While 2025 delivered an abundance of spectacular stories across genre and form, we’re also excited about the anticipated 2026 releases! These books from celebrated authors, explore environmentalism, healthcare, notable figures in BC, and new ways to think about money. Start the New Year (and your growing winter TBR lists) with amazing BC reads. You’ll definitely want to make some room on your shelves!
Memoir/Biography
Bloomsbury to Barkerville: The Life of Florence Wilson by Marion McKinnon Crook (Heritage House)
This story is the incredible true tale of Florence Wilson, best remembered as a saloon owner and founder of the Theatre Royale in Barkerville, BC. From poet to prospector to entrepreneur, Wilson was the heart of the community, bringing entertainment and culture to a town almost entirely inhabited by transient male miners. Bloomsbury to Barkerville explores the rollercoaster of ups and downs in her remarkable life, painting an intimate, empathetic portrait of a name not talked about enough.
March 31, 2026
Walrus: The Remarkable Life of Eco-Warrior David Garrick by Catherine Marie Gilbert (Ronsdale Press)
Get a fascinating look into the largely unrecognized work of David Garrick, a journalist and impactful environmental activist in Vancouver. Walrus highlights not only Garrick’s achievements but also his childhood life, when he became passionate about earth’s creatures, which founded his life’s work in climate work that documented thousands of culturally modified trees and strengthened relationships with local First Nations communities. If you’re ready to be inspired by great changemakers in the new year, don’t forget to add this to your TBR list.
April 27, 2026
Where the Eff is My Red Tent? by Heather Hendrie (Caitlin Press)
Where the Eff is My Red Tent? is an unflinching memoir-in-essays from writer Heather Hendrie. Hendrie traces her journey through the misunderstood world of PMDD—Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder unveiling the systemic cracks that impact menstruating people and a dangerously underdiagnosed condition affecting one in 20 people. This story will resonate with anyone who’s ever felt silenced by the medical system, serving as a call to share the quiet truths out loud.
March 6, 2026
Kids
Springtime in Kitkatla by Kim Spencer (Orca Book Publishers)
Fast forward to the warmness and sunshine of spring in this beautiful picture book based on Kim Spencer’s childhood memories. Follow young Wałaas and her dzi’i (grandmother) as they take a fishing boat to their family’s reserve, Kitkatla, for spring break, where Wałaas enjoys spending time with family and wandering the shoreline. Young readers will be captivated by this authentic depiction of a child visiting a family reserve, including enjoying favourite foods like chiton and sea urchin, listening to conversations in Sm’algya̱x and the tenderness of being home, even if you know you’ll have to leave.
March 17, 2026
Fiction
When the World Was Twice as Big by Aaron Cully Drake (Nightwood Editions)
From an Amazon Canada First Novel Award finalist and Leacock Medal for Humour nominee comes a warm, witty story about a young man forced to unravel a long-hidden family secret and navigate a fraught relationship with his father. In the process, he rediscovers the girl who ties it all together. This book explores the power of the stories we tell ourselves, the weight of what families keep buried, and the clarity that comes with finally facing the truth.
February 24, 2026
Nonfiction
Save Yourself: A New Approach to Thinking about Money and Taking Control of Your Financial Future by Kelley Keehn (Douglas & McIntyre)
Bestselling author and Canadian financial advisor Kelley Keehn’s Save Yourself will help you reshape the way you think about saving this new year. Keehn combines neuroscience and evidence-based strategies to help readers overcome barriers to long-term wealth and take control of their future in an unpredictable world. She takes readers beyond the tricky banking concepts and instead invites them to explore the psychological and emotional barriers that get in the way of financial stability. Save Yourself is the money book for approachable and actionable personal finance advice that should be on your radar.
January 1, 2026
Cheapskate in Lotusland: Living Well on a Small Budget by Steve Burgess (Douglas & McIntyre)
Start your personal finance goals off right with Cheapskate in Lotusland. Blending personal memoir, economic philosophy, and sharp social observation, Steve Burgess explores the practice of frugality as a way to live better by living within one’s means. This book offers lessons in mastering grocery store bargains to questioning the relentless push of consumers to live comfortably on less without the financial guilt. Get ready for when this book hits shelves to read more from experts, trusted financial literature, and other everyday sources to reveal how financial security isn’t always about numbers.
June 1, 2026
Poetry
Pearl by George Bowering (Talonbooks)
Written by Canada’s first Parliamentary Poet Laureate, Pearl is a poetry collection that centres around a promise George Bowering made to himself that, before he passed away, he would write a poem about his mother, Pearl Bowering. At turns touching, ribald, and cheeky, these poems are a string of gems that reflect on the end of a life well lived and well written.
March 31, 2026
sometimes, forest by Elee Kraljii Gardiner (Talonbooks)
In this upcoming release from the current Poet Laureate of Vancouver, sometimes, forest is a poetry collection set in the coastal temperate rainforest. Elee Kraljii Gardiner reconstructs the feeling and physical space of the forest, exploring it as an independent space and simultaneously a place of refuge, where bodies periodically appear and disappear. While delving into her own internal changes, Gardiner’s work asks the reader to consider minute seasonal changes and the communal connection with nature.
April 14, 2026