This week, we’re offering a few book recommendations to get you through these cold winter nights from some voices in our community including artist aislinn thomas, author and artist Barbara-Helen Hill, publisher and writer Jeremy Luke Hill of Gordon Hill Press, Andrea Patehviri, Marketing & Outreach Director at CFRU 93.3FM, and poet-farmer-philosopher Karen Houle.

The books recommended by our guests include:

The Lost Words: A Spellbook by Robert Macfarlane, Illustrated by Jackie Morris

Writing alone and with others by Pat Schneider

On Writing by Stephen King

The Art of Slow writing by Louise Desalvo

Embers by Richard Wagamese

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster

Elle by Douglas Glover

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

My Struggle series of autobiographical novels by Karl Ove Knausgård including A Man in Love, Boyhood Island, Dancing in the Dark, Some Rain Must Fall, and The End.

Novels Outline, Transit, Contour, Kudos, and Medea by Rachel Cusk

The opening song was “Citrus Light” by Reykjavík’s artists Sin Fang, Sóley & Örvar Smárason

Photo from flikr user Ricardo Feinstein