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Tour Author Hometowns!

Homegrown 2026: Books Grow Everywhere

Homegrown is back! We’re visiting authors in their hometowns and learning about some of their favourite spots all October long. Today’s authors show off their new books and hometowns as we tour from Vancouver to Halifax, with plenty of stops in between.

Read our Q&A with Nicholas Herring

“I wanted to write about life as I sort of dimly recall experiencing it.”— An Interview with Nicholas Herring

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 2026 Giller Prize longlist!

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

Daphnis and Chloe

By (author): Colin McAdam

One of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2026A fable about love and innocence and beauty, and finding a light through ….

The Unravelling of Ou

By (author): Hollay Ghadery

Moving on is hard. Even harder when it's from a make-believe friend—someone, or in this instance, some thing—who’s….

Riverwork

By (author): Lisa Robertson

A lost river, a lost aunt, a found literary life: from the cult-favourite poet and author of The Baudelaire Fractal come….

At Sea in a Sieve

By (author): Cordelia Strube

Ray, a single mother and superior court judge, pounds a punching bag in her basement to manage her anger. She has co….

Your Breath in Charcoal

By (author): Nicholas Herring

Longlisted, Giller Prize“I said, ‘the pair of us look like some scratch ‘n win tickets,’ and Earn said, ‘More ….

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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.

Everyone Can’t Be Wrong

By (author): Sonal Champsee

Payal has spent her life trying to meet her parents' checklist of expectations: Marriage, check. Working for her father,….

The Disappearing Act

By (author): Maria Stepanova

Translated by: Sasha Dugdale

From the renowned Russian author of In Memory of Memory comes a haunting meditation on identity, exile, language, art,….

Driving into the Sun

By (author): Becca Babcock

A road trip, a wedding, and a family crisis that tests two sisters’ love.When Annie gets engaged to a woman she met on….

Your Breath in Charcoal

By (author): Nicholas Herring

Longlisted, Giller Prize“I said, ‘the pair of us look like some scratch ‘n win tickets,’ and Earn said, ‘More ….

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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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