2021 Reading List

The Best Kind of People book cover

The Best Kind of People

By Zoe Whittall

Valmiki's Daughter book cover

Valmiki’s Daughter

By Shani Mootoo

The Spectacular book cover

The Spectacular

By Zoe Whittall

The Predicament of Or book cover

The Predicament of Or

By Shani Mootoo

The Middle Ground book cover

The Spectacular

By Zoe Whittall

The Emily Valentine Poems book cover

The Emily Valentine Poems

By Zoe Whittall

the knife you need to justify the wound book cover

the knife you need to justify the wound

By Rebecca Salazar

sulphurtongue book cover

sulphurtongue

By Rebecca Salazar

Precordial Thump book cover

Precordial Thump

By Zoe Whittall

Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab book cover

Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab

By Shani Mootoo

Out On Main Street book cover

Out On Main Street

By Shani Mootoo

Holding Still For As Long As Possible book cover

Holding Still For As Long As Possible

By Zoe Whittall

He Drown She in the Sea book cover

He Drown She in the Sea

By Shani Mootoo

Dirty Birds book cover

Dirty Birds

By Morgan Murray

Cereus Blooms at Night book cover

Cereus Blooms at Night

By Shani Mootoo

Guzzle book cover

Guzzle

By Rebecca Salazar

Indigenous Reading List

Before The Usual Time book cover

Before The Usual Time

Edited By Darlene Naponse

The Dependent book cover

The Dependent

By Danielle Daniel

Witness, I Am book cover

Witness, I Am

By Gregory Scofield

a white wolf in a forest

The Wolves of Tuonela

By Marc Merilainen

Ghost Lake book cover

Ghost Lake

By Nathan Adler

woman in front of a mural looking to the right

Don’t Speak

By Mahlikah Awe:ri

Ravensong book cover

Ravensong

By Lee Maracle

Moon of the Crusted Snow book cover

Moon of the Crusted Snow

By Waubgeshig Rice

Black History Reading List

Gutter Child book cover

Gutter Child

By Jael Richardson

Execution Poems book cover

Execution Poems

By George Elliott Clarke

Up From Freedom book cover

Up From Freedom

By Wayne Grady

Taximan book cover

Taximan

By Stanley Péan

Exile Blues book cover

Exile Blues

By Douglas Gary Freeman

Daughters of Silence book cover

Daughters of Silence

By Rebecca Fisseha

Dominoes At The Crossroads book cover

Dominoes at the Crossroads

By Kaie Kellough

Dear current Occupant book cover

Dear Current Occupant

By Chelene Knight

They Said This Would Be Fun book cover

They Said This Would Be Fun

By Eternity Martis

The Skin We're In book cover

The Skin We’re In

By Desmond Cole

They Call Me George book cover

They Call Me George

By Cecil Foster

Word Problems book cover

Word Problems

By Ian Williams

Chat Noir Books logo

Have you picked up any of the books on this year’s festival reading list yet? You can pick up a copy from one of this year’s official festival booksellers, New Liskeard’s Independent bookstore Chat Noir.

Indigo logo

Have you picked up any of the books on this year’s festival reading list yet? You can pick up a copy from one of this year’s official festival booksellers, Indigo.

outside of the Parry Sound Books store

Have you picked up any of the books on this year’s festival reading list yet? You can pick up a copy from one of this year’s official festival booksellers, Parry Sound Books.