Appendix: Canada Reads and Le Combat des Livres Winners

Canada Reads

Year

Title

Author

Panellist

2002
Winner In
the Skin of a
Lion
Michael
Ondaatje
Steven
Page
A Fine
Balance
Rohinton Mistry Megan Follows
The
Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood Kim Campbell
The Stone
Angel
Margaret Laurence Leon Rooke
Whylah Falls George Elliott
Clarke
Nalo Hopkinson
2003
Winner Next
Episode
Hubert
Aquin
Denise
Bombardier
The Colony
of Unrequited Dreams
Wayne Johnston Justin Trudeau
Life of Pi Yann Martel Nancy Lee
The Lost
Garden
Helen Humphreys Mag Ruffman
Sarah Binks Paul Hiebert Will Ferguson
2004
Winner The
Last Crossing
Guy
Vanderhaeghe
Jim
Cuddy
Barney’s
Version
Mordecai Richler Zsuzsi Gartner
Green Grass,
Running Water
Thomas King Glen Murray
The Heart is
an Involuntary Muscle
Monique Proulx Francine Pelletier
The Love of
a Good Woman
Alice Munro Measha
Brueggergosman
2005
Winner Rockbound Frank
Parker Day
Donna
Morrissey
Beautiful
Losers
Leonard Cohen Molly Johnson
No Crystal
Stair
Mairuth Sarsfield Sherraine MacKay
Oryx and
Crake
Margaret Atwood Olivia Chow
Volkswagen
Blues
Jacques Poulin Roch Carrier
2006
Winner A
Complicated Kindness
Miriam
Toews
John
K. Samson
Cocksure Mordecai Richler Scott Thompson
Deafening Frances Itani Maureen McTeer
Rooms for
Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems, 1962–1996
Al Purdy Susan Musgrave
Three Day
Road
Joseph Boyden Nelofer Pazira
2007
Winner Lullabies
for Little Criminals
Heather
O’Neill
John
K. Samson
Children of
My Heart
Gabrielle Roy Denise Bombardier
Natasha and
Other Stories
David Bezmozgis Steven Page
The Song of
Kahunsha
Anosh Irani Donna Morrissey
Stanley Park Timothy Taylor Jim Cuddy
2008
Winner King
Leary
Paul
Quarrington
Dave
Bidini
Brown Girl
in the Ring
Nalo Hopkinson Jemini
From the
Fifteenth District
Mavis Gallant Lisa Moore
Icefields Thomas Wharton Steve MacLaren
Not Wanted
on the Voyage
Timothy Findley Zaib Shaikh
2009
Winner The
Book of Negroes
Lawrence
Hill
Avi
Lewis
The Fat
Woman Next Door is Pregnant
Michel Tremblay Anne-Marie
Withenshaw
Fruit: A
Novel About a Boy and His Nipples
Brian Francis Jen Sookfong Lee
Mercy among
the Children
David Adams
Richards
Sarah Slean
The Outlander Gil Adamson Nicholas Campbell
2010
Winner Nikolski Nicolas
Dickner, translated by Lazer Lederhendler
Michel
Vezina
Fall on Your
Knees
Ann-Marie MacDonald Perdita Felicien
Generation
X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
Douglas Coupland Cadence Weapon
Good to a
Fault
Marina Endicott Simi Sara
The Jade
Peony
Wayson Choy Samantha Nutt
2011
Winner The
Best Laid Plans
Terry
Fallis
Ali
Velshi
The Birth
House
Ami McKay Debbie Travis
The Bone Cage Angie Abdou Georges Laraque
Essex County Jeff Lemire Sara Quin
Unless Carol Shields Lorne Cardinal
2012
Winner Something
Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
Carmen
Aguirre
Shad
The Game Ken Dryden Alan Thicke
On a Cold
Road
Dave Bidini Stacey McKenzie
Prisoner of
Tehran
Marina Nemat Arlene Dickinson
The Tiger John Vaillant Anne-France
Goldwater
2013
Winner February Lisa
Moore
Trent
McLellan
The Age of
Hope
David Bergen Ron MacLean
Away Jane Urquhart Charlotte Gray
Indian Horse Richard Wagamese Carol Huynh
Two Solitudes Hugh MacLennan Jay Baruchel
2014
Winner The
Orenda
Joseph
Boyden
Wab
Kinew
Annabel Kathleen Winter Sarah Gadon
Cockroach Rawi Hage Samantha Bee
Half-Blood
Blues
Esi Edugyan Donovan Bailey
The Year of
the Flood
Margaret Atwood Stephen Lewis

Le Combat des Livres

Year

Title

Author

Panellist

2004
Winner Un
dimanche à la piscine à Kigali
Gil
Courtemanche
Laure
Waridel
Une histoire
américaine
Jacques Godbout Gérald Larose
L’histoire
de Pi
Yann Martel Louise Forestier
La petite
fille qui amimait trop les allumettes
Gaétan Soucy Micheline Lanctôt
La servante
écarlate
Margaret Atwood Julius Grey
2005
Winner L’Avalée
des avalés
Réjean
Ducharme
Sophie
Cadieux
La Chair
disparue
Jean-Jacques
Pelletier
Alain Lefèvre
Dolce agonia Nancy Huston Réjean Thomas
À la hauteur
de Grand Central Station, je me suis assisse et j’ai pleuré
Elizabeth Smart Dennis Trudeau
Thérèse et
Pierrette a l’école des Saints-Agnes
Michel Tremblay Monique Simard
2006
Winner La
Femme de ma vie
Francine
Noël
Françoise
Guénette
Comment
devenir un monstre
Jean Barbe Lucie Laurier
Une coquille
de silence
Frances Itani Maureen McTeer
Un petit pas
pour l’homme
Stéphane Dompierre Louis-José Houde
Prochain
épisode
Hubert Aquin Pierre Lebeau
2007
Winner L’Iguane Denis
Thériault
Dominique
Lévesque
D’où
viens-tu berger?
Mathyas Lefebure Robert Frosi
Le poids des
ombres
Marie Laberge Pauline Marois
Self Yann Martel Sheila Copps
Vamp Christian Mistral Biz
2008
Winner La
Logeuse
Éric
Dupont
Nicolas
Langelier
La concierge
du Panthéon
Jacques Godbout Bernard Landry
La Détresse
et l’enchantement
Gabrielle Roy Sophie Faucher
Le Monde de
Barney
Mordecai Richler Anne Lagacé Dowson
Une saison
dans la vie d’Emmanuel
Marie-Claire Blais Serge Denoncourt
2009
Winner Parfum
de poussière
Rawi
Hage
Brendan
Kelly
Borderline Marie-Sissi
Labreche
Janette Bertrand
La
fabrication de l’aube
Jean-Francois
Beauchemin
Emmanuel Bilodeau
Mistouk Gérard Bouchard Raymond Gravel
Vandal Love D. Y. Béchard Esther Bégin
2010
Winner L’énigme
du retour
Dany
Laferrière
Françoise
David
Cantique des
plaines
Nancy Huston Christopher Hall
Comment
devenier un ange
Jean Barbe Marie-Soleil Michon
L’Homme
invisible
Patrice Desbiens Thomas Hellman
Le surevenant Germaine
Gu`vremont
Christian Dufour
2011
Winner L’homme
blanc
Perrine
Leblanc
Geneviève
Guérard
Comment
faire l’amour avec un nègre san se fatiguer
Dany Laferriere Patrick Lagacé
L’École des
films
David Gilmour Anne-France
Goldwater
Mère-Solitude Émile Ollivier Jici Lauzon
Le train
pour Samarcande
Danielle Trussart Djemila Banhabib
2012
Winner La
petite et le vieux
Marie-Renée
Lavoie
Yves
Lamontagne
Chroniques
de Jérsualem
Guy Delisle Gildor Roy
Le sourire
de la petite juive
Abla Farhoud Nabila Ben Youssef
La voleuse
d’hommes
Margaret Atwood Tasha Kheiriddin
2013
Winner Aminata Lawrence
Hill
Thomas
Hellman
Arvida Samuel Archibald Bernard Landry
La Ballade
de Baby
Heather O’Neill Brendan Kelly
La fiancée
américaine
Éric Dupont Dominique Levesque
Il pleuvait
des oiseaux
Jocelyne Saucier Geneviève Guérard
2014
Winner La
Belle Bête
Marie-Claire
Blais
Paul
Cargnello
Adieu, Betty
Crocker
François Gravel Pauline Martin
L’equilibre
du monde
Rohinton Mistry Azdeb
Wolde-Giorghis
Ru Kim Thùy Jean-Francois
Chiçoine