2025 Craving CanLit

To celebrate Canadian authors, we’ve put together this list of fiction and graphic novels published between October 2024 and September 2025. This is the timeframe we accepted submissions for the 2025 Giller Prize. If we’ve missed someone, please email us at info [at] gillerprize.ca so we can add them.

Please note we do our best to keep this page up-to-date. The most accurate information including publication dates can be found on the publisher’s website.

2025 Craving CanLit

To celebrate Canadian authors, we’ve put together this list of fiction and graphic novels published between October 2024 and September 2025. This is the timeframe we accepted submissions for the 2025 Giller Prize. If we’ve missed someone, please email us at info [at] gillerprize.ca so we can add them.

Please note we do our best to keep this page up-to-date. The most accurate information including publication dates can be found on the publisher’s website.

Blue Hours book cover

Blue Hours
Alison Acheson

MAY 6, 2025

Other Worlds book cover

Other Worlds
André Alexis

MAY 6, 2025

To Place a Rabbit by Madhur Anand

To Place a Rabbit
Madhur Anand

MAY 13, 2025

I Want to Die in my Books book cover

I Want to Die in My Boots
Natalie Appleton

APRIL 8, 2025

Margaret's New Look book cover

Margaret’s New Look
Katherine Ashenburg

MAY 27, 2025

The Hand of Iman book cover

The Hand of Iman
Ryad Assani-Razaki

AUGUST 12, 2025

We Could Be Rats book cover

We Could Be Rats
Emily Austin

JANUARY 28, 2025

We Love You, Bunny book cover

We Love You, Bunny
Mona Awad

SEPTEMBER 23, 2025

Cotton Blues book cover

Cotton Blues
Edem Awumey

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Subterrane book cover

Subterrane
Valérie Bah

OCTOBER 23, 2024

You Crushed It book cover

You Crushed It
Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard

APRIL 1, 2025

The Reeds book cover

The Reeds
Arjun Basu

OCTOBER 15, 2024

A Daughter's Place book cover

A Daughter’s Place
Martha Bátiz

JANUARY 28, 2025

We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine book cover

We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine
Deni Béchard

AUGUST 5, 2025

The Door in Lake Mallion book cover

The Door in Lake Mallion
S.M. Beirne

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Saints Rest book cover

Saints Rest
Luke Francis Beirne

MARCH 1, 2025

Cover coming soon

The Sapling
Marc Bendavid

SEPTEMBER 23, 2025

The Boy Who Was Saved by Jazz book cover

The Boy Who Was Saved by Jazz
Tom Bentley-Fisher

MAY 1, 2025

The Damagers book cover

The Damagers
Rob Benvie

JUNE 10, 2025

An Astonishment of Stars book cover

The Astonishment of Stars
Kirti Bhadresa

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Born by Heather Birrell

Born
Heather Birrell

JUNE 17, 2025

Blessed Nowhere book cover

Blessed Nowhere
Catherine Black

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Bad Juliet book cover

Bad Juliet
Giles Blunt

AUGUST 5, 2025

Cover coming soon

Strangers at the Red Door
Dennis Bock

SEPTEMBER 2, 2025

Amaranthine Chevrolet book cover

Amaranthine Chevrolet
Dennis E. Bolen

MAY 13, 2025

The Tiger and the Cosmonaut book coover

The Tiger and the Cosmonaut
Eddy Boudel Tan

MAY 13, 2025

Graveyard Shift at the Lemonade Stand book cover

Graveyard Shift at the Lemonade Stand
Tim Bowling

APRIL 29, 2025

Deep Cuts book cover

Deep Cuts
Holly Brickley

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Sugaring Off book cover

Sugaring Off
Fanny Britt

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Silent Film Star Murders book cover

The Silent Film Star Murders
Melodie Campbell

MARCH 22, 2025

Cover coming soon

The Longest Night
Lauren Carter

SEPTEMBER 2, 2025

The Christmas Countdown book cover

The Christmas Countdown
Holly Cassidy

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Cover coming soon

Furthermore, the Lake
Michael E. Casteels

MARCH 1, 2025

Dotted Lines book cover

Dotted Lines
Stephanie Cesca

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The Immortal Woman book cover

The Immortal Woman
Su Chang

MARCH 4, 2025

All Things Under the Moon book cover

All Things Under the Moon
Ann Y.K. Choi

SEPTEMBER 2, 2025

The Queen book cover

The Queen
Nick Cutter

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Launch book cover

Launch
Neal Davis Anderson

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Julius Julius book cover

Julius Julius
Aurora Stewart De Pena

JUNE 17, 2025

Bronco Buster book cover

Bronco Buster
A.J. Devlin

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Favourite Daughter book cover

Favourite Daughter 
Morgan Dick

APRIL 29, 2025

The Paris Express book cover

The Paris Express
Emma Donoghue

MARCH 18, 2025

Not Even the Sound of a River book cover

Not Even the Sound of the River
Hélène Dorion

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The Suspension Bridge book cover

The Suspension Bridge
Anna Dowdall

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Black Cherokee book cover

Black Cherokee
Antonio Michael Downing

AUGUST 19, 2025

Small Ceremonies book cover

Small Ceremonies
Kyle Edwards

APRIL 1, 2025

Letters to Kafka book cover

Letters to Kafka
Christine Estima

SEPTEMBER 9, 2025

Killer on the First Page book cover

Killer on the First Page
Ian Ferguson & Will Ferguson

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Only Because It's You book cover

Only Because It’s You 
Rebecca Fisseha

MAY 5, 2025

RIP Scoot book cover

R.I.P. Scoot
Anna Dowdall

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

One Golden Summer book cover

One Golden Summer
Carley Fortune

MAY 6, 2025

Shipwrecked Souls book cover

Shipwrecked Souls
Barbara Fradkin

JANUARY 21, 2025

A Song for Wildcats book cover

A Song for Wildcats
Caitlin Galway

MAY 6, 2025

Cover coming soon

Written on the Dark
Guy Gavriel Kay

MAY 27, 2025