Mother’s Day Sale + Reading List!

Are you still looking for the perfect gift for mom? We believe there’s no better gift than a book. So, this Mother’s Day treat mom to the gift of reading! Save 25% off all available titles from May 10 to May 14 at 11:59 pm. Use code MOTHERS23 at checkout. Discount applies to print books, eBooks, and audiobooks. Excludes all forthcoming Fall 2023 releases.

If you’re not sure which book to get for mom, you’re in luck because we have a list of recommendations for you. Read on to find the right book match for the mom in your life.

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FOR THE MOM WHO LOVES A GOOD SHORT STORY

Places Like These by Lauren Carter

Psychologically complex and astute, Places Like These plumbs the vast range of human reactions to those things which make us human—love, grief, friendship, betrayal, and the intertwined yet contrasting longing for connection and independence. Whether in Ecuador or San Francisco, rural Ontario or northern Manitoba, the landscape in each of Carter’s poignant short stories reflects each character’s journey. Buy now

FOR THE ECO-CONSCIOUS MOM

Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene by Alessandra Naccarato

Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene invites readers to join a contemplation of survival—our own, and that of the elements that surround us. Using research, lyric prose, and first-hand experiences, Alessandra Naccarato addresses fundamental questions about our modern relationship to nature amidst depictions of landscapes undergoing dramatic transformation. Buy now

FOR THE MOM WHO LOVES HISTORICAL FICTION

Junie by Chelene Knight

1930s, Hogan’s Alley—a thriving Black and immigrant community located in Vancouver’s East End. Junie is a creative, observant child who moves to the alley with her mother, Maddie: a jazz singer with a growing alcohol dependency. Junie quickly makes meaningful relationships with two mentors and a girl her own age, Estelle, whose resilient and entrepreneurial mother is grappling with white scrutiny and the fact that she never really wanted a child. Buy now

FOR THE ALWAYS SUPPORTIVE MOM

Crying Wolf by Eden Boudreau

A gripping memoir that shares the raw path to recovery after violence and spotlights the ways survivors are too often demonized or ignored when they belong to marginalized communities. Boudreau heralds a new era for others dismissed for “crying wolf.” After all, women prevailing to change society for others is also a tale as old as time. Buy now

FOR THE AUTOFICTION READING MOM

Hunger Heart by by Karen Fastrup, translated by Marina Allemano

A sensual, profound work of autofiction about love, relationships, mental illness, and recovery by one of Denmark’s most celebrated literary writers. Fastrup immerses us in the alienations of her breakdown and hospitalization: what it’s like to apologize for threatening your loved one with a knife; how an eating disorder can begin with the discomfort of family and adolescence; and how to make the long journey back to one’s creative life. Buy now

FOR THE EXPERIMENTAL MOM

Vox Humana by Adebe DeRango-Adem

In and through literary experiments with word and sound, utterance and song, Vox Humana considers the different ways a body can assert, recount, proclaim, thus underscoring the urgency of doing so against the de-voicing effects of racism and institutional violence. As the title also represents an organ reed that sounds like the human voice, so DeRango-Adem shares her reclaiming of the instrument traditionally accessed by the white establishment. Buy now

FOR THE TUNED IN MOM

Participation by Anna Moschovakis

In the latest novel from Anna Moschovakis, two reading groups, Love and Anti-Love, convene digitally amidst political upheaval and undefined environmental catastrophe. Participation offers a prescient look at remote communication in a time of rupture: anonymous participants exchange fantasies and ruminations, and relationships develop and unravel. Buy now

FOR THE ADVENTUROUS MOM

Cyclettes by Tree Abraham

Part travelogue, part philosophical musing, Tree Abraham’s work probes the millennial experience, asking what a young life can be when unshackled from traditional role expectations yet still living in consistent economic and environmental uncertainty. Text is interspersed between drawings, scientific charts, ephemera, maps, arcane designs, and diagrams of cycles—of vehicles and of life, from the Buddhist Eightfold path to patterns of depression, desire, and motion. The result is a disarming, welcoming work that asks us to consider what the interflux of exploration and ennui mean to our locality within the universe. Buy now

FOR THE INTROSPECTIVE MOM

Remnants by Céline Huyghebaert, translated by Aleshia Jensen

Remnants is an exploration of our relationships with family and perception, told through a profound investigation of a father’s life and sudden death. With various voices and hybrid forms—including dialogues, questionnaires, photographs, and dream documentation—Huyghebaert builds a fragmented picture of a father-daughter relationship that has been shaped by silences and missed opportunities. Buy now

FOR THE HISTORY TRACING MOM

archipelago by Laila Malik

Malik’s lyrical poems intertwine histories of exile and ecological devastation. Beginning with a coming of age in the 80s and 90s between Canada, the Arabian Gulf, East Africa and Kashmir, they subvert conventions of lineage, instead drawing on the truths of inter-ethnic histories amidst sparse landscapes of deserts, oceans, and mountains. They question why the only certainties of “home” are urgency and impossibility. Buy now