• Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue
• The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
• A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle Porter
• In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas
• The Book of Rain by Thomas Wharton

The BC and Yukon Book Prizes celebrate the achievements of British Columbia and Yukon writers, illustrators and publishers. The prizes are presented annually at the BC and Yukon Book Prizes Gala and are administered and awarded by members of a non-profit society who represent all facets of the publishing and writing community.

Read the 2023 BC and Yukon Book Prizes Nominees

• Ducks by Kate Beaton Check at your public library!
• Greenwood by Michael Christie
• Hotline by Dimitri Nasrallah
• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

• When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar Winner!
• Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades
• What We Fed to the Manticore by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri
• The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr
• Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin

• Ducks by Kate Beaton Check at your public library!
• Cobalt by Charlie Angus
• This is Assisted Dying by Dr. Stefanie Green
• Son of Elsewhere by Elamin Abdelmahmoud
• Mad Honey by Katie Welch
• Valley of the Birdtail by Andrew Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson
• Toufah by Toufah Jallow
• A Convergence of Solitudes by Anita Anand
• Her First Palestinian by Saeed Teebi
• Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

The Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD) devotes their programming to the work of marginalized and underrepresented authors and storytellers and takes place annually in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. 

Read the 2023 FOLD titles 

• Pure Colour by Sheila Heti Winner!
• All the Quiet Places by Brian Thomas Isaac
• Finding Edward by Sheila Murray
• Probably Ruby by Lisa Bird-Wilson
• The Most Precious Substance on Earth by Shashi Bhat

• Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth by Eli Baxter Winner!
• All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days by Rebecca Donner
• Generation Dread by Britt Wray
• Persephoneʼs Children by Rowan McCandless
• Rehearsals for Living by Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

• My Road from Damascus by Jamal Saeed
• Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe
• Unbroken by Angela Sterritt
• Ordinary Wonder Tales by Emily Urquhart
• Fire Weather by John Vaillant

Winner for Published prose in English:
All the Quiet Places by Brian Thomas Isaac  

Winner for Published Graphic Novels, Comics, and Illustrated Books:
Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow by Aimée Craft

• The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr Winner!
• Lesser-Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu 
• Stray Dogs by Rawi Hage
• If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga 
• We Measure The Earth With Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama 

• Kinauvit?  by Norma Dunning
• Valley of the Birdtail by Andrew Stobo Sniderman
• From Left to Right  by Dale Eisler
• Sideways: The City Google Couldn’t Buy by Josh O’Kane
• How to Be a Climate Optimist by Chris Turner Winner!

• Clara at the Door with a Revolver by Carolyn Whitzman
• Finding Edward by Sheila Murray
• Moving the Museum by Wanda Nanibush Check at your public library!
• Nomenclature by Dionne Brand
• Wild Fires by Sophie Jai

Read available longlisted titles for the 2023 Toronto Book Awards!

• The Book of Grief and Hamburgers by Stuart Ross Winner!
• Cobalt by Charlie Angus
• William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, A Radical Retelling by Cliff Cardinal
• All the Shining People: Stories by Kathy Friedman
• Best Young Woman Job Book: A Memoir by Emma Healey