Top 10 most borrowed books in Alberta (December 2025)

Alberta readers dove into everything from poetry and Indigenous knowledge to cozy science fiction and true crime-inspired mysteries in December 2025, with titles ranging from Beneath the Surface: Poems and Their Stories to Starship Librarians making the province’s most-borrowed list through the Read Alberta Collection, available via Alberta libraries.

The Top Ten Most Borrowed eBook list for the month was led by Beneath the Surface: Poems and Their Stories by R. Stacey Laforme, followed by Blackfoot Ways of Knowing: The Worldview of the Siksikaitsitapi by Betty Bastien.

Also appearing in the top 10 were The Longest Night by Lauren Carter, The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis in a Canadian Family, 1660-1900 by Heather Devine, and A Murder in the Meadow: Six Penny Cross Murder Mysteries by Victoria Chatham.

The list also included the educational title Introduction to Early Childhood Education and Care: An Intercultural Perspective by Carole Massing and Mary Lynne Matheson, along with Resilient by George Michail and Alberta Comics Love.

* Information from Read Alberta