Tuesday, November 26

Book Awards By Year

2019 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

2019 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerFive WivesJoan ThomasFive Wives is a riveting, often wrenching story of evangelism and its legacy, teeming with atmosphere and compelling characters and rich in emotional impact....Amazon2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistEyeMarianne MicrosAmazonLate BreakingK.D. MillerAmazonThe InnocentsMichael CrummeyAmazonThe StudentCary FaganAmazon
2019 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

2019 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerTo the River: Losing My BrotherDon GillmorAn eloquent and haunting exploration of suicide in which one of Canadas most gifted writers attempts to understand why his brother took his own life. Which leads him to another powerful question: Why are boomers killing themselves at a far greater rate th...Amazon2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistCity of Omens: A Search for the Missing Women of the BorderlandsDan WerbAmazonFryderyk Chopin: A Life and TimesAlan WalkerAmazonSea Trial: Sailing After My FatherBrian HarveyAmazonTiny Lights for TravellersNaomi K. LewisAmazon
2019 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

2019 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerHoly WildGwen Benaway...Amazon2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistHow to Avoid Huge ShipsJulie BruckAmazonSt. Boniface ElegiesCatherine HunterAmazonThe Grand River Watershed: A Folk EcologyKaren HouleAmazonTreaty #Armand Garnet RuffoAmazon
2019 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Translation

2019 Governor General’s Literary Award – Translation (French to English) Winner and Nominees

2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) WinnerBirds of a KindLinda GaboriauIs it really important to cling to our lost identities? A terrorist attack in Jerusalem puts Eitan, a young Israeli-German genetic researcher, in a coma, while his girlfriend Wahida, an Moroccan graduate student, is left to uncover his family secret that b...Amazon2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) Shortlist887Louisa BlairAmazonSynapsesPablo StraussAmazonThe EmbalmerRhonda MullinsAmazonViSheila FischmanAmazon
2019 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books

2019 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books Winner and Nominees

2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books WinnerSmall in the CitySydney SmithBeing small can be overwhelming in a city. People dont see you. The loud sounds of the sirens and cyclists can be scary. And the streets are so busy it can make your brain feel like theres too much stuff in it. But if you know where to find good hiding p...Amazon2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books ShortlistAlbert's Quiet QuestIsabelle ArsenaultAmazonBirdsongJulie FlettAmazonHow to Give Your Cat a BathNicola Winstanley and John MartzAmazonKing MouseCary Fagan and Dena SeiferlingAmazon
2019 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text

2019 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text Winner and Nominees

2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerStand on the SkyErin BowTwelve--year-old Aisulu defies the expectations of her Kazakh family and tradition to train an eagle in order to save her brother, Serik, and prevent her family from giving up their nomadic life forever....Amazon2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistBreak in Case of EmergencyBrian FrancisAmazonCold White SunSue Farrell HollerAmazonGirl of the Southern SeaMichelle KadarusmanAmazonThe Grey SistersJo TreggiariAmazon
2018 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, British Science Fiction Association, BSFA - Novel

2018 BSFA – Novel Winner and Nominees

2018 BSFA - Novel WinnerThe RiftNina AllanSelena and Julie are sisters. As children they were closest companions, but as they grow towards maturity, a rift develops between them. There are greater rifts, however. Julie goes missing at the age of seventeen. It will be twenty years before Selena see...Amazon2018 BSFA - Novel ShortlistDreams Before the Start of TimeAnne CharnockAmazonExit WestMohsin HamidAmazonProvenanceAnn LeckieAmazon
2018 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Costa Book Award, Costa Book Award - Novel

2018 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

2018 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerNormal PeopleSally RooneyAnd as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other. Normal People is the story of mutual fascination, friendship and love....Amazon2018 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistFrom a Low and Quiet SeaDonal RyanAmazonThe Italian TeacherTom RachmanAmazonThe Silence of the GirlsPat BarkerAmazon
2018 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Drama

2018 Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama Winner and Nominees

2018 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerBotticelli in the Fire & Sunday in SodomJordan TannahillBotticelli in the Fire imagines the famed painter of The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli, as an irrepressible seeker of love and pleasure caught between the powerful Medici family, the firebrand teachings of a zealot friar, and his young lover, Leonardo ...Amazon2018 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistGertrude and AliceAnna Chatterton and Evalyn Parry with Karin RandojaAmazonParadise LostErin ShieldsAmazonThe Men in WhiteAnosh IraniAmazonThis Is How We Got HereKeith BarkerAmazon
2018 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

2018 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2018 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe Red WordSarah Henstra"A smart, dark, and take-no-prisoners look at rape culture and the extremes to which ideology can go, The Red Word is a campus novel like no other. As her sophomore year begins, Karen enters into the back-to-school revelry -- particularly at a fraternity c...Amazon2018 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistBeirut Hellfire SocietyRawi HageAmazonJonny AppleseedJoshua WhiteheadAmazonWomen TalkingMiriam ToewsAmazonZolitudePaige CooperAmazon