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Books of the Year
Jen Neale's favourite Canadian book of 2018: Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
As the year draws to a close, CBC Books is asking Canadian writers for their favourite titles of 2018.
P Is for Pterodactyl: How 'the worst alphabet book ever' became a surprise hit this season
Raj Haldar (a.k.a. Philadelphia rapper Lushlife) talks about the unexpected popularity of his new children's book, which he jokingly calls "the worst alphabet book ever."
Books of the year
The best Canadian poetry of 2018
2018 was a great year for books. Here are CBC Books's top 12 Canadian works of poetry that came out this year.
Get ready for Canada Reads 2019!
Holiday Gift Guide
The CBC Books 2018 holiday gift guide
Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir on 20 years of skating and their most iconic performances
Viral verse: Poets of Instagram inject new life, fresh voices into poetry genre
To Every Thing There is a Season: A reading of a Cape Breton Christmas story
How Patrick Taylor accidentally became a best-selling Canadian author
Machine learning deciphers the world's oldest texts
Aaron Sorkin hits Broadway with iconic courtroom drama To Kill a Mockingbird
Fiction about complicated families to help you navigate holiday dysfunction
The enduring magic of The Little Prince: with Stacy Schiff, Mark Osborne and Éric Dupont
Holiday Gift Guide
15 books for the sports fans on your gift giving list
Holiday Gift Guide
15 hilarious books for the comedy lover on your list
Darrel J. McLeod's favourite Canadian book of 2018: Trickster Drift by Eden Robinson
Books of the Year
Jonathan Auxier's favourite Canadian book of 2018: Wicked Nix by Lena Coakley
Books of the Year
The best Canadian nonfiction of 2018
Holiday gift guide
15 books for the movie & TV superfan in your life
How I Wrote It
Vivek Shraya on the power of unpacking pain and writing with urgency
Books of the Year
The best Canadian fiction of 2018
Bestsellers
The bestselling books in Canada: Dec. 2 to 8, 2018
Borders
The 2018 Governor General's Literary Award winners write about borders
Michelle Obama extends tour to Canada, Europe as Becoming tops 3 million
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