Non-Fiction

Like Every Form of Love

Like Every Form of Love

Padma Viswanathan's unclassifiable memoir of friendship and writing is both intimate and universal.

By Malcolm Fraser

The Calf with Two Heads

The Calf with Two Heads

Louisa Blair's book is a whimsical and entertaining collection of vignettes about Canada's first naturalists.

By Alexander Hackett

Stolen Family

Stolen Family

Johanne Durocher provides a starting point by fulfilling her daughter’s wish that she tell her story through a book.

By Dana Bath

Ghost Stories

Ghost Stories

Judith Adamson’s latest memoir, Ghost Stories, is an exploration of biography as a form of storytelling.

By Aishwarya Singh

Restless in Sleep Country

Restless in Sleep Country

In his book, Paul Huebener proposes a critical analysis of sleep as a human activity and as a symbol in Canadian culture.

By Karolina Roman

Cosmic Wonder

Cosmic Wonder

Hellner-Mestelman's debut is a travel guide for explorers with no known destination. Put another way, this is a book of questions.

By Meaghan Thurston

Before Canada

Before Canada

Eleven of the smartest minds define, demystify, and dismantle the imagined histories of the centuries preceding Canadian federation.

By Jack McClelland

Arsenic mon amour

Arsenic mon amour

Québécois writers Jean-Lou David and Gabrielle Izaguirré-Falardeau weave a tapestry of longing and rejection, nostalgia and despair.

By Emma Dollery

The Lost Supper

The Lost Supper

Grescoe shuttles the reader between the foodways of antiquity and the front lines of sustainable agriculture.

By Adam Hill

Buzz Kill

Buzz Kill

A deeply researched, thought-provoking account of the bureaucratic, social, and ethical mess of cannabis legalization.

By JB Staniforth

Furniture Music

Furniture Music

Montreal-based poet Gail Scott's experimental prose memoir archives the ordinary in the midst of upheaval.

By Aishwarya Singh

Paths of Pollen

Paths of Pollen

Stephen Humphrey's book attempts to untangle the messy, ancient, multispecies relationships at the heart of plant life.

By Sara Spike