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What three CanLit leaders read in 2020
With independent bookstores at some stage of lockdown for much of 2020, readers missed out on the delight of discovery that comes from browsing their local shelves.
Q&Q wanted to replicate that experience in our weekly What We’re Reading series, in which we told you about some of the best books to cross our nightstands (the series ran in our newsletter, which you can subscribe to for free).
We were fortunate to have three great readers from outside the
Q&Q team chime in with recommendations of their own: the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Charlie Foran, the Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s Rose Vespa, and Taylor Prize founder Noreen Taylor. These books gave them a much-needed moment of literary escape amid the strains of 2020.