What to read next, according to Albertans

Have you ever gone to pick up your next book — and realized you didn't know what to read?

CBC News has you covered. This week, Canada Reads proclaimed Mark Sakamoto's Forgiveness as the one book all Canadians should read.

​Sakamoto, who grew up in Medicine Hat, wrote the book about two of his grandparents — one was interned with her Japanese-Canadian family in Alberta during the Second World War, and another was a Canadian soldier held prisoner of war by the Japanese.

After the Canada Reads finale, Alberta@Noon asked listeners to make their own book recommendations.

Here's what they suggested:

Fiction

• Green Grass, Running Water and Medicine River by Thomas King
• The MaddAddam Trilogy (Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, and MaddAddam) by Margaret Atwood
• Bad Luck and Trouble (and other Jack Reacher novels) by Lee Child
• The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
• Children of My Heart by Gabrielle Roy
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• The Orenda, Through Black Spruce, and Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
• The Clothesline Swing by Ahmad Danny Ramadan
• A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
• A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
• anything by Robert J. Sawyer
• The History of Bees by Maja Lunde
• Kalyna by Pam Clark
• Life After Life and A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
• Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
• The Last Canadian by William C. Heine
• As for Me and My House by Sinclair Ross
  • companion read: A Saving Grace: The Collected Poems of Mrs. Bentley by Lorna Crozier
• The Englishman's Boy and The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe
• Light in August by William Faulkner
• The Diviners and The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence

Non-Fiction

• Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life by James Daschuk
• Based on a True Story by Norm Macdonald
• In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey (2017 CBC Massey Lecture) by Payam Akhavan
• The Confessions of Nipper Mooney by Ed Kavanagh
• The Wealthy Barber and The Wealthy Barber Returns by David Chilton
• Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
• Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves by James Nestor
• Places of Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life by Colin Ellard
• Miracles by C.S. Lewis
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
• The Wealth of Nature: Economics as if Survival Mattered by John Michael Greer
• You Can't Stay Here by Jasmina Odor
• It Could Have Been Worse by Peggy Holmes (out of print, but look for it in used book stores)
• Universal History of Iniquity by Jorge Luis Borges

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