Travesia

By Michelle Gerster
Illustrated by Fiona Dunnett
Categories: Children's & Young Adult, Young Adult, BIPOC, Latin American Literature, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction

A poignant bilingual YA graphic novel about a teenage girl's harrowing experience crossing the Mexico-US border.

This compelling young adult graphic memoir, based on real events, tells the story of Gricelda, ...

How to Fail as a Popstar

By Vivek Shraya
Foreword by Brendan Healy
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature

The first play by multi-media artist Vivek Shraya, about fame and personal transformation.

Described as "cultural rocket fuel" by Vanity Fair, Vivek Shraya is a multi-media artist whose art, music, novels, ...

Iron Goddess of Mercy

By Larissa Lai
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Women's Literature, Poetry, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature

Iron Goddess of Mercy by Lambda Literary Award winner Larissa Lai (for the novel The Tiger Flu) is a long poem that captures the vengeful yet hopeful movement of the Furies mid-whirl and dance with them ...

nedi nezu (Good Medicine)

By Tenille K. Campbell
Categories: BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, Poetry, Women's Literature

A celebratory, slyly funny, and bluntly honest take on sex and romance in NDN Country.

nedi nezu (Good Medicine) explores the beautiful space that being a sensual Indigenous woman creates - not only as ...

Butter Honey Pig Bread

By Francesca Ekwuyasi
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, BIPOC, Black Literature, Fiction, Women's Literature

2021 CANADA READS FINALIST

Longlisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize

An intergenerational saga about three Nigerian women: a novel about food, family, and forgiveness.

Butter Honey Pig Bread is a story ...

Love after the End

Edited by Joshua Whitehead
Categories: Fiction, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature

A bold and breathtaking anthology of queer Indigenous speculative fiction, edited by the author of Jonny Appleseed.

This exciting and groundbreaking fiction collection showcases a number of new and emerging ...

God Loves Hair: Tenth Anniversary Edition

Text by Vivek Shraya
Illustrated by Juliana Neufeld
Foreword by Cherie Dimaline
Categories: Children's & Young Adult, Young Adult, BIPOC, Asian Literature

A tenth-anniversary edition of Vivek Shraya's first book: a YA story collection that celebrates racial, gender, and religious diversity.

In 2010, Vivek Shraya self-published God Loves Hair, her first ...

Burning Sugar

By Cicely Belle Blain
Categories: BIPOC, Black Literature, Women's Literature, Poetry, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature
Series: VS. Books

The latest from Vivek Shraya's VS. Books: a poetic exploration of Black identity, history, and lived experience influenced by the constant search for liberation.

In this incendiary debut collection, activist ...

Render

By Sachiko Murakami
Categories: Women's Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Poetry

Searing, intimate poems that render a history of trauma, addiction, and recovery through dreams and waking experience.

Render (v. tr. ): to submit, as for consideration; to give or make available; to ...

The Gospel of Breaking

By Jillian Christmas
Categories: Poetry, BIPOC, Black Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature

In The Gospel of Breaking, Jillian Christmas confirms what followers of her performance and artistic curation have long known: there is magic in her words. Befitting someone who "speaks things into being," ...