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Celebrating the vibrant community of authors, publishers, bookstores, and libraries in our province. Tag your posts with #ReadLocalBC and #BCBooks 📚

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Way to Go is a #FoundGem and a raw coming-of-age story about friendship, pressure, and finding the courage to be yourself.

Available from @orcabook.bsky.social!

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December 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Happy holidays from all of us at Read Local BC ♥️

📚 Need some BC book suggestions perfect the break? Explore them here: www.readlocalbc.ca/2025/12/17/c...

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December 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Can you believe the year is already wrapping up so soon? 😱

Let us know the best books you read this year in the comments! 🔖

#2026
December 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Enjoy your holiday reading with 30+ new BC titles added to Read Local BC eBookshelf on @libbyapp.com in collaboration with the @bc.libraries.coop

✨ Free through the libby app

🌲 With BC publishers, BC authors, & BC settings
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December 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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We have the perfect BC reads to not only sustain you through this break, but help you recharge⚡

Explore more: www.readlocalbc.ca/2025/12/17/c...
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December 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Nothing is better than staying cozy inside with a stack of great books for the holidays in a comfy ugly sweater. 📚 👕

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December 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Gathering Colour is an inspiring and informative book exploring how to respectfully wildcraft pigments from plants. From artist Caitlin Ffrench, readers will get to experiment with how to use those pigments in projects on paper and more.

Join the fun by visiting Nine Ten Publications's website!
December 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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We have the perfect BC reads to not only sustain you through this break, but help you recharge⚡

Explore more: www.readlocalbc.ca/2025/12/17/c...
December 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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BC Bestsellers this week! With new books from @anvilpress.bsky.social @figure1publishing.bsky.social
Explore: www.readlocalbc.ca/bc-bestselle...
BC Bestsellers - Read Local BC
For the week ending December 13, 2025 Our weekly BC Bestseller list highlights the titles of independent, BC-owned publishers sold in independent BC bookstores. Print The List Go to full post ...read ...
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December 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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We are so excited to see Trading Fate is on the BC Bestsellers List for its 11th week! Congratulations Graeme Menzies!
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December 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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This month, learn more through the people who bring stories from the province to wider audiences. We’ve gathered books that are set in or written by BC authors from different cities across the region. ⛰️🌊🦬

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December 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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This #FoundGem follows an Inuit artist and adventure enthusiast named Jenny, who returns to her hometown after a tragic incident and must confront dark family truths.

Available from Ronsdale Press!

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December 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Get a head start on your 2026 TBR list with these amazing new releases arriving in the new year! These reads will help you start your year off with refreshing ideas on personal finance and impactful prose in fiction and nonfiction that just might make your favourites list. 🤩 📚
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December 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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This year was a massive one for award-winning books from local publishers! 🤩 📕 Get caught up this month with the BC books nominated for the 2025 GG Literary awards for English literature.

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December 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Poetry in Transit spotlight: Susan Alexander✨

We spoke with Susan Alexander and the other Poetry in Transit 2025-26 poets on place, transit, and community here: www.readlocalbc.ca/2025/09/17/p...
Susan Alexander has a light skin tone, bangs, and wavy hair down to her collar bones. She wears thick-framed glasses and a black blouse, and smiles softly. I absolutely love the idea that someone will look up from their phone and read a poem—my poem or the other wonderful poems. What to do with the brave ones, these late bloomers? Hope! Hope! Hope! they shout into the grey morning storm. —Susan Alexander, “Listening to Marigolds”
December 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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It's the LAST DAY to shop our BC Holiday Book Boxes, don't miss out! Shop now: www.readlocalbc.ca/shop/?utm_ca...
December 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Filled with humour and candidness, Beaver Hills Forever reflects the complexities of contemporary Prairie life and the enduring spirit of a community in spite of systemic barriers.

Available now from @arsenalpulp.bsky.social

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December 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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2 more days to shop! www.readlocalbc.ca/shop/?utm_ca...
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Read Local BC introduced a new pilot project: 3 curated Book Boxes available for a limited time (Dec 5). We spoke with @readlocalbc.bsky.social about the local curators & the idea behind the project.

Full Q&A:
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Good things come in threes. Image of three boxes with books. Snowflakes in the background.
December 4, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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BC stories that are perfect for every giftee you have 📚🎁

To celebrate #BCBuyLocal Week we're sharing these BC books that you can shop at your local indie bookseller
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BC Books to Gift that Will Spark the Holiday Spirit - Read Local BC
Pick the perfect gift for a loved one, or find something to curl up with yourself this winter.
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December 4, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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The first graphic novel by acclaimed poet and prose writer Wayde Compton and illustrator April dela Noche Milne is a colourful, fantastical allegory for immigration.

Out now from @arsenalpulp.bsky.social!

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December 3, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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5 DAYS LEFT TO SHOP: www.readlocalbc.ca/shop/?utm_ca...
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📚✨ Storytime just got a local twist! The Read Local BC Kids Gift Box is aimed at children aged 6–9, and is perfect for curious minds and cozy nights. Tag someone who might want to add this to their kid’s holiday wishlist. 🙂
@greystonekidsbooks @heritagehousepublishing @orcabook Available for $40.00
box with books emerging, wilderness adventures await early readers book box two tricksters find friendship by Johnny Aitken and jess willows, a white girl and an indigenous boy running and holding hands in the forest barnacle bay by jana curll cute crabs and sea anemone floating in the water, Huxley's island adventure by Haley Healey, water colour of a black cat on a fallen log in the forest
December 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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LAST WEEK, SHOP NOW: www.readlocalbc.ca/shop/?utm_ca...
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Craving the perfect gift? 🎁 Our Culinary Gift Box serves up a delicious option for the foodie in your life!

Includes:
🍴 My New Indian Kitchen by Vikram Vij and Jennifer Muttoo @figure1publishing
🍴 The Davison Orchards Cookbook by Rachel Davison, Tamra Davison, and Laura Shaw @touchwooded
box with books emerging from it, unlock local flavour BC culinary book box "I'm drawn to cookbooks that tell a story, and these two compliment each other perfectly" Mary-Ann Yazedijan, bookseller, black bond books and book warehouse the Davison orchards cookbook, three women sitting on a vintage red truck with a valley in the background my new Indian kitchen Vikram via with Jennifer muttoo green book with paisley design.
December 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Three local booksellers curated our limited edition book boxes, swipe to meet them 📚 What makes each book so special? Read the Curators Guide to see why: www.readlocalbc.ca/2025/10/31/t...
meet the curators behind our book boxes, with three women. Mary-Ann Yazedjian, Curator of our BC Culinary Book Box, is a bookseller at Black Bond Books & Book Warehouse. She has been working with books her whole adult life. A degree in English Lit inspired her love of literature, and she’s never looked back. She can’t imagine a career where she doesn’t get to talk about books all the time. ID: she had a light skin tone, short curly hair, and wears glasses. HILARY ATLEO, Curator of our Indigenous Voices Box is Anishinaabe from Curve Lake, Ontario, but now spends more time in her husband, Cliff Atleo’s, Nuu-chah-nulth territories on the west coast of Vancouver Island. In 2017, after several years of experience in the bookselling industry, Hilary and Cliff opened Iron Dog Books. Hilary has a light skin tone, dark brown hair, wears glasses and is pictured smiling. KERRI DOYLE, Curator of our Early Readers Book Box, is the owner of Books & Shenanigans. When she first moved to Victoria 10 years ago, she downsized and got rid of all of her books. She never recovered from that, and opened her own bookshop during the pandemic. Her favourite thing is to help people find their next great read. Kerri has a medium light skin tone, short grey hair, and wears glasses. she is sitting on a backwards red chair with bookshelves in the back.
November 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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LAST CHANCE TO SHOP: www.readlocalbc.ca/shop/?utm_ca...
December 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Last chance to give the gift of BC stories 🎁 Shop our Limited Edition BC Book Boxes below:
www.readlocalbc.ca/shop/?utm_ca...
#ReadLocalBC #ShopLocalBC
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM