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A graphic labelled "Press playbacks with Biblioasis" featuring six book covers: The Redemption of Galen Pike by Carys Davies; Here I Am! by Pauline Holdstock; Alphabet by Kathy Page; Malarky by Anakana Schofield; Dead Heat by Benedek Totth; Good Morning Comrades by Ondjaki.

Books So Good You’ll Read Them Twice

Press Playbacks: 6 Books from the Biblioasis Backlist

Founded in the back of a bookstore in 2004, Biblioasis has since been publishing award-winning and acclaimed books of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction in beautifully crafted editions. Below, they share six titles from their backlist that you may have missed.

The cover of Mallory Tater's "Lockers are for Bearcats Only" set against a pink background reminiscent of the pink lava lamp centred on the sover.

Take a Poetry Break

Poetry in Motion: Mallory Tater + Lockers Are for Bearcats Only,

A photo of H. Nigel Thomas with an inset photo of his book And Then Again Begin. He is a Black man with facial hair and curly black hair. He is wearing glasses and looking off to the side.

Read an essay about queer lives in the Caribbean

Under the Cover with H. Nigel Thomas, author of And Then Again Begin

We’re honouring Black History Month with new and exciting books by Black authors in Canada.

Freshly Published!

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

Congratulations to the 2026 Canada Reads longlist!

As fans of CBC Canada Reads, we’re thrilled to see these two titles from independent Canadian literary publishers on this year’s list:

Slice the Water

Longlisted, Canada ReadsBorn on the lush island nation of Mahana, Fred lives under the tyrannical rule of a book-burning….

Searching for Terry Punchout

By (author): Tyler Hellard

Chapter One This bed is my reward after three long days of driving. My body is stiff and aches with exhaustion. When I c….

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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 just some of the books we’re picking up in the new year.

End Times

By (author): Michelle Syba

End Times is an astounding debut collection of stories about evangelical culture, ideological polarization, and the mess….

The Headmasters

By (author): Mark Morton

How do you learn from the past if there isn’t one?Sixty years ago, something awful happened. Something that killed every….

Self Care

By (author): Russell Smith

An electric examination of women and men, sex and love, self-loathing and twenty-first century loneliness.Between writin….

The Silence of Falling Snow

By (author): Kristjana Gunnars

From an innovator of autofiction comes a meditation on grief, care, Buddhism, and artmaking. ‘This is a story. It is a ….

Ugh! As If!

By (author): Veronica Litt

“Litt’s lively, original Ugh! As If! uses the brilliant teen movie Clueless as a lens to examine the broader cul….

Fun Times Brigade

By (author): Lindsay Zier-Vogel

From acclaimed author Lindsay Zier-Vogel comes an insightful and heart-rending exploration of motherhood, grief, and the….

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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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