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Longlisted & Shortlisted Books 1994-2018 www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca # The Boys in the Trees, Mary Swan – 2008 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, Mona Awad - 2016 Brother, David Chariandy – 2017 419, Will Ferguson - 2012 Burridge Unbound, Alan Cumyn – 2000 By Gaslight, Steven Price – 2016 A A Beauty, Connie Gault – 2015 C A Complicated Kindness, Miriam Toews – 2004 Casino and Other Stories, Bonnie Burnard – 1994 A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry – 1995 Cataract City, Craig Davidson – 2013 The Age of Longing, Richard B. Wright – 1995 The Cat’s Table, Michael Ondaatje – 2011 A Good House, Bonnie Burnard – 1999 Caught, Lisa Moore – 2013 A Good Man, Guy Vanderhaeghe – 2011 The Cellist of Sarajevo, Steven Galloway – 2008 Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood – 1996 Cereus Blooms at Night, Shani Mootoo – 1997 Alligator, Lisa Moore – 2005 Childhood, André Alexis – 1998 All My Puny Sorrows, Miriam Toews – 2014 Cities of Refuge, Michael Helm – 2010 All That Matters, Wayson Choy – 2004 Clara Callan, Richard B. Wright – 2001 All True Not a Lie in it, Alix Hawley – 2015 Close to Hugh, Mariana Endicott - 2015 American Innovations, Rivka Galchen – 2014 Cockroach, Rawi Hage – 2008 Am I Disturbing You?, Anne Hébert, translated by The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Wayne Johnston – Sheila Fischman – 1999 1998 Anil’s Ghost, Michael Ondaatje – 2000 The Colour of Lightning, Paulette Jiles – 2009 Annabel, Kathleen Winter – 2010 Conceit, Mary Novik – 2007 An Ocean of Minutes, Thea Lim – 2018 Confidence, Russell Smith – 2015 The Antagonist, Lynn Coady – 2011 Cool Water, Dianne Warren – 2010 The Architects Are Here, Michael Winter – 2007 The Crooked Maid, Dan Vyleta – 2013 A Recipe for Bees, Gail Anderson-Dargatz – 1998 The Cure for Death by Lightning, Gail Arvida, Samuel Archibald, translated by Donald Anderson-Dargatz – 1996 Winkler – 2015 Curiosity, Joan Thomas – 2010 A Secret Between Us, Daniel Poliquin, translated by The Custodian of Paradise, Wayne Johnston – 2006 Donald Winkler – 2007 The Assassin’s Song, M.G. Vassanji – 2007 D A Student of Weather, Elizabeth Hay – 2000 The Dark and Other Love Stories, Deborah Willis – A Wall of Light, Edeet Ravel – 2005 2017 A World Elsewhere, Wayne Johnston – 2011 Daydreams of Angels, Heather O’Neill – 2015 Death Valley, Susan Perly – 2016 B The Debba, Avner Mandelman – 2010 Barnacle Love, Anthony De Sa – 2008 De Niro’s Game, Rawi Hage – 2006 Barney’s Version, Mordecai Richler – 1997 The Disappeared, Kim Echlin – 2009 The Beggar’s Garden, Michael Christie – 2011 Divisadero, Michael Ondaatje – 2007 Beirut Hellfire Society, Rawi Hage – 2018 Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Madeleine Thien – 2016 Bellevue Square, Michael Redhill – 2017 Dr. Brinkley’s Tower, Robert Hough – 2012 The Best Kind of People, Zoe Whittall – 2016 The Betrayers, David Bezmozgis – 2014 E Better Living Through Plastic Explosives, Zsuzsi Effigy, Alissa York – 2007 Gartner – 2011 Emancipation Day, Wayne Grady – 2013 Beyond Measure, Pauline Holdstock – 2004 The Emperor of Paris, C.S. Richardson – 2012 The Bishop’s Man, Linden MacIntyre – 2009 The Englishman’s Boy, Guy Vanderhaeghe – 1996 Blackstrap Hawco, Kenneth J. Harvey – 2008 The Ever After of Ashwin Rao, Padma Viswanathan – Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, Vincent Lam – 2006 2014 The Bone Mother, David Demchuk – 2017 Everybody Has Everything, Katrina Onstad – 2012 The Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill – 2007 Extensions, Myrna Dey – 2011 The Book of Secrets, M.G. Vassanji – 1994 Extraordinary, David Gilmour – 2013 Boundary, Andrée A. Michaud, translated by Donald Winkler – 2017 Page 1/3 Longlisted & Shortlisted Books 1994-2018 www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca F J The Factory Voice, Jeanette Lynes – 2009 Jonny Appleseed, Joshua Whitehead – 2018 Fall, Colin McAdam – 2009 JPod, Douglas Coupland – 2006 Fall on Your Knees, Ann-Marie MacDonald – 1996 The Famished Lover, Alan Cumyn – 2006 K Fifteen Dogs, André Alexis – 2015 Kilter. 55 Fictions, John Gould – 2003 The Free World, David Bezmozgis – 2011 French Exit, Patrick deWitt – 2018 L The Friends of Meager Fortune, David Adams Larry’s Party, Carol Shields – 1997 Richards – 2006 Late Nights on Air, Elizabeth Hay – 2007 Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels – 1996 Lauchlin of the Bad Heart, D.R. MacDonald – 2007 Funny Boy, Shyam Selvadurai – 1994 Lemon, Cordelia Strube – 2010 Light Lifting, Alexander MacLeod – 2010 G Like This, Leo McKay Jr. – 1995 Galveston, Paul Quarrington – 2004 The Little Shadows, Marina Endicott – 2011 The Garneau Block, Todd Babiak – 2006 The Lost Highway, David Adams Richards – 2008 The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, Heather O’Neill – The Love of a Good Woman, Alice Munro – 1998 2014 Luck, Joan Barfoot – 2005 Going Home Again, Dennis Bock – 2013 The Golden Mean, Annabel Lyon – 2009 M Good to a Fault, Marina Endicott – 2008 The Mark of the Angel, Nancy Huston – 1999 Governor of the Northern Province, Randy Boyagoda Martin John, Anakana Schofield – 2015 – 2006 Martin Sloane, Michael Redhill – 2001 The Matter With Morris, David Bergen – 2010 H The Meagre Tarmac, Clark Blaise – 2011 Half-Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan – 2011 Mercy Among the Children, David Adams Richards – The Healer, Greg Hollingshead – 1998 2000 The Heart Specialist, Claire Holden Rothman – 2009 Minds of Winter, Ed O’Loughlin – 2017 Hellgoing, Lynn Coady – 2013 Minister Without Portfolio, Michael Winter – 2013 Helpless, Barbara Gowdy – 2007 Mister Sandman, Barbara Gowdy – 1995 Home Schooling, Carol Windley – 2006 The Mistress of Nothing, Kate Pullinger – 2009 The Hour of Bad Decisions, Russell Wangersky – 2006 Monkey Beach, Eden Robinson – 2000 How to Get Along With Women, Elisabeth de Mariaffi – Monoceros, Suzette Mayr – 2011 2013 More, Austin Clarke – 2008 Motherhood, Sheila Heti – 2018 I Mount Appetite, Bill Gaston – 2002 I Am A Truck, Michelle Winters – 2017 Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab, Shani Mootoo If I Fall, I Die, Michael Christie – 2015 - 2014 The Immaculate Conception, Gaétan Soucy, translated The Museum of Love, Steve Weiner – 1994 by Lazer Lederhendler – 2006 My Life Among the Apes, Cary Fagan – 2012 The Imperfectionists, Tom Rachman – 2010 My October, Claire Holden Rothman - 2014 The Imposter Bride, Nancy Richler – 2012 The In-Between World of Vikram Lall, M.G. Vassanji – N 2003 The Navigator of New York, Wayne Johnston – 2002 The Incident Report, Martha Baillie – 2009 Next Year for Sure, Zoey Leigh Peterson - 2017 Inside, Alix Ohlin – 2012 Inside, Kenneth J. Harvey – 2006 O Into the Heart of the Country, Pauline Holdstock – October, Richard B. Wright – 2007 2011 October 1970, Louis Hamelin, translated by Wayne The Island Walkers, John Bemrose – 2003 Grady – 2013 Page 2/3 Longlisted & Shortlisted Books 1994-2018 www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca One Good Hustle, Billie Livingston – 2012 Summer Gone, David Macfarlane – 1999 Open, Lisa Moore – 2002 The Sweet Girl, Annabel Lyon – 2012 The Orenda, Joseph Boyden – 2013 Sweetness in the Belly, Camilla Gibb -–2005 The Origin of Species, Nino Ricci – 2008 Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood – 2003 T Our Daily Bread, Lauren B. Davis – 2012 Tell, Frances Itani – 2014 Our Homesick Love Songs, Emma Hooper – 2018 Through Black Spruce, Joseph Boyden – 2008 Outline, Rachel Cusk – 2015 This Cake is for the Party, Sarah Selecky – 2010 The Tiger Claw, Shauna Singh Baldwin – 2004 P The Time in Between, David Bergen – 2005 Paradise and Elsewhere, Kathy Page – 2014 Touch, Alexi Zentner – 2011 The Party Wall, Catherine Leroux – 2016 The Trade, Fred Stenson – 2000 The Perfect Circle, Pascale Quiviger, translated by Transit, Rachel Cusk – 2017 Sheila Fischman – 2006 Tumbleweed, Josip Novakovich – 2017 The Piano Man’s Daughter, Timothy Findley – 1995 The Two of Us, Kathy Page – 2016 Pilgrim, Timothy Findley – 1999 Pillow, Andrew Battershill – 2016 U Player One, Douglas Coupland -–2010 Undermajordomo Minor, Patrick deWitt – 2015 Pleased to Meet You, Caroline Adderson – 2006 Unless, Carol Shields – 2002 The Polished Hoe, Austin Clarke – 2002 Us Conductors, Sean Michaels – 2014 The Projectionist, Michael Helm – 1997 V R Valmiki’s Daughter, Shani Mootoo – 2009 The Ravine, Paul Quarrington – 2008 Vi, Kim Thúy, translated by Sheila Fischman – 2018 The Reckoning of Boston Jim, Claire Mulligan – 2007 Red Dog, Red Dog, Patrick Lane – 2008 W The Retreat, David Bergen – 2008 Waiting for the Man, Arjun Basu – 2014 The Return, Dany Laferrière, translated by David Homel Washington Black, Esi Edugyan – 2018 – 2011 Watch How We Walk, Jennifer LoveGrove – 2014 River Thieves, Michael Crummey – 2001 The Way the Crow Flies, Ann-Marie MacDonald – 2003 Ru, Kim Thúy, translated by Sheila Fischman – 2012 We’ll All be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night, Joel Runaway, Alice Munro – 2004 Thomas Hynes – 2017 The Russlander, Sandra Birdsell – 2001 What You Need, Eliza Clark – 1994 Where She Has Gone, Nino Ricci – 1997 S Whirl Away, Russell Wangersky – 2012 Sanctuary Line, Jane Urquhart – 2010 The White Bone, Barbara Gowdy – 1998 The Sealed Letter, Emma Donoghue – 2008 Willem De Kooning’s Paintbrush, Kerry Lee Powell – The Sentimentalists, Johanna Skibsrud – 2010 2016 The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt – 2011 The Winter Family, Clifford Jackman – 2015 Solitaria, Genni Gunn – 2011 The Winter Vault, Anne Michaels – 2009 Something for Everyone, Lisa Moore – 2018 The Withdrawal Method, Pasha Malla – 2008 Songs for the Cold of Heart, Eric Dupont, translated by The Woman Upstairs, Claire Messud – 2013 Peter McCambridge – 2018 The Wonder, Emma Donoghue – 2016 The Son of a Certain Woman, Wayne Johnston – 2013 Son of a Trickster, Eden Robinson – 2017 Y Soucouyant, David Chariandy – 2007 Y, Marjorie Celona – 2012 Split Tooth, Tanya Tagaq – 2018 The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood – 2009 Stanley Park, Timothy Taylor – 2001 Yiddish for Pirates, Gary Barwin – 2016 Stolen, Annette Lapointe – 2006 The Stone Carvers, Jane Urquhart – 2001 Z Stormy Weather, Paulette Jiles – 2007 Zero Gravity, Sharon English – 2007 Stranger, David Bergen – 2016 Zolitude, Paige Cooper – 2018 Page 3/3.
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