What to read next, according to Albertans
CBC News | Posted: March 29, 2018 10:36 PM | Last Updated: March 29, 2018
Alberta@Noon listeners tell us about their favourite books
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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