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
The bestselling author of Rin Tin Tin and The Orchid Thief reopens the unsolved mystery of one of the most catastrophic library fires in history and delivers a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution - our libraries.

Adult non-fiction

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

A psalm for the wild-built
Chambers, Becky
Audiobook

Adult fiction (science fiction and fantasy)

Also available in e-book and e-audiobook formats

A prayer for the Crown-Shy
Chambers, Becky 
Audiobook

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
FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. FIGHT FOR LOVE. WELCOME TO THE KILLING GROUND. 'America's new Hunger Games' Sunday Times 'So good. This one is from the heart' Stephen King 'Brutal, thrilling, devastating and beautiful' The Times

Adult fiction

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

We'll prescribe you a cat
Syou, Ishida, 1975- author. 
Paper Book
THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS GIFT! Contains five exquisite line-drawings. For fans of THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES, discover the award-winning heartwarming sensation. Readers adore it: 'The most wonderful book I've ever read' ***** 'A terrific...

Adult fiction

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


How high we go in the dark : a novel
Nagamatsu, Sequoia
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2022FINALIST FOR THE BARNES & NOBLE DISCOVER PRIZE 2022FINALIST FOR THE URSULA LE GUIN PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022WATERSTONES AND ESQUIRE BEST BOOKS OF 2022For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, Sequoia...

Adult fiction

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

Tom Lake a novel
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

The Goblin Emperor
Addison, Katherine.
Paper Book
Maia, 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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