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Your local, Leslieville bookshop!
✿ Open M-F 10-8, S-S 10-6
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QB last book club picks of 2026! ⋆ Swipe to see books/dates! ☀︎
All book clubs will be on break in December.

✹ CANADIAN & TRANSLATED BOOK CLUB • 7pm
Mon, Oct. 26 - Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
Mon, Nov. 30 - Motherclown by Harriet Alida Lye +
Q&A with the author!

✹ LOVER'S LIT • 7pm
Tues, Oct. 27 - Tipping the Velvet by Sara Waters
Tues, Nov. 24 - Maurice by E.M. Forster

✹ NOVELLA BOOK CLUB • 7pm
Tues, Nov. 10 - On Earth as it is Beneath by Ana Paula Maia

✹ PAPERBACK PHILOSOPHY • 7pm
Book club concluded for 2026. Stay tuned for 2027 picks!

✹ QUEEN CLASSICS • 7pm
Mon, Nov. 2 - A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

╰┈➤ See link in bio or visit shop.queenbooks.ca/book-clubs to sign up for book clubs.
☆ Upon signing up for book club, you will not receive an individual email confirmation regarding joining, BUT you will receive future book club updates/email blasts. by @queenbooksto

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Big week for fiction!
1. Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali ✶ FICTION
2. Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman ✶ SCI-FI/FANTASY
3. Fruit Fly by Josh Silver ✶ FICTION
4. Strange Pictures by Uketsu ✶ THRILLER
5. Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar ✶ FICTION
6. Theo of Golden by Allen Levi ✶ FICTION
7. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman ✶ FICTION
8. A TIE BETWEEN...
Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai ✶ FICTION
The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett ✶ FICTION
Hollywood, Ending by John Green ✶ FICTION
A Room With a View by E. M. Forster ✶ FICTION by @queenbooksto

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Thank you to everyone who came out for our spo0oo00o0ky literary trivia night on Friday! Hayley should be allowed to sit on the cash counter and read out questions every day hehe

Photos by Raheleh! by @queenbooksto

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one of a kind bookstore proposal

#engagementshoot #torontophotoshoot #film #bookstoreproposal @queenbooksto taken in Toronto, Ontario by @queenbooksto

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vibes of alex and alice’s engagement captured on film

#engagementshoot #torontophotoshoot #film #bookstoreproposal @queenbooksto taken in Queen Books by @queenbooksto

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Kazuo Ishiguro fans! We are collaborating with @klaraandthesunmovie @SonyPicturesCanada @thetarogroup to offer four lucky people the chance to see the theatrical adaptation of Klara and the Sun early!

How to enter the movie pass giveaway:
✹ Order Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Klara and the Sun from us online at SHOP.QUEENBOOKS.CA and you will be entered into a draw to win passes to see the film on October 19, 2026 at a special advanced screening in Toronto, before it hits theatres on October 23, 2026. Please be sure to include your email address in your order so that we can connect you with @TheTaroGroup if you win!

Based on the bestselling novel from Nobel Prize-winner Kazuo Ishiguro and written and directed by Academy-Award® winner Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit), Klara and the Sun introduces audiences to Klara (Jenna Ortega), an Artificial Friend who wants nothing more than to find the perfect home. When Klara meets Josie (Mia Tharia), each immediately senses a kindred spirit in the other. Josie has a fraught relationship with her mother (Amy Adams) and they’ve suffered great loss, but Klara’s innocent wonder and unwavering loyalty begin to heal the family and bring light to Josie’s complicated world.

KLARA AND THE SUN exclusively in movie theatres October 23, 2026.

Photo of the book by Raheleh! ✹ by @queenbooksto

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Cool books we have at the shop!:
✿ Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.

Longtime organizers and movement educators Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes examine some of the political lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the convergence of mass protest and mass formations of mutual aid, and consider what this confluence of power can teach us about a future that will require mass acts of care, rescue and defense, in the face of both state violence and environmental disaster.

The book is an assemblage of co-authored reflections, interviews and questions that are intended to aid and empower activists and organizers as they attempt to map their own journeys through the work of justice-making. It includes insights from a spectrum of experienced organizers, including Sharon Lungo, Carlos Saavedra, Ejeris Dixon, Barbara Ransby, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore about some of the difficult and joyous lessons they have learned in their work. by @queenbooksto

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Might we interest you in an NYRB title on this fine October day?
✹ The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns
✦ Time Tunnel by Eileen Chang
✹ Talk by Linda Rosenkrantz
✦ Stoner by John Williams
✹ Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker
✦ The Door by Magda Szabo by @queenbooksto

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Theatre lovers! We are collaborating with Canadian Stage to celebrate Ann-Marie MacDonald's stage production of Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet). To get 25% off tickets to the play in Toronto, use the code QUEEN on Canadian Stage's website. We have copies of Ann-Marie MacDonald's Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) as well as Shakespeare's Othello and Romeo & Juliet at Queen Books too!

✹ To celebrate the 40th anniversary of her landmark play, acclaimed novelist and playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald steps into the spotlight as Constance Ledbelly, the overlooked academic who tumbles headlong into Shakespeare’s worlds and discovers that the heroines (and even Constance herself) may be capable of far more than anyone imagined.

At once wildly funny and moving, this Canadian classic unleashes Desdemona and Juliet as fierce forces of their own destiny and reminds us that sometimes the bravest act is claiming your own story. ✹ by @queenbooksto

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✽✮ NOVELLA BOOK CLUB @ Queen Books ✮✽
Facilitated by Raheleh!
Upcoming dates and book picks:

Tues, Oct. 13 - Open Throat by Henry Hoke
Tues, Nov. 10 - On Earth as it is Beneath by Ana Paula Maia

About Open Throat, our October pick!:
𖦹 A queer and dangerously hungry mountain lion lives in the drought-devastated land under the Hollywood sign. Lonely and fascinated by humanity’s foibles, the lion spends their days protecting a nearby homeless encampment, observing hikers complain about their trauma, and, in quiet moments, grappling with the complexities of their gender identity, memories of a vicious father, and the indignities of sentience.

╰┈➤ See link in bio or visit shop.queenbooks.ca/book-clubs to sign up for book clubs.
☆ Upon signing up for book club, you will not receive an individual email confirmation regarding joining, BUT you will receive future book club updates/email blasts. by @queenbooksto

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We are open today for the holiday until 4pm! by @queenbooksto

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QB BESTSELLERS OF THE WEEK — The Empyrean series book four release week!!!

1. Threshing Day by Rebecca Yarros ✶ ROMANCE/FANTASY
2. The Disappearers by Marlon James ✶ FICTION
3. The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett ✶ FICTION
4. Little Blue Truck's Halloween by Alice Schertle & Jill McElmurry ✶ CHILDREN'S
5. The Hystericals by Vivek Shraya ✶ FICTION
6. Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke ✶ FICTION
7. End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor ✶ POLITICS
8. Stoner by John Williams ✶ FICTION
9. The Vegetarian by Han Kang ✶ FICTION
10. On Earth As it is Beneath by Ana Paula Maia (trans. by Padma Viswanathan) ✶ HORROR by @queenbooksto

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