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Browse the list of 2026 GGBooks Finalists!

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Congratulations to the GGBooks finalists!

Announcing the 2026 Governor General’s Literary Awards Finalists

Presented in partnership with the Canada Council for the Arts, we’re pleased to share the list of finalists for the 2026 Governor General’s Literary Awards.

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Homegrown 2026: Books Grow Everywhere

A photo of Khalil Akhtar with an inset photo of his book How to Eat With Your Hands. He is of Punjabi descent with short black hair and a short beard. He is wearing brown-rimmed glasses and a blue collared jacket over a green plaid collared-shirt. He is looking off camera with a slight smile.

Read a piece from Khalil Akhtar

An Argument for Constraint in the Kitchen: Khalil Akhtar’s How To Eat With Your Hands

Freshly Published!

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

Saluting the Nobel Prize for Literature Laureate, Anne Carson!

Congratulations to Canada’s own Anne Carson, the newest Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature!
Discover Short Talks, her debut book of poetry, first published by Brick Books in 1992.

Short Talks

By (author): Anne Carson

Deluxe redesign of the two-time Griffin Award winner's first poetry collection. Includes new material. On the occasion ….

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Congratulations to the 2026 Giller Prize longlist!

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

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 ….

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….

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 ….

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….

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….

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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.

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,….

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,….

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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