Reading allows us to travel and explore the furthest reaches of imagination. Find your way home in these books, featuring Northern Ontario and Northern Ontario’s literary voices.
Wordstock Sudbury Literary Festival has been supporting and inspiring Northern readers, writers, and lovers of words for ten years. Making CanLit accessible to those in the north is central to our mission, and many of the authors featured in this reading list have attended Wordstock as guests, participants, and volunteers. Reading local is one way to find and celebrate the talent right here in our Northern community.

Moon of the Crusted Snow
by Samra Habib

Pine Bugs and .303s
by Samra Habib

Summer Gone
by David MacFarlane

Delicious Monsters
by Liselle Sambury

The Other Side Of The Bridge
by Mary Lawson

Generation A
by Douglas Coupland

No Great Mischief
by Alistair MacLeod

The Night Wanderer
by Drew Hayden Taylor

Someone Comes to Town, Somone Leaves Town
by Cory Doctorow

Crow Lake
By Mary Lawson

The Underpainter
By Jane Urquart

Dog Tracks
By Ruby Slipperjack

The Factory Voice
By Jeanette Lynes

Indian Horse
By Richard Wagamese

We’re All In This Together
By Amy Jones

If I Fall, I Die
By Michael Christie

Beyond The Trees
By Adam Shoalts

Pigeon Soup & Other Stories
By Rosanna Battigelli

SulpherTongue
By Rebecca Salazar

This Red Line Goes Straight to Your HEart
By Madhur Anand

Uncommon Sense
By Adam Mardero

Connection at Newcombe
By Kayt Burgess

Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapyuskasking
By Tomson Highway

Jerry Lewis Told Me I was Going TO Die
ByMatthew Del Papa

Slagflower
By Thomas Leduc

The Tenderness of Wolves
By Stef Penney

The Seventh Shot
By Ann Burke

Notes Towards Recovery
By Louise Ells

The Winter Men
By Brit Griffin

The Undertaking of Billy Buffone
By David Giuliano

The Dependent
By Danielle Daniel

Forever Birchwood
By Danielle Daniel

The Sound of A Rainbow
By Sharon Frayne

Along The 46th
Edited by Mitchell Gauvin

The Sun Will Shine
By Laura Cotesta

The Burdern of Memories
By Janet Calcaterra

The Doomsday Book of Fairytales
By Emily Brewes

Leading The Pack
By Scott Miller

Cobalt
By Charlie Angus

Things Worth Burying
By Matt Mayr

If Tenderness Be Gold
By Eleanor Albanese

Before The Usual Time
Edited by Darlene Naponse

Gold Pours
By Aurore Gatwenzi

L’incendiaire de Sudbury
By Chloé LaDuchesse

Cutting Down HalfThe Trees
By Evan J

Emptying The Ocean
By Kim Fahner

Letters In A Bruised Cosmos
By Liz Howard

Grin Reaping
By Rod Carley