Rock Star Reads
The life of a successful musician includes long days on the road. What better company than a good book? Before playing at the Reference Library in April 2011, Mike Belitsky of Toronto's The Sadies shared some of his favourite titles with the Make Some Noise crew.
(1992) Philip K. Dick
What if Germany and Japan had won WWII? Philip K. Dick imagines the world in 1962 under joint German and Japanese rule.
(1951) Ray Bradbury
Bradbury’s classic short stories take on religion, racial questions, the atom bomb, rockets and robots—all with intelligence and insight into the future and our present realities.
(1950) Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles is a collection of short stories about humankind's colonization of Mars. After disastrous initial expeditions, humans gradually gain a foothold and begin to settle, bringing the usual human problems along with them.
An early cyperpunk novel, Neuromancer features Case, a hacker who tries to steal a security code from the most heavily guarded databank in the solar system.
(2006) Cormac McCarthy
A father and his son walk alone through post-apocalypse America. They scavenge for food and try to remain hidden from the desperate and dangerous people that stalk the road. Their journey tests the limits of hopelessness, tenderness and perseverance.
(1985) Cormac McCarthy
A teenaged boy is part of a group of American desperadoes who clash with Mexican bandits in the Southwest. His experience offers harsh lessons in violence, loyalty and betrayal.
(2002) Rohinton Mistry
Stories of four different people’s lives in 1970s India meaningfully represent the social and political realities of this nation in transition.
(2011) Stephen Kelman
Ten-year-old Harrison Opuku, a recent Ghanaian immigrant to London’s housing projects, discovers the body of a murdered classmate, and undertakes to investigate the crime.
(2009) Damian Rogers
Paper Radio is the debut poetry collection from Damian Rogers, a former arts editor at Eye Weekly and an important figure in Toronto’s literary scene.
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