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The book is the t-shirt you desperately want after every event. Here are the authors’ must-read suggestions.

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Barbara Amiel
Kurt Andersen
Jann Arden
Wayne Arthurson
Margaret Atwood
Fredrik Backman
Samantha M. Bailey
Billy-Ray Belcourt
Meg Braem
Sharon Butala
Maria Campbell
Desmond Cole
Eva Crocker
Lorna Crozier
Michael Crummey
Cherie Dimaline
Emma Donoghue
Alan Doyle
Roddy Doyle
Esi Edugyan
Marina Endicott
Genki Ferguson
Will Ferguson
Cheryl Foggo
Zsuzsi Gartner
Don Gillmor
Yaa Gyasi
Robyn Harding
Benjamin Hertwig
Lawrence Hill
Eva Holland
Thomas Homer-Dixon
Victoria James
Lisa Jewell
Stephen Graham Jones
Charlie Kaufman
Guy Gavriel Kay
Thomas King
Ian Kinney
Robert Kolker
Maria Konnikova
Daniel J. Levitin
Ethan Lou
Katie Mack
Emily St. John Mandel
Lee Maracle
Eternity Martis
Lauren McKeon
Tessa McWatt
Téa Mutonji
Liz Nugent
Mark O’Connell
Jodi Picoult
Michael Posner
Steven Price
Tegan & Sara
Iain Reid
Zalika Reid-Benta
Kathy Reichs
Bill Richardson
Sarah Richardson
David A. Robertson
Eden Robinson
Shelagh Rogers
Jason B. Rosenthal
Kate Elizabeth Russell
Sara Seager
Seth
Leanne Shapton
Vivek Shraya
Curtis Sittenfeld
Harnarayan Singh
Eugene Stickland
Sami Tamimi & Tara Wigley
Kim Thúy
Ruth Ware
Sarah Weinman, Karen K. Ho & Leora Smith
Joshua Whitehead
Ian Williams
Bob Wiseman

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