Place: Alberta
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Subdivisions in Alberta:
Banff - 1Calgary - 6
Coaldale - 2
Dinosaur Provincial Park - 2
Drumheller - 2
Edmonton - 8
Lake Louise - 1
Northern Alberta - 2
Rocky Mountains - 3
Waskahikan - 1
Books set in Alberta:
| Title | Author | Year Written | Time Period | Genre | |
| 1 | Boondoggles, Bonanzas and Other Alberta Stories Straight from the most intriguing headlines of Alberta's newspapers, Brian Brennan captures the events and people that a... | Brennan, Brian | 2003 | 1870-1996 | History |
| 2 | The Day Niagara Falls Ran Dry! This book is subtitled Canadian Weather Facts and Trivia, and it quite adequately lives up to its billing. I've only sel... | Phillips, David | 1993 | 1848-1993 | History |
| 3 | The Dominion of Wyley McFadden A strange and intriguing book, often psychologically disturbing. The title character is an urban trapper, who is on a qu... | Gardiner, Scott | 2000 | 1990s | Novel |
| 4 | Green Grass, Running Water A very funny and sharply-written book, by one of the best Native Canadian writers.... | King, Thomas | 1994 | 1990s | Novel - Humour |
| 5 | Headhunter Headhunter is a violent thriller, with a severed head on the front cover! It's mostly set in Vancouver in 1982, with som... | Slade, Michael | 1984 | 1982; 1897; 1957; 1969 | Thriller |
| 6 | The Last Crossing This excellent historical novel takes place mainly in Montana and Saskatchewan of the 1870s, with a framing story that b... | Vanderhaeghe, Guy | 2002 | 1870s-1890s | Novel - Historical |
| 7 | Lily: A Rhapsody in Red Vol 2 of the King years. Lily by Heather Robertson tells the story of a woman named Lily, who is involved in politics in... | Robertson, Heather | 1986 | 1920s-1930s | Novel - Historical |
| 8 | Man Descending Twelve stories make up this Governor General's Award-winning collection. Most of the stories take place in small towns i... | Vanderhaeghe, Guy | 1982 | 20th Century | Short Stories |
| 9 | The Mounties: Tales of Adventure and Danger from the Early Days The Royal Mounted Canadian Police has always been an organization that has been characterized as an elite force and held... | Andra-Warner, Elle | 2004 | 1870-present | History |
| 10 | My Lovely Enemy An interesting contemporary novel, something unusual for Wiebe who tends to write more about historical events. However,... | Wiebe, Rudy | 1983 | 1980s | Novel |
| 11 | Obasan This book is the story of the internment of Japanese Canadians during WWII. A wrenching novel, very poetically written, ... | Kogawa, Joy | 1981 | 1939-1972 | Novel |
| 12 | Passionate Vision This excellent book of photography is subtitled Discovering Canada's National Parks. Bondar, a famous Canadian astronaut... | Bondar, Roberta | 2000 | 1990s | Photography |
| 13 | Romancing the Rockies: Mountaineers, Missionaries, Marilyn & More If you buy just one book about the Canadian Rockies, this is the one. In it, award-winning popular historian Brian Brenn... | Brennan, Brian | 2005 | 9000BC - AD2003 | History |
| 14 | A Song for Nettie Johnson A Governor-General Award-winning collection of short stories. Sawai writes mostly about a small town in Saskatchewan cal... | Sawai, Gloria | 2001 | 1990s | Short Stories |
| 15 | The Temptations of Big Bear An excellent novel about the life of Big Bear, a chief who wanted to live in peace. The book is divided into six long ch... | Wiebe, Rudy | 1973 | 1876-1888 | Novel - Historical |
| 16 | Walking the Big Wild This book is subtitled From Yellowstone to Yukon on the Grizzly Bear Trail. It's the account of the author's trek from W... | Heuer, Karsten | 2002 | 1998-2000 | Travelogue |