Reading Guides

Our books are great conversation starters, so we’ve asked our authors to share everything from thoughts on themes to musical playlists in our reading guides. Use them to get the ball rolling for your next book group. Click on the cover to download the PDF guide.

Cover: 26 Knots, a novel by Bindu Suresh
The book's title, A Number of Stunning Attacks, and the author name, Jessi MacEachern, appear in white text against a kaledeiscopic background of images.
Cover: At Last Count, a novel written by Claire Ross Dunn. Background is a green contour map of a shoreline and bird illustrations.
Cover image includes a hand-lettered title, Be Scared of Everything: Horror Essays and author name, Peter Counter. Text is centered against a blue background, and surrounded by white and bright green line drawings of occult and horror-related symbols.
The book's title Bleeding Light appears in thick black letters against a ball of white light that's tinted purple, red, yellow and orange around the edges.
Death and the Intern cover
Eaten Back to Life, a collection of food and language essays.
Cover of the story collection Even That Wildest Hope by Seyward Goodhand. Image features a floating green head with a red flapper bob and daffodills for eyes.
Everything Life Has to Offer cover image
Fallsy Downsies cover
I Am a Truck by Michelle Winters book cover; I Am a Truck was a finalist for the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Cover: Harbour Grids, poetry written by Zane Koss. Background is a vintage photo of a city skyline and harbour collaged into a grid.
Cover image for Lands and Forests by Andrew Forbes
The book's title Life Is Like Canadian Football and Other Authentic Folk Songs is centred between yellow-and-white goal posts, the bottom of which is a guitar neck.
The Magpie by Douglas Durkin
The book's title, Night Watch: The Vet Suite appears in hot pink sits next to an illustration of scissor clamps, atop vintage graph paper and green background.
Book cover for Brent van Staalduinen's novel Saints, Unexpected
Searching for Terry Punchout cover
Cover: Send Me Into the Woods Alone: Essays on Motherhood, written by Erin Pepler. Background is hand-drawn trees and a picnic blanket with a coffee, notebook, and snacks.
The Fairy Tale Museum book cover
The Last White House at the End of the Row of White Houses cover
Cover: The Pump, written by Sydney Warner Brooman. Background is green and features illustrated beavers sitting in a bathtub.
Cover image for Samantha Garner's novel The Quiet Is Loud. Image is a stylized tarot card based on The Tower card in a traditional deck, featuring a person holding a tarot card, Ogopogo, ravens, and stars, with an open book as the background.
Cover for the novel The Union of Smokers by Paddy Scott. Cover features two cartoon chickens, on with its head cut off, against a grungy orange background.
What You Need cover
Cover: Where the Silver River Ends, a novel written by Anna Quon. Background is dark blue with hand-illustrated stars and a bright floral bouquet.
Sunny Ways cover, poetry by ryan fitzpatrick