Sunday, April 09, 2006

Shortlists for 2002-2006

2006

Deafening, Frances Itani

Cocksure, Mordecai Richler

Three Day Road, Joseph Boyden

Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems, 1962-1996, Al Purdy

A Complicated Kindness, Miriam Toews

2005

Beautiful Losers, Leonard Cohen

Rockbound, Frank Parker Day

Volkswagen Blues, Jacques Poulin, translated by Sheila

No Crystal Stair, Mairuth Sarsfield

Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood

2004

The Love of a Good Woman, Alice Munro

Green Grass, Running Water, Thomas King

The Heart is an Involuntary Muscle, Monique Proulx

The Last Crossing, Guy Vanderhaeghe

Barney's Version, Mordecai Richler

2003

Next Episode, Hubert Aquin

Sarah Binks, Paul Hiebert

Life of Pi, Yann Martel

The Lost Garden, Helen Humphries

The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Wayne Johnston

2002

The Stone Angel, Margaret Laurence

Whylah Falls, George Elliott Clarke

The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood

In the Skin of a Lion, Michael Ondaatje

A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry

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