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Welcome to the fifth annual edition of Holiday Recommendations from Alberta’s Independent Bookstores. These shops are community hubs and promoters of the arts, all around the province. And wow, do these people know books! We invite you to support them when you do your holiday shopping.
CKUA asked each bookseller to recommend two books for the 2025 holiday season. One choice could be wide open, and the other had to be by an Alberta author. Enjoy!
Analog Books
322 – 6 Street South, Lethbridge
Conservation Confidential
by Lorne Fitch
A Murder of Prose
by Scott Charlton Paul
Audreys Books
10702 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton
Book of Records
by Madeleine Thien
Cruising the Downtown
edited by Kristopher Wells
Café Books
#100 – 826 Main Street, Canmore
Port Anna
by Libby Buck
Uplifted: The Evolution of a Climbing Life
by Sonnie Trotter
Daisy Chain Book Co.
12525 – 102 Avenue, Edmonton
5010 – 50 Street, Beaumont
Found Books & Shop
206 1st Street W., Cochrane
Brave Like the Buffalo
by Melissa Allan
Favourite Daughter
by Morgan Dick
Fox & Fable
5017 – 50 Street, Camrose
52 Ways to Reconcile
by David Robertson
Witchmark
by C.L. Polk
Magpie Books
9553 – 76 Avenue, Edmonton
Crohnic
by Jason Purcell
The Lack of Light
by Nino Haratischwili
Owl’s Nest Books
815A – 49 Avenue SW, Calgary
Pages Books
1135 Kensington Road NW, Calgary
Finding Flora
by Elinor Florence
A Steady Brightness of Being
by Sara & Stephanie Sinclair
Porch Light Books
9867 – 89 Avenue, Edmonton
Beaver Hills Forever
by Conor Kerr
Rejection
by Tony Tulathimutte
Shelf Life Books
1302 – 4 Street SW, Calgary
Abode
by Jun-long Lee
Tunnel Island
by Bill Gaston
Slow Burn Books
Unit 201, 1926 – 34 Avenue SW, Calgary
I Hope This Finds You Well
by Natalie Sue
The Knight and the Moth
by Rachel Gillig
Tap Town Books
2114 – 20 Street, Nanton
Time Enough
by Lise Mayne
The Ones We Loved
by Tarisai Ngangura
The Bookstore on Perron
7 Perron Street, St. Albert
Of Petals and Thorns
by E B Fearon
On Isabella Street
by Genevieve Graham
Tuesdays Bookshop
2462 – 213 Street, Bellevue
Alliance of Deception
by Joni MacFarlane
Wild Love
by Elsie Silver
