2018
Winner: All My Puny Sorrows, Miriam Toews
- The Wars, Timothy Findley
- Dance of the Happy Shades, Alice Munro
- Random Passage, Bernice Morgan
- The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline
2017
Winner: Indian Horse, Richard Wagamese
- The Lost Diaries of Susanna Moodie, Cecily Ross
- Rilla of Ingleside, L.M. Montgomery
- Man in the Shadows, Gordon Henderson
- We’re All in This Together, Amy Jones
2016
Winner: The Manticore, Robertson Davies
- They Left Us Everything, Plum Johnson
- Half-Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan
- The High Mountains of Portugal, Yann Martel
- Etta and Otto and Russell and James, Emma Hooper
2015
Winner: The Virgin Cure, Ami McKay
- Emancipation Day, Wayne Grady
- Unless, Carol Shields
- No Relation, Terry Fallis
- Still Life, Louise Penny
2014
Winner: Elizabeth and After, Matt Cohen
- Midnight at the Dragon Cafe, Judy Fong Bates
- The Orenda, Joseph Boyden
- The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
- Beautiful Losers, Leonard Cohen
2013
Winner: Crow Lake, Mary Lawson
- Eleanor Rigby, Douglas Coupland
- Lives of Girls and Women, Alice Munro
- Omens, Kelley Armstrong
- Perdita, Hilary Scharper
2012
Winner: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley
- Barometer Rising, Hugh MacLennan
- Neuromancer, William Gibson
- The Little Shadows, Marina Endicott
- The Best Laid Plans, Terry Fallis
2011
Winner: Fall On Your Knees, Ann-Marie MacDonald
- City Wolves, Dorris Heffron
- The Holding, Merilyn Simonds
- Life of Pi, Yann Martel
- Lost in the Barrens, Farley Mowat
2010
Winner: The Day The Falls Stood Still, Cathy Marie Buchanan
- Galore, Michael Crummey
- Generation X, Douglas Coupland
- Not Wanted on the Voyage, Timothy Findley
- Rogues Wedding, Terry Griggs
- The Wars, Timothy Findley
2009
Winner: Fifth Business, Robertson Davies
- The Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill
- The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Wayne Johnston
- No Great Mischief, Alistar Mcleod
- The Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood