The McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award is associated with the Manitoba Book Awards and was established in 1988. It is presented to the Manitoba writer whose adult English language book is judged the best written. The author receives a cash award of $5,000, donated by McNally Robinson Booksellers.
Winners +McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award winnersYearAuthorTitle1988 Recent Mistakes1989 The Prowler1990 Agnes in the sky1991 Fox1992 The Chrome Suite1993 The Stone Diaries1994 Blasphemer's Wheel1995 Kabloona in the Yellow Kayak1996 A Year of Lesser1997 Latent Heat1998 A Boy of Good Breeding1999 Cowboys and Indians2000 Swing Low: A Life2001 When Alice Lay Down With Peter2002 Houseboat Chronicles: Notes from a Life in Shield Country2003 Tatsea2004 A Complicated Kindness2005 The Time in Between2006 A Great Restlessness: The Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen2008 Be Wolf: A True Account of the Survival of Reinhold Kaletsch2009 The Retreat2010 Coming of Age: A History of the Jewish People of Manitoba2011 This Hidden Thing2012 Not Being on a Boat2013 The House on Sugarbush Road2014 Kisiskatchewan2015 The Opening Sky2016 The Reason You Walk2017 The Break2018 The Water Beetles2019 More Abandoned Manitoba: Rivers, Rails, and Ruins2020 et al. This Place: 150 Year Retold2021 Here the Dark2022Out of Mind2023Shelterbelts
External links The McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award Manitoba Book Awards