Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

1986 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe Progress of LoveAlice Munro**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** These dazzling and utterly satisfying stories explore varieties and degrees of love - filial, platonic, sexual, parental and imagined - in the lives of apparently ordinary folk. In fact, Munros characters pulse ...Amazon1986 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistA Stone WatermelonLois BraunAmazonAdult EntertainmentJohn MetcalfAmazonNo Fixed AddressAritha van HerkAmazon

1987 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerA Dream Like MineM.T. KellyConsidering whether it is moral to use radical and violent solutions to stop the destruction of the environment, this dark novel portrays a succession of fights over land rights and pollution in northern Ontario. As tensions increase, a local Canadian Nati...Amazon1987 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistIn the Skin of a LionMichael OndaatjeAmazonSwann: a mysteryCarol ShieldsAmazonTales from Firozsha BaagRohinton MistryAmazonThe Ring MasterDavid GurrAmazon

1988 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerNights Below Station StreetDavid Adams RichardsJoe, an unemployed alcoholic, tries to improve his relationship with his teenage daughter Adele, set in a remote town in northern New Brunswick. This is a story of love, hate, desire and survival....Amazon1988 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistAtmospheres ApollinaireMark FrutkinAmazonCat's EyeMargaret AtwoodAmazonThe Cost of LivingKenneth RaduAmazonThe Victory of Geraldine GullJoan ClarkAmazon

1989 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerWhale MusicPaul QuarringtonDes Howell is a former rock n roll star who never leaves his secluded oceanfront mansion. Naked, rich and fabulously deranged, he subsists on a steady diet of whiskey, pharmaceuticals and jelly doughnuts and occasionally works on his masterpiece, "Whale ...Amazon1989 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistA View from the RoofHelen WeinzweigAmazonThe Golden ThreadAnn CopelandAmazon

2014 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe Back of the TurtleThomas KingWinner of the Governor Generals Literary Award for Fiction Winner of the Sunburst Award Winner of the Copper Cylinder Adult Award Finalist for the Trillium Book Award Finalist for the CBC Bookie Awards Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Awar...Amazon2014 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistJuliet Was a SurpriseBill GastonAmazonMy OctoberClaire Holden RothmanAmazonSweetlandMichael CrummeyAmazonThe Opening SkyJoan ThomasAmazon

2013 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe LuminariesEleanor CattonThe bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning novel hailed as "a true achievement. Catton has built a lively parody of a 19th-century novel, and in so doing created a novel for the 21st, something utterly new. The pages fly."--New York Times Book Review It is ...Amazon2013 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistA Beautiful TruthColin McAdamAmazonThe Hungry GhostsShyam SelvaduraiAmazonThe Lion SeekerKenneth BonertAmazonThe OrendaJoseph BoydenAmazon

2012 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe PurchaseLinda SpaldingWinner of Canadas 2012 Governor Generals Award for Fiction In this provocative and starkly beautiful historical novel, a Quaker family moves from Pennsylvania to the Virginia frontier, where slaves are the only available workers and where the familys va...Amazon2012 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistDr. Brinkley’s TowerRobert HoughAmazonSiege 13Tamas DobozyAmazonThe Headmaster’s WagerVincent LamAmazonThe Juliet StoriesCarrie SnyderAmazon

2005 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerA Perfect Night to Go to ChinaDavid GilmourThis astonishing novel - unlike anything Gilmour has ever written before - begins with every parents worst nightmare: the disappearance of a child. A father makes a casual error of judgement one evening and leaves his six-year-old son alone for fifteen mi...Amazon2005 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistAlphabetKathy PageAmazonLadykillerCharlotte GillAmazonNellcott Is My DarlingGolda FriedAmazonThree Day RoadJoseph BoydenAmazon

2011 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe Sisters BrothersPatrick deWittFrom the author of the acclaimed Ablutions, this dazzlingly original second novel is a darkly funny, offbeat western about a reluctant assassin and his murderous brother....Amazon2011 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistHalf-Blood Blues: A NovelEsi EdugyanAmazonThe Free WorldDavid BezmozgisAmazonThe Little ShadowsMarina EndicottAmazonTouchAlexi ZentnerAmazon