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Officially 12!

All Lit Up Turns 12!

All Lit Up is 12! We’re looking back on a decade-plus of incredible books, an amazing indie Canadian literary community, and memories along the way. As a thank-you for being here, we’re offering 10% of ALL books site-wide until September 22 with promo code ALU12. (Just be sure to enter the code at checkout). Scroll on to see some of our photo highlights from the past 12 years.

A graphic labelled 6 Books in Translation featuring book covers: Fragile Like a Bomb by Catherine Fred Lavarenne, translated by Natalia Hero; The Case of the Caprice of Lost Time by Rune Christiansen, translated from Norwegian by Kari Dickson; The Colour of Time, or the Incredible Story of Mary Gallagher by Eric Dupont, translated from French by Peter McCambridge; Asbestos by Sébastien Dulude, translated from French by Pablo Strauss; Songs in a Time of Confinement by Rashmy, translated from Tamil by Nedra Rodrigo' andDear Chekhov by Michel Tremblay, translated from French by Linda Gaboriau

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6 Books for National Translation Month

A graphic labelled ALU Fall Preview 2026 with six book covers: How to Nourish a Cannibal by Jess Housty, Driving into the Sun by Becca Babcock, Aether and Ego by Joanne Merriam, The Comedian’s Book of the Dead by Gary Barwin, One Soft Infested Summer by Matthew Heiti, and Sailors Can't Swim by Dominique Scali, translated by Jessica Moore

What are we reading this fall?

The All Lit Up 2026 Fall Preview

Freshly Published!

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

Congratulations to the 2025 Warland Award shortlist!

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

cop city swagger

By (author): Mercedes Eng

A finalist for the 2025 Vancouver Book Award! Investigating whose safety really matters in the most expensive city in th….

Steamy

By (author): Susan Holbrook

Hot (flash) takes, symptom by symptom, of The Change: Steamy is a raucous menopause memoir.Half the population will face….

Toxemia

By (author): Christine McNair

In this alchemy of anger and love, history and memoir, Christine McNair delves into various forms of toxicity in the bod….

Subterrane

By (author): Valérie Bah

Winner – 2025 Amazon Canada First Novel AwardA speculative comedy comprised of a carousel of Black and Queer voices be….

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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.

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….

Taking Down Names

By (author): Bridget Canning

In a darkly humorous and thrilling exploration of vengeance and grief, a journalist must unravel a twisting story of vig….

Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens

By (author): Lynn Hutchinson Lee

Orchid Lovell is a young Romany woman haunted by a fear of being found out. Her family has been chased out of town befor….

We are Busy Being Alive

By (author): Rishi Midha

Set in a North American milieu of detachment and alienation, the stories in We Are Busy Being Alive document the attempt….

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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.

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