Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

2007 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerI’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground RailroadKarolyn Smardz FrostTraces the story of former slaves Thornton and Lucie Blackburn, who launched a daring escape from their slave masters in 1831 and became the subjects of a legal dispute between Canada and the United States regarding the Underground Railroad....Amazon2007 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction Shortlist28: Stories of AIDS in AfricaStephanie NolenAmazonCitizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Volume One: 1919-1968John EnglishAmazonEnter the Babylon System: Unpacking Gun Culture from Samuel Colt to 50 CentRodrigo Bascuñán and Christian PearceAmazonSilence of the Songbirds:How We Are Losing the World’s Songbirds and What ...

2006 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerThe Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World ImpressionismRoss KingThe fascinating new book by the author of Brunelleschis Dome and Michelangelo and the Popes Ceiling: a saga of artistic rivalry and cultural upheaval in the decade leading to the birth of Impressionism. If there were two men who were absolutely central t...Amazon2006 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistStarlight Tour: The Last, Lonely Night of Neil StonechildSusanne Reber, Robert RenaudAmazonThe Empire of Mind: Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist MovementMichael StrangeloveAmazonThe Half-Lives of Pat LowtherChristine WiesenthalAmazonThe Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Mo...

2004 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerShake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in RwandaLt.-Gen. Roméo DallaireOn the tenth anniversary of the date that UN peacekeepers landed in Rwanda, Random House Canada is proud to publish the unforgettable first-hand account of the genocide by the man who led the UN mission. Digging deep into shattering memories, General Dalla...Amazon2004 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistAcquainted with the Night: Excursions through the World after DarkChristopher DewdneyAmazonDark Age AheadJane JacobsAmazonI’ll Tell You a Secret: A Memory of Seven SummersAnne ColemanAmazonWisdom & MetaphorJan ZwickyAmazon

2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerParis 1919: Six Months that Changed the WorldMargaret MacMillanAfter the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart were the three great powers - Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George and Clemenceau - but thousands of others came too, each with a differe...Amazon2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistA Keen Soldier: The Execution of Second World War Private Harold PringleAndrew ClarkAmazonMichelangelo and the Pope’s CeilingRoss KingAmazonMissing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished SisterMaggie de VriesAmazonWhile Canada Slept: How We Lost Our Place in the WorldAndrew CohenAmazon

2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerTo the River: Losing My BrotherDon GillmorAn eloquent and haunting exploration of suicide in which one of Canadas most gifted writers attempts to understand why his brother took his own life. Which leads him to another powerful question: Why are boomers killing themselves at a far greater rate th...Amazon2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistCity of Omens: A Search for the Missing Women of the BorderlandsDan WerbAmazonFryderyk Chopin: A Life and TimesAlan WalkerAmazonSea Trial: Sailing After My FatherBrian HarveyAmazonTiny Lights for TravellersNaomi K. LewisAmazon

2015 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerBee Time: Lessons from the HiveMark L. WinstonBee Time presents his reflections on three decades spent studying these remarkable creatures, and on the lessons they can teach about how humans might better interact with one another and the natural world, from the boardroom to urban ......Amazon2015 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistDispatches from the Front: Matthew Halton, Canada's Voice at WarDavid HaltonAmazonNorval Morrisseau: Man Changing into ThunderbirdArmand Garnet RuffoAmazonParty of One: Stephen Harper and Canada's Radical MakeoverMichael HarrisAmazonThe Social Life of Ink: Culture, Wonder, and Our Relationship with the Written WordTed BishopAmazon

2016 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerA World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905Bill WaiserA World We Have Lost examines the early history of Saskatchewan through an Aboriginal and environmental lens. Indian and mixed--descent peoples played leading roles in the story-as did the land and climate. Despite the growing British and Canadian presence...Amazon2016 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistBrown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (To Everyone)Kamal Al-SolayleeAmazonFirewater: How Alcohol is Killing My People (and Yours)Harold R. JohnsonAmazonIn-Between Days: A Memoir About Living with CancerTeva HarrisonAmazonMarconi: The Man Who Networked the WorldMarc RaboyAmazon

2017 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerThe Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic StateGraeme WoodThe definitive book on the distinctive history and psychology of ISIS, based on Woods unprecedented access to the Islamic States own recruiters and supporters, and his extensive time reporting throughout the region. Based on interviews with Islamic State...Amazon2017 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistAll We Leave Behind: A Reporter's Journey into the Lives of OthersCarol OffAmazonThe Handover: How Bigwigs and Bureaucrats Transferred Canada's Best Publisher and the Best Part of our Literary Heritage to a Foreign MultinationalElaine DewarAmazonWhere I Live Now: A Journey through Love and Loss to Healing and HopeSharon ButalaAmazonWhere It Hur...

2018 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerMamaskatch: A Cree Coming of AgeDarrel J. McLeodAs a small boy in remote Alberta, Darrel J. McLeod is immersed in his Cree familys history, passed down in the stories of his mother, Bertha. There he is surrounded by her tales of joy and horror—of the strong men in their family, of her love for Darrel, ...Amazon2018 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistDead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My FatherCarys CraggAmazonHeart BerriesTerese Marie MailhotAmazonHomes: A Refugee StoryAbu Bakr al Rabeeah with Winnie YeungAmazonThe Wife’s Tale: A Personal HistoryAida EdemariamAmazon