LOLA 2026 Reading Recommendations from our Patrons

As part of Love Our Local Authors Month, we asked our patrons for some NL book recommendations and WOW did you answer the call! Check out these amazing local books to add to your TBR. This list includes print, eBook, and audiobook copies of the titles where available.

These titles were also recommended and are available in the catalogue but aren't displaying in this list due to technical issues (search for them by title in the catalogue):

Blinders: A Crime Thriller
Chirp's Large Day
Bizzie Tizzie is gonna be Everything from A to Z
Newfoundland and Labrador Lullaby
The Best Christmas Ever
Joshua the G.O.A.T.

Updated April 30, 2026
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The colony of unrequited dreams
Johnston, Wayne.
Paper Book
"The Colony of Unrequited Dreams" is Newfoundland--that vast, haunting near-continent upon which the two lovers and adversaries of this miraculously inventive novel pursue their ambitions. Joey Smallwood, sprung from almost Dickensian privation, is a scholarship boy at a private school, where his...
The colony of unrequited dreams
Johnston, Wayne.
Paper Book
"The Colony of Unrequited Dreams" is Newfoundland--that vast, haunting near-continent upon which the two lovers and adversaries of this miraculously inventive novel pursue their ambitions. Joey Smallwood, sprung from almost Dickensian privation, is a scholarship boy at a private school, where his...
The colony of unrequited dreams
Johnston, Wayne.
Paper Book
"The Colony of Unrequited Dreams" is Newfoundland--that vast, haunting near-continent upon which the two lovers and adversaries of this miraculously inventive novel pursue their ambitions. Joey Smallwood, sprung from almost Dickensian privation, is a scholarship boy at a private school, where his...
Sweetland : a novel
Crummey, Michael
Paper Book
The scarcely populated town of Sweetland rests on the shore of a remote Canadian island. Its slow decline finally reaches a head when the mainland government offers each islander a generous resettlement package--the sole stipulation being that everyone must leave. Fierce and enigmatic Moses...
Sweetland : a novel
Crummey, Michael
Paper Book
The scarcely populated town of Sweetland rests on the shore of a remote Canadian island. Its slow decline finally reaches a head when the mainland government offers each islander a generous resettlement package--the sole stipulation being that everyone must leave. Fierce and enigmatic Moses...
Sweetland : a novel
Crummey, Michael
Paper Book
The scarcely populated town of Sweetland rests on the shore of a remote Canadian island. Its slow decline finally reaches a head when the mainland government offers each islander a generous resettlement package--the sole stipulation being that everyone must leave. Fierce and enigmatic Moses...
Sweetland : a novel
Crummey, Michael
Paper Book
The scarcely populated town of Sweetland rests on the shore of a remote Canadian island. Its slow decline finally reaches a head when the mainland government offers each islander a generous resettlement package--the sole stipulation being that everyone must leave. Fierce and enigmatic Moses...
February
Moore, Lisa
Paper Book
February is Lisa Moore's heart-stopping follow-up to her debut novel, Alligator, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Caribbean and Canadian region. Propelled by a local tragedy, in which an oil rig sinks in a violent storm off the coast of Newfoundland, February...
February
Moore, Lisa
Paper Book
February is Lisa Moore's heart-stopping follow-up to her debut novel, Alligator, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Caribbean and Canadian region. Propelled by a local tragedy, in which an oil rig sinks in a violent storm off the coast of Newfoundland, February...
February
Moore, Lisa
Paper Book
February is Lisa Moore's heart-stopping follow-up to her debut novel, Alligator, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Caribbean and Canadian region. Propelled by a local tragedy, in which an oil rig sinks in a violent storm off the coast of Newfoundland, February...

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