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2020 Nominees
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Autopsy of a Boring Wife
Marie-Renee Lavoie - Arachnide Editions
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Like a Qubcois Bridget Jones's Diary, Marie-Rene Lavoie's Autopsy of a Boring Wife tells the hysterically funny and ultimately touching tale of forty-eight-year-old Diane, a woman whose husband leaves her and is having an affair because, he says, she bores him. Diane takes the charge... |
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Chasing Painted Horses
Drew Hayden Taylor - Cormorant Books
Format: Book
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Chasing Painted Horses has a magical, fable-like quality. It is the story of four unlikely friends who live in Otter Lake, a reserve north of Toronto. Ralph and his sister, Shelley, live with their parents. One day, their mother brings home a chalkboard and installs in prominently... |
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Crow Winter: A Novel
Karen McBride - HarperAvenue
Format: Paperback
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Nanabush. A name that has a certain weight on the tongue - a taste. Like lit sage in a windowless room or aluminum foil on a metal filling.Trickster. Storyteller. Shape-shifter. An ancient troublemaker with the power to do great things, only he doesn't want to put in the work.Since... |
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Greenwood
Michael Christie - McClelland & Stewart
Format: Book
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They come for the trees. It's 2038 and Jacinda (Jake) Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich-eco-tourists in one of the world's last remaining forests. It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, sprawled on his back... |
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Frying Plantain
House of Anansi PR Ltd - Astoria
Format: Paperback
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Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle - of her Canadian nationality and her desire to be a "true" Jamaican, of her mother and grandmother's rages and life lessons, of having to avoid being thought of as too "faas" or too "quiet" or too "bold"... |
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Undercard
David Albertyn - House of Anasi
Format: Book
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When Tyron Shaw returns to his hometown of Las Vegas after eleven years in the Marines, hes surprised to discover that two of his best friends from childhood are all anyone is talking about: Antoine Deco, three years out of prison, hasnt lost a boxing match since his release, and tonight... |
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A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
Alicia Elliott - Doubleday Canada
Format: Book
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In an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about the treatment of Native people in North America while drawing on intimate details of her own life and experience with intergenerational trauma, Alicia Elliott offers indispensable insight into the ongoing legacy of colonialism.... |
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This One Looks Like a Boy: My Gender Journey to Life as a Man
Lorimer Shenher - Greystone Books
Format: Hardcover
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Inspiring and honest, this unique memoir of gender transition and coming-of-age proves it's never too late to find your true identity.Since he was a small child, Lorimer Shenher knew something for certain: he was a boy. The problem was, he was growing up in a girl's body.In this... |
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Watermark
Christy-Ann Conlin - Astoria
Format: Paperback
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In these evocative and startling stories, we meet people navigating the elemental forces of love, life, and death. An insomniac on Halifax's moonlit streets. A runaway bride. A young woman accused of a brutal murder. A man who must live in exile if he is to live at all. A woman coming... |
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Watching You Without Me
Lynn Coady
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After her mother's sudden death, Karen finds herself back in her childhood home in Nova Scotia for the first time in a decade, acting as full-time caregiver to Kelli, her older sister. Overwhelmed with grief and the daily needs of Kelli, who was born with a developmental disabi |
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2019 Nominees
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All Things Consoled: A daughter's memoir
Elizabeth Hay - McClelland & Stewart
Format: Hardcover
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#1 bestselling novelist Elizabeth Hay has written a poignant, complex, and hugely resonant memoir about the shift she experienced between being her parents' daughter to their guardian and caregiver.Jean and Gordon Hay were a formidable pair. She was an artist and superlatively frugal;... |
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The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore: A Novel
Kim Fu - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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"A sensitive, evocative exploration of how the past threads itself through our lives, reemerging in unexpected ways." - Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times bestselling authorAt Forevermore, a sleepaway camp in the Pacific Northwest, campers are promised adventures in the woods, songs... |
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Moon of the Crusted Snow: A Novel
Waubgeshig Rice - ECW Press
Format: Paperback
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A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voice With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle... |
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French Exit
Patrick DeWitt - House of Anansi Press
Format: eBook
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Frances Price - tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature - is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there's the Price's aging cat, Small... |
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Foe
Iain Reid - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A taut, psychological mind-bender from the bestselling author of I'm Thinking of Ending Things. We don't get visitors. Not out here. We never have. Junior and Hen are a quiet married couple. They live a comfortable, solitary life on their farm, far from the city lights, but in close... |
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Hysteria: A Novel
Elisabeth De Mariaffi - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
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The closer she gets to the truth, the faster it slips away.Heike Lerner's life looks perfect from the outside: she's settled into an easy routine of caring for her young son, Daniel, and spends her days wandering the woods near their summer house, while her nights are filled with... |
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I'm Afraid of Men
Vivek Shraya - Penguin Canada
Format: Hardcover
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"Emotional and painful but also layered with humour, I'm Afraid of Men will widen your lens on gender and challenge you to do better. This challenge is a necessary one--one we must all take up. It is a gift to dive into Vivek's heart and mind."--Rupi Kaur, bestselling author... |
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The Return of Kid Cooper: A Novel
B J Smith - Arcade Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The year is 1910. Nate Cooper is an old-school cowboy who has spent nearly thirty years in a Montana prison of a wrongful life sentence for a false murder conviction. Nate's moral compass is true and unwavering: he does all the wrong things for all the right reasons. Upon his release... |
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The Saturday Night Ghost Club: A Novel
Craig Davidson - Knopf Canada
Format: Audiobook
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An infectious and heartbreaking novel from "one of this countrys great kinetic writers" (Globe and Mail) --Craig Davidsons first new literary fiction since his bestselling, Giller-shortlisted Cataract CityWhen neurosurgeon Jake Breaker operates, he knows hes handling more than... |
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Vi
Kim Th?y - Random House Canada
Format: Hardcover
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The perfect complement to the exquisitely wrought novels Ru and Mn, Canada Reads winner Kim Thuy returns with Vi, exploring the lives, loves and struggles of Vietnamese refugees as they reinvent themselves in new lands.The youngest of four children and the only girl, Vi was given a name... |
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2018 Nominees
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All We Leave Behind: A Reporters Journey into the Lives of Others
Carol Off - Random House Canada
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction Finalist for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political WritingFinalist for the Governor Generals Award for Non-fiction Finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Nonfiction An incredible work of non-fiction... |
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American War
Omar El Akkad - Random House Large Print
Format: Large print book
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An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle - a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself. Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana,... |
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The Clothesline Swing
Ahmad Danny Ramadan - Nightwood
Format: Paperback
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The Clothesline Swing is a journey through the troublesome aftermath of the Arab Spring. A former Syrian refugee himself, Ramadan unveils an enthralling tale of courage that weaves through the mountains of Syria, the valleys of Lebanon, the encircling seas of Turkey, the heat of Egypt and finally,... |
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The Dark and Other Love Stories
Deborah Willis - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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"The emotional range and depth of [Williss stories], the clarity and deftness, are astonishing." - Alice MunroThe characters in these thirteen masterful and engaging stories exist on the edge of danger, where landscapes melt into dreamscapes and every house is haunted. A drug... |
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Glass Beads
Dawn Dumont - Thistledown Press
Format: Paperback
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Theseshort stories interconnect the friendships of four First Nations people - Everett Kaiswatim, Nellie Gordon, Julie Papequash, and Nathan (Taz) Mosquito - as the collection evolves over two decades against the cultural, political, and historical backdrop of the 90s and early 2000s.... |
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The Last Neanderthal
Claire Cameron - Doubleday Canada
Format: Hardcover
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**Finalist for the 2017 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize**National BestsellerFrom the bestselling author of The Bear, the enthralling story of two women separated by millennia, but linked by an epic journey that will transform them both40,000 years in the past, the last family... |
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Gone to Pot
Jennifer Craig - Second Story Press
Format: Paperback
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After losing her job and learning she might also lose her house because of a bad investment, Jess, a fiercely independent and hilariously wry BC grandma, resorts to growing pot in her basement to make ends meet. She then has to juggle her public life as a grandmother and member of the town's... |
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Scarborough
Catherine Hernandez - Arsenal Pulp Press
Format: Paperback
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Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighborhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest city in North America; like many inner city communities, it suffers under the weight of poverty, drugs, crime, and urban blight. Scarborough the novel employs a multitude of voices to tell the story... |
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Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World
Michael Harris - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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With a foreword by Nicholas Carr, author of the Pulitzer Prize-finalist The Shallows.. Today, society embraces sharing like never before. Fueled by our dependence on mobile devices and social media, we have created an ecosystem of obsessive connection. Many of us now lead lives of strangely... |
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Son of a Trickster
Eden Robinson - Knopf Canada
Format: Print book
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With striking originality and precision, Eden Robinson, the Giller-shortlisted author of the classic Monkey Beach and winner of the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award, blends humour with heartbreak in this compelling coming-of-age novel. Everyday teen existence meets indigenous beliefs,... |
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