Have I mentioned that the east end Toronto silent book club is very fortunate to have a sister silent book club group in midtown Toronto? Yes I have, but it bears repeating. (Here is founder Beth Gordon’s story about how it got started.
Midtown always was a short subway ride away from east end Toronto pre-pandemic, and they’re still close at hand via zoom. Here is their latest combined reading list, from a meeting just a few days ago.
- The Palace Papers by Tina Brown
- A Month in the Country by JL Carr
- Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark, narrated by Laura Jennings (audiobook)
- The Lighthouse Witches by CJ Cooke
- The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
- Haven by Emma Donoghue
- The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
- You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
- The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
- Hitch 22 by Christopher Hitchens
- Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth
- The Year of the Puppy by Alexandra Horowitz
- Dubliners by James Joyce
- Forest For The Trees by Rita Leistner
- Straggle – Adventures in Walking While Female by Tanis MacDonald
- Dopesick by Beth Macy (audiobook)
- Solved: How the World’s Great Cities are Fixing the Climate Crisis by David Miller
- The Whole Singing Ocean by Jessica Moore
- Anna by Amy Odell
- The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
- The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley
- Downfall by Robert Rotenberg
- This Accident of Being Lost by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
- The Victorian and the Romantic by Nell Stevens (audiobook)
As the midtown and east end Toronto readers would all recommend: find your cozy spot, find your cuddly reading companion, and enjoy your reading or seek out some of ours!