Montrealers can prepare their tote bags, their reading glasses (with or without correction), their ability to believe in childhood – and all the male performers we know have already bought their tickets: it’s the Salon du Livre de Montréal from November 19 to 23, 2025.
It’s going to be at the Palais des Congrès, but also in Montreal bookstores and online, and the event will welcome over 2,000 authors.
In addition to a much better Foire Scholastique atmosphere – and fewer alien effaces – the Salon du Livre will also host round tables, interviews, literary cabarets and tête-à-têtes.
Here’s our agenda for the Salon du Livre de Montréal…
An overbooked agenda for “(re)enchantment
The theme of the 48th edition of the Salon du livre de Montréal is (Re)enchantment .. .
“Under the sign of (Re)enchantment, the 2025 edition of the Salon invites us to rediscover in words a common impulse: that of thinking, feeling and imagining together. More than just an event, the Salon is a space for encounters, where stories create links, nourish curiosity and remind us that culture remains a force for gathering and transformation. This year, let’s re-enchant the world, one book at a time.”
-Olivier Gougeon, General Manager of the Salon du livre de Montréal
If Montrealers, like the rest of the world, suffer from overexposure to the ugliest of humanity through social networks – and to violence and injustice that leave us with a taste of helplessness and resignation – we think it’s important to pull ourselves up together.
Reading, when we were children, allowed us to travel to worlds and stories, real or imagined – and this year, we’re going to the Salon du Livre to read, read, read, and to nourish our hearts during the long winter months.
Books, authors and encounters
First of all, we’re going to make a note in our diary of the big talks we want to go to – these are talks between authors and creative people, which we can attend to get their thoughts on their most recent work. We’ll be able to meet Andrée A. Michaud, Corneille, Yasmina Khadra, Mélikah Abdelmoumen, Fred Anderson… For the full program, click here!
We’re also looking forward to one-on-ones with authors, and to discussions between Hélène Dorion and Émilie Perreault, Dany Laferrière and Philippe Racile, Carl Bessette and Cécile Petitgrand…
Finally, we’ll be able to attend cross-conversations and roundtables on a variety of themes: memory, the literary genre of horror, the body in sports performance, the right to choose – for the full program, click here! And we’re booing pretty fast!
And, of course, we’ll be able to see our favorite authors at the Salon, discover their new books, and exchange a few words with them during a signing session that we hope will give us the desire to ignore our phones and dive into books…
Passports to the Salon du livre (Palais des Congrès) from November 19 to 23 are $17 for students, $19 for seniors and $17 for students.
The Salon hors-les-murs
In addition to the five-day Salon du livre at the Palais des Congrès, there’s also a Salon in the City , running from November 7 to 23.It’s happening in bookstores, libraries, cafés and cinemas all over Montreal, and most events are free or voluntary.
We look forward to..;
- the creative poetry workshop with Leslie Piché at Librairie Carcajou in Laval (November 8, 2 p.m.)
- a discussion with the finalists of the Prix littéraire Janette-Bertrand at BAnQ (November 9, 1 p.m.)
- a discussion at the TNM with Michel Tremblay and Maxime Robin (November 12 at 5:15pm)
- the conference “discovering Quebec writers of diversity” at the Centre Lasallien (November 13, 4:30pm)
- sketching workshop at Côte des Neiges Cemetery with François Guillet (November 15, 4pm)
- knitted tea at the Langelier Library in Hochelaga (November 19 at 1:30 p.m.)
- the 110% PRINT Holiday Market, at l’Imprimerie (November 21 at 3pm)
Happy reading!