Sarah Raughley on The Bones of Ruin, Joey Serlin on Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen and Lauren B. Davis on Even So, and more.

Megan Gail Coles on her poetry collection, Satched, Randy Boyagoda takes The Next Chapter's Proust questionnaire, and Casey Plett on A Dream of a Woman, and we pay tribute to the late Lee Maracle.

Mark Critch on An Embarrassment of Critch's, the Kubasonic's Brian Cherwick on This Wheel's on Fire: Levon Helm and the Story of the Band and Shashi Bhat on The Most Precious Substance on Earth, and more.

Omar El Akkad on Strange Paradise, Lisa Bird Wilson on Probably Ruby and TNC columnist Victor Dwyer finds a Canadian book for fans of Barbara Kingsolver’s novel Unsheltered, and more.

Cherie Dimaline on Hunting by Stars, Tessa McWatt on The Snow Line and Jordan Tannahill on The Listeners, and more.

Louise Penny and Hillary Clinton talk about their new political mystery novel, State of Terror, Billeh Nickerson on Duct-Taped Roses and Katherine Ashenburg on Her Turn, and more.

Zoe Whitall on The Spectacular, Nekesa Afia on Dead Dead Girls, and Douglas Walbourne-Gough on Crow Gulch and more.

In Robert Munsch's first interview in a decade, he talks candidly about being diagnosed with dementia and about his life in stories. We listen to excerpts of his bestselling children's books "Love You Forever" from AudioFile and Firefly Books and "Mud Puddle" published by Annick Press. Robert reveals the inspiration and meaning behind these stories and more.

Also, on today's show, Miriam Toews on her new novel, “Fight Night." She returns to themes that have been at the heart of all of her work: the crushing effect of mental illness, the patriarchal attitudes embedded in fundamentalist religion and -- above all -- the strength that comes from close family bonds

Katherena Vermette on The Strangers, Tegan Quin on why she's reading Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Brian Francis on Missed Connections, and more.

Jesse Wente on his memoir, Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on her bedside book, and Elisabeth de Mariaffi on The Retreat and more.