For those bibliophiles who wish to share their interest in books with other members of Probus, the Book Club meets once a month except July and August, to discuss a book chosen by you or another member. The only criteria necessary for membership is that you are able to read and talk.
The Book Club meets on the first Wednesday of the month at 9:30 am in the Amenity Room at Elm Park Place, 5700 Larch Street (at 41st Avenue). If you are interested, you are welcome to attend any of our meetings. Books chosen are eclectic and members can choose any subject which interests them.
For further information contact Ken Yule.
Email Ken| 2023 | ||
| One Man in his Time | Michael Audain | |
| Dead in the Water | Matthew Campbell & Kit Chellel | |
| We Are Bellingcat | Elliot Higgins | |
| The Strange Death of Europe | Douglas Murray | |
| Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution | Mike Duncan | |
| 1984 | George Orwell | |
| At The Edge Of Time | Dan Hooper | |
| The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson’s Bay Empire | Stephen Brown | |
| Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order | Ray Dalio | |
| Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelists Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation | Kobes DuMez | |
| 2022 | ||
| The High Road | Terry Fallis | |
| Freezing Order | Bill Browder | |
| The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine | Serhii Plokhy | |
| Value(s): Building a Better World for All | Mark Carney | |
| The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves | Andrew Lownie | |
| Ice Walker: A Polar Bear’s Journey Through the Fragile Artic | James Raffan | |
| The Hidden Life of Trees | Peter Wohlleben | |
| Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age | Sanjay Gusta | |
| Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everybody Else | Chrystia Freeland | |
| Agent Sonya: Moscow’s Most Daring Warmtime Spy | Ben Macintyre | |
| 2021 | ||
| The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin | Masha Gessen | |
| The Splendid and the Vile | Erik Larson | |
| Restoring Democracy in an Age of Populists and Pestilence | Jonathan Manthorpe | |
| The New Silk Roads | Peter Frankopan | |
| Godforsaken Sea by Derek | Derek Lundy | |
| Magdalena: River of Dreams | Wade Davis | |
| Beneath a Scarlet Sky | Mark Sullivan | |
| Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland | Patrick Redden Keefe | |
| War: How Conflict Shapes Us | Margaret MacMillan | |
| Why We Sleep | Matthew Walker | |
| The Last High | Daniel Kella | |
| The Code Breaker | Walter Isaacson | |
| 2020 | ||
| Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? | Graham Allison | |
| A Better Man | Louise Penny | |
| One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon | Charles Fishman | |
| Prague Spring | Simon Mawer | |
| Munich | Robert Harris | |
| Educated | Tara Westover | |
| The Plague | Albert Camus | |
| The Invention of Nature | Andrea Wulf | |
| Neither Here Nor There | Bill Bryson | |
| Trumpocalypse | David Frum | |
| The Wake | Linden MacIntyre | |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Walter Isaacson | |
| 2019 | ||
| Origin | Dan Brown | |
| Rules of Civility | Amor Towles | |
| Hero of the Empire | Candice Millard | |
| Sapiens | Yuval Noah Harari | |
| Washington Black | Esi Edugyan | |
| Claws of the Panda | Jonathan Manthorpe | |
| Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built | Duncan Clark | |
| Twelve Rules of Life | Jordan Peterson | |
| A Man Called Ove | Fredrik Backman | |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | |
| 2018 | ||
| Lost City of the Monkey God | Douglas Preston | |
| The Only Cafe | Linden MacIntyre | |
| Double Cross | Ben Macintyre | |
| A World in Disarray | Richard Haass | |
| The Circumstantial Enemy | John Bell | |
| A Gentleman in Moscow | Amor Towles | |
| Into the Silence | Wade Davis | |
| A Power Seething | Julian Bell | |
| The Trial | Franz Kafka | |
| Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire | Kurt Andersen | |
| 2017 | ||
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | |
| The Fix | Jonathan Tepperman | |
| Old Filth | Jane Gardam | |
| Flash Point | George Friedman | |
| Do Not Say We Have Nothing | Madeleine Thien | |
| The Art of the Deal | Donald Trump & Tony Schwartz | |
| The Sympathizer | Viet Thanh Nguyen | |
| The Promise of Canada | Charlotte Gray | |
| Shanghai Grand | Taras Grescoe | |
| Phishing for Phools | George Akerlof & Robert Shiller | |
| 2016 | ||
| The Wright Brothers | David McCullough | |
| Lawrence in Arabia | Scott Anderson | |
| Paris 1919 | Margaret MacMillan | |
| All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr | |
| The Girl on the Train | Paula Hawkins | |
| Red Notice | Bill Browder | |
| Fighters in the Shadows | Robert Gildea | |
| The Boys in the Boat | Daniel J. Brown | |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway | |
| The Road to Little Dribbling | Bill Bryson | |
| 2015 | ||
| The Book Thief | Marcus Zusak | |
| I Am Malala | Malala Yousafzai | |
| Guns, Germs and Steel | Jared Diamond | |
| Unbroken | Laura Hillenbrand | |
| King Lear | William Shakespeare | |
| The Best Laid Plans | Terry Fallis | |
| Life after Life | Kate Atkinson | |
| Emma | Jane Austen | |
| In the Garden of Beasts | Erik Larson | |
| The Fall of the Ottomans | Eugene Rogan | |
| 2014 | ||
| The Great Reflation | Anthony Boekch | |
| The Lacuna | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| The Hundred Year Old Man… | Jonas Jonesson | |
| Alice Munro’s Best Short Stories | Alice Munro | |
| The Ash Garden | Dennis Bock | |
| The Lemon Tree | Sandy Nolan | |
| The Second World War | Anthony Beavor | |
| And the Mountains Echoed | Khalid Hossieni | |
| The Diamond Queen | Andrew Marr | |
| The Rational Optimist | Matt Ridley | |
| 2013 | ||
| The End of Growth | Jeff Rubin | |
| The Fortune of War | Patrick O’Brian | |
| Elizabeth’s Spymaster | Robert Hutchison | |
| Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand | Helen Simonson | |
| War on our Doorstep | Brendan Coyle | |
| The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Roberta Skloot | |
| Social Conquest of the Earth | Edward P. Wilson | |
| Those Angry Days | Lynne Olsen | |
| 419 | Will Ferguson | |
| Steve Jobs | Walter Isaacson | |
| 2012 | ||
| A Good Man | Guy Vanderhaeghe | |
| Cutting for Stone | Abraham Verghese | |
| God’s Terrorists | Charles Allen | |
| The Greatest Show on Earth | Richard Dawkins | |
| Stanley Park | Timothy Taylor | |
| The Path Between the Seas | David McCullough | |
| The Reluctant Genius | Charlotte Gray | |
| Civilization the Rest and the West | Niall Ferguson | |
| The Cat’s Table | Michael Ondaatje | |
| Citizens of London | Lynne Olsen | |
| 2011 | ||
| The Bishop’s Man | Linden Mcintyre | |
| Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger | |
| A Moment of War | Laurie Lee | |
| The Book of Negroes | Lawrence Hill | |
| The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest | Stieg Larsson | |
| The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare | |
| With Wings Like Eagles | Michael Korda | |
| The Big Short | Michael Lewis | |
| The Man who Loved China | Simon Winchester | |
| The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake | Samuel Bawlf | |
| 2010 | ||
| Longitude | David Sobell | |
| White Tiger | Aravind Adiga | |
| The Girl Who Played With Fire | Stieg Larsson | |
| Fifth Business | Robertson Davies | |
| I Claudius | Robert Graves | |
| What Next | Chris Patten | |
| Troublesome Young Men | Lynne Olsen | |
| No Great Mischief | Alistair Macleod | |
| What the Dog Saw | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| Team of Rivals | Doris Goodwin | |
| 2009 | ||
| Hot, Flat and Crowded | Thomas Friedman | |
| Post American World | Fareed Zakaria | |
| The Black Swan | NassimTaleb | |
| The Eight | Katherine Herde | |
| Through Black Spruce | Joseph Boyden | |
| Three Cups of Tea | Greg Mortenson | |
| The Outliers | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| Dreams From My Father | Barack Obama | |
| Mc Mafia | Misha Glenny | |
| Hell or High Water | Joseph Rom | |
| 2008 | ||
| Snow Falling on Cedars | David Gutterson |