British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction

109 Works / 110 Items 23,651 Books 943 Reviews ½ 3.9
Stages:
All, Winner (14), Shortlist (42), Longlist (54)
Years:
All, 2018 (4), 2017 (4), 2016 (4), 2015 (11), 2014 (10), 2013 (10), 2012 (9), 2011 (10), 2010 (11), 2009 (15), 2008 (10), 2007 (4), 2006 (4), 2005 (4)

Winner 14

Shortlist 42

WorkYear
Game Change: The Life and Death of Steve Montador, and the Future of Hockey by Ken Dryden2018
Maximum Canada: Why 35 Million Canadians Are Not Enough by Doug Saunders2018
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga2018
Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue in a Doomed World by Taras Grescoe2017
On Trails: An Exploration by Robert Moor2017
Invisible North: The Search for Answers on a Troubled Reserve by Alexandra Shimo2017
Stephen Harper by John Ibbitson2016
Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes by Emily Urquhart2016
The Right to Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet by Sheila Watt-Cloutier2016
The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day that Almost Was by Chantal Hébert2015
Between Gods by Alison Pick2015
Circling The Midnight Sun by James Raffan2015
The Juggler's Children: A Journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us by Carolyn Abraham2014
The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be by J. B. MacKinnon2014
The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 by Margaret MacMillan2014
The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan by Graeme Smith2014
Pinboy by George Bowering2013
A Season in Hell by Robert Fowler2013
A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape by Candace Savage2013
Human Happiness by Brian Fawcett2012
The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A True Story of Resilience and Recovery by Andrew Westoll2012
Bad Animals: A Father's Accidental Education in Autism by Joel Yanofsky2012
On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women by Stevie Cameron2011
What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past by James Fitzgerald2011
Mordecai: The Life & Times by Charles Foran2011
Burmese Lessons: A true love story by Karen Connelly2010
The Cello Suites: J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece by Eric Siblin2010
The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst by Kenneth Whyte2010
The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in a Polygamous Mormon Sect by Daphne Bramham2009
Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings by Mary Henley Rubio2009
The Soviet Ambassador: The Making of the Radical Behind Perestroika by Christopher Shulgan2009
Some Family: The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of Itself by Donald Harman Akenson2008
Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy by Jacques Poitras2008
Requiem for My Brother by Marian Botsford Fraser2007
Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr by Gerta Moray2007
The Book of Revenge by Dragan Todorovic2007
Dead Man in Paradise by J. B. MacKinnon2006
The Boys: Or, Waiting for the Electrician's Daughter by John Terpstra2006
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant2006
Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs2005
A Place Between the Tides: A Naturalist's Reflections on the Salt Marsh by Harry Thurston2005
A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright2005

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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