A Different Booklist

A Different Booklist is Toronto's essential Black-owned bookstore for the African and Caribbean diasporas and the Global South — major houses and small presses, kids' titles, political nonfiction, and a community calendar of readings and panels. Official adifferentbooklist.com puts the shop at 779 Bathurst Street in Mirvish Village (M5S 0B7), phone (416) 538-0889, info@adifferentbooklist.com. Contact-hours on the official site: Monday–Saturday 10 a.m.–6 p.m., Sunday closed. The Bathurst address is the current room; do not send people to the old Annex storefront. First-timers: this is a destination for books you will not trip over at a general indie, not a gift-shop add-on. Ask the desk if you want Caribbean fiction, African politics, or a kids' title that is actually in print. It sits on the same Mirvish Village strip as Book Bar, which makes a two-stop afternoon easy. Closed Sunday — plan the Saturday browse.