I recently talked about Curiosity: A Love Story by Joan Thomas for The 49th Shelf. (History! Love! Class struggle! Dinosaurs!) You can read it on this week’s The Recommend, plus book recs from Chatelaine books editor Laurie Grassi, artist Vivek Shraya, author Carrie Snyder, and librarian Heidi Schiller.
Today I turn 30. I love birthdays for the chance to celebrate with friends and also to reflect on where I’ve been and where I’m going. I thought it fitting to take a look back today at the 30 books that have shaped me, books that I’ve adored or obsessed about over the years, books that have shifted the way I’ve thought about reading and life in some way. These are not necessarily the books that make up my all-time favourites list now, or even books that I think are the best written. These are the books, in roughly chronological reading order, that mattered to me at particular times in my life, that have influenced the reader and the person I have become.
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