The Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction (English) is awarded annually.

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

1996

• Guy Vanderhaeghe – The Englishman's Boy

Also shortlisted:

• Margaret Atwood – Alias Grace
• Elisabeth Harvor – Let Me Be the One
• Janice Kulyk Keefer – The Green Library
• Cordelia Strube – Teaching Pigs to Sing
• Audrey Thomas – Coming Down from Wa

Added 17 November 2005.
Updated 10 November 2007.