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1 2020
★ A Mind Spread Out on the Ground ★ Crow Winter Alicia Elliott Karen McBride Penguin Random House HarperCollins Canada
Chasing Painted Horses Greenwood Drew Hayden Taylor Michael Christie Cormorant Books McClelland & Stewart
Frying Plantain Watermark Zalika Reid-Benta Christy Ann Conlin House of Anansi House of Anansi
This One Looks Like a Boy: My Gender Undercard Journey to Life as a Man David Albertyn Lorimer Shenher House of Anansi Greystone Books Watching You Without Me Autopsy of a Boring Wife Lynn Coady Marie-Renée Lavoie House of Anansi House of Anansi
2019
French Exit All Things Consoled Patrick deWitt Elizabeth Hay House of Anansi Penguin Random House
Saturday Night Ghost Club Foe Craig Davidson Iain Reid Knopf Canada Simon & Schuster
The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore I’m Afraid of Men Kim Fu Vivek Shraya Harpercollins Penguin Canada
Hysteria The Return of Kid Cooper Elisabeth De Mariaffi Brad Smith Harpercollins Arcade Publishing
★ Moon of Crusted Snow ★ Vi Waubgeshig Rice Kim Thuy ECW Press Random House Canada
2 2018
All We Leave Behind: A Reporter’s Journey Gone to Pot into the Lives of Others Jennifer Craig Carol Off Second Story Press Random House Canada ★ The Last Neanderthal ★ American War: A Novel Claire Cameron Omar El Akkad Doubleday Canada McClelland and Stewart Emblem Scarborough The Clothesline Swing Catherine Hernandez Ahmad Danny Ramadan Arsenal Pulp Press Nightwood Editions Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a The Dark and Other Love Stories Crowded World Deborah Willis Michael Harris Hamish Hamilton Canada Anchor Canada
Glass Beads Son of a Trickster Dawn Dumont Eden Robinson Thistledown Press Knopf Canada
2017
★ The Break ★ Middle-Aged Boys & Girls Katherena Vermette Diane Bracuk House of Anansi Press Guernica Editions
Carry Me The Name Therapist: How Growing up with Peter Behrens My Odd Name Taught Me Everything You House of Anansi Press Need to Know about Yours Duana Taha Five Roses Random House Canada Alice Zorn Dundurn Serial Monogamy Kate Taylor The Hidden Keys Doubleday Canada André Alexis Coach House Books The Spawning Grounds Gail Anderson-Dargatz How Can I Help?: A Week in My Life as a Knopf Canada Psychiatrist David Goldbloom, Pier Bryden Tomboy Survival Guide Touchstone Ivan Coyote Arsenal Pulp Press
3 2016
All Saints: Stories Punishment K.D.Miller Linden MacIntyre Biblioasis Random House Canada
Birdie Seconds: A Graphic Novel Tracey Lindberg Bryan Lee O’Malley HarperCollins Ballantine Books
The Hunger of the Wolf That Lonely Section of Hell Stephen Marche Lori Shenher Simon & Schuster Greystone Books
The Jaguar’s Children ★ They Left Us Everything: A Memoir ★ John Vaillant Plum Johnson Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Penguin Canada
Local Customs Under the Visible Life Audrey Thomas Kim Echlin Dundurn Hamish Hamilton Canada
2015
★ Medicine Walk ★ Juliet Was A Surprise Richard Wagamese Bill Gaston McClelland & Stewart Hamish Hamilton
Station Eleven Forgiveness: A Gift From My Grandparents Emily St. John Mandel Mark Sakamoto HarperCollins Canada Harper Collins
Between Gods: A Memoir Somewhere In France: Alison Pick A Novel of The Great War Doubleday Jennifer Robson William Morrow This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate Little Bastards In Springtime Naomi Klein Katja Rudolph Knopf Canada Harper Collins
The Lobster Kings Who By Fire Alexi Zentner Fred Stenson Knopf Canada Doubleday
4 2014
An Inquiry Into Love and Death The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Simone St. James Account of Native People in North America Signet Thomas King Random House Canada Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World Janet E. Cameron The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master Hachette Book Group Canada and the Trial that Shocked a Country Charlotte Gray Flee, Fly, Flown Harper Collins Janet Hepburn Second Story Press ★ The Painted Girls ★ Cathy Marie Buchanan River of Stars Harper Collins Guy Gavriel Kay Viking Canada The Silent Wife A.S.A Harrison The Cat Penguin Canada Edeet Ravel Penguin Canada The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement Nick Saul and Andrea Curtis Random House Canada
2013
Eating Dirt The Little Shadows Charlotte Gill Marina Endicott Greystone Books Doubleday Canada
Indian Horse The Western Light Richard Wagamese Susan Swan Douglas & McIntyre Cormorant Books Inc.
Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes The Winter Palace: A Novel of Kamal Al-Solaylee Catherine the Great HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Eva Stachniak Bantam Tell It to the Trees Anita Rau Badami Triggers Knopf Canada Robert J. Sawyer Penguin The Deception of Livvy Higgs Donna Morrissey ★ Up and Down ★ Viking Canada Terry Fallis Douglas Gibson Books
5 2012
★ The Accident ★ Requiem Linwood Barclay Frances Itani Doubleday Canada HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Bedtime Story Shelter Robert Wiersema Frances Greenslade Vintage Canada Random House Canada
The Far Side of the Sky They Fight Like Soldiers, Daniel Kalla They Die Like Children HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Romeo Dallaire Random House Canada Mennonites Don’t Dance Darcie Friesen Hossack Under an Afghan Sky: A Memoir of Thistledown Press Captivity Mellissa Fung Natural Order HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Brian Francis Doubleday Canada Various Positions Martha Schabas
2011
Amphibian A Man in Uniform Carla Gunn Kate Taylor Coach House Books Anchor Canada
Annabel Night Shift Kathleen Winter Brian Goldman House of Anansi Press HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Dahanu Road ★ Room ★ Anosh Irani Emma Donoghue Doubleday Canada Harper Perennial Canada
Death Spiral Still Missing James W. Nichol Chevy Stevens McArthur & Co St. Martin’s Griffin
Far to Go The Tiger Alison Pick John Vaillant House of Anansi Press Vintage Canada
6 2010
The Brutal Telling The Mystery of Grace Louise Penny Charles de Lint Headline Tor
Burmese Lessons Old City Hall Karen Connelly Robert Rotenberg Random House Touchstone
★ Come, Thou Tortoise ★ Oonagh Jessica Grant Mary Tilberg Knopf Cormorant
February Small Beneath the Sky Lisa Moore Lorna Crozier Anansi Greystone Books
The Heart Specialist Underground Claire Holden Rothman June Hutton Cormorant Cormorant
2009
Apples to Oysters: A Food Lover’s Tour of In Spite of Myself: A Memoir Canadian Farms Christopher Plummer Margaret Webb Vintage Canada Penguin Canada The Killing Circle The Calling Andrew Pyper Inger Ash Wolfe Anchor Canada McClelland & Stewart The Outlander ★ The Cellist of Sarajevo★ Gil Adamson Steven Galloway House of Anansi Knopf Canada Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Coventry Wealth Helen Humphreys Margaret Atwood HarperCollins Publishers Ltd House of Anansi Press
Good to a Fault Ragged Company Marina Endicott Richard Wagamese Windmill Books Anchor Canada
7 2008
Afterlands One Red Paperclip: Or, How an Ordinary Steven Heighton Man Achieved His Dream with the Help of a Knopf Simple Office Supply Kyle MacDonald ★ The Book of Negroes ★ Three Rivers Press Lawrence Hill HarperCollins Radiance Shaena Lambert Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Random House Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army The Shock Doctrine Christie Blatchford Naomi Klein Doubleday Knopf
The Horseman’s Graves The Unfinished Canadian: Jacqueline Baker The People We Are HarperCollins Andrew Cohen McClelland & Stewart The Letter Opener Kyo Maclear Wind Tails HarperCollins Anne DeGrace McArthur
2007
Absolute Honour Charles the Bold C.C. Humphreys Yves Beauchemin, Wayne Grady (trans.) Orion Douglas Gibson Books
★ The Birth House ★ Cockeyed: A Memoir Ami McKay Ryan Knighton Knopf Canada Penguin Canada
By the Time You Read This Dream Wheels Giles Blunt Richard Wagamese HarperCollins Canada Doubleday Canada
Can You Hear the Nightbird Call A Good Death Anita Rau Badami Gil Courtemanche, Translated by Wayne Grady Vintage Canada Douglas & Mcintyre
Causeway: A Passage from Innocence Still Life Linden MacIntyre Louise Penny HarperCollins Headline
8 2006
An Audience Of Chairs Paul Moves Out Joan Clark Michel Rabagliati Vintage Canada Drawn & Quarterly Publications
The Girls Race Against Time Lori Lansens Stephen Lewis Vintage Canada House of Anansi
The Greek for Love Snowshoes and Spotted Dick James Chatto Chris Czajkowski Random House Canada Harbour
Hominids Sweetness in the Belly Robert J. Sawyer Camilla Gibb Tor Books Anchor Canada
Lady Franklin’s Revenge ★ Three Day Road ★ Ken McGoogan Joseph Boyden Bantam Books Penguin
2005
★ Crow Lake ★ See Jane Run Mary Lawson Joy Fielding Vintage Canada Seal Books
Displaced Persons The Stone Carvers Margie Taylor Jane Urquhart NeWest Press McClelland & Stewart
In a Dry Season The Closer We Are to Dying Peter Robinson Joe Fiorito Penguin Canada Picador
Midnight at the Dragon Café Shake Hands with the Devil Judy Fong Bates Romeo Dallaire McClelland & Stewart Vintage Canada
Rush Home Road Walk to New York: A Journey Out of Lori Lansens the Wilds of Canada Knopf Canada Charles Wilkins Viking Canada
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