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What would Sidney Crosby read?: Going to miss Canada after the past two weeks in Vancouver and Whistler? Mary Carillo may have packed up her sweaters, but you can stick around. This week the National Post is getting a jump on one of the biggest events on the Canadian literary calendar, the CBC's Canada Reads battle, with Canada Also Reads, which features some less familiar gems than this year's pretty well-worn (Generation X, Fall on Your Knees) Canada Reads lineup. They start things off smashingly, with Steven Beattie's appreciation of My White Planet, the latest story collection by one of my favorite writers from any country, Mark Anthony Jarman.

"Dorothy does good. ­Alice tries furiously to understand.": Inspired by Tim Burton's new adaptation of the Alice books, A.S. Byatt, author most recently of the very grown-up Children's Book, looks back evocatively at her own childhood reading (and their film adaptations) for the Guardian.

A rail's not the only thing you can split with an ax: The literary mashups march onward, as do production values (and beard/mustache budgets) for book trailers. Here's the new one for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Seth Grahame-Smith's first book since Pride and Prejudice and Zombies:

Moving and shaking: The media blitz begins for No One Would Listen, the new memoir by Harry Markopolos, the Madoff whistleblower the SEC ignored for years, sending it into our overall top 10 bestsellers, and high on Movers & Shakers too.