Our upcoming issue 36.1, Mythologies of Loss, is so full of reviews of books by Canadian women that we ran out of room to publish this list of what Room‘s editorial collective (affectionately called Roomies) are reading. So, to help you warm up on a winter evening, here’s our reading-list of books by Canadian women:
Arrhythmia, a novel, and Ruins & Relics, short stories, by Alice Zorn
Better Living Through Plastic Explosives, short stories by Zsuzsi Gartner
Bride of New France, a novel by Suzanne Desrochers
Eating Dirt, creative non-fiction by Charlotte Gill
February, a novel by Lisa Moore
Floating like the Dead, a collection of short fiction by Yasuko Thanh
Harbour, poetry by Miranda Pearson
How the Blessed Live, a novel by Susannah M. Smith
Life on the Refrigerator Door, a novel by Alice Kuipers
Missed Her, creative non-fiction by Ivan E. Coyote
Monoceros, a novel by Suzette Mayr
Mother Superior, short fiction by Saleema Nawaz
outskirts, poetry by Sue Goyette
Pulpy and Midge, a novel by Jessica Westhead
Stolen, a novel by Annette Lapointe
Tangles, a graphic memoir by Sarah Leavitt
The Birth House and The Virgin Cure, novels by Ami McKay
The Dirt Chronicles, short fiction by Kristyn Dunnion
The House with the Broken Two, creative non-fiction by Myrl Coulter
The Odious Child and Other Stories, short fiction by Carolyn Black
The Shore Girl, a novel by Fran Kimmel
The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great, by Eva Stachniak
Rachel Thompson is a member of Room magazine’s editorial collective. Issue 36.1, Mythologies of Loss, is out in spring 2013.
