| 2012 |
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Andrew Borkowski
Copernicus Avenue
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| 2011 |
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Rabindranath Maharaj
The Amazing Absorbing Boy
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| 2010 |
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Mark Sinnett
The Carnivore
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| 2009 |
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Austin Clarke
More
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| 2008 |
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Glen Downie
Loyalty Management
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| 2007 |
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Michael Redhill
Consolation
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| 2006 |
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Dionne Brand
What We All Long For
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| 2005 |
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David Bezmozgis
Natasha and Other Stories
HarperCollins Publishers
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| 2004 |
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Kevin Bazzana
Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould
McClelland & Stewart Ltd.
Kate Taylor
Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen
Doubleday Canada
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| 2003 |
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Joe Fiorito
The Song Beneath the Ice
McClelland & Stewart Ltd.
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| 2002 |
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Sarah Dearing
Courage My Love
Stoddart Publishing Co. Limited
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| 2001 |
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A.B. McKillop
The Spinster and The Prophet
Macfarlane Walter & Ross
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| 2000 |
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Camilla Gibb
Mouthing the Words
Pedlar Press
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| 1999 |
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Richard Outram
Benedict Abroad
St. Thomas Poetry Series
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| 1998 |
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Helen Humphreys
Leaving Earth
HarperCollins
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| 1997 |
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Anne Michaels
Fugitive Pieces
McClelland & Stewart
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| 1996 |
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Rosemary Sullivan
Shadow Maker, The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen
HarperCollins
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| 1995 |
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Ezra Schabas
Sir Ernest MacMillan, The Importance of Being Canadian
University of Toronto Press
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| 1994 |
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Timothy Findley
Headhunter
HarperCollins
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| 1993 |
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Carole Corbeil
Voice-Over
Stoddart
David Donnell
China Blues
McClelland & Stewart
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| 1992 |
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Katherine Govier
Hearts of Flame
Viking
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| 1991 |
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Cary Fagan and Robert MacDonald (editors)
Streets of Attitude: Toronto Stories
Yonge and Bloor Publishing
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| 1990 |
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Hilary Russell
Double Take, The Story of the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres
The Ontario Heritage Foundation/Dundurn Press
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Homesick
McClelland & Stewart
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| 1989 |
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Margaret Atwood
Cat's Eye
McClelland & Stewart
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| 1988 |
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Michael Ondaatje
In The Skin Of A Lion
McClelland & Stewart
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| 1987 |
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William Dendy and William Kilbourn
Toronto Observed: Its Architecture, Patrons and History
Oxford University Press
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| 1986 |
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Morley Callaghan
Our Lady of the Snows
Macmillan Canada
Robertson Davies
What's Bred in the Bone
Macmillan Canada
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| 1985 |
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Warabe Aska
Who Goes to the Park
Tundra Books
J.M.S. Careless
Toronto To 1918
James Lorimer & Co./National Museum of Man
Joseph Skvorecky
The Engineer of Human Souls
Lester & Orpen Dennys Publishers
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| 1984 |
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Edith G. Firth
Toronto in Art
Fitzhenry and Whiteside
Gerald Killan
David Boyle: From Artisan to Archaeologist
University of Toronto Press
Eric Wright
The Night the Gods Smiled
Collins Publishers
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| 1983 |
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Michael Bliss
The Discovery of Insulin
McClelland & Stewart
Lucy Booth Martyn
The Face of Early Toronto: An Archival Record 1803-1936
The Paget Press
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| 1982 |
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Claude Bissell
The Young Vincent Massey
University of Toronto Press
Marian Engel
Lunatic Villas
McClelland & Stewart
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| 1981 |
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Timothy Colton
Big Daddy: Frederick G. Gardiner and the Building of Metropolitan Toronto
University of Toronto Press
Mary Larratt Smith
Young Mr. Smith in Upper Canada
University of Toronto Press
Helen Weinzweig
Basic Black with Pearls
House of Anansi Press
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| 1980 |
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Raymond Souster
Hanging In
Oberon
Stephen A. Speisman
The Jews of Toronto: A History to 1937
McClelland & Stewart
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| 1979 |
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Michael Bliss
A Canadian Millionaire
Macmillan Canada
William Dendy
Lost Toronto
Oxford University Press
John Morgan Gray
Fun Tomorrow
Macmillan Canada
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| 1978 |
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Christopher Armstrong and H.V. Nelles
The Revenge of the Methodist Bicycle Company
Peter Martin Associates
Timothy Findley
The Wars
Clarke, Irwin
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| 1977 |
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Margaret Atwood
Lady Oracle
McClelland & Stewart
Margaret Gibson
The Butterfly Ward
Oberon Press
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| 1976 |
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Robert Harney and Harold Troper
Immigrants: A Portrait of the Urban Experience 1890-1930
Van Nostrand Reinhold
Hugh Hood
The Swing in the Garden
Oberon Press
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| 1975 |
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Claude Bissell
Halfway Up Parnassus
University of Toronto Press
The Labour History Collective
Women at Work
Women's Press
Loren Lind
The Learning Machine
House of Anansi Press
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| 1974 |
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William Kurelek
O Toronto
New Press
Desmond Morton
Mayor Howland
Hakkert
Richard Wright
In the Middle of a Life
Macmillan Canada |