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Information and links related to the NL Reads competition.

2023 NL Reads Schedule

Click the date to read more about our featured titles. 

November 2022

Book: Urchin (2022) by Kate
Publisher: Running the Goat
Reader-Advocate: Mado Christie - Library Patron

December 2022

Book: The Wards (2022) by Terry Doyle
Publisher: Breakwater Books
Reader-Advocate: Nancy Barker - Librarian (Grand Falls-Windsor)

January 2023

Book: The Good Women of Safe Harbour (2022) by Bobbi French
Publisher: Harper Collins
Reader-Advocate: Ida Linehan Young - Writer, Winner of NL READS 2022

February 2023

Book: The Love Olympics (2021) by Claire Wilkshire
Publisher: Breakwater Books
Reader-Advocate: Adam Walsh - CBC (St. John's)

2023 Shortlist

Book cover for The Good Women of Safe Harbour

- WINNER -
Book: The Good Women of Safe Harbour (2022) by Bobbi French
Publisher: Harper Collins
Reader-Advocate: Ida Linehan Young - Writer, Winner of NL READS 2022

 

Book cover for The Love OlympicsBook: The Love Olympics (2021) by Claire Wilkshire
Publisher: Breakwater Books
Reader-Advocate: Adam Walsh - CBC (St. John's)

 

 

Book cover for UrchinBook: Urchin (2021) by Kate Story
Publisher: Running the Goat
Reader-Advocate: Mado Christie - Library Patron

 

 

Book cover for The WardsBook: The Wards (2022) by Terry Doyle
Publisher: Breakwater Books
Reader-Advocate: Nancy Barker - Librarian (Grand Falls-Windsor)

Finding the Books

Multiple copies of each book are available for borrowing at NLPL branches and in our Digital Library (via Overdrive/Libby), free using your NLPL library card.  Through special arrangement, we will provide unlimited simultaneous digital access to a different NL Reads title each month, following the schedule provided. Click on the date for more information about each month’s featured book, author, publisher and reader-advocate.

NL Reads 2023 - All About NL Reads

NL Reads Promo

Red background with book covers of The Wards, The Love Olympics, Urchin, and The Good Women of Safe Harbour. Text: 2023 NL Reads. 4 books. 4 opinions. 1 winner. #NLReads. Find out more at your local Public Library or nlpl.ca. NLPL logo.