Alllitup.ca

A note to US-based customers: All Lit Up is pausing print orders to the USA until further notice. Read more

A graphic labelled 6 Books for Short Story Month and six book covers: We Are Busy Being Alive by Rishi Midha, Suddenly Light by Nina Dunic, There's Always More to Say by Natalie Southworth, Mom Camp by Veronique Darwin, Breathing is How Some People Stay Alive by Alison Gadsby, and Earthen by Katherine Koller.

The Short Story is living its best life

Afterword: 6 Short Story Collections for Short Story Month

In Afterword, short story writer Laura Rock Gaughan recommends six standout collections for Short Story Month.

An author photo of Ben Berman Ghan. He is a light-skin-toned man with brown facial hair and shaved head. He is wearing black pants and sweater, and round wire-rimmed glasses. He is sitting with his legs stretched out on a window bench and looking into the camera.

Read our interview with the author of The Library Cosmic

“Don’t explain it. If you can, it won’t be magic anymore”— An Interview with Ben Berman Ghan

A graphic reading "Off Kilter Spring 2026's Most Anticipated Reads.

Get Weird – Our Most Anticipated Reads this season

Off/Kilter: 2026 Spring Preview

Freshly Published!

Browse what’s new on the ALU shelves this week.

Congrats to the finalists of the Amazon Canada First Novel Award!

We’re thrilled to see these titles from independent Canadian literary presses on the list this year!

I Remember Lights

By (author): Ben Ladouceur

The first novel from award-winning poet Ben Ladouceur, I Remember Lights depicts a time when the world promised everythi….

Nowhere

“What if the most terrifying thing has already happened?”Drawn by a mysterious force, 12-year-old Joel and his terri….

Property

By (author): Kate Cayley

A spring day in a gentrifying neighbourhood begins unremarkably enough; by evening someone has died.Nat, a middle-aged q….

Book Slider / Carousel
Displays slider based on Tag or Subject or Category or ISBN

Popular Categories

Indigenous Litspace

Discover fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, and kids’ books by Indigenous authors and #ReadIndigenous.

Poetry Litspace

We don’t tell you what the poets are doing, we show you with a dedicated home for poetry recordings, interviews, excerpts, and more.

Kids Litspace

The ALU Kids Litspace is a home for the finest in kids lit, for young, middle-grade, and teen readers (and all of those who are young-at-heart).

Books We’re Reading Now

Here are some of the books on our nightstands right now.

Event Horizon

By (author): Balsam Karam

Translated by: Saskia Vogel

From the acclaimed author of The Singularity comes a unique and daring, formally inventive novel about rebellion, politi….

Weird Babies

By (author): Jaclyn Desforges

Weird Babies is a short story collection about weird babies: a miraculous set of reincarnated quadruplets, babies born f….

Super Castle Fun Park

A wild, beguiling novel about isolation, technology, and raising the dead by the co-editor of Queer Little Nightmares Th….

We Meant Well

By (author): Erum Shazia Hasan

Longlisted for the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize September 2023 selection for Great Group Reads by the Women’s National….

Mom Camp

By (author): Véronique Darwin

A debut collection of interconnected fiction that delivers a frothy, philosophical take on modern female archetypes.In e….

Book Slider / Carousel
Displays slider based on Tag or Subject or Category or ISBN

ebooks for everyone

In 2022 All Lit Up launched the ebooks for everyone collection: 600+ books that were converted to fully-accessible epub formats for readers with print disabilities. Browse some handpicks from our collection below.

VIEW ALL accessible EBOOKS