City of Victoria Butler Book PrizeShortlist

Given by City of Victoria, BC

59 Works 6,366 Books 329 Reviews ½ 3.8
Categories:
All, Shortlist (59), Winner (15)
Years:
All, 2019 (4), 2018 (3), 2017 (3), 2016 (4), 2015 (4), 2014 (4), 2013 (4), 2012 (4), 2011 (3), 2010 (4), 2009 (4), 2008 (2), 2007 (4), 2006 (4), 2005 (4), 2004 (4)
WorkYear
E. J. Hughes Paints Vancouver Island by Robert Amos
2019
God of Shadows by Lorna Crozier
2019
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
2019
Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age by Darrel J. McLeod
2019
What the soul doesn't want : poems by Lorna Crozier
2018
A Mariner's Guide to Self Sabotage : Stories by Bill Gaston
2018
Sculpture in Canada : A History by Maria Tippett
2018
News From the Red Desert: A novel by Kevin Patterson
2017
By Gaslight by Steven Price
2017
Short Takes on the Apocalypse by Patricia Young
2017
Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver by Frances Backhouse
2016
Becoming Lin by Tricia Dower
2016
He Leaves His Face in the Funeral Car by Arleen Paré
2016
Double Dutch by Laura Trunkey
2016
The Delusionist by Grant Buday
2015
Ordinary Hours by Karen Enns
2015
Lake of Two Mountains by Arleen Paré
2015
Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America by Nancy J. Turner
2015
Every Happy Family by Dede Crane
2014
The Lost Letters by Catherine Greenwood
2014
The Land of Heart's Delight: Early Maps and Charts of Vancouver Island by Michael Layland
2014
Local Customs by Audrey Thomas
2014
Psychology and Other Stories by C. P. Boyko
2013
The Book of Marvels: A Compendium of Everyday Things by Lorna Crozier
2013
The World by Bill Gaston
2013
Life and Art of Ina D.D. Uhthoff, The (Unheralded Artists of BC) by Christina Johnson-Dean
2013
I'll See You in My Dreams: An Arthur Beauchamp Novel by William Deverell
2012
Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
2012
All the Dirt: Reflections on Organic Farming by Rachel Fisher
2012
Breakout from Juno: First Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign, July 4-August 21, 1944 (Canadian Battle) by Mark Zuehlke
2012
A Walk with the Rainy Sisters: In Praise of British Columbia's Places by Stephen Hume
2011
Working with Wool: A Coast Salish Legacy and the Cowichan Sweater by Sylvia Olsen
2011
Old Lives: In the Chilcotin Backcountry by John Schreiber
2011
The Secret Lives of Litterbugs by M.A.C. Farrant
2010
The Secret Signature of Things by Eve Joseph
2010
The Wolsenburg Clock by Jay Ruzesky
2010
Vanishing and Other Stories (P.S.) by Deborah Willis
2010
The Cult of Quick Repair by Dede Crane
2009
Fatal Tide: When The Race Of A Lifetime Goes Wrong by David Leach
2009
Sima's Undergarments for Women by Ilana Stanger-Ross
2009
Here Come the Moonbathers by Patricia Young
2009
Little Emperors: A Year with the Future of China by JoAnn Dionne
2008
Terrible Victory: First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign: September 13 - November 6, 1944 by Mark Zuehlke
2008
Hand Luggage: A Memoir in Verse by P. K. Page
2007
Airstream by Patricia Young
2007
Moving Day by Terence Young
2007
For Honour's Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace by Mark Zuehlke
2007
John Muir: West Coast Pioneer by Daryl Ashby
2006
Sympathy: A Novel by Dede Crane
2006
Tacoma Narrows by Mitchell Parry
2006
The Crazy Man by Pamela Porter
2006
I'll tell you a secret : a memory of seven summers by Anne Coleman
2005
Beyond Measure by Pauline Holdstock
2005
Juno Beach: Canada's D-Day Victory, June 6, 1944 by Mark Zuehlke
2005
Robinson's Crossing by Jan Zwicky
2005
The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake by Samuel Bawlf
2004
Distance by Jack Hodgins
2004
The Canning Season by Polly Horvath
2004
Lost World: Rewriting Prehistory---How New Science Is Tracing America's Ice Age Mariners by Tom Koppel
2004

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