Readers' Choice Award 2024

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Readers' Choice Award 2024

Who do you think should win the 2024 Readers' Choice Award?

Let your voice be heard – vote for your favourite Atlantic Canadian book from the last year. Everyone is invited to participate. The Readers' Choice Award will be decided by the public in two rounds. It is open to any Atlantic Canadian book (any book written by an Atlantic Canadian author or publisher) published in 2023 of any and all genres and languages.

Voting Round 1 (now): Voting is open from April 15th to May 10th. 1 vote per email. Book titles can still be added and submitted by voters during round 1 of voting.

The Shortlist will be announced on Monday, May 20th, and we'll move on to Voting Round 2!

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Vote for your favourite Atlantic Canadian book from the last year!

#Travelsend: Poems at Travel's End by Darryl Whetter

77° NORTH by TP Wood

A Company of Rogues by Trudy J Morgan-Cole

A Green Velvet Secret by Vicki Grant

A is for Anne by Mo Duffy Cobb

A Pictou Christmas by Laurie Stanley-Blackwell and Teresa MacKenzie

A Tale of Two Kitties by Judith Graves

Acadian Spring: The Doucets of Port Royal and other Founding Families in 17th Century Acadia by Steven Holloway

The Adversary by Michael Crummey

Amadou et le 15 aout by Samira Farhoud

Amazing L'nu'k by Robin Grant, Julie Pellissier-Lush + James Bentley

Are We Friends Now? Edited by Tom Ryan

Back in the Land of the Living by Eva Crocker

Big Rory of Market Square by Laurie Stanley-Blackwell & Karen Megronigle

Black Activist, Black Scientist, Black Icon by Dr. Howard D. McCurdy with George Elliott Clarke

Building a Better Boat by Donald Feltmate

Burn Man: Selected Stories by Mark Anthony Jarman

Charly et Crochet by Hélène Ferrer

Cocktail by Lisa Alward

Congé pour papa by Nicole Poirier

Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Canada's Greatest Spy by Jason Bell

Dear Diary, It's Me, Stella by Krista Keough

Éli Labaki et les gouttes de pluie Diya Lim

Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth by Claire Horn

Eyes in Front When Running by Willow Kean

Face Into the Wind by Rosalind Gill

Fever on the Forgotten Coast by Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail

Fiona: Prince Edward Island Accounts of Canada's Biggest Storm

Five for Forteau by Kevin Major

Flitt's Call by Kara Griffin & Shawn Larson

Flitt's Call Activity Guide The Island Nature Trust

Flynn's War by Finley Martin

Foin d'odeur (Sweetgrass Fre) by Theresa Meuse & Jessica Jerome

For the Love of Sea View by Hilary MacLeod

Freddie the Flyer by Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail, Fred Carmichael

Garden Wonders by Sarah Grindler

Goddess by Deborah Hemming

A Grandmother Begins The Story by Michelle Porter

Great Day Fer Livin' by Juliet Wilson

Gutsy: Living My Best Life with Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis by Heather Fegan

Here Babies, There Babies, on the Farm by Nancy Cohen + Lori Joy Smith

Hockey et toasts au ketchup! by Mélanie Doré

Hold My Girl by Charlene Carr

Hollow Bamboo by William Ping

How to Restore a Timeline by Peter Counter

Hung Out to Die by Donalee Moulton

I Want to Build a Seahouse, Whitney Moran + Josee Bisaillon

If We Caught Fire by Beth Ryan

Íjè: An Immigrant's Voyage into Prince Edward Island Life, Elizabeth Iwunwa

Impressions of Newfoundland: The Art of Ting Ting Chen by Ting Ting Chen

Indie Rock, Joe Bishop

Into the Wind, AJB Johnston

isthianology by Amanda Bulman and Ruth Lawrence, illustrated by Leon Chung

Jacob's Dilemma by Daphne Greer

Jumbo by Stephens Gerard Malone

Keepers of the Pact by Karen Kelloway

KINGS OF THEIR OWN OCEAN by Karen Pinchin

L'Nu'k Ghost Stories of PEI by Pellissier-Lush, Sock & Bernard

La bottine de Rivière-des-Caches by Victor Robichaud

La créature de la Petitcodiac by Denis M. Boucher

Le captif du grenier by Pierre-Luc Bélanger

LEAVING GOOD THINGS BEHIND by Darren Calabrese

Léo les chaussettes by Christine Arbour

Les cent robes de Mam'zelle Canette by Angèle Delaunois

Let it All Fall: Underground Music and the Culture of Rebellion, 1977-95 by Mike Heffernan

Life Sentence by Amy Bell

Lore Isle by Jiin Kim

Lost & Found in Lunenburg by Jane Doucet

Maman m'a donnée... by Josephine C. Watson (Adapté par Émilie Turmel)

Maud Lewis Colours by Shanda LaRamee Jones + Carol McDougall

MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE By Holly Hogan

Midnight and Moon by Kelly Cooper

Mischief in High Places: The Life and Times of Sir Richard Squires by Ted Rowe

Momma Gave by Josephine C. Watson

Mommy Don't by Sherri Aikenhead

Monday's Child by Renee Blanchette

More Than Words by Valerie Sherrard

Multiplication Rap by Hope Dalvay

Murphy's Logic by Steve Murphy

My Favourite Colour by Lindsay Ruck, art by Bryanna Chapeskie

Na Peataichean a thàinig gu Sràid Phalmerston / The Pets That Came to Palmerston Street by Laurie Stanley-Blackwell, Teresa MacKenzie, and Effie Rankin

Net Worth by Quentin Casey

Nodding's People by James O. Weeks

Nounours au cœur de l’Île-aux-Puces by Caroline Bélisle

Nova Scotia 1,2,3 by Yolanda Poplawska

Oak Island Odyssey by Scott Clarke

Optic Nerve by Matthew Hollett

Out of the Dark by Julie Lawson

Pageboy by Elliot Page

Pictou town by Teresa MacKenzie

Pockets Full of Sea Glass by Alma Fullerton

RAGE THE NIGHT by Donna Morrissey

Recipe for a Good Life by Lesley Crewe

Reg Goes Swimming: A Self-Regulation Story for Kids by Lori Gard

Roar by Shelley Thompson

Sea That Sings to Me by Marla Lesage

Seeking a Research-Ethics Covenant in the Social Sciences by Will C. van den Hoonaard

Serge, the Snail Without a Shell by Harriett Alida Lye, Rosa Rankin-Gee + Andrea Blinick

Seven Crows for a Secret Yet to Be Told by Vernon Oickle

Soft Inheritance by Fawn Parker

Soft Serve by Allison Graves

Some There Are Fearless by Becca Babcock

SOS sorcières by Camille Perron-Cormier

Standing on Neptune by Valerie Sherrard

STILL, I CANNOT SAVE YOU by Kelly S. Thompson

Suliewey: The Sequel to My Indian by Mi’sel Joe and Sheila O’Neill

Symphony NS by Mary Lu MacDonald, Adrian Hoffman, Jane Gordon; Foreword by Natalie McMaster

The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

The Boy, the Cloud and the Very Tall Tale by Heather Smith

The Confessions of Joseph Blanchard by Ian Colford

The Dangerous Harbour by Bob Chaulk

The Dead Die Twice by Steve Skafte

The Dialysis Project by Leah Lewis

The Ewe Who Knew Who Knit You by Cara Kansala

The Four Seasons of Nova Scotia by Len Wagg

The Grover School Pledge by Wanda Taylor

The Gull Workshop and other Stories by Larry Mathews

The Hidden World of Gnomes by Lauren Soloy

The Last Epistle of Tightrope Time by Walter Borden

The Light of Day by Trena Christie-MacEachern

The Little Books of the Little Brontës by Sara O'Leary

The Morning We Met by Emily Howard

The Never-Ending Sweater by Erin Welch

The Sacred Space by Brian J. Francis

The Search for a New Way by Rankin MacSween

The Way I Feel by Susan White

The Words We Share by Jack Wong

Tumbling for Amateurs by Matthew Gwathmey

Twisted Tome by Vanora Lawless

Ultramarine, by Harry Thurston

Unhistoric Acts: Inside the Women’s Movement on Prince Edward Island by Dianne Porter

Walking Together by Elder Dr. Albert D. Marshall and Louise ZImanyi

We Adopted a Baby Chick by Lori Joy Smith

What Comes Echoing Back by Leo McKay Jr.

When the Ocean Came to Town by Sal Sawler & Emma FitzGerald

When the Owl Calls Your Name by Alan Syliboy

When You Can Swim by Jack Wong

While You Were Sleeping by Briana Corr Scott

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Voting Round 2: Voting is open from May 20th to June 4th. 1 vote per person per day!

Tuesday, June 4th - Readers' Choice Voting CLOSED at midnight.

Wednesday, June 5th - The winner of our first Readers' Choice Award will be announced at the Atlantic Book Awards Gala on June 5th, 7 p.m., at Paul O'Regan Hall in Halifax Central Library.

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