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Erin Steele, whose new book is an addictions memoir and queer coming-of-age story, shares books that "weave beauty like a glinting, gold thread through pain." Not surprisingly, Toews, Thien, Maté, Maclear, & Hay are on this excellent list. 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/10/1… Caitlin Press


Enter for a chance to win THE TREASURE HUNTERS CLUB and check out Tom Ryan's list of #NovaScotia reads that "scratch the autumnal itch!" 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/10/2… Simon & Schuster CA Nimbus Publishing Conundrum Press HarperCollinsCa


Paola Ferrante's Her Body Among Animals is shortlisted for the 2024 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction! Here, she writes about why Timothy Findley's Not Wanted on the Voyage means so much to her. 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/10/2… Book*hug Press Canada Council for the Arts



Tasneem Jamal, whose new novel, I Never Said That I Was Brave, is a tale of female friendship and betrayal, recommends amazing books using first-person narration. 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/10/2… @Lynn_Coady Heather O'Neill McClelland & Stewart House of Anansi Press


Anna Dowdall, whose literary whodunit is THE SUSPENSION BRIDGE, recos 9 books in which the journey is intimately connected to escape and survival. 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/10/2… @radiant_press Coach House Books Cormorant Books Guernica Editions McClelland & Stewart

Who knew mason jars could be such conduits to contemplation? An excerpt from the gorgeous new art book 300 Mason Jars, by Joanne Thomson 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/11/0… Heritage House


In this month's Notes from a Children's Librarian, books that further readers' understanding of treaties, dovetailing nicely with #Indigenous education 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/11/0… #librarian #kidlit Annick Press GoodMinds.com

Got a thing for horror? Nick Cutter, whose gruesome new book is THE QUEEN, has ideas for you: 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/10/3… ECW Press Andrew Pyper 🇺🇦 @nickcutter Gallery Books Andrew F. Sullivan #thriller #thrillerreaders


Don't miss the chance to win Deepa Rajagopalan's Peacocks of Instagram - and the other finalists for the Giller Prize! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/07/2… House of Anansi Press


According to the The Guardian, Leatherface was “the greatest British punk band of the modern era" & it's central to Chris MacDonald's memoir DAYS AND DAYS. Chris recos other great music books here! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/11/1… ECW Press @hockeyesque Eamon McGrath Liz Worth #punk

Last chance to enter for a chance to win the #gillerprize shortlist! Ends tonight at midnight. 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/10/3… The Giller Prize

Congratulations to Anne Michaels, winner of the 2024 Giller Prize. Check out HELD and all the other #gillerprize finalists here: 49thshelf.com/Award-Winners/…


Come check out our Chats with 2024 #GGBooks winners! Start with Trevor Corkum in conversation with Katia Grubisic, who won for her translation of a Marie-Claire Blais novel, Nights Too Short to Dance 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/12/0… Canada Council for the Arts @_secondstory


Read our Chat with Chimwemwe Undi, #GGBooks winner for #POETRY! And ... you could win her collection! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/12/0… House of Anansi Press

What would #GGBooks winner Jordan Abel tell his ten-year-old self about 2024? Hint: It's not anything to do with books! You could WIN his celebrated novel, EMPTY SPACES, right here: 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/2024… McClelland & Stewart

A powerful excerpt from Niigaan Sinclair's #GGBooks-winning Wînipêk about the colonialist statues in #Winnipeg ... and two that are now anything but. ENTER TO WIN as well! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/12/0… McClelland & Stewart #INDIGENOUS