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  • Bingemas: For the Affirmationist

    Bingemas: For the Affirmationist

     For the giftee who loves a good life-affirming phone sesh with their BFF, today’s BINGEMAS picks are just the right kind of reads to remind them of their worth in gold.

  • Bingemas: For the Dramedy Seeker

    Bingemas: For the Dramedy Seeker

    For the dramedy-all-day-every-day folks on your list, today’s BINGEMAS haul is all about family drama: gift them literary follow-ups to hit TV shows This Is Us and Better Things.

  • Discover the Publishers Behind Your Next Indie Book

    Discover the Publishers Behind Your Next Indie Book

    Have you ever wondered about who made that book in your hands or the one on your screen? All books are not created equal.Get to know the people behind your books—#ReadUp on our fiercely independent, creative literary presses below.Find new releases here on All Lit Up. Stay connected to discover your next indie book. 

  • In Review: The Week of November 23rd

    In Review: The Week of November 23rd

    This week we brought the Bingemas cheer with pop-culture-inspired reads for all the giftees on your holiday list for everyone from the Horror Aficionado to the Twenty-Something Soul and more!

  • Bingemas: For the Amateur Sleuth

    Bingemas: For the Amateur Sleuth

    If OG crime show Unsolved Mysteries reigns supreme on your giftee’s Netflix Watch Again list, today’s BINGEMAS picks are the bookish follow-ups they need.

  • Bingemas: For the Dystopian Devotee

    Bingemas: For the Dystopian Devotee

    Bingemas day four has picks for the dystopian devotee who would walk bravely into the ashes of this world and any other, or be the first to make contact with new lifeforms ruled by technology—whether friend or foe.

  • Bingemas: For the CanCon Connoisseur

    Bingemas: For the CanCon Connoisseur

    For the CanCon-only giftee on your list who’s worn out the catchphrase “Ew, David” and grew up reading Anne of Green Gables, our Bingemas selections are the double-double they’re craving.

  • Bingemas: For the Twenty-Something Soul

    Bingemas: For the Twenty-Something Soul

    BINGEMAS day two is for all the twenty-something souls who are always Insta-ready and are never less than five seasons deep into a juicy drama worth speculating about online.

  • Bingemas: For the Horror Aficionado

    Bingemas: For the Horror Aficionado

    Our first BINGEMAS books of the season are for the horror heads on your gift list with an encyclopedic knowledge of Shirley Jackson and a Netflix queue that would make Stephen King proud.

  • Bingemas Redux: Unputdownable Books for Everyone

    Bingemas Redux: Unputdownable Books for Everyone

    BINGEMAS is back on All Lit Up! Pop culture and literature unite for another joyful season of power-reading and all kinds of book recommendations for the pop-culture enthusiasts on your gift list no matter their holiday flavour. From now until December 4th, we’re bringing you the perfect lit pairings to your giftees’ fave TV shows, movies,…

  • In Review: The Week of November 16th

    In Review: The Week of November 16th

    This week on the blog: a #ReadHarderChallenge, what to read after Amy Jones’s We’re All in This Together, cozy crime season, and more!

  • Read Harder Challenge #16

    Read Harder Challenge #16

    Throughout 2020, All Lit Up-er Tan Light has been participating in BookRiot’s Read Harder Challenge—a reading task designed to expand readerly boundaries—and doing so with an indie twist. Each entry in this series highlights one or two completed challenges along with a list of books from All Lit Up to have you reading harder, too! Scroll on…

  • 5 Cozy Crime Reads for the Cold Canadian Winter

    5 Cozy Crime Reads for the Cold Canadian Winter

    Cozy crime hits different in the winter. It’s just a fact. So throw another log on the fire, grab an extra blanky, and keep that kettle rockin’ because we’ve got five page turners that’ll keep you wondering who dunnit? all season long.

  • If You Liked X, Read Y: Ensemble Cast Edition

    If You Liked X, Read Y: Ensemble Cast Edition

    For fans of Amy Jones’s We’re All in This Together, Nina Berkhout’s new novel Why Birds Sing (ECW Press) about a disgraced opera singer and a loveable cast of misfits, and the possibilities of song and community is the follow-up you need. 

  • An Excerpt from Micro Miracle: A True Story for World Prematurity Day

    An Excerpt from Micro Miracle: A True Story for World Prematurity Day

    In recognition of World Prematurity Day (November 17), Signature Editions shares an excerpt from Amy Boyes Micro Miracle—a true and moving account of a first-time mother whose expectations of childbirth and parenting are dramatically altered when she gives birth sixteen weeks prematurely.