Bedtime in Nunatsiavut

By Raeann Brown
Categories: Children's & Young Adult, Children's, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature

A sweet, beautiful book for children depicting the transformative dreams envisioned by a young Inuk girl, with the help of her loving mother.

In Bedtime in Nunatsiavut, a little girl named Nya yearns ...

Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

By Chelsea Vowel
Categories: Women's Literature, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, Fiction

Powerful stories of "Metis futurism" that envision a world without violence, capitalism, or colonization.

"Education is the new buffalo" is a metaphor widely used among Indigenous peoples in Canada to ...

Dandelion

By Jamie Chai Yun Liew
Categories: Women's Literature, Fiction, BIPOC, Asian Literature

Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award winner: an Asian woman traces her mother's past journey in order to learn who she really is and where she belongs.

When Lily was eleven years old, her mother, Swee ...

Beast at Every Threshold

By Natalie Wee
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Poetry

A formidable collection of poems that deconstructs the notion of "otherness" through folklore and myth.

An unflinching shapeshifter, Beast at Every Threshold dances between familial hauntings and cultural ...

The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book: Revised and Expanded

By Gord Hill
Foreword by Pamela Palmater
Categories: Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature

A new and expanded version of Gord Hill's seminal illustrated history of Indigenous struggles in the Americas.

When it was first published in 2010, The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book was heralded as ...

Travesia

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

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: LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, BIPOC, Asian 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, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Poetry, Women's 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: Poetry, Women's Literature, BIPOC, Indigenous 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, Women's Literature, Fiction

2021 CANADA READS FINALIST

Longlisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize; finalist, Governor General's Literary Award; finalist, Amazon Canada First Novel Award; finalist, Lambda Literary Award

An intergenerational ...