Read: A Circle of Quiet - Madeleine L'Engle (Harper Collins, 1972) The Rise & Fall of Great Powers - Tom Rachman (Anchor Canada, 2014) The Good Eye - Jess Gibson (Knopf Canada, 2026) City Like Water - Dorothy Tse (Gray Wolf Press, 2026) (translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce) The Witch - Marie Ndiaye (Vintage… Continue reading What I Read: July 2026
Read: The Golem and the Jinni - Helene Wecker (Olive Editions, 2020) Whistler - Ann Patchett (Harper, 2026) The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin Co, 1965) Enormous Wings - Laurie Frankel (Henry Holt and Company, 2026) Tenderness - Rowan Beaird (MacMillan Audio, 2026) (narrated by Evan Sibley, Katharine Chin, Pete Cross)… Continue reading What I Read: June 2026
Read: Go Gentle - Maria Semple (Penguin Random House Audio, 2026) (narrated by Saskia Maarleveld) Son of Nobody - Yann Martel (Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2026) The Wax Child - Olga Ravn (Book*hug Press, 2025) (translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken) Mother Mary Comes to Me - Arundhati Roy (Scribner Canada, 2025) Yesteryear -… Continue reading What I Read – May 2026
Read: So Long, See You Tomorrow - William Maxwell (Vintage International, 1996) Kin - Tayari Jones (Viking, 2026) The Distance of a Shout - Michael Ondaatje (McClelland & Stewart, 2026) The Astronaut Children of Dunbar Street - Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho (Douglas & MacIntyre, 2026) Chernobyl Prayer - Svetlana Alexievich (Penguin Audio, 2021) (translated from the… Continue reading What I Read – April 2026
Read: The Singer's Gun - Emily St. John Mandel (Vintage Books, 2015) The School for Good Mothers - Jessamine Chan (Simon & Schuster, 2022) Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter - Heather Fawcett (Penguin Random House Audio, 2026) The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1965) Here for a Good Time - Kim Spencer… Continue reading What I Read – March 2026
Read: The Doll Factory - Elizabeth MacNeal (Simon & Schuster, 2019) Rules for Mothers - Julie Swendsen Young (Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2026) Nesting - Roisin O'Donnell (Hachette Audio, 2025) (narrated by Louisa Harland) Lost Lambs - Madeline Cash (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026) People We Meet on Vacation - Emily Henry (Berkley, 2021) Ava… Continue reading What I Read – February 2026
Read: Man or Mango? - Lucy Ellmann (Biblioasis, 2022) Seascraper - Benjamin Wood (Simon & Schuster Audio, 2025) Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver (Harper, 2022) Beautyland - Marie-Helene Bertino (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2024) I Hold a Wolf by the Ears - Laura van den Berg (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2020) The Man Born to… Continue reading What I Read – January 2026
Read: What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew - Sharone Saline (Tarcher Perigree, 2018) Song of the Sun God - Shankar Chandran (narrated by Shabana Azeez) How About Now - Kate Baer (Harper Perennial, 2025) Palace Walk - Naguib Mahfouz (Anchor Books, 1991) (translated from Arabic by Olive E. Kenny & William Maynard Hutchins) Like… Continue reading What I Read – November 2025
Read: Pick a Colour - Souvankham Thammavongsa (Knopf Canada, 2025) (narrated by Zoe Doyle) White Nights - Fyodor Dostoevsky (Random House UK, 2025) (narrated by Luke Thompson) After Birth - Elisa Albert (Mariner Books, 2015) The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins (Penguin Classics, 1998) Ripeness - Sarah Moss (MacMillan Audio, 2025) (narrated by Flora Montgomery) The… Continue reading What I Read – October 2025
Read: The Hand that First Held Mine - Maggie O'Farrell (Headline, 2010) The Golden Age - Kenneth Grahame (Dover Publications, 2005) The Accidental Favourite - Fran Littlewood (MacMillan Audio, 2025) (narrated by Fiona Button) Divisadero - Michael Ondaatje (McClelland & Stewart, 2007) Heart the Lover - Lily King (Harper Collins Publishers, 2025) (narrated by Rebecca… Continue reading What I Read – September 2025
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