New on The Bibliophile: This week, we're looking back at our 2025 titles and sharing the first part of our staff holiday book recommendations! Check out these fantastic reads, and stay tuned next Friday for the second half of our list. 📚🎄 digitalbibliophile.substack.com/p/the-biblio...

Huge congrats to Elaine! 🎉🎉🎉

We have 7 books on the Globe 100 list! Congrats to all the authors! 🔥 @mabdelmoumen.bsky.social @marcellodicintio.bsky.social @elainefeeney.bsky.social

OH. MY. GOD. 😱😱😱😱😱😱 @theglobeandmail.com - avec Mémoire d'encrier et @biblioasis.bsky.social

Wahey, @biblioasis.bsky.social ! www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...

New in the shop: more Christmas ghost stories! Revive the Christmas Eve tradition of reading ghost stories with these little books. They make fantastic stocking stuffers. Find them in-store Thursday - Sunday, 10:30 - 4, or online any time runningthegoat.com/collections/...

36. The Mistress in Black by Rosemary Timperley via @biblioasis.bsky.social My last read in this year’s set of Seth’s Christmas Ghost Stories. Nice little read that doesn’t rise above your basic “haunted building” story, but that’s okay because it’s a tasty bit of comfort food.

35. Lady Ferry by Sarah Orne Jewett via @biblioasis.bsky.social A young girl sent to live with her aunt and uncle while her parents travel abroad comes face-to-face with a family legend —- a woman who may be immortal, or who may be mad. A sweet, melancholy story about the power of myth and death.

ICYMI, I wrote about the second installment of Jón Kalman Stefánsson's Trilogy of the Boy, finaly available in North America from @biblioasis.bsky.social #IcelandicLit Here at the end of the world: The Sorrow of Angels by Jón Kalman Stefánsson roughghosts.com/2025/11/23/h...

A #bookhistory academic’s review of @biblioasis.bsky.social bestseller, The Notebook. 📒. 🇨🇦 sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

Here at the end of the world: The Sorrow of Angels by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, translated by Philip Roughton @biblioasis.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2025/11/23/h...

New on The Bibliophile: The introduction to Ray Robertson's DUST: MORE LIVES OF THE POETS (WITH GUITARS), a collection offering a dozen portraits of some of the twentieth century’s most innovative and fascinating musicians. digitalbibliophile.substack.com/p/second-ver...

New on The Bibliophile: We're back! This week we're sharing an interview with Graeme Macrae Burnet on his new novel BENBECULA, which publishes in North America next Tuesday. digitalbibliophile.substack.com/p/gone-a-wee...

Shoutout to Elaine Feeney for her fascinating new multi-generational family story about grief, inheritance, and learning to live with the past, Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way, which is a Fall Selection for The Booksellers’ List!

Best Canadian Poetry 2025 and 2026 co-launch! Thursday, December 11, 7 PM Upstart & Crow Bookstore Granville Island, Vancouver More details over at @biblioasis.bsky.social: www.biblioasis.com/event/best-c...

In fantastic awards news: BALDWIN, STYRON, AND ME is a finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction! Huge congrats to Mélikah and Catherine 🎉 Best of luck to this little book as we wait for the winners announcement on January 27. #ALA_Carnegie www.ala.org/carnegie-med...

Happy pub day to our BEST CANADIAN 2026 anthologies! We have an exciting lineup of upcoming events, starting with tonight's launch of BEST CANADIAN STORIES in Vancouver at Upstart & Crow!

34. Lucky’s Grove by H. Russell Wakefield via @biblioasis.bsky.social Part of the annual “Seth’s Christmas Ghost Stories Series.” A Christmas tree is dug out of the ground on a hallowed plot of land, and odd events escalate, leading to a fiery and frightening conclusion. Chilling and fun.

Every year I tip my hat to Biblioasis for producing Best Canadian Essays, Best Canadian Stories and Best Canadian Poetry, and this year is no exception. #amreading

On the 19th, from 6:30-8:30pm, I'll be reading at Queen Books, Toronto, with a slate of excellent poets to celebrate the launch of the Best Canadian Poetry 2026 published by @biblioasis.bsky.social . More info on my website: www.afmoritz.com/join-me-for-...

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New on The Bibliophile: We're featuring a peek at the introductions to this year's Best Canadian anthologies, as each editor explores how they selected their chosen essays, poems, and stories. Find them on bookstore shelves next Tuesday, Nov 18! digitalbibliophile.substack.com/p/knowing-se...

"This morning the windows feathered with frost as if the world had left fingerprints detailing its dreams of flight" #TodaysPoem #poetry Morning Pages by Randy Lundy (@prairiefiremag.bsky.social) collected in Best Canadian Poetry (2021 @biblioasis.bsky.social) www.biblioasis.com/shop/new-rel...

"Smith often accurately and anthropologically puts his finger directly on the throbbing purple bruise of modern discontent, disaffection and alienation."—Jill Wilson on Russell Smith's new novel SELF CARE in the Winnipeg Free Press: www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

From Graeme Macrae Burnet, the Booker-shortlisted author of HIS BLOODY PROJECT, comes the dark, psychological thriller, BENBECULA, leavened by moments of black humour and absurdity. Available in the US in paperback from @biblioasis.bsky.social! 📚 www.biblioasis.com/shop/fiction...

Happy pub day to Graeme Macrae Burnet's BENBECULA—Drawing on a host of archival material, Burnet returns to the historic Scotland of HIS BLOODY PROJECT to construct a beguilingly layered narrative about madness, murder, and the uncertain nature of the self. www.biblioasis.com/shop/fiction...

I was in Toronto last week for the first in a series of launch events for DUST. If there’s one near you (Hamilton, Chatham, Windsor), definitely go! Ray is a dear friend, and a stellar writer. Tell him I sent you.

“Somewhere within the murky snowfall and frost, evening is falling, and the April darkness squeezes between snowflakes that pile up on the man and the two horses.” Read from Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s novel The Sorrow of Angels, translated by Philip Roughton.

Happy pub day to Ray Robertson's DUST: MORE LIVES OF THE POETS (WITH GUITARS)! In DUST, Ray Robertson digs deep, offering up an eclectic gathering of a dozen biographical and critical portraits of some of the twentieth century’s most innovative, influential, and fascinating musicians.

ICYMI I wrote about the first book of the Trilogy About the Boy, now available in North America from @biblioasis.bsky.social The second book The Sorrow of Angels is out now! “How many years fit into one day?” Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson roughghosts.com/2025/11/08/h...

Read an excerpted story from BIG OF YOU (@biblioasis.bsky.social), the fantastic new short fiction collection from Elise Levine! #AmReading #ShortStory #CanLit #Fiction open-book.ca/News/Read-an...

In “Benbecula,” Graeme Macrae Burnet sets a challenge for himself by giving away the events of the entire story in the first chapter — really the first page.

“How many years fit into one day?” Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, tr. by Philip Roughton @biblioasis.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2025/11/08/h...

New on The Bibliophile: We're back! This week we're sharing an interview with Graeme Macrae Burnet on his new novel BENBECULA, which publishes in North America next Tuesday. digitalbibliophile.substack.com/p/gone-a-wee...

Join us in Toronto on Nov. 17th for the launch of VOICES OF RESISTANCE and Baraka Books' RAZING PALESTINE, two essential books about Palestine and the war in Gaza. This is a free event. More info here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/launch-raz...

"Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers" This evening I attended a Q&A by Marcello Di Cintio, hosted by Biblioasis Bookshop. His book "Precarious" discusses the horrific exploitation of migrant workers in Canada. Info on Mr. Di Cintio's book can be found here: www.biblioasis.com/shop/new-rel...

Happy pub day to our 2025 Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories: LADY FERRY by Sarah Orne Jewett, LUCKY'S GROVE by H. Russell Wakefield, and THE MISTRESS IN BLACK by Rosemary Timperley! A haunted school, demonic Christmas tree, and eerie houseguest—all three stories will send chills up the spine.

Happy pub day to The Sorrow of Angels by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, translated by Philip Roughton! Book #2 in his Trilogy About the Boy, an epic saga and a timeless story that portrays the human struggle for hope within the ferocious majesty of Iceland. www.biblioasis.com/shop/fiction...

newly posted: Kim Fahner @kimfahner.bsky.social : UNMET, by stephanie roberts / @biblioasis.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/11/kim-...

Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories were included on The Longest Chapter's new releases list, with some extra love for the eerie Lady Ferry by Sarah Orne Jewett! thelongestchapter.com/2025/10/30/s...

‘The official literature is self-censored, our favorite authors wound us by not uttering a word or signing a letter of protest, while the warmongering pundits speak and type under a spell of utter hysteria.But this banality is briefly erased by four women’ prismreports.org/2025/10/28/v...

Marcello Di Cintio will be in Toronto next Wednesday, November 5, to launch PRECARIOUS: THE LIVES OF MIGRANT WORKERS. We hope you can make it! www.eventbrite.ca/e/precarious...

Elaine Feeney's LET ME GO MAD IN MY OWN WAY included in the Christian Science Monitor's top 10 best books of October!

If you're looking for some literary treats this Halloween, check out the Hamilton Review of Books' Grimoire book round-up, which includes our three 2025 Christmas Ghost Stories! 👻 hamiltonreviewofbooks.com/blog/the-gri... #spookyseason #halloween #ghoststories

1/27... Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Best Canadian Stories 2026 (selected by Zsuzsi Gartner) and Poetry (Mary Dalton), both @biblioasis.bsky.social - and a thread of writing online by some of the folks in these anthologies (although mostly not the pieces in the anthologies). #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky

Are you ready to discover a new read to add to your (never-ending) physical TBR? Bookseller Michael T. Hamm from Bookmark Halifax shares why he thinks Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way should be your next read this fall.

“In her latest novel, Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way, the prolific poet and novelist Elaine Feeney showcases quite nicely the aptitude of the form in bringing memory to life.” Excerpt from D.W. White’s review of Feeney’s new book. Full review below: buff.ly/maDluzZ #writingcommunity