The international bestselling author returns to the Walsh family in her latest novel My Favorite Mistake; Bridget Raymundo shares what books the internet was loving this year; the book that defines “genre-bending” to Matthew R. Morris, a Juno Award-winning jazz singer who loves to birdwatch; and remembering celebrated Canadian thriller author Andrew Pyper on this episode of The Next Chapter.

Books discussed in this episode include:

Collide by Bal Khabra

I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones

A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland

Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan