2020 Atlantic Book Awards Shortlists
The Atlantic Book Awards Society is pleased to announce the shortlists for the thirteen different book prizes that make up the 2020 Atlantic Book Awards. The nominated titles represent a wide range of books from Atlantic Canada—everything from poetry to illustrated children’s books to adult fiction and non-fiction. The full shortlist of nominated titles is printed below and is available at www.atlanticbookawards.ca.

A Dark House
& Other Stories

Dig

Nosy White Woman

EveryBody's Different on EveryBody Street

A World Below

I'm Finding My Talk

Almost Feral

I Lost My Talk

The Wake
The Deadly Legacy of a Newfoundland Tsunami

Listening for the Dead Bells

As British as the King
Lunenburg County During the First World War

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

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

Mayann Francis
An Honourable Life

Hell and Damnation
A Sinner's Guide to Eternal Torment

The Difference

Broken Symmetry

Crow

Year of the Metal Rabbit

Smallholding

Belated Bris of the Brainsick

Peg Bearskin
A traditional Newfoundland tale

Small in the City

Wounded Hearts
Memories of the Halifax Protestant Orphans' Home