Ep 521: Everything L.M. Montgomery and how to build a deeper reading roster

From What Should I Read Next? by Anne Bogel

April 14, 2026 · 1h 6m · Episode 521

About this episode

Anne talks with Kate Scarth about L.M. Montgomery and building a deeper reading roster.

Many of you will well understand our team's excitement when we saw today's guest submission land in our inboxes. Today, Anne is talking with Kate Scarth, chair of L.M. Montgomery Studies at the University of Prince Edward Island. They discuss Kate's work as well as some of Kate's favorite Montgomery retellings and homages, but their main focus today is on Kate's reading life. She's interested in building out a deep reading roster for the kinds of books she especially enjoys. Books featuring literary women, books where an investigation or detective work is a big part of the story, books that center on a house, and nonfiction about creative and artistic women in history. She's also very interested in finding more books with magical realism and ghosts. Anne has ideas to share. Find the list of titles mentioned today at our show notes page at whatshouldireadnextpodcast.com/521, where you can also leave a comment to share your ideas for Kate. We're so excited to tell you about a live event happening this spring. On May 7th, Anne will be joining Laurie Frankel in conversation at Parnassus Books in Nashville on tour for her new novel, Enormous Wings. We love to tell you about new…

People in this episode

Host: Anne

Guest: Kate Scarth

Topics covered

L.M. Montgomery
reading life
literary women
detective stories
magical realism
ghosts

Keywords

retellings
homages
nonfiction
creative women
artistic women

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Enormous Wings

Books & works: Enormous Wings, What Should I Read Next?, The Postcard by, A Ghost in the Throat, The Five, All Fours, Grown Women, North Woods

Places: Nashville