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Read Local with the Kitchener-Waterloo Lit List!

Discover more about the history and diversity of Kitchener-Waterloo with a special selection of books tied to the region.

Show your hometown pride by exploring this book list that has something for every reader, including local fiction, non-fiction, poetry and young adult titles.

Life is different in Kitchener-Waterloo, and so is the literature we produce. Fill your 2019 reading list with these local titles and stock up on your homegrown books today:

9781770894327

9781773060415

9781771334334

Girl Runner
Carrie Snyder
ISBN: 9781770894327
House of Anansi Press

Auntie Luce’s Talking
Paintings
Francie Latour
Illustrated by: Ken Daley
ISBN: 9781773060415
House of Anansi Press

Outside People and Other Stories
Mariam Pirbhai
ISBN: 9781771334334
Inanna

 

 

 

9781771471473

9781771472159

9781771472418

Clara Humble and the 
Not-So-Super Powers
Anna Humphrey
Illustrated by: Lisa Cinar
ISBN: 9781771471473
Owlkids Books

Clara Humble: Quiz Whiz
Anna Humphrey
Illustrated by: Lisa Cinar
ISBN: 9781771472159
Owlkids Books

Clara Humble and the Kitten Caboodle
Anna Humphrey
Illustrated by: Lisa Cinar
ISBN: 9781771472418
Owlkids Books

 

 

 

9781896922690

9781896922683

9780889844155

Walking Home: from the Grand
to the Saugeen Watershed
David Beverly-Foster
ISBN: 9781896922690
The Brucedale Press

Unforgotten Dream
Judy Lowry
ISBN: 9781896922683
The Brucedale Press

Overtime
Karl Kessler and Sunshine Chen
ISBN: 9780889844155
The Porcupine’s Quill

 

 

 

9780889204638

9781771121606

9781771123617

Pursuing Giraffe
Anne Innis Dag
ISBN: 9780889204638
WLU Press

Transition to Common Work
Joe and Stephanie Mancini
ISBN: 9781771121606
WLU Press

1930: Europe in the Shadow
of the Beast
Arthur Haberman
ISBN: 9781771123617
WLU Press

 

 

 

9781771123860

9781928088592

9781771131643

A Township at War
Jonathan F. Vance
ISBN: 9781771123860
WLU Press

Out of Line
Tanis MacDonald
ISBN: 9781928088592
Wolsak & Wynn

Disarming Conflict: Why Peace Cannot
Be Won on the Battlefield
Ernie Regehr
ISBN: 9781771131643
Between the Lines

 

 

 

9781771133401

9781897071731

9781771962735

What’s Yours is Mine : Against the
Sharing Economy, 2nd Edition
Tom Slee
ISBN: 9781771133401
Between the Lines

Persistent Poverty:
Voices From the Margins
Brice Balmer, Jamie Swift, Mira Dineen
ISBN: 9781897071731
Between the Lines

Flash from the Past: 140 Photographs
from the Waterloo Region Record
Jon Fear and Chris Masterman
ISBN: 9781771962735
Biblioasis

 

 

 

9781988279732

9781771662789

9781771663663

Farm to Table: Celebrating Stratford
Chefs School Alumni, Recipes & Perth
County Producers
Andrew Coppolino
Photographer: Terry Manzo
ISBN: 9781988279732
Blue Moon Publishers

Deep Salt Water
Marianne Apostolides
Illustrated by: Catherine Mellinger
ISBN: 9781771662789
Book*hug Press

The Third Person
Emily Anglin
ISBN: 9781771663663
Book*hug Press

 

 

 

9781771481953

9781771484527

9781771484343

The Lady ParaNorma
Written and Illustrated by
Vincent Marcone
ISBN: 9781771481953
ChiZine

Armed in Her Fashion
Kate Heartfield
ISBN: 9781771484527
ChiZine

Only the Devil Is Here
Stephen Michell
ISBN: 9781771484343
ChiZine

 

 

 

9781771484718

9781459706637

9781896219851

The War Beneath: The Rise of Oceania
Timothy S. Johnston
ISBN: 9781771484718
ChiZine

Dr. Oronhyatekha
Keith Jamieson, Michelle A. Hamilton
ISBN: 9781459706637
Dundurn Press

The Queen’s Bush Settlement
Linda Brown-Kubisch
ISBN: 9781896219851
Dundurn Press

 

 

 

9781459729407

9781459734944

9780920802281

Red Jacket
Pamela Mordecai
ISBN: 9781459729407
Dundurn Press

The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern
David McPherson
ISBN: 9781459734944
Dundurn Press

Yankees in Canada: A Collection of
Nineteenth-Century Travel Narratives
James Doyle
ISBN: 9780920802281
ECW Press

 

 

 

9780920802519

9781550220049

9781550221053

A Tale Of Two Countries
Stanley Fogel
ISBN: 9780920802519
ECW Press

The Postmodern University: Essays on
the Deconstruction of the Humanities
Stanley Fogel
ISBN: 9781550220049
ECW Press

Smoking Mirror
Brian Henderson
ISBN: 9781550221053
ECW Press

 

 

 

9781550222326

9781550222388

9781550227253

The Fin de Siècle Spirit: Walter
Blackburn Harte and the American/
Canadian Literary Milieu of the 1890s
James Doyle
ISBN: 9781550222326
ECW Press

Stephen Leacock: The Sage of Orillia
James Doyle
ISBN: 9781550222388
ECW Press

Transformations: The Life of Margaret
Fulton, Canadian Feminist, Educator,
and Social Activist
James Doyle
ISBN: 9781550227253
ECW Press

 

 

 

9781770410183

9781770411166

9781770413146

Winter Cranes
Chris Banks
ISBN: 9781770410183
ECW Press

The Origin of Feces: What Excrement
Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and
a Sustainable Society
David Waltner-Toews
ISBN: 9781770411166
ECW Press

Eat the Beetles!: An Exploration into Our
Conflicted Relationship with Insects
David Waltner-Toews
ISBN: 9781770413146
ECW Press

 

 

 

9781770413528

9781770413689

9781770414181

Gutenberg’s Fingerprint
Merilyn Simonds
ISBN: 9781770413528
ECW Press

The Cloud Versus Grand Unification
Theory: Poems
Chris Banks
ISBN: 9781770413689
ECW Press

Refuge
Merilyn Simonds
ISBN: 9781770414181
ECW Press

 

 

 

9781770414471

 

9781770414235

 

9781771832571

The Convict Lover
Merilyn Simonds
ISBN: 9781770414181
ECW Press

Nobody Cares
Anne T. Donahue
ISBN: 9781770414235
ECW Press

Eye
Marianne Micros
ISBN: 9781771832571
Guernica Editions

 

 

 

9781771832434

9781554988433

9781770890022

Immortal Water
Brian Van Norman
ISBN: 9781771832434
Guernica Editions

Watching Traffic
Jane Ozkowski
ISBN: 9781554988433
House of Anansi Press

The Juliet Stories
Carrie Snyder
ISBN: 9781770890022
House of Anansi Press

 

 

 

9781770890152

 

 

The Universe Within
Neil Turok
ISBN: 9781770890152
House of Anansi Press