The Buzz...About Books

Toronto Public Library's Make Some Noise series features a performance by Hooded Fang on Saturday October 1, 2 pm. at Sanderson Branch.  Each band member created a list of their favourite books for us.  There are a lot of wonderful titles here, as you would expect from a group whose name is derived from a book: Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang by Mordecai Richler. The titles include fiction, non-fiction, and graphic novels.  There is something for every reader–old and young.

Daniel Lee recommends:

• Louis Riel: a Comic Strip Biography by Chester Brown
• David Boring by Daniel Clowes
• Love and Rockets (comic series) by Gilbert Hernandez and Jaime Hernandez
      Volume 1: Music for Mechanics
      Volume 2: Chelo's Burden
      Volume 3: Las Mujeres Perdidas
      Volume 4: Tears from Heaven
      Volume 5: House of Raging Women

Nicholas Hune-Brown recommends:

• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
      Large Print
      Audiobook
      Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
• Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover
• Consider the Lobster, and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
• Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
• Into Thin Air: a Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
      Large Print
• Please Kill Me: the Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

Lane Halley recommends:

• The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Mushashi
• Absalom Absalom by William Faulkner
• Thinking in Jazz: the Infinite Art of Improvisation by Paul F. Berliner
• Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje

D. Alex Meeks:

• Wiseblood by Flannery O'Connor
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
      Large Print
      Audiobook
      eAudiobook
• 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
      eAudiobook

Lorna Wright:

• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
      Large Print
      eAudiobook
      eBook
• The Odyssey by Homer
      Large Print
      Audiobook
      eAudiobook
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
      Large Print
      Audiobook
      eAudiobook
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
      Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
      eBook (abridged)
• Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
      eAudiobook
• The Human Stain by Philip Roth
      Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
      Large Print
      Audiobook
      eAudiobook
• His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
  • The Golden Compass
        Audiobook
        eAudiobook
        Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
  • The Subtle Knife
        Audiobook
        eAudiobook
        Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
  • The Amber Spyglass
        Audiobook
        eAudiobook
        Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)

April Aliermo recommends:

• Please Kill Me: the Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
• The Gift of Nothing by Patrick McDonnell
• The Lords, and, The New Creatures: Poems by Jim Morrison
• The Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein
• In His Own Write, and, A Spaniard in the Works by John Lennon

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