Reconciliation Lending Library

Would you like to read more Indigenous content? Borrow a book from our collection at the Neighbourhood Shop, featuring a range of Indigenous authors from across Turtle Island.

To borrow a book, visit the Shop, choose a book, talk to a team member and we’ll record your name and book.

Books can be borrowed for three weeks.

Every One Every Day Reconciliation Lending Library

Warrior Life: Indigenous Resistance & Resurgence by Pam Palmater

21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act by Bob Joseph

All the Quiet Places by Brian Thomas Isaac

Ancestor Approved by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

First Indian on the Moon Sherman Alexie

Five Little Indians by Michelle Good

I Place You Into the Fire by Rebecca Thomas

The Outside Circle: A Graphic Novel by Patti LaBoucane-Benson

There's Something in the Water by Ingrid R. G. Waldron

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliot

Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

My Conversations with Canadians by Lee Maracle

Niniskamijinaqik - Ancestral Images by Ruth Holmes Whitehead

Out of the Depths by Isabelle Knockwood

Phyllis' Orange Shirt by Phyllis Webstad

Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson

In This Together: Fifteen Stories of Truth & Reconciliation by Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail

Thunder Boy Jr. by Sherman Alexie

Stories from the Six Worlds: Mi'kmaw Legends by Ruth Holmes Whitehead

Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese

Half-Bads in White Regalia by Cody Caetano

The Death of Sitting Bear by N. Scott Momaday

Hey, June by Cree Nomad

The Absolutely True Dairy of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

This Wound is a World by Billy-Ray Belcourt

Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga

When We Were Alone by David A. Robertson

Unreconciled by Jesse Wente

Canadian Geographic Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada

This Place: 150 Years Retold

The Old Man Told Us by Ruth Holmes Whitehead

Disintegrate/Dissociate by Arielle Twist

Swift Fox All Along by Rebecca Thomas

Waking Ground by shalan joudrey

Historie de la Nation Metisse by Auguste-Henri de Tremaudan

Red Earth: Tales of the Mi'kmaq by Marion Robertson

Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King

Truth and Conviction by L. Jane McMillan

My Ancestors Live Here by Ellen Hunt

African Nova Scotian-Mi'kmaw Relations by Paula C. Madden

We Are Water Protectors by Carole Windstrom

Generations Re-merging by shalan joudrey

Burning in This Midnight Dream by Louise B. Halfe, Sky Dancer

Dancing On Our Turtle's Back by Leanne Simpson

The Reconciliation Manifesto by Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson

Secret Path by Gord Downie and Jeff Lemire

The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer

We Were Not the Savages by Daniel N. Paul

Have a Book Suggestion?

If you have a book about reconciliation or by an Indigenous author that you’d like
to donate, please bring it in to the Neighbourhood Shop at 2169 Gottingen St.!

Have a book recommendation you’d like to see in our library? Send us an email.