2025 Trinity Reads: Five Books to Re-Imagine Our Relationships with the Land
Trinity Reads embraces reading as a catalyst for change, offering students, staff, faculty and alumni a chance to read as a community and connect over big ideas in iconic Trinity spaces. To honour the addition of the Lawson Centre for Sustainability, this year’s shortlist features books that engage with the environment in creative and compelling ways. The inaugural title, Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice, was chosen at a live debate in Seeley Hall, with the author visiting campus in March 2026.
2025-2026 Shortlist:
MOON OF THE CRUSTED SNOW BY WAUBGESHIG RICE
A fast-paced dystopian story set in a northern Anishinaabe community suddenly cut off from power and communication before a long, dark winter.
Winner!
RIVER MUMMA BY ZALIKA REID-BENTA
An exhilarating magical realism novel about a young woman navigating a quarter-life-crisis while taking to the streets of Toronto to fulfill a quest from a Jamaican water deity
A beautiful meditation on how plants entangle with our human world to reveal belonging, displacement, and interdependence.
A colourful and wry exploration of the climate crisis and eco-anxiety through a series of comics that reveal a society at odds with itself and the changing world around it.
THE NATURE OF OUR CITIES BY DR. NADINA GALLE
A gripping exploration of the transformative potential of emerging technology in urban environments, offering readers practical insights and hope for what our world could become as we deepen our engagement with nature.
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