#1 – Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

#2 – A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

#3 – The Road by Cormac McCarthy

#4 – Hard Times by Charles Dickens

#5 – Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark Haplerin

#6 – Netherland by Joseph O’Neill

#7 – Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff

#8 – Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

#9 – A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

#10 – Naked Airport by Alistair Gordon

#11 – The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

#12 – Obama’s Wars by Bob Woodward

#13 – The Russian Debutante’s Handbook by Gary Shteyngart

#14 – The Rector of Justin by Louis Auchincloss

#15 – The Making of a Royal Romance by Katie Nicholl

#16 – Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott

#17 – The Big Short by Michael Lewis

#18 – Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart

#19 – The City After the Automobile by Moshe Safdie

#20 – The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger

#21 – Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

#22 – Into Thin Air by John Krakauer

#23 – Points Unknown by David Roberts (editor)

#24 – Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman

#25 – Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

#26 – A Thousand Days by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

#27 – In The Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaadje

#28 – The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean

#29 – Parisians by Graham Robb

#30 – The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

#31 – The Belly of Paris by Emile Zola

#32 – The Kill by Emile Zola

#33 – Rats by Robert Sullivan

#34 – Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burroughs and John Helyar

#35 – The U.S. vs al Qaeda – Foreign Affairs by Gideon Rose (editor)

#36 – Caviar by Inga Saffron

#37 – Transforming Paris – The Life And Labors of Baron Haussmann by David P. Jordan

#38 – A Matter Of Principle by Conrad Black

#39 – The Astonishing General: The Life and Legacy of Sir Isaac Brock by Wesley B. Turner

#40 –  The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

#41 - Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

#42 - Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

#43 - Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

#44 - The Gun by C. J. Chivers

#45 – The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Euenides

#46 - From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbour by Jerry Della Femina

#47 – Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart

#48 – A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

#49 – Man Seeks God by Eric Weiner

#50 – Extreme Money by Satyajit Das

#51 – Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#52 – Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol

Toronto waterfront.

Shooting details: a blend of three different exposures. Nikon D300s, 10-20mm, f8, 1/1600, 1/800 and 1/400, ISO200.

Christmas morning.

Family picture at my dad’s house on Christmas day.

Shooting details: Canon 7D on a tripod, remotely triggered. 27mm, f5.6, 1/125, ISO100. Two Nikon SB800 flashes mounted on stands with umbrellas.