Warm Winter Read 2026

Welcome back to Warm Winter Read!

To keep you inspired to read daily this season, check out this list of books by this year’s author-ambassadors Keshe Chow, John Morrissey, Melanie Saward, Kate Solly, Shaun Micallef, Jaclyn Crupi, and Jo Dixon.

Our ambassadors have also recommended some of their favourites for us, across a wide variety of forms and genres, fiction and non-fiction, for you to enjoy.

Register HERE if you haven't yet, or pick up a Reading Journal from the library.

Stay warm and get reading this winter!


Updated May 18, 2026
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The girl with no reflection
Chow, Keshe
Paper Book
A young woman chosen as the crown prince's bride must travel to the royal palace to meet her new husband--but her world is shaken when she discovers the dark truth the royal family has been hiding for centuries--in this lush fantasy debut perfect for fans of Song of Silver, Flame Like Night<...
The stone sky
Jemisin, N. K.
Ebook
The compost coach : make compost, build soil and grow a regenerative garden - wherever you live!
Flood, Kate
Paper Book
Spin food waste and household carbon into garden gold, learn about how and why soil matters, and make climate activism an everyday mission, with compost coach Kate Flood.
Songbird of the Sorrows
Otto, Braidee.
In a magical world of gods and mythical races, an outcast princess turned spy infiltrates a rival kingdom--uncovering secrets that force her to choose between obedience and defiance--in the first book of a propulsive romantic fantasy series for fans of Danielle L. Jensen's The Bridge Kingdom...
The wolf tree
McCluskey, Laura
Paper Book
"If you like Tana French, you will love this one. It's fun and suspenseful and it kept me up late." --Jenna Bush Hager Eilean Eadar is a barren, windswept rock best known for the unsolved mystery of the three lighthouse keepers who vanished back in 1919. But when a young man is...
An academic affair
McAlister, Jodi
Ebook
Swordcrossed
Marske, Freya
Paper Book
DELUXE EDITION--featuring gorgeous rich rose sprayed edges! High heat. Low stakes. Sharp steel. The cozy, low stakes of Legends & Lattes meets the scorching bodyguard fantasy of Jennifer L. Armentrout's From Blood and Ash in this...
A forbidden alchemy
McEwan, Stacey
Paper Book
This stunning slow-burn romantasy follows a fated pair who uncover a world-changing secret and are thrust into a violent class war, navigating love, loss, and devastating betrayals. Nina Harrow and Patrick Colson are twelve years old when they are whisked away from the shadows of...
The obelisk gate
Jemisin, N. K.
Ebook
For no mortal creature
Chow, Keshe
Paper Book
In this romantic, gothic fantasy inspired by Wuthering Heights, a teen girl with the power to move between life and death must journey into the afterlife. But to survive, she'll need the help of her two sworn enemies--both dangerously captivating, both hiding secrets that could destroy her...
The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies
Goodman, Alison
Paper Book
A Washington Post Best Mystery Novel of 2023 A high society amateur detective at the heart of Regency London uses her wits and invisibility as an 'old maid' to protect other women in a new and fiercely feminist historical mystery series from New York Times bestselling...
Annihilation
VanderMeer, Jeff
Ebook
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM ALEX GARLAND, STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN AND OSCAR ISAAC The Southern Reach Trilogy begins with Annihilation, the Nebula Award-winning novel that "reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a...
The fifth season
Jemisin, N. K.
Paper Book
At the end of the world, a woman must hide her secret power and find her kidnapped daughter in this "intricate and extraordinary" Hugo Award winning novel of power, oppression, and revolution. (The New York Times) This is the way the world ends. . .for the last time. ...

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