2010
- Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
- The Varieties of Scientific Experience – Carl Sagan
- Poised for Grace: Annotations on the Bhagavad Gita from a Tantric View – Douglas Brooks
- Food Rules – Michael Pollan
- Patience with God: Faith for People Who Don’t Like Religion (or Atheism) – Frank Schaeffer
- The Mood Cure – Julia Ross
- Catalyst – Laurie Halse Anderson
- Bucky: A Guided Tour of Buckminster Fuller – Hugh Kenner
- The Salmon of Doubt – Douglas Adams
- The Ox-Bow Incident – Walter Van Tilburg Clark
- Maple Leaf Rag: Travels Across Canada – Stephen Brook
- The Good Man Jesus And The Scoundrel Christ – Philip Pullman
- The Bird Artist – Howard Norman
- The Annotated Anne of Green Gables – L. M. Montgomery, Edited by Wendy E. Barry, Margaret Anne Doody, Mary E. Doody Jones
- A Whale for the Killing – Farley Mowat
- The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson – Thomas H. Johnson, ed.
- The Introvert Advantage – Marti Olsen Laney
- The Great Oom: The Improbable Birth of Yoga in America – Robert Love
- The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
- Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
- Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins
- Life Is Elsewhere – Milan Kundera
2011
- The Radiance Sutras – Lorin Roche
- John and the Missus – Gordon Pinsent
- Random Passage – Bernice Morgan
- The Sandman series – Neil Gaiman
- You Couldn’t Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, And Their Impact On A Generation – Susannah Gora
- Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society – Bill Bryson, ed.
- Annabel – Kathleen Winter
- The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
- Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life – Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.
- Mother Aegypt and Other Stories – Kage Baker
- The First Man-Made Man: The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair, And A Twentieth Century Medical Revolution – Pagan Kennedy
- The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson: A Novel – Jerome Charyn
- Neon Angel – Cherie Currie
- GENDERqUEER: voices from beyond the sexual binary – Edited by Joan Nestle, Clare Howell, and Riki Wilchins
- Little Brother – Cory Doctorow
- Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys – Dan Kindlon, Ph.D., and Michael Thompson, Ph.D.
- American Gods – Neil Gaiman
- Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls – Mary Pipher, Ph.D.
- The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty – Anne Rice
- The Education of a WASP – Lois Mark Stalvey
- Crossing Open Ground – Barry Lopez
- Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
- Of Wolves And Men – Barry Lopez
- Jitterbug Perfume – Tom Robbins
2012
- The Places That Scare You – Pema Chodron
- Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation – Stephen Mitchell, trans.
- The Man In The Grey Flannel Skirt – Jon-Jon Goulian
- Alone In The Classroom – Elizabeth Hay
- And Baby Makes More: Known Donors, Queer Parents, and Our Unexpected Families – Edited by Susan Goldberg and Chloë Brushwood Rose
- Teaching Yoga: Exploring the Teacher-Student Relationship – Donna Farhi
- The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
- The Science of Yoga – William J. Broad
- The Brain That Changes Itself – Norman Doidge, M.D.
- She’s Not There: A Life In Two Genders – Jennifer Finney Boylan
- Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
- True Selves – Mildred L. Brown and Chloe Ann Rounsley
- The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For – Alison Bechdel
- Flaming Iguanas: An All-Girl Road Novel Thing – Erika Lopez
- Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation – Edited by Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman
- The Cat’s Table – Michael Ondaatje
- Almost Perfect – Brian Katcher
- I’m Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted: A Memoir – Jennifer Finney Boylan
- Tempest Tost – Robertson Davies
- Wild: From Lost To Found on the Pacific Crest Trail – Cheryl Strayed
- tiny beautiful things: advice on love and life from Dear Sugar – Cheryl Strayed
- How To Be A Woman – Caitlin Moran
2013
- February – Lisa Moore
- Anansi Boys – Neil Gaiman
- Away – Jane Urquhart
- Bossypants – Tina Fey
- Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography – Chester Brown
- Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman On Sexism And The Scapegoating of Femininity – Julia Serano
- The Ocean At The End Of The Lane – Neil Gaiman
- Stuck In The Middle With You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders – Jennifer Finney Boylan
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir – Haruki Murakami
- Orange Is The New Black: My Year In A Women’s Prison – Piper Kerman
- Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York – Edited by Sari Botton
2014
- The Watch That Ends The Night – Hugh MacLennan
- Weetzie Bat – Francesca Lia Block
- Witch Baby – Francesca Lia Block
- Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys – Francesca Lia Block
- Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood Identity, Love & So Much More – Janet Mock
- The Orenda – Joseph Boyden
- Two Solitudes – Hugh MacLennan
- Hyperbole And A Half – Allie Brosh
- Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York – Edited by Sari Botton
2015
- Stone Mattress – Margaret Atwood
- Runaway – Alice Munro
- The 5 Love Languages – Gary Chapman
- Common Ground – Justin Trudeau
- Party of One: Stephen Harper and Canada’s Radical Makeover – Michael Harris
- Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs – Johann Hari
- Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
- Girl In A Band – Kim Gordon
- Family Furnishings – Alice Munro
- Ru – Kim Thúy
- The First Book Of Criticism By A Living Female Rock Critic – Jessica Hopper
- Trigger Warning – Neil Gaiman
- Canada: A Guide to the Peaceable Kingdom – William Kilbourn, ed.
- The Odd Woman and the City – Vivian Gornick
- The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
- The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir – Joseph Auguste Merasty with David Carpenter
- His Whole Life – Elizabeth Hay
- Canoe Country: The Making of Canada – Roy MacGregor
- Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? – Jeanette Winterson
- The Best American Essays 2013 – Cheryl Strayed, ed.
2016
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness – Michelle Alexander
- M Train – Patti Smith
- To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
- A Complicated Kindness – Miriam Toews
- Mythology – Edith Hamilton
- The Daylight Gate – Jeanette Winterson
- tiny beautiful things – Cheryl Strayed
- We Stand On Guard – Brian K. Vaughan
- Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life – Anne Lamott
- the dip – Seth Godin
- Nelvana of the Northern Lights – Adrian Dingle, ed. by Hope Nicholson and Rachel Richey
- Roller Girl – Victoria Jamieson
- Wenjack – Joseph Boyden
- Born To Run – Bruce Springsteen
2017
- Upstream – Mary Oliver
- The Girl With All The Gifts – M. R. Carey
- The Art Of Asking – Amanda Palmer
- Norse Mythology – Neil Gaiman
- This One Summer – Jillian Tamaki and Marika Tamaki
- A Year In Provence – Peter Mayle
- Girl Mans Up – M-E Girard
- Jam! Tales from the World of Roller Derby – Jill Beaton, ed.
- All the Things We Leave Behind – Riel Nason
- The Stranger In The Woods – Michael Finkel
- I’m Your Man: The Life Of Leonard Cohen – Sylvie Simmons
- lullabies for little criminals – Heather O’Neill
- What Happened – Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
- The Marrow Thieves – Cherie Dimaline
- The Corporation – R. A. Abell
- The Outermost House – Henry Beston
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