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
