Tara's Holiday Picks @canadareadsinspired

Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

Tara shares her holiday reading list!

Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):
-Precious Cargo: My Year of Driving the Kids on School Bus 3077 by Craig Davidson
-Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir by Rebecca Solnit
-Passing by Nella Larsen
-The Street by Ann Petry

Tara (@onabranchreads):
-The Queen by Nick Cutter
-The Saturday Night Ghost Club; Rust and Bone: Stories by Craig Davidson
-The Christmas Jigsaw Murders by Alexandra Benedict
-The Christmas Countdown by Holly Cassidy
-Author Hannah Mary McKinnon
-The Christmas Party by Karen Swan
-Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher
-A Holly Jolly Diwali by Sonya Lalli
-The Kingdom of Sweets by Erika Johansen

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