1. Sarah M. Broom – The Yellow House: A Memoir (Grove Atlantic)
2. Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey – She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement (Penguin)
3. Wendy Wickwire – At the Bridge: James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging (UBC Press)
4. Joanna Jolly – Red River Girl: The Life and Death of Tina Fontaine (Penguin)
5. Esmé Weijun Wang – The Collected Schizophrenias (Graywolf Press)
6. Bruce M. Conforth and Gayle Dean Wardlow – Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson (Chicago Review Press)
7. Judith Williams – Raincoast Chronicles 24: Cougar Companions: Bute Inlet Country and the Legendary Schnarrs (Raincoast Books)
8. Jon Savage – This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division: The Oral History (Faber & Faber)
9. Aaron Chapman – Vancouver After Dark: The Wild History of a City’s Nightlife (Arsenal Pulp Press)
10. John Corbett – Pick Up the Pieces: Excursions in Seventies Music (University of Chicago Press)
