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Calgary Bestseller List for the week ending February 26, 2026. A PDF of the list can be found on our website. FICTION 1. Is This a Cry for Help? - Emily Austin (Scribner Canada) 2. The Correspondent - Virginia Evans (Crown) 3. Raising Kane - Dana Goldstein (self-published) *Alberta Author 4. The Little Grizzly Who Walked Like a Boss - Victoria Tudor, illus. Natalia Logvanova (self-published) 5. I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman, trans. Ros Schwartz (Transit Books) 6. Theo of Golden - Allen Levi (Simon & Schuster) 7. there's more - Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike (University of Alberta Press) *Alberta Author +Alberta Publisher 8. The Astral Library - Kate Quinn (William Morrow) 9. Hungerstone - Kat Dunn (Zando) 10. A Body In the Brewery - Victoria Chatham (self-published) *Alberta Author

Calgary Bestseller List for the week ending February 26, 2026. A PDF of the list can be found on our website. NON-FICTION 1. This Isn't a Book (It's My Thanks in Disguise) - M H Clark, illus. Katie Vernon (Compendium Publishing & Communications) 2. I Can't Believe They're Gone - Karen Brough, illus. Hiruni Kariyawasam (self-published) 3. Mindful Self-Compassion for Burnout - Kristin Neff and Christopher Germer (The Guilford Press) 4. Gay Girl Prayers - Emily Austin (Brick Books) 5. Let Me Be Frank - Tracy Dawson (Harper) 6. The Essential Guide to Swedish Death Cleaning - Hanna Bentsen (Teilingen Press) 7. Caring for the Heart of Our City - Madeleine King (self-published) *Alberta Author 8. It's Been a Hoot - Michael Hare (self-published) *Alberta Author 9. ADHD Organizing and Cleaning Solutions - Caroline Singer (Seagrove Bay Publishing) 10. All About Love - bell hooks (William Morrow)

Calgary’s Bestselling Books for the week ending February 26, 2026! #ABbooks @shelflifebooks.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social

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Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending February 22, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website. FICTION 1. Bad Cree - Jessica Johns (HarperCollins) *Alberta Author 2. Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir (Ballantine Books) 3. Heated Rivalry - Rachel Reid (Carina Press) 4. Game Changer - Rachel Reid (Carina Press) 5. A Good Hide - Karina Iceberg, Illus. Natasha Donovan (Heartdrum) 6. Waiting for the Long Night Moon - Amanda Peters (Harper Perennial) 7. Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinniman (Ace) 8. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) - Solvej Balle, trans. Barbara J. Haveland (New Directions) 9. The Astral Library - Kate Quinn (William Morrow) 10. Vigil - George Saunders (Random House)

Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending February 22, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website. NON-FICTION 1. kiskisomitok ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ - reuben quinn (Talonbooks) *Alberta Author 2. The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry - John Mark Comer (WaterBrook) 3. Half-Bads in White Regalia - Cody Caetano (Hamish Hamilton) 4. A Hymn to Life - Gisèle Pelicot, Natasha Lehrer, and Ruth Diver (Knopf Canada) 5. A Truce That Is Not Peace - Miriam Toews (Knopf Canada) 6. A Steady Brightness of Being - ed. Sara Sinclair and Stephanie Sinclair (Penguin Canada) 7. Cruising the Downtown - The Edmonton Queer History Project (NeWest Press) *Alberta Author +Alberta Publisher 8. John Candy - Paul Myers (House of Anansi) 9. Understory - Kevin Van Tighem (RMB | Rocky Mountain Books) *Alberta Author 10. The Certainty Illusion - Timothy Caulfield (Penguin Canada) *Alberta Author

Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending February 22, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website. POETRY 1. Biography of a Soul - Randy Kohan (self-published) *Alberta Author 2. Crohnic - Jason Purcell (Arsenal Pulp Press) *Alberta Author 3. The Big Melt - Emily Riddle (Nightwood Editions) *Alberta Author 4. Milk and Honey - Rupi Kaur (Andrews McMeel Publishing) 5. This Is How We Disappear - Titilope Sonuga (Write Bloody North) *Alberta Author 6. No Coward Soul Is Mine - Emily Bronte (Penguin Classic) 7. The Idea of An Entire Life - Billy-Ray Belcourt (McClelland & Stewart) *Alberta Author 8. Love Poems - Rupi Kaur (Andrews McMeel Publishing) 9. Little Wild - Curtis LeBlanc (Nightwood Editions) *Alberta Author 10. North End Love Songs - Katherena Vermette (J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing)

Edmonton’s Bestselling Books for the week ending February 22, 2025! #ABbooks @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social @magpiebooks.bsky.social @newestpress.bsky.social

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Calgary’s Bestselling Books for the week ending February 19, 2026! #ABbooks @shelflifebooks.bsky.social

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Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending February 15, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website. FICTION 1. Art Of Racing In The Rain - Garth Stein (Harper Perennial) 2. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë (Canterbury Classics) 3. Bad Cree - Jessica Johns (HarperCollins) *Alberta Author 4. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) - Solvej Balle, trans. Barbara J. Haveland (New Directions) 5. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood (McClelland & Stewart) 6. Always Remember - Charlie Mackesy (Penguin Life) 7. The Lamb - Lucy Rose (Harper) 8. The Correspondent - Virginia Evans (Crown) 9. The Cure for Drowning - Loghan Paylor (Random House Canada) 10. Theo of Golden - Allen Levi (Simon & Schuster)

Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending February 15, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website. NON-FICTION 1. A Two-Spirit Journey - Ma-Nee Chacaby and Mary Louisa Plummer (University of Manitoba Press) 2. From the Ashes - Jesse Thistle (Simon & Schuster) 3. The Reason You Walk - Wab Kinew (Penguin Canada) 4. The Wealthy Barber Returns - David Chilton (Financial Awareness Corporation) 5. Love in a F*cked-Up World - Dean Spade (Algonquin Books) 6. All About Love - bell hooks (William Morrow) 7. Sourdough Infinity - Emily Hoven (Anstruther x Hedon) *Alberta Author +Alberta Publisher 8. The Serviceberry - Robin Wall Kimmerer, illus. John Burgoyne (Scribner) 9. Nobody's Girl - Virginia Roberts Giuffre (Knopf) 10. Prospecting in the Northwest Territories - Lee Moldenhauer (self-published) *Alberta Author

Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending February 15, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website. POETRY 1. W & E - M.L. Martin (Action Books) *Alberta Author 2. Devotions - Mary Oliver (Penguin) 3. Love Poems - Rupi Kaur (Andrews McMeel Publishing) 4. The Poems of Seamus Heaney - Seamus Heaney (Faber & Faber Poetry) 5. The Big Melt - Emily Riddle (Nightwood Editions) *Alberta Author 6. The Feast - Alycia Two Bears (Wild Skies Press) *Alberta Author +Alberta Publisher 7. Old Gods - Conor Kerr (Nightwood Editions) *Alberta Author 8. Prison Industrial Complex Explodes - Mercedes Eng (Talonbooks) 9. Falling Back in Love with Being Human - Kai Cheng Thom (Penguin Canada) 10. Confirm Humanity - Kim Mannix (Wild Skies Press) *Alberta Author +Alberta Publisher

Edmonton’s Bestselling Books for the week ending February 15, 2025! #ABbooks @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social @magpiebooks.bsky.social

Calgary Bestseller List for the week ending February 12, 2026. A PDF of the list can be found on our website. FICTION 1. The Door in the Wall - Marguerite de Angeli (Yearling) 2. Little House on the Prairie: Full Color Edition - Laura Ingalls Wilder, illus. Garth Williams (HarperCollins) 3. The Little Grizzly Who Walked Like a Boss - Victoria Tudor, illus. Natalia Logvanova 4. The Four Spent the Day Together - Chris Kraus (Scribner) 5. The Correspondent - Virginia Evans (Crown) 6. A Walk in the Neighbourhood - Erin McQuitty, illus. Natalia Ionescu (Mice Type) *Alberta Author +Alberta Publisher 7. The Shade Tree - Theresa Shea (Guernica Editions) *Alb 8. We Bring You an Hour of Darkness - Michael Bourne (DoppelHouse Press) 9. Alberta Comics: Love - ed. Alexander Finbow, Shea Proulx, Emily Pomeroy, and Hartley Rose (Renegade Arts Entertainment) *Alberta Author +Alberta Publisher 10. Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinniman (Ace)

Calgary Bestseller List for the week ending February 12, 2026. A PDF of the list can be found on our website. NON-FICTION 1. I Wish I'd Quit Sooner - Laura Hambley Lovett (She Writes Press) *Alberta Author 2. A Kick in the Belly - Stella Dadzie (Verso) 3. Eau Claire Nowhere - Stephen Chan (self-published) *Alberta Author 4. Upstream - Mary Oliver (Penguin Books) 5. Please Don’t Interrupt - Rona Altrows and Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike (Griots Lounge Publishing) 6. In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado (Strange Light) 7. On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down - James Fell (Penguin Random House) *Alberta Author 8. After Kathy Acker - Chris Kraus (Semiotext(e)) 9. Every Moment Is a Life - ed. Susan Abulhawa (Atria/One Signal Publishers) 10. Good Things - Samin Nosrat, photographs by Aya Brackett (Random House)

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Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending February 8, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: http://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/edmonton-bestseller-list/ FICTION 1. Smeg - Diane Wishart (Rising Action) *Alberta Author 2. Cantaloupe and HoneyDo Take the Bus - Mike Boldt (Dial Books) *Alberta Author 3. Common Goal - Rachel Reid (Carina Press) 4. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) - Solvej Balle, trans. Barbara J. Haveland (New Directions) 5. Autobiography of Cotton - Cristina Rivera Garza, trans. Christina MacSweeney (Graywolf Press) 6. Pick a Colour - Souvankham Thammavongsa (Knopf Canada) 7. Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die - Greer Stothers (Titan Books) 8. Vigil - George Saunders (Random House) 9. Persona - Aoife Josie Clements (LittlePuss Press) 10. Beaver Hills Forever - Conor Kerr (Arsenal Pulp Press) *Alberta Author

Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending February 8, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: http://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/edmonton-bestseller-list/ NON-FICTION 1. kiskisomitok ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ - reuben quinn (Talonbooks) *Alberta Author 2. Women Thriving in Leadership - Dr. Kathy Toogood (self-published) *Alberta Author 3. Strong Ground - Brene Brown (Random House) 4. On Wholeness - Quill Christie-Peters (House of Anansi Press) 5. Black Bear - Trina Moyles (Knopf Canada) *Alberta Author 6. The Certainty Illusion - Timothy Caulfield (Penguin Canada) *Alberta Author 7. Sourdough Infinity - Emily Hoven (Anstruther x Hedon) *Alberta Author +Alberta Publisher 8. Sharing the Light - Monique Gray Smith (House of Anansi Press) 9. The Work of Our Hands - Adrian Sutherland (Viking) 10. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad (McClelland & Stewart)

Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending February 8, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: http://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/edmonton-bestseller-list/ POETRY 1. What Kind of Daughter? - Rayanne Haines (Frontenac House) *Alberta Author and Publisher 2. Devotions - Mary Oliver (Penguin) 3. Stock - Jennifer Bowering Delisle (Coach House Books) *Alberta Author 4. Routine Maintenance - Marco Melfi (Gaspereau Press) *Alberta Author 5. Waiting in the Land of the Living - Medgine Mathurin (Polyglot) *Alberta Author and Publisher 6. Crohnic - Jason Purcell (Arsenal Pulp Press) *Alberta Author 7. Loves of Our Lives - Josie Balka (Simon & Schuster) *Alberta Author 8. Sincerely, Sincerely, - Rayanne Haines and Carolyne Van Der Meer (Agatha Press) *Alberta Author +Alberta Publisher 9. Closer to Closure - Drew Walker (Wild Skies Press) *Alberta Author and Publisher 10. A Fate Worse Than Death - Nisha Patel (Arsenal Pulp Press) *Alberta Author

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Calgary Bestseller List for the week ending February 5, 2026. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: https://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/calgary-bestseller-list/ FICTION 1. The Little Grizzly Who Walked Like a Boss - Victoria Tudor, illus. Natalia Logvanova (self-published) 2. The Four Spent the Day Together - Chris Kraus (Scribner) 3. Atmosphere - Taylor Jenkins Reid (Doubleday Canada) 4. The Correspondent - Virginia Evans (Crown) 5. The Banshee - Geoff Sowrey (self-published) *Alberta Author 6. The Shade Tree - Theresa Shea (Guernica Editions) *Alberta Author 7. Is This a Cry for Help? - Emily Austin (Scribner Canada) 8. Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinniman (Ace) 9. The Black Wolf - Louise Penny (Minotaur Books) 10. Pope Joan - Donna Woolfolk Cross (Crown)

Calgary Bestseller List for the week ending February 5, 2026. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: https://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/calgary-bestseller-list/ NON-FICTION 1. Health for All - Jane Philpott (Signal) 2. Calgary’s Best Walks 3rd edition Guidebook - Lori Beattie (self-published) *Alberta Author 3. After Kathy Acker - Chris Kraus (Semiotext(e)) 4. The Art Thief - Michael Finkel (Vintage Canada) 5. Every Moment Is a Life - ed. Susan Abulhawa (Atria/One Signal Publishers) 6. Mother Mary Comes to Me - Arundhati Roy (Scribner Canada) 7. The Wager - David Grann (Doubleday) 8. Black Bear - Trina Moyles (Knopf Canada) *Alberta Author 9. I Wish I'd Quit Sooner - Laura Hambley Lovett (She Writes Press) *Alberta Author 10. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad (McClelland & Stewart)

Calgary’s Bestselling Books for the week ending February 5, 2026! #ABbooks @shelflifebooks.bsky.social

Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending February 1, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: http://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/edmonton-bestseller-list/ FICTION 1. Vigil - George Saunders (Random House) 2. The Correspondent - Virginia Evans (Crown) 3. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) - Solvej Balle, trans. Barbara J. Haveland (New Directions) 4. Heated Rivalry - Rachel Reid (Carina Press) 5. Foe - Iain Reid (Simon & Schuster) 6. Searching for Terry Punchout - Tyler Hellard (Invisible Publishing) *Alberta Author 7. The Annual Migration of Clouds - Premee Mohamed (ECW Press) *Alberta Author 8. Pick a Colour - Souvankham Thammavongsa (Knopf Canada) 9. Tough Guy - Rachel Reid (Carina Press) 10. It's Different This Time - Joss Richard (Viking)

Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending February 1, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: http://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/edmonton-bestseller-list/ NON-FICTION 1. kiskisomitok ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ - reuben quinn (Talonbooks) *Alberta Author 2. Sourdough Infinity - Emily Hoven (Anstruther x Hedon) *Alberta Author +Alberta Publisher 3. The Chronology of Water - Lidia Yuknavitch (Hawthorne Books) 4. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad (McClelland & Stewart) 5. NISHGA - Jordan Abel (McClelland & Stewart) *Alberta Author 6. The Serviceberry - Robin Wall Kimmerer, illus. John Burgoyne (Scribner) 7. Vanished Beyond the Map - Adam Shoalts (Allen Lane) 8. Black Bear - Trina Moyles (Knopf Canada) *Alberta Author 9. Counting Bones - Ellen Anderson Penno (NeWest Press) *Alberta Author +Alberta Publisher 10. The Coming Wave - Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar (Crown)

Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending February 1, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: http://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/edmonton-bestseller-list/ POETRY 1. Minor Rapture - Makda Mulatu (Anstruther x Hedon) *Alberta Author +Alberta Publisher 2. Waniskâ - sakâw laboucan (Anstruther x Hedon) *Alberta Author +Alberta Publisher 3. Waiting in the Land of the Living - Medgine Mathurin (Polyglot) *Alberta Author +Alberta Publisher 4. Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke (Shambhala Publications) 5. Tell the Birds Your Body is Not a Gun - Rayanne Haines (Frontenac House) *Alberta Author +Alberta Publisher 6. Crohnic - Jason Purcell (Arsenal Pulp Press) *Alberta Author 7. If Not, Winter - Sappho, trans. Anne Carson (Vintage Canada) 8. Old Gods - Conor Kerr (Nightwood Editions) *Alberta Author 9. You Better Be Lightning - Andrea Gibson (Button Poetry) 10. Corked - Diane Robitelle (Balboa Press) *Alberta Author

Edmonton’s Bestselling Books for the week ending February 1, 2025! #ABbooks @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social @magpiebooks.bsky.social @newestpress.bsky.social

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Calgary Bestseller List for the week ending January 29, 2026. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: https://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/calgary-bestseller-list/ FICTION 1. The Full Picture - Jessica Carmichael (self-published) *Alberta Author 2. The Little Grizzly Who Walked Like a Boss - Victoria Tudor, illus. Natalia Logvanova (self-published) 3. Searching for Terry Punchout - Tyler Hellard (Invisible Publishing) *Alberta Author 4. It's Different This Time - Joss Richard (Viking) 5. The Cure for Drowning - Loghan Paylor (Random House Canada) 6. Theo of Golden - Allen Levi (Simon & Schuster) 7. Half His Age - Jennette McCurdy (Doubleday Canada) 8. House of Day, House of Night - Olga Tokarczuk, trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Riverhead Books) 9. A Minor Chorus - Billy-Ray Belcourt (Hamish Hamilton) *Alberta Author 10. A Most Puzzling Murder - Bianca Marais (MIRA)

Calgary Bestseller List for the week ending January 29, 2026. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: https://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/calgary-bestseller-list/ NON-FICTION 1. Don’t Yell at Her! - Carmen Joy King (self-published) *Alberta Author 2. Full Spectrum - ed. Geoffrey Simmins (University of Calgary Press) * +Alberta Publisher 3. The 5 Types of Wealth - Sahil Bloom (Ballantine Books) 4. The Art of Spending Money - Morgan Housel (Portfolio) 5. I Wish I'd Quit Sooner - Laura Hambley Lovett (She Writes Press) *Alberta Author 6. The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards - Jessica Waite (Simon & Schuster) * 7. Ghost Towns South Central Plains - Charles Agopsowicz (self-published) * 8. Ghost Towns Southwest Foothills - Charles Agopsowicz (self-published) * 9. On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down - James Fell (Penguin Random House) * 10. Trails to Trains to Towns via Edworthy Park & Shaganappi Point - Edworthy Park Heritage Society (self-published) *

Calgary’s Bestselling Books for the week ending January 29, 2026! #ABbooks @shelflifebooks.bsky.social @ucalgarypress.bsky.social

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Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending January 25, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: http://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/edmonton-bestseller-list/ FICTION 1. Heated Rivalry - Rachel Reid (Carina Press) 2. Game Changer - Rachel Reid (Carina Press) 3. Twelve Months - Jim Butcher (Ace) 4. Finding Flora - Elinor Florence (Simon & Schuster) 5. It's Different This Time - Joss Richard (Viking) 6. Searching for Terry Punchout - Tyler Hellard (Invisible Publishing) *Alberta Author 7. The Correspondent - Virginia Evans (Crown) 8. Foe - Iain Reid (Simon & Schuster) 9. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (Penguin Classics) 10. Tailored Realities - Brandon Sanderson (Tor Books)

Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending January 25, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: http://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/edmonton-bestseller-list/ NON-FICTION 1. Elements of Indigenous Style, 2nd Ed. - Gregory Younging, ed. Warren Cariou (Brush Education) +Alberta Publisher 2. The Gales of November - John U. Bacon (Liveright) 3. Searching for Serafim - Ruby Smith Diaz (Arsenal Pulp Press) *Alberta Author 4. Black Bear - Trina Moyles (Knopf Canada) *Alberta Author 5. Enshittification - Cory Doctorow (MCD) 6. All About Love - bell hooks (William Morrow) 7. The Wealthy Barber Returns - David Chilton (Financial Awareness Corporation) 8. Values - Mark Carney (McClelland & Stewart) 9. The Prime Ministers - J.D.M. Stewart (Sutherland House Publishing) 10. Mages & Modems - Vga256 (self-published) *Alberta Author

Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending January 25, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: http://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/edmonton-bestseller-list/ POETRY 1. Minor Rapture - Makda Mulatu (Anstruther x Hedon) *Alberta Author +Alberta Publisher 2. Crohnic - Jason Purcell (Arsenal Pulp Press) *Alberta Author 3. A Fate Worse Than Death - Nisha Patel (Arsenal Pulp Press) *Alberta Author 4. Waiting in the Land of the Living - Medgine Mathurin (Polyglot) *Alberta Author +Alberta Publisher 5. Deaf Republic - Ilya Kaminsky (Graywolf Press) 6. W & E - M.L. Martin (Action Books) *Alberta Author 7. Devotions - Mary Oliver (Penguin) 8. Closer to Closure - Drew Walker (Wild Skies Press) *Alberta Author +Alberta Publisher 9. Oldman’s River - Sid Marty (NeWest Press) *Alberta Author +Alberta Publisher 10. Wellwater - Karen Solie (House of Anansi Press)

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Calgary Bestseller List for the week ending January 22, 2026. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: https://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/calgary-bestseller-list/ FICTION 1. The Correspondent - Virginia Evans (Crown) 2. The Island of Missing Trees - Elif Shafak (Bloomsbury Publishing) 3. The Measure - Nikki Erlick (William Morrow) 4. Once Upon a River - Diane Setterfield (Anchor Canada) 5. This Side of Murder - Anna Lee Huber (Kensington) 6. The Paris Express - Emma Donoghue (HarperAvenue) 7. Snap - Susin Nielsen (HarperCollins Publishers) 8. Always Remember - Charlie Mackesy (Penguin Life) 9. Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinniman (Ace) 10. The Frozen River - Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)

Calgary Bestseller List for the week ending January 22, 2026. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: https://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/calgary-bestseller-list/ NON-FICTION 1. I Wish I'd Quit Sooner - Laura Hambley Lovett (She Writes Press) *Alberta Author 2. All Our Ordinary Stories - Teresa Wong (Arsenal Pulp Press) *Alberta Author 3. The Wide Wide Sea - Hampton Sides (Vintage) 4. Upstream - Mary Oliver (Penguin Books) 5. The Little Frog's Guide to Self-Care - Maybell Eequay (Summersdale Publishers) 6. The Gales of November - John U. Bacon (Liveright) 7. Happy-Go-Lucky - David Sedaris (Little, Brown And Company) 8. Wildman Fever! - Ruben Lundgren (Archive of Modern Conflict) 9. Senescence - Amal Alhomsi (RMB | Rocky Mountain Books) *Alberta Author 10. Dominion - Stephen R. Bown (Doubleday Canada) *Alberta Author

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Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending January 18, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: http://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/edmonton-bestseller-list/ FICTION 1. Heated Rivalry - Rachel Reid (Carina Press) 2. Game Changer - Rachel Reid (Carina Press) 3. Is This a Cry for Help? - Emily Austin (Scribner Canada) 4. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (Penguin Classics) 5. A Minor Chorus - Billy-Ray Belcourt (Hamish Hamilton) *Alberta Author 6. The Wildest Thing - Emily Winfield Martin (Random House Books for Young Readers) 7. Pick a Colour - Souvankham Thammavongsa (Knopf Canada) 8. Flesh - David Szalay (McClelland & Stewart) 9. Bad Cree - Jessica Johns (HarperCollins) *Alberta Author 10. Brigands & Breadknives - Travis Baldree (Tor Books)

Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending January 18, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: http://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/edmonton-bestseller-list/ NON-FICTION 1. The Prime Ministers - J.D.M. Stewart (Sutherland House Publishing) 2. Book of Lives - Margaret Atwood (McClelland & Stewart) 3. Black Bear - Trina Moyles (Knopf Canada) *Alberta Author 4. The Girls - Tyson Mastel, illus. S.J. Leithead (self-published) *Alberta Author 5. Ducks - Kate Beaton (Drawn & Quarterly) 6. Sharp Notions - ed. Marita Dachsel and Nancy Lee (Arsenal Pulp Press) 7. Bodies of Art, Bodies of Labour - Kate Beaton (University of Alberta Press) +Alberta Publisher 8. Raising Hare - Chloe Dalton (Canongate Books) 9. Death in the Jungle - Candace Fleming (Anne Schwartz Books) 10. Mages & Modems - Vga256 (self-published)

Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending January 18, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: http://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/edmonton-bestseller-list/ POETRY 1. In Fine Form - ed. Sandy Shreve & Kate Braid (Caitlin Press) 2. Crohnic - Jason Purcell (Arsenal Pulp Press) *Alberta Author 3. Minor Rapture - Makda Mulatu (Anstruther x Hedon) *Alberta Author +Alberta Publisher 4. Winter Wonderland? - Kevin Girard (self-published) *Alberta Author 5. Genevieve - Jolie (self-published) 6. Slow War - Benjamin Hertwig (McGill-Queen's University Press) *Alberta Author 7. South Side of a Kinless River - Marilyn Dumont (Brick Books) *Alberta Author 8. full-metal indigiqueer - Joshua Whitehead (Talonbooks) *Alberta Author 9. I Used to Live Here - Amy LeBlanc (The Porcupine's Quill) *Alberta Author 10. You Better Be Lightning - Andrea Gibson (Button Poetry)

Edmonton’s Bestselling Books for the week ending January 18, 2025! #ABbooks @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social @magpiebooks.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social

Calgary Bestseller List for the week ending January 15, 2026. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: https://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/calgary-bestseller-list/ FICTION 1. The Little Grizzly Who Walked Like a Boss - Victoria Tudor, illus. Natalia Logvanova (self-published) 2. Losing Cadence - Laura Lovett (self-published) *Alberta Author 3. The Correspondent - Virginia Evans (Crown) 4. The Island of Missing Trees - Elif Shafak (Bloomsbury Publishing) 5. Pope Joan - Donna Woolfolk Cross (Crown) 6. Finding Sophie - Laura Lovett (self-published) *Alberta Author 7. Always Remember - Charlie Mackesy (Penguin Life) 8. The Death of Vivek Oji - Akwaeke Emezi (Riverhead Books) 9. April Snow - Olivia Van Guinn (At Bay Press) *Alberta Author 10. Tough Guy - Rachel Reid (Carina Press)

Calgary Bestseller List for the week ending January 15, 2026. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: https://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/calgary-bestseller-list/ NON-FICTION 1. Black Bear - Trina Moyles (Knopf Canada) *Alberta Author 2. I Wish I'd Quit Sooner - Laura Hambley Lovett (She Writes Press) *Alberta Author 3. The Big Book of Nature Art - Yuval Zommer (Thames and Hudson) 4. How to Stay Alive in the Woods - Bradford Angier (Touchstone) 5. Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom - Jordan Tannahill (Playwrights Canada Press) 6. Understory - Kevin Van Tighem (RMB | Rocky Mountain Books) *Alberta Author 7. The Practice of the Presence of God - Brother Lawrence (Start Publishing LLC) 8. Calgary’s Best Bike Rides - Lori Beattie (self-published) *Alberta Author 9. You Are Human and You Need Cake - Julie Van Rosendaal (self-published) *Alberta Author 10. Lookout - Trina Moyles (Vintage Canada) *Alberta Author

Calgary’s Bestselling Books for the week ending January 15, 2026! #ABbooks @shelflifebooks.bsky.social

Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending January 11, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: http://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/edmonton-bestseller-list/ FICTION 1. I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman, trans. Ros Schwartz (Transit Books) 2. Cereus Blooms at Night - Shani Mootoo (McClelland & Stewart) 3. Revolution Songs - Carissa Halton (NeWest Press) *Alberta Author +Alberta Publisher 4. The Correspondent - Virginia Evans (Crown) 5. Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinniman (Ace) 6. Clean - Alia Trabucco Zerán, trans. Sophie Hughes (Riverhead Books) 7. The Wax Child - Olga Ravn, trans. by Martin Aitken (Book*hug Press) 8. Is This a Cry for Help? - Emily Austin (Scribner Canada) 9. Piranesi - Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury) 10. Pick a Colour - Souvankham Thammavongsa (Knopf Canada)

Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending January 11, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: http://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/edmonton-bestseller-list/ NON-FICTION 1. Stitching Our Stories Together - ed. Jeannine Carriere and Catherine Richardson (University of Regina Press) 2. kiskisomitok ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ - reuben quinn (Talonbooks) *Alberta Author 3. Black Bear - Trina Moyles (Knopf Canada) *Alberta Author 4. Bodies of Art, Bodies of Labour - Kate Beaton (University of Alberta Press) +Alberta Publisher 5. Ducks - Kate Beaton (Drawn & Quarterly) 6. Sourdough Infinity - Emily Hoven (Anstruther x Hedon) *Alberta Author +Alberta Publisher 7. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad (McClelland & Stewart) 8. I'm Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy (Simon & Schuster) 9. Book of Lives - Margaret Atwood (McClelland & Stewart) 10. Sorry, Not Sorry - Mark Critch (Viking)

Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending January 11, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: http://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/edmonton-bestseller-list/ POETRY 1. South Side of a Kinless River - Marilyn Dumont (Brick Books) *Alberta Author 2. Routine Maintenance - Marco Melfi (Gaspereau Press) *Alberta Author 3. The World After Rain - Canisia Lubrin (McClelland & Stewart) 4. Crohnic - Jason Purcell (Arsenal Pulp Press) *Alberta Author 5. Loves of Our Lives - Josie Balka (Simon & Schuster) *Alberta Author 6. ʔbédayine - Kaitlyn Purcell (Metatron Press) *Alberta Author 7. Osebol - Marit Kapla (Penguin UK) 8. Nature Poems - Robert Burns (Octopus) 9. Kiyâm - Naomi McIlwraith (Athabasca University Press) *Alberta Author +Alberta Publisher 10. Stock - Jennifer Bowering Delisle (Coach House Books) *Alberta Author

Edmonton’s Bestselling Books for the week ending January 11, 2025! #ABbooks @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social @magpiebooks.bsky.social @newestpress.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social @aupress.bsky.social

Calgary Bestseller List for the week ending January 8, 2026. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: https://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/calgary-bestseller-list/ FICTION 1. This Is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (S&S/Saga Press) 2. Flesh - David Szalay (McClelland & Stewart) 3. Finding Flora - Elinor Florence (Simon & Schuster) 4. I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman, trans. Ros Schwartz (Transit Books) 5. What We Can Know - Ian McEwan (Knopf) 6. The City and Its Uncertain Walls - Haruki Murakami, trans. Philip Gabriel (Bond Street Books) 7. Bull Moon Rising - Ruby Dixon (Ace) 8. A Murder in Malta - Ann Crew (self-published) 9. Pick a Colour - Souvankham Thammavongsa (Knopf Canada) 10. Alchemised - SenLinYu (DelRey)

Calgary Bestseller List for the week ending January 8, 2026. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: https://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/calgary-bestseller-list/ Non-Fiction 1. All About Love - bell hooks (William Morrow) 2. Calgary’s Best Walks 3rd edition Guidebook - Lori Beattie (self-published) *Alberta Author 3. You Are Human and You Need Cake - Julie Van Rosendaal (self-published) *Alberta Author 4. Things That Disappear - Jenny Erpenbeck, trans. Kurt Beals (New Directions) 5. Precarious - Marcello Di Cintio (Biblioasis) *Alberta Author 6. The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards - Jessica Waite (Simon & Schuster) *Alberta Author 7. Book of Lives - Margaret Atwood (McClelland & Stewart) 8. On Wholeness - Quill Christie-Peters (House of Anansi Press) 9. I Hope We Choose Love - Kai Cheng Thom (Arsenal Pulp Press) 10. 1929 - Andrew Ross Sorkin (Viking)

Calgary’s Bestselling Books for the week ending January 8, 2026! #ABbooks @shelflifebooks.bsky.social

Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending January 4, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: http://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/edmonton-bestseller-list/ FICTION 1. The Black Wolf - Louise Penny (Minotaur Books) 2. Heated Rivalry - Rachel Reid (Carina Press) 3. Revolution Songs - Carissa Halton (NeWest Press) *Alberta Author +Alberta Publisher 4. My Friends - Fredrik Backman (Simon & Schuster) 5. Always Remember - Charlie Mackesy (Penguin Life) 6. The Secret of Secrets - Dan Brown (Doubleday) 7. Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinniman (Ace) 8. I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman, trans. Ros Schwartz (Transit Books) 9. Pick a Colour - Souvankham Thammavongsa (Knopf Canada) 10. Clean - Alia Trabucco Zerán, trans. Sophie Hughes (Riverhead Books)

Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending January 4, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: http://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/edmonton-bestseller-list/ NON-FICTION 1. Book of Lives - Margaret Atwood (McClelland & Stewart) 2. The Wealthy Barber Returns - David Chilton (Financial Awareness Corporation) 3. Black Bear - Trina Moyles (Knopf Canada) *Alberta Author 4. The Language-Lover's Lexipedia - Joshua Blackburn (Avid Reader Press) 5. A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson (Doubleday Canada) 6. Good Things - Samin Nosrat, photographs by Aya Brackett (Random House) 7. John Candy - Paul Myers (House of Anansi) 8. Cruising the Downtown - The Edmonton Queer History Project (NeWest Press) *Alberta Author +Alberta Publisher 9. Enshittification - Cory Doctorow (MCD) 10. No I in Team - Alex Marland, Jared J. Wesley, and Mireille Lalancette (University of Toronto Press) *Alberta Author

Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending January 4, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: http://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/edmonton-bestseller-list/ POETRY 1. WHEREAS - Layli Long Soldier (Graywolf Press) 2. Book of Cats - Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America) 3. This Is How We Disappear - Titilope Sonuga (Write Bloody North) *Alberta Author 4. Goblin Market and Other Poems - Christina Rossetti (Macmillan Collector's Library) 5. Closer to Closure - Drew Walker (Wild Skies Press) *Alberta Author +Alberta Publisher 6. Felicity - Mary Oliver (Penguin Random House) 7. leave some for the birds - Marjorie Beaucage (Kegedonce Press) 8. You Better Be Lightning - Andrea Gibson (Button Poetry) 9. Confirm Humanity - Kim Mannix (Wild Skies Press) *Alberta Author +Alberta Publisher 10. Crohnic - Jason Purcell (Arsenal Pulp Press) *Alberta Author

Edmonton’s Bestselling Books for the week ending January 4, 2025! #ABbooks @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social @magpiebooks.bsky.social @newestpress.bsky.social

The BPAA is excited to announce that submissions are open for the 2026 #ABPubAwards through February 27! More information can be found here: buff.ly/M5gaEob #ABbooks @wereadab.bsky.social

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Calgary Bestseller List for the week ending December 18, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: https://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/calgary-bestseller-list/

Calgary Bestseller List for the week ending December 18, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: https://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/calgary-bestseller-list/

Calgary’s Bestselling Books for the week ending December 18, 2025! #ABbooks @shelflifebooks.bsky.social

Happy Holidays!

The BPAA will be closed from December 22, 2025, to January 2, 2026 and will reopen on January 5, 2026.

The bestseller lists will return in the new year!

Check out @wereadab.bsky.social for book recommendations to read during your holiday break!

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Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending December 14, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: http://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/edmonton-bestseller-list/

Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending December 14, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: http://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/edmonton-bestseller-list/

Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending December 14, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: http://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/edmonton-bestseller-list/

Edmonton’s Bestselling Books for the week ending December 14, 2025! #ABbooks @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social @magpiebooks.bsky.social @newestpress.bsky.social

Calgary Bestseller List for the week ending December 11, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: https://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/calgary-bestseller-list/

Calgary Bestseller List for the week ending December 11, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: https://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/calgary-bestseller-list/

Calgary’s Bestselling Books for the week ending December 11, 2025! #ABbooks @shelflifebooks.bsky.social @aupress.bsky.social

Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending December 7, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: http://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/edmonton-bestseller-list/

Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending December 7, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: http://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/edmonton-bestseller-list/

Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending December 7, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: http://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/edmonton-bestseller-list/

Edmonton’s Bestselling Books for the week ending December 7, 2025! #ABbooks @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social @magpiebooks.bsky.social @newestpress.bsky.social

Calgary Bestseller List for the week ending December 4, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: https://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/calgary-bestseller-list/

Calgary Bestseller List for the week ending December 4, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: https://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/calgary-bestseller-list/

Calgary’s Bestselling Books for the week ending December 4, 2025! #ABbooks @shelflifebooks.bsky.social

Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending November 30, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: http://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/edmonton-bestseller-list/

Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending November 30, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: http://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/edmonton-bestseller-list/

Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending November 30, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website through the following URL: http://bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/edmonton-bestseller-list/

Edmonton’s Bestselling Books for the week ending November 30, 2025! #ABbooks @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social @magpiebooks.bsky.social @newestpress.bsky.social

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