Thursday, April 5, 2012 |
On March 8, 2012, we revealed the categories and the books contending in each for the second annual CBC Bookie Awards.
We asked you to cast your vote for your favourite read in each of the 10 categories. Thank you to everyone who voted! We can't wait to do it all again next year.
Without further ado, here are the winners of the second annual CBC Bookie Awards. Each winner receives an attractive CBC Bookie Award certificate.
Literary Fiction: The Blue Light Project by Timothy Taylor
Finalists:
Alone in the Classroom by Elizabeth Hay
Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
Natural Order by Brian Francis
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Non-fiction: Eating Dirt by Charlotte Gill
Finalists:
The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary by Andrew Westoll
Damned Nations by Samantha Nutt
The Measure of a Man by J.J. Lee
Something Fierce by Carmen Aguirre
Poetry: Folk by Jacob McArthur Mooney
Finalists:
The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane edited by Donna Bennett & Russell Morton Brown
The Id Kid by Linda Besner
Killdeer by Phil Hall
Origami Dove by Susan Musgrave
Thriller, Mystery or Crime: The Beggar's Opera by Peggy Blair
Finalists:
The Guardians by Andrew Pyper
A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley
A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny
The Water Rat of Wanchai by Ian Hamilton
Science Fiction, Fantasy or Speculative Fiction: The Pattern Scars by Caitlin Sweet
Finalists:
The Fecund's Melancholy Daughter by Brent Hayward
In Other Worlds by Margaret Atwood
Triptych by J.M. Frey
Wonder by Robert J. Sawyer
Young Adult: The Gathering by Kelley Armstrong
Finalists:
Blink & Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones
No Ordinary Day by Deborah Ellis
This Dark Endeavour by Kenneth Oppel
Tilt by Alan Cumyn
Graphic Novel or Comic Book: Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton
Finalists:
The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists by Seth
Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People by Douglas Coupland
The Next Day by Paul Peterson and Jason Gilmore, illustrated by John Porcellino
Paying For It by Chester Brown
Finalists:
And Also Sharks by Jessica Westhead
The Meagre Tarmac by Clark Blaise
Once You Break a Knuckle by D.W. Wilson
This Will Be Difficult to Explain by Johanna Skibsrud
International Fiction: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Finalists:
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obrecht
International Non-fiction: Bossypants by Tina Fey
Finalists:
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larsen
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
A Widow's Story by Joyce Carol Oates
On Thursday, April 5, we hosted an "awards ceremony" and #canlit chat to reveal and discuss the winners. The chat was so busy that Twitter temporaily blocked @cbcbooks from updating. We apologize for that.
You can replay the chat below!
