We asked some of our leading contemporary writers to pick their favourite reads of the year

Kelley Armstrong is a bestselling Canadian author. So why don’t her books get any CanLit respect?

The Wrinkle in Time author shaped my ideas on nearly everything, from family to illness

Elisabeth de Mariaffi’s first novel taught women how to get away. Her new novel teaches them how to fight back

In a male-dominated genre, her novels stood out as a new way to write speculative fiction

The Redpath Canadian Bake Book boasts more than two hundred recipes, but it’s missing the most important ingredient: magic

Writing instructors preach exposure to different voices and styles. They are wrong

He taught a generation of young writers that poems take work and patience

As publisher of Groundwood Books, she was the type of editor who would encourage you to jump—and then be your net

After his unsparing portrait of the country in his 1950s travelogue, he was shunned by the literary elite