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.

The Blue House book cover

The Blue House
Sky Gilbert

JUNE 21, 2025
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Annapurna's Bounty book cover

Annapurna’s Bounty
Veena Gokhale

JUNE 3, 2025
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Inside the House Inside book cover

Inside the House Inside
Rosalind Goldsmith

APRIL 11, 2025
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She's a Liar book cover

She’s A Lamb
Meredith Hambrock

APRIL 8, 2025
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Keep book cover

Keep
Jenny Haysom

OCTOBER 1, 2024
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The Retirement Plan book cover

The Retirement Plan
Sue Hincenbergs

APRIL 29, 2025
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Holding the Reins book cover

Holding the Reins
Paisley Hope

OCTOBER 22, 2024
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Training the Heart book cover

Training the Heart
Paisley Hope

DECEMBER 31, 2024
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Riding the High book cover

Riding the High
Paisley Hope

MAY 6, 2025
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Under the Full and Crescent Moon book cover

Under the Full and Crescent Moon
Aamir Hussain

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
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Bones of a Giant

Bones of a Giant
Brian Thomas Isaac

MAY 27, 2025
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The Ignis Psalter book cover

Danny Jacobs

APRIL 1, 2025
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Good Victory book cover

Good Victory
Mikka Jacobsen

FEBRUARY 1, 2025
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Detective Aunty book cover

Detective Aunty
Uzma Jalaluddin

MAY 6, 2025
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Voices in the Air
Kasia Jaronczyk

FEBRUARY 2025
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The World So Wide book cover

The World So Wide
Zilla Jones

APRIL 26, 2025
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Contemplation of a Crime book cover

Contemplation of a Crime
Susan Juby

MAY 13, 2025
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Dirty Little War book cover

Dirty Little War
Dietrich Kalteis

MARCH 18, 2025
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Tunes for Dancing Bears book cover

Tunes for Dancing Bears
Irena Karafilly

MAY 1, 2025
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Spiral book cover

Spiral
Bal Khabra

JANUARY 28, 2025
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The Hypebeast book cover

The Hypebeast
Adhan Khan

APRIL 22, 2025
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Cattail Lane book cover

Cattail Lane
Fran Kimmel

APRIL 15, 2025
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Aliens on the Moon book cover

Aliens on the Moon
Thomas King

AUGUST 26, 2025
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The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus book cover

The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus
Emma Knight

JANUARY 7, 2025
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Lake Burntshore book cover

Lake Burntshore
Aaron Kreuter

AUGUST 26, 2025
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I Remember Lights book cover

I Remember Lights
Ben Ladouceur

APRIL 24, 2025
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Seventhblade book cover

Seventhblade
Tonia Laird

JUNE 17, 2025
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She Didn't See it Coming book cover

She Didn’t See it Coming
Shari Lapena

JUNE 29, 2025
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Wild Life book cover

Wild Life
Amanda Leduc

MARCH 25, 2025
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Big of You book cover

Big of You
Elise Levine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2025
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The Cree Word for Love
Tracey Lindberg

SEPTEMBER 9, 2025
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The Paper Birds book cover

The Paper Birds
Jeanette Lynes

JUNE 10, 2025
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These Memories Do Not Belong to Us book cover

These Memories Do Not Belong to Us
Yiming Ma

AUGUST 15, 2025
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Tilting Towards Joy book cover

Tilting Towards Joy
Margaret Macpherson

OCTOBER 15, 2024
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A Quiet Disappearance book cover

A Quiet Disappearance
Rabindranath Maharaj

MARCH 25, 2025
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My Thievery of the People book cover

My Thievery of the People
Leila Marshy

MARCH1, 2025
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A Story Can Be Told About Pain book cover

A Story Can Be Told About Pain
Lisa Martin

MAY 1, 2025
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Farida book cover

Fairda
Monia Mazigh

OCTOBER 8, 2024
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The Northern book cover

The Northern
Jacob McArthur Mooney

MAY 6, 2025
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Runner 13 book cover

Runner 13
Amy McCulloch

JULY 1, 2025
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The Holiday Honeymoon Switch book cover

The Holiday Honeymoon Switch
Julia McKay

OCTOBER 8, 2024
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Christmas at the Ranch
Julia McKay

SEPTEMBER 23, 2025
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The Road to Goderrich book cover

The Road to Goderich
Linda McQuaig

JUNE 17, 2025
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Quietly, Loving Everyone book cover

Quietly, Loving Everyone
Curtis John McRae

APRIL 20, 2025
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The First Thousand Trees book cover

The First Thousand Trees
Premee Mohamed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2025
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Starry Starry Night book cover

Starry Starry Night
Shani Mootoo

SEPTEMBER 23, 2025
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The Light of Faded Stars book cover

The Light of Faded Stars
Francis-Adrien Morneault

OCTOBER 24, 2024
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Who Will Bury You? book cover

Who Will Bury You?
Chido Muchemwa

OCTOBER 8, 2024
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The Summers Between Us book cover

The Summers Between Us
Noreen Nanja

MAY 13, 2025
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