City of Vancouver Book Award

Template:Short description Template:More citations needed The City of Vancouver Book Award is a Canadian literary award, that has been presented annually by the city of Vancouver, British Columbia to one or more works of literature judged as the year's best fiction, non-fiction, poetry or drama work about the city.

As with the City of Toronto Book Award, the award may go to one or more books.

The award has a monetary value of $3,000. The prize is funded by interest earned from the city's publishing reserve, which was established in 1977 as a permanent legacy for writers and publishers. The fund received royalties generated from Vancouver's First Century: A Photo History of Vancouver, edited by city staff. The third edition of the book, renamed Vancouver: A City Album, or many years generated royalty payments for the fund.

Honorees

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CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
1989Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Saltwater City: An Illustrated History of the Chinese in Vancouver	Winner
1990	Template:Sortname	Disappearing Moon Cafe	Winner
	Template:Sortname	Being Brown: A Very Public Life	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Buddy's: Meditations on Desire	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Finalist
1991Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Vanishing Vancouver	Winner
	Template:Sortname	Leonard Frank: An Enterprising Life	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Robin Ward's Vancouver	Finalist
1992Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Trees of Vancouver: A Guide to the Common and Unusual Trees of the City	Winner
	Template:Sortname	No Forwarding Address	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Hidden Cities	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Flesh Wound	Finalist
	Template:Sortname and Graeme Wynn	Vancouver and Its Regions	Finalist
1993Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Vancouver: A Visual History	Winner
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Finalist
	Template:Sortname and John Atkin	Heritage Walks Around Vancouver	Finalist
1994Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Winner
	Template:Sortname and Karl Spreitz	Vancouver: Visions of a City	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Robin Ward's Heritage West Coast	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Line Screw	Finalist
1995Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Earle Birney: A Life	Winner
	Template:Sortname and Cynthia Nugent	Mister Got to Go	Finalist
	Template:Sortname and Robert Davidson	Eagle Transforming: The Art of Robert Davidson	Finalist
1996Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Winner
	Template:Sortname	Monday Night Man	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Making Vancouver: Class, Status & Social Boundaries 1863-1913	Finalist
1997Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Winner
	Template:Sortname	Vancouver at the Dawn: A Turn-of-the-Century Portrait	Finalist
	Template:Sortname and Bob Scullion	Postcards from the Past: Edwardian Images of Greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley	Finalist
1998Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Winner
	Template:Sortname and Ian Macdonald	Template:Sort	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	And a Body to Remember With	Finalist
1999Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Keys to Kingdoms	Winner
	Template:Sortname and the editors of Vancouver Magazine	Vancouver: Secrets of the City	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	White Lung	Finalist
2000Template:Efn	Template:Sortname and Donald Luxton	Lions Gate	Winner
	Template:Sortname and Collin Varner	Gardens of Vancouver	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Finalist
2001Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Simple Recipes	Winner
	Template:Sortname	City of Glass: Douglas Coupland's Vancouver	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Stanley Park	Finalist
	Template:Sortname (ed.)	Susan Point: Coast Salish Artist	Finalist
2002Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Winner
	Template:Sortname	Burrard Inlet: A History	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Making a Stone of the Heart	Finalist
2003Template:Efn	Template:Sortname, Ken Dietrich-Campbell, Patricia Canning and Elaine Allan	Heroines	Winner
	Template:Sortname (ed.)	Stan Douglas: Every Building on 100 Block West Hastings	Winner
	Template:Sortname and Bob Turner	Vancouver, City on the Edge: Living with a Dynamic Geological Landscape	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Intimate Distances	Finalist
2004Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	L.D.: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver	Winner
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Sitting Practice	Honourable mention
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Honourable mention
	Template:Sortname	Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister	Honourable mention
2005Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination	Winner
	Template:Sortname	All That Matters	Finalist
	Template:Sortname and Dara Culhane (eds.)	In Plain Sight: Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver	Finalist
	Various	Template:Sort	Finalist
2006Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Stanley Park's Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch, and Brockton Point	Winner
	Template:Sortname	Waterfront: The Illustrated Maritime History of Greater Vancouver	Winner
	Template:Sortname	Historical Atlas of Vancouver and the Lower Fraser Valley	Finalist
	Template:Sortname, Ian M. Thom, and Adele Weder	B.C. Binning	Finalist
2007Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Vancouver Remembered	Winner
	Template:Sortname and Michael Turner	Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Finalist
2008Template:Efn	Template:Sortname and Gillian Jerome	Hope in Shadows: Stories and Photographs of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside	Winner
	Template:Sortname	Falsework	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	At Home With History: The Untold Secrets of Greater Vancouver's Heritage Homes	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Finalist
2009Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Winner
	Template:Sortname	In the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Nightmarker	Finalist
2010Template:Efn	Template:Sortname and Scott Steedman	Visions of British Columbia	Winner
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Common Ground in a Liquid City	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Finalist
2011Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Winner
	Template:Sortname	Whoever Gives Us Bread: The Story of Italians in British Columbia	Finalist	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region	Finalist	<ref name=":5" />
	Template:Sortname	Vancouver Kids	Finalist	<ref name=":5" />
2012Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	YVR	Winner
	Template:Sortname and Elee Kraljii Gardiner (eds.)	V6A: Writing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside	Finalist	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	At the World's Edge: Curt Lang's Vancouver	Finalist	<ref name=":6" />
	Template:Sortname	Undesirables: White Canada and the Komagata Maru	Finalist	<ref name=":6" />
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Finalist	<ref name=":6" />
2013Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Ink on Paper	Finalist
	Template:Sortname and Robin Ward	Exploring Vancouver: The Architectural Guide	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History	Finalist
2014Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Arthur Erickson: An Architect's Life	Winner
	Template:Sortname	What Makes Olga Run?	Finalist	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?	Finalist	<ref name=":0" />
	Template:Sortname	Anatomy of a Girl Gang: A Novel	Finalist	<ref name=":0" />
	Template:Sortname	Artificial Cherry	Finalist	<ref name=":0" />
2015Template:Efn	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Live at the Commodore: The Story of Vancouver's Historic Commodore Ballroom	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Hastings-Sunrise: Poems	Finalist
	Template:Sortname and Cynthia Nugent	Mister Got To Go, Where Are You?	Finalist
2016Template:Efn	Template:Sortname, Karen Duffek, and Tania Willard	Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Unceded Territories	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname and Renée Sarojini Saklikar (eds.)	Template:Sort	Finalist	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away	Finalist	<ref name=":1" />
2017	Template:Sortname	Bad Endings	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname, Ian M. Thom, Susan Point, Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse, Thomas Cannell, Myrtle McKay, and William McLennan	Susan Point: Spindle Whorl	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Pandas on the Eastside	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Invisible Dead	Finalist
2018	Template:Sortname	Dear Current Occupant	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Sitting Shiva on Minto Avenue, by Toots	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Sustenance: Writers from BC and Beyond on the Subject of Food	Finalist
2019	Template:Sortname and Susan Point	People among the People: The public art of Susan Point	Winner
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Murder by Milkshake: An Astonishing True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic Killer	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	No Fixed Address	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Port of Being	Finalist
2020	Template:Sortname	Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	on/me	Finalist	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Vancouver for Beginners	Finalist	<ref name=":3" />
2021	Template:Sortname	Five Little Indians	Winner	<ref name=":2" />
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Finalist	<ref name=":3" />
	Template:Sortname and Anna Bron	Salma the Syrian Chef	Finalist	<ref name=":3" />
	Template:Sortname	Ho Sun Hing Printers	Honourable mention	Template:Citation needed
2022	Template:Sortname, Bill McLennan, and Jordan Wilson	Where the Power Is: Indigenous Perspectives on Northwest Coast Art	Winner
	Template:Sortname	Erase and Rewind	Finalist	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	No Shelter	Finalist	<ref name=":4" />
	Template:Sortname	Chiru Sakura: Falling Cherry Blossoms	Finalist	<ref name=":4" />
	Template:Sortname	Debbie Cheung & Christopher Lee, Occupying Chinatown	Finalist	<ref name=":4" />
2023	Template:Sortname	Junie	Winner
	Template:Sortname	Cactus Gardens	Finalist
	Template:Sortname, Nathan Fairbairn	PAWS: Mindy Makes Some Space	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	The Foghorn Echoes	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Holden After and Before: Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose	Finalist
	Template:Sortname, Deanna Bowen, Wayde Compton, Daina Augaitis, Siobhan McCracken Nixon	Jan Wade: Soul Power	Finalist
2024	Template:Sortname	White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver	Winner
	Template:Sortname	Baby Drag Queen	Finalist
	Template:Sortname	Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart	Finalist
	Template:Sortname, Michael Simpson	It Stops Here: Standing Up for Our Lands, Our Waters, and Our People	Finalist
	Template:Sortname, Jeff O'Brien, editors, plus numerous authors	What Are Our Supports?	Finalist

External links

• City of Vancouver Book Award