The first phase of selection in the Alberta Readers' Choice Awards is now complete. Nominations from libraries around Alberta have chosen the top ten Albertan books. During phase two a panel of jurors will narrow the field down to the top five finalists. The final phase will start in February, when a public vote will decide which of the finalists will win the award. Find out more at their website.
The ten finalists are:
- The Frog Lake Reader by Myrna Kostash
- Crossing the Swell by Tori Holmes
- In Bed with the Word: Reading, Spirituality, and Cultural Politics by Daniel Coleman
- 100 Years of Anne with an "e": The Centennial Study of Anne of Green Gables edited by Holly Blackford
- The Forgotten Explorer: Samuel Prescott Fay's 1914 Expedition to the Northern Rockies by Samuel Fay
- The Weekender Effect : Hyperdevelopment in Mountain Towns by Robert Sandford
- Fishing for Bacon by Michael Davie
- Bomb Canada and Other Unkind Remarks in the American Media by Chantal Allan
- Fifth World Drum by Anna Marie Sewell
- Buying Cigarettes for the Dog by Stuart Ross
