A Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryAlias Grace by Margaret AtwoodThrough Black Spruce by Joseph BoydenLate Nights on Air by Elizabeth HayBloodletting & Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam
Scotiabank Giller Prize Winners
28 books — 74 voters

Life of Pi by Yann MartelThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Booker Prize Winners
74 books — 2,016 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Stranger by Albert CamusBlindness by José SaramagoThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Best by Nobel Prize Authors
380 books — 284 voters

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Looming Tower by Lawrence WrightThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard RhodesThe Prize by Daniel Yergin
Pulitzer Winners: General Non-fiction
86 books — 358 voters
Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariHomo Deus by Yuval Noah HarariA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanSingle at Heart by Bella DePaulo
Best of 21st Century Non-fiction
1,277 books — 1,234 voters