Books in Canada was a monthly magazine that reviewed Canadian literature, published in print form between 1971 and 2008.

[2] According to Stephen Henighan it was sometimes facile, and sometimes paid too much attention to activity in Toronto, but it published reviews by freelancers from across the country and covered almost all Canadian fiction and poetry publications.

Henighan suggests that it became more selective about what it chose to review, ignoring important works in favor of obscure academic books and lengthy opinion columns.

[8] In 2001 Adrian Stein made a deal with Amazon.com, an online book retailer, which generated some controversy.

[8] With the new Amazon arrangement, print circulation increased dramatically to 100,000 copies per issue while subscriptions remained the same.

[citation needed] In its last years Books in Canada was sometimes narrowly focused on Toronto, sometimes attempted to address the global market.

[8] The magazine published an extensive defense of the Canadian newspaper publisher Conrad Black before his trial for fraud in the U.S.[3] The January/February 2008 issue had an article titled "The Knotted Knickers of Naomi Klein" with a caricature of the author.