Recs if you like The Birth House...

Fiction (and some non-fiction) across genres featuring plagues, poisons, palace physicians, healers, and pre-antibiotic chaos. If it involves herbs, plagues, questionable remedies, court intrigue, or a morally complex healer experimenting in the corner, I want it.

All of the books from the first ten years of Canada Reads, an annual "Battle of the Books" run by the CBC (Canada's national broadcaster). Each year five Canadian celebrities step in to champion one Canadian book in a series of televised debates/discussions to see which book will come out on top.

keeping track of the local (to canada) authors i've read

whether the plot is witches or their is a little bit of magic imbued in the mundane, there is a little bit of witch in all of us.