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
Winner of the Hugo Award! In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, bestselling Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk and 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;...

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
A USA Today Bestseller! "Tender and healing... I'm prescribing a preorder to anyone who has ever felt lost. Stunning, kind, necessary." --Sarah Gailey on book 1: A Psalm for the Wild-Built A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is a story of kindness...

Adult fiction (science fiction and fantasy)

Also available in e-book and e-audiobook formats

The curse of Eelgrass Bog
Averling, Mary 
Paper Book
Dark secrets and unnatural magic abound when a twelve-year-old girl ventures into a bog full of monsters to break a mysterious curse. Nothing about Kess Pedrock's life is normal. Not her home (she lives in her family's Unnatural History Museum), not her interests (hunting for...

Children's fiction

Also available in e-book and e-audiobook formats

Chain-Gang All-Stars
Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR * FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION * A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from...

Adult fiction

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

A complex coast a kayak journey from Vancouver Island to Alaska
Norwell, David 
Paper Book
A soul-searching personal account of a young man's 1,700-kilometre kayak journey from Victoria, BC, to Gustavas, Alaska, illustrated with whimsical watercolour maps and illustrations of local flora, fauna, and landscapes. In 2014, twenty-four-year-old geography student David Norwell set...

Adult non-fiction

We'll prescribe you a cat
Syou, Ishida, 1975- author. 
Paper Book
A cat a day keeps the doctor away... Discover the award-winning, bestselling Japanese novel that has become an international sensation in this utterly charming, vibrant celebration of the healing power of cats. Tucked away in an old building at the end of a narrow...

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 a novel
Patchett, Ann 
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America's finest writers. "Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than...

Adult fiction

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

One dark window
Gillig, Rachel 
Paper Book
THE FANTASY BOOKTOK SENSATION! For fans of Uprooted and For the Wolf comes a dark, lushly gothic fantasy about a maiden who must unleash the monster within to save her kingdom--but the monster in her head isn't the only threat lurking. ...

Adult fiction (science fiction and fantasy)

Also available in e-book and e-audiobook formats

The Goblin Emperor
Addison, Katherine.
Paper Book
The youngest, half-goblin son of the Emperor has lived his entire life in exile, distant from the Imperial Court and the deadly intrigue that suffuses it. But when his father and three sons in line for the throne are killed in an "accident," he has no choice but to take his place as the only...

Adult fiction (science fiction and fantasy)

Also available in e-book and e-audiobook formats


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