Toronto Book Awards

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The Toronto Book Awards are Canadian literary awards, presented annually by the City of Toronto government to the author of the year's best fiction or non-fiction book or books "that are evocative of Toronto". [1] The award is presented in the fall of each year, with its advance promotional efforts including a series of readings by the nominated authors at each year's The Word on the Street festival.

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Each author shortlisted for the award receives $1,000, and the winner or winners receive the balance of $15,000.

The award has frequently gone to multiple winners. 1987 was the first time in the history of the award that only a single winner was named.

Winners and nominees

1970s

Toronto Book Awards winners and finalists, 1974-1979
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
1974 William Kurelek O TorontoWinner [2]
Desmond Morton Mayor HowlandWinner
Richard B. Wright In the Middle of a LifeWinner
Sandra Budden and Joseph Ernst The Movable AirportFinalist [3]
Austin Clarke Storm of FortuneFinalist
Michael Filey Richard Howard and Helmut Weyerstrahs, Passengers Must Not Ride on FenderFinalist
Hugh Hood The Governor's Bridge Is ClosedFinalist
George Jonas CitiesFinalist
1975 Claude Bissell Halfway Up ParnassusWinner [4]
The Labour History Collective Women at WorkWinner
Loren Lind The Learning MachineWinner
Max Braithwaite Sick KidsFinalist [5]
Juan Butler Canadian Healing OilFinalist
Jon Caulfield The Tiny Perfect MayorFinalist
Dennis Lee Alligator Pie - Nicholas KnockFinalist
Harold Town Albert Franck: His Life, Times and WorkFinalist
1976 Robert F. Harney and Harold TroperImmigrants: A Portrait of the Urban Experience 1890-1930Winner [6]
Hugh Hood The Swing in the Garden Winner
Jack Batten The Leafs in AutumnFinalist
Morley Callaghan A Fine and Private PlaceFinalist
Austin Clarke The Bigger LightFinalist
Hans Jewinski Poet CopFinalist
Harry Pollock GabrielFinalist
Ian Wallace and Angela Wood The SandwichFinalist
1977 Margaret Atwood Lady Oracle Winner [7]
Margaret Gibson The Butterfly WardWinner
Michael Filey Trillium and Toronto IslandFinalist [7]
William Kilbourn The Toronto BookFinalist
Raymond Massey When I Was YoungFinalist
Stan Obodiac The Leafs: The First 50 YearsFinalist
Miriam Waddington The Price of GoldFinalist
1978 Christopher Armstrong and H. V. Nelles The Revenge of the Methodist Bicycle CompanyWinner [8]
Timothy Findley The Wars Winner
Harry Adaskin A Fiddler's WorldFinalist [9]
Morley Callaghan Close to the Sun AgainFinalist
George Jonas and Barbara Amiel By Persons UnknownFinalist
1979 Michael Bliss A Canadian MillionaireWinner [10]
William Dendy Lost TorontoWinner
John Morgan Gray Fun TomorrowWinner
Morley Callaghan No Man's Meat and The Enchanted PimpFinalist [10]
Paul Duval The Tangled GardenFinalist
Marian Engel The Glassy SeaFinalist
James Lorimer The DevelopersFinalist
Peter Mellen Landmarks of Canadian ArtFinalist
David Lewis Stein City BoysFinalist

1980s

Toronto Book Awards winners and finalists, 1980-1989
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
1980 Raymond Souster Hanging InWinner [11]
Stephen A. Speisman The Jews of Toronto: A History to 1937Winner
Eric Arthur From Front Street to Queen's Park: The Story of Ontario's Parliament BuildingsFinalist [12]
Margaret Atwood Life Before Man Finalist
Shirley Faessler Everything in the WindowFinalist
Hugh Hood Reservoir RavineFinalist
Richard B. Howard Upper Canada College 1928-1979: Colbourne's LegacyFinalist
Blair G. Laing Memoirs of an Art DealerFinalist
1981 Timothy Colton Big Daddy: Frederick G. Gardiner and the Building of Metropolitan TorontoWinner [13]
Mary Larratt Smith Young Mr. Smith in Upper CanadaWinner
Helen Weinzweig Basic Black with PearlsWinner
Gregory S. Kealey Toronto Workers Respond to Industrial Capitalism, 1867-1892Finalist [13]
John Lownsbrough The Privileged Few: The Grange & Its People in Nineteenth Century TorontoFinalist
Austin Seton Thompson Jarvis Street: A Story of Triumph and TragedyFinalist
Richard B. Wright Final ThingsFinalist
1982 Claude Bissell The Young Vincent MasseyWinner [14]
Marian Engel Lunatic VillasWinner
Robertson Davies The Rebel Angels Finalist [14]
Michael Filey I Remember SunnysideFinalist
Bernice Thurman Hunter That Scatterbrain Booky Finalist
Charles Sauriol Remembering the DonFinalist
Conn Smythe with Scott Young If You Can't Beat 'Em in the AlleyFinalist
1983 Michael Bliss The Discovery of InsulinWinner [15]
Lucy Booth Martyn The Face of Early Toronto: An Archival Record 1803-1936Winner
Larry Partridge The WittsFinalist [15]
Clara Thomas and John LennoxWilliam Arthur Deacon: A Canadian Literary LifeFinalist
Tim Wynne-Jones The KnotFinalist
1984 Edith G. Firth Toronto in ArtWinner [16]
Gerald Killan David Boyle: From Artisan to ArchaeologistWinner
Eric Wright The Night the Gods SmiledWinner
Bill Ivy A Little Wilderness: The Natural History of TorontoFinalist [16]
Rod McQueen The Money-SpinnersFinalist
Marion Royce Eunice Dyke: Health Care PioneerFinalist
1985 Warabe Aska Who Goes to the ParkWinner [17]
J.M.S. Careless Toronto to 1918Winner
Josef Skvorecky The Engineer of Human SoulsWinner
Patrick Brode Sir John Beverley RobinsonFinalist [18]
Margaret McKelvey and Merlyn McKelvey Toronto: Carved in StoneFinalist
David G. Pitt E.J. Pratt: The Truant Years 1882-1927Finalist
Victor L. Russell Forging a ConsensusFinalist
1986 Morley Callaghan Our Lady of the SnowsWinner [19]
Robertson Davies What's Bred in the Bone Winner
Neil Bissoondath Digging Up the MountainsFinalist [20]
Rosemary Donegan Spadina AvenueFinalist
James Lemon Toronto Since 1918: An Illustrated HistoryFinalist
Patricia McHugh Toronto Architecture: A City GuideFinalist
1987 William Dendy and William Kilbourn Toronto Observed: Its Architecture, Patrons and HistoryWinner [21]
John Coldwell Adams Sir Charles God Damn: The Life of Sir Charles G.D. RobertsFinalist [21]
June Callwood Twelve Weeks in SpringFinalist
Lovat Dickson The Museum Makers: The Story of the Royal Ontario MuseumFinalist
Michael Filey Not a One-Horse Town: 125 Years of Toronto and Its StreetcarsFinalist
Martin O'Malley Hospital: Life and Death in a Major Medical CentreFinalist
1988 Michael Ondaatje In the Skin of a Lion Winner [22]
Joan Hollobon The Lion's Tale: A History of the Wellesley Hospital, 1912-1978Finalist [23]
Cyril H. Levitt and William Shaffir The Riot at Christie PitsFinalist
Tom MacDonnell Never Let Go: The Tragedy of Kristy McFarlaneFinalist
Anna Porter Mortal SinsFinalist
1989 Margaret Atwood Cat's Eye Winner [24]
Shirley Faessler A Basket of ApplesFinalist [25]
Robert Fulford Best Seat in the HouseFinalist
Alison Gordon The Dead Pull HitterFinalist
Michael Kluckner Toronto The Way It WasFinalist
Rick Salutin A Man of Little FaithFinalist
Paul Stuewe The Storm Below: The Turbulent Life and Times of Hugh GarnerFinalist

1990s

Toronto Book Awards winners and finalists, 1990-1999
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
1990 Hilary Russell Double Take: The Story of the Elgin and Winter Garden TheatresWinner [26]
Guy Vanderhaeghe HomesickWinner
John Ayre Northrop FryeFinalist [27]
Don Bailey Memories of MargaretFinalist
Stuart McLean The Morningside World of Stuart McLean Finalist
M. NourbeSe Philip Harriet's DaughterFinalist
Jack Pollock Dear MFinalist
1991 Cary Fagan and Robert MacDonald (eds.)Streets of Attitude: Toronto StoriesWinner [28]
Cary Fagan City Hall and Mrs. God: A Passionate Journey Through a Changing TorontoFinalist [29]
Mary Jo Leddy Say to the Darkness, We Beg to DifferFinalist
Claire MacKay and Johnny Wales The Toronto StoryFinalist
Jocko Thomas From Police HeadquartersFinalist
Morley Torgov St. Farb's DayFinalist
Dan Yashinsky Tales for an Unknown CityFinalist
1992 Katherine Govier Hearts of FlameWinner [30]
Margaret Atwood Wilderness Tips Finalist [30]
David Gilmour How Boys See GirlsFinalist
Kenneth Oppel and Regolo Ricci Cosimo CatFinalist
Allan Stratton Bag BabiesFinalist
Gregory Ward The Carpet KingFinalist
Marianne Zeitlin Next of KinFinalist
1993 Carole Corbeil Voice-OverWinner [31]
David Donnell China BluesWinner
Paul Donovan Paint CansFinalist [32]
Paul Kropp Ellen/Elena/LunaFinalist
Don Ritchie North TorontoFinalist
1994 Timothy Findley Headhunter Winner [33]
Margaret Atwood The Robber Bride Finalist [34]
Nancy Baker The Night InsideFinalist
Catherine Bush Minus TimeFinalist
John Ibbitson The Night Hazel Came to TownFinalist
William Kilbourn Intimate GrandeurFinalist
1995 Ezra Schabas Sir Ernest MacMillan: The Importance of Being CanadianWinner [35]
Jack Batten The Leafs: An Anecdotal History of the Toronto Maple LeafsFinalist [36]
Cary Fagan The Animals' WaltzFinalist
Eric Wright Moodie's TaleFinalist
1996 Rosemary Sullivan Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwenWinner [37]
Timothy Findley The Piano Man's Daughter Finalist [38]
Robert Fulford Accidental CityFinalist
Wayne Grady Toronto the Wild, Field Notes of an Urban NaturalistFinalist
Greg Kramer The Pursemonger of FuguFinalist
Tim Wynne-Jones The MaestroFinalist
1997 Anne Michaels Fugitive Pieces Winner [39]
David Eddie Chump ChangeFinalist [39]
Kevin Irie The Colour of EdenFinalist
Kim Moritsugu Looks PerfectFinalist
Richard Scrimger CrosstownFinalist
1998 Helen Humphreys Leaving EarthWinner [40]
Carole Corbeil In the WingsFinalist [41]
Joanne Gerber In the Misleading Absence of LightFinalist
Bruce McCall Thin IceFinalist
Barbara Nichol DippersFinalist
Antanas Sileika Buying on TimeFinalist
1999 Richard Outram Benedict AbroadWinner [42]
Dennis Bock OlympiaFinalist [43]
James Chatto The Man Who Ate Toronto: Memoirs of a Restaurant LoverFinalist
Derek McCormack and Chris Chambers Wild MouseFinalist
Stuart McLean Home from the Vinyl Cafe Finalist

2000s

Toronto Book Awards winners and finalists, 2000-2009
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
2000 Camilla Gibb Mouthing the WordsWinner [44]
Jennifer Duncan Sanctuary and Other StoriesFinalist [45]
Greg Gatenby Toronto - A Literary GuideFinalist
Conrad E. Heidenreich , Betty Ida Roots, and Donald A. Chant Betty Ida Roots and Donald A. Chant, Special Places: The Changing Ecosystems of the Toronto RegionFinalist
Russell Smith Young MenFinalist
2001 A.B. McKillop The Spinster and the Prophet: Florence Deeks, H.G. Wells and the Mystery of the Purloined PastWinner [46]
Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin Finalist [47]
Catherine Bush The Rules of EngagementFinalist
Jean Cochrane and Vincenzo Pietropaolo KensingtonFinalist
Tessa McWatt Dragons CryFinalist
2002 Sarah Dearing Courage My LoveWinner [48]
Douglas Bell Run Over: A Boy, His Mother and An AccidentFinalist [48]
Jane Lind Joyce Wieland: Artist on FireFinalist
Erín Moure Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent PersonFinalist
Michael Redhill Martin Sloane Finalist
Elizabeth Ruth Ten Good Seconds of SilenceFinalist
2003 Joe Fiorito The Song Beneath the IceWinner [49]
Dionne Brand thirstyFinalist [50]
Eric McCormack The Dutch WifeFinalist
Judith Merril and Emily Pohl-Weary Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith MerrilFinalist
Makeda Silvera The Heart Does Not BendFinalist
2004 Kevin Bazzana Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn GouldWinner [51]
Kate Taylor Mme. Proust and the Kosher KitchenWinner
Tom Cruickshank and John de Visser Old Toronto HousesFinalist [52]
Kristen den Hartog The Perpetual EndingFinalist
Aren X. Tulchinsky The Five Books of Moses LapinskyFinalist
2005 David Bezmozgis Natasha and Other Stories Winner [53]
Constance Backhouse and Nancy L. Backhouse The Heiress vs. the Establishment: Mrs. Campbell's Campaign for Legal JusticeFinalist [53]
Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City ShantytownFinalist
Don Coles Doctor Bloom's StoryFinalist
Russell Smith Muriella PentFinalist
2006 Dionne Brand What We All Long ForWinner [54]
Howard Akler The City ManFinalist [55]
Stephen Marche Raymond and HannahFinalist
Jason McBride and Alana Wilcox (eds.)uTOpia: Towards a New TorontoFinalist
M.G. Vassanji When She Was QueenFinalist
2007 Michael Redhill ConsolationWinner [56]
Sally Gibson Inside Toronto: Urban Interiors 1880s to 1920sFinalist [57]
Geoffrey James TorontoFinalist
Vincent Lam Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures Finalist
Raymond Souster Uptown DowntownFinalist
2008 Glen Downie Loyalty ManagementWinner [58]
Elspeth Cameron And Beauty Answers: The Life of Frances Loring and Florence WyleFinalist [58]
David Chariandy SoucouyantFinalist
Elyse Friedman Long Story ShortFinalist
Barbara Gowdy HelplessFinalist
2009 Austin Clarke MoreWinner [59]
Anthony De Sa Barnacle LoveFinalist [60]
Maggie Helwig Girls Fall DownFinalist
Mark Osbaldeston Unbuilt TorontoFinalist
Charles Wilkins In the Land of Long FingernailsFinalist

2010s

Toronto Book Awards winners and finalists, 2000-2009
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
2010 Mark Sinnett The CarnivoreWinner [61]
Seán Cullen The Prince of Neither Here Nor ThereFinalist [62]
Cary Fagan Valentine's FallFinalist
Lauren Kirshner Where We Have to GoFinalist
Dragan Todorović Diary of Interrupted DaysFinalist
2011 Rabindranath Maharaj The Amazing Absorbing BoyWinner [63]
James FitzGerald What Disturbs Our BloodFinalist [64]
James King Étienne's AlphabetFinalist
Nicholas Ruddock The ParabolistFinalist
Alissa York FaunaFinalist
2012 Andrew J. Borkowski Copernicus AvenueWinner [65]
Dave Bidini Writing Gordon Lightfoot: The Man, the Music, and the World in 1972Finalist [66]
Farzana Doctor Six Metres of PavementFinalist
Michele Landsberg Writing the RevolutionFinalist
Suzanne Robertson Paramita, Little BlackFinalist
2013 Kamal Al-Solaylee Intolerable: A Memoir of ExtremesWinner [67]
Patrick Cummins and Shawn Micallef Full Frontal T.O.Finalist [68]
Kevin Irie Viewing Tom Thomson, A Minority ReportFinalist
Aga Maksimowska GiantFinalist
Katrina Onstad Everybody Has EverythingFinalist
2014 Charlotte Gray The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master and the Trial that Shocked a CountryWinner [69]
Anthony De Sa Kicking the SkyFinalist [68]
Carrianne Leung The Wondrous WooFinalist
Nick Saul and Andrea Curtis The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a MovementFinalist
Shyam Selvadurai The Hungry GhostsFinalist
2015 Emily St. John Mandel Station Eleven Winner [70]
André Alexis Fifteen Dogs Finalist [70]
Margaret Atwood Stone Mattress Finalist
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer All the Broken ThingsFinalist
Bruce McDougall The Last Hockey GameFinalist
2016 Cordelia Strube On the Shores of Darkness, There Is LightWinner [71]
Howard Akler Men of ActionFinalist [71]
Ann Y. K. Choi Kay’s Lucky Coin VarietyFinalist
John Lorinc , Michael McClelland, Ellen Scheinberg, and Tatum Taylor The Ward: The Life and Loss of Toronto’s First Immigrant NeighbourhoodFinalist
Marnie Woodrow HeydayFinalist
2017 B. Denham Jolly In the Black: My LifeWinner [72]
Jen Agg I Hear She's a Real BitchFinalist [73]
Catherine Hernandez Scarborough Finalist
John Lorinc , Jane Farrow, Stephanie Chambers, Maureen FitzGerald, Tim McCaskell, Rebecka Sheffield, Tatum Taylor, Rahim Thawer, and Ed Jackson Any Other Way: How Toronto Got QueerFinalist
James Maskalyk Life on the Ground Floor: Letters from the Edge of Emergency Medicine Finalist
2018 David Chariandy BrotherWinner [74]
Dionne Brand The Unpublished CityFinalist [75]
Carrianne Leung That Time I Loved YouFinalist
Lee Maracle My Conversations with CanadiansFinalist
Kerri Sakamoto Floating CityFinalist
2019 Dionne Brand TheoryWinner [76]
Mike Barnes Be With: Letters to a CaregiverFinalist [76]
Cary Fagan The StudentFinalist
Didier Leclair This Country of MineFinalist
Ian Williams Reproduction Finalist

2020s

Toronto Book Awards winners and finalists, 2000-2009
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
2020 Desmond Cole The Skin We're In Winner [77]
Jean Marc Ah-Sen In the Beggarly Style of ImitationFinalist [78]
Vivian Chong and Georgia Webbe Dancing after TEN
Katie Daubs The Missing Millionaire
Zalika Reid-Benta Frying Plantain
2021 Kim Echlin Speak, SilenceWinner [79]
Catherine Graham Æther: An Out-of-Body LyricFinalist [80]
Faye Guenther Swimmers in Winter
Catherine Hernandez Crosshairs
Justin Ling Missing from the Village
Rinaldo Walcott On Property
2022 Sarah Polley Run Towards the Danger Winner [81]
Camilla Gibb The RelativesFinalist [81]
Falen Johnson Two Indians
H. N. Khan Wrong Side of the Court
Adrienne Shadd , Afua Cooper, and Karolyn Smardz Frost The Underground Railroad
2023 Wanda Nanibush , Georgiana Uhlyarik Moving the MuseumWinner [82]
Dionne Brand NomenclatureFinalist [83]
Sophie Jai Wildfires
Sheila Murray Finding Edward
Carolyn Whitzman Clara at the Door with a Revolver
2024 Maurice Vellekoop I'm So Glad We Had This Time TogetherWinner [84]
Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio Reuniting with StrangersFinalist [85]
Kristen den Hartog The Roosting Box
Connie Gault The Rasmussen Papers
Paul McLaughlin The Suicide Magnet: Inside the Battle to Erect a Safety Barrier on Toronto’s Bloor Viaduct

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