Tuesday, November 26

Book Awards By Year

2018 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

2018 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

2018 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerMamaskatch: A Cree Coming of AgeDarrel J. McLeodAs a small boy in remote Alberta, Darrel J. McLeod is immersed in his Cree familys history, passed down in the stories of his mother, Bertha. There he is surrounded by her tales of joy and horror—of the strong men in their family, of her love for Darrel, ...Amazon2018 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistDead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My FatherCarys CraggAmazonHeart BerriesTerese Marie MailhotAmazonHomes: A Refugee StoryAbu Bakr al Rabeeah with Winnie YeungAmazonThe Wife’s Tale: A Personal HistoryAida EdemariamAmazon
2018 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

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

2018 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerWayside SangCecily NicholsonHistorically and politically engaged, activist and community oriented, a third book of poems from an award-winning poet....Amazon2018 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistBecause: A Lyric MemoirJoshua MenschAmazonNight Became YearsJason StefanikAmazonThe Blue ClerkDionne BrandAmazonThis Wound is a WorldBilly-Ray BelcourtAmazon
2018 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

2018 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books Winner and Nominees

2018 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books WinnerThey Say BlueJillian TamakiNow available as a board book, the award-winning They Say Blue is a playful, poetic exploration of color and point of view In captivating paintings full of movement and transformation, we follow a young girl through a year or a day as she examines the colo...Amazon2018 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books ShortlistAfricvilleShauntay Grant and Eva CampbellAmazonAt the PondWerner ZimmermannAmazonGo Show the World: A Celebration of Indigenous HeroesWab Kinew and Joe MorseAmazonOcean Meets SkyThe Fan BrothersAmazon
2018 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

2018 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text Winner and Nominees

2018 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerSweep: The Story of a Girl and her MonsterJonathan AuxierFrom the New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Auxier comes an enchanting standalone novel about the power of friendship and the beauty of finding home Nan Sparrow is one of Londons countless "climbers"--children who spend their days cleaning chimney...Amazon2018 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistEbb & FlowHeather SmithAmazonLearning to BreatheJanice Lynn MatherAmazonThe Journey of Little CharlieChristopher Paul CurtisAmazonWinnie’s Great WarLindsay Mattick and Josh GreenhutAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, British Science Fiction Association, BSFA - Novel

2017 BSFA – Novel Winner and Nominees

2017 BSFA - Novel WinnerEurope in WinterDave HutchinsonA Fractured Europe. A Parallel World. A Global Threat. Union has come. The Community is now the largest nation in Europe; trains run there from as far afield as London and Prague. It is an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity. So what is the reason fo...Amazon2017 BSFA - Novel ShortlistA Closed and Common OrbitBecky ChambersAmazonAzanian BridgesNick WoodAmazonDaughter of EdenChris BeckettAmazonOccupy MeTricia SullivanAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Costa Book Award, Costa Book Award - Novel

2017 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

2017 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerReservoir 13Jon McGregorA new novel from celebrated British novelist Jon McGregor--twice longlisted for the Man Booker Prize--Reservoir 13 tells the story of a whole English village haunted by one family's loss....Amazon2017 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistHome FireKamila ShamsieAmazonTin ManSarah WinmanAmazonUnder a Pole StarStef PenneyAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Drama

2017 Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama Winner and Nominees

2017 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerIndian ArmHiro KanagawaThe Allmers live on native leasehold land in British Columbia, with their adopted son Wolfie, a sensitive First Nations sixteen-year-old with cerebral hypoxia. Wolfie--caught in the middle of an intense, unhappy mother and a resigned father--is the pressur...Amazon2017 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama Shortlist1979Michael HealeyAmazonThe Colony of Unrequited DreamsRobert ChafeAmazonThe Virgin TrialKate HennigAmazonWithin the GlassAnna ChattertonAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

2017 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2017 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerWe'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some NightJoel Thomas HynesA blackly comic and heart-rending odyssey by the inimitable author of Down to the Dirt Scrappy tough guy and three-time loser Johnny Keough is going a little stir-crazy awaiting trial for an alleged assault charge involving his girlfriend, Madonna, and a t...Amazon2017 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistAll the Beloved GhostsAlison MacLeodAmazonLost in SeptemberKathleen WinterAmazonThe Water BeetlesMichael KaanAmazonUncertain Weights and MeasuresJocelyn ParrAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

2017 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

2017 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerThe Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic StateGraeme WoodThe definitive book on the distinctive history and psychology of ISIS, based on Woods unprecedented access to the Islamic States own recruiters and supporters, and his extensive time reporting throughout the region. Based on interviews with Islamic State...Amazon2017 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistAll We Leave Behind: A Reporter's Journey into the Lives of OthersCarol OffAmazonThe Handover: How Bigwigs and Bureaucrats Transferred Canada's Best Publisher and the Best Part of our Literary Heritage to a Foreign MultinationalElaine DewarAmazonWhere I Live Now: A Journey through Love and Loss to Healing and HopeSharon ButalaAmazonWhere It Hur...
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

2017 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2017 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerOn Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the FloodRichard HarrisonIn his final years, Richard Harrisons father suffered from a form of dementia, but he died without ever forgetting the poems he had memorized as a student and had taught to Richard as a child. In 2013, the poet feared his fathers ashes had been lost in t...Amazon2017 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistAll the Names BetweenJulia McCarthyAmazonSelahNora GouldAmazonSlow WarBenjamin HertwigAmazonWhat the Soul Doesn't WantLorna CrozierAmazon