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

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

2004

• Miriam Toews – A Complicated Kindness

Also shortlisted:

• David Bezmozgis – Natasha and Other Stories *
• Trevor Cole – Norman Bray, In the Performance of His Life
• Colin McAdam – Some Great Thing
• Alice Munro – Runaway

Added 17 November 2005.
Updated 20 November 2007.