Best Bets: Something for Everyone

We’re so thrilled to present 20 fantastic books in all different genres for the holidays, at a gifting-friendly 15% off, no less! The discount ends on November 30, and with free shipping in Canada, why not get your shopping done early?And by the way, you don’t have to take our word for it: we’ll be sharing the glowing recommendations for these #ALUbestbets from reviewers, fellow authors, and readers like you! So you know that whatever you gift will be great.Here’s what’s in store for Best Bets 2022:November 14 – Best Bets for “here and there” readsAlmost Visible by Michelle Sinclair (Baraka Books)Yellow Watch by Carmelinda Scian (Mawenzi House)November 15 – Best Bets for fantastic nonfictionGood Mom on Paper: Writers on Creativity and Motherhood, edited by Stacey May Fowles and Jen Sookfong Lee (Book*hug Press) 305 Lost Buildings of Canada by Raymond Biesinger and Alex Bozikovic (Goose Lane Editions)November 16 – Best Bets for superfansThe Bob Dylan Albums, Second Edition by Anthony Varesi (Guernica Editions)The Mother of All Degrassi: A Memoir by Linda Schuyler (ECW Press)November 17 – Best Bets for finding the helpersRescue Me: Behind the Scenes of Search and Rescue by Cathalynn Labonté-Smith (Caitlin Press)Shadows and Light: A Physician’s Lens on COVID by Heather Patterson (Goose Lane Editions)November 18 – Best Bets for LGBTQ+ readsLOTE by Shola von Reinhold (Metonymy Press)Horrible Dance by Avery Lake (Brick Books)November 21 – Best Bets for sports journeysThe Closer by Jason Smith (Now or Never)The Voyageurs: The Canadian Men’s Soccer Team’s Quest to Reach the World Cup by Joshua Kloke (Dundurn Press)November 22 – Best Bets for queens (or kings) of quirkMukbang by Fanie Demule, translated by Anita Anand (Linda Leith Publishing)Something’s Burning by Janet Trull (At Bay Press)November 23 – Best Bets for littlesBedtime in Nunatsiavut by Raeann Brown (Arsenal Pulp Press)Lola Flies Alone by Bill Richardson, illustrated by Bill Pechet (Running the Goat Books and Broadsides)November 24 – Best Bets for cli-po (climate poetry)How to Hold a Pebble by Jaspreet Singh (NeWest Press)Wet Dream by Erin Robinsong (Brick Books)November 25 – Best Bets for CanLit classics, present and futureWho Has Seen the Wind?: 75th Anniversary Edition by W.O. Mitchell, illustrated by William Kurelek (Freehand Books)All the Quiet Places by Brian Thomas Issac (Brindle & Glass)Stay tuned to our socials @alllitupcanada to follow along with our Best Bets picks; or better yet, tell us what you’re planning on gifting with the hashtag, #ALUbestbets!