Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

1988 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerIn the Sleep RoomAnne Collins...Amazon1988 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistFishing with JohnEdith IglauerAmazonThe Arctic GrailPierre BertonAmazonWhen Freedoms CollideAlan A. BorovoyAmazon

1989 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerWillie—The Life of W. Somerset MaughamRobert Calder...Amazon1989 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistAn Odyssey in Time: The Dinosaurs of North AmericaDale A. RussellAmazonWombs and Alien SpiritsJanice BoddyAmazonWordstruckRobert MacNeilAmazon

2014 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerThe End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant ConnectionMichael HarrisOnly one generation in history (ours) will experience life both with and without the Internet. For everyone who follows us, online life will simply be the air they breathe. Today, we revel in ubiquitous information and constant connection, rarely stopping ...Amazon2014 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistKnow the Night: A Memoir of Survival in the Small HoursMaria MutchAmazonThe Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern GatewayArno KopeckyAmazonUp Ghost River: A Chief's Journey through the Turbulent Waters of Native HistoryEdmund Metatawabin with Alexandra ShimoAmazon

2013 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerJourney with No Maps: A Life of P.K. PageSandra DjwaPoet, traveller, artist, and mystic - the story of one extraordinary womans many lives....Amazon2013 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistProjection: Encounters with My Runaway MotherPriscila UppalAmazonThe Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End PovertyNina MunkAmazonThe Juggler’s Children: A Journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind UsCarolyn AbrahamAmazonThe Memory of WaterAllen SmutyloAmazon

2012 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerLeonardo and the Last SupperRoss KingFor more than five centuries The Last Supper has been an artistic, religious and cultural icon. The art historian Kenneth Clark called it the keystone of European art, and for a century after its creation it was regarded as nothing less than a miraculous...Amazon2012 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistA Thousand Farewells: A Reporter’s Journey from Refugee Camp to the Arab SpringNahlah AyedAmazonInto the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of EverestWade DavisAmazonThe Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia FrancaCarol Bishop-GwynAmazonWhat We Talk About When We Talk About WarNoah RichlerAmazon

2005 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerThe Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed of John the Painter, First ModernJohn VaillantOn a bleak winter night in 1997, a British Columbia timber scout named Grant Hadwin committed an act of shocking violence: he destroyed the legendary Golden Spruce of the Queen Charlotte Islands. With its rich colours, towering height and luminous needles,...Amazon2005 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistRiding with Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles and BooksTed BishopAmazonThe Incendiary: The Misadventures TerroristJessica WarnerAmazonThe Molly FireMichael MitchellAmazonWritten in the Flesh: A History of DesireEdward ShorterAmazon

2011 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerMordecai: The Life & TimesCharles ForanForans book is IT: the definitive, detailed, intimate portrait of Mordecai Richler, the lion of Canadian literature, and the turbulent, changing times that nurtured him. It is also an extraordinary love story that lasted half a century. The first major bi...Amazon2011 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistEmpire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America’s Great ForestsAndrew NikiforukAmazonNation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times, Volume Two: 1867-1891Richard GwynAmazonThe Damned: The Canadians at the Battle of Hong Kong and the POW Experience, 1941-45Nathan M. GreenfieldAmazonThe Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a So...

2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerA Place Within: Rediscovering IndiaM.G. VassanjiA Globe and Mail Best Book It would take many lifetimes, it was said to me during my first visit, to see all of India. The desperation must have shown on my face to absorb and digest all I possibly could. This was not something I had articulated or resolve...Amazon2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistAmerican Raj: Liberation or Domination?Eric S. MargolisAmazonFire and Fury: The Allied bombing of Germany, 1942-45Randall HansenAmazonGrass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland BirdsTrevor HerriotAmazonThe Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the search for a Baroque masterpieceEric SiblinAmazon

2008 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerFifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian ArmyChristie BlatchfordLong before she made her first trip to Afghanistan as an embedded reporter for The Globe and Mail, Christie Blatchford was already one of Canadas most respected and eagerly read journalists. Her vivid prose, her unmistakable voice, her ability to connect ...Amazon2008 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistAn Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first CenturyJames OrbinskiAmazonGod’s Mercies. Rivalry, Betrayal and the Dream of DiscoveryDouglas HunterAmazonThe Black Grizzly of Whiskey CreekSid MartyAmazonThe Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We NeedChris TurnerAmazon