2018

• Washington Black, Esi Edugyan

• French Exit, Patrick DeWitt

• Songs for the Cold of Heart, Eric Dupont (translated by Peter McCambridge)

• Motherhood, Sheila Heti

• An Ocean of Minutes, Thea Lim

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 1, 2018

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 19, 2018

2017

• Bellevue Square, Michael Redhill

• Transit, Rachel Cusk

• Minds of Winter, Ed O'Loughlin

• Son of a Trickster, Eden Robinson

• I Am A Truck, Michelle Winters

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 2, 2017

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 20, 2017

2016

• Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Madeleine Thien

• 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, Mona Awad

• Yiddish for Pirates, Gary Barwin

• The Wonder, Emma Donoghue

• The Party Wall, Catherine Leroux

• The Best Kind of People, Zoe Whittall

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 5, 2016

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 7, 2016

2015

• Fifteen Dogs, André Alexis

• Arvida, Samuel Archibald

• Outline, Rachel Cusk

• Daydreams of Angels, Heather O’Neill

• Martin John, Anakana Schofield

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 5, 2015

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 10, 2015

2014

• Us Conductors, Sean Michaels

• The Betrayers, David Bezmozgis

• Tell, Frances Itani

• The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, Heather O’Neill

• All My Puny Sorrows, Miriam Toews

• The Ever After of Ashwin Rao, Padma Viswanathan

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 6, 2014

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 10, 2014

2013

• Hellgoing, Lynn Coady

• The Crooked Maid, Dan Vyleta

• Caught, Lisa Moore

• Cataract City, Craig Davidson

• Going Home Again, Dennis Bock

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 8, 2013

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 5, 2013

2012

• 419, Will Ferguson

• Whirl Away, Russell Wangersky

• Ru, Kim Thúy

• The Imposter Bride, Nancy Richler

• Inside, Alix Ohlin

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 1, 2012

  • Winner Announcement – Oct. 30, 2012

2011

• Half-Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan

• Better Living Through Plastic Explosives, Zsuzsi Gartner

• The Antagonist, Lynn Coady

• The Free World, David Bezmozgis

• The Cat’s Table, Michael Ondaatje

• The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 4, 2011

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 8, 2011

2010

• The Sentimentalists, Johanna Skibsrud

• The Matter with Morris, David Bergen

• Light Lifting, Alexander MacLeod

• This Cake Is for the Party, Sarah Selecky

• Annabel, Kathleen Winter

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 5, 2010

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 9, 2010

2009

• The Bishop’s Man, Linden MacIntyre

• The Golden Mean, Annabel Lyon

• The Winter Vault, Anne Michaels

• The Disappeared, Kim Echlin

• Fall, Colin McAdam

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 6, 2009

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 11, 2009

2008

• Through Black Spruce, Joseph Boyden

• Good to a Fault, Marina Endicott

• The Boys in the Trees, Mary Swan

• Barnacle Love, Anthony De Sa

• Cockroach, Rawi Hage

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 11, 2008

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 11, 2008

2018

• The Red Word, Sarah Henstra

• Beirut Hellfire Society, Rawi Hage

• Jonny Appleseed, Joshua Whitehead

• Women Talking, Miriam Toews

• Zolitude, Paige Cooper

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 3, 2018

  • Winner Announcement – Oct. 30, 2018

2017

• We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night, Joel Thomas Hynes

• All the Beloved Ghosts, Alison MacLeod

• Lost in September, Kathleen Winter

• The Water Beetles, Michael Kaan

• Uncertain Weights and Measures, Jocelyn Parr

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 4, 2017

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 1, 2017

2016

• Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Madeleine Thien

• Yiddish for Pirates, Gary Barwin

• The Parcel, Anosh Irani

• Willem de Kooning’s Paintbrush, Kerry Lee Powell

• The Break, Katherena Vermette

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 4, 2016

  • Winner Announcement – Oct. 25, 2016

2015

• Daddy Lenin and Other Stories, Guy Vanderhaeghe

• How You Were Born, Kate Cayley

• Outline, Rachel Cusk

• The Evening Chorus, Helen Humphreys

• The Winter Family, Clifford Jackman

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 7, 2015

  • Winner Announcement – Oct. 28, 2015

2014

• The Back of the Turtle, Thomas King

• Sweetland, Michael Crummey

• Juliet Was a Surprise, Bill Gaston

• My October, Claire Holden Rothman

• The Opening Sky, Joan Thomas

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 7, 2014

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 18, 2014

2013

• The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton

• The Lion Seeker, Kenneth Bonert

• The Orenda, Joseph Boyden

• A Beautiful Truth, Colin McAdam

• The Hungry Ghosts, Shyam Selvadurai

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 28, 2013

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 13, 2013

2012

• The Purchase, Linda Spalding

• Siege 13, Tamas Dobozy

• Dr. Brinkley’s Tower, Robert Hough

• The Headmaster’s Wager, Vincent Lam

• The Juliet Stories, Carrie Snyder

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 2, 2012

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 13, 2012

2011

• The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt

• The Free World, David Bezmozgis

• Half-Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan

• The Little Shadows, Marina Endicott

• Touch, Alexi Zentner

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 11, 2011

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 15, 2011

2010

• Cool Water, Dianne Warren

• Waiting for Joe, Sandra Birdsell

• Room, Emma Donoghue

• Motorcycles & Sweetgrass, Drew Hayden Taylor

• Annabel, Kathleen Winter

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 13, 2010

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 16, 2010

2009

• The Mistress of Nothing, Kate Pullinger

• Galore, Michael Crummey

• The Golden Mean, Annabel Lyon

• Too Much Happiness, Alice Munro

• Vanishing and Other Stories, Deborah Willis

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 14, 2009

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 17, 2009

2008

• The Origin of Species, Nino Ricci

• Atmospheric Disturbances, Rivka Galchen

• Cockroach, Rawi Hage

• The Lost Highway, David Adams Richards

• The Great Karoo, Fred Stenson

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 21, 2008

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 29, 2008

2018

• Mamaskatch, Darrel J. McLeod

• Dead Reckoning, Carys Cragg

• Heart Berries, Terese Marie Mailhot

• Homes, Abu Bakr al Rabeeah with Winnie Yeung

• The Wife's Tale, Aida Edemariam

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 3, 2018

  • Winner Announcement – Oct. 30, 2018

2017

• The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State, Graeme Wood

• All We Leave Behind, Carol Off

• The Hand-over, Elaine Dewar

• Where I Live Now, Sharon Butala

• Where It Hurts, Sarah de Leeuw

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 4, 2017

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 1, 2017

2016

• A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905, Bill Waiser

• Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (To Everyone), Kamal Al-Solaylee

• In-Between Days: A Memoir About Living with Cancer, Teva Harrison

• Firewater: How Alcohol is Killing My People (and Yours), Harold R. Johnson

• Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World, Marc Raboy

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 4, 2016

  • Winner Announcement – Oct. 25, 2016

2015

• Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive, Mark L. Winston

• The Social Life of Ink: Culture, Wonder, and Our Relationship with the Written Word, Ted Bishop

• Norval Morrisseau: Man Changing into Thunderbird, Armand Garnet Ruffo

• Dispatches from the Front: Matthew Halton, Canada's Voice at War, David Halton

• Party of One: Stephen Harper and Canada's Radical Makeover, Michael Harris

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 7, 2015

  • Winner Announcement – Oct. 28, 2015

2014

• The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection, Michael Harris

• The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway, Arno Kopecky

• Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey through the Turbulent Waters of Native History, Edmund Metatawabin with Alexandra Shimo

• Know the Night: A Memoir of Survival in the Small Hours, Maria Mutch

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 7, 2014

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 18, 2014

2013

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

• The Juggler’s Children: A Journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us, Carolyn Abraham

• The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty, Nina Munk

• The Memory of Water, Allen Smutylo

• Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother, Priscila Uppal

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 28, 2013

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 13, 2013

2012

• Leonardo and the Last Supper, Ross King

• A Thousand Farewells: A Reporter’s Journey from Refugee Camp to the Arab Spring, Nahlah Ayed

• The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca, Carol Bishop-Gwyn

• Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest, Wade Davis

• What We Talk About When We Talk About War, Noah Richler

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 2, 2012

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 13, 2012

2011

• Mordecai: The Life & Times, Charles Foran

• The Damned: The Canadians at the Battle of Hong Kong and the POW Experience, 1941-45, Nathan M. Greenfield

• Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times, Volume Two: 1867-1891, Richard Gwyn

• The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit, J.J. Lee

• Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America’s Great Forests, Andrew Nikiforuk

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 11, 2011

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 15, 2011

2010

• Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada, Allan Casey

• A History of Marriage, Elizabeth Abbott

• The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Search for His Disabled Son, Ian Brown

• Burmese Lessons: A Love Story, Karen Connelly

• Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968-2000, John English

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 13, 2010

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 16, 2010

2009

• A Place Within: Rediscovering India, M.G. Vassanji

• Fire and Fury: The Allied bombing of Germany, 1942-45, Randall Hansen

• Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds, Trevor Herriot

• American Raj: Liberation or Domination?, Eric S. Margolis

• The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the search for a Baroque masterpiece, Eric Siblin

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 14, 2009

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 17, 2009

2008

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

• God’s Mercies. Rivalry, Betrayal and the Dream of Discovery, Douglas Hunter

• The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek, Sid Marty

• An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century, James Orbinski

• The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Need, Chris Turner

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 21, 2008

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 29, 2008

2018

• Dear Evelyn, Kathy Page

• The Saturday Night Ghost Club, Craig Davidson

• Washington Black, Esi Edugyan

• Beirut Hellfire Society, Rawi Hage

• Land Mammals and Sea Creatures, Jen Neale

  • Shortlist Announcement – Sept. 26, 2018

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 7, 2018

2017

• Brother, David Chariandy

• Bad Endings, Carleigh Baker

• The Last Neanderthal, Claire Cameron

• American War, Omar El Akkad

• This Accident of Being Lost, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

  • Shortlist Announcement – Sept. 27, 2017

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 14, 2017

2016

• Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains, Yasuko Thanh

• After James, Michael Helm

• The Parcel, Anosh Irani

• Willem de Kooning's Paintbrush, Kerry Lee Powell

• The Break, Katherena Vermette

  • Shortlist Announcement – Sept. 21, 2016

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 2, 2016

2015

• Fifteen Dogs, André Alexis

• His Whole Life, Elizabeth Hay

• Red Jacket, Pamela Mordecai

• Confidence, Russell Smith

• The Jaguar's Children, John Vaillant

  • Shortlist Announcement – Sept. 29, 2015

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 3, 2015

2014

• All My Puny Sorrows, Miriam Toews

• Pastoral, André Alexis

• The Confabulist, Steven Galloway

• All Saints, K.D. Miller

• Girl Runner, Carrie Snyder

  • Shortlist Announcement – Sept. 30, 2014

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 4, 2014

2013

• A Beautiful Truth, Colin McAdam

• The Eliot Girls, Krista Bridge

• Hellgoing, Lynn Coady

• A Bird's Eye, Cary Fagan

• Caught, Lisa Moore

  • Shortlist Announcement – Sept. 30, 2013

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 20, 2013

2012

• Siege 13, Tamas Dobozy

• The Tinsmith, Tim Bowling

• Carnival, Rawi Hage

• Inside, Alix Ohlin

• The Purchase, Linda Spalding

  • Shortlist Announcement – Sept. 19, 2012

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 7, 2012

2011

• The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt

• The Meagre Tarmac, Clark Blaise

• The Beggar's Garden, Michael Christie

• Half-Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan

• The Quiet Twin, Dan Vyleta

  • Shortlist Announcement – Sept. 28, 2011

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 1, 2011

2010

• Room, Emma Donoghue

• Practical Jean, Trevor Cole

• Cities of Refuge, Michael Helm

• Annabel, Kathleen Winter

• The Death of Donna Whalen, Michael Winter

  • Shortlist Announcement – Sept. 29, 2010

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 2, 2010

2009

• The Golden Mean, Annabel Lyon

• Fences in Breathing, Nicole Brossard

• Generation A, Douglas Coupland

• Too Much Happiness, Alice Munro

• Eva’s Threepenny Theatre, Andrew Steinmetz

  • Shortlist Announcement – Sept. 30, 2009

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 24, 2009

2008

• The Flying Troutmans, Miriam Toews

• Atmospheric Disturbances, Rivka Galchen

• Cockroach, Rawi Hage

• The Man Game, Lee Henderson

• Red Dog, Red Dog, Patrick Lane

  • Shortlist Announcement – Feb. 26, 2008

  • Winner Announcement – April 1, 2008

2018

• All Things Consoled: A Daughter’s Memoir, Elizabeth Hay

• Antigone Undone: Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, Ivo Van Hove, and the Art of Resistance, Will Aitken

• Heart Berries: A Memoir, Terese Marie Mailhot

• In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, Judi Rever

• The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family, Lindsay Wong

  • Shortlist Announcement – Sept. 19, 2018

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 7, 2018

2017

• Life on the Ground Floor: Life on the Ground Floor: Letters from the Edge of Emergency Medicine, James Maskalyk

• Tomboy Survival Guide, Ivan Coyote

• Birds Art Life, Kyo Maclear

• All We Leave Behind: A Reporter's Journey into the Lives of Others, Carol Off

• Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City, Tanya Talaga

  • Shortlist Announcement – Sept. 20, 2017

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 14, 2017

2016

• A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War, Deborah Campbell

• Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-first Year: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?, Ian Brown

• Pumpkinflowers: An Israeli Soldier's Story, Matti Friedman

• Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies, Ross King

• Red Star Tattoo: My Life as a Girl Revolutionary, Sonja Larsen

  • Shortlist Announcement – Sept. 28, 2016

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 2, 2016

2015

• Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva, Rosemary Sullivan

• Tell It to the World: International Justice and the Secret Campaign to Hide Mass Murder in Kosovo, Eliott Behar

• Kitten Clone: Inside Alcatel-Lucent, Douglas Coupland

• Empire of Deception: From Chicago to Nova Scotia – The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated a Nation, Dean Jobb

• Cease: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Desire, Lynette Loeppky

  • Shortlist Announcement – Sept. 16, 2015

  • Winner Announcement – Oct. 6, 2015

2014

• This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, Naomi Klein

• Shopping for Votes: How Politicians Choose Us and We Choose Them, Susan Delacourt

• Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design, Charles Montgomery

• Extreme Mean: Trolls, Bullies and Predators Online, Paula Todd

• Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage, Kathleen Winter

  • Shortlist Announcement – Sept. 17, 2014

  • Winner Announcement – Oct. 14, 2014

2013

• The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan, Graeme Smith

• The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America, Thomas King

• The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be, J.B. MacKinnon

• This Great Escape: The Case of Michael Paryla, Andrew Steinmetz

• Projection: Encounters With My Runaway Mother, Priscilla Uppal

  • Shortlist Announcement – Sept. 18, 2013

  • Winner Announcement – Oct. 21, 2013

2012

• A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape, Candace Savage

• Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes, Kamal Al-Solaylee

• Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery, and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age, Modris Eksteins

• Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile, Taras Grescoe

• The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit, JJ Lee

  • Shortlist Announcement – Sept. 25, 2012

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 12, 2012

2011

• Mordecai: The Life and Times, Charles Foran

• Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe, Charlotte Gill

• Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald – His Life, Our Times, Richard J. Gwyn

• Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound, Grant Lawrence

• Why Not?: Fifteen Reasons to Live, Ray Robertson

  • Shortlist Announcement – Sept. 20, 2011

  • Winner Announcement – Oct. 25, 2011

2010

• What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past, James FitzGerald

• Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven, Ross King

• Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me, Sarah Leavitt

• The Ptarmigan's Dilemma: An Exploration into How Life Organizes and Supports Itself, John Theberge & Mary Theberge

• The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das, Merrily Weisbord

  • Shortlist Announcement – Sept. 29, 2010

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 2, 2010

2009

• Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life, Brian Brett

• The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World, Wade Davis

• Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds, Trevor Herriot

• The Dog by the Cradle, the Serpent Beneath: Some Paradoxes of Human-Animal Relationships, Erika Ritter

• The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece, Eric Siblin

  • Shortlist Announcement – Sept. 30, 2009

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 24, 2009

2008

• Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood, Taras Grescoe

• Under Pressure: Rescuing Childhood from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting, Carl Honoré

• Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City, Mark Kingwell

• The Gift of Thanks: The Roots, Persistence and Paradoxical Meanings of a Social Ritual, Margaret Visser

• Burning Down the House: Fighting Fire and Losing Myself, Russell Wangersky

  • Shortlist Announcement – Oct. 1, 2008

  • Winner Announcement – Nov. 17, 2008

2018

• Forgiveness, Mark Sakamoto

• American War, Omar El Akkad

• The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline

• Precious Cargo, Craig Davidson

• The Boat People, Sharon Bala

  • Longlist Announcement – Jan. 30, 2018

  • Winner Announcement – March 29, 2018

2017

• Fifteen Dogs, André Alexis

• Company Town, Madeline Ashby

• The Right to be Cold, Sheila Watt-Cloutier

• Nostalgia, M.G. Vassanji

• The Break, Katherena Vermette

  • Longlist Announcement – Jan. 31, 2017

  • Winner Announcement – March 30, 2017

2016

• The Illegal, Lawrence Hill

• Minister Without Portfolio, Michael Winter

• Bone and Bread, Saleema Nawaz

• Birdie, Tracey Lindberg

• The Hero’s Walk, Anita Rau Badami

  • Longlist Announcement – Jan. 20, 2016

  • Winner Announcement – March 24, 2016

2015

• Ru, Kim Thúy

• Intolerable, Kamal Al-Solaylee

• The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King

• And the Birds Rained Down, Jocelyn Saucier

• When Everything Feels Like the Movies, Raziel Reid

  • Longlist Announcement – Jan. 25, 2015

  • Winner Announcement – March 19, 2015

2014

• The Orenda, Joseph Boyden

• The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood

• Half Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan

• Annabel, Kathleen Winter

• Cockroach, Rawi Hage

  • Longlist Announcement – Nov. 27, 2013

  • Winner Announcement – March 6, 2014

2013

• February, Lisa Moore

• Indian Horse, Richard Wagamese

• The Age of Hope, David Bergen

• Away, Jane Urquhart

• Two Solitudes, Hugh MacLennan

  • Longlist Announcement – Nov. 23, 2012

  • Winner Announcement – Feb. 14, 2013

2012

• Something Fierce, Carmen Aguirre

• The Game, Ken Dryden

• On a Cold Road: Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock, Dave Bidini

• Prisoner of Tehran: A Memoir, Marina Nemat

• The Tiger, John Vaillant

  • Longlist Announcement – Nov. 23, 2011

  • Winner Announcement – Feb. 10, 2012

2011

• The Best Laid Plans, Terry Fallis

• The Birth House, Ami McKay

• The Bone Cage, Angie Abdou

• Essex County, Jeff Lemire

• Unless, Carol Shields

  • Longlist Announcement – Nov. 24, 2010

  • Winner Announcement – Feb. 11, 2011

2010

• Nikolski, Nicolas Dickner

• Fall on Your Knees, Ann-Marie MacDonald

• Good to a Fault, Marina Endicott

• Generation X, Douglas Coupland

• The Jade Peony, Wayson Choy

  • Longlist Announcement – Dec. 1, 2009

  • Winner Announcement – March 12, 2010

2009

• The Book Of Negroes, Lawrence Hill

• Mercy Among the Children, David Adams Richards

• The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant, Michel Tremblay

• The Outlander, Gil Adamson

• Fruit, Brian Francis

  • Longlist Announcement – Nov. 25, 2008

  • Winner Announcement – March 6, 2009

2008

• King Leary, Paul Quarrington

• Brown Girl in the Ring, Nalo Hopkinson

• From the Fifteenth District: A Novella and Eight Short Stories, Mavis Gallant

• Icefield, Thomas Wharton

• Not Wanted on the Voyage, Timothy Findley

  • Longlist Announcement – Nov. 25, 2007

  • Winner Announcement – Feb. 29, 2008

2020

• Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson, Mark Bourrie

• Had It Coming: What’s Fair in the Age of #MeToo?, Robyn Doolittle

• Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Jessica McDiarmid

• The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths and the Dangerous Illusions That Shape Our World, Ziya Tong

• The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator, Timothy C. Winegard

  • Shortlist Announcement – Jan. 8, 2020

  • Winner Announcement – March 2, 2020

2019

• Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road, Kate Harris

• Just Let Me Look at You: On Fatherhood, Bill Gaston

• Jan in 35 Pieces: A Memoir in Music, Ian Hampton

• All Things Consoled: A Daughter’s Memoir, Elizabeth Hay

• Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age, Darrel McLeod

  • Shortlist Announcement – January 9, 2019

  • Winner Announcement – March 4, 2019

2018

• Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death and Hard Truths in a Northern City, Tanya Talaga

• Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on Bering's Great Voyage to Alaska, Stephen R. Bown

• Yardwork: A Biography of an Urban Place, Daniel Coleman

• Life on the Ground Floor: Letters from the Edge of Emergency Medicine, James Maskalyk

• In the Name of Humanity, Max Wallace

  • Shortlist Announcement – Jan. 10, 2018

  • Winner Announcement – Feb. 26, 2018

2017

• Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of Water Lilies, Ross King

• By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz, Max Eisen

• Pumpkinflowers: An Israeli Soldier's Story, Matti Friedman

• Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World, Marc Raboy

• This Is Not My Life: A Memoir of Love, Prison, and Other Complications, Diane Schoemperlen

  • Shortlist Announcement – Jan. 11, 2017

  • Winner Announcement – March 6, 2017

2016

• Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva, Rosemary Sullivan

• Sixty: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning?, Ian Brown

• This is Happy, Camilla Gibb

• Dispatches from the Front: Matthew Halton, Canada's Voice at War, David Halton

• The Reason You Walk, Wab Kinew

  • Shortlist Announcement – Jan. 13, 2016

  • Winner Announcement – March 7, 2016

2015

• They Left Us Everything, Plum Johnson

• One Day in August: The Untold Story Behind Canada’s Tragedy at Dieppe, David O'Keefe

• The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, Barbara Taylor

• And Home Was Kariakoo: A Memoir of East Africa, M.G. Vassanji

• Boundless, Kathleen Winter

  • Shortlist Announcement – Jan. 14, 2015

  • Winner Announcement – March 2, 2015

2014

• The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America, Thomas King

• The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master and the Trial that Shocked a Country, Charlotte Gray

• The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan, Graeme Smith

• The Once and Future World: Nature As it Was, As it Is, As it Could Be, J.B. MacKinnon

• Arthur Erickson: An Architect’s Life, David Stouck

  • Shortlist Announcement – Jan. 15, 2014

  • Winner Announcement – March 10, 2014

2013

• Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy, Andrew Preston

• The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca, Carol Bishop-Gwyn

• Warlords: Borden, Mackenzie King, and Canada’s World Wars, Tim Cook

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

• Leonardo and the Last Supper, Ross King

  • Shortlist Announcement – Jan. 9, 2013

  • Winner Announcement – March 4, 2013

2012

• The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary, Andrew Westoll

• Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, Wade Davis

• Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe, Charlotte Gill

• The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, A Son, and a Suit, J.J. Lee

• Afflictions and Departures: Essays, Madeline Sonik

  • Shortlist Announcement – Jan. 10, 2012

  • Winner Announcement – March 5, 2012

2011

• Mordecai: The Life & Times, Charles Foran

• On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver’s Missing Women, Stevie Cameron

• Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven, Ross King

• The Geography of Arrival: A Memoir, George Sipos

• The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das, Merrily Weisbord

  • Shortlist Announcement – Jan. 11, 2011

  • Winner Announcement – Feb. 14, 2011

2010

• The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Search For His Disabled Son, Ian Brown

• Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968 – 2000, John English

• Rene Levesque, Daniel Poliquin

• The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst, Kenneth Whyte

  • Shortlist Announcement – Jan. 5, 2010

  • Winner Announcement – Feb. 8, 2010

2009

• Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1917 – 1918, Volume Two, Tim Cook

• Sugar: A Bittersweet History, Elizabeth Abbott

• Angel of Vengeance: The “Girl Assassin,” the Governor of St. Petersburg, and Russia's Revolutionary World, Ana Siljak

  • Shortlist Announcement – Jan. 6, 2009

  • Winner Announcement – Feb. 9, 2009

2008

• John A: The Man Who Made Us: The Life and Times of John A. MacDonald, Volume One: 1815 - 1867, Richard Gwyn

• Lost Genius: The Story of a Forgotten Musical Maverick, Kevin Bazzana

• The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son, David Gilmour

• From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her People, Lorna Goodison

• Kasztner's Train: The True Story of Rezso¨ Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust, Anna Porter

  • Shortlist Announcement – Jan. 22, 2008

  • Winner Announcement – March 3, 2008