2014 CBC Bookies are on!

Time's running out for the CBC Bookie Awards of 2014. These are the readers' choice awards organized by CBC Books in eleven categories:

• Best Canadian Fiction
• Best Canadian Non-Fiction
• Best Canadian Book Cover
• Best Canadian Poetry
• Best Canadian Thriller, Mystery or Crime
• Best Canadian Science Fiction, Fantasy or Speculative Fiction
• Best Canadian Young Adult
• Best Canadian Graphic Novel or Comic Book
• Best Canadian Short Story Collection
• Best International Fiction
• Best International Non-Fiction

The nominated titles for the Best Canadian Young Adult book are:

The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B

by Teresa Toten

Doubleday Canada/Random House of Canada

Sorrow's Knot 

by Erin Bow

Scholastic Canada

Not Your Ordinary Wolf Girl

by Emily Pohl-Weary

Razorbill

Homeland 

by Cory Doctorow

Tor Books

September 17: A Novel

by Amanda West Lewis 

Red Deer Press

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Go to CBC Bookies 2014 web page  and support great Canadian YACanLit by voting before Wednesday, February 5, 2014 at 11:59 p.m.

Winners will be announced Thursday, February 6, 2014.

CBC Bookie Awards 2012

In 2011, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) introduced the CBC Bookie Awards as an opportunity for readers to choose their favourite Canadian reads published the previous year.  Based on the selections of the well-read CBC personnel from CBC Books, Canada Reads, Writers & Company, The Next Chapter, as well as recommendations from the public, five titles in each of ten categories are nominated.  Readers can then cast their votes (only once per category per day).

This year's CBC Bookies Awards nominees were announced yesterday and voting must take place online before 11:59 p.m. ET of Saturday, March 31.  The winners will be announced at a CBC Twitter Chat (#CanLit) on Thursday, April 5.

This year's ten categories, which include two international ones, are:

• Literary Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry
• Thriller, Mystery or Crime
• Science Fiction, Fantasy or Speculative Fiction
• Young Adult
• Graphic Novel or Comic Book
• Short Story Collection
• International Fiction
• International Non-Fiction

The one category relevant to CanLit for LittleCanadians is the Young Adult category.  The finalists for this category are:

Blink and Caution

by Tim Wynne-Jones
Candlewick Press

The Gathering

by Kelley Armstrong
Doubleday Canada

No Ordinary Day

by Deborah Ellis
Groundwood Books

This Dark Endeavour: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein
by Kenneth Oppel
HarperCollins Canada

Tilt

by Alan Cumyn
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press

Use this CBC Bookies link to cast your vote(s) for your favourites in the Young Adult category, but only until the end of March 31, 2012.  (The ballot below is as it appears on the CBC Bookies website)

Retrieved from the CBC Bookies website on March 9, 2012.

Let CBC and others know what YACanLit are your favourites from 2011.