Arts·Group Chat

Summer read recommendations 2023

It’s time to find a nice sunny corner of your home, your local park or some place in the world, and bring a good book with you. Ainslie Hogarth and Makda Mulatu are here to tell you about their favourite reads of the summer.

Ainslie Hogarth and Makda Mulatu recommend their favourite reads for the summer

A white book cover with a cassette tape and the words Shy by Max Poster written on it.
Shy is a novel by Max Porter. (Penguin Random House Canada)

It's almost summer, which means it's time to find a nice sunny corner of your home, your local park or some place in the world, and bring a good book with you. Ainslie Hogarth and Makda Mulatu join Elamin Abdelmahmoud to talk about their favourite reads of the summer.

Their book recommendation list includes the following titles: This is How You Lose the Time War by Ottawa's Amal El Mohtar and American writer Max Gladstone, Shy by Max Porter, and Uncertain Kin by Janice Lynn Mather.

You can listen to the full discussion from today's show on CBC Listen or on our podcast, Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud, available wherever you get your podcasts.


Panel produced by Jane Van-Koeverden.