Ready? Set! Go! 🎉 We’re thrilled to introduce the inaugural edition of The Booksellers’ List! For the first time ever, Canadian readers can look forward to a list of trusted recs—handpicked and voted on by local booksellers.
Thank you to @lilykingbooks for her kind message for indie bookstores across Canada! Be sure to add Heart the Lover to your TBR if you ♥️ books about desire, friendship, and the lasting impact of first love that give warm, cozy, autumnal vibes.
Are you in the mood for a pensive read about family, community or mystery? Three new Booksellers’ List picks that will grip you from the first page are now available!
Learn more about these books on our website or find an indie bookstore near you using our store finder tool.
Guess who recently popped into Books and Company Picton? Shani Mootoo, author of Starry Starry Night, a Booksellers’ List selection for the Fall season, stopped by her local bookstore for her book launch last week. 🤩 @bookhugpress.bsky.social
Congratulations to all of the shortlisted authors of the @gillerprize! 🏆An extra special shoutout to We Love You, Bunny and Pick A Colour, two standout fall selections on the Booksellers' List! 🤓 📚
Precarious is a nuanced examination of the disenfranchisement of foreign workers in Canada. Anyone interested in untold stories of those most impacted by fractured systems needs to read this one! Bookseller Callie Trautman from @shelflifebooks.bksy.social shared her thoughts on this selection.
Two of our new books out this week are selections on @indiebookstores.ca's inaugural Booksellers’ List! 📚
🧵 Read the thread below for more about The Witch of Willow Sound by Vanessa F. Penney and The First Thousand Trees by Premee Mohamed! @premeemohamed.com
Heart the Lover by Lily King The Witch of Willow Sound by Vanessa F Penney The First Thousand Trees by Premee Mohamed Pick a Colour by Souvankham Thammavongsa ⭐ Precarious by Marcello Di Cintio You Will Not Kill Our Imagination by Saeed Teebi Wolf, Moon, Dog by Thomas Wharton
Let this blast of new fall books releasing today guide your next book haul. 📚🤩 Discover more about these fall selections at indiebookstores.ca/bsl or at your local indie bookstore!
In recognition of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we're sharing eight impactful reads that encourage meaningful discussion on the intergenerational impacts and injustices of the residential school system that Indigenous communities still face today.
Every Booksellers’ List selection is testament to the diverse range of great books available in a given season, as read by the experts. Martha Sharpe, a bookseller from Flying Books, shared with us why Property earned their nomination to The Booksellers’ List for fall.
In celebration of the release of We Love You, Bunny this week, author Mona Awad shared an amazing message with us about what being selected for the fall Booksellers’ List means to her as a former bookseller herself! ❣️
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Revisit new favourites or discover something new outside your comfort zone with the Booksellers’ List Fall selections. Save this post and track how many titles you can read by the end of the fall season and tag us when you reach BINGO for bragging rights! 😎
We’re so excited to announce the winner of the #YourSummerIsBooked contest is Rheanna Benussi from Burnaby, BC! We hope you enjoy all the new reads in your book haul! 🙌
Perfect for even the most die-hard cozy fantasy fans, Brigands & Breadknives reunites readers with the original crew from its predecessor, Legend & Lattes. Bookseller Meghan Desjardins from @riverbookshop.bsky.social shares why this book should be the next story you get lost in.
love Independent bookstores and appreciate having them at or co-sponsoring all three of my launches in St. Catharines (Someday Books), @anotherstoryto.bsky.social in Toronto (Sep 19) and @massybooks.bsky.social in Vancouver (Oct 2)
Happy release day to Bad Indians Book Club, a Booksellers’ List Selection for Fall 2025! ✨
Bad Indians Book Club is available now at an indie bookstore near you. Get your copy today by inputting in your postal code in our store finder tool on our website.
Happy release day to Bad Indians Book Club, a Booksellers’ List Selection for Fall 2025! ✨
Bad Indians Book Club is available now at an indie bookstore near you. Get your copy today by inputting in your postal code in our store finder tool on our website.
A massive congratulations to all 14 authors longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize!🎉📚 Among them is Pick a Colour by Souvankham Thammavongs—The Booksellers' List Top Pick for Fall!
Discover each of these books at your local bookstore.
Other ways you show your support for Canadian books:
📑Borrow a Canadian or Indigenous-authored book from your public library 🎧Listen to a Canadian or Indigenous-authored audiobook 📱Follow and share content from Canadian or Indigenous authors on social media
Today is Official Languages Day! In celebration of this day, we’re helping Canadian Heritage in shouting out the power of the local book community as an outlet for language learning and intercultural understanding.
Louise Penny’s 20th addition to the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series is a Booksellers’ List selection for Fall 2025. Read more about this highly-anticipated book from bookseller Penny Warris at @analogbooks.net that mystery fans will adore.
Say goodbye to the sweltering heat and say hello to hot drinks, sweater weather and longer strolls through the bookshelves at your favourite indie 🎃🧣. As we usher in the season of renewal and press the reset button on our reading lists (or goals!), which fall release are you most excited to read?
Margaret Atwood’s Book of Lives is a Booksellers’ List selection for Fall 2025! Kathy Leslie, one of the booksellers at the whimsical @huckleberrybookstore in downtown Cranbrook, BC, shared why she thinks Atwood’s memoir is an absolute must–read this season.
![Text reads: [A huge thank you to independent booksellers all over Canada!!! This is the inaugural edition of The Bookseller’s List, this season’s recommendations voted on by Canadian booksellers, and I’m so honored HtL is on it! Indies rock. They are behind the scenes finding us our favorite books, those precious gems, day and night! Please support your indies and thanks, too, to my Canadian publisher.]
Bottom text: Lily King, author of Heart the Lovers](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cmea7fw6o7m7xxu635kx3my2/bafkreifkpqnmc4oa3vcbqt2bdlqr37qlz2s3pwhgcfykktoephoassdh3m@jpeg)
![[Pictured: Shani Mootoo, left, and owner David Sweet]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cmea7fw6o7m7xxu635kx3my2/bafkreiga2xxsjbli72bbwcyf5iyrvyzunkfuqetz5n2b6t43cg7ozrt27a@jpeg)
![Text Reads: In Precarious, Marcello Di Cintio sheds light on Canadian migrant work; the injustices that arise out of it, and the larger global systems that it feeds into. Di Cintio is both urgent and compassionate in the uncovering of often ignored injustices to one of Canada's most vulnerable communities. A must read.]
Bookseller: Callie Trautman from Shelf Life Books](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cmea7fw6o7m7xxu635kx3my2/bafkreihm25g3loqhydg7zi2u6hjr2d774fatcltys2wupttay3pnnve3ma@jpeg)
![[I've heard Property described as a modern, class-conscious Mrs. Dalloway — I'm in! Kate Cayley's writing here also reminds me of Doris Lessing. What a graceful and charged book.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cmea7fw6o7m7xxu635kx3my2/bafkreig3uvu3kuj2glnorwy2u5bqy6s3ulnwubywslaeapoakxxup7k6jy@jpeg)
![[Travis Baldree never fails to give fantasy readers a cozy story to lose themselves in. Booksellers everywhere fell in love with Viv and friends first, and then Fern, and now we're eager for the newest adventure. These stories have a unique ability to cross divides and reach all sorts of readers.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cmea7fw6o7m7xxu635kx3my2/bafkreibbw2fcuykdlwtyegzunduflnqpchhw6u4udzxis4u4iuhaeckqc4@jpeg)
