 | Thursday, January 30, 2025 | |  | | | | Books published in 2000 are celebrating their 25th anniversary this year!
Check out this list of 10 Canadian titles celebrating this milestone and see if your favourite classic is included — or discover a new book to add to your reading list. | | |  | | | | American cartoonist Chris Ware provides a window into his ideas, obsessions and insecurities with his latest installment of the Acme Novelty Datebook series, featuring pages from his personal sketchbooks.
Ware spoke about how writing and drawing is brought together through comics on Bookends with Mattea Roach.
Listen to their full conversation at cbc.ca/bookends. | | |  | | | | The Winnipeg writer will serve as Canada's 11th parliamentary poet laureate for the next two years and hopes to encourage more people to engage with the genre.
Undi was previously longlisted for the 2020 CBC Poetry Prize and published a poetry collection, Scientific Marvel in 2024. | | |  | | | | CBC Radio’s Bookends host and Jeopardy! Superstar Mattea Roach is constantly reading. One of their favourite genres to read is memoir – they stopped by The Next Chapter to recommend three of their favourite titles. | | |  | | | | For the past week, Rebecca Yarros's novel Onyx Storm has been dominating the publishing world, both online and off.
It marks the third installment in the wildly popular Empyrean series, a fixture on BookTok, these novels are widely known within the romantasy genre. On Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud, book lovers Arizona O'Neill and Lu Aburawi discuss the phenomenon. | | |  | | | | | Deemed ‘cozy fiction,’ novels like Before the Coffee Gets Cold and The Healing Season of Pottery have long been popular in East Asia. Now, their translations are finding an audience globally. Find out more about why the genre of books about cats, coffee and bookstores is taking off. | | |  | | | | Writer Ayelet Tsabari is among the winners at the National Jewish Book Awards. Now in their 74th year, the U.S.-based awards annually celebrate works of Jewish literature. They are presented by the Jewish Book Council. Tsabari's novel Songs for the Brokenhearted is the sole Canadian book recognized this year. It won the JJ Greenberg Memorial Award for Fiction. | | |  | | | | Bestselling YA author S.K. Ali will judge the 2025 First Page student writing challenge. The First Page student writing challenge asks students in Grades 7 to 12 from across Canada to write the first page of a speculative novel set 150 years in the future.
The challenge tasks young writers with imagining how current world issues and trends will evolve in the next century. The competition will be open from Feb. 1-28. | | |  | | | | The CBC Nonfiction Prize is open now until March 1 at 4:59 p.m. ET. If you are ready to submit, head to CBC Books for more information.
The winner receives $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, a two-week writing residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and their work will be published on CBC Books.
Four finalists each receive $1,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and their work is also published on CBC Books. | | |  | | | | Bookends with Mattea Roach airs on CBC Radio One on Sundays at 1 p.m. (1:30 p.m. NT, 3 p.m. PT) starting Sept. 8. It will also be available on CBC Listen, wherever you get your podcasts and on the CBC Arts YouTube channel.
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