British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-FictionLonglist

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All, 2015 (7), 2014 (5), 2013 (6), 2012 (5), 2011 (6), 2010 (7), 2009 (11), 2008 (7)

Longlist 54

WorkYear
The Necessary War, Volume 1: Canadians Fighting The Second World War:1939-1943 by Tim Cook2015
The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection by Michael Harris2015
Enlightenment 2.0 by Joseph Heath2015
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery2015
Opening Heaven's Door: Investigating Stories of Life, Death, and What Comes After by Patricia Pearson2015
Between Gods by Alison Pick2015
Our ice is vanishing = Sikuvut nunguliqtuq : a history of Inuit, newcomers, and climate change by Shelley Wright2015
Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life by James Daschuk2014
Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace by Ronald J. Deibert2014
The Book of Immortality by Adam Leith Gollner2014
The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master and the Trial that Shocked a Country by Charlotte Gray2014
True Story: The Life and Death of My Brother by Helen Humphreys2014
A Thousand Farewells: A Reporter's Journey from Refugee Camp to the Arab Spring by Nahlah Ayed2013
Here We Are Among the Living by Samantha Bernstein2013
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen (A Merloyd Lawrence Book) by Stephen R. Bown2013
Walls: Travels Along the Barricades by Marcello Di Cintio2013
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile by Taras Grescoe2013
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy by Andrew Preston2013
Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter by Carmen Aguirre2012
John A: The Man Who Made Us by Richard J. Gwyn2012
Captivity: 118 Days in Iraq and the Struggle for a World Without War by James Loney2012
Afflictions and Departures by Madeline Sonik2012
The Leap: How to Survive and Thrive in the Sustainable Economy by Chris Turner2012
The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean by Susan Casey2011
Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! by Douglas Coupland2011
Sunray: The Death and Life of Captain Nichola Goddard by Valerie Fortney2011
Gold Diggers: Striking it Rich in the Klondike by Charlotte Gray2011
Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-in-Training by Tom Jokinen2011
The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72 by Molly Peacock2011
Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life by Brian Brett2010
Egg on Mao: The Story of an Ordinary Man Who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship by Denise Chong2010
Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying by Wayson Choy2010
Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir by Lorna Crozier2010
Coal Black Heart: The Story of Coal and Lives it Ruled by John DeMont2010
The ice passage : a true story of ambition, disaster, and endurance in the Arctic wilderness by Brian Payton2010
The Dog by the Cradle, the Serpent Beneath: And Other Paradoxes of Human-Animal Relationships by Erika Ritter2010
The Alchemy of Loss: A Young Widow's Transformation by Abigail Carter2009
Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City by Mark Kingwell2009
Bittersweet: Confessions of a Twice-Married Man by Philip Lee2009
Race to the Polar Sea: The Heroic Adventures of Elisha Kent Kane by Ken McGoogan2009
Pathologies: A Life in Essays by Susan Olding2009
An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century by James Orbinski2009
The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women and the Real Gender Gap by Susan Pinker2009
A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada by John Ralston Saul2009
Marie-Anne: The Extraordinary Life of Louis Riel's Grandmother by Maggie Siggins2009
The End: Natural Disasters, Manmade Catastrophes, and the Future of Human Survival by Marq de Villiers2009
What Is America?: A Short History of the New World Order by Ronald Wright2009
The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture by Tim Bowling2008
At the Sharp End Volume One: Canadians Fighting the Great War 1914-1916 by Tim Cook2008
The Film Club: A Memoir by David Gilmour2008
Cold-Cocked: On Hockey by Lorna Jackson2008
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein2008
Prisoner of Tehran: A Memoir by Marina Nemat2008
Portrait in Light and Shadow: The Life of Yousuf Karsh by Maria Tippett2008

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