Here are the nominees for the 2023-2024 Red Cedar Book Award, British Columbia's Young Readers' Choice Award. To vote for YOUR favourite book, visit https://www.redcedaraward.ca/.

As in film westerns, the western novel has been revived in newer and unconventional ways in recent years. There has been the rise in popularity of the “weird western”: a hybrid genre which blends elements of the traditional western (a lawless frontier, a hero pit against all odds) with those of other types of fiction such as noir, mystery, horror and science-fiction (namely, the alternate Victorian universe known as steampunk).

History books tend to focus on certain people and to ignore the stories of others. Black History Month reminds us that everyone participates in history, and everyone deserves to have their story heard.

Best mystery or thriller series

Everything you wanted to know (or didn't want to know) about the British Royal Family

Learn about the history of the Riverview/Essondale hospital in PoCo, and Mental Health treatment in BC. Includes resources on the history of mental illness with a focus on first person accounts. In partnership with Coquitlam Heritage's exhibition titled Riverview: an artists point of view.

Stories and literature to help get the conversation going.

A booklist to learn about Indigenous history in North America.