My 2014 resolution was to re-commit time to my love of reading. Some good vacations and often choosing reading over the internet meant I was able to enjoy 35 books (15 fiction, 20 non) last year.

My highlights were discovering Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie as an author, learning more about the 1995 Quebec Referendum, and Thomas King‘s poignant yet humorous Inconvenient Indian. I also made a good dent in previous Canada Reads lists, which I hope to continue on in 2015!

Here’s the full list if anyone wants to ask about a good book to read in 2015:

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie
• The Inconvenient Indian – Thomas King
• Half Blood Blues – Esi Edugyan
• My Journey – Olivia Chow
• A Thousand Dreams: Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside – Larry Campbell, Neil Boyd & Lori Culbert
• An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything – Chris Hadfield
• The Racketeer – John Grisham
• Transgender History – Susan Stryker
• The Insomniac Reader: Stories of the Night – Edited by Kevin Sampsell
• Urban Nation – Alan Broadbent
• Jack Layton: Art in Action – Edited by Penn Kemp
• Room for All of Us – Adrienne Clarkson
• Doppler – Erlend Loe
• The Fault in Our Stars – John Green
• Detroit: An American Autopsy – Charlie LeDuff
• Slash – Jeanette Armstrong
• The London Years – Rudolf Rocker
• War Dances – Sherman Alexie
• Speaking Truth to Power – Edited by Trish Hennessy and Ed Finn
• Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Loose End – Stories by Ivan E. Coyote
• The Morning After the 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day That Almost Was – Chantal Hébert with Jean Lapierre
• The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative – Thomas King
• The Power of Why – Amanda Lang
• Lazy Days – Erlend Loe
• One Native Life – Richard Wagamese
• Unimagined Community: Sex, Networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa – Robert J. Thornton
• Socialist Cowboy: The Politics of Peter Kormos – Larry Savage
• Sharing My Life: Building the Co-operative Movement – Harold E. Chapman
• Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• February – Lisa Moore
• Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter – Carmen Aguirre
• Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada – Edited by Stephanie Ross & Larry Savage
• In Their Own Voices: Building Urban Aboriginal Communities – Jim Silver
• Cockroach – Rawi Hage