The Books in Canada First Novel Award is given annually for a first novel in English published in the previous year by a Canadian.

An asterisk (*) indicates a review is available for that book.

1991

• Rohinton Mistry – Such a Long Journey

Also shortlisted:

• Douglas Coupland – Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
• Ekbert Faas – Woyzeck's Head
• Michael Kenyon – Kleinberg
• Alberto Manguel – News from a Foreign Country Came

Added 13 January 2006.
Updated 01 November 2007.