Coach House Books

Coach House Books is a Toronto-based publisher that publishes innovative poetry, literary fiction, drama and select nonfiction. Over the decades, Coach House has built an impressive roster of titles ideal renowned for adventurousness in both content and design.

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
A Matter of Taste A Farmers' Market Devotee's Semi-Reluctant Argument for Inviting Scientific Innovation to the Dinner Table	How did farmer’s markets, nose-to-tail, locavorism, organic eating, CSAs, whole foods, and Whole Foods become synonymous with "good food"? And are these practices …	Rebecca Tucker	137	2018	View
Any Other Way How Toronto Got Queer	Toronto is home to multiple and thriving queer communities that reflect the dynamism of a global city. Any Other Way is an eclectic and richly illustrated local history that reveals how …	Jane Farrow; John Lorinc; Stephanie Chambers; Tatum Taylor	369	2017	View
Closer Notes from the Orgasmic Frontier of Female Sexuality	We think of the modern woman as sexually liberated –- if anything, we’re told we’re oversexed. Yet a striking number of women are dissatisfied with their sex lives. Over …	Sarah Barmak	169	2016	View
Curry Eating, Reading, and Race	Curry is a dish that doesn’t quite exist, but, as this wildly funny and sharp essay points out, a dish that doesn’t properly exist can have infinite, equally authentic variations. By …	Naben Ruthnum	120	2017	View
Disfigured On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space	A CBC BOOKS BEST NONFICTION OF 2020, AN ENTROPY MAGAZINE BEST NONFICTION 2020/21, AND A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK OF THE DAY (07/23/2022) Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what …	Amanda Leduc	257	2020	View
NEW! Dream States Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias	Is the ‘smart city’ the utopia we’ve been waiting for? The promise of the so-called smart city has been at the forefront of urban planning and development since the early 2010s, …	John Lorinc	290	2022	View
Five Good Ideas Practical Strategies for Non-Profit Success	Non-profits are big business. According to a recent Johns Hopkins report, third-sector institutions in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Japan, the U. S. and Canada have been growing at an average …	Alan Broadbent; Ratna Omidvar	265	2011	View
Haircuts by Children and Other Evidence for a New Social Contract	A cultural planner's immodest proposal: change how we think about children and we just might change the world. We live in an 'adultitarian' state, where the rules are based on …	Darren O'Donnell	218	2018	View
Hard to Do The Surprising, Feminist History of Breaking Up	From Jane Austen to Taylor Swift, Hard to Do breaks down the surprising politics of romantic love and its dissolution. Whatever the underlying motives – love, money, or mere masochism …	Kelli Maria Korducki	146	2018	View
NEW! Indigenous Toronto Stories That Carry This Place	Rich and diverse narratives of Indigenous Toronto, past and present Beneath many major North American cities rests a deep foundation of Indigenous history that has been colonized, paved over, …	Brian Wright-McLeod; Denise Bolduc; Mnawaate Gordon-Corbiere; Rebeka Tabobondung	304	2021	View
Mad Hope stories by Heather Birrell	In the stories of Mad Hope, Journey Prize winner Heather Birrell finds the heart of her characters and lets them lead us into worlds both recognizable and alarming. A science teacher and former …	Heather Birrell	224	2012	View
No Place To Go How Public Toilets Fail our Private Needs	This book is Number One in addressing the politics of where we’re allowed to "go" in public. Adults don’t talk about the business of doing our business. We work on one …	Lezlie Lowe	209	2018	View
NEW! On Nostalgia	On Nostalgia is a panoramic cultural history of nostalgia, exploring how a force that started as a psychological diagnosis of soldiers fighting far from home has come become a quintessentially …	David Berry	161	2020	View
NEW! Rebound Sports, Community, and the Inclusive City	“The virus exposed how we live and work. It also revealed how we play, and what we lose when we have to stop. ” For every kid who makes it to the NBA, thousands more seek out the …	Perry King	169	2021	View
NEW! Rooms Women, Writing, Woolf	From LAMBDA Literary Award winner Sina Queyras, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mind …	Sina Queyras	176	2022	View
Subdivided City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity	How do we build cities where we aren’t just living within the same urban space, but living together? Greater Toronto is now home to a larger proportion of foreign-born residents than any …	Jay Pitter; John Lorinc	281	2016	View