventures in a World God Never Made by George Nelson, Michael Bierut
153. Buddy System: Understanding Male Friendships by Geoffrey Greif
154. The Show House by Dan Lopez
155. Ghosts of St. Vincent’s by Tom Eubanks
156. Two-Dimensional Man by Paul Sahre (dud)
157. This Is Not Fame: A “From What I Re-Memoir” by Doug Stanhope
158. White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America by JoanC. Williams
159. House Industries: The Process Is the Inspiration by House Industries (gift of Verbosus)

January through April

1. The Creative Architect: Inside the Great Midcentury Personality Study by Pierluigi Serraino

2. Substitute: Going to School With a Thousand Kids by Nicholson Baker

3. Pirate Utopia by Bruce Sterling

4. Capture by David Kessler (dud)

5. The Decline of Males by Lionel Tiger

6. Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Hochschild

7. Men in Groups by Lionel Tiger (at TRL) (dud)

8. Minecraft, Second Edition by Daniel Goldberg

9. Guided Mindfulness Meditation Series 2 by Jon Kabat-Zinn

10. The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads by Tim Wu

11. Free Will by Sam Harris (dud)

12. Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn

13. Life Is Short – Art Is Shorter: In Praise of Brevity by David Shields

14. Mindfulness for Beginners by Jon Kabat-Zinn

15. Tools of Titans by Timothy Ferriss (dud)

16. Guided Mindfulness Meditation by Jon Kabat-Zinn

17. Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living by Manjula Martin

18. So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson (again)

19. The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Brower

20. Lying by Sam Harris

21. What to Expect When No One’s Expecting: America’s Coming Demographic Disaster by Jonathan Last

22. Writers’ Rights: Freelance Journalism in a Digital Age by Nicole Cohen

23. Is There Anything Good About Men? How Cultures Flourish by Exploiting Men by Roy Baumeister

24. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil

25. Web of Hate: Inside Canada’s Far Right Network by Warren Kinsella

26. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Harari

27. Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation by Alan Burdick

28. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith (TK

29. Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures by Eric Kandel (recall)

30. Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games by Ian Bogost

31. The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter by David Sax

32. Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders by Joshua Foer (dud)

33. Straight Expectations: What Does it Mean to be Gay Today? by Julie Bindel (again)

34. The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives by Lisa Servon

35. The Secret History of Twin Peaks: A Novel by Mark Frost

36. Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work by Steven Kotler

37. Other People: Takes & Mistakes by David Shields (★★★★)

38. Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting by Phaidon Editors

39. All That Man Is by David Szalay

40. Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me by Bill Hayes (★★★★)

41. Manhood: A Journey from Childhood into the Fierce Order of Virility by Michel Leiris

42. We Stand on Guard by Brian K. Vaughan

43. One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays by race-baiting harridan Scaachi Koul

44. After the Blue Hour by John Rechy

45. The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream by Tyler Cowen

46. The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Getting Ahead: Dos and Don’ts of Right Behavior, Tough Thinking, Clear Writing, and Living a Good Life by Charles Murray

47. Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country by Shelby Steele

48. The Right Way to be Crippled and Naked: The Fiction of Disability: An Anthology by Sheila Black

49. Public Enemies: Dueling Writers Take On Each Other and the World by Bernard-Henri Lévy, Michel Houellebecq

50. Trumping Trudeau by Ezra Levant

51. Angel Catbird Volume 1 by Margaret Atwood

52. The Private Eye by Brian K. Vaughan

53. Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010 by Charles Murray (again)

54. Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism by Camille Paglia

55. The 37th Parallel: The Secret Truth Behind America’s UFO Highway by Ben Mezrich

56. Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era by Michael Kimmel

57. Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces by Radley Balko

58. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

59. Code Warriors: NSA’s Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union by Stephen Budiansky

60. Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980–1983 by Tim Lawrence

61. American War by Omar El Akkad

62. The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex by Warren Farrell

2016

September through December

1. Now You See It: Studies on Lesbian and Gay Film by Richard Dyer (at TRL)

2. Homos by Leo Bersani (at TRL)

3. Peter Saville Estate (at TRL)

4. The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film: A History And Annotated Bibliography by Drewey Gunn (at TRL)

5. Impossible Dance: Club Culture and Queer World-Making by Fiona Buckland (at TRL)

6. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life by Scott Adams

7. Moxyland by Lauren Beukes

8. Fantastic Man: Men of Great Style and Substance by Jop van Bennekom et al. (suggested)

9. Wasting Time on the Internet by Kenneth Goldsmith (dud)

10. In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome! by Ann Coulter

11. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal

12. Making a Scene: Lesbians and Community Across Canada, 1964–84 by Liz Millward

13. Underdog: Confessions of a Right-Wing Gay Jewish Muckraker by Sue-Ann Levy

14. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance

15. Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis

16. Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawke

17. Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide by Charles Foster (dud)

18. The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time by Keith Houston

19. The Gilda Stories: Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition by Jewelle Gomez

20. The Killing Game: Martyrdom, Murder, and the Lure of ISIS by Mark Bourrie

21. Some Men Are Lookers by Ethan Mordden

22. Making Out in the Mainstream: GLAAD and the Politics of Respectability by Vincent Doyle

23. A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age by Daniel J. Levitin

24. Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story by Harvey Pekar

25. Cultures of Masculinity by Tim Edwards

26. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini

27. The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing

28. This Is London: Life and Death in the World City by Ben Judah

29. No News Is Bad News: Canada’s Media Collapse – And What Comes Next by Ian Gill

30. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari

31. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert L. Moore (recall)

32. Service: Platon by Platon

33. The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin’s Russia by David King

34. Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis by Kevin J. Mumford

35. Life Sentence: Stories from Four Decades of Court Reporting by Christie Blatchford

36. George Washington: Poems by Adam Fitzgerald

37. Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality by Katherine Franke

38. This Is a Book About the Kids in the Hall by John Semley

39. Mostly Void, Partially Stars: Welcome to Night Vale Episodes, Volume 1 by Joseph Fink

40. The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe: Welcome to Night Vale Episodes, Volume by Joseph Fink

41. Sergio Y. by Alexandre Vidal Porto

42. Commodified and Criminalized: New Racism and African Americans in Contemporary Sports by David J. Leonard

43. GoatMan: How I Took a Holiday from Being Human by Thomas Thwaites (E‑book)

44. Words by Christoph Niemann

45. Bit Rot by Douglas Coupland (dud)

46. Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez

47. George Dureau: The Photographs by Philip Gefter

48. Secret Life: The Jian Ghomeshi Investigation by Kevin Donovan

49. Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repai by Sarah Schulman

50. Graphique de la Rue: The Signs of Paris by Louise Fili (suggested)

51. Supplication by John Wieners

52. The Person and the Situation: Perspectives of Social Psychology by Lee Ross

53. Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up by William Poundstone

54. The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman

55. Fighting for Life: Contest, Sexuality, and Consciousness by Walter J. Ong

56. 10 × 10: 100 Portraits Celebrating Queers in the Art, Volume 1, James Fowler, ed.

57. Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett

58. The Rise and Fall of the Yellow House by John Whittier Treat

59. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

60. Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert Cialdini

61. Where the Jews Aren’t: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region by Masha Gessen

62. Christodora by Tim Murphy

63. Is This Live? Inside the Wild Early Years of MuchMusic by Christopher Ward

64. The Bastard on the Couch by Daniel Jones

65. True Homosexual Experiences: Boyd McDonald and Straight to Hell by William E. Jones

    (suggested)

66. Recipes from an Ecological Kitchen by Lorna J. Sass (re-purchase)

67. A Manner of Being: Writers on Their Mentors by Annie Liontas (suggested)

68. Le sculpteur by Scott McCloud (suggested)

69. My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf

70. The Fate of Gender: Nature, Nurture, and the Human Future by Frank Browning

71. The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame by Anne Ishii

72. A History of Virility by Alain Corbin

73. We Are FriendsWithYou by FriendsWithYou

74. The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt

75. Who is Charlie? Xenophobia and the New Middle Class by Emmanuel Todd (suggested)

76. Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World by Timothy Garton Ash

77. Unspeakable by Chris Hedges

78. Twenty Over Eighty: Conversations on a Lifetime in Architecture and Design by Aileen Kwun

79. How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art by David Salle

80. Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (dud)

81. Keep It Simple: The Early Design Years of Apple by Hartmut Esslinger

82. Man Up: Cracking the Code of Modern Manhood by Carlos Andres Gomez

83. Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler’s Germany by Rudolph Herzog

84. In Praise of Profanity by Michael Adams

85. The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt

86. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg

87. Queer Progress: From Homophobia to Homonationalism by Tim McCaskell

88. The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy by William Strauss

89. How to Be Miserable: 40 Strategies You Already Use by Randy J. Paterson

90. CCCP Cookbook: True Stories of Soviet Cuisine by Olga Syutkin (suggested)

91. How Men Age: What Evolution Reveals about Male Health and Mortality by Richard G. Bribiescas

92. Word’s Out: Gay Men’s Englis by William Leap (interloan)

93. Out of Season: The Vanishing Architecture of the Wildwoods by Mark Havens (suggested)

94. In the Name of Hate: Understanding Hate Crimes by Barbara Perry

95. How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by David France

96. Photoviz: Visualizing Information through Photography by Nicholas Felton (suggested)

97. Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall by Neil Bartlett (interloan)

98. Beyond Radical Secularism: How France and the Christian West Should Respond to the Islamic Challenge by Pierre Manent (suggested)

99. How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor by James K. A. Smith (suggested)

100. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis

101. The English Language in Canada: Status, History and Comparative Analysis by Charles Boberg

102. Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock

103. When We Rise by Cleve Jones

104. Manual of Section by Paul Lewis

August

1. The Cultural Sociology of Political Assassination: From MLK and RFK to Fortuyn and van Gogh by Ron Eyerman (at TRL)
2. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari (recall)
3. Reclaiming Canadian Bodies: Visual Media and Representation by Lynda Mannik
4. The Horse by Wendy Williams
5. The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
6. Moonstone by Sjón
7. Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane
8. Insult and the Making of the Gay Self by Didier Eribon
9. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
10. What You Want by Constantine Phipps
11. David Wojnarowicz: Brush Fires in the Social Landscape by David Wojnarowicz
12. Queers Were Here: Heroes & Icons of Queer Canada, Richard Gilmour, Robin Ganev, eds.
13. Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama by Ann Coulter
14. Queering the Countryside: New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies by Mary L. Gray
15. Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran
16. Manliness by Harvey C. Mansfield
17. Puppy Pool Party! An Underwater Dogs Adventure by Seth Casteel
18. In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi

July

1. International Pop by Darsie Alexander
2. The Uniqueness of Western Civilization by Ricardo Duchesne (interloan)
3. The Geek’s Chihuahua: Living with Apple by Ian Bogost
4. Zoo City by Lauren Beukes (again)
5. The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village by Samuel R. Delany
6. Digging Up Mother: A Love Story by Doug Stanhope
7. Gay Semiotics ♂: A Photographic Study of Visual Coding Among Homosexual Men by Hal Fischer (suggested)
8. F[u]ck Feelings by Michael Bennett

June

1. The Making of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey by Piers Bizony (suggested)
2. Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine
3. The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age by David S. Abraham
4. Please Make This Look Nice: The Graphic Design Process by Peter Ahlberg
5. Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World by Gregory Woods
6. When Men Meet: Homosexuality and Modernity by Henning Bech (interloan)
7. Fair Play: How LGBT Athletes Are Claiming Their Rightful Place in Sports by Cyd Zeigler
8. Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda
9. I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975–2014 by Eileen Myles
10. Rise of the DEO: Leadership by Design by Maria Giudice (dud)
11. The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded by Jim Ottaviani
12. What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins by Jonathan Balcombe
13. Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art by Virginia Heffernan (dud)
14. The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal, Volume 1: Poor Boys and Pilgrims by E.K. Weaver (dud)
15. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu (again)
16. Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation by Jim Downs
17. Fight Club 2 by Chuck Palahniuk
18. Design: The Invention of Desire by Jessica Helfand
19. Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan
20. The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men’s Prison by Mikita Brottman
21. Listen, Liberal! Or: What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? by Thomas Frank
22. Memories That Smell Like Gasoline by David Wojnarowicz
23. Plays Well with Others by Allan Gurganus (again)
24. Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame by Christopher Boehm
25. Role Models by John Waters (again)
26. Art and Queer Culture by Catherine Lord
27. Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation by Edward Humes
28. English in America: A Linguistic History by Natalie Schilling
29. You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice by Tom Vanderbilt
30. The Making of the American Essay by John D’Agata
31. Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
32. Manliness by Harvey C. Mansfield
33. Epiphany: A Christian’s Change of Heart & Mind over Same-Sex Marriage by Michael Coren
34. Unforbidden Pleasures by Adam Phillips
35. A Burglar’s Guide to the City by Geoff Manaugh
36. Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger

May

1. Trump’s America: The Complete Loser’s Guide by Scott Dikkers (dud)
2. Disrupting Queer Inclusion: Canadian Homonationalisms and the Politics of Belonging by OmiSoore H. Dryden
3. Porcelain: A Memoir by Moby
4. Design Diaries: Creative Process in Graphic Design by Mark Adams
5. I Can Give You Anything But Love by Gary Indiana
6. Kill the Messengers: Stephen Harper’s Assault on Your Right to Know by Mark Bourrie
7. The Myth of Martyrdom: What Really Drives Suicide Bombers, Rampage Shooters, and Other Self-Destructive Killers by Adam Lankford
8. Gay American Autobiography: Writings from Whitman to Sedaris by David Bergman
9. Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity by Douglas Rushkoff
10. Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance by Christopher McDougall
11. The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie
12. Intimacy Idiot by Isaac Oliver
13. Violence against Queer People: Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-LGBT Discrimination by Doug Meyer

April

1. The Point Is: Making Sense of Birth, Death, and Everything in Between by Lee Eisenberg
2. Movie Freak: My Life Watching Movies by Owen Gleiberman
3. Hide by Matthew Griffin
4. Our Young Man by Edmund White
5. Conservative Confidential: Inside the Fabulous Blue Tent by Fred Litwin
6. Becoming a Barbarian by Jack Donovan
7. Carpet Sweeper Tales by Julie Doucet
8. Little Rice: Smartphones, Xiaomi, and the Chinese Dream by Clay Shirky
9. One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal by Alice Domurat Dreger
10. Gone with the Mind by Mark Leyner
11. Black Deutschland: A Novel by Darryl Pinckney
12. Youngblood: A Novel by Matt Gallagher
13. Man to Man: A History of Gay Photography by Pierre Borhan
14. Tom House: Tom of Finland in Los Angeles by Michael Reynolds
15. Fred Tomaselli: The Times by Lawrence Weschler
16. Design by Ikea: A Cultural History by Sara Kristoffersson
17. Book of Numbers: A Novel by Joshua Cohen
18. Bruno Munari: Square, Circle, Triangle by Bruno Munari

March

1. How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays by Umberto Eco (dud)
2. What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
3. The Bridge Generation: A Queer Elders’ Chronicle from No Rights to Civil Rights by Quirk-E Kollective
4. Keep It Fake: Inventing an Authentic Life by Eric G. Wilson

February

1. It’s So Gay, and It’s Okay by Dr. Wallace Wong
2. La Jetée : ciné-roman by Chris Marker
3. St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America’s Hippest Street by Ada Calhoun
4. African Modernism by Manuel Herz
5. Open Letter: On Blasphemy, Islamophobia, and the True Enemies of Free Expression by Charb
6. War Reporter by Dan O’Brien (suggested)
7. Private Citizens: A Novel by Tony Tulathimutte
8. Managing the Design Process–Concept Development: An Essential Manual for the Working Designer by Terry Lee Stone
9. All Involved: A Novel by Ryan Gattis
10. Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs by Sally Mann
11. The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man’s World by Alan Downs (again)
12. For the Ferryman by Charles Silverstein
13. Steel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers by Anne Balay
14. Colors: A Book About a Magazine About the Rest of the World by Francesco Bonami
15. Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages by Gaston Dorren
16. Anger is an Energy: My Life Uncensored by John Lydon
17. Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry by Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
18. Graphic Design Visionaries by Caroline Roberts
19. Visual Impact: Creative Dissent in the 21st Century by Liz McQuiston
20. Designing the Editorial Experience: A Primer for Print, Web, and Mobile by Sue Apfelbaum
21. Make It New: The History of Silicon Valley Design by Barry M. Katz
22. The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, The Words Behind World-Building by David J. Peterson
23. 40 Days of Dating: An Experiment by Jessica Walsh
24. Nimble: Thinking Creatively in the Digital Age by Robin Landa
25. Sexual Diversity and the Sochi 2014 Olympics: No More Rainbows by Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
26. The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science by J. Kenji López-Alt

January

1. Sorry, Out of Gas by Caroline Maniaque
2. Tenth of December: Stories by George Saunders
3. Broken Sleep by Bruce Bauman
4. Unlimited Embrace: A Canon of Gay Fiction, 1945–1995 by Reed Woodhouse
5. The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
6. Editing Canadian English, Third Edition
7. Gay Characters in Theater, Movies, and Television: New Roles, New Attitudes by Jaime A. Seba
8. Typography 35 by Type Directors Club
9. Body of Art, Deborah Aaronson, Diane Fortenberry, Rebecca Morrill, eds.
10. Reckless: My Life as a Pretender by Chrissie Hynde
11. The Story of Australian English by Kel Richards
12. Men: Notes from an Ongoing Investigation by Laura Kipnis
13. Art and Sex in Greenwich Village: A Memoir of Gay Literary Life After Stonewall by Felice Picano
14. I’ll Never Write My Memoirs by Grace Jones
15. Geisha of a Different Kind: Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America by C. Winter Han
16. Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature by Wayde Compton
17. Get Onboard: Walk in the Shoes of a Transit Operator by Richard W. Lee
18. Listening for the Heartbeat of Being: The Arts of Robert Bringhurst by Brent Wood
19. Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative by Gail Scott
20. The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist’s Companion for the 21st Century by Richard Polt
21. Cruising the Movies: A Sexual Guide to Oldies on TV by Boyd McDonald
22. Culture Typography: How Culture Affects Typography by Nikki Villagomez

2015

December

1. Norwegian Wood: Chopping, Stacking, and Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way by Lars Mytting (★★★)
2. Coming Out to Play by Robbie Rogers
3. Making Design, Cara McCarty , ed. (Irma Bloom, designeuse)
4. Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston by Mark Pasnik
5. Insurrections of the Mind: 100 Years of Politics and Culture in America by Franklin Foer
6. Soviet Space Dogs by Olesya Turkina (suggested)
7. The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes
8. Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta by Richard Grant
9. Otter by Ben Ladouceur
10. Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine by Damon Tweedy
11. The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy’s Journey into Manhood
12. Sketching & Illustrating Birds by Juan Varela Simó
13. Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe

November

1. Transit Maps of the World, Expanded and Updated Edition by Mark Ovenden
2. ¡Adiós, America! by Ann Coulter
3. Kill Me Now by Brad Fraser
4. Lettres aux escrocs de l’islamophobie qui font le jeu des racistes by Charb (suggested)
5. XKCD: Volume 0 by Randall Munroe
6. Information Design as Principled Action, Jorge Frascara, ed.
7. Payback: Five Marines After Vietnam by Joe Klein
8. War Is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict by David Shields
9. Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor
10. Toronto Streetcars Serve the City by Kenneth C. Springirth
11. The Other Paris by Luc Santé
12. Demon Camp: A Soldier’s Exorcism by Jennifer Percy
13. How to by Michael Bierut
14. Patternalia by Jude Stewart
15. Chapter and Verse: New Order, Joy Division and Me by Bernard Sumner (suggested)
16. Agent Storm: My Life Inside Al-Qaeda and the CIA by Morten Storm
17. Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men by Jane Ward (dud)
18. Goldenboy by Michael Nava
19. Unchosen: Memoirs of a Philo-Semite by Julie Burchill (suggested)
20. The Warren Commission Report: A Graphic Investigation into the Kennedy Assassination by Dan Mishkin et al.
21. Making a Point: The Pernickity Story of English Punctuation by David Crystal
22. You Say Potato: The Story of English Accents (but not Canadian ones) by Ben Crystal, David Crystal
23. The Uncollected David Rakoff
24. Mayor Rob Ford: Uncontrollable by Mark Towhey (I was never going to read this shite)
25. Mass Disruption: Thirty Years on the Front Lines of a Media Revolution by John Stackhouse (dud)
26. The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood (I was never going to read this thing)
27. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard H. Thaler
28. Love and Other Ways of Dying by Michael Paterniti

October

1. Submission by Michel Houellebecq
2. The Only Average Guy: Inside the Uncommon World of Rob Ford by John Filion (I was never going to read this shite)
3. The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker
4. Mouthquake by Daniel Allen Cox
5. Rag and Bone by Michael Nava (dud)
6. Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal by Jay Parini
7. Here by Richard McGuire (★★★★★)
8. Design Fundamentals: Notes on Visual Elements and Principles of Composition by Rose Gonnella
9. Then and Now: Toronto Nightlife History by Denise Benson (unreadable)
10. We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live by Joan Didion
11. Civic Symbol: Creating Toronto’s New City Hall, 1952–1966 by Christopher Armstrong
12. The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle by Lillian Faderman
13. The Xenotext: Book I by Christian Bök
14. All Out by Kevin Newman, Alex Newman (blog entry)
15. Three Moments of an Explosion by China Miéville
16. Playground: Growing Up in the New York Underground by Paul Zone
17. Visual Miscellaneum by David McCandless (suggested)
18. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker
19. Strangers Drowning by Larissa MacFarquhar (★★★)
20. 17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis and the Biggest Cover-Up in History by Andrew Morton
21. No House to Call My Home: Love, Family, and Other Transgressions by Ryan Berg
22. Conversations with a Rattlesnake: Raw and honest Reflections on Healing and Trauma by Théo Fleury
23. Seveneves by Neal Stephenson (dud)
24. Judge This! by Chip Kidd (dud)

September

1. Gay Lives: Homosexual Autobiography from John Addington Symonds to Paul Monette by Paul Robinson
2. The Wikileaks Files
3. Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavio[u]r by Leonard Mlodinow
4. The Burning Plain by Michael Nava
5. Cars: Freedom, Style, Sex, Power, Motion, Colour, Everything by Stephen Bayley
6. Terence Davies by Michael Koresky (suggested)
7. Mausoleum of Lovers: Journals 1976–1991 by Hervé Guibert
8. Concrete, Volume 7: The Human Dilemma by Paul Chadwick (appalling)
9. To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life by Hervé Guibert
10. Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude by Amy Bloom
11. Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany by David Stubbs
12. Queer Wars: The New Gay Right and Its Critics by Paul Robinson (again)
13. The Garden of Lost and Found by Dale Peck
14. J by Howard Jacobson
15. Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cumming
16. Fallen Angels: Paintings by Jack Vettriano by W. Gordon Smith
17. Speak by Louisa Hall

August

1. The Business of Graphic Design: The RGD Professional Handbook (suggested)
2. On Web Typography by Jason Santa Maria (suggested)
3. Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot by Mark Vanhoenacker
4. Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with J.G. Ballard, 1967–2006, Simon Sellars, ed.
5. A Not-So-Gay World: Homosexuality in Canada by Marion Foster, Kent Murray (interloan)
6. The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson: The Pretty Boys and Dirty Deals of Henry Willson by Robert Hofler
7. Wages of Rebellion by Chris Hedges
8. United States: Essays, 1952–1992 by Gore Vidal
9. Gore Vidal, Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings by Gore Vidal
10. Yuri Dojc: Last Folio by Katya Krausova (suggested)
11. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
12. AsapSCIENCE [sic]: Answers to the World’s Weirdest Questions, Most Persistent Rumors, and Unexplained Phenomena by Mitchell Moffit and some other Millennial
13. Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech? by Mick Hume
14. The Best Little Boy in the World by Andrew Tobias (dud)
15. The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up by Andrew Tobias (dud)
16. The Nearness of Others: Searching for Tact and Contact in the Age of HIV by David Caron
17. Signal: Understanding What Matters in a World of Noise by Stephen Few
18. The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance by David Epstein
19. The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction by Matthew B. Crawford
20. Diana: Her True Story by Andrew Morton
21. Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow
22. After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, and American Religion by Anthony M. Petro
23. Us Conductors by Sean Michaels
24. Redeployment by Phil Klay (audio CD)
25. Picture This: How Pictures Work by Molly Bang
26. Shakespeare’s Original Pronunciation: Speeches and Scenes Performed as Shakespeare Would Have Heard Them by David Crystal et al. (audio CD) (suggested)
27. In a Dark Wood: What Dante Taught Me About Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love by Joseph Luzzi

July

1. Stan Douglas by Leon Krempel
2. Confidence by Russell Smith
3. Drawn & Quarterly: 25 Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels, Tom Devlin, ed.
4. City of Glass: The Graphic Novel by Paul Auster
5. The Gay Metropolis by Charles Kaiser
6. Look Who’s Back by Timur Vermes
7. The Sculptor by Scott McCloud
8. Known Unknowns by Charles Saatchi
9. The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavo[u]r by Mark Schatzker
10. Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten by Stephen Few
11. H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald (recall)
12. The Destiny of Me by Larry Kramer
13. It’s Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality by Michelangelo Signorile
14. Information Visualization: Perception for Design by Colin Ware
15. Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data by Stephen Few
16. Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science by Alice Dreger (★★★)
17. The Best Interface Is No Interface by Golden Krishna
18. Bright-Eyed: Insomnia and Its Cultures by R.M. Vaughan
19. Visualize This by Nathan Yau

June

1. Dangerous When Wet by Jamie Brickhouse
2. Hello, I Am Erik, J. Erler, ed. (suggested)
3. Television Is the New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media in the Digital Age by Michael Wolff
4. Gay Is Good: The Life and Letters of Gay-Rights Pioneer Franklin Kameny by Michael G. Long
5. Wuvable Oaf by Ed Luce (dud)
6. Breton Grammar by Roparz Hemon
7. Cornish Is Fun! by Heini Gruffudd
8. Practical Manx by Center for Manx Studies
9. Colloquial Breton by Ian Press
10. Massive: Gay Japanese Manga and the Men Who Make It by Anne Ishii et al.
11. Outer Voices, Inner Lives: A Collection of LGBTQ Writers Over 50 by Mark McNease
12. Breaking the Male Code: Unlocking the Power of Friendship by Robert Garfield
13. You’re Not Edith: Autobiographical Essays by Allison Gruber
14. Gay L.A. by Lillian Faderman
15. Urban Acupuncture by Jaime Lerner (suggested)
16. Flicker: Your Brain on Movies by Jeffrey Zacks
17. Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America’s Gutsiest Troublemakers by Nick Offerman (dud)
18. Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller by Chloé Griffin (suggested)
19. Outsiders Still: Why Women Journalists Love – and Leave – Their Newspaper Careers by Vivian Smith

May

1. My Avant-Garde Education: A Memoir by Bernard Cooper
2. How to Bake π: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics by Eugenia Cheng (dud)
3. Rust Is a Form of Fire by Joe Fiorito (dud)
4. What Was I Thinking? The Autobiography of an Idea and Other Essays by Rick Salutin (dud)
5. Your Band Sucks by Jon Fine (“A well-written, unneeded chronicle of the superannuated toy art form of the heterosexualist dictatorship, indie rock”)
6. Tell Everyone: Why We Share and Why It Matters by Alfred Hermida
7. My Buddy: World War II Laid Bare by Dian Hanson (suggested)
8. Crow Fair by Thomas McGuane
9. Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say Fuck by Amy Alkon (appalling)
10. The Familiar: One Rainy Day in May – Vol. 1 by Mark Z. Danielewski
11. Dust by Nadav Kander (suggested)
12. That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick! The National Lampoon and the Comedy Insurgents Who Captured the Mainstream by Ellin Stein
13. One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Åsne Seierstad
14. So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by JON-RON-SON (★★★)
15. Data and Goliath by Bruce Schneier
16. Bachelors of a Different Sort: Queer Æsthetics, Material Culture and the Modern Interior in Britain by John Potvin (suggested)
17. Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
18. On the Move by Oliver Sacks
19. Troisièmes noces by Tom Lanoye (suggested)
20. Revolt on the Right: Explaining Support for the Radical Right in Britain by Robert Ford
21. Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed by Paul Cronin, Werner Herzog (★★★)

April

1. Second Avenue Caper: When Goodfellas, Divas, and Dealers Plotted Against the Plague by Joyce Brabner (suggested)
2. The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch by Jonathan Gottschall
3. National Security and Double Government by Michael J. Glennon (suggested)
4. Voir le voir by John Berger (suggested)
5. NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980–1990 by Tony Rettman
6. Love Together: Longtime Male Couples on Healthy Intimacy and Communication by Tim R. Clausen (suggested)
7. Dirty Poole: The Autobiography of a Gay[‑]Porn Pioneer by Wakefield Poole (suggested)
8. Giving It Raw: Nearly 30 Years With AIDS by Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco and not any other rendering (suggested)
9. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C. Dennett
10. The Sellout by Paul Beatty (dud)
11. Visions and Revisions by Dale Peck
12. The American People: Volume 1 – Search for My Heart by Larry Kramer
13. Smash Cut by Brad Gooch
14. The Just City by Jo Walton
15. Deaf Gain: Raising the Stakes for Human Diversity by various editors, one of whose names is so improbable I’m not going to record it here
16. Heretic by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
17. Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage by Barney Frank
18. Highlights of My Last Regret by North Morgan
19. D&AD 50

March

1. James Bidgood by Bruce Benderson (suggested)
2. At Home with Themselves: Same-Sex Couples in 1980s America by Sage Sohier (suggested)
3. Out of the Blue: On Finnish Design by various ghostwriters (suggested)
4. The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation by Janice Miner Holden
5. Deep Secrets: Boys’ Friendships and the Crisis of Connection by Niobe Way
6. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
7. Becoming Steve Jobs by Brent Schlender and second-fiddle collaborator
8. Fred Tomaselli by Ian Berry
9. James Baldwin: The Last Interview
10. Not Impossible: The Art and Joy of Doing What Couldn’t Be Done by Mick Ebeling
11. “Remember Those Great Volkswagen Ads?” by Alfredo Marcantonio (suggested)
12. True Stories Too by Felice Picano
13. Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe by Philip Gefter
14. Adventures in Stationery: A Journey Through Your Pencil Case by James Ward
15. Closets, Combat and Coming Out: Coming Of Age As A Gay Man In The Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Army by Rob Smith (suggested) (dud)
16. Rebels Rebel: AIDS, Art and Activism in New York, 1979–1989 by Tommaso Speretta (suggested)
17. Gay Semiotics ♂ by Hal Fischer (interloan)
18. Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity by Robert Beachy
19. Proud: My Autobiography by Gareth Thomas and ghostwriter (suggested)
20. Grafica della Strada: The Signs of Italy by Louise Fili (★★★)
21. Pride: The Story of the First Openly Gay Navy Seal by Brett Jones (suggested) (dud)
22. Deadly Consequences: How Cowards are Pushing Women into Combat by Robert L. Maginnis (suggested)
23. The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest by David Quammen
24. Not Simply Divine by Bernard Jay (suggested)
25. Waiting for the Sky to Fall by Kenneth Martin (suggested)
26. Hollywood by Don Bachardy (suggested)
27. I Left It on the Mountain by Kevin Sessums
28. Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz
29. These Things Happen by Richard Kramer
30. What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe (delightful) (★★★)
31. Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini (suggested)
32. Chris Stein/Negative: Me, Blondie, and the Advent of Punk by Chris Stein (suggested) (bizarre title)
33. Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution by David Carter (interloan)

February

1. The Invisibles: Vintage Portraits of Love and Pride by Sébastien Lifshitz (suggested)
2. Kidnapped by a Sex Maniac by Christopher Pierce
3. Queer Edward II by Derek Jarman
4. Straights: Heterosexuality in Post-Closeted Culture by James Joseph Dean (dud)
5. I Think You’re Totally Wrong: A Quarrel by David Shields
6. So Anyway by John Cleese
7. Working on My Novel by Cory Arcangel (abomination)
8. Cub by Jeff Mann
9. 10:04 by Ben Lerner
10. Roots of English: Exploring the History of Dialects by Sali A. Tagliamonte
11. Soumission by Michel Houellebecq
12. Bombshell: The Many Faces of Women Terroritsts by Mia Bloom
13. Abba: 600 Rare, Classic, and Unseen Photos Telling the Complete Story by Petter Karlsson (suggested)
14. The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB by Christopher Andrew
15. Aubade by Kenneth Martin (suggested)
16. The Duchamp Dictionary by Thomas Girst (suggested)
17. Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal by Michael Mewshaw
18. Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America by William H. Frey

January

1. Le suicide français by Éric Zemmour
2. Blue, Too: More Writing by (for or about) Working-Class Queers by Wendell Ricketts (suggested)
3. Klan-destine Relationships by Daryl K. Davis (interloan)
4. The Thing the Book: A Monument to the Book as Object by Jonn Herschend
5. The Field Guide to Typography: Typefaces in the Urban Landscape by Peter Dawson
6. B is for Bauhaus: An A–Z of the Modern World by Sudjic Deyan
7. Le capital au XXIᵉ siècle by Thomas Piketty
8. Story/Time: the Life of an Idea by Bill T. Jones
9. ™: The Untold Stories Behind 29 Classic Logos by Mark Sinclair
10. Anders Breivik and the Rise of Islamophobia by Sindre Bangstad
11. The Internet Is Not the Answer by Andrew Keen (dud) (repetitious)
12. Eero Saarinen by Jayne Merkel
13. Keith Haring: The Political Line by Dieter Buchhart
14. Unlimited Embrace: A Canon of Gay Fiction, 1945–1995 by Reed Woodhouse (★★★★)
15. Friendship by Emily Gould
16. Derek Jarman: Super 8 by James MacKay
17. Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag by A.K. Summers (suggested)
18. Thoughts on Design by Paul Rand
19. Sweet Lechery by Jeet Heer
20. Cover by Peter Mendelsund (questionable typography)
21. Redeployment by Phil Klay (again)
22. The (Un)documented Mark Steyn by Mark Steyn
23. Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America’s First Gay and Lesbian Town by Esther Newton

At TRL (2015)

Books read at Toronto Reference Library.

1. Bright Nights: Photographs of Another New York by Tod Seelie

2. DSM‑5 Guidebook

3. DSM‑5

4. Gay Spirit: Myth and Meaning by Mark Thompson (dud)

5. A Logo for London: The London Transport Bar and Circle by David Lawrence

6. Reading Letters: Designing for Legibility by Sofie Beier

7. Reeling in the Years: Gay Men’s Perspectives on Age and Ageism by Tim Bergling

8. The Lieutenant Who Loved His Platoon: A Military Memoir by Duane Michals

9. The Rudi Gernreich Book by Peggy Moffit and William Claxton

10. Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America by John-Manuel Andriote

11. Vision in Motion by László Moholy-Nagy

12. We Must Love One Another or Die: The Life and Legacies of Larry Kramer by Lawrence D. Mass

2014

December

1. iOS Success: Making the iPad Accessible by Larry L. Lewis, Jr. (suggested)
2. Geek Sublime: Writing Fiction, Coding Software by Vikram Chandra
3. The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club by Peter Hook
4. The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J. Levitin
5. The Pythons’ Autobiography (dud) (illegible)
6. The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future by Naomi Oreskes
7. The Screwball Asses by Guy Hocquenghem (suggested)
8. Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns by David Margolick
9. Graphic Content: True Stories from Top Creatives by Brian Singer
10. The Soul of All Living Creatures: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human by Vint Virga
11. Let’s Start A Riot by Bruce McCulloch (dud)
12. Foxcatcher by the extremely not-gay Mark Schultz
13. A Norwegian Tragedy: Anders Behring Breivik and the Massacre on Utøya by Aage Borchgrevink
14. Hatred: Islam’s War on Christianity by Michael Coren

November

1. Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life by William Deresiewicz
2. The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets by Simon Singh (bore)
3. The Peripheral by William Gibson
4. The Village Effect by Susan Pinker (stopped reading after mammoth spelling error on p. 3)
5. The Better Angel by Frank Ronan
6. Alien: The Archive, Mark Salisbury, ed.
7. Douglas Coupland: Everywhere Is Anywhere Is Anything Is Everything, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, ed. (dud)
8. The Onion Magazine: The Iconic Covers that Transformed an Undeserving World (dreadful)
9. Do Fathers Matter? What Science Is Telling Us About the Parent We’ve Overlooked by Paul Raeburn
10. Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle
11. Sky Crystals: Unraveling the Mysteries of Snowflakes by Don Komarechka
12. Science... for Her! by Megan Amram (dud)
13. BMW Art Cars by Iria Candela (suggested)

October

1. The Tolerance Trap: How God, Genes, and Good Intentions are Sabotaging Gay Equality by Suzanna Danuta Walters
2. Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself by V. Allen Crawford (suggested)
3. Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger by Kelly J. Cogswell (suggested)
4. Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas
5. Wild Animals I Have Known: Polk Street Diaries and After by Kevin Bentley
6. An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Religion by John Haldane (no memory of this whatsoever)
7. Reviving the Tribe: Regenerating Gay Men’s Sexuality and Culture in the Ongoing Epidemic by Eric E. Rofes (interloan)
8. Dry Bones Breathe: Gay Men Creating Post-AIDS Identities and Cultures by Eric Rofes (interloan)
9. Beneath the Skin: The Collected Essays by John Rechy (interloan)
10. Imaginary Line: Life on an Unfinished Border by Jacques Poitras
11. “The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher” and Other Stories by Hilary Mantel (only OK)
12. How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran (no, thanks)
13. D&AD 2013 (suggested [possibly])
14. Taking Liberties: Gay Men’s Essays on Politics, Culture, and Sex by Michael Bronski (suggested)
15. Kitten Clone: Inside Alcatel-Lucent by Douglas Coupland (dud)
16. The Glass Cage: Automation and Us by Nicholas Carr (dud)
17. How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland
18. California by Edan Lepucki
19. How to Grow as a Graphic Designer by Catharine Fishel
20. Champagne Supernovas: Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and the ’90s Renegades Who Remade Fashion by Maureen Callahan
21. The War on Women in Israel by Elana Maryles Sztokman
22. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Ageing: Biographical Approaches for Inclusive Care and Support, Richard Ward, ed.
23. Fat Gay Men by Jason Whitesel
24. Celluloid Gaze by Boze Hadleigh (again) (suggested)
25. Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation by Ammon Shea
26. Boy on Ice: The Life and Death of Derek Boogaard by John Branch
27. Revolution by Russell Brand
28. Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
29. Nerd Do Well: A Small Boy’s Journey to Becoming a Big Kid by Simon Pegg (again)
30. Burton Kramer Identities by Greg Durrell (suggested)
31. Vancouver Confidential by John Belshaw
32. Women in Clothes by Sheila Heti et al.

September

1. Russell Tovey Reads Black Beauty (audio CD)
2. Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion by Ryan Conrad
3. What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund (dud)
4. Lost and Found in Johannesburg: A Memoir by Mark Gevisser
5. Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division by Peter Hook (dud)
6. Gnarr: How I Became the Mayor of a Large City in Iceland and Changed the World by Jón Gnarr
7. Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback by Douglas Stone
8. Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS by Martin Duberman
9. Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism by Sheila Jeffreys
10. Pour une critique du design graphique : Dix-huit essais by Catherine de Smet (suggested)
11. The queen‘s vernacular: a gay lexicon by Bruce Rodgers (interloan)
12. Stone Mattress: Nine Tales by Margaret Atwood
13. The Soul Beneath the Skin: The Unseen Hearts and Habits of Gay Men by David Nimmons (quite good, and little known) (★★★)
14. Man in the Middle by John Amaechi (interloan)
15. Concrete by Leonard Koren
16. Against Football: One Fan’s Reluctant Manifesto by Steve Almond
17. Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris
18. Road to Seeing by Dan Winters (quite terrible)
19. Cruising by Chad States (suggested)
20. Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli

August

1. Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock
2. The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth (limited edition) (suggested) followed by trade edition 2014.11.11
3. Straight Expectations by Julie Bindel
4. Redeployment by Phil Klay
5. Son frère by Philippe Besson
6. Hawkeye, Vol. 2: Little Hits by Matt Fraction
7. Kidding Ourselves: The Hidden Power of Self-Deception by Joseph T. Hallinan
8. In Bed with Gore Vidal by Tim Teeman (poorly executed)
9. The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language by John McWhorter
10. The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero (suggested)
11. Will Munro: History, Glamour, Magic by Luís Jacob
12. 101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men by Alonso Duralde
13. Tragedy in the Commons: Former Members of Parliament Speak Out About Canada’s Failing Democracy by Alison Loat
14. A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall by Will Chancellor
15. Terre Haute by Edmund White (again)
16. There Goes the Gayborhood? by Amin Ghaziani
17. The Mind’s Eye: The Art of Omni by Jeremy Frommer

July

1. Mad World: An Oral History of The New-Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s by Lori Majewski and Jonathan Bernstein (★★★)
2. The Entire City Project: The ROM by Michael Awad (dud)
3. Animal Madness by Laurel Braitman
4. Making Gay History: The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights (the most American title ever) by Eric Marcus
5. Travels with Casey by Benoît Denizet-Lewis
6. The Harlem Hellfighters by Max Brooks
7. No Slam Dancing, No Stage Diving, No Spikes by Amy Yates Wuelfing and whoever else (only OK, and horribly typeset and copy-edited) (suggested)
8. Just Enough Research by Erika Hall (suggested)
9. Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte (suggested) (it took a year and a half to get the A Book Apart titles into the library)
10. This is Pollock by Catherine Ingram (★★★)
11. AIDS TV: Identity, Community, and Alternative Video by Alexandra Juhasz (interloan)
12. Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division by Jon Ginoli (as dull as gay autobiographies usually are – cf. Strüb)
13. Montreal’s Gay Village: The Story of a Unique Urban Neighborhood Through the Sociological Lens by Donald W. Hinrichs (suggested)
14. Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology by Daniel J. Siegel
15. Healing Moments in Psychotherapy by Daniel J. Siegel
16. The Almost Nearly Perfect People: The Truth About the Nordic Miracle by Michael Booth (suggested)
17. The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge
18. Spartan Up! by Joe De Sena (you’ve got to be fucking kidding me)
19. Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky (mawkish, self-indulgent, a bore)
20. The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age by Astra Taylor
21. Can’t and Won’t by Lydia Davis (I was never going to read this piece of shit, which is also badly typeset)
22. Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works, Third Edition, by Erik Spiekermann (suggested)
23. The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human by Noah Strycker
24. MFA vs NYC: The Two Cultures of American Fiction, Chad Harbach, ed. (dud) (Harbach has now vitiated whatever capital, literal and figurative, Mr. PIETSCH may have afforded him)
25. I Am Dandy: The Return of the Elegant Gentleman by Rose Callahan (suggested)
26. Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion by David Zweig (quite good)

June

1. Toronto: A Short Illustrated History of Its First 12,000 Years by Ron Williamson
2. Taking Things Seriously: 75 Objects with Unexpected Significance by Joshua Glenn (dud) (suggested)
3. Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris by Edmund White
4. Sexual Diversity and the Sochi 2014 Olympics: No More Rainbows by Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
5. The End of the Homosexual? by Dennis Altman (suggested) (dud)
6. A Life In Books: The Rise and Fall of Bleu Mobley by Warren Lehrer (suggested)
7. Carsick by John Waters
8. Strip by Andrew Binks (I have no memory of this book)

May

1. Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty (recall)
2. Feynman by Jim Ottaviani
3. No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald
4. The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
5. The Great War: July 1, 1916 – The First of the Battle of the Somme: An Illustrated Panorama by Joe Sacco
6. Every Day by David Levithan
7. Compared to Hitler: Essays by R.M. Vaughan (appallingly typeset)
8. Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley
9. Omens by Kelley Armstrong
10. Laïka by Nick Abadzis (★★★★)
11. Redeployment by Phil Klay
12. Undercover: The True Story of Britain’s Secret Police by Paul Lewis (interloan)
13. Coming After: Queer Time, Arriving Too Late and the Spectre of the Recent Past by Jon Davies
14. The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility by Gregory Clark (dud)
15. Congratulations, By the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness by George Saunders (padded)
16. Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
17. The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch by Lewis Dartnell
18. Autobiography by MORRISSEY (audio CD) (★★★)

April

1. Mad As Hell: The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies by David Itzkoff (★★★)
2. Pet Shop Boys[:] Catalogue by Chris Heath (suggested, I think)
3. Gender Failure by Ivan E. Coyote , Rae Spoon (LIES)
4. The Cage by Martin Vaughn-James
5. Maybe... Maybe Not Again by Ralf König (suggested)
6. Maybe...Maybe Not by Ralf König (suggested)
7. The Killer Condom by Ralf König (suggested)
8. Sketching Guantánamo: Court Sketches of the Military Tribunals, 2006–2013 by Janet Hamlin (suggested)
9. The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry by Lance Dodes
10. The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi (only OK)
11. Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs by Yukari Iwatani Kane
12. Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis by Benjamin Kunkel (bust)
13. Captured: A Film & Video History of the Lower East Side by Clayton Patterson
14. The Triple Package by Amy Chua
15. Bark by Lorrie Moore
16. The Art of Roughhousing by Anthony T. DeBenedet (suggested)
17. Devoted: 38 Extraordinary Tales of Love, Loyalty, and Life with Dogs by Rebecca Ascher-Walsh (dud and deceptive)
18. Seven American Deaths and Disasters by Kenneth Goldsmith (suggested)
19. Area: 1983–1987 by Eric Goode (suggested) (★★★)
20. The Way to Go: Moving by Sea, Land, and Air by Kate Ascher (dumb title and error-strewn)
21. Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind by Osagie Obasogie (dud)
22. The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
23. Fire in the Unnameable Country by Ghalib Islam
24. Critiqued: Inside the Minds of 23 Leaders in Design by Christina Beard
25. Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record by Errol Fuller

March

1. Stonewall by Martin Duberman
2. The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
3. Curbside Boys: The New York Years by Robert Kirby (awful)
4. The New Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen
5. Lawfully Wedded Husband by Joel Derfner
6. What is English? And Why Should We Care? by Tim William Machan (I have no memory of borrowing this book)
7. Going Postal by Mark Ames (took two years to show up; new ideas repetitively presented)
8. Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran
9. Cured: How the Berlin Patients Defeated HIV and Forever Changed Medical Science by Nathalia Holt
10. Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction by Christopher Bascom Rawlins (suggested)
11. The Story of Sexual Identity: Narrative Perspectives on the Gay and Lesbian Life Course, Phillip L. Hammack, ed. (interloan)
12. Go: A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design by Chip Kidd (suggested)
13. Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing by Po Bronson, who hasn’t been interesting in a decade
14. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
15. White Girls by Hilton Als (recall)
16. Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street’s Post-Crash Recruits by Kevin Roose (written like a series of disconnected magazine articles; padded; a bore)

February

1. The Course of Gay and Lesbian Lives: Social and Psychoanalytic Perspectives by Bertram J. Cohler (interloan)
2. Actors Anonymous by James Franco
3. The Pomme Company by Dave Sobotta (birthday present)
4. Marian Bantjes: Pretty Pictures
5. The Big Book of Jewish Humor by William Novak
6. Woman’s World by Graham Rawle
7. Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival by Sean Strüb (a bit dull)
8. E.B. White on Dogs, Martha White, ed. (suggested)
9. The Designer as Author, Producer, Activist, Entrepeneur, Curator, and Collaborator: New Models for Communicating by Steven McCarthy
10. The People’s Car: A Global History of the Volkswagen Beetle by Bernhard Rieger
11. Dog Songs by Mary Oliver (dud)
12. The Life and Times of Conrad Black: A Wordless Biography by George A. Walker (appalling)
13. Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story by Robyn Doolittle (badly typeset and completely bereft of point of view)
14. Color Works by the quite unloved Eddie Opara
15. The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer (★★★★)

January

1. Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot by my old editrix Masha Gessen
2. Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father by Alysia Abbott
3. Mastering the Art of Quitting: Why It Matters in Life, Love, and Work by Alan Bernstein, Peg Streep (dud)
4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Book 2 by Denise Mina
5. Barred for Life: How Black Flag’s Iconic Logo Became Punk Rock’s Secret Handshake by Stewart Dean Ebersole
6. Chasing Doctor Dolittle: Learning the Language of Animals by Con Slobodchikoff
7. Without Condoms: Unprotected Sex, Gay Men, and Barebacking by Michael Shernoff
8. The AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience by Perry N. Halkitis (terribly edited)
9. Shadow Type: Classic Three-Dimensional Lettering by (inevitably) Steven Heller and (almost inevitably) his wife Louise Fili
10. ArtSpeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1945 to the Present by Robert Atkins
11. The Cartoon Introduction to Economics: Volume One – Microeconomics by Yoram Bauman
12. The Cartoon Introduction to Economics: Volume Two – Macroeconomics by Yoram Bauman
13. Encounters with Authors: Essays on Scott Symons, Robin Hardy, Norman Elder by Ian Young (unreadable) (suggested)
14. Wills for Ontario by David I. Botnick
15. Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity and Self-Branding in Web 2.0 by Alice E. Marwick
16. Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart (★★★)
17. Tom Bianchi: Fire Island Pines – Polaroids 1975–1983 by Tom Bianchi (suggested) (photos)
18. Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton (unreadable)
19. On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes by Alexandra Horowitz (horrifically typeset, including chapter on type) (dud)
20. The Houses of Louis Kahn by George H. Marcus
21. Svend Robinson: A Life in Politics by Graeme Truelove
22. Nox by Anne Carson (atrociously typeset stunt book)
23. The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America – and What We Can Do to Stop It by Thom Hartmann
24. Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products by Leander Kahney (unedited)
25. Paris Is Burning: A Queer Film Classic by Lucas Hilderbrand (pretentious dud; should be a blog post)
26. The Desperates by Greg Kearney

2013

At TRL

Books read at Toronto Reference Library.

1. Afrikan Alphabets
2. The Graphic Artist and His Design Problems
3. A Place for Us: Essays on the Broadway Musical by D.A. Miller
4. A Passion to Preserve: Gay Men as Keepers of Culture by Will Fellows
5. Design and Truth by Robert Grudin (dud)
6. Animal Logic (suggested)
7. Design for Hackers
8. Libel by Peter Downard
9. Life After Life
10. The Second Decade of AIDS
11. M to M of M/M (Paris) (quite good)
12. Sign Painters
13. Petrochemical America
14. Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec: Works by Annina Koivu
15. Revolution in the Valley

December

1. First Ladies of Disco: 29 Stars Discuss the Era and Their Singing Careers by James Arena (suggested)
2. A Queer History of Fashion by Jonathan D. Katz
3. Directions 2011 by ADCC
4. Universal Hunks: A Pictorial History of Muscular Men around the World, 1895–1975 by David L. Chapman
5. Bruno and the Beach: The Beachcombers at 40 by Marc Strange
6. High Price by Carl Hart (dud)
7. Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade by Adam Minter (★★★★★)
8. Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All by David Kelley
9. Children of the Sun by Max Schaefer
10. The Art of Rube Goldberg: Ⓐ Inventive Ⓑ Cartoon Ⓒ Genius by Jennifer George
11. The End of San Francisco by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
12. Gay Identity, New Storytelling and the Media by Christopher Pullen
13. The Cartoon Introduction to Statistics by Grady Klein (★★★)
14. The XX Factor: How the Rise of Working Women Has Created a Far Less Equal World by Alison Wolf
15. Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution by Fred Vogelstein
16. Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case by Stuart Taylor

November

1. Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
2. This Land Was Made for You and Me (But Mostly Me): Billionaires in the Wild by Bruce McCall, David Letterman
3. How Dogs Love Us: A Neuroscientist and His Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brain by Gregory Berns (dud!)
4. Design Forward: Creative Strategies for Sustainable Change by Hartmut Esslinger (dud)
5. Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks by Keith Houston
6. Sissyphobia: Gay Men and Effeminate Behavior by Tim Bergling
7. How to Make Dances in an Epidemic: Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDS by David Gere
8. Abstract City by Christoph Niemann (suggested) [b6]
9. Banksy: You Are an Acceptable Level of Threat by Gary Shove (suggested)
10. Isa Does It: Amazingly Easy, Wildly Delicious Vegan Recipes for Every Day of the Week by Isa Chandra Moskowitz
11. Gay Body: A Journey Through Shadow to Self by Mark Thompson
12. I Told You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics by Gore Vidal
13. This Is A Kenneth Cole Production by Kenneth Cole (dud)
14. Journal, tome 4 by Fabrice Neaud
15. Journal, tome 3 : décembre 1993 – août 1995 by Fabrice Neaud
16. Journal (1) suivi de journal (2) by Fabrice Neaud
17. Journal, tome 1 : février 1992 et septembre 1993 by Fabrice Neaud
18. Queers in Space by Anne-Marie Bouthillette
19. Cockpit Confidential by Patrick Smith
20. Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff (audio CD)
21. Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff (electronic audiobook)
22. Derek Jarman’s Sketchbooks by Stephen Farthing (★★★) [b6]
23. Phallos: Enhanced and Revised Edition by Samuel R. Delany

October

1. Autobiography by MORRISSEY (★★★★)
2. Ugly: The Æsthetics of Everything by Stephen Bayley (unreadable)
3. Merger of the Century: Why Canada and America Should Become One Country by Diane Francis
4. The Martin Duberman Reader
5. Positive Pictures: A Gay History by Paul Schulz (suggested)
6. David and Goliath: The Triumph of the Underdog by Malcolm Gladwell [b6]
7. Toward the New Degeneracy: An Essay by Bruce Benderson
8. The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s by Peter Doggett
9. Permanent Emergency: Inside the TSA and the Fight for the Future of American Security by Kip Hawley (possibly suggested)
10. Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality by Jacob Tomsky
11. The Anatomy of Type: A Graphic Guide to 100 Typefaces by Stephen Coles (suggested)
12. MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood (lost)
13. American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character by Diana West
14. Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted and all the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
15. Army of Lovers: A Community History of Will Munro by Sarah Liss
16. Unpopular Culture: Transforming the European Comic Book in the 1990s by Bart H. Beaty
17. Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York’s Underground Economy by Sudhir Venkatesh (stopped reading after egregious errors on first pages)
18. The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism by J. Michael Bailey

September

1. Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care? by Neil Gross
2. Interaction of Color by Josef Albers
3. He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices by Stephen Mills (suggested)
4. In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders [b6]
5. The 3D Type Book by FL@33 (sic)
6. Capturing Love: The Art of Lesbian & Gay Wedding Photography by Kathryn Ham (suggested)
7. Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger by Harvey Molotch
8. The Asylum by Simon Doonan (dud)
9. Life Is About Losing Everything by Lynn Crosbie
10. Design Currency by Jenn Visocky O’Grady
11. The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves by Stephen Grosz
12. The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking by Brendan I. Koerner (dud)
13. The Design Activist’s Handbook by Noah Scalin
14. Genesis by Sebastião Salgado (★★★★★)
15. Artistic Impressions: Figure Skating, Masculinity, and the Limits of Sport by Mary Louise Adams
16. Private Matters: In Defense of the Personal Life by Janna Malamud Smith

August

1. Recipes from My Home Kitchen by Christine Ha
2. La France orange mécanique by Laurent Obertone (suggested)
3. Mundo Cruel: Stories by Luis Negrón
4. Nine, Ten and Out! The Two Worlds of Emile Griffith by Ron Ross
5. Shapes for Sounds by Timothy Donaldson (interloan)
6. Graphic Design and Architecture, a 20th-Century History by Richard Poulin (at TRL)
7. Barbara Kruger (at TRL)
8. The Designer’s Lexicon: The Illustrated Dictionary of Design, Printing, and Computer Terms by Alastair Campbell (at TRL)
9. 40: A Doonesbury Retrospective by G.B. Trudeau (at TRL)
10. Celluloid Gaze by Boze Hadleigh (at TRL) (hardtofind)
11. Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal-Finance Industry by Helaine Olen
12. Moranthology by Caitlin Moran
13. I Used to Be a Design Student: 50 Graphic Designers Then and Now by Billy Kiosoglou
14. Vanished Years by Rupert Everett (unneeded)
15. Basics [of] Graphic Design 03: Idea Generation by Neil Leonard
16. Yes, I Could Care Less: How to Be a Language Snob Without Being a Jerk by Bill Walsh
17. How to Be Danish by Patrick Kingsley [b6]
18. Out Spoken: A Vito Russo Reader – Reel Two (lousy)
19. Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff [b6]
20. Barbara Kruger: Money Talks by Lisa Phillips
21. Barbara Kruger: Circus by Barbara Kruger
22. How to Disappear: A Memoir for Misfits by Duncan Fallowell
23. The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders [b6]
24. Shortchanged: Why Women Have Less Wealth and What Can Be Done About It by Mariko Lin-Chang

July

1. The Routledge Queer Studies Reader, Donald E. Hall, ed.
2. Brutal Simplicity of Thought by Maurice Saatchi
3. Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris (takedown)
4. Roy & Al by Ralf König
5. The Death of the Internet by Markus Jakobsson
6. Canadian Copyright: A Citizen’s Guide, Second Edition, by Laura J. Murray
7. The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims by Nathan Lean
8. Japan as Viewed by 17 Creators
9. New Queer Cinema: The Director’s Cut by B. Ruby Rich
10. In Their Youth by Greg Gorman
11. American Savage by Dan Savage
12. What I Love About Being Queer by Vivek Shraya (takedown)
13. Gay Press, Gay Power by Tracy Baim (suggested)
14. Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture by Daniel Mendelsohn
15. Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction by Annalee Newitz

June

1. The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty by Simon Baron-Cohen
2. The Good, the Bad and the Multiplex by Mark Kermode
3. Graphic Design: A New History, Second Edition, by Stephen J. Eskilson
4. The House of Rumour by Jake Arnott
5. Tenth of December by George Saunders [b6]
6. How to Host a Dinner Party by Corey Mintz
7. AIDS Demo/Graphics by Douglas Crimp (in cold light of day, appalling) (at TRL)
8. I Lego N.Y. by Christoph Niemann (suggested) [b6]
9. Well & Badly Loved by Ben Webb
10. The Book of Lies by Felice Picano
11. Onyx by Felice Picano
12. Private: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History by Denver Nicks (suggested)
13. Payback: The Case for Revenge by Thane Rosenbaum (dud)
14. Apple Design by Ina Grätz
15. Gay and Lesbian Cops: Diversity and Effective Policing by Roddrick A. Colvin
16. Queer Cinema in Europe by Robin Griffiths
17. Bruce McDonald’s Hard Core Logo by Paul McEwan
18. An Atheist in the Foxhole: A Liberal’s Eight-Year Odyssey Inside the Heart of the Right-Wing Media by Joe Muto
19. Paul Rand: Conversations with Students by Michael Kroeger (suggested)
20. Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier, who lost me early on
21. A Handbook of California Design, 1930–1965 by Bobbye Tigerman
22. London Triptych by Jonathan Kemp
23. This Is How by inveterate liar Augusten Burroughs
24. Hand to Type: Scripts, Hand-Lettering and Calligraphy by Jan Middendorp
25. Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants by Phil Tiemeyer
26. American Honor Killings: Desire and Rage Among Men by David McConnell
27. Denial by Ajit Varki
28. Both Flesh and Not: Essays by David Foster Wallace (audio CD)
29. The Harvey Milk Interviews: In His Own Words by Harvey Milk
30. Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris (audio CD) (takedown)

May

1. No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics, Justin Hall, ed.
2. Life at Home in the 21st Century: 32 Families Open their Doors by Jeanne E. Arnold (a very special fuck-you from TPL)
3. Saving the CBC: Balancing Profit and Public Service by Wade Rowland
4. Make Good Art by Neil Gaiman
5. Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal by Jon Wiederhorn, Katherine Turman (★★★)
6. David Bowie Is [b6]
7. Beyond the Dance Floor: Female DJs, Technology and Electronic Dance Music Culture by Rebekah Farrugia
8. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
9. No Place Like Home: Relationships and Family Life Among Lesbians and Gay Men by Christopher Carrington
10. Animals in the Military by John M. Kistler
11. Maggie & Me by Damian Barr
12. Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics by Urvashi Vaid (who earned over $400,000 from less than a year’s work at a single foundation)
13. Deaf Professionals and Designated Interpreters: A New Paradigm by Peter C. Hauser
14. Hello[,] World by Alice Rawsthorn (appalling)
15. Man Made: A Stupid Quest for Masculinity by Joel Stein
16. Man 2.0: Engineering the Alpha [title continues for some time] by John Romaniello
17. What’s a Dog For? by John Homans
18. A Death in the Family/My Struggle: Book One by Karl Ove Knausgård
19. Israel/Palestine and the Queer International by Sarah Schulman
20. Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky
21. Art and Queer Culture by Catherine Lord

April

1. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon (dud)
2. You Aren’t What You Eat: Fed Up with Gastroculture by Steven Poole (dud)
3. To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism by Evgeny Morozov
4. The Colo[u]r Revolution by Regina Lee Blaszczyk
5. How to Win a Fight: A Guide to Avoiding and Surviving Violence by Lawrence Kane
6. Fighting to Serve: Behind the Scenes in the War to Repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell by Alexander Nicholson
7. The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter than You Think by Brian Hare
8. Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
9. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
10. Gay and Lesbian Aging: Research and Future Directions, Gilbert Herdt, Brian de Vries, eds.
11. Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with J.G. Ballard, 1967–2008, Simon Sellars, Dan O’Hara, eds.
12. Sex Changes: A Memoir of Marriage, Gender, and Moving On by Christine Benvenuto
13. The Man I Might Become: Gay Men Write About Their Fathers, Bruce Shenitz, ed.
14. My Husband and My Wives: A Gay Man’s Odyssey by Charles Rowan Beye
15. Present Shock by Douglas Rushkoff
16. The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture by David Bergman
17. Shaping Text by Jan Middendorp (suggested)
18. Until I Say Goodbye by Susan Spencer-Wendel
19. Gay and Gray: The Older Homosexual Man by Raymond M. Berger
20. Is That All There Is? by Joost Swarte
21. Erratic: Visual Impact in Current Design by R. Klanten (dud)
22. Pretty Ugly: Visual Rebellion in Design (at TRL)
23. The Gay Games: A History by Caroline Symons (dud)
24. Assholes: A Theory by Aaron James
25. Liberace Extravaganza! by Connie Furr Soloman
26. Modernist Cuisine at Home (and cooking manual) by billionaire patent troll Nathan Myhrvold

March

1. How to Not Write Bad by Ben Yagoda (gift of Nagaijin)
2. The Best American Comics 2012, Françoise Mouly, ed.
3. Undercover Reporting: The Truth About Deception by Brooke Kroeger
4. A Light That Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga of the Smiths by Tony Fletcher
5. The Disappearance of Darkness: Photography at the End of the Analog[ue] Era by Robert Burley
6. The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
7. Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss
8. The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network by Katherine Losse
9. So Wrong for So Long by Greg Mitchell
10. Covert Entry: Spies, Lies and Crimes Inside Canada’s Secret Service by Andrew Mitrovica
11. On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes by Alexandra Horowitz
12. MP3: The Meaning of a Format by Jonathan Sterne (suggested) (dud)
13. Blondie: Parallel Lives by Dick Porter
14. Trauma by Gordon Turnbull
15. Basic Sign

February

1. Love Looks Not with the Eyes: Thirteen Years with Lee Alexander McQueen by Anne Deniau
2. 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5 RND(1));: GOTO 10 by Nick Montfort
3. Love and Money: Queers, Class, and Cultural Production by Lisa Henderson (dud)
4. In the Shadow of the Epidemic: Being HIV-Negative in the Age of AIDS by Walt Odets (★★★)
5. Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall by Will Ellsworth-Jones
6. Letters to One: Gay and Lesbian Voices from the 1950s and 1960s by Craig M. Loftin
7. How Literature Saved My Life by David Shields
8. 100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design by Steven Heller, Véronique Vienne (dud)
9. The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman (dud)
10. Design Research Unit 1942–72 by Michelle Cotton (suggested)
11. Some Great Idea: Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto by Edward Keenan (typically atrocious type and copy)
12. Australian Gay and Lesbian Plays by Bruce Parr

January

1. Managing Oneself by Peter Ferdinand Drucker (suggested)
2. The Cross in the Closet by Timothy Kurek
3. Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz
4. Human Transit by Jarrett Walker (I read his blog, and it’s atrociously typeset)
5. From Cliché to Archetype (2011) by Marshall McLuhan (suggested)
6. The Victims’ Revolution: How Identity Studies Have Destroyed American Higher Education by Bruce Bawer
7. About My Life and the Kept Woman: A Memoir by John Rechy
8. To Die For: Is Fashion Wearing Out the World? by Lucy Siegle (suggested)
9. How to Be Gay by David M. Halperin
10. What Happened to Gay Life? by Robert Reynolds
11. The Art of Making Magazines by Victor S. Navasky (dud)
12. Plutocrats by Chrystia Freeland
13. Wait: The Art and Science of Delay by Frank Partnoy
14. Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think by Peter H. Diamandis
15. Deutschland schafft sich ab: Wie wir unser Land aufs Spiel setzen by Thilo Sarrazin
16. The Geometric Unconscious by Sheldon Museum of Art (dud)
17. Paris vs. New York: A Tally of Two Cities by Vahram Muratyan (better as a blog)
18. The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver
19. Right-Wing Resurgence: How a Domestic Terrorist Threat is Being Ignored by Daryl Johnson (recall)
20. And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson
21. Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals by Marc Bekoff

2012

At TRL

Books read at Toronto Reference Library.

1. Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
2. My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years by Sarah Schulman
3. Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America
4. The Book of Books
5. Heroes, Rogues, and Lovers: Testosterone and Behavior by James McBride Dabbs
6. Querelle

December

1. The Good Men Project: Real Stories from the Front Lines of Modern Manhood by James Houghton (suggested)
2. Introducing Critical Theory by Stuart Sim
3. Home-Prepared Dog and Cat Diets by Patricia Schenck
4. Graphics and Packaging Production by Rob Thompson
5. Canada by Richard Ford
6. The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later by Moisés Kaufman et al.
7. “There Are Things I Want You to Know” About Stieg Larsson and Me (audio CD)
8. Spillover by David Quammen
9. The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use “Plain English” to Rob You Blind by David Cay Johnston
10. M.I.A.
11. I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson
12. Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
13. Digital Textile Design by Melanie Bowles
14. Mother, Brother, Lover by Jarvis Cocker (suggested)
15. Graphic Design Before Graphic Designers by David Jury
16. Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, “Found Texts (and Other Fraudulent Artifacts), David Shields, Matthew Vollmer, eds.
17. Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon
18. The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard, Ron Padgett, ed. (recall)
19. Party of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and His Black and White Ball by Deborah Davis

November

1. Triburbia by Karl Taro Greenfeld
2. Myths, Lies and Half-Truths of Language Usage by John McWhorter
3. From Cliché to Archetype by Marshall McLuhan (1970)
4. Instant: The Story of Polaroid by Christopher Bonanos
5. The Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware
6. Shadowplayers: The Rise and Fall of Factory Records by James Nice (suggested)
7. Information Graphics, Sandra Rendgen, ed.
8. The Penguin Book of International Gay Writing by Mark Mitchell
9. Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion by Elizabeth L. Cline (suggested)
10. Reasons To Be Cheerful: The Life and Work of Barney Bubbles by Paul Gorman (suggested)
11. Punk: An Æsthetic by Jon Savage
12. The Form Book by Borries Schwesinger
13. Far from the Madding Gerund and Other Dispatches from Language Log by Mark Liberman (suggested)
14. Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer
15. Logo Life: Life Histories of 100 Famous Logos by Ron van der Vlugt

October

1. Kenneth Grange: Making Britain Modern by Gemma Curtin (suggested)
2. American Voyeur: Dispatches From the Far Reaches of Modern Life by Benoît Denizet-Lewis (suggested)
3. Male Desire: The Homoerotic in American Art by Jonathan Weinberg
4. Put the Needle on the Record: The 1980s at 45 Revolutions Per Minute by Matthew Chojnacki (suggested)
5. From ACT UP to the WTO by Benjamin Shepard (tedious)
6. Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars by Camille Paglia
7. Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception by Claudia Hammond
8. On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual by Merle Miller
9. Angloman 2: Money, Ethnics, Superheroes by Mark Shainblum (again)
10. How Music Works by David Byrne
11. Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World by Nataly Kelly
12. Resistance by Armond White (interloan)
13. Do the Movies Have a Future? by David Denby
14. Dangerous Book Four Boys by James Franco
15. Causing a Scene: Extraordinary Pranks in Ordinary Places with Improv Everywhere by Charlie Todd (suggested)
16. Hold Tight by Christopher Bram (interloan) (★★★)
17. Journalism by Joe Sacco
18. The Book of Tempeh by William Shurtleff
19. Graphic Design: Now In Production by Ian Albinson (as poncy as anything these Usual Suspects put out)
20. Hello[,] Sailor!: The Hidden History of Gay Life at Sea by Jo Stanley (suggested)
21. XY: On Masculine Identity by Elisabeth Badinter (again)
22. Toyota Production System by Taiichi Ohno
23. Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie
24. Vancouver Special by Charles Demers
25. Heathers by John Ross Bowie
26. The Air We Breathe: Artists and Poets Reflect on Marriage Equality by Apsara DiQuinzio
27. Inside Pee-Wee’s Playhouse by Caseen Gaines
28. Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean (audio CD)
29. The Last Boys Picked by Janet Sasson Edgette

September

1. Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History’s Glare
2. Stuntman!: My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life by Hal Needham
3. Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
4. Asian Tofu by Andrea Nguyen
5. John Waters: Interviews by James Egan
6. The End of Men and the Rise of Women by Hanna Rosin
7. Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield (audio CD [improbably])
8. Designing Diagrams: Making Information Accessible Through Design by Jan Gauguin (a bore and, if aimed at engineers and Windows users, misdirected)
9. Graphic Thought Facility by Zoe Ryan
10. Sagmeister: Another Book About Promotion and Sales Material, which I actually don’t recall in the slightest
11. The Gentrification of the Mind by Sarah Schulman (review)
12. Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
13. Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
14. The Changing World of Gay Men by Peter Robinson
15. The Velvet Rage, Second Edition, by Alan Downs

August

1. Half Empty by David Rakoff (audio CD) (again)
2. Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz by Cynthia Carr
3. The Myth of the Muslim Tide by Doug Saunders
4. Tubes by Andrew Blum (dull)
5. Wait: The Art and Science of Delay by Frank Partnoy
6. Stieg Larsson: The Real Story of the Man Who Played with Fire by Jan-Erik Pettersson
7. Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross
8. Merchants of Culture by John B. Thompson
9. Typography, Referenced by Allan Haley et al.
10. Quentin Crisp: The Profession of Being by Nigel Kelly
11. This Means This, This Means That: A User’s Guide to Semiotics by Sean Hall
12. Pioneers of Spanish Graphic Design by Emilio Gil (suggested)
13. Art and the Subway: New York Underground by Tracy Fitzpatrick
14. Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World by Nicholas Shaxson
15. Christmas Exposed by the Onion
16. Private Eye: The First 50 Years by Adam MacQueen (suggested)
17. True North: A Life Inside the Music Business by Bernie Finkelstein
18. The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present by Eric Kandel
19. Whatever It Is, I Don’t Like It by Howard Jacobson
20. The Lifespan of a Fact by John D’Agata
21. The Monogamy Gap by Eric Anderson (unendurable)
22. Attention[,] All Passengers: The Truth About the Airline Industry by William J. McGee
23. Hands by John Napier

July

1. The Great Divergence by Timothy Noah
2. Digital Vertigo Andrew Keen (suggested)
3. Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt by Chris Hedges, Joe Sacco
4. Halsted Plays Himself by William E. Jones
5. Breaking Out II by Kevin Alderson
6. Design by Nature by Maggie MacNab
7. Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution by Linda Hirshman
8. Savage Messiah by Laura Oldfield Ford (suggested)

June

1. Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (atrocious)
2. An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin by Gad Beck
3. Hollywood Economics by Arthur De Vany
4. Visual Strategies: A Practical Guide to Graphics for Scientists and Engineers by Felice C. Frankel
5. Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel (★★★)
6. Where Men Hide by James B. Twitchell (★★★)
7. In the President’s Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect by Ronald Kessler
8. The Brokeback Book: From Story to Cultural Phenomenon by William R. Handley
9. Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever by Will Hermes
10. 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
11. As Nature Made Him by John Colapinto
12. City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
13. Typography for Lawyers by Matthew Butterick (interloan)
14. Out of the Blue by Jan Wong
15. If Memory Serves: Gay Men, AIDS, and the Promise of the Queer Past by Christopher Castiglia
16. The Art of Hand-Lettering by H. Wotzkow (give from Cavedoni)
17. HHhH by Laurent Binet
18. Party Animals: A Hollywood Tale of Sex, Drugs, and Rock [&] Roll Starring the Fabulous Allan Carr by Robert Hofler
19. The Remixer’s Bible by Francis Preve
20. A.D.D.: Adolescent Demo Division by Douglas Rushkoff (suggested)
21. Bibliographic: 100 Classic Graphic Design Books by Jason Godfrey (again)
22. Gay Men Don’t Get Fat by Simon Doonan
23. The Subversive Copy Editor by Carol Fisher Saller (weak)
24. The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker
25. A History of Graphic Design for Rainy Days by Studio 3 (much worse than it should have been)
26. Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It by Gabor Maté (★★★)

May

1. Postmodern Art: 1945 to Now by Francesco Poli
2. The New American Haggadah by Jonathan Safran Foer, Shalom Auslander, Oded Ezer
3. The Story of English in 100 Words by David Crystal (blog post)
4. Octopus: The Ocean’s Intelligent Invertebrate by Jennifer A. Mather
5. The Incident Report by Martha Baillie
6. Raising Boys in a New Kind of World by Michael Reist
7. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Maté (★★★)
8. The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq
9. The Male Factor: The Unwritten Rules, Misperceptions, and Secret Beliefs of Men in the Workplace by Shaunti Feldhahn
10. Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple’s Success by Ken Segall
11. Lady Gaga × Terry Richardson
12. The Conflict by Elisabeth Badinter
13. The Letter Q: Queer Writers’ Notes to their Younger Selves by Sarah Moon (vague and saccharine)
14. The Best Place to Be: Expo 67 and its Time by John Lownsbrough
15. Form + Code in Design, Art, and Architecture by Casey Reas
16. Manhunt by Peter L. Bergen
17. The Tattooed Girl: The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of Our Time, Dan Burstein, ed.
18. Four Novels of the 1960s by Philip K. Dick
19. Basement of Wolves by Daniel Allen Cox
20. The Sugar[‑]Frosted Nutsack by Mark Leyner

April

1. States of Desire: Travels in Gay America by Edmund White (interloan)
2. The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex [continues endlessly] by Liza Mundy
3. Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Hetrosexuality by Hanne Blank
4. The Expo Files: Articles by the Crusading Journalist by Stieg Larsson
5. How to Sharpen Pencils by David Rees
6. Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive by Bruce Schneier
7. Going Solo by Eric Klinenberg
8. Something Inside: Conversations With Gay Fiction Writers by Philip Gambone (interloan)
9. Tower of Babble by Richard Stursberg
10. To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life by Hervé Guibert (recall)
11. Pax Ethnica Karl E. Meyer
12. Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom by Rebecca MacKinnon
13. Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in Seventies New York by James Wolcott
14. I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright
15. The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948–1985 by James Baldwin (I barely got through the one essay I was looking for)
16. Microstyle by Christopher Johnson
17. Love Stories: Sex between Men before Homosexuality by Jonathan Ned Katz
18. Imagine: The Science of Creativity by Jonah Lehrer
19. Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
20. Tough Sh[i]t by Kevin Smith
21. Symbol by Steven Bateman (of almost no value whatsoever)
22. The German Genius by Peter Watson

March

1. Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed by Carl Zimmer (not remotely as good as its premise)
2. Free Will by Sam Harris
3. Graphic Design in America: A Visual Language History by Mildred Friedman
4. Saul Bass by Pat Kirkham
5. The Panic Virus by Seth Mnookin
6. In The Game: Gay Athletes and the Cult of Masculinity by Eric Anderson (appalling)
7. The Exultant Ark: A Pictorial Tour of Animal Pleasure by Jonathan Peter Balcombe
8. Quiet Desperation: The Truth About Successful Men by Jan Halper (interloan)
9. Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010 by Charles Murray
10. Marriage Shock: The Transformation of Women into Wives by Dalma Heyn
11. Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America by Christopher Bram (★★★)

February

1. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit Banerjee
2. Pity the Billionaire: by Thomas Frank
3. Inside Apple by Adam Lashinsky
4. Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars by Scotty Bowers (dud)
5. Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970–1990 by Glenn Adamson
6. The Enemy Within: Terror, Lies, and the Whitewashing of Omar Khadr by Ezra Levant
7. Unlikely Friendships by Jennifer Holland
8. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (audio CD)
9. Rich People Things by Chris Lehmann
10. Too Big to Know by David Weinberger
11. Wanted Women: Faith, Lies, and the War on Terror: The Lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui by Deborah Scroggins
12. Is There Anything Good About Men? by Roy F. Baumeister
13. No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July (audio CD)
14. The New Hate: A History of Fear and Loathing on the Populist Right by Arthur Goldwag
15. Herb Ritts: The Golden Hour by Charles Churchward
16. CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions by Frederic Chaubin
17. Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back by Michael Musto (copy error on first page; goes downhill from there)

January

1. Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty by Andrew Bolton
2. Public Parts by Jeff Jarvis
3. Gods and Monsters: A Queer Film Classic by Noah Tsika
4. Death in Venice: A Queer Film Classic by Will Aitken
5. Assumption by Percival Everett
6. Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength by Roy F. Baumeister
7. Babel No More by esteemed colleague Michael Erard
8. Harris Tweed: From Land to Street by Lara Platman (dud)
9. Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson (dud)
10. Walking Higher: Gay Men Write About the Deaths of Their Mothers by Alexander Renault
11. Identify: Iconic Trademarks Designed by Chermayeff & Geismar (dud, and indulgent)
12. Tools for Living: A Sourcebook of Iconic Designs for the Home by Charlotte Fiell
13. In the Blink of an Eye by Walter Murch
14. Art Deco Architecture in Toronto by Tim Morawetz
15. The Secret Life of Lobsters by Trevor Corson
16. Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art by Richard Meyer
17. Crass Struggle by R.T. Naylor
18. The Deal from Hell: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers by James O’Shea
19. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (recall)
20. My Prizes: An Accounting by Thomas Bernhard
21. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt (again)
22. Zoo City by Lauren Beukes (again)

2011

December

1. Honey Money: The Power of Erotic Capital by Catherine Hakim (★★★)
2. Arguably by Christopher Hitchens
3. Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message that Feminism’s Work Is Done by Susan J. Douglas
4. Life Itself by Roger Ebert (audio CD)
5. The Constitution, 1982
6. Believing Is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography by Errol Morris
7. The Infinity of Lists: An Illustrated Essay by Umberto Eco
8. Marshall McLuhan by Douglas Coupland
9. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
10. Meggs: Making Graphic Design History by Rob Carter (interloan) (dud)
11. I Want My MTV by Craig Marks
12. The Book of Probes by Eric McLuhan
13. 1,000 Years of Annoying the French by Stephen Clarke
14. LGBT Identity and Online New Media, Christopher Pullen, ed.
15. Pantone: The Twentieth Century in Colo[u]r by Leatrice Eiseman
16. The Heights: Anatomy of a Skyscraper by Kate Ascher
17. Vegan Pie in the Sky by Isa Chandra Moskowitz

November

1. The High Line: The Inside Story of New York City’s Park in the Sky by Joshua David, Robert Hammond
2. Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo by Michael Schiavi
3. Cabin Fever: The Best New Canadian Nonfiction by Moira Farr, Ian Pearson
4. Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible by Sophie Lovell
5. The Savage War: The Untold Battles of Afghanistan by Murray Brewster
6. The Submission by Amy Waldman
7. Campus Confidential by Ken S. Coates
8. With Liberty and Justice for Some by Glenn Greenwald
9. Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back by Robert Levine

October

1. Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State by Dana Priest
2. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
3. The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin/ by Joe McGinniss
4. The Ecstasy of Defeat by the Onion
5. The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
6. Zone One by Colson Whitehead
7. Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean
8. 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America by Albert Brooks
9. 100 Ideas that Changed Fashion by Harriet Worsley
10. In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination by Margaret Atwood
11. Fire by Sebastian Junger
12. Bigger Than the Game: Bo, Boz, the Punky QB, and How the ’80s Created the Modern Athlete by Michael Weinreb
13. Spousonomics: Using Economics to Master Love, Marriage, and Dirty Dishes by Paula Szuchman
14. Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta (recall)
15. That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back by Thomas L. Friedman
16. MetaMaus by Art Spiegelman
17. Letter Fountain by Joep Pohlen
18. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
19. About Canada: Animal Rights by John Sorenson
20. Brandwashed by Martin Lindstrom

September

1. Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV by Ben Shapiro [b6]
2. Decade of Fear: Reporting from Terrorism’s Grey Zone by Michelle Shephard
3. The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance by K. Anders Ericsson
4. My Father’s Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness by Gwyneth Paltrow
5. How to Speak Dog by Stanley Coren
6. Why Does My Dog Act That Way? by Stanley Coren
7. Puppy[-]Taming by Caroline Davis
8. Retromania by Simon Reynolds
9. I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay by John Lanchester
10. What Language Is by John McWhorter
11. After America: Get Ready for Armageddon by Mark Steyn. (What’s he complaining about now?)
12. Atlas of Graphic Designers by Elena Stanic
13. “There Are Things I Want You to Know” About Stieg Larsson and Me by Eva Gabrielsson (oddball title with quotation marks in it) (★★★; excerpts)
14. The Chairs Are Where the People Go: How to Live, Work, and Play in the City by Misha Glouberman (review)
15. Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
16. The Antagonist by Lynn Coady
17. Whatever by Michel Houellebecq
18. War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
19. Dog Sense: How the New Science of Dog Behavio[u]r Can Make You A Better Friend to Your Pet by John Bradshaw

August

1. Directions 2010 by ADCC (without an ISBN or author)
2. Polaroids by Attila Richard Lukacs (and this is how big it is)
3. Diary of an Innocent by Tony Duvert (interloan) (despite more than enough time, I did not manage to get to this one, and feel terrible about it)
4. Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking by Tim Dean (interloan)
5. Unspecial Effects for Graphic Designers by Bob Gill (interloan)
6. Graphic Design: A User’s Manual by Adrian Shaughnessy (dud)
7. As Long As It’s Pink: The Sexual Politics of Taste by Penny Sparke (interloan)
8. ArtWork: Seeing Inside the Creative Process by Ivan Vartanian
9. Canada: A Year of the Land by the National Film Board
10. All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen
11. Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan (again)
12. I Stand for Canada: The Story of the Maple Leaf Flag by Rick Archbold
13. Woman as Design by Stephen Bayley
14. New Scandinavian Design by Katherine Nelson
15. Second Nature: The Inner Lives of Animals by Jonathan Balcombe
16. I’m Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 by Douglas Edwards
17. Infidel by Tim Hetherington (interloan) (★★★) (chest)
18. This is Not the End of the Book by Jean-Philippe de Tonnac, Umberto Eco
19. Gilded Lily: Lily Safra: The Making of One of the World’s Wealthiest Widows (unfinished after nearly six months)
20. War Horse by Michael Morpurgo (audio CD)
21. Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality by Dwight McBride
22. Beijing Welcomes You by Tom Scocca
23. Coolest Cross-Sections Ever! by Richard Platt
24. Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein
25. Smothered in Hugs by Dennis Cooper
26. City of Glass: Douglas Coupland’s Vancouver, revised edition, by Douglas Coupland
27. The Tomcat Chronicles: Erotic Adventures of a Gay-Liberation Pioneer by Jack Nichols
28. Dark Heart The Shocking Truth About Hidden Britain by Nick Davies (interloan)
29. Ayn Rand’s Anthem: The Graphic Novel by Charles Santino
30. The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt by Jon-Jon Goulian (awful)

July

1. The Story of Graphic Design in France by Michel Wlassikoff (Lisa Davidson and Sally Laruelle, trans.)
2. Moby-Duck by Donovan Hohn
3. An Accidental Sportswriter by Robert Lipsyte
4. Queering Bathrooms by Sheila L. Cavanagh
5. See a Little Light by Bob Mould
6. This Small Cloud by Harry Daley (interloan)
7. A.A. Gill is Further Away by A.A. Gill
8. Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries by Peter Sims
9. Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top-Secret Military Base by Annie Jacobsen
10. Art and Homosexuality: A History of Ideas by Christopher Reed
11. You Are What You Speak by Robert Lane Greene
12. The Practical Heart: Four Novellas by Allan Gurganus
13. A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski
14. White by Kenya Hara
15. Coming Out to the Mainstream: New Queer Cinema in the 21st Century, JoAnne C. Juett, ed.
16. Griftopia by Matt Taibbi
17. The Psychopath Test by JON-RON-SON
18. The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage by Roger L. Martin
19. Crass Struggle by R. T. Naylor
20. Hunting: In Search of the Wild Life: Philosophy for Everyone by Nathan Kowalsky
21. Inside Canadian Intelligence by Dwight Hamilton
22. Bossypants by Tina Fey (audio CD) (★★★)
23. Among the Truthers by Jonathan Kay
24. Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York by James T. Murray
25. When Your Pet Dies: A Guide to Mourning, Remembering and Healing by Alan D. Wolfelt
26. Saying Goodbye to the Pet You Love: A Complete Resource to Help You Heal by Lori A. Greene
27. The Loss of a Pet by Wallace Sife
28. Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield (failed after three attempts)
29. Street Knowledge by King Adz
30. Ken Lum, G.E. Arnold, ed. (dud)
31. Inside Scientology by Janet Reitman

June

1. The Lover’s Dictionary by David Levithan
2. Walking Home: The Life and Lessons of a City-Builder by Ken Greenberg
3. Bring on the Books for Everybody: How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture by Jim Collins
4. California Screaming by Doug Guinan (interloan)
5. Living in the End Times by Slavoj Žižek
6. The Red Market by Scott Carney
7. The Great Typo Hunt by Jeff Deck, Benjamin D. Herson
8. Alone Together by Sherry Turkle (overwrought)
9. Feeling Canadian: Television, Nationalism, and Affect by Marusya Bociurkiw (dud)
10. Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity by Anne Elizabeth Moore
11. The Complete Wendel by Howard Cruse
12. Zombie Spaceship Wasteland by Patton Oswalt
13. Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences by Sarah Schulman
14. The Right Balance by Hugh Segal
15. The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity by Michael Marmot
16. The Hollow Planet by Scott Thompson
17. Photoshop Studio with Bert Monroy
18. Plastic: A Toxic Love Story by Susan Freinkel
19. Cascadia’s Fault by Jerry Thompson

May

1. Eating Chinese: Culture on the Menu in Small-Town Canada by Lily Cho (dud)
2. Steven Petrow’s Complete Gay & Lesbian Manners
3. Reset: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America by Kurt Andersen (interloan) (dud)
4. Android Karenina by Ben H. Winters
5. The Hollywood Standard: The Complete and Authoritative Guide to Script Format and Style by Christopher Riley
6. Sleepwalk with Me by Mike Birbiglia (dud)
7. Trouble in the Camera Club by Don Pyle
8. It’s Not Really About the Hair by Tabatha Coffey
9. Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture by Jonathan D. Katz
10. The Lives of Animals by J. M. Coetzee (recall)
11. Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why by Simon LeVay
12. Man’s World by Rupert Smith (★★★)
13. Inside WikiLeaks by Daniel Domscheit-Berg
14. The Necrofiles by Donna Lypchuk (dud)
15. The Metropolis Case by Matthew Gallaway
16. The Disco Files 1973–78 by Vince Aletti
17. When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress–Disease Connection by Gabor Maté (★★★)
18. It’s Always Personal: Emotion in the New Workplace by Anne Kreamer
19. How to Be a Man: A Guide To Style and Behavior for the Modern Gentleman by Glenn O’Brien

April

1. The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can’t Be Jammed by Joseph Heath, Andrew Potter
2. How to be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul, revised edition, by Adrian Shaughnessy (in cold light of day, a dud)
3. What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly
4. Modern Nature by Derek Jarman
5. Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead (audio CD)
6. War by Sebastian Junger (audio CD)
7. With Glowing Hearts by VANOC
8. Hate: A Romance by Tristan Garcia
9. Writing in the Time of Nationalism: From Two Solitudes to Blue Metropolis by Linda Leith (dud)
10. Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek
11. Greetings from the Gayborhood: A Look Back at the Golden Age of Gay Neighborhoods by Donald F. Reuter (interloan)
12. The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization’s Northern Future by Laurence C. Smith
13. Bossypants by Tina Fey
14. Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys by Kay Hymowitz (blog mention)
15. They Live by Jonathan Lethem
16. Ærotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next by John D. Kasarda
17. It Gets Better by Dan Savage
18. Acme Novelty Library Nº 20 by Chris Ware
19. The Trouble with Canada... Still by William Gairdner
20. The Decline of Males by Lionel Tiger (dud)
21. J.E.H. Macdonald, Designer by Robert Stacey
22. Willful Blindness by Margaret Heffernan
23. Rawhide Down: The Near-Assassination of Ronald Reagan by Del Quentin Wilber
24. Discography by the Pet Shop Boys
25. Local Motion: The Art of Civic Engagement in Toronto, Christina Palassio, ed. (dud)

March

1. Wolfgang Tillmans: Manual (even worse than expected; cf.)
2. Mr. Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt
3. Patriot Hearts: Inside the Olympics That Changed a Country by John Furlong
4. Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Writers and Artists Who Made the National Lampoon Insanely Great by Rick Meyerowitz (awful!)
5. Harperland: The Politics of Control by Lawrence Martin
6. Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910–1969 by William Mann
7. A Reader’s Manifesto by B. R. Myers
8. Wall and Piece by Banksy
9. The Big Rewind by Nathan Rabin
10. Kraków Melt by Daniel Allen Cox
11. Never Use White Type on a Black Background and 50 Other Ridiculous Design Rules by Anneloes van Gaalen (Doylism)
12. Taking Things Seriously: 75 Objects with Unexpected Significance by Joshua Glenn (Doylism)
13. Design Meets Disability by Graham Pullin (Doylism)
14. Global Journalism Ethics by Stephen J. A. Ward (dud)
15. A Week at the Airport by Alain de Botton (another in his series of self-parodies)

February

1. Don’t Follow Me, I’m Lost: A Memoir of Hampshire College in the Twilight of the ’80s by Richard Rushfield
2. Whiter Shades of Pale by Christian Lander
3. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
4. The Pot and How to Use It: The Mystery and Romance of the Rice Cooker by Roger Ebert (dud, and copied-and-pasted from blog entries and reader submissions)
5. Manthropology by Peter McAllister
6. Puffin by Design by Phil Baines
7. Eye Twisters by Burkard Polster
8. The Puffin Canadian Beginner’s Dictionary, K.J. Weber, ed.
9. The Vaults by Toby Ball

January

1. Menace in Europe: Why the Continent’s Crisis Is America’s, Too by Claire Berlinski (again; cf.)
2. Surface Detail by Iain Banks
3. Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade by Justin Spring
4. “There Is No Alternative”: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters by Claire Berlinski (★★★; cf.)
5. Trudeau Albums
6. Alinea by Grant Achatz (dud)
7. Do You Matter? How Great Design Will Make People Love Your Company by Robert Brunner
8. I’ve a Feeling We’re Not in Kansas Anymore by Ethan Mordden (these books are total bores)
9. Gay Shame, David M. Halperin, ed.
10. The Procrastination Equation by Piers Steel (imperious and hectoring)
11. Designed Maps: A Sourcebook for GIS Users by Cynthia A. Brewer
12. Some Men Are Lookers by Ethan Mordden (also a bore)
13. C by Tom McCarthy
14. Pop Touched Me: The Art of Rob Pruitt
15. Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World by Doug Saunders
16. How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti
17. Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral History of Punk in Toronto and Beyond 1977–1981 by Liz Worth
18. From Dusk Till Dawn: An Insider’s View of the Growth of the Animal Liberation Movement by Keith Mann
19. Shift by Tim Kring, Dale Peck
20. Speaking of Art: Four Decades of Art in Conversation by William Furlong
21. Contemporary Graphic Design by Peter Fiell (dud)
22. Choke by Sian Beilock
23. The Hogtown Project by Nadine Dolly (considerable disappointment)
24. War by Sebastian Junger

2010

December

1. Buddies by Ethan Mordden
2. We3 by Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely
3. Peter Gzowski by Rae Fleming
4. Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God by Greg Graffin
5. The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
6. The Four Fingers of Death by Rick Moody
7. Visual Grammar by Christian Leborg
8. The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud
9. Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It’s So Hard To Think Straight About Animals by Hal Herzog (again)
10. Secrets of Voice-Over Success by Joan Baker
11. Penguin 75 by Paul Buckley
12. Kohn on Music Licensing by Al Kohn, plus four supplementary volumes (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000)
13. The Bucolic Plague by Josh Kilmer-Purcell
14. I Live in the Future and Here’s How It Works by Nick Bilton
15. Andreas Gursky: Works 80–08, Martin Hentschel, ed.
16. Drawing for Designers by Alan Pipes
17. The Story of Graphic Design by Patrick Cramsie
18. Mary Ann in Autumn by Armistead Maupin

November

1. The Big Why by Michael Winter
2. The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman
3. Waiting to Land: A (Mostly) Political Memoir, 1985–2008 by Martin Duberman (insufferable)
4. Micah Lexier: I’m Thinking of a Number, Jan Peacock, ed.
5. Business Inside Out: Capturing Millions of Brand-Loyal Gay Consumers by Robert Witeck, Wesley Combs (fagonomics)
6. Richard Prince
7. The Trouble with Billionaires by Linda McQuaig
8. The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket by John Weir (interloan)
9. Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine
10. The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris
11. The All-New Print-Production Handbook by David Bann
12. Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS by Deborah B. Gould
13. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (★★★★; PowerPoint)
14. Finlater by Shawn Stewart Ruff
15. Mad Men Unbuttoned by Natasha Vargas-Cooper (questioning its existence)
16. The Positive Power of Negative Thinking by Julie K. Norem
17. When Gay People Get Married by M.V. Lee Badgett
18. The Animals’ War by Juliet Gardiner
19. The Secret History of MI6 by Keith Jeffery
20. Witness to a City: David Miller’s Toronto by David Miller
21. Grief by Andrew Holleran