Atlantic Book Awards
The Atlantic Book Awards Society (ABAS) is a registered non-profit organization with the mandate “to promote and acknowledge excellence in Atlantic Canadian writing and book publishing through an annual awards ceremony and related events.”
Atlantic Book Awards 2022

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Chemical Valley

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Future Possible
An Art History of Newfoundland and Labrador

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Constant Nobody

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This Is Ruby

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A Womb in the Shape of a Heart
My Story of Miscarriage and Motherhood

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Short Mercy
A Novel

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My Daughter Rehtaeh Parsons

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Jude and Diana

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Alexa!
Changing the Face of Canadian Politics

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2022 Atlantic Book Awards Nominees
Atlantic Book Awards 2021

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Speechless

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A Long Journey
Residential Schools in Labrador and Newfoundland

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The Truth You’re Told
A Crime Novel

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Acadian Driftwood
One Family and the Great Expulsion

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The Spoon Stealer

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Black Matters

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I Talk Like a River

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Aftershock
A Novel

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The Dome Chronicles

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Year of the Metal Rabbit

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Blood in the Water
A True Story of Revenge in the Maritimes

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The Appendage Formerly Known as Your Left Arm
and other stories

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2021 Atlantic Book Awards Winners

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2021 Atlantic Book Awards Shortlist
Atlantic Book Awards 2020

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Nosy White Woman

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EveryBody's Different on EveryBody Street

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Truth and Conviction
Donald Marshall Jr. and the Mi’kmaw Quest for Justice

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Almost Feral

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"Dangerous Enemy Sympathizers"
Canadian Internment Camp B, 1940-1945

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Daughter of Family G
A Memoir of Cancer Genes, Love and Fate

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The Difference

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Belated Bris of the Brainsick

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Small in the City

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Crow

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The Innocents

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2020 Atlantic Book Awards Winners

Atlantic Book Awards 2019

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Something for Everyone

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Catching the Light

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There’s Something In The Water
Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities

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Saltwater Mittens from the Island of Newfoundland
More than 20 heritage designs to knit

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Where Duty Lies
A New Brunswick Soldier in the Trenches of World War 1

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Notes for the Everlost
A Field Guide to Grief

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A Circle on the Surface

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This Kind of Thinking Does No Good

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Africville

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In the Wake

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Son of a Critch
A Childish Newfoundland Memoir

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The Blind Mechanic
The Amazing Story of Eric Davidson, Survivor of the 1917 Halifax Explosion

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2019 Atlantic Book Award Winners

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2019 Atlantic Book Awards Shortlists
Atlantic Book Awards 2018

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Barrelling Forward
Stories

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The Painting

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The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest

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Powered by Love
A Grandmothers' Movement to End AIDS in Africa

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The Sea Was in Their Blood
The Disappearance of the Miss Ally's Five-Man Crew

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Nova Scotia at War, 1914-1919

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The Long Way Home
A Personal History of Nova Scotia

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Peninsula Sinking

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All the Names Between

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Town Is by the Sea

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Just Jen
Thriving Through Multiple Sclerosis

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Blood Fable

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2018 Atlantic Book Awards Winners

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2018 Atlantic Book Awards Shortlists
Atlantic Book Awards 2017

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Willem De Kooning's Paintbrush

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Into the Wasteland

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Lucy Jarvis
Even Stones Have Life

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Brand Command
Canadian Politics and Democracy in the Age of Message Control

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Sable Island in Black and White

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Advocate

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Sky Pig

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Notes from a Feminist Killjoy
Essays on Everyday Life

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2017 Atlantic Book Awards Winners

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2017 Atlantic Book Awards Shortlists
Atlantic Book Awards 2016

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Wild Pieces

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Prison Boy

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Aftershock
The Halifax Explosion and the Persecution of Pilot Francis Mackey

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When The Saints

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A Measure of Light
A Novel

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What Is Government Good At?
A Canadian Answer

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Crossover

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2016 Atlantic Book Awards Winners

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