Books

Freida McFadden went from a self-publishing doctor to bestselling author

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of September 14, 2024

The prison where the In Cold Blood killers were executed will soon open for tours

Cory Leadbeater on finding a home – and a life in letters – with iconic author Joan Didion

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of September 7, 2024

Jenny Heijun Wills’s complicated journey to discovering her origins and identity

Michelle Winters tells a deeply human story about what draws us together in Hair for Men

Books we’re reading and loving in September: James is a reimagination of the classic Huckleberry Finn

Giller Prize releases long list, drops Scotiabank from name

Katherena Vermette’s latest novel Real Ones explores fallout of pretendian accusation

Twisted series author Ana Huang on BookTok fame and writing the romantic ‘alpha male’

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of August 31, 2024

Historian Anne Applebaum’s Autocracy, Inc. charts a web of global despotism – but glosses over the West’s role

Dolly Parton is sending free books to children across 21 U.S. states – and around the world

Former Barnes & Noble chairman Leonard Riggio dies at 83

Former Jeopardy! champion Mattea Roach to host new CBC books radio show

What if John Lennon didn’t die? Novel reimagines a life where the Beatles live on

Anthony Oliveira’s book Dayspring is an opus and a gospel

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of August 24, 2024

I’m tired of explaining Indigenous culture

How books reimagining Greek myths through female characters became a booming subgenre

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of August 17, 2024

Author Lucy Foley has a knack for spine-tingling, spooky thrillers

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of August 10, 2024

‘Collaborative’ novel Fourteen Days has 36 authors. So our four writers reviewed it collaboratively

With satirical graphic-novel series Wendy, author Walter Scott pulls no punches

From birders to Swifties, there’s a summer romance novel for everyone

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of August 3, 2024

When author Rebecca Godfrey died, her friend fulfilled a dying wish: to finish and publish her book, Peggy

Books we’re reading and loving in August: All Fours takes you on an uncomfortable but refreshing journey to self-discovery

Toronto-based author Carley Fortune continues hot streak as debut novel Every Summer After gets Amazon Prime deal

Canada’s Anne Michaels longlisted for Booker Prize in field crowded with American writers