Titles link to the Prince Rupert Library Catalogue. Winners are shown in bold.
This list covers 2004–2017. For current and recent years, visit the CBC Canada Reads website.
| Year | Books |
|---|---|
| 2017 |
The Right to Be Cold by Sheila Watt-Cloutier Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis Company Town by Madeline Ashby The Break by Katherena Vermette Nostalgia by M.G. Vassanji |
| 2016 |
Birdie by Tracey Lindberg Bone and Bread by Saleema Nawaz Minister Without Portfolio by Michael Winter The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami The Illegal by Lawrence Hill |
| 2015 |
And The Birds Rained Down by Jocelyne Saucier Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes by Kamal Al-Solaylee Ru by Kim Thuy The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King When Everything Feels like the Movies by Raziel Reid |
| 2014 |
The Orenda by Joseph Boyden The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan Cockroach by Rawi Hage Annabel by Kathleen Winter |
| 2013 |
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese (B.C. and the Yukon) The Age of Hope by David Bergen (Prairies and the North) Away by Jane Urquhart (Ontario) Two Solitudes by Hugh MacLennan (Quebec) February by Lisa Moore (Maritimes) |
| 2012 |
Something Fierce by Carmen Aguirre The Game by Ken Dryden On a Cold Road by Dave Bidini Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat The Tiger by John Vaillant |
| 2011 |
The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis The Birth House by Ami McKay The Bone Cage by Angie Abdou Essex County by Jeff Lemire Unless by Carol Shields |
| 2010 |
Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy Generation X by Douglas Coupland Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald |
| 2009 |
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant by Michel Tremblay Fruit by Brian Francis Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards The Outlander by Gil Adamson |
| 2008 |
King Leary by Paul Quarrington Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson From the Fifteenth District by Mavis Gallant Icefields by Thomas Wharton Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findlay |
| 2007 |
Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill Natasha and Other Stories by David Bezmozgis Stanley Park by Timothy Taylor The Song of Kahunsha by Anosh Irani Children of My Heart by Gabrielle Roy |
| 2006 |
A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets by Al Purdy Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden Deafening by Frances Itani Cocksure by Mordecai Richler |
| 2005 |
Rockbound by Frank Parker Day Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen No Crystal Stair by Mairuth Sarsfield Volkswagen Blues by Jacques Poulin Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood |
| 2004 |
The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King The Heart Is An Involuntary Muscle by Monique Proulx The Love of a Good Woman: Stories by Alice Munro Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler |