Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award

The Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award is a literary prize awarded annually by the BC Book Prizes
for the "best book in terms of public appeal, initiative, design, production and content."[1] The prize is
shared by the author and publisher. To qualify, the publisher must be located in British Columbia or the
Yukon and in full creative control (editing, design and production).[2] The winner, unlike the other prizes
which are determined by judges, is selected by ballot sent to bookstores across the province of British
Columbia.[3]

Contents
History
Winners and finalists
References
External links

History
The award is named in honour of BC bookseller Bill Duthie who founded Duthie Books in 1957.[1] It was
first awarded in 1985 and was one of the original four prizes awarded by the BC Book Prizes. The prize
used to be called "BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie" but the name was simplified
in 2010 to align with the other BC Book Prizes.

Winners and finalists

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Year Winner Nominees

Islands Protection Society -

1985 Islands at the Edge (Douglas & Hilary Stewart - Cedar (Douglas & McIntyre)
McIntyre) John Edwards - The Roman Cookery of Apicius (Hartley & Marks)

Cameron Young et al., - The John Adams and Becky Thomas - Floating Schools and Frozen
1986 Forests of British Columbia Inkwells (Harbour Publishing)
(Whitecap Books)
Philip Hersee - Vancouver: Touch The Magic (self-published)

Doris Shadbolt - Bill Reid Philip Croft - Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian (Harbour
1987 Publishing)
(Douglas & McIntyre)
Ruth Kirk - Wisdom of the Elders (Douglas & McIntyre)

Hilary Stewart - The Rick Hansen, Jim Taylor - Rick Hansen: Man In Motion (Douglas
Adventures and Sufferings of & McIntyre)
1988
John R. Jewitt (Douglas &
Howard White, Jim Spilsbury - Spilsbury's Coast (Harbour
McIntyre)
Publishing)

Michael M'Gonigle, Wendy

1989 Wickwire - Stein: The Way of Bruce Hutchison - A Life In The Country (Douglas & McIntyre)
the River (Talonbooks) Joe Garner - Never Chop Your Rope (Cinnabar Press)

Western Canada Wilderness

Committee - Carmanah Paul St. Pierre - Chilcotin & Beyond (Douglas & McIntyre)
1990
(Western Canada Wilderness Bob Herger, Rosemary Neering - The Coast Of British Columbia
Committee) (Whitecap Books)

Michael Kluckner - Vanishing Jim Spilsbury - Spilsbury's Album (Harbour Publishing)

1991
Vancouver (Whitecap Books)
Jack Webster - Webster! (Douglas & McIntyre)

Robert Bringhurst and Ulli

Steltzer (photographer) - The Liv Kennedy - Coastal Villages (Harbour Publishing)
1992 Black Canoe: Bill Reid and the
Bruce Obee, Tim Fitzharris - Coastal Wildlife of British Columbia
Spirit of Hakla Gwaii (Douglas
(Whitecap Books)
& McIntyre)

Nick Bantock - Sabine's Terry Glavin and the Nemiah Valley Peoples - Nemiah: The
1993 Unconquered Country (New Star Books)
Notebook (Chronicle Books)
Bruce MacDonald - Vancouver: A Visual History (Talonbooks)

Alan Haig-Brown - Fishing for Diane Swanson - The Emerald Sea (Whitecap Books)
1994
a Living (Harbour Publishing)
Clayton Mack - Grizzlies & White Guys (Harbour Publishing)

Robert Davidson, Ulli Steltzer -

1995 Eagle Transforming (Douglas Tom Henry - The Good Company (Harbour Publishing)
& McIntyre) Rosalind MacPhee - Picasso's Women (Douglas & McIntyre)

Bill Richardson - Bachelor Candace Savage - Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows,
Brothers' Bed and Breakfast Ravens, Magpies, and Jays (Greystone Books)
1996
Pillow Book (Douglas &
Ken Drushka - HR: A Biography of H. R. MacMillan (Harbour
McIntyre)
Publishing)

Richard Cannings, Sydney

Cannings - British Columbia: Bruce Obee - Over Beautiful British Columbia: An Aerial
1997 Adventure (Beautiful British Columbia Magazine)
A Natural History (Greystone
Books) Maria Coffey - Sailing Back in Time (Whitecap Books)

1998 Ian McAllister, Karen

 McAllister, Cameron Young -
The Great Bear Rainforest
(Harbour Publishing)
Tom Henry - Westcoasters:
1999 Boats that Built BC (Harbour
Publishing)
Derek Hayes - Historical Atlas
of British Columbia and the
2000
Pacific Northwest (Douglas &
McIntyre)
Dan Francis - The
Encyclopedia of British
2001
Columbia (Harbour
Publishing)
Terry Reksten - Illustrated
2002 History of BC (Douglas &
McIntyre)
Robb Douglas, Peter A.
Robson, Betty Keller -
2003 Skookum Tugs: British
Columbia's Working Tugboats
(Harbour Publishing)
R. Samuel Bawif - The Secret
Voyage of Sir Francis Drake,
2004
1577-1580 (Douglas &
McIntyre)
Harvey Thommasen, Kevin
Hutchings, R. Wayne
2005 Campbell, Mark Hume - Birds
of the Raincoast: Habits and
Habitat (Harbour Publishing)
2006 James P. Delgado - Waterfront:
The Illustrated Maritime Story
of Greater Vancouver (Stanton
Atkins & Dosil Publishers)
Keith Keller - Dangerous Waters (Harbour Publishing)
Ian Gill - Haida Gwaii (Raincoast Books)
Wade Davis - The Clouded Leopard (Douglas & McIntyre)
Chris Jaksa, Lynn Tanod - Guiding Lights: BC's Lighthouses and
their Keepers (Harbour Publishing)
Faith Moosang - First Son: Portraits by C. D. Hoy (Arsenal Pulp
Press/Presentation House Gallery)
Lilia D'Acres, Don Luxton - Lions Gate (Talonbooks)
John Baldwin - Mountains of the Coast (Harbour Publishing)
Kenneth Macrae Leighton - Oar & Sail: An Odyssey of the West
Coast (Creekstone Press)
Patricia Van Tighem - The Bear's Embrace (Anchor)
Douglas Coupland - City of Glass (Douglas & McIntyre)
Terry Glavin - The Last Great Sea (Greystone Books)
Rosemary Neering - Wild West Women (Whitecap Books)
Will Ferguson, Ian Ferguson - How to Be a Canadian (Douglas &
McIntyre)
Wade Davis - Light at the Edge of the World (Douglas & McIntyre)
Rick Blacklaws, Diana French - Ranchland (Harbour Publishing)
Keith Thor Carlson, Colin Duffield, Albert (Sonny) McHalsie, Jan
Perrier, Leeanna Lynn Rhodes, David M. Schaepe and David
Smith - A Stó:lo–Coast Salish Historical Atlas (Douglas &
McIntyre / University of Washington Press / Stó:lo Heritage Trust)
Bill Richardson - Dear Sad Goat (Douglas & McIntyre)
Ian Thom - E. J. Hughes (Douglas & McIntyre)
Derek Hayes - Historical Atlas of Canada (Douglas & McIntyre)
Alison Watt - The Last Island: A Naturalist's Sojourn on Triangle
Island (Harbour Publishing)
Doreen Armitage - From the Wheelhouse: Tug Boaters Tell Their
Own Stories (Harbour Publishing)
Bill Proctor and Yvonne Maximchuk - Full Moon, Flood Tide: Bill
Proctor's Raincoast(Harbour Publishing)
David Nunuk - Natural Light: Visions of British Columbia (Harbour
Publishing)
Andrew Scott - Painter, Paddler: The Art and Adventures of
Stewart Marshall (TouchWood Editions)
Anny Scoones - Home: Tales of a Heritage Farm (Hedgerow
Press)
Stephen Hume - Raincoast Chronicles 20: Lilies and Fireweed:
Frontier Women of British Columbia (Harbour Publishing)
Douglas Coupland - Souvenir of Canada 2 (Douglas & McIntyre)
David Suzuki and Wayne Grady - Tree: A Life Story (Greystone
Books)
Sheila Harrington, Judith Stevenson, and Kathy Dunster - Islands
in the Salish Sea: A Community Atlas (TouchWood Editions)
Andy Lamb, Bernard Hanby - Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest
(Harbour Publishing)

David Suzuki - David Suzuki:
2007 The Autobiography (Greystone
Books)
Ian McAllister - The Last Wild
Wolves: Ghosts of the Great
2008
Bear Rainforest (Greystone
Books)
Stephen R. Bown – Madness,
Betrayal and the Lash: The
2009 Epic Voyage of Captain
George Vancouver (Douglas &
McIntyre)
Brian Brett – Trauma Farm: A
2010 Rebel History of Rural Life
(Greystone Books)
Grant Lawrence – Adventures
in Solitude: What Not to Wear
2011 to a Nude Potluck and Other
Stories from Desolation Sound
(Harbour Publishing)
2012 Chuck Davis – The Chuck
Davis History of Metropolitan
Vancouver (Harbour
Publishing)
Douglas Coupland - Terry (Douglas & McIntyre)
Juri Peepre and Sarah Locke - Three Rivers: The Yukon's Great
Boreal Wilderness (Harbour Publishing)
Lynne Van Luven (editor) - Nobody's Mother: Life Without Kids
(TouchWood Editions)
Daina Augaitis, Lucille Bell, Nika Collison, Vince Collison, Robert
Davidson, Jacqueline Gijssen, Guujaw, Marianne Jones, Peter
Macnair, Bill Reid, Isabel Rorick, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas,
Don Yoemans - Raven Travelling: Two Centuries of Haida Art
(Douglas & McIntyre)
Michael Kluckner - Vancouver Remembered (Whitecap Books)
Sylvia Olsen - Yetsa's Sweater (Sono Nis Press)
Mike McCardell - The Blue Flames that Keep Us Warm: Mike
McCardell's Favourite Stories (Harbour Publishing)
Grant Arnold, Michael Turner - Fred Herzog: Vancouver
Photographs (Douglas & McIntyre)
Ishmael Beah - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
(Douglas & McIntyre)
Chris Harris - Spirit In the Grass: The Cariboo Chilcotin's
Forgotten Landscape (Country Light Publishing)
Jean Barman – British Columbia: Spirit of the People (Harbour
Publishing)
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas – Flight of the Hummingbird: A
Parable for the Environment (Greystone Books)
Cathy Converse – Following the Curve of Time: The Legendary M.
Wylie Blanchet (TouchWood Editions)
Andrew Nikiforuk – Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a
Continent (Greystone Books)
Andrew Scott - Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A
Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia (Harbour
Publishing)
Dal Richards with Jim Taylor - One More Time: The Dal Richards
Story (Harbour Publishing)
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas - Red: A Haida Manga (Douglas &
McIntyre)
Masako Fukawa, Stanley Fukawa - Spirit of the Nikkei Fleet: BC's
Japanese Canadian Fishermen (Harbour Publishing)
Zsuzsi Gartner (editor) - Darwin's Bastards: Astounding Tales
from Tomorrow (Douglas & McIntyre)
Ross King - Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the
Group of Seven (Douglas & McIntyre, co-published with
McMichael Canadian Art Collection)
Gary Kent, illustrated by Kim La Fave - Fishing with Gubby
(Harbour Publishing)
Robert Budd - Voices of British Columbia: Stories from Our
Frontier (Douglas & McIntyre)
Charlotte Gill - Eating Dirt (Greystone Books in partnership with
the David Suzuki Foundation)
Fred Herzog - Fred Herzog: Photographs (Douglas & McIntyre)
Gary Hynes - Island Wineries of British Columbia (TouchWood
Editions)

Shelley Fralic, with research
by Kate Bird - Making
2013 Headlines: 100 Years of The
Vancouver Sun (The
Vancouver Sun) [4]
Grant Lawrence - The Lonely
End of the Rink: Confessions
2014 of a Reluctant Goalie (Douglas
& McIntyre) [5]
Aaron Chapman - Live at the
Commodore: The Story of
2015 Vancouver's Historic
Commodore Ballroom
(Arsenal Pulp Press) [6]
Susan Musgrave - A Taste of
Haida Gwaii: Food Gathering
2016 and Feasting at the Edge of
the World (Whitecap Books) [7]
Richard Wagamese - Embers:
2017 One Ojibway's Meditations
(Douglas and McIntyre) [8]
Pat Carney - On Island: Life
2018 Among the Coast Dwellers
(TouchWood Editions) [9]
Robert Wiersema - Walk Like a Man: Coming of Age with the
Music of Bruce Springsteen (Greystone Books)
Jackson Davies and Marc Strange - Bruno and the Beach: The
Beachcombers at 40 (Harbour Publishing)
Daniel Francis - Trucking in British Columbia: An Illustrated
History (Harbour Publishing)
Derek Hayes - British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas (Douglas
& McIntyre)
Harold Kalman and Robin Ward - Exploring Vancouver: The
Architectural Guide (Douglas & McIntyre)
Jesse Donaldson - This Day in Vancouver (Anvil Press)
Michael Layland - The Land of Heart's Delight: Early Maps and
Charts of Vancouver Island (TouchWood Editions)
Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd - Raven Brings the Light
(Harbour Publishing)
Paula Wild - The Cougar: Beautiful, Wild and Dangerous (Douglas
& McIntyre)
Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd - Cloudwalker (Harbour
Publishing)
Alicia Priest - A Rock Fell on the Moon: Dad and the Great Yukon
Silver Ore Heist (Harbour Publishing)
Richard Beamish and Gordon McFarlane (eds) - The Sea Among
Us: The Amazing Strait of Georgia (Harbour Publishing)
Lisa Ahier with Andrew Morrison - The Sobo Cookbook: Recipes
from the Tofino Restaurant at the End of the Canadian Road
(Appetite by Random House)
Caroline Adderson, John Atkin, Kerry Gold, Evelyn Lau, Eve
Lazarus, John Mackie, Elise & Stephen Partridge, and Bren
Simmers with an introduction by Michael Kluckner and
photographs by Tracey Ayton and Caroline Adderson - Vancouver
Vanishes: Narratives of Demolition and Revival (Anvil Press)
Eve Lazarus - Cold Case Vancouver: The City's Most Baffling
Unsolved Murders (Arsenal Pulp Press)
Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd - Orca Chief (Harbour
Publishing)
Caroline Woodward - Light Years: Memoir of a Modern Lighthouse
Keeper (Harbour Publishing)
Aaron Chapman - The Last Gang in Town: The Epic Story of the
Vancouver Police vs. the Clark Park Gang (Arsenal Pulp Press)
Wade Davis - Wade Davis: Photographs (Douglas and McIntyre)
Michael Layland - A Perfect Eden: Encounters by Early Explorers
of Vancouver Island (TouchWood Editions)
Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd - Peace Dancer (Harbour
Publishing)
Carleigh Baker - Bad Endings (Anvil Press)
Anita Hadley and Michael L. Hadley (editors) - Spindrift: A
Canadian Book of the Sea (Douglas and McIntyre)
Grant Lawrence - Dirty Windshields: The Best and the Worst of
the Smugglers Tour Diaries (Douglas & McIntyre)
Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd - Hello Humpback! (Harbour
Publishing)
2019 Bob Joseph - 21 Things You
May Not Know About the
Indian Act (Page Two
Strategies)
Robert Amos - E.J. Hughes Paints Vancouver Island (TouchWood
Editions)
Darrel J. McLeod - Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age (Douglas
and McIntyre)
Eve Lazarus - Murder by Milkshake: An Astonishing True Tale of
Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic Killer (Arsenal Pulp Press)
Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd - One Eagle Soaring
(Harbour Publishing)

Danielle (DL) Acken and Emily Lycopolus - Cedar and Salt:

Aaron Chapman - Vancouver
After Dark: The Wild History of
2020
a City’s Nightlife (Arsenal Pulp
Press)
Vancouver Island Recipes from Forest, Farm, Field, and Sea
(TouchWood Editions)
Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd - Voices from the Skeena:
An Illustrated Oral History (Harbour Publishing)
Bob Joseph - Indigenous Relations: Insights, Tips, and
Suggestions to Make Reconciliation a Reality (Page Two
Strategies)
Bill Richardson - I Saw Three Ships (Talonbooks)

Jean Barman, On the Cusp of Contact: Gender, Space and Race

in the Colonization of British Columbia[11]
Robert Amos, The E.J. Hughes Charles Demers, Primary Obsessions[11]
2021
Book of Boats[10] Eve Lazarus, Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s
Hidden History[11]
Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd, Raven Squawk, Orca
Squeak[11]

Luschiim Arvid Charlie and Nancy J. Turner, Luschiim’s Plants:

Traditional Indigenous Foods, Materials and Medicine
Dawn Postnikoff and Joanne Sasvari, Island Eats: Signature
Chefs’ Recipes from Vancouver Island and the Salish Sea
2021 TBA September 24, 2022 Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the
Wisdom of the Forest
Roy Henry Vickers and Robert “Lucky” Budd, A is for Anemone: A
First West Coast Alphabet
Iona Whishaw, A Lethal Lesson: A Lane Winslow Mystery

References
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External links
Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award (http://www.bcbookprizes.ca/about/details/bc-booksel
lers-choice-award-in-honour-of-bill-duthie/), official website

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