MCMASTER RESIDENCY EVENTS

• Arabic

• Hindi

• Punjabi

• Russian 

• Spanish

• Urdu

• Vietnamese

• Colouring books

• English dictionaries

• Drawing

• Tattoo designs

• Lettering and/or calligraphy

• Northwest Coast Indigenous Art

• Wellness

• Astrology

• Origami

• Trades: Small engine repair

• Trades: Building small sheds

• Street art

• General art history

• Dante Alighieri

• Brene Brown

• Noam Chomsky 

• Suzanne Collins 

• Fyodor Dostoyevsky

• Colleen Hoover

• Gabor Maté

• George R. R. Martin 

• Mario Puzo

• Simon Scarrow

• Brandon Sanderson

• Eckhard Tolle

Genres/Subjects

• Colouring books

• English dictionaries

  • Thesauruses

  • Scrabble dictionaries

  • Rhyming dictionaries

• Art Instruction

  • Drawing

  • Tattoo designs

  • Lettering and/or calligraphy

  • Northwest Coast Indigenous Art

  • Musical composition

  • Drawing with pencil or ink pens

  • Watercolour

  • Acrylics

  • Shading

• Graphic novels and comic books

  • Superhero comics

  • Manga

• True stories

  • Travel

  • Survival

• DIY, basic fixing skills, housekeeping

• Physics

  • Aerodynamics

• Calculus

• Mathematics

• Geometry

• History books

  • Black history (especially Canadian)

  • Vietnam War

  • Korean war

  • Wars in the middle east (Iraq, including Desert Storm, Afghanistan)

  • Ancient Greece (including Bosporan Kingdom)

  • Ancient Rome

  • Military

  • Military aviation

  • Atilla the Hun

• Music and musicians (particularly rap and hip hop)

• Writing/Composing music

• First Nations

• BC law books (old or new)

• Philosophy (by or about)

  • Fredriche Nietzsche

  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  • Spinoza

  • Byung-Chul Han

  • and others

• Psychology

  • Carl Jung (or books on tJungian psychology)

  • Gabor Maté

  • Self-harm

  • ADHD/Autism

• Wellness

• Relationships (couples and families)

• Religion

  • Sikhism

  • Sikh history & religion

• Mythology (Greek and/or Egyptian)

• Astrology

• Paganism

• Wicca

• Dream interpretation

• Tai Chi

• Hobbies

  • Origami

  • Gold panning

  • Musical instruments

  • Chess

• Trades such as:

  • Small engine repair

  • Building small sheds

  • Construction

  • Masonry

  • Welding

  • Wiring

  • Electricity

  • Plumbing

  • Woodworking

  • Home repair

  • Framing

  • Roofing

  • Boat building

  • General contracting

  • Tiling

  • Blacksmithing (esp for beginners)

  • Cars/Automotive repair and mechanics

  • Bicycle repair

  • And books on women in trades

• Sports books, including how-to books, Yoga instruction

• Books about athletes

• Writing and/or publishing

• Building small cabins

• Permaculture

• Goat farming

• Landscaping

• Medicine

  • Cancer

  • Women’s health

• Planes

• Trains

• Gems and geology

• Geology in BC

• Business (especially Canadian content)

• Joke books

• Guinness Book of World Records

• Nature and animals (with photos)

• Autobiographies on artists and musicians

• Art

  • Street art

  • General art history

  • Mexican

  • Baroque

  • Salvador Dali

• Fashion

• Card tricks

Books in/about Other Languages

• Tsilhqot’in

• Nlaka’pamux

• Any other Indigenous languages

• Russian

• Russian/English dictionary

• Ukranian

• Ukranian/English dictionary

• Chinese/English dictionary

• Hungarian

• Hungarian/English dictionary

• Latin

• Vietnamese (novels, non-fiction)

• Tamil

• Punjabi

• Arabic

• Italian

• Romanian

• Hindi

• Urdu

• Spanish

• Portuguese

Special Formats

• Large print books

Language Learning

• French

• Spanish

• Hebrew

• Japanese

• Chinese

• Croatian

• Armenian

• Polish

• Punjabi

Authors/Titles/Series

• Star Wars

• Star Trek

• Romance books by Black Authors

• Japanese novelists in general

• Grimm’s Fairy Tales

• Graphic novels by BIPOC authors

• Manga, Naruto, One Piece

• For Dummies series

• The Walking Dead (series)

• Anne Appelbaum

• Dante Alighieri

• Margaret Atwood – Oryx and Crake Trilogy

• Fiona Barton

• Brene Brown

• Pierce Brown

• Stuart Brown

• Christian Cameron

• Noam Chomsky – Manufacturing Consent

• Cassandra Clare – The Infernal Devices (Trilogy)

• James Clavell

• Suzanne Collins – A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and The Hunger Games (Trilogy)

• Bernard Cornwell

• Patricia Cornwell

• Robert Crais

• James Dashner

• Fyodor Dostoyevsky

• Alexandre Dumas – The Count of Monte Christo

• Ken Follett – The Evening and the Morning, A Column of Fire, The Armour of Light

• Namina Forna – The Gilded Ones

• Candice Fox

• Neil Gaiman

• Kami Garcia – Caster Chronicle (series), Beautiful Creatures (series), other series

• David Gemmell

• Andrew Gross – The Blue Zone

• Joe Halderman

• Peter F. Hamilton – Pandoras Star & Judas Unchained

• Thich Nhat Hanh (any books)

• Kim Harrison – The Hollow (series)

• Max Hastings

• Chris Hedges

• Frank Herbert

• Helen Hoang

• Colleen Hoover

• Hugh Howey

• Conn Iggulden

• Lisa Jewell

• Leah Johnson – You Should See Me In A Crown

• William W. Johnstone

• Rupi Kaur

• Caroline Kepnes (series includes You, Hidden Bodies, You Love Me, For You and Only You)

• Alex Kershaw

• Naomi Klein

• Michael Mammay

• George Man

• Alexa Martin

• George R. R. Martin – Game of Thrones (Series) or other books

• Steve Martini

• Robert K. Massie

• Gabor Mate

• Graham McNeill – Gods of Mars & Lords of Mars

• Richelle Mean – Vampire Academy (1-6)

• Herman Melville – Moby Dick

• Marissa Meyer

• Madeline Miller

• Haruki Murakami – 1Q84 (and other books)

• Miyamoto Musashi

• Huey P. Newton – To Die for the People

• Friedrich Nietzsche

• Nnedi Okorafor

• Christopher Paolini

• Mario Puzo

• Ayn Rand – Atlas Shrugged (and other books)

• Doublas Rees

• Erich Maria Remarque – All Quiet on the Western Front

• Rick Riordan

• Rebecca Roanhorse

• Kim Stanley Robinson – 2140 (and other books)

• James Rollins

• J. K . Rowling – Harry Potter

• Simon Scarrow

• Sista Souljah

• Brandon Sanderson

• Eckhard Tolle

• Lao Tzu – Tao Te Ching (any English translation)

• Leon Uris – Trinity (or other books by this author)

• Andy Weir

• Martha Wells

• Peter Wohlleben – The Inner Life of Trees

• Xiran Jay Zhao