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Prince Rupert Library has many magazines! The most recent issue can always be read in the library, and past issues may be borrowed with your library card. Below is a complete list of what is available, current as of July, 2025.

Library patrons can also use the Libby app to read digital magazines.

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Award Winners

Note - Clicking on a linked title (in blue) will take you directly to the Prince Rupert Library catalogue where you can see if the item is available or place a hold, etc. If the title is not linked, that indicates that the Prince Rupert Library does not currently have the title in our collection but may be able to bring it in for you on an interlibrary loan.

B.C. Book Awards	Canadian Book Awards
American Book Awards	British Book Awards
Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Book Awards	Mystery Book Awards
Children's Book Awards

B.C. Book Awards

(complete listing of winners and finalists)

Ethel Wilson Fiction Awards
- 2024 - A Season in Chezgh’un by Darrel J. McLeod
- 2023 - A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt
- 2022 - The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
- 2021 - Petra by Shaena Lambert
- 2020 - Lampedusa by Stephen Price
- 2019 - Trickster Drift by Eden Robinson
- 2018 - Brother by David Chariandy
- 2017 - The Heaviness of Things that Float by Jennifer Manuel
- 2016 - All True Not a Lie in It by Alex Hawley
- 2015 - The World Before Us by Aislinn Hunter
- 2014 - Anatomy of a Girl Gang by Ashley Little

Canadian Book Awards

Governor-General's Literary Awards - Fiction (complete listing of winners and finalists)
- 2023 - Chrysalis by Anuja Varghese
- 2022 - Pure Colour by Sheila Heti
- 2021 - Tainna: The Unseen Ones by Norma Dunning
- 2020 - Five Little Indians by Michelle Good
- 2019 - Five Wives by Joan Thomas
- 2018 - The Red Word by Sarah Henstra
- 2017 - We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night by Joel Thomas Hynes
- 2016 - Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
- 2015 - Daddy Lenin and Other Stories by Guy Vanderhaeghe
- 2014 - The Back of the Turtle by Thomas King
Scotiabank Giller Prize (complete list of winners and finalists)
- 2023 - Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
- 2022 - The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr
- 2021 - What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad
- 2020 - How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa
- 2019 - Reproduction by Ian Williams
- 2018 - Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
- 2017 - Bellevue Square by Michael Redhill
- 2016 - Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
- 2015 - Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis
- 2014 - US Conductors by Sean Michaels
Writer's Trust of Canada - Matt Cohen Award (complete list of winners)
- 2023 - Helen Humphreys
- 2022 - Candace Savage
- 2021 - Frances Itani
- 2020 - Dennis Lee
- 2019 - Olive Senior
- 2018 - David Bergen
- 2017 - Diane Schoemperlen
- 2016 - Brian Brett
- 2015 - Richard Wagamese
- 2014 - Susan Musgrave
Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize (Formerly known as the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize) (complete list of winners and finalists)
- 2023 - In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas
- 2022 - Some Hellish by Nicholas Herring
- 2021 - The Strangers by Katherena Vermette
- 2020 - Ridgerunner by Gil Adamson
- 2019 - Days by Moonlight by André Alexis
- 2018 - Dear Evelyn by Kathy Page
- 2017 - Brother by David Chariandy
- 2016 - Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains by Yasuko Thanh
- 2015 - Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis
- 2014 - All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
Trillium Book Award (Ontario) (complete list of winners)
- 2024 - The Clarion by Nina Dunic
- 2023 - The Book of Grief and Hamburgers by Stuart Ross
- 2022 - The Last Exiles by Ann Shin
- 2021 - How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa
- 2020 - Shut Up You're Pretty by Téa Mutonji
- 2019 - The Blue Clerk by Dionne Brand
- 2018 - Birds Art Life by Kyo Maclear
- 2017 - The Sweetest One by Melanie Mah
- 2016 - Debris by Kevin Hardcastle
- 2015 - How You Were Born by Kate Cayley
- 2014 - This is War by Hannah Moscovitch

American Book Awards

Pulitzer Prize - Fiction (complete List of Winners for Fiction)
- 2024 - Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips
- 2023 - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
- 2022 - The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family by Joshua Cohen
- 2021 - The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
- 2020 - The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
- 2019 - The Overstory by Richard Powers
- 2018 - Less by Andrew Sean Greer
- 2017 - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- 2016 - The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- 2015 - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- 2014 - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
National Book Awards - Fiction (List of winners of the National Book Award)
- 2023 - Blackouts by Justin Torres
- 2022 - The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
- 2021 - Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
- 2020 - Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
- 2019 - Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
- 2018 - The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
- 2017 - Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
- 2016 - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- 2015 - Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson
- 2014 - Redeployment by Phil Klay
National Book Awards - Non-Fiction
- 2023 - The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of US History by Ned Blackhawk
- 2022 - South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon To Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry
- 2021 - All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles
- 2020 - The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
- 2019 - The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
- 2018 - The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart
- 2017 - The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
- 2016 - Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
- 2015 - Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- 2014 - Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
National Book Critic's Circle - Fiction (past winners of National Book Critic's Circle)
- 2023 - I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore
- 2022 - Bliss Montage: Stories by Ling Ma
- 2021 - The Love Songs of W.E.B DuBois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- 2020 - Hamnet & Judith by Maggie O'Farrell
- 2019 - Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat
- 2018 - Milkman by Anna Burns
- 2017 - Improvement by Joan Silber
- 2016 - LaRose by Louise Erdrich
- 2015 - The Sellout by Paul Beatty
- 2014 - Lila by Marilynne Robinson
PEN/Faulkner Prize - Fiction (complete list of winners and finalists)
- 2024 - What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jiménez
- 2023 - The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
- 2022 - The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine
- 2021 - The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
- 2020 - Sea Monsters by Chloe Aridjis
- 2019 - Call Me Zebra by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
- 2018 - Improvement by Joan Silber
- 2017 - Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
- 2016 - Delicious Foods by James Hannaham
- 2015 - Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish
- 2014 - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Jay Fowler
Spur Award (complete list of winners)
- 2024 - Death in the Tallgrass: A Young Man's Journey Through the Western Frontier by Donald Willerton
- 2023 - Beasts of the Earth by James Wade
- 2022 - Dark Sky by C.J. Box
- 2021 - Winter Counts by David Heska; Wanbli Weiden
- 2020 - On Swift Horses by Shannon Pufahl
- 2019 - The Flicker of Old Dreams by Susan Henderson
- 2018 - Double Wide by Leo W. Banks
- 2017 - Off the Grid: A Joe Pickett Novel by C.J. Box
- 2016 - Crazy Mountain Kiss: A Sean Stranahan Mystery by Keith McCafferty
- 2015 - Bad Country by CB McKenzie
- 2014 - Light of the World: A Dave Robicheaux Novel by James Lee Burke

British Book Awards

Costa Book Awards (list of past winners)
- 2021 - Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller
- 2020 - The Mermaid of Black Conch: A Love Story by Monique Roffey
- 2019 - Middle England by Jonathan Coe
- 2018 - Normal People by Sally Rooney
- 2017 - Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
- 2016 - Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
- 2015 - The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
- 2014 - H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (complete list of past winners)
- 2024 - Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan
- 2023 - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
- 2022 - The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
- 2021 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
- 2020 - Hamnet & Judith by Maggie O'Farrell
- 2019 - An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
- 2018 - Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
- 2017 - The Power by Naomi Alderman
- 2016 - The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney
- 2015 - How to Be Both by Ali Smith
- 2014 - A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride

Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Book Awards

Arthur C. Clarke Award (complete list of winners)
- 2024 - In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
- 2023 - Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman
- 2022 - Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles
- 2021 - The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay
- 2020 - The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
- 2019 - Rosewater by Tade Thompson
- 2018 - Dreams Before the Start of Time by Anne Charnock
- 2017 - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- 2016 - Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- 2015 - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- 2014 - Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
Hugo Award (complete list of all winners and finalists in all categories)
- 2024 - Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
- 2023 - Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
- 2022 - A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
- 2021 - Network Effect by Martha Wells
- 2020 - A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
- 2019 - The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
- 2018 - The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
- 2017 - The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
- 2016 - The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
- 2015 - The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu; translated by Ken Liu
- 2014 - Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
Nebula Award (complete list of all winners and finalists in all categories)
- 2023 - The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
- 2022 - Babel by R. F. Kuang
- 2021 - A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
- 2020 - Network Effect by Martha Wells
- 2019 - A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker
- 2018 - The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
- 2017 - The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemsin
- 2016 - All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
- 2015 - Uprooted by Naomi Novik
- 2014 - Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Bram Stoker Award (complete list of winners and finalists in all categories)
- 2023 - Out There Screaming by Jordan Peele
- 2022 - The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias
- 2021 - My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
- 2020 - The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
- 2019 - Coyote Rage by Owl Goingback
- 2018 - The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
- 2017 - Ararat by Christopher Golden
- 2016 - The Fisherman by John Langan
- 2015 - A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
- 2014 - Blood Kin by Steve Rasnic Tem
World Fantasy Award - Novel (complete list of winners and finalists in all categories)
- 2024 - The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
- 2023 - Saint Death's Daughter by C. S. E. Cooney
- 2022 - The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
- 2021 - Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson
- 2020 - Queen of the Conquered by Kacen Callender
- 2019 - Witchmark by C. L. Polk
- 2018 - The Changeling by Victor LaValle & Jade City by Fonda Lee
- 2017 - The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North
- 2016 - The Chimes by Anna Smaill
- 2015 - The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
- 2014 - A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar

Mystery Book Awards

Edgar Allan Poe Award - Best Novel (complete list of winners from all categories)
- 2024 - Flags on the Bayou by James Lee Burke
- 2023 - Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
- 2022 - Five Decembers by James Kestrel
- 2021 - Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
- 2020 - The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths
- 2019 - Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley
- 2018 - Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
- 2017 - Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
- 2016 - The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- 2015 - Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
- 2014 - Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
Agatha Award - Best Novel (complete list of winners and finalists in all categories)
- 2023 - The Weekend Retreat by Tara Laskowski
- 2022 - World of Curiosities by Louise Penny
- 2021 - Cajun Kiss of Death by Ellen Byron
- 2020 - All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny
- 2019 - Long Call by Ann Cleeves
- 2018 - Mardi Gras Murder by Ellen Byron
- 2017 - Glass Houses by Louise Penny
- 2016 - A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny
- 2015 - Long Upon the Land by Margaret Maron
- 2014 - Truth Be Told by Hank Phillippi Ryan

Children's Book Awards

Blue Spruce Award (Ontario) (list of winners)
- 2024 - Benny the Bananasaurus Rex by Sarabeth Holden
- 2023 - Are You A Cheeseburger? by Monica Arnaldo
- 2022 - Harley the Hero by Peggy Collins
- 2021 - Bad Dog by Mike Boldt
- 2020 - That's Not Hockey by Andrée Poulin
- 2019 - Barnaby Never Forgets by Pierre Collet-Derby
- 2018 - Lady by Jess Keating
- 2017 - The Night Gardener by Terry & Eric Fan
- 2016 - If Kids Ruled the World by Linda Bailey, illustrated by David Huyck
- 2015 - The Day My Mom Came to Kindergarten by Maureen Fergus
- 2014 - Oddrey by Dave Whamond
Caldecott Medal (USA) (list of winners and finalists)
- 2024 - Big by Vashti Harrison
- 2023 - Hot Dog by Doug Salati
- 2022 - Watercress by Andrea Wang
- 2021 - We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom
- 2020 - Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
- 2019 - Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall
- 2018 - Wolf in the Snow by Matthew Cordell
- 2017 - Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe
- 2016 - Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear by Lindsay Mattick
- 2015 - The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend by Dan Santat
- 2014 - Locomotive by Brian Floca
Newbery Medal (USA) (list of winners and finalists)

2024 - The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers
2023 - Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson
2022 - The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
2021 - When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
2020 - New Kid by Jerry Craft
2019 - Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
2018 - Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly
2017 - The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
2016 - Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña, illustrated by Christian Robinson
2015 - The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
2014 - Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo