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A graphic labelled "Press playbacks with Breakwater Books" featuring six book covers: even weirder than before by susie Taylor, Eyes in Front When Running by Willow Keans, melt by Heidi wicks, some peoples children Bridget Canning, the blue moth motel by Olivia Robinson, the Weather Diviner by Elizabeth Murphy

Books So Good You’ll Read Them Twice

Press Playbacks: 6 Books from the Breakwater Books Backlist

Newfoundland-based publisher Breakwater Books shares six titles from their backlist deserving of a second opportunity under the spotlight.

The cover of The Book of Interruptions by Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi

Take a Poetry Break

Two Poems: The Book of Interruptions

A graphic labelled "if you liked x, read y" with two images: on the left is the promotional graphic for Schitt's Creek, and on the right is the book cover of Northern Bull by Michelle Swallow.

Same vibe, different story

If You Liked x, Read y: Schitt’s Creek & Northern Bull

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:

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….

Slice the Water

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

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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 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….

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….

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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.

VIEW ALL accessible EBOOKS