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• Watch Out for Her

  a Novel

  Bailey, Samantha M., 1973-

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  Nominee for 2025. Thriller fiction. A tense psychological thriller about a mother who must keep watch at all times if she wants to keep her family safe - a chilling look at trust, voyeurism, and obsession in the modern age, and how far we…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Denison Avenue

  a Novel

  Wong, Christina (Christina M.),

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  Nominee in 2024. Historical fiction. A moving story told in fiction and visual art about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vulnerable Chinese Canadian elders.

• Greenwood

  a Novel

  Christie, Michael, 1976-

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  Nominee in 2023. Historical fiction, A magnificent generational saga that charts a family's rise and fall, its secrets and inherited crimes, spanning 100 years between 1934 and 2034.

• Scarborough

  Hernandez, Catherine, 1977-

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  Nominee in 2022. Psychological fiction. Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighbourhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest city in North America; like many inner-city communities, it suffers under the weight of poverty,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hench

  a Novel

  Walschots, Natalie Zina, 1983-

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  Nominee in 2021. Science fiction. A novel of love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption follows a young woman as she discovers that the greatest superpower--for good or evil--is a properly executed spreadsheet.

• Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club

  Coles, Megan Gail, 1981-

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  Nominee in 2020. Contemporary fiction. By turns savage, biting, funny, poetic, and heartbreaking, this novel rips into the inner lives of a wicked cast of characters, exposing class, gender, and racial tensions over the course of one…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brother

  a Novel

  Chariandy, David John, 1969-

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  Nominee in 2019. Contemporary fiction. An intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, tightly constructed novel, Brother explores questions of masculinity, family, race, and identity as they are played out in a Scarborough housing complex…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Marrow Thieves

  Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-

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  Nominee in 2018. Dystopian fiction/Science fiction. In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fifteen Dogs

  Alexis, André, 1957-

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  Winner in 2017. Fantasy fiction. Two gods wonder what it would be like if dogs had human intelligence, and make a wager between themselves on how happy they would be. A group of dogs, suddenly given complex thoughts, debate how they should…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Birdie

  a Novel

  Lindberg, Tracey

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  Nominee from 2016. Contemporary fiction. Recovering from injuries of the past, a Cree woman leaves her home in Northern Saskatchewan to escape. She heads to Gibsons B.C., to search for Pat Johns, who played Jesse on the Beachcombers, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• And the Birds Rained Down

  Saucier, Jocelyne

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  Nominee from 2015. Suspense fiction. Tom and Charlie have decided to live out the remainder of their lives on their own terms, hidden away in a remote forest, their only connection to the outside world a couple of pot growers who deliver…Read moreRead more of this annotation