This Sunday on CBC's Cross Country Checkup, host Rex Murphy invites listeners to help compile the show's annual holiday reading list! Share your favourite literary discoveries, whether fiction, non-fiction or poetry, and let them know why these books caught your imagination. You can phone in or join the live chat at 4 p.m. ET.

You can see the show's previous book lists here.

To get the ball rolling, you can find out about some books that Rex has read recently in the slideshow below.