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Spring Books are coming (we’re just waiting on the weather)

The All Lit Up 2026 Spring Preview

Literary thrillers, a genre-defying novel, a translation, and a debut book top the list of some of the books we’re excited to read this spring by independent Canadian publishers.

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If You Liked x, Read y: Ripley, Killing Eve, & Days of Feasting and Rejoicing

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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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.

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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.

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….

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….

In the Field

By (author): Sadiqa de Meijer

In The Field, Sadiqa de Meijer’s follow up to the Governor General’s Award winning alfabet/alphabet, brings us essay….

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 ….

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….