Ontario Library Association
Evergreen Award

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The Evergreen Awards are run by the Ontario Library Association. Adults of any age vote for their favourite book of fiction or non-fiction by a living Canadian author.

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2015

  • Bill Gaston – Juliet Was a Surprise
  • Naomi Klein – This Changes Everything
  • Emily St. John Mandel – Station Eleven
  • Alison Pick – Between Gods
  • Jennifer Robson – Somewhere in France
  • Katja Rudolph – Little Bastards in Springtime
  • Mark Sakamoto – Forgiveness
  • Fred Stenson – Who By Fire
  • Richard Wagamese – Medicine Walk
  • Alexi Zentner – The Lobster Kings

2014

Also shortlisted:

  • Janet E. Cameron – Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World
  • Charlotte Gray – The Massey Murder
  • A.S.A Harrison – The Silent Wife
  • Janet Hepburn – Flee, Fly, Flown
  • Guy Gavriel Kay – River of Stars
  • Thomas King – The Inconvenient Indian
  • Edeet Ravel – The Cat
  • Simone St. James – An Inquiry Into Love and Death
  • Nick Saul, Andrea Curtis – The Stop

2013

Also shortlisted:


2012

Also shortlisted:

  • Robert J. Wiersema – Bedtime Story
  • Daniel Kalla – The Far Side of the Sky
  • Darcie Hossack – Mennonites Don't Dance
  • Brian Francis – Natural Order
  • Frances Itani – Requiem
  • Frances Greenslade – Shelter
  • Romeo Dallaire – They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children
  • Mellissa Fung – Under the Afghan Sky
  • Martha Schabas – Various Positions

2011

Also shortlisted:

  • Brian Goldman – Night Shift
  • Carla Gunn – Amphibian
  • Anosh Irani – Dahanu Road
  • James W. Nichol – Death Spiral
  • Alison Pick – Far to Go
  • Chevy Stevens – Still Missing
  • Kate Taylor – A Man in Uniform
  • John Vaillant – The Tiger
  • Kathleen Winter – Annabel

2010

  • Jessica Grant – Come, Thou Tortoise

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2009

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2008

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2007

Also shortlisted:

  • C.C. Humphreys – Absolute Honour
  • Giles Blunt – By the Time You Read This
  • Anita Rau Badami – Can You Hear the Nightbird Call
  • Linden MacIntyre – Causeway: A Passage from Innocence
  • Yves Beauchemin, Wayne Grady (trans.) – Charles the Bold
  • Ryan Knighton – Cockeyed: A Memoir
  • Richard Wagamese – Dream Wheels
  • Gil Courtemanche, Wayne Grady (trans.) – A Good Death
  • Louise Penny – Still Life

2006

Also shortlisted:

  • James Chatto – The Greek for Love
  • Joan Clark – An Audience Of Chairs
  • Chris Czajkowski – Snowshoes and Spotted Dick
  • Camilla Gibb – Sweetness in the Belly
  • Lori Lansens – The Girls
  • Stephen Lewis – Race Against Time
  • Ken McGoogan – Lady Franklin's Revenge
  • Michel Rabagliati – Paul Moves Out
  • Robert J. Sawyer – Hominids

2005

Also shortlisted:

  • Margie Taylor – Displaced Persons
  • Peter Robinson – In a Dry Season
  • Judy Fong Bates – Midnight at the Dragon Café
  • Lori Lansens – Rush Home Road
  • Joy Fielding – See Jane Run
  • Jane Urquhart – The Stone Carvers
  • Joe Fiorito – The Closer We Are to Dying
  • Romeo Dallaire – Shake Hands with the Devil: the Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
  • Charles Wilkins – Walk to New York: A Journey Out of the Wilds of Canada