A
- A Conspiracy of Paper (David Liss) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- A dictionary of the English language in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their significations by examples from the best writers (paperback Gale ECCO edition) (Samuel Johnson) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- A Fool and His Money: Life in a Partitioned Medieval Town (Anne Wroe) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- A Handbook of Greek Art: A Survey of the Visual Arts of Ancient Greece (Gisela M Richter) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage and the Quest for the Color of Desire (Amy Butler Greenfield) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- A Week at the Airport (Alain de Botton)[amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- A Whispered Name (William Broderick) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin (Nicholas Ostler) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery (Eric Metaxas) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Animal Farm (George Orwell) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Atonement (Ian McEwan) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
B
- The Barred Window (Andrew Taylor) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language (David Crystal) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics (Simon Blackburn) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Bell Ringers (Henry Porter) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Birds and Other Plays (Aristophanes) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Birdsong (Sebastian Faulks) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green (Michael Wilcox) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Bones of the Hills (third in the Conqueror aka Genghis series) (Conn Iggulden) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- By Hook, or By Crook: A Journey in Search of English (David Crystal) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
C
- Cabal (Michael Dibdin) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Cabinet of Curiosities (Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Captives: Britain, Empire, and the World (1600-1850) (Linda Colley) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Catch-22 (Heller) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary (KM Elizabeth Murray) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Claudius (Douglas Jackson) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Colour: A Natural History of the Palette aka Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox (Victoria Finlay) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire (Niall Ferguson) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Concise Oxford Dictionary [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Consolation of Philosophy (Boethius' original) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Consolations of Philosophy (Alain de Botton) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Course of Honor aka The Course of Honour (Lindsey Davis) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
D
- The Death of Kings (second in the Emperor series) (Conn Iggulden) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson's Dictionary (aka Dr Johnson's Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World) (Henry Hitchings) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Dilemmas: What Would You Do? (James Saywell & Anne-Marie Roffi) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition and the Defeat of the Moors (James Reston, Jr) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Don't Look Back (Karin Fossum) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
E
- Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (Niall Ferguson) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Nicholas Ostler) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- England's Thousand Best Houses (Simon Jenkins) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- England's Thousand Best Churches (Simon Jenkins) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
F
- 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance (Gavin Menzies) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Faulks on Fiction: Great British Characters and the Secret Life of the Novel (Sebastian Faulks) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Filthy English: The How, Why, When and What of Everyday Swearing (Peter Silverton) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Final Cut (Michael Dobbs) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Fresh Ink: Ten Takes on Chinese Tradition (Hao Sheng, Joe Scheier-Dolberg, Yan Yang) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Frogs and Other Plays (Aristophanes) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
G
- The Gardens of the Dead (William Broderick) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Gates of Rome (first in the Emperor series) (Conn Iggulden) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium Trilogy, Book 3) (Steig Larsson) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium Trilogy, Book 2) (Steig Larsson) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium Trilogy, Book 1) (Steig Larsson) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Pico Iyer) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible (Adam Nicholson) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory (Lisa Jardine) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Gothic Enterprise: A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral (Robert A Scott) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Gutenberg Revolution: How Printing Changed World History (John Man) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
H
- Harry Potter series (JK Rowling)
- He Knew He was Right (Anthony Trollope) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- He Who Fears the Wolf (Karin Fossum) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Her Fearful Symmetry (Audrey Niffenegger) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Henry VIII: Wolfman (AE Moorat) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The History of Greek Vases (John Boardman) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (omnibus edition) (Douglas Adams) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Hobbit: or There and Back Again (JRR Tolkien) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Horses of St Mark's: The Story of Triumph in Byzantium, Paris and Venice (Charles Freeman) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Horses of St Mark's
- House of Cards (Michael Dobbs) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- How to Lie with Maps (Mark Monmonier) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- How to Quiet a Vampire: A Sotie (Borislav Pekic) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- How to Read World History in Art: From the Code of Hammurabi to September 11 (Flavio Febbrario & Burkhard Shwetje) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
I
- Ignorance of Blood (Robert Wilson) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Illness: The Cry of the Flesh (from The Art of Living series) (Havi Carel) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Inferno (Dante) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Instruments of Darkness (Robert Wilson) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America (Russell Shorto) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
J
- Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Jane Slayre (Charlotte Bronte & Sheri Browning Erwin) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Jewels: A Secret History (Victoria Finlay) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Johnson's Dictionary: A Modern Selection (Dover) (Samuel Johnson) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
K
- Killing Rommel (Steven Pressfield) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy (Mark Logue & Peter Conradi) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
L
- The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto (Pico Iyer) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Land of Lost Gods: The Search for Classical Greece (Richard Stoneman) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Last Kingdom (Bernard Cornwell) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Lewis Chessmen (British Museum Objects in Focus) (James Robinson) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Lexicographrer's Dilemma (Jack Lynch) [amazon.ca - not available] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Lincoln Lawyer (Michael Connelly) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Lions of Al-Rassan (Guy Gavriel Kay) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Little Women and Werewolves (Louisa May Alcott & Porter Grand) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Lord of the Rings (all three books in one volume) (JRR Tolkien) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Lords of the North (Bernard Cornwell) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001 (Sue Townsend) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Lost for Words: The Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary (Lynda Mugglestone) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Love, Etc (Julian Barnes) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
M
- Macbeth (Arden edition) (William Shakespeare) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Made in China: Export Porcelain (1500-1800) (Ronald W Fuchs II & David S Howard) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary (Simon Winchester) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide (Philippe de Montebello) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Mini Rough Guide to New York City (Martin Dunford) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
N
- 1984 (George Orwell) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Northern Lights: Masterpieces of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven (Joan Murray) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
O
- 100 Best Paintings in New York (Deanna MacDonald & Geoffrey Smith) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- 101 Ethical Dilemmas (Martin Cohen) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Odyssey aka Homer's Odyssey (Simon Armitage) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Odyssey aka Homer's Odyssey (Simon Armitage, adaptor)
- The Odyssey (Robert Fagles, translator) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Odyssey (E Rieu, translator) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History (Linda Colley) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain (Maria Rosa Menocal) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Oxford English Dictionary (OED) (in slipcase with magnifying glass version or full 20-volume set) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
P
- The Pale Horseman (Bernard Cornwell) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Palmerston: The People's Darling (James Chambers) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (Samuel Richardson) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Parthenon (Mary Beard) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Parthenon and its Sculptures (John Boardman) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Parthenon Marbles: A Case for Reunification (Christopher Hitchens) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Parthenon Sculptures (aka The Parthenon Sculptures in the British Museum) (Ian Jenkins) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Pig that Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher (Julian Baggini) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Pinocchio (Carlo Collodi) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Erving Goffman) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Jane Ausen & Seth Grahame-Smith) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary aka The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Simon Winchester) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
R
- Rainforest: Ancient Realm of the Pacific Northwest (Graham Osborne & Wade Davis) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Raj Quartet (Paul Scott) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Ratking (Michael Dibdin) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages (Ammon Shea) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Reason of Things: Living with Philosophy (AC Grayling) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Part 2 of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) (Douglas Adams) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Return of The Timewaster Letters (Robin Cooper) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary (Gulliver, Marshall, Weiner) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Rough Guide to Florida (Stephen Keeling) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Rough Guide to Istanbul (Terry Richardson) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The 6th Lamentation (William Broderick) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Sacred: Exhibition Catalogue (John Reeve, Karen Armstrong, et al) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Salt: A World History (Mark Kurlansky) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English (Henry Hitchings) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters (Jane Austen & Ben H Winters) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Sharpe novels (Bernard Cornwell) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Silent and the Damned (Robert Wilson) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Sloth (from the the Seven Deadly Sins series) (Wendy Wasserstein) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Snark (David Denby) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Spartans: An Epic History (Paul Cartledge) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Spanish Game (Charles Cumming) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- A Spy by Nature (Charles Cumming) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Sword Song (Bernard Cornwell) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
T
- 1215: The Year of Magna Carta (Danny Danziger & John Gillingham) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Tao Te Ching (Jane English, photographer) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Theories of International Politics and Zombies [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Thermopylae (Paul Cartledge) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy (Simon Blackburn) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Timewaster Letters (Robin Cooper) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- To Play the King (Michael Dobbs) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Tom Brown's School Days (Thomas Hughes) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Tom Jones (Henry Fielding) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- True Grit (Charles Portis) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Typhoon (Charles Cumming) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
U
- Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral aka Universe of Stone: Invention of the Gothic aka Universe of Stone: Chartres Cathedral and the Triumph of the Medieval Mind (Phillip Ball) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
V
- Vendetta (Michael Dibdin) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
W
- The Warren Cup (Difri Williams) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words, Contemporary Cliches, Cant and Management Jargon (Dan Watson) [amazon.ca - not available] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Howard Bloom) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- When the Devil Holds the Candle (Karin Fossum) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution it Inspired (Benson Bobrick) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Widow Cliquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It (Tilar J Mazzeo) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
- World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
