2019 Award-Winning Books

Award-Winning Books in the Atwater Library Collection

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2019 Award Winners in the Atwater Library Collection:

Canadian:

CBC Canada Reads
Governor General’s Award For Non-Fiction
Governor General’s Literary Awards
Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
Quebec Writers’ Federation
RBC Taylor Prize
Roger’s Writers’ Trust of Canada
Scotiabank Giller Prize

American:

The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction
The Edgar Awards
Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction

International:

Women’s Prize for Fiction
The Man Booker Prize
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards

 

Winner of the 2019 CBC Canada Reads
By Chance Alone : A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz / Max Eisen
Call #: Bio E36b
Winner of the 2019 Governor General’s Award For Non-Fiction
To the River : Losing my Brother / Don Gillmour
Call #: Bio G482g
Winner of the 2019 Governor General’s Literary Awards
Five Wives / Joan Thomas
Call #: Fic Tho
Winner of the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related: A Memoir / Jenny Heijun Wills
Call #: Bio W741o
Winner of the 2019 Quebec Writers’ Federation
The Teardown / David Homel
Call #: QWF Fic Hom
Winner of the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize
Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Roads / Kate Harris
Call #: Bio H314l
Winner of the 2019 Roger’s Writers’ Trust of Canada
Days by Moonlight / André Alexis
Call #: Fic Ale
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Winner of the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Reproduction / Ian Williams
Call #: BLK Fic Wil
Winner of the 2019 The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
The Great Believers / Rebecca Makkai
Call #: Fic Mak
Winner of the 2019 The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction
Heavy: An American Memoir / Kiese Laymon
Call #: BLK Bio L426h
Winner of the 2019 The Edgar Awards
Down the River Unto the Sea / Walter Mosley
Call #: BLK MYS Fic Mos
Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction
The Overstory / Richard Powers
Call #: Fic Pow
Winner of the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction
An American Marriage / Tayari Jones
Call #: BLK Fic Jon
Winner of the 2019 The Man Booker Prize
Girl, Woman, Other / Bernardine Evaristo
Call #: BLK Fic Eva
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Winner of the 2019 The Man Booker Prize
The Testaments / Margaret Atwood
Call #: Fic Atw
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Winner of the 2019 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards
Idaho / Emily Ruskovich
Call #: Fic Rus

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