Are you bristling in your desk chair right now just itching to get outside and start enjoying Canada’s awesome summer pastimes? We can think of a few tantalizing ideas to make you even more restless: hiking, canoeing, picnicking, biking, barbequeing, fishing … And that’s a short list, of course.

Until you get a chance to bolt, relieve some of the pressure and pin some local, outdoorsy books to the Read Local Map under The Great Outdoors theme. The basic guidelines for this theme? If the book’s about something you can do outside, and it’s about or set in a specific Canadian place, it should make it to the map.

Click here for more on how to participate in Read Local.