All Points West January 2025: Looking Back, Looking Forward

In this latest installment of GVPL on CBC Radio, we'll look at some favorite reads from 2024 and some books we're looking forward to in 2025, along with reading resolutions, ideas on tracking your reading and more!

Updated January 10, 2025
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The library book
Orlean, Susan
Paper Book
A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 "A constant pleasure to read...Everybody who loves books...

Adult non-fiction

Also available in e-book, e-audiobook, large print, and additional formats

A psalm for the wild-built
Chambers, Becky
Paper Book
In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk & Robot series gives us hope for the future.It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be...

Adult fiction (science fiction and fantasy)

Also available in e-book and e-audiobook formats

A prayer for the Crown-Shy
Chambers, Becky 
Paper Book
After A Psalm for the Wild-Built comes this tale of hope and acceptance in the second volume of the USA Today bestselling Monk and Robot series.After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent on a quest to determine what humanity really needs...

Adult fiction (science fiction and fantasy)

Also available in e-book and e-audiobook formats

Chain-Gang All-Stars
Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame
Paper Book
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR

Adult fiction

Also available in e-book, e-audiobook, and large print formats

We'll Prescribe You a Cat
Syou, Ishida.
Paper Book
For fans of THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES, discover the award-winning Japanese sensation - a charming celebration of the HEALING POWER of CATS. A cat a day keeps the doctor away ... On the top floor of an old building at the end of a cobbled alley in Kyoto...

Adult fiction

Also available in e-book and e-audiobook formats.


How high we go in the dark : a novel
Nagamatsu, Sequoia
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE * ROXANE GAY'S AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK * FINALIST FOR THE URSULA K. LE GUIN PRIZE "Moving and thought-provoking . . . offering psychological insights in lyrical prose while seriously exploring speculative conceits." --...

Adult fiction

Also available in e-book, e-audiobook, large print and other formats

Tom Lake
Patchett, Ann
Paper Book
The breathtaking new novel from Ann Patchett - a Sunday Times and No. 1 New York Times bestseller 'Filled with the moments I live for in a story' BONNIE GARMUS, author of Lessons in Chemistry '[Tom Lake<...

Adult fiction

Also available in e-book, e-audiobok, large print and other formats

One dark window
Gillig, Rachel
Paper Book
'Thick fog, shifting alliances and clever magic make the perfect backdrop for a sweeping romance - One Dark Window is enthralling from beginning to shocking end' Hannah Whitten, bestselling author of For the Wolf ELSPETH NEEDS A MONSTER. THE MONSTER MIGHT BE HER....

Adult fiction (science fiction and fantasy)

Also available in e-book and e-audiobook formats


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