Dear Life is a short story collection by Canadian writer Alice Munro, published in 2012 by McClelland and Stewart.

The book was to have been promoted in part by a reading at Toronto's International Festival of Authors, although the appearance was cancelled due to health concerns.

"Amundsen", "Corrie", "Dear Life", "Gravel", "Haven" and "Leaving Maverley" were all originally published in The New Yorker.

[2] On The Omnivore, a British aggregator of press reviews, the book received an "omniscore" of 3.5 out of 5.

Munro won the Nobel Prize in Literature in October 2013 for the body of work over her lifetime.