City of Vancouver Book Award

Given by City of Vancouver

114 Works 5,909 Books 239 Reviews ½ 3.8
The City of Vancouver Book Award is presented annually by the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to the best book about the city. The book may be from any category as long as its subject show more matter focuses on Vancouver or the story is based in the city. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (33), Shortlist (81)
Categories:
All, Tie (3), No Category (111)
Years:
All, 2019 (5), 2018 (2), 2017 (4), 2016 (3), 2015 (4), 2014 (5), 2013 (4), 2012 (5), 2011 (3), 2010 (4), 2009 (3), 2008 (4), 2007 (4), 2006 (4), 2005 (4), 2004 (6), 2003 (4), 2002 (4), 2001 (4), 2000 (4), 1999 (3), 1998 (3), 1997 (3), 1996 (3), 1995 (3), 1994 (3), 1993 (3), 1992 (5), 1991 (3), 1990 (4), 1989 (1)

Winner 33

WorkCategoryYear
People Among the People: The Public Art of Susan Point by ROBERT D WATT2019
Dear current occupant : a memoir by Chelene Knight2018
Bad Endings by Carleigh Baker2017
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Unceded Territories by Karen Duffek2016
The Outer Harbour by Wayde Compton2015
Arthur Erickson: An Architect's Life by David Stouck2014
How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir by Amber Dawn2013
YVR by W. H. New2012
The Beggar's Garden by Michael Christie2011
Visions of British Columbia: A Landscape Manual by Bruce Grenville2010
The Man Game by Lee Henderson2009
Hope in Shadows: Stories and Photographs of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside by Brad Cran2008
Vancouver Remembered by Michael Kluckner2007
Waterfront : The Illustrated Maritime Story of Greater Vancouver by James P. DelgadoTie2006
Stanley Park's Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch, and Brockton Point by Jean Barman2006
Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination by Lance Berelowitz2005
L.D.: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver by Daniel Francis2004
Heroines by Lincoln ClarkesTie2003
Stan Douglas: Every Building on 100 West Hastings by Reid ShierTie2003
A Sto:lo-Coast Salish Historical Atlas by Keith Thor Carlson2002
Simple Recipes by Madeleine Thien2001
Lions Gate by Lilia D'Acres2000
Keys to kingdoms by Bud Osborn1999
The Greater Vancouver Book: An Urban Encyclopedia by Chuck Davis1998
The new spirit: Modern architecture in Vancouver, 1938-1963 by Rhodri Winson Liscombe1997
The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy1996
Earle Birney: A Life by Elspeth Cameron1995
The Concubine's Children by Denise Chong1994
Vancouver: A Visual History by Bruce Macdonald1993
Trees of Vancouver/a Guide to the Common and Unusual Trees of the City by Gerald B. Straley1992
Vanishing Vancouver by Michael Kluckner1991
Disappearing Moon Cafe by Sky Lee1990
Saltwater City: An Illustrated History of the Chinese in Vancouver by Paul Yee1989

Shortlist 81

WorkYear
The Forbidden Purple City by Philip Huynh2019
Murder by Milkshake: an Astonishing True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic Killer. by Eve Lazarus2019
No Fixed Address by Susin Nielsen2019
Port of Being by Shazia Hafiz Ramji2019
Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction by Travis Lupick2018
Susan Point : spindle whorl by Susan A. Point2017
Pandas on the Eastside by Gabrielle S. Prendergast2017
Invisible Dead by Sam Wiebe2017
The Revolving City: 51 Poems and the Stories Behind Them by Wayde Compton2016
That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away by Lorimer Shenher2016
Live at the Commodore: The Story of Vancouver's Historic Commodore Ballroom by Aaron Chapman2015
Hastings-Sunrise by Bren Simmers2015
Mister Got To Go, Where Are You? by Lois Simmie2015
What Makes Olga Run?: The Mystery of the 90-Something Track Star and What She Can Teach Us About Living Longer, Happier Lives by Bruce Grierson2014
How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun by Doretta Lau2014
Anatomy of a Girl Gang by Ashley Little2014
Artificial Cherry by Billeh Nickerson2014
Ink on Paper by Brad Cran2013
Exploring Vancouver: The Architectural Guide by Harold Kalman2013
Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History (Nature | History | Society Series) by Sean Kheraj2013
V6A: Writing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside by John Mikhail Asfour2012
Letters from Vienna: A Daughter Uncovers Her Family's Jewish Past by Claudia Cornwall2012
Undesirables: White Canada and the Komagata Maru -- An Illustrated History by Ali Kazimi2012
The Better Mother by Jen Sookfong Lee2012
After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region by Wayde Compton2011
Vancouver Kids by Lesley McKnight2011
The Box by George Bowering2010
Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future by Matt Hern2010
A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Vancouver by Christopher Macdonald2010
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Maté2009
Nightmarker by Meredith Quartermain2009
Falsework by Gary Geddes2008
At Home with History: The Untold Secrets of Greater Vancouver's Heritage Homes by Eve Lazarus2008
The Man Next Door Dances: The Art of Peter Bingham by Kaija Pepper2008
Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? by Anita Rau Badami2007
The Age of Cities by Brett Josef Grubisic2007
Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs by Fred Herzog2007
Historical Atlas of Vancouver and the Lower Fraser Valley by Derek Hayes2006
B.C. Binning by Abraham J. Rogatnick2006
All That Matters by Wayson Choy2005
The Vancouver Stories: West Coast Fiction from Canada's Best Writers by Douglas Coupland2005
In Plain Sight: Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver by Leslie A. Robertson2005
Sitting Practice: A Novel by Caroline Adderson2004
The Best Thing For You by Annabel Lyon2004
The Vancouver Achievement: Urban Planning and Design by John Punter2004
Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister by Maggie de Vries2004
The Bone Collector's Son by Paul Yee2004
Vancouver, City on the Edge: Living with a Dynamic Geological Landscape by John J. Clague2003
Intimate Distances by Fiona Tinwei Lam2003
Burrard Inlet: A History by Doreen Armitage2002
The Door is Open by Bart Campbell2002
Making a Stone of the Heart: A Novel by Cynthia Flood2002
City of Glass: Douglas Coupland's Vancouver by Douglas Coupland2001
Stanley Park by Timothy Taylor2001
Susan Point: Coast Salish Artist by Gary Wyatt2001
Gardens of Vancouver by Christine Allen2000
Paper Shadows: A Memoir of a Past Lost and Found by Wayson Choy2000
The Chinese in Vancouver, 1945-80: The Pursuit of Identity and Power (Contemporary Chinese Studies Series) by Wing Chung Ng2000
Vancouver: Secrets of the City by Shawn Blore1999
White Lung by Grant Buday1999
The Mulligan Affair: Top Cop on the Take by Ian MacDonald1998
and a body to remember with by Carmen Rodriguez1998
Vancouver at the Dawn by John Cherrington1997
Postcards from the Past: Edwardian Images of Greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley by Fred Thirkell1997
Monday night man : stories by Grant Buday1996
Making Vancouver : class, status, and social boundaries, 1863-1913 by Robert A. J. McDonald1996
Eagle Transforming: The Art of Robert Davidson by Robert Davidson1995
Mister Got to Go: The Cat that Wouldn't Leave by Lois Simmie1995
Robin Ward's Heritage West Coast by Robin Ward1994
Line Screw by J.M. Yates1994
The Struggle for Social Justice in British Columbia: Helena Gutteridge, the Unknown Reformer by Irene Howard1993
Heritage Walks Around Vancouver by Michael Kluckner1993
No Forwarding Address by Elisabeth Bowers1992
Hidden Cities: Art & Design in Architectural Details of Vancouver & Victoria by Gregory Edwards1992
Flesh Wound by Paul Grescoe1992
Vancouver and Its Region by Graeme Wynn1992
An Enterprising Life by Cyril E. Leonoff1991
Robin Ward's Vancouver by Robin Ward1991
Being Brown: A Very Public Life by Rosemary Brown1990
Buddy's: Meditations on Desire by Stan Persky1990
The Refiners: A Century of B.C. Sugar by John Schreiner1990

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