Our editors share some of the books that captured our attention this year. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/reco...

Nadia Ragbar joins #ALUCozyFest to read a passage from her first novel THE PUGILIST AND THE SAILOR (@invisibooks.bsky.social), a compelling story about conjoined twins Dougie and Bruce, whose lives split in all kinds of ways even while they stay physically connected. alllitup.ca/cozy-fest-na...

“Traditions of the past mesh with potential for future change. This notion pervades Gaafar’s novel, and the two-for-one concept is nowhere more aptly contained than in the title A Mouth Full of Salt.” —Michelle Hardy Read the review: www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2025/11...

Including books from our friends @coachhousebooks.bsky.social, @invisibooks.bsky.social and Ronsdale Press! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/12...

A gift from a reader who considers this the best post-Great War Canadian novel. I think he's right. Here's to @invisibooks.bsky.social for returning the novel to print. brianbusby.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...

New book reviews up. @sydhegele.bsky.social and @bokchoygurltjong.bsky.social I only write reviews for books that I love so don't judge me for my gushy five stars! I'll give 'em out all day if I want to!!! @invisibooks.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social junctionreads.ca/junction-wri...

DEAR DENIZENS OF NEW YORK AND ENVIRONS, DEAR QUEERS, WEIRDOS, OVERDESSED INTENSE PEOPLE, NYMPHOMANIACS, READERS OF LITERATURE, AFICIONADOS OF HISTORY, PUNKS, ZINESTERS, THIRTYSOMETHING SINGLE WOMEN ETC you are cordially invited tomorrow to a 🔥**SEX CHANGE FROM HELL**🔥 it'll be a *damn* good time

Sibling relationships are ripe for storytelling: you can grow up in the same place with another person and have completely different experiences. Check out this book list on sibling dynamics by Nadia Ragbar, author of The Pugilist and the Sailor @invisibooks.bsky.social 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/10...

What's on our reading radar this month? Bittersweet Nostalgia, Time Travel, 1960s' Trinidad, Willow Witches, and More with titles from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/10... #CanLit

Did you miss our event last night? Readings and a Q and A with @terivlass.bsky.social @heatherbirrell.bsky.social and @sokhan.bsky.social @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social youtu.be/ORpXvX9zG04

Sunday November 2 It’s a bookish weekend in Toronto and we hope you’ll come! 6:30pm TYPE Books Junction 2887 Dundas Street W Doors open all day! Heather Birrell Teri Vlassopoulos Saad Omar Khan @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social

LFG www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Looking for something to haunt your reading list? Horror writer @peterbcounter.com comes through with five unsettling (and empowering) book recommendations for Halloweek. alllitup.ca/book-week-your-guide-to-spooky-reads-with-peter-counter/

Looking for some reads to get into that spooky mood? Check out these titles from @skyhorsepublishing.bsky.social @dundurnpress.bsky.social @harpercollinsca.bsky.social @touchwooded.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social 49thshelf.com/Lists/Member... #CanLit

What's on our radar this month? Bittersweet Nostalgia, Time Travel, 1960s' Trinidad, Willow Witches, and More! Check out with titles from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/10... #CanLit

A big thank you to @shawnthebookmaniac.bsky.social for featuring Nadia Ragbar (The Pugilist and the Sailor) as their Mystery Guest! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIsK...

Ohhhhh yes. Loved that book so much.

Have you read Dead Writers? It's a collection of three subtle horror novellas that came out earlier this year and I loved it.

Very cool to make this list. #booksky #baseball #bluejays

Sunday November 2 6:30pm ET In person at TYPE Books Junction 2887 Dundas Street W. Toronto Livestreamed. @heatherbirrell.bsky.social @terivlass.bsky.social and Saad Omar Khan @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @dundurnpress.bsky.social www.eventbrite.ca/e/1595532593...

And @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social has been pavimg the way in Toronto like the consummate bosses they are 🤘💀

Let's play ball! We're riding high from the Jays' win last night! Here are books to read at the World Series ⚾ with titles from @talonbooks.bsky.social @harpercollinsca.bsky.social @biblioasis.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social @radiantpress.bsky.social 49thshelf.com/Lists/Member... #CanLit

A large number of people in Canada will spend the next 3+ hours with their guts tied in knots, me included. I just want to say we're doing this together, and whatever happens, we'll have shared this. And hopefully, we'll do this again tomorrow night.

me an' Zane Koss are launching poetry books today in Ottawa; you comin'? / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social ; robmclennan.substack.com/p/oct-18-pla...

what is more fun than working with smaller presses who have a deep commitment to the work, not the business

terrific reviews of LA LUCHA (@charcopress.com) and DIVING BOARD (@invisibooks.bsky.social) here, along with a lot of other great stuff

forever grateful to see my unholy child in the best of company

hey! im launching my new poetry book, the book of sentences, this saturday 5pm at plan 99/the manx pub w zane koss! you should come! / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social ; here's a wee piece i wrote on the new collection: robmclennan.substack.com/p/the-book-o...

#SFinTranslation Review: DIVING BOARD by Tomás Downey, tr by Sarah Moses (Invisible Publishing) www.sfintranslation.com?p=15332

“Tomás Downey has mastered the chill in the air, the prickling at the back of your neck; in Moses’s translation, colloquial and keen, these stories could be told by your neighbour or cousin.” www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/10...

newly posted: Kate Siklosi : Four poems from household: meadow / @invisibooks.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/10/kate...

"There’s something kinetic in this juxtaposition of a lovelorn narrator and the surreal horse that’s growing in his home."

this beauty just showed up from @invisibooks.bsky.social

Thank you @jnyyz.bsky.social for this wonderful write-up of our great time on Saturday on the Book Ride with @jsquaredink.bsky.social and @thereadingline.bsky.social. CanLit on two wheels! @invisibooks.bsky.social

Tomas Downey from Argentina reading a short story for @UIIWP at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Grateful to our colleagues in journalism for this press conference yesterday. www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...

Finally, an investigation into the scam that forced me to reckon with the term “inferno of visibility.” writerbeware.blog/2025/09/19/r...

Excited to see Caren Beilin announced as the new Fiction Editor at @clereviewbooks.bsky.social. Despite our ardent distaste for the Cleveland Guardians (we are the official Canadian small press of the Detroit Tigers), the Cleveland Review of Books is one of our favourite new-ish publications.

Slipping into the twilight zone: Diving Board by Tomás Downey, translated by Sarah Moses @invisibooks.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2025/09/26/s...

love love to see friend / client @invisibooks.bsky.social here making the case for the role small presses play in making writing careers (if not piles of money)

Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye sold just 2,000 copies in its first year. Today, it’s a number many authors can’t recover from. Writer @tajjaisen.bsky.social examines how the publishing industry’s sales track can make or break careers before they even begin: thewalrus.ca/the-publishing-i...

My way of coping with all of the madness is focusing on what I can do to make my community a little bit stronger. So excuse me for all of the earnestness, but I wrote about ways we can all pitch in to support a thriving literary culture. lithub.com/how-to-be-a-...

Canadian publisher extraordinaire. 😂

Given the capitulatory pressure / temptation experienced by corporate media and institutions, there has arguably been no greater moment in recent history for us all to increasingly, vocally and materially support independent media.

Happy publication to The Pugilist and the Sailor—the debut novel from Toronto author Nadia Ragbar, published by Invisible Publishing.✨ invisiblepublishing.com/product/pugi... The Pugilist and the Sailor is available wherever books are bought or borrowed. #canlit @invisibooks.bsky.social

Thanks to @tobiascarroll.bsky.social for highlighting Tomás Downey’s Diving Board, publishing Oct 7 in a beautiful(ly disturbing) translation by Sarah Moses (Die, My Love, Tender Is the Flesh, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird, and The Unworthy).

Nina Dunic’s Suddenly Light officially publishes today. invisiblebooks.substack.com/p/nina-dunic...

The Lantern and the Night Moths, translated by @yilinwriter.bsky.social My final #WITMonth read for this year – 3 of the 5 poets in this collection are women. I'm particularly taken with the work of Xiao Xi, but it's all so gorgeously done. Do yourself a favour and read this! 💙📚

We're looking ahead to fall: crunching leaves, spiced coffees, and the six books on our 2025 Fall Preview list, chosen by ALU staff and ready to be added to your TBR: alllitup.ca/the-all-lit-...