Year Title Author

2014 The Back of the Turtle Thomas King

Lake of Two Mountains Arleen Paré

Age of Minority: Three Solo Plays Jordan Tannahill

The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection

Michael Harris

When Everything Feels like the Movies Raziel Reid

This One Summer Jillian Tamaki

Paul-Émile Borduas: A Critical Biography Peter Feldstein

2013 The Luminaries Eleanor Catton

North End Love Songs Katherena Vermette

Fault Lines: Three Plays Nicolas Billon

Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page Sandra Djwa

The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B Teresa Toten

Northwest Passage Matt James

The Major Verbs Donald Winkler

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Year Title Author

2012 The Purchase Linda Spalding

Monkey Ranch Julie Bruck

It is Solved by Walking Catherine Banks

Leonardo and the Last Supper Ross King

The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen Susin Nielsen

Virginia Wolf Isabelle Arsenault

Mai at the Predators’ Ball Nigel Spencer

2011 The Sisters Brothers Patrick deWitt

Killdeer Phil Hall

If We Were Birds Erin Shields

Mordecai: The Life & Times Charles Foran

From Then to Now: A Short History of the World

Christopher Moore

Ten Birds Cybèle Young

Partita for Glenn Gould Donald Winkler

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Year Title Author

2010 Cool Water Dianne Warren

Boxing the Compass Richard Greene

Afterimage Robert Chafe

Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada Allan Casey

Fishtailing Wendy Phillips

Cats’ Night Out Jon Klassen

Forests Linda Gaboriau

2009 The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger

The Fly in Autumn David Zieroth

Where the Blood Mixes Kevin Loring

A Place Within: Rediscovering India M.G. Vassanji

Greener Grass: The Famine Years Caroline Pignat

Bella’s Tree Jirina Marton

Pieces of Me Susan Ouriou

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Year Title Author

2008 The Origin of Species Nino Ricci

More to Keep Us Warm Jacob Scheier

Bone Cage Catherine Banks

Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship,Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army

Christie Blatchford

The Landing John Ibbitson

The Owl and the Pussycat Stéphane Jorisch

Nikolski Lazer Lederhendler

2007 Divisadero Michael Ondaatje

All Our Wonder Unavenged Don Domanski

The December Man (L’homme de décembre) Colleen Murphy

I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land:A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad

Karolyn Smardz Frost

Gemini Summer Iain Lawrence

The Boy from the Sun Duncan Weller

Augustino and the Choir of Destruction Nigel Spencer

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Year Title Author

2006 The Law of Dreams Peter Behrens

Stumbling in the Bloom John Pass

I Still Love You Daniel MacIvor

The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism

Ross King

Pirate’s Passage William Gilkerson

Ancient Thunder Leo Yerxa

Vetiver Hugh Hazelton

2005 A Perfect Night to Go to China David Gilmour

Processional Anne Compton

Half Life John Mighton

The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed

John Vaillant

The Crazy Man Pamela Porter

Imagine a Day Rob Gonsalves

Truth or Death: The Quest for Immortalityin the Western Narrative Tradition

Fred A. Reed

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Year Title Author

2004 A Complicated Kindness Miriam Toews

Short Journey Upriver Toward Ōishida Roo Borson

Girl in the Goldfish Bowl Morris Panych

Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

Lt.-Gen. Roméo Dallaire

Airborn Kenneth Oppel

Jabberwocky Stéphane Jorisch

Mirabel Judith Cowan

2003 Elle Douglas Glover

Kill-site Tim Lilburn

Einstein’s Gift Vern Thiessen

Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World Margaret MacMillan

Stitches Glen Huser

The Song Within My Heart Allen Sapp

Memoirs of a Less Travelled Road: A Historian’s Life

Jane Brierley

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Year Title Author

2002 A Song for Nettie Johnson Gloria Sawai

Surrender Roy Miki

Unity (1918) Kevin Kerr

Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig’s War Against Big Oil

Andrew Nikiforuk

True Confessions of a Heartless Girl Martha Brooks

Alphabeasts Wallace Edwards

Thunder and Light Nigel Spencer

2001 Clara Callan Richard B. Wright

Execution Poems George Elliott Clarke

The Harps of God Kent Stetson

The Ingenuity Gap Thomas Homer-Dixon

Dust Arthur Slade

An Island in the Soup Mireille Levert

Fairy Ring Fred A. Reed andDavid Homel

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Year Title Author

2000 Anil’s Ghost Michael Ondaatje

Another Gravity Don McKay

Elizabeth Rex Timothy Findley

Notes from the Hyena’s Belly Nega Mezlekia

Looking for X Deborah Ellis

Yuck, a Love Story Marie-Louise Gay

Just Fine Robert Majzels

1999 Elizabeth and After Matt Cohen

Songs for Relinquishing the Earth Jan Zwicky

The Drawer Boy Michael Healey

Water Marq de Villiers

A Screaming Kind of Day Rachna Gilmore

The Great Poochini Gary Clement

Gabrielle Roy: A Life Patricia Claxton

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Year Title Author

1998 Forms of Devotion Diane Schoemperlen

White Stone: The Alice Poems Stephanie Bolster

Harlem Duet Djanet Sears

Lines on the Water – A Fisherman’s Life on the Miramichi

David Adams Richards

The Hollow Tree Janet Lunn

A Child’s Treasury of Nursery Rhymes Kady MacDonald Denton

Bambi and Me Sheila Fischman

1997 The Underpainter Jane Urquhart

Land to Light On Dionne Brand

fareWel Ian Ross

Drumblair – Memories of a Jamaican Childhood Rachel Manley

Awake and Dreaming Kit Pearson

The Party Barbara Reid

The Euguelion Howard Scott

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Year Title Author

1996 The Englishman’s Boy Guy Vanderhaeghe

Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano E.D. Blodgett

The Monument Colleen Wagner

The Unconscious Civilization John Ralston Saul

Ghost Train Paul Yee

The Rooster’s Gift Eric Beddows

Stone and Ashes Linda Gaboriau

1995 The Roaring Girl Greg Hollingshead

Voice Anne Szumigalski

Three in the Back, Two in the Head Jason Sherman

Shadow Maker: The Life ofGwendolyn MacEwen

Rosemary Sullivan

The Maestro Tim Wynne-Jones

The Last Quest of Gilgamesh Ludmila Zeman

Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex? David Homel

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Year Title Author

1994 A Discovery of Strangers Rudy Wiebe

Cantos from a Small Room Robert Hilles

The Ends of the Earth Morris Panych

Rogue Primate John A. Livingston

Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me Julie Johnston

Josepha: A Prairie Boy’s Story Murray Kimber

The Lyric Generation Donald Winkler

1993 The Stone Diaries Carol Shields

Forests of the Medieval World Don Coles

Fronteras Americanas Guillermo Verdecchia

Touch the Dragon Karen Connelly

Some of the Kinder Planets Tim Wynne-Jones

Sleep Tight, Mrs. Ming Mireille Levert

Categorics One, Two and Three D.G. Jones

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Year Title Author

1992 The English Patient Michael Ondaatje

Inventing the Hawk Lorna Crozier

Possible Worlds and A Short History of Night John Mighton

Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm

Maggie Siggins

Hero of Lesser Causes Julie Johnston

Waiting for the Whales Ron Lightburn

Imagining the Middle East Fred A. Reed

1991 Such a Long Journey Rohinton Mistry

Night Field Don McKay

Amigo’s Blue Guitar Joan MacLeod

Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected Past

Robert Hunter andRobert Calihoo

Doctor Kiss Says Yes Joanne Fitzgerald

Pick-Up Sticks Sarah Ellis

A Dictionary of Literary Devices: Gradus, A-Z Albert W. Halsall

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Year Title Author

1990 Lives of the Saints Nino Ricci

No Time Margaret Avison

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) Ann-Marie MacDonald

Trudeau and Our Times Stephen Clarkson andChristina McCall

The Orphan Boy Paul Morin

Redwork Michael Bedard

Yellow-Wolf and Other Tales of the Saint Lawrence

Jane Brierley

1989 Whale Music Paul Quarrington

The Word for Sand Heather Spears

The Other Side of the Dark Judith Thompson

Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham Robert Calder

The Magic Paintbrush Robin Muller

Bad Boy Diana Wieler

On the Eighth Day Wayne Grady

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Year Title Author

1988 Nights Below Station Street David Adams Richards

Furious Erin Mouré

Nothing Sacred George F. Walker

In the Sleep Room Anne Collins

Amos’s Sweater Kim LaFave

The Third Magic Welwyn Wilton Katz

Second Chance Philip Stratford

1987 A Dream Like Mine M.T. Kelly

Afterworlds Gwendolyn MacEwen

Prague John Krizanc

The Russian Album Michael Ignatieff

Rainy Day Magic Marie-Louise Gay

Galahad Schwartz and the Cochroach Army Morgan Nyberg

Enchantment and Sorrow: The Autobiography of Gabrielle Roy

Patricia Claxton

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Year Title Author

1986 The Progress of Love Alice Munro

The Collected Poems of Al Purdy Al Purdy

Doc Sharon Pollock

Northrop Frye on Shakespeare Northrop Frye

1985 The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood

Waiting for Saskatchewan Fred Wah

Criminals in Love George F. Walker

The Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada

Ramsay Cook

1984 The Engineer of Human Souls Josef Skvorecky

Celestial Navigation Paulette Jiles

White Biting Dog Judith Thompson

The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier

Sandra Gwyn

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Year Title Author

1983 Shakespeare’s Dog Leon Rooke

Settlements David Donnell

Quiet in the Land Anne Chislett

Byng of Vimy: General and Govenor General Jeffery Williams

1982 Man Descending Guy Vanderhaeghe

The Vision Tree: Selected Poems Phyllis Webb

Billy Bishop Goes To War, a play by John Gray with Eric Peterson

John Gray

Louisbourg Portraits: Life in anEighteenth-Century Garrison Town

Christopher Moore

1981 Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories Mavis Gallant

The Collected Poems of F.R. Scott F.R. Scott

Blood Relations Sharon Pollock

Caribou and the Barren-Lands George Calef

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Year Title Author

1980 Burning Water George Bowering

McAlmon’s Chinese Opera Stephen Scobie

Discipline of Power: The ConservativeInterlude and the Liberal Restoration

Jeffrey Simpson

1979 The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne Jack Hodgins

Emily Carr: A Biography Maria Tippett

There’s a Trick with a Knife I’m Learning to Do Michael Ondaatje

1978 Go Boy Roger Caron

Who Do You Think You Are? Alice Munro

Poems New and Selected Patrick Lane

1977 The Wars Timothy Findley

Essays on the Constitution Frank Scott

Under the Thunder the FlowersLight up the Earth

D.G. Jones

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Year Title Author

1976 The Writing of Canadian History Carl Berger

Bear Marian Engel

Top Soil Joe Rosenblatt

1975 Hallowed Walls Marion MacRae andAnthony Adamson

The Great Victorian Collection Brian Moore

The Island Means Minago Milton Acorn

1974 Fire on Stone Ralph Gustafson

The Diviners Margaret Laurence

The Siren Years Charles Ritchie

1973 Painters in a New Land Michael Bell

Lions at her Face Miriam Mandel

The Temptations of Big Bear Rudy Wiebe

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Year Title Author

1972 The Manticore Robertson Davies

Civil Elegies and Other Poems Dennis Lee

Lies John Newlove

1971 The Last Spike Pierre Berton

Selected Poems John Glassco

St. Urbain’s Horseman Mordecai Richler

1970 The New Ancestors Dave Godfrey

Still Water bpNichol

The True Eventual Story of Billy The Kid bpNichol

Beach Head bpNichol

The cosmic chef: an evening of concrete bpNichol

The Collected Works of Billy the Kid Michael Ondaatje

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Year Title Author

1969 Rocky Mountain Foot and The Gangs of Kosmos

George Bowering

The Studhorse Man Robert Kroetsch

The Shadow-Maker Gwendolyn MacEwen

1968 Selected Poems 1956-68 Leonard Cohen

Dance of the Happy Shades Alice Munro

Cocksure and Hunting Tigers Under Glass Mordecai Richler

1967 An Idiot Joy Eli Mandel

Bread, Wine and Salt Alden Nowlan

The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature

Norah Story

1966 The Circle Game Margaret Atwood

A Jest of God Margaret Laurence

The Crystal Spirit: A Study of George Orwell George Woodcock

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Year Title Author

1965 In Defence of Canada James Eayrs

The Cariboo Horses Alfred Purdy

1964 John Addington Symonds Phyllis Grosskurth

The Deserter Douglas LePan

The Colour of the Times Raymond Souster

1963 Brown of the Globe J.M.S. Careless

Hugh Garner’s Best Stories Hugh Garner

1962 Running to Paradise Kildare Dobbs

The Gutenberg Galaxy Marshall McLuhan

Twelve Letters to a Small Townand The Killdeer and Other Plays

James Reaney

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Year Title Author

1961 Acis in Oxford Robert Finch

The Ascent of Life T.A. Goudge

Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place

Malcolm Lowry

1960 Winter Sun Margaret Avison

The Luck of Ginger Coffey Brian Moore

In Search of Canadian Liberalism Frank H. Underhill

1959 Red Carpet for the Sun Irving Layton

The Watch that Ends the Night Hugh MacLennan

1958 Execution Colin McDougall

A Suit of Nettles James Reaney

Klondike Pierre Berton

The History of Fanny Burney Joyce Hemlow

Nkwala Edith L. Sharp

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Year Title Author

1957 Street of Riches (translation) Gabrielle Roy

The Boatman Jay Macpherson

Canada: Tomorrow’s Giant Bruce Hutchison

The Path of Destiny Thomas H. Raddall

The Great Chief Kerry Wood

1956 The Sacrifice Adele Wiseman

A Window on the North Robert A.D. Ford

The Mysterious North Pierre Berton

Century of Conflict Joseph Lister Rutledge

Lost in the Barrens Farley Mowat

1955 The Sixth of June Lionel Shapiro

Friday’s Child Wilfred Watson

Man’s Emerging Mind N.J. Berrill

John A. Macdonald, The Old Chieftain Donald G. Creighton

The Map-Maker Kerry Wood

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Year Title Author

1954 The Fall of a Titan Igor Gouzenko

The Metal and the Flower P.K. Page

Thirty and Three Hugh MacLennan

This Most Famous Stream A.R.M. Lower

The Nor’westers Marjorie Wilkins Campbell

1953 Digby David Walker

The Net and the Sword Douglas LePan

Sex and the Nature of Things N.J. Berrill

Canada, A Story of Challenge J.M.S. Careless

Rebels Ride at Night John F. Hayes

1952 The Pillar David Walker

Towards the Last Spike E.J. Pratt

The Incredible Canadian Bruce Hutchison

John A. Macdonald, The Young Politician Donald G. Creighton

Cargoes on the Great Lakes Marie McPhedran

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Year Title Author

1951 The Loved and the Lost Morley Callaghan

The Mulgrave Road Charles Bruce

The Ardent Exile Josephine Phelan

The Government of Prince Edward Island Frank MacKinnon

A Land Divided John F. Hayes

1950 The Outlander (translation) Germaine Guèvremont

Of Time and the Lover James Wreford Watson

The Saskatchewan Marjorie Wilkins Campbell

The Progressive Party in Canada W.L. Morton

The Great Adventure Donalda Dickie

1949 Mr. Ames Against Time Philip Child

The Red Heart James Reaney

Cross-country Hugh MacLennan

Democratic Government in Canada R. MacGregor Dawson

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Year Title Author

1948 The Precipice Hugh MacLennan

The Rocking Chair and Other Poems A.M. Klein

Halifax, Warden of the North Thomas H. Raddall

The Canadian Army, 1939-1945 C.P. Stacey

1947 The Tin Flute (translation) Gabrielle Roy

Poems for People Dorothy Livesay

Haida William Sclater

The Government of Canada R. MacGregor Dawson

1946 Continental Revue Winifred Bambrick

Poems Robert Finch

In Search of Myself Frederick Philip Grove

Colony to Nation A.R.M. Lower

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Year Title Author

1945 Two Solitudes Hugh MacLennan

Now is Time Earle Birney

We Keep a Light Evelyn M. Richardson

Gauntlet to Overlord Ross Munro

1944 Earth and High Heaven Gwethalyn Graham

Day and Night Dorothy Livesay

Partner in Three Worlds Dorothy Duncan

The War: Fourth Year Edgar McInnis

1943 The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek Thomas H. Raddall

News of the Phoenix A.J.M. Smith

The Incomplete Anglers John D. Robins

On Canadian Poetry E.K. Brown

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Year Title Author

1942 Little Man G. Herbert Sallans

David and Other Poems Earle Birney

The Unknown Country Bruce Hutchison

The Unguarded Frontier Edgar McInnis

1941 Three Came to Ville Marie Alan Sullivan

Calling Adventurers Anne Marriott

Klee Wyck Emily Carr

1940 Thirty Acres (translation) Ringuet (pseud.)

Brébeuf and His Brethren E.J. Pratt

Slava Bohu J.F.C. Wright

1939 The Champlain Road Franklin D. McDowell

Under the Sun Arthur S. Bourinot

Confessions of an Immigrant’s Daughter Laura G. Salverson

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Year Title Author

1938 Swiss Sonata Gwethalyn Graham

By Stubborn Stars Kenneth Leslie

Canadian Mosaic John Murray Gibbon

1937 The Dark Weaver Laura G. Salverson

The Fable of the Goats E.J. Pratt

My Discovery of the West Stephen Leacock

1936 Think of The Earth Bertram Brooker

T.B.R.—newspaper pieces T.B. Roberton