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  • Canada Reads and Thrillers: Not a Good Fit?

    The sample size is two, so this is a limited basis on which to draw a conclusion, but it’s interesting: last year Samantha M. Bailey’s domestic suspense thriller was the first book eliminated from the Canada Reads competition, and this year it’s Iain Reid’s Foe. I haven’t read Foe, which is a thriller written in…

  • Canada Reads 2026 Long-Listed Books

    Hot off the presses! The list for 2026 has just been announced; it will then be narrowed down to five books, each championed by a Canadian celebrity. (To quote one of my former Canadian Studies students: “How can they be celebrities if I’ve never heard of any of them?” But we have a small population…

  • Samantha M. Bailey’s Watch Out for Her: Thrillers and Canada Reads

    Until this week, a thriller had never made the short list for Canada Reads. Alas, Olympic swimmer Maggie Mac Neil only had one day on the program to champion the novel she’d selected, Samantha M. Bailey’s 2022 domestic thriller Watch Out for Her. The novel features a family starting over in a disquieting rental house…