Also shortlisted:

• Guy Delisle – Chroniques de Jérusalem
• Abla Farhoud – Le sourire de la petite juive
• Margaret Atwood – La voleuse d'hommes (The Robber Bride)

Also shortlisted:

• Danielle Trussart – Le train pour Samarcande
• David Gilmour – L’école des films
• Dany Laferrière – Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer
• Émile Ollivier – Mère-Solitude

Also shortlisted:

• On a Cold Road – Dave Bidini
• The Game – Ken Dryden
• Prisoner of Tehran – Marina Nemat
• The Tiger – John Vaillant

Also shortlisted:

• Mike Deas – Dalen & Gole
• Nicola I. Campbell, Kim La Fave (illustrator) – Grandpa's Girls
• Dan Bar-el, Rae Maté (illustrator) – Pussycat, Pussycat, Where Have You Been?
• Robert Heidbreder, Marc Mongeau (illustrator) – Shake Awakes

Also shortlisted:

• Pamela Porter – I'll Be Watching
• Caitlyn Vernon – Nowhere Else on Earth
• Glen Huser – The Runaway
• Karen Rivers – What is Real

Also shortlisted:

• Andrew Nikiforuk – Empire of the Beetle
• Fred Herzog – Fred Herzog: Photographs
• Sheryl Salloum – The Life and Art of Mildred Valley Thornton
• Scott Watson – Thrown

Also shortlisted:

• Patrick Lane – The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane
• Susan McCaslin – Demeter Goes Skydiving
• Garry Thomas Morse – Discovery Passages
• Sharon Thesen – Oyama Pink Shale

Also shortlisted:

• Gary Geddes – Drink the Bitter Root
• JJ Lee – The Measure of a Man
• Theresa Kishkan – Mnemonic
• Carmen Aguirre – Something Fierce

Also shortlisted:

• Michael Christie – The Beggar’s Garden
• Steven Price – Into That Darkness
• D.W. Wilson – Once You Break a Knuckle
• Frances Greenslade – Shelter

Also shortlisted:

• Fredric Gary Comeau – Souffles
• Corinne Chevarier – Anatomie de l’objet
• Hélène Dorion – Coeurs, comme livres d'amour
• Christian Saint-Germain – Tomahawk

Also shortlisted:

Martine Audet – Je demande pardon à l'espèce qui brille. Les grands cimetières II
• Roger Des Roches – Le nouveau temps du verbe être
• Patrick Lafontaine – Grève du zèle
• Jean-François Poupart – L'Or de Klimt

Also shortlisted:

• Pierre Nepveu – Gaston Miron
• Pascal Riendeau – Méditation et vision de l'essai
• Yannick Roy – La révélation inachevée

Also shortlisted:

• Karine Cellard – Leçons de littérature
• Henri Dorion, Jean-Paul Lacasse – Le Québec: territoire incertain
• Catherine Leclerc – Des langues en partage?
• Patrick Tillard – De Bartleby aux écrivains négatifs

Also shortlisted:

• David Bezmozgis – The Free World
• Lynn Coady – The Antagonist
• Patrick deWitt – The Sisters Brothers
• Zsuzsi Gartner – Better Living Through Plastic Explosives
• Michael Ondaatje – The Cat's Table