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Books of the Year

From Sackville to Yellowknife, Canada’s book community picks the highlights of 2021

Books of the Year

Canada’s book community shares their favourite reads of 2021

Kids’ Books of the Year

Canada’s book community shares its top children’s titles of 2021

Cover to cover

Q&Q’s art director examines this year’s trends in cover design

REVENGE OF THE BLOBS

Commentators have derisively described it as “blob design,”

Woke up like this

Young adult fantasy fiction has seen a boom

Breaking barriers

Lorna Toolis created a speculative fiction community with the Merril Collection

Northern exposure

Canada will host IBBY’s 40th World Congress

Side notes

Frankfurt Book Fir 58 Authors and illustrators who

Quiet observers

Don’t automatically dismiss writers as vampires of interpersonal interaction

Staying power

Highlights from our 2021 bestsellers column

Can you go home?

Kamal Al-Solaylee examines the nature of reverse migration

Changing food culture

Corey Mintz and Mark Schatzker reconsider how and what we eat

Late-night adventures

Shane Goth’s debut is a gentle bedtime story

Nowhere to call home

A deep dive into the causes of homelessness

Work in progress

In her debut YA novel, Farah Heron weaves a story of self-discovery

Index

★ STARRED REVIEWS indicate books of exceptional

Never-ending library

Dumontier and Farber’s latest has been in the works for more than a decade