If you had a calling, would you follow it even if it meant leaving everything familiar behind? This season’s Top Pick is a thought-provoking, immersive read that captivated the hearts of Canadian indie booksellers. Read why bookseller Colin Holt from @bolenbooks got lost in this novel:

Happy New Release Tuesday! Two new TBL summer selections have finally arrived and we know book lovers are going to love them. Learn more about these Summer selections and more at indiebookstores.ca/tbl

Thank you so much for your message, Ben! Grab your copy for yourself or a friend at a local indie bookseller near you today. 📚

Looking for your next unputdownable summer read? ☀️ From the beloved, award-winning author of the culture-changing hits Lost Children Archive and Tell Me How It Ends comes her most powerful and page-turning novel yet about a mother and daughter travelling together after expectations collapse.

Thanks, Richard! Life’s hard, but reading great books like Decadence makes it easier. 🙂‍↕️ You can check out this “accidental memoir of a sort,” that will make you laugh out loud at an indie bookstore near you now. @biblioasis.bsky.social

Two new heavy-hitting titles have hit the shelves today! 🤩 Will you be adding these to your next indie book store trip? Let us know in the comments!

Your next great summer read has arrived for you. 🕶️🏖️ Which vibe are you choosing?

Colson Whitehead, a two-time Pulitzer winner and #1 New York Times bestselling author, presents an exuberantly entertaining novel that vividly brings to life 1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of his Harlem Trilogy. Here’s what bookseller John Toews from @mcnallyrobinson.com had to say:

Happy Book Birthday to Cool Machine! 👏 From #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead, an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of his Harlem Trilogy.

Take advantage of the dog days of summer with the Summer TBL Bingo Challenge! 🙌👊 Explore stories on family secrets, preserving culture, healing, the challenges of navigating life from Russia to Montreal and India to occupied Palestine, and the strength found in shared truths.

From Writers' Trust Weston Prize-winning author and renowned Canadian epidemiologist Dan Werb. Our Wild Familiars brings to spectacular life the world’s most successful synanthropes–or wild animals who live alongside humans–from bats, raccoons, and crows, to some of its weirdest.

The wait is finally over! 🎉 Fans of the viral sensation I Who Have Never Known Men won't want to miss this newly translated work by Jacqueline Harpman, translated by Ros Schwartz, available today.

Thank you for your message, Nyla! Lyla and Khaled is such a special story on love and resistance that we hope many readers will adore as much as indie booksellers do. 🥰 Leila and Khaled will be available on local shelves August 11!

A stirring, intimate novel inspired by the life of Marina Nemat’s paternal grandmother, Mistress of the Persian Boarding House is a moving portrait of the enduring bonds forged between women who choose each other as family. Alison Dunn from Beggars Banquet Books, was left blown-away by this book.

Two more Summer TBL selections are out in the world today! 🎉 Whether you're in the mood for a majestic historical romance set in 20 century Russa or the spectacular life of the wild animals who survive in human communities, you can find these books on shelves now at an indie bookstore.

A new adult novel from New York Times bestselling author Shea Ernshaw, in which a woman rediscovers the mythical island she stumbled upon as a child—and the man she once met who apparently hasn’t aged. Read what bookseller Joy McLean from @cafebooks had to say about it:

We got chills just listening to that plot! 👀 Thank you, Shea, for sharing this wonderful message to indie booksellers. We can’t wait to hear what more readers are saying about it.

An intimate, liberating novel about found family and loss, Tata is one of the most enchanting mysteries you’ll uncover this season. Bookseller Mariann Smith from @blackbondbooks shared with us why fans of multiple POVs will love this novel:

as a former/recovering independent bookseller, it means a lot to have my upcoming book, A Nation of Tinkerers, featured on Indie Bookstores' The Booksellers' List for Summer 2026! check out the full list here: www.indiebookstores.ca/tbl/

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Make this summer the best one yet with 20 sizzling new books rolling out all season! ☀️😎 Canadian indie booksellers have once again selected the most unforgettable, bingeable reads in fiction, romance, and lesser-known local histories. Learn all about The Booksellers’ List Summer 2026 selections.

Four Summer TBL selections are available now! Discover a mystical island with buried secrets or the intimate moments that define a family’s life and give it meaning in these new releases. Learn more about these titles at a local bookstore near you or on our website at indiebookstores.ca/tbl

Summer 2026 is going to be iconic. ✨July is already set to be a great reading month for book lovers of refreshing new fiction releases that will hook you from the very first page, including Country People, by Daniel Mason. Read more from bookseller Andrew Fitzpatrick at Take Cover Books.

Happy Book Birthday to Tata! 🎉 This gripping story about found family and the transformative power of love is one of the most enchanting tales you’ll come across this season. Check it out now at your local indie bookstore.

Transport yourself to somewhere warm and familiar with The Midnight Train by Matt Haig. ✨ Bookseller Brittney Spires from Westminster Bookmark described her thoughts on this book so well we went back and reread the first book just so we didn’t feel left out.

For fans of Fredrik Backman and Virginia Evans comes an astonishing and deeply moving novel about finding beauty in the brevity of life, as narrated by the one who knows it best: Death. Learn more about Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt by Ben Reeves at indiebookstores.ca/tbl

Make this summer the best one yet with 20 sizzling new books rolling out all season! ☀️😎 Canadian indie booksellers have once again selected the most unforgettable, bingeable reads in fiction, romance, and lesser-known local histories. Learn all about The Booksellers’ List Summer 2026 selections.

Thanks, Glenn Dixon! We love seeing The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances on display in its full glory at indie bookstores. Unsuspecting readers don’t know they’re in for a wild, thought-provoking read on what makes us human… told through the perspective of a Roomba and its fellow appliances.

The Good Eye meets the Well-Read-Book-Expert. 🤗 From a prodigious new talent, Jess Gibson’s The Good Eye takes readers on an unforgettable journey, without ever giving in to easy answers. Here’s what Sophia Ross Eckert from The Spaniel's Tale has to say about it:

The award-winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after The Great Hunger. Land is a novel about separation and reunion, tragedy and recovery, colonization and rebellion.

Thank you so much, Iona! Your gratitude for indie bookstores is truly heart-warming. 🥹♥️ We can’t wait for readers everywhere to follow Lane Winslow’s next mysterious case in A False and Fatal Claim, out now! @ionawhishawauthor

Spanning eras and geographies, The Typing Lady is an electrifying meditation on the stories we tell ourselves, the stories we abandon, and the stories we become. As a fan of Ruth Ozeki’s work herself, Megan from River Bookshop couldn’t help but rave about her newest book voted on as a TBL selection: