Fiction
- The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb
- Fauna by Alissa York
- The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart
- The Frumkiss Family Business by Michael Wex
- A Man in Uniform by Kate Taylor
- Crime Machine by Giles Blunt
- The Nesting Dolls by Gail Bowen
Non-Fiction
- The Tiger by John Vaillant
- Superconnect by Richard Koch and
Greg Lockwood - In Ishmael's House by Martin Gilbert
- The Perfect Nazi by Martin Davidson
- The Balfour Declaration by
Jonathan Schneer - Nomad by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
photo credit: Michael Lionstar
John Vaillant author of The Tiger
John Vaillant introduces The Tiger, his account of a Siberian tiger who stalked and killed a would-be poacher.
photo credit: Terence W. Bailey
Sara Gruen author of Ape House (available Sept. 7)
Sara Gruen, author of the bestselling Water for Elephants, has a new novel coming on Sept. 7, inspired by the bonobos and scientific research at Great Ape Trust in Des Moines. In this video Sara and scientist Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh talk about Ape House and Great Ape Trust's language competent bonobos.
photo credit: Erinn Hartman
Tom McCarthy author of C (available Sept. 7)
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, C follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who - as his name suggests - surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that will obliterate him.
Congratulations to our Man Booker Prize longlist nominees:
Peter Carey for Parrot and Olivier in America
David Mitchell for The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Rose Tremain for Trespass
Damon Galgut for In a Strange Room
Tom McCarthy for C (available Sept. 7)
The shortlist will be announced on Sept. 7 and the winner will be revealed on Oct. 12 in London.
The National Business Book Award winner has been announced - congratulations to:
Jeff Rubin, who won for his book Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller
The $20,000 prize is presented annually to an outstanding Canadian business-related book. The winner was announced on June 9 at a luncheon in Toronto. Also nominated was
John DeMont for Coal Black Heart: The Story of Coal and the Lives it Ruled.
The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker has been awarded the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award! The prize, worth €100,000 is the richest prize for a single novel - click here for more information.
2010 CBC Canada Reads 2010 winner!
The announcement was made on March 12, 2010 after a week of debates on CBC Radio, hosted by Jian Ghomeshi.
Check out the CBC Canada Reads website for more information!