Saskatchewan Book Awards
Book of the Year

The Saskatchewan Book Award for Book of the Year is presented to a Saskatchewan author (or authors) for the best title based on the quality of writing and presentation. Genres include children's, drama, fiction, poetry, and some non-fiction.
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2014
- Lisa Bird-Wilson – Just Pretending
Also shortlisted:
- Dwayne Brenna – Stealing Home
- Bernard Flaman – Architecture of Saskatchewan
- Cathy Littlejohn – Métis Soldiers of Saskatchewan
- Daniel Macdonald – A History of Breathing
- Mari-Lou Rowley – Unus Mundus
2013
- Candace Savage – A Geography of Blood
Also shortlisted:
- Bridget Keating – Red Ceiling
- Dave Margoshes – A Book of Great Worth
- Harriet Richards – The Pious Robber
- Melanie Schnell – While the Sun is Above Us
- Donald Ward – The Weeping Chair
2011
- Darren R. Prefontaine – Gabriel Dumont
Also shortlisted:
- Leah M. Dorion, Rita Flamand – Relatives with Roots
- Devin Krukoff – Flyways
- Curtis R. McManus – Happyland
- Thelma Pepper – Human Touch
2010
- David Carpenter – A Hunter's Confession
Also shortlisted:
- Dianne Warren – Cool Water
- Phyllis Nakonechny – Vidh
- Alexandra Popoff – Sophia Tolstoy
- David Carpenter – Welcome to Canada
- Dave Margoshes – Dimensions of an Orchard
2009
- Margaret Hryniuk, Frank Korvemaker, Larry Easton – Legacy of Stone
Also shortlisted:
- Robert Currie – Witness
- Connie Gault – Euphoria
- Trevor Herriot – Grass, Sky, Song
- Bruce Rice, Cherie Westmoreland – Life in the Canopy
- Maggie Siggins – Marie-Anne
2008
- Gary Hyland – Love of Mirrors
Also shortlisted:
- Christi Belcourt – Medicines to Help Us
- Sharon Butala – The Girl in Saskatoon
- Barbara Klar – Cypress
- Daniel Macdonald – MacGregor's Hard Ice Cream and Gas
- Carey Rigby-Wilcox – My Mummy Couldn't Read
- Bill Waiser – Who Killed Jackie Bates?
2007
- Dave Margoshes – Bix's Trumpet and other stories
Also shortlisted:
- Sheri Benning – Thin Moon Psalm
- Rebecca L. Grambo, Branimir Gjetvaj – The Great Sand Hills
- Harold Johnson – Two Families
- Michael Trussler – Accidental Animals
- Seán Virgo – Begging Questions
2006
- Michael Trussler – Encounters
Also shortlisted:
- Harold Johnson – Back Track
- Annette Lapointe – Stolen
- Arthur Slade – Megiddo's Shadow
- Jim Warren, Kathleen Carlisle – On the Side of the People
2005
- Steven Ross Smith – fluttertongue 3: disarray
Also shortlisted:
- Sandra Birdsell – Children of the Day
- Neal McLeod – Songs to Kill a Wîhtikow
- Candace Savage – Crows
- Maggie Siggins – Bitter Embrace
2004
- Candace Savage – Prairie, A Natural History
Also shortlisted:
- David T. Barnard – With Skilful Hand
- Rita Bouvier – papiyahtak
- Robert Calder – A Richer Dust
- Jeanne-Marie de Moissac – Slow Curve
- Shelley A. Leedahl – Orchestra of the Lost Steps
2003
- Donald Ward – Nobody Goes to Earth Any More
Also shortlisted:
- David Carpenter – Trout Stream Creed
- Tim Lilburn – Kill-site
- Harriet Richards – Waiting for the Piano Tuner to Die
- J. Jill Robinson – Residual Desire
- Mansel Robinson – Street Wheat
- Bill Waiser – All Hell Can't Stop Us
2002
- Guy Vanderhaeghe – The Last Crossing
Also shortlisted:
- Steven Michael Berzensky – The Names Leave the Stones
- Frances Greenslade – A Pilgrim in Ireland
- Norman Henderson – Rediscovering the Great Plains
- Arthur Slade – Tribes
- Dianne Warren – A Reckless Moon
2001
- Sandra Birdsell – The Russländer
Also shortlisted:
- Deanna Christensen – Ahtahkakoop
- Gerald Hill – The Man from Saskatchewan
- Judith Krause – Silk Routes of the Body
- Candace Savage – Born to Be a Cowgirl
- Glen Sorestad – Leaving Holds Me Here
2000
- Trevor Herriot – River in a Dry Land
- Patricia Monture-Angus – Journeying Forward
Also shortlisted:
- Sharon Butala – Wild Stone Heart
- Henderson, Benson & Findlay – Aboriginal Tenure in the Constitution of Canada
- Elizabeth Philips – A Blue with Blood in It
- Jennifer Wynne Webber – Defying Gravity
1999
- Tim Lilburn – To the River
Also shortlisted:
- Brenda Baker – The Maleness of God
- Robert Currie – Things You Don't Forget
- Treena Kortje – Variations of Eve
- Shelley A. Leedahl – The Bone Talker
- Paul Wilson – The Long Landscape
1998
- Susan Andrews Grace – Ferry Woman's History of the World
Also shortlisted:
- Sharon Butala – The Garden of Eden
- Louise Bernice Halfe – Blue Marrow
- Britt Holmström – The Man Next Door
- Yvonne Johnson, Rudy Wiebe – Stolen Life
- Terry Jordan – Beneath That Starry Place
- Mansel Robinson – Slag
- Marlis Wesseler – Elvis Unplugged
1997
- Sandra Birdsell – The Two-Headed Calf
Also shortlisted:
- Ven Begamudré – Laterna Magika
- David Carpenter – Banjo Lessons
- Alison Lohans – Don't Think Twice
- Allen Sapp – I Heard the Drums
- Anne Szumigalski – On Glassy Wings
1996
- Guy Vanderhaeghe – The Englishman's Boy
Also shortlisted:
- David Carpenter – Courting Saskatchewan
- Connie Gault – Inspection of a Small Village
- J.R. Miller – Shingwauk's Vision
- Allison Muri – The Hystery of the Broken Fether
- Candace Savage – Cowgirls
1995
- Anne Szumigalski – Z: A Meditation on Oppression, Desire and Freedom
Also shortlisted:
- Sharon Butala – Coyote's Morning Cry
- William Klebeck – Down Milligan Creek Way
- Patricia Monture-Angus – Thunder In My Soul
- Elizabeth Philips – Beyond My Keeping
1994
- Bonnie Burnard – Casino and Other Stories
Also shortlisted:
- Sharon Butala – The Perfection of Morning
- Judith Krause – Half The Sky
- Courtney Milne – Spirit of the Sky
- Maggie Siggins – Riel: A Life of Revolution
1993
- Dianne Warren – Bad Luck Dog
Also shortlisted:
- Jo Bannatyne-Cugnet and Yvette Moore – A Prairie Alphabet
- Ven Begamudré – Van De Graaff Days
- John V. Hicks – Month's Mind
- Guy Vanderhaeghe – Things As They Are
- Marlis Wesseler – Life Skills