No, it’s not your jaw that just dropped. 🙉 Two more Winter selections from The Booksellers’ List are now out in the world! We couldn’t be more excited for readers to dive into them. Learn more about these Winter 2026 Selections at indiebookstores.ca/tbl

In spite of Canada’s rich literary landscape, censorship is a long-standing tradition that often results in many important books quietly removed from classrooms and libraries. This week, join us in spreading awareness in support of intellectual freedom across the country. freedomtoread.ca

We may be biased, but we do think booksellers are really onto something with the eclectic picks gracing this season’s Booksellers’ List. 😎 Read it before the hype. Here’s what Type Books’ Breton Lalama had to say about the book: Persona is available to order at an indie bookstore near you.

We apologize for interrupting your scrolling …👀 but we have to share with you that Canadian Indie Bookstore Day is officially returning on Saturday, April 25th! We have so much bookish fun planned to get readers excited to celebrate their local indies this year.

Accompanied by the deep beats of Amapiano music, D. Nandi Odhiambo’s gritty, high-stakes new novel is a masterful blend of literary fiction and noir—an existential thriller where the past and present collide. Out March 24. 📅 Flying Books’ Lee Sukski shares what makes this book so special:

How could you be bored when two more Booksellers’ Lists selections are now out fresh off from the printers? 🤯 ⁉️ Learn more about these Winter 2026 Selections at indiebookstores.ca/tbl

The hype is real. And it’s just getting started. 🙂‍↕️ Is This A Cry for Help? by best-selling author Emily Austin is the book that booksellers are trying to put into everyone’s hands. Reviewers are calling “a well-paced, humorous, and introspective narrative.” Do not skip this one!

Through the lens of five transformative practices, bestselling author Monique Gray Smith weaves together short stories, and poignant reflections, that invite readers to pause and reconnect with their inner light. 💗 Jessica Walker from Munro Books offers their thoughts on Sharing the Light.

Thank you to co-authors Crystal Gail Fraser and Sara Komarnisky for sharing this amazing resource. We can’t wait for it to arrive in indie bookstores across the country. Preorder your copy today or learn more about this Winter 2026 selection at indiebookstores.ca/tbl.

In honour of Black History Month, we’re highlighting a few books by Black Canadians offering unique and engaging depictions of the history, lasting legacy, and futures of Black voices in Canada and abroad. You can check out these titles this month and year-round at an indie bookseller near you!

For fans of moving personal journeys, Staying Power is a beautiful memoir unlike anything else you’ll read this season. This Winter 2026 selection for the Booksellers’ List is available now. Here’s what Saul Freedman-Lawson from Another Story Bookshop had to say about this electric memoir.

Great connections happen offline, too. 📵 From book clubs to signings, author readings, and workshops, your local independent bookseller is a true third space to gather, linger, and connect. Just tap in your postal code using our store finder tool at indiebookstores.ca to discover one near you.

The highly anticipated, most chilling read of the season has arrived. ✨ This book will have you cancelling plans until you read the last page. Available now at an indie bookstore near you.

A big shoutout to author Kim Fu for helping us celebrate the power of indie bookstores! The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts is an eerie, spellbinding novel of grief, ghosts, apocalyptic rain, and slowly splintering reality. This book is the boost your TBR needs this season. Hitting shelves on March 3.

Yann Martel returns this winter with his newest book Son of Nobody, a brilliant retelling of the Trojan War from two commoners: an ancient soldier and modern scholar. ⚔️ Indie bookseller Lorie Cheverie shared with us why she’s looking forward to sharing this exciting novel with local readers.

Thank you, Kate Quinn for this sweet message! We can’t wait for readers to get their copy and love it as much as indie booksellers do. 🥰

Vigil is the wise, electric novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author George Saunders, taking on the menace of corporate greed. Isa Engelbrecht, a bookseller from McNally Robinson Saskatoon shared why she thinks you’ll absolutely be drawn in by this timely read. 🤩

What’s the fun of reading without a little challenge? 👀 Save this post and track how many of these experts you and your friends can check off the list this season. 🙌

A huge thanks to author Monique Gray Smith for this generous and thoughtful note for Sharing the Light, out on Janurary 27! 💌 If you enjoy uplifting stories, vignettes, and reflections to inspire gratitude, love, and joy, you’ll absolutely adore this one.

Congratulations to the 5 finalists of the 2026 Canada Reads! 🔖 Shortlisted titles: 📖 The Cure for Drowning by Loghan Paylor 📖 Searching for Terry Punchout by Tyler Hellard 📖 It’s Different This Time by Joss Richard 📖 Foe by Iain Reid 📖 A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt

2026 is the year to add debut novels to your reading goals. Need inspo? Indie bookseller Lee Suksi from Flying Books Toronto told us why they think readers will be enamoured by Zak Jones’s first novel. Find this Winter 2026 selection at an indie bookseller near you #TheBooksellersList

If you’re a fan of diving into charming, new literary worlds, indie bookseller Alexandra Dodd from @analogbooks.net shares why The Astral Library should be on your radar this season. 🌟 🔮 📖 Find this Winter 2026 selection at an indie bookseller near you.

Did you know IndieBookstores.ca was established in 2023 by CIBA, the Canadian Independent Booksellers Association, for readers to have one place for shopping independent bookstores across Canada?! 🥳 #IndieBookstores

Thank you for sharing this wonderful note with us, Aoife Josie Clements! Persona is an electric, nightmarish, intricately layered literary horror novel that will pull you in from the very first page. Pre-order your copy now at an indie bookstore near you! 🔖 #TheBooksellersList #Winter2026

#TheBooksellersList Top Pick for Winter 2026 officially hits shelves today! 🙌 Don’t miss out on the #1 book Canadian independent booksellers are buzzing about. If you pick up your copy at an indie bookstore near you, be sure to tag us in your posts! #NewReleaseTuesday #IndieBookstores

Cats? ✅ Magicians? ✅ Cozy vibes? ✅ Travel to the streets of 1920s Montreal and fall in love with Agnes Aubert, just as indie bookseller Sarah Davidson did in the race to find a new home for her cat rescue.

The 2026 Canada Reads Longlist is out! ✨15 outstanding works in Canadian fiction have been selected to showcase the power of storytelling to connect and inspire. Only five will be championed by their equally amazing panelists to be announced on January 22.

Emily Austin’s Is This a Cry For Help? captivated the hearts of so many indie booksellers enough to be selected as Top Pick this season. Learn more why this should be your next read from bookseller Madelaine Higgins at @gooddogbooks.bsky.social! Pre-order your copy now at indie bookseller near you.

Thank you to @indiebookstores.ca for choosing Talk Treaty to Me for the winter bookseller's list!!! 🤩🤩🤩 It's an honour to be picked and included with so many exciting new releases. Yay!

Congrats @dnandi.bsky.social! We're overjoyed that Amapiano Eyes is a selection for the Winter 2026 edition of The Booksellers' List from @indiebookstores.ca! We can’t wait for readers to meet this masterful blend of literary fiction & noir—an existential thriller where the past & present collide.

I'm stoked that Amapiano Eyes is a Winter 2026 selection for The Booksellers’ List from @indiebookstores.ca! Interested readers can pre-order the book from a local indie by going to their favourite store’s website, or by visiting IndieBookstores.ca. You can often pay at pick-up!

‼️ ‼️ ‼️ HOLY COW ‼️ ‼️ ‼️ 🕳️ PERSONA by @ravineangel.bsky.social 🕳️ 🏅 has made the WINTER BOOKSELLERS' LIST 🏅 📚 from @indiebookstores.ca 📚 💀 "Part poetic acid trip in a hall of mirrors, part sci-fi horror creation myth, part gen Z character study." 💀@bretonlikethecape.bsky.social Thank you 😭

We’re so excited to finally reveal the selections for The Booksellers’ List for Winter 2026, as voted on by indie book experts across the country! ✨ Preorder your favourites now at an indie bookstore near you. buff.ly/dEN49Bc

The Indiebookstores.ca team would like to wish booklovers a bookishly wonderful holiday season! No matter what or how you’re celebrating, we hope you get to carve out a few moments to share in the joy of great stories with your loved ones. ❄️🥰 #IndieBookstores

If you’re shopping for great nonfiction, Precarious is an illuminating work that profiles foreign workers and the precarity of global systems of migrant labour. A perfect pick for the reader drawn to stories of quiet rebellion, this won’t disappoint. Learn more about this book at buff.ly/yIrOOOJ

Despite the holiday lights and cheer, this next pick is for the one who is intrigued by every family ghost story. Let the chill of the season set the mood for this haunting exploration of multigenerational trauma. 👻👭 Learn more about this book at buff.ly/yIrOOOJ #HolidayPicks #TheBooksellersList

For the late-night reader who keeps a flashlight by the bed, The Black Wolf is Louise Penny's latest mystery addition in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. 🐺 Learn more about this book at indiebookstores.ca/tbl/ #HolidayPicks #TheBooksellersList

The First Thousand Trees is the perfect pick for the science fiction fan who prefers introspection to explosions. This is the kind of story you want to curl up with and get beautifully lost in this winter season. 🐦⬛ ❄️ Learn more about this book at buff.ly/yIrOOOJ #HolidayPicks #TheBooksellersList

This book follows Canada’s greatest modern-day explorer, Adam Shoalts, as he sets out into the Arctic wilderness to solve a mystery more than 100 years old. It’s unputdownable, except it might be on one of your loved one’s wishlist. 👀 Learn more about this book at buff.ly/yIrOOOJ #HolidayPicks

For the dog lover who knows our oldest friendship still has lessons to teach us about human nature, Wolf, Moon, Dog is the heartfelt and charming novel that should be on your gift list. 🐶 Intrigued? Learn more about this book at indiebookstores.ca/tbl/ #HolidayPicks #Indiebookstores

You’ve either talked about or heard about it. We Love You, Bunny is the highly anticipated sequel of 2025 and absolutely gift-worthy for the fan of dark academia with a sharp, glittering edge. 🐰 🌹 Learn more about this book at indiebookstores.ca/tbl/ #HolidayPicks #Indiebookstores

For one who is always leading important conversations, You Will Not Kill Our Imagination by Saeed Teebi is absolutely required reading. They will be inspired by this vital, fearless memoir and reminded of the enduring human spirit even in the face of challenges.

Calling all the lovers! 💗 If you’re looking for a gift for the one who leaves love notes in the margins, our next pick will be their perfect match. Learn more about this book at indiebookstores.ca/tbl/ #HolidayPicks #TheBooksellersList

The Idea of An Entire Life is for the reader looking to unwrap stories exploring identity, love, queerness, and what it means to be alive. 🫂 Learn more about this book at indiebookstores.ca/tbl/ #HolidayPicks #Indiebookstores

Gift your loved ones with confidence knowing that more of your dollar stays in Canada by visiting your community indie bookstore for your bookish holiday shopping needs. #IndieBookstores #HolidayShopping #ShopLocal

Inspired by real East Coast traditions and folklore, our next holiday pick has strong female characters that are as witchy as they are bold. 🧙 🪄 The Witch of Willow Sound is for the reader who cheers when the witch fights back. Learn more about this book at indiebookstores.ca/tbl/ #HolidayPicks

For the friend who stays up-to-date on the current news and loves a spirited discussion, Elbows Up! is the perfect holiday pick. 🎁 🤓 Learn more about this book at indiebookstores.ca/tbl/ #HolidayPicks #TheBooksellers

Gift them a copy of Pick a Colour, which recently won the 2025 Giller Prize and is this season’s Top Pick for the Booksellers’ List! This book is perfect for a friend who is a brilliant observer of people, places and space. Learn more about this book at indiebookstores.ca/tbl/ #HolidayPicks

Make this holiday season the most joyous one yet with the help of a trusted team at your local indie bookstore. Visit your local bookseller in-person or online today and see for yourself why great gifts are found here. #SmallBusinessSaturday #IndieBookstores #CanadaReads #HolidayShopping

I'm reading After Savagery, about the illusion of western civilization as laid bare by the genocide in Gaza, and Dabashi writes about the importance of "producing knowledge in the margins without any intention of accessing the center" And yeah. That's why I wrote Bad Indians Book Club.