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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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Channel those long screen-time hours into your next great reading escape! 👀 Featured books from @orcabook.bsky.social, @greystonebooks.bsky.social, @talonbooks.bsky.social, @anvilpress.bsky.social

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November 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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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
November 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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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.
November 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Grab one of our Limited Edition BC Book Boxes before they're gone! Curated by three local indie booksellers and featuring BC published books.
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The Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia’s three book boxes celebrate Canadian indie publishers and authors, covering such topics as Indigeneity, cooking, and eco-consciousness.
Books BC Launches ‘Read Local’ Book Boxes
The Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia’s three book boxes celebrate Canadian indie publishers and authors, covering such topics as Indigeneity, cooking, and eco-consciousness.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:51 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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Discover our new limited edition book boxes! 🍁 🎁
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Discover Our Limited Edition Book Boxes - Read Local BC
Each box features Canadian-authored titles thoughtfully curated by independent booksellers.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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This holiday season… give the gift of reading!
We are very excited to announce that we have the following limited edition Read Local BC gift boxes available for sale:

🎁 Early Readers Kids Box

🎁 Indigenous Voices Box

🎁 Culinary Box
Explore here: www.readlocalbc.ca/shop/
November 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Don't have time for marathon reading sessions? You can finish these unputdownable BC reads in just one sitting. Learn more in our new blog post: buff.ly/BdsKz5i

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5 Short BC Books You Can Devour in One Sitting
Don't have time for marathon reading sessions? You can finish these unputdownable BC reads in just one sitting.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Did you know about 170,000 wood bison once roamed northern regions? This educational book for kids teaches them about the role of bison in our ecosystem and the call for their conservation. 🦬

Now available from @orcabook.bsky.social!

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October 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Foster cultural connections through the joys of daydreaming with Dreaming Alongside. This stunningly illustrated book gives readers permission to daydream and think of what magic their lives have the potential to hold. 🦋 ✨

Now available from @orcabook.bsky.social!
October 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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New books on the BC Bestseller list from @greystonebooks.bsky.social @douglasmcintyre.bsky.social
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BC Bestsellers - Read Local BC
For the week ending October 25, 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 m...
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October 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Poetry in Transit spotlight: Junie Désil

Désil reflects on the value and role of public art, aligned with the political vein that runs through her work.

We spoke with Junie Désil and the other Poetry in Transit 2025-26 poets on place, transit, and community here: www.readlocalbc.ca/2025/09/17/p...
Junie Désil has a medium-dark skin tone with brown eyes, and long, thick black hair. She’s wearing a knit sweater and staring at the camera over her shoulder, with dramatic lighting. “When people see themselves and their experiences reflected in art in public spaces, it affirms that their experiences are valuable, important and shared." one time he dropped by with fresh-caught salmon sweet sun-ripe plums and plump fragrant blackberries purple mulberries that stain lips and fingers —Junie Désil, “he has beautiful flowering trees”
October 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Fall into the new season with these BC books that will give you all the atmospheric vibes! No matter the genre you’re into, grab a hot drink to sip on and get cozy in your favourite reading spot with these intimate reads. ☕ 🧣 🎃

#FallReads
October 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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We asked BC Independent book publishers for their recommendations, find out what they chose below 👀
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BC Book Recommendations From the People Who Make Them
Get to know the work of our BC Independent publishers through this curated guide of top picks from the bookmakers themselves.
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October 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Join author Bill Arnott as he goes scuba diving off the shores of West Vancouver, learns the history of Burrard Inlet aboard a SeaBus, and more water adventures.

Now available from @arsenalpulp.bsky.social!

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October 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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BC Indie Bestseller List this week featuring two new titles: I Won't Feel This Way Forever, a soon to be YA classic from @orcabook.bsky.social and Wilderness Mother 30th Anniversary edition, a classic wilderness memoir from Ronsdale Press #ReadLocalBC

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BC Bestsellers - Read Local BC
For the week ending October 18, 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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October 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Think you’re well-versed on Canadian history? Challenge yourself to learn the personal stories and events that defined communities across the nation. These are the stories that didn’t make it into your history textbooks from @orcabook.bsky.social, @ubcpress.bsky.social, and more. ✏️
October 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Queer your TBR just in time for 2SLGBTQIA+ History Month! 🌈 📚 We've curated a list of reads by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors that centre the joy and resilience of queer communities in celebration of their achievements and ongoing fight for equality around the world.

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October 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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BC almost became a US state, read about our once precarious geographical standing in Trading Fate @heritagehouse.bsky.social
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BC Bestsellers - Read Local BC
For the week ending October 11, 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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October 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Find out more about this book and plethora of other new BC books hitting the shelves this Fall 🍂https://www.readlocalbc.ca/2025/10/08/autumn-release-new-books-to-cozy-up-with-this-fall/
October 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Discover the Innu tale of how the little fir tree became the Christmas tree. A story of resilience, beauty, and light in the Far North—perfect for the season and for the whole family to enjoy! 🌲🎁

Out October 14 from @orcabook.bky.social.

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October 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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It’s Hispanic Heritage Month! Celebrate the unique culture and traditions of Hispanic and Latinx communities in Canada with these bilingual book recs that can be read aloud in both English and Spanish from @orcabook.bsky.social and #TradewindBooks!

Check out these books on the publishers' websites.
October 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Broaden your horizons this fall with this list of fascinating nonfiction on wide-ranging topics, from the way we eat and think to incredible historical movements in Canada and the relationship between the body and politics!

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October 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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New books to cozy up with this Fall 🍂 Part 1. Poetry and novels. Find the rest of this season’s latest releases from indie publishers below:
www.readlocalbc.ca/2025/10/08/a...

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October 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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New books on the Indie BC Bestseller List, featuring a brand new Prequel from Iona Whishaw: A season for Spies by @touchwooded.bsky.social just in time for the holidays.

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BC Bestsellers - Read Local BC
For the week ending October 4, 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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October 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM