TIFA 2025 Holiday Gift Guide
This year has been packed full of great events at TIFA and we've been reminiscing about all the great authors and books who have graced our stages. If you're looking for the perfect gift to give this holiday season, look no further! From the thrilling reads of MOTIVE to the love stories of Ever After, and everything in between, we have something for all the readers on your list— and likely something for your own TBR.
Young Readers
- For the kid who loves Indigenous mythology: The First Peoples by Maika Harper, illustrated by Kaja Kajfež (Inhabit Media)
- For the messy eater: Sometimes I Eat with My Hands by Kid Haile (Groundwood Books)
- For the competitive cousins: Ready, Set, Mango! by Tamla T. Young, illustrated by Raz Latif (Owlkids Books)
Historical Fiction
- For the globetrotter: Six Days in Bombay by Alka Joshi (HarperCollins Canada)
- For the fan of The Cider House Rules: Queen Esther by John Irving (Knopf Canada)
- For a story set over one day: The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue (HarperCollins Canada)
Thrillers & Mysteries
- For a thriller about class and privilege: The Doorman by Chris Pavone (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- For fans of a good assassin novel: Nemesis by Gregg Hurwitz (Macmillan Publishers Ltd.)
- For the reader who loves a conspiracy-courtroom-adjacent psychological thriller: The Good Liar by Denise Mina (Mulholland Books)
Literary Fiction
- For the literary history buff who wants a feminist retelling: Letters to Kafka by Christine Estima (House of Anansi)
- For a book that spans past, present, a future: The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien (Penguin Random House Canada)
- For the lover of Big Books: The Sisters: A Novel by Jonas Hassen Khemiri (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Science Fiction & Fantasy
- For the grad student who is going through it: Katabasis by R.F. Kuang (HarperCollins Canada)
- For fans of the Canadian Fantasy icon and medieval France: Written on the Dark by Guy Gavriel Kay (Penguin Random House Canada)
- For the reader who loves their iPhone: The Trial of Katterfelto by Michael Redhill (Penguin Random House Canada)
Non-Fiction
- For the business person: Rogers v. Rogers: The Battle for Control of Canada's Telecom Empire by Alexandra Posadzki (Penguin Random House Canada) – BONUS: See the play at Crow's Theatre
- For the mathematician: The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius by Patchen Barss (Hachette Book Group)
- For the millennial who loved Much Music in the 2000s: In Too Deep: When Canadian Punks Took Over the World by Matt Bobkin & Adam Feibel (House of Anansi)
Holiday Romance
- For the person who needs a little holiday magic: The Christmas Cure by Kristine Winters (Simon & Schuster Canada)
- For the reader who loves an advent calendar: The Christmas Countdown by Holly Cassidy (Penguin Random House Canada)
- For a good grumpy/sunshine story: A Little Holiday Fling by Farah Heron (Hachette Book Group)
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