While stuffing stockings and gift baskets with magazine subscriptions (Buy 2, Get 1 Free!; don’t forget Maisonneuve, Canada’s magazine of the year) may be your first priority this holiday season, we present our second annual holiday book guide to tempt you with yet more literary treats. (And perhaps our first annual guide may still be of interest.)
All of these books are by National Magazine Award finalists and winners.
Non-Fiction
- Into the Abyss, by Carol Shaben
- A Geography of Blood, by Candace Savage
- The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary, by Andrew Westoll
- Eating Dirt, by Charlotte Gill
- What We Talk About When We Talk About War, by Noah Richler
- The Measure of a Man, by JJ Lee
- The Devil’s Curve, by Arno Kopecky
- Bad Animals: A Father’s Accidental Education in Autism, by Joel Yanofsky
Fiction
- Dr. Brinkley’s Tower, by Robert Hough
- Everybody has Everything, by Katrina Onstad
- People Park, by Pasha Malla
- Dibidalen, by Seán Virgo
- The Reasonable Ogre, by Mike Barnes
- The Headmaster’s Wager, by Vincent Lam
- My Life Among the Apes, by Cary Fagan
- The Sweet Girl, by Annabel Lyon
Poetry
- Monkey Ranch, by Julie Bruck
- L’il Bastard, by David McGuimpsey
- The New Measures, by A.F. Moritz
- The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane, by Patrick Lane
Illustration
- Virginia Wolf, by Isabelle Arsenault
eBooks
- Blindsided, by Russell Smith
- And They Danced by the Light of the Moon, by Heather O’Neill
- Finding Karla, by Paula Todd
- Noisemakers, by Grace O’Connell
- Summer of the Flesh Eater, by Zsuzsi Gartner
- 1999, by Pasha Malla
- I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth, by Margaret Atwood
Did we miss any 2012 books by NMA winners? Drop a comment or tweet at us.
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Booking up for Winter: Great Reads by NMA Winners
National Magazine Awards > Books
