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.

1995

• Keath Fraser – Popular Anatomy

Also shortlisted:

• Diana Atkinson – Highways and Dancehalls
• Wayson Choy – The Jade Peony
• Larissa Lai – When Fox Is a Thousand
• Yan Li – Daughters of the Red Land

Added 13 January 2006.
Updated 01 November 2007.