Browse the 2026 GGBooks Winners!
Congratulations to the GGBooks winners!
Announcing the 2026 Governor General’s Literary Awards Winners
Presented in partnership with the Canada Council for the Arts, we’re pleased to share the winners of the 2026 Governor General’s Literary Awards!
“It was a curiosity to see if I could write about what it’s like living with my depression and anxiety.”
Six Questions with David Ly
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.
Congrats to the Winner of the Dayne Ogilvie Prize
for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers!Congratulations to Misha Solomon for winning the 2026 LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers via The Writers Trust Prize for
My Great-Grandfather Danced Ballet, published by Brick Books!
Congratulations to the 2026 Giller Prize longlist!
We’re thrilled to see these titles from independent Canadian literary presses on the list this year!
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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.
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.
