Canada Reads 2021!
March 9, 2021

The debates kick off this week. We're huge fans of the 2021 shortlist for Canada Reads!
Although we may have loved to see a the first ever graphic novel nominated to make the short list (we may be slightly biased in this regard), we adore the 5 books that were selected!

The finalists feature Joshua Whitehead's 2018 Jonny Appleseed, a longstanding bestselling novel that we've loved and discussed over the years, two debut novels in Francesca Ekwuyasi's 2020 Butter Honey Pig Bread—which has become a runaway bestseller in our store!—and Hench by Nathalie Zina Walschots (2020), The Midnight Bargain, a novel by award winning Fantasy novelist C.L. Polk, as well as the prize winning memoir Two Trees Make a Forest by Jessica L. Lee.

All five books are available from our online store, simply click through the links above! We ship Canada wide, deliver in Tiohtiá:ke / Montreal by bike, and offer prepaid pickup at the store, as well as limited, socially distanced in person browsing!
Thank you so much for your support.
Happy reading!

Jonny Appleseed
Joshua Whitehead
Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize A tour-de-force debut novel about a Two-Spirit Indigiqueer young man and...
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Hench
Natalie Zina Walschots
“This book is fast, furious, compelling, and angry as hell." -- Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author The Boys meets My Year of...
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Butter Honey Pig Bread
Francesca Ekwuyasi
Longlisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize An intergenerational saga about three Nigerian women: a novel about food, family, and forgiveness. Butter Honey Pig...
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Two Trees Make a Forest
Jessica J. Lee
WINNER of the 2020 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Non-Fiction PrizeOne of The Globe and Mail’s “100 favourite books of 2020”On CBC’s list of “the best Canadian nonfiction...
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The Midnight Bargain
C. L. Polk
From the beloved World Fantasy Award-winning author of Witchmark comes a sweeping, romantic new fantasy set in a world reminiscent of Regency England, where...
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