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1985 | David Ricardo Williams – Duff: A Life in the Law | - Michael Kluckner – Vancouver The Way It Was
- Daniel Raunet – Without Surrender, Without Consent
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1986 | Bruce Hutchison – The Unfinished Country | - Muriel Kitagawa – This Is My Own: Letters to Wes
- Reginald Roy – The Journal of Private Fraser
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1987 | Doris Shadbolt – Bill Reid | - Philip Croft – Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian
- Sherrill MacLaren – Braehead
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1988 | P. K. Page – Brazilian Journal | - Sandra Djwa – The Politics of the Imagination
- Roy Minter – The White Pass
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1989 | Robin Ridington – Trail To Heaven |
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1990 | Philip Marchand – Marshall McLuhan | - Stan Persky – Buddy's
- Patricia Roy – A White Man's Province
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1991 | Scott Watson – Jack Shadbolt |
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1992 | Rosemary Neering – Down The Road | - Jean Barman – The West Beyond The West
- Robin Fisher – Duff Patullo of British Columbia
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1993 | Lynne Bowen – Muddling Through | - Irene Howard – The Struggle For Social Justice in B. C.
- Rolf Knight and Homer Stevens – Homer Stevens
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1994 | Sharon Brown – Some Become Flowers | - Arthur Mayse – My Father, My Friend
- John Mills – Thank Your Mother for the Rabbits
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1995 | Lisa Hobbs Birnie – Uncommon Will: The Death and Life of Sue Rodrigues[2] | - Denise Chong – Concubine's Children
- Rick Ouston – Finding Family
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1996 | Claudia Cornwall – Letter From Vienna | - Bev Christiansen – Too Good To Be True: Alcan's Kemano Completion Project
- Sheryl Salloum – Underlying Vibrations: The Photography Of John Vanderpont
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1997 | Catherine Lang – O-bon in Chimunesu | - Deanna Kawatski – Clara and Me
- Arthur J. Ray – I Have Lived Here Since the World Began
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1998 | Suzanne Fournier and Ernie Crey – Stolen from Our Embrace |
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1999 | Peter C. Newman – Titans: How the New Canadian Establishment Seized Power |
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2000 | Rita Moir – Buffalo Jump: A Woman's Travels | - Douglas Cole – Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906
- James P. Delgado – Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage
- Margaret Horsfield – Cougar Annie's Garden
- Andrea Lebowitz and Gillian Milton – Gilean Douglas: Writing Nature, Finding Home
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2001 | Terry Glavin – The Last Great Sea | - Hugh Brody – The Other Side of Eden
- Rosemary Neering – Wild West Women
- Harold Rhenisch – Tom Thomson's Shack
- Patricia Van Tighem – The Bear's Embrace
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2002 | Susan Crean – The Laughing One: A Journey to Emily Carr | - Bart Campbell – The Door is Open
- Stephen Hume – Off the Map
- Ross A. Laird – Grain of Truth
- Heather Pringle – The Mummy Congress
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2003 | Sandra Shields and David Campion – Where Fire Speaks: A Visit With the Himba |
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2004 | Maria Tippett – Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian | - Maria Coffey – Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure
- Pat Wastell Norris – High Boats: A Century of Salmon Remembered
- Peter Steele – The Man Who Mapped the Arctic
- Mark Zuehlke – The Gothic Line: Canada’s Month of Hell in World War II Italy
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2005 | Charles Montgomery – The Last Heathen | - Katherine Gordon – The Slocan: Portrait of a Valley
- Patrick Lane – There is a Season
- Alan Twigg – First Invaders: The Literary Origins of British Columbia
- Rex Weyler – Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists and Visionaries Changed the World
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2006 | Stan Persky – The Short Version: An ABC Book | - Michael Kluckner – Vanishing British Columbia
- J. B. MacKinnon – Dead Man in Paradise
- Rita Moir – Windshift Line
- John Vaillant – The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed
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2007 | Heather Pringle – The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust | - Karsten Heuer – Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd
- Eric Miller – The Reservoir
- Harold Rhenisch – The Wolves at Evelyn: Journeys Through a Dark Century
- Dan Zuberi – Differences That Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada
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2008 | Robert Bringhurst - Everywhere Being is Dancing | - J.B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith - The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating
- Don Gayton - Interwoven Wild: An Ecologist Loose in the Garden
- Theresa Kishkan - Phantom Limb
- Patricia E. Roy - The Triumph of Citizenship: The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67
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2009 | Gabor Maté - In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction | - Chris Wood - Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America
- Tim Lilburn - Going Home: Essays
- Rex Weyler - The Jesus Sayings: The Quest for His Authentic Messay
- Ronald Wright - What is America? A Short History of the New World Order
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2010 | Lorna Crozier - Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir | - Brian Payton - The Ice Passage: A True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness
- Ehor Boyanowsky - Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts: In the Wild with Ted Hughes
- Brian Brett - Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life
- Charles Demers - Vancouver Special
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2011 | John Vaillant - The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival | - Derek Lundy - Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America
- Douglas Coupland - Marshall McLuhan
- Morris Bates, Jim Brown - Morris as Elvis: Take a Chance on Life
- Sarah Leavitt - Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
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2012 | Charlotte Gill - Eating Dirt | - Gary Geddes - Drink the Bitter Root
- JJ Lee - The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit
- Theresa Kishkan - Mnemonic: A Book of Trees
- Carmen Aguirre - Something Fierce
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2013 | Geoff Meggs and Rod Mickleburgh - The Art of the Impossible: Dave Barrett and the NDP in Power, 1972-1975[3] | - Luanne Armstrong - The Light Through the Trees: Reflections on Land and Farming
- George Bowering - Pinboy
- Sandra Djwa - Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page
- Carol Shaben - Into the Abyss: How a Deadly Plane Crash Changes the Lives of a Pilot, a Politician, a Criminal and a Cop
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2014 | David Stouck - Arthur Erickson: An Architect’s Life[4] | - Arno Kopecky - The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway
- J.B. MacKinnon - The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be
- Bev Sellars - They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School
- Jane Silcott - Everything Rustles
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2015 | Eve Joseph - In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying[5] | - Nancy Turner - Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America
- Barry M. Gough - The Elusive Mr. Pond: The Soldier, Fur Trader and Explorer Who Opened the Northwest
- Kevin Chong - Northern Dancer: The Legendary Horse That Inspired a Nation
- Julie Angus - Olive Odyssey: Searching for the Secrets of the Fruit That Seduced the World
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2016 | Brian Brett - Tuco: The Parrot, the Others, and A Scattershot World [6] | - Briony Penn - The Real Thing: The Natural History of Ian McTaggart Cowan
- Lorimer Shenher - That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away
- Maria Tippett - Made in British Columbia: Eight Ways of Making Culture
- Emily Urquhart - Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes
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2017 | Deborah Campbell - A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War[7] |
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2018 | Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson - The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy [8] | - Carys Cragg - Dead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father
- Theresa Kishkan - Euclid’s Orchard & Other Essays
- Andrew Struthers - The Sacred Herb / The Devil’s Weed
- Paul Watson - Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
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2019 | Lindsay Wong, The Woo Woo | - Bill Gaston, Just Let Me Look at You
- Ian Hampton, Jan in 35 Pieces: A Memoir in Music
- Kate Harris, Land of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road
- Rob Shaw and Richard Zussman, A Matter of Confidence: The Inside Story of the Political Battle for BC
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2020 | Alejandro Frid, Changing Tides: An Ecologist’s Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene | - Ivan Coyote, Rebent Sinner
- Helen Knott, In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience
- Jonathan Manthorpe, Claws of the Panda: Beijing’s Campaign of Influence and Intimidation in Canada
- Jessica McDiarmid, Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
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2021 | Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body[9] | - Eva Holland, Nerve: A Personal Journey Through the Science of Fear[10]
- Liz Levine, Nobody Talks About Anything But the End
- Benjamin Perrin, Overdose: Heartbreak and Hope in Canada's Opioid Crisis
- Seth Klein, A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency
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2021 | TBA September 24, 2022 |
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