In this episode, listen to some spoiler-free book reviews of my most recent reads, as well as some thoughts and predictions for the 2023 Canada Reads debates.
Recommended Reads:
*The Bliss House by Jim Bartley (Dundurn Press)
*These Days Are Numbered by Rebecca Rosenblum (Dundurn Press)
*The Centaur's Wife by Amanda Leduc (Random House Canada / Penguin Random House Canada)
*Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart: A Memoir by Jen Sookfong Lee (McClelland & Stewart / PRHC)
Bookmail:
*Cut Road by Brent van Staalduinen (Guernica Editions)
*Bad Cree by Jessica Johns (Harper Collins Canada, Double Day Books in the U.S.)
*Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall (Simon & Schuster Canada, Atria Books in the U.S.)
The Last Exiles by Ann Shin (support the HCP union)
*Intruder by Bardia Sinaee (House of Anansi)
2023 Canada Reads Longlist:
*Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton (Drawn & Quarterly)
*Revery: A Year of Bees by Jenna Butler (Wolsak and Wynn)
*Half-Bads in White Regalia by Cody Caetano (Hamish Hamilton / PRHC)
*Greenwood by Michael Christie (McClelland & Stewart / PRHC, Hogarth Press / PRH in the U.S.)
Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye (Simon & Schuster Canada / Harper Collins U.S.
*Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin (Harper Avenue / Harper Collins Canada, Berkley / PRH in the U.S.)
*All the Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking / Penguin Random House Canada, Berkley / PRH in the U.S.)
*Dandelion by Jamie Chai Yun Liew (Arsenal Pulp Press)
We Were Dreamers by Simu Liu (support the HCP union)
*Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey / Penguin Random House Canada)
*Finding Edward by Sheila Murray (Cormorant Books)
Hotline by Dimitri Nasrallah (Esplanade Books / Vehicule Press)
We Spread by Iain Reid (Simon & Schuster)
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice (ECW Press)
*Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf Canada)
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