Canada Reads

Get your Canada Reads 2025 poster!

Get a poster for your bookstore, school, library, community group or home! Canada Reads will take place from March 17-20.

Get your poster now to celebrate the great Canadian book debate!

A black man wearing a pink shirt holds a yellow book. An Asian woman wearing a blue blazer holds and navy book. An Indigenous woman wearing a white blouse holds a colourful book. A Chilean woman wearing a green blouse holds a beige book. A white man wearing a brown sports coat holds a green book.
The 2025 Canada Reads contenders are, from left to right, Saïd M'Dahoma, Maggie Mac Neil, Shayla Stonechild, Michelle Morgan and Linwood Barclay. (CBC)

Canada Reads 2025 is coming! If you'd like a poster to tell everyone you know about this year's debates, CBC Books has you covered.

The debates will take place March 17-20, 2025.

You can download a full colour 11x17 poster here.

Teachers, bookstores, community groups and librarians can order a Canada Reads poster here. The deadline to order your poster is Friday, Feb. 28.

They will be hosted by Ali Hassan and will be broadcast on CBC Radio OneCBC TVCBC GemCBC Listen and on CBC BooksCanada Reads airs at 10 a.m. ET (11 a.m. AT, 1:30 p.m. NT) on CBC Radio One and 1 p.m. ET (2 p.m. AT, 2:30 p.m. NT) on CBC TV. You can tune in live or catch a replay on the platform of your choice.

A colouful poster with 5 panellists and their books with glitches.
Canada Reads 2025 is about finding the one book to change the narrative. (CBC)

The 2025 contenders are:

Teachers will also be able to check out the resources at Curio.ca to bring Canada Reads into classrooms.

WATCH | The Canada Reads 2025 contenders revealed on Commotion:

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