Best Sellers & Book Awards

Scroll down and find links to reading lists that are organized by subject and feature award winning books.

Literature: Canadian

• Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
• First Nation Communities READ Award - YA/Adult
• Evergreen Award
• Scotiabank Giller Prize
• Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction
• Griffin Poetry Prize
• The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour
• ReLit Awards
• Toronto Book Awards
• Trillium Book Award - English
• Trillium Book Award for Poetry (English)

Literature: International

• Booker Prize
• International Dublin Literary Award
• LAMBDA Literary Awards
• Nobel Prize in Literature
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
• Women's Prize for Fiction

Mystery

• Agatha Awards
• Arthur Ellis Awards
• Crime Writers of Canada
• Edgar Awards
• Gold Dagger Award

Science Fiction

• Arthur C. Clarke Award Winners
• Aurora Award Winners
• Hugo Award Winners
• LAMBDA Literary Award - LGBTQ Speculative Fiction
• Nebula Award Winners
• Philip K. Dick Award Winners
• Sunburst Award Winners
• Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
• World Fantasy Award Winners

Nonfiction

• Governor General's Literary Award for Non-fiction
• Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
• Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing

French Language

• Forêt de la lecture:
  • Prix Mélèze
  • Prix Peuplier
  • Prix Tamarac
• Prix de l'Académie française
• Prix Alain-Thomas
• Prix Fémina
• Prix Goncourt
• Prix Interallié
• Prix littéraire du Gouverneur-Général - Littérature jeunesse - Livres illustré
• Prix littéraire du Gouverneur-Général - Littérature jeunesse - texte
• Prix littéraire du Gouverneur Général: Romans et Nouvelles
• Prix littéraire Trillium
• Prix du livre d'enfant Trillium
• Prix Médicis
• Prix Renaudot

Children

• Caldecott Medal
• Coretta Scott King Book Awards - Author and Illustrator
• First Nation Communities READ Award - Children's
• Forest of Reading:
  • Blue Spruce Award
  • Silver Birch Express Award
  • Silver Birch Fiction Award
  • Yellow Cedar Award
• Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction
• Governor General’s Literary Awards: Young People's Literature - Illustrated Books and Text
• Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award
• Newbery Medal
• Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction
• TD Canadian Children's Literature Awards

Teens

• Red Maple Award
• White Pine Award
• Michael L. Printz Award