Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award
The Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award is a literary prize awarded annually by the BC Book Prizes for the "best book in terms of public appeal, initiative, design, production and content." The prize is shared by the author and publisher. To qualify, the publisher must be located in British Columbia or the Yukon and in full creative control. The winner, unlike the other prizes which are determined by judges, is selected by ballot sent to bookstores across the province of British Columbia.
History
The award is named in honour of BC bookseller Bill Duthie who founded Duthie Books in 1957. It was first awarded in 1985 and was one of the original four prizes awarded by the BC Book Prizes. The prize used to be called "BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie" but the name was simplified in 2010 to align with the other BC Book Prizes.Winners and Finalists
- 1985 Islands Protection Society - Islands at the Edge
- * Hilary Stewart - Cedar
- * John Edwards - The Roman Cookery of Apicius
- 1986 Cameron Young et al., - The Forests of British Columbia
- * John Adams and Becky Thomas - Floating Schools and Frozen Inkwells
- * Philip Hersee - Vancouver: Touch The Magic
- 1987 Doris Shadbolt - Bill Reid
- * Philip Croft - Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian
- * Ruth Kirk - Wisdom of the Elders
- 1988 Hilary Stewart - The Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt
- * Rick Hansen, Jim Taylor - Rick Hansen: Man In Motion
- * Howard White, Jim Spilsbury - Spilsbury's Coast
- 1989 Michael M'Gonigle, Wendy Wickwire - Stein: The Way of the River
- * Bruce Hutchison - A Life In The Country
- * Joe Garner - Never Chop Your Rope
- 1990 Western Canada Wilderness Committee - Carmanah
- * Paul St. Pierre - Chilcotin & Beyond
- * Bob Herger, Rosemary Neering - The Coast Of British Columbia
- 1991 Michael Kluckner - Vanishing Vancouver
- * Jim Spilsbury - Spilsbury's Album
- * Jack Webster - Webster!
- 1992 Robert Bringhurst and Ulli Steltzer - The Black Canoe: Bill Reid and the Spirit of Hakla Gwaii
- * Liv Kennedy - Coastal Villages
- * Bruce Obee, Tim Fitzharris - Coastal Wildlife of British Columbia
- 1993 Nick Bantock - Sabine's Notebook
- * Terry Glavin and the Nemiah Valley Peoples - Nemiah: The Unconquered Country
- * Bruce MacDonald - Vancouver: A Visual History
- 1994 Alan Haig-Brown - Fishing for a Living
- * Diane Swanson - The Emerald Sea
- * Clayton Mack - Grizzlies & White Guys
- 1995 Robert Davidson, Ulli Steltzer - Eagle Transforming
- * Tom Henry - The Good Company
- * Rosalind MacPhee - Picasso's Women
- 1996 Bill Richardson - Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast Pillow Book
- * Candace Savage - Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays
- * Ken Drushka - HR: A Biography of H. R. MacMillan
- 1997 Richard Cannings, Sydney Cannings - British Columbia: A Natural History
- * Bruce Obee - Over Beautiful British Columbia: An Aerial Adventure
- * Maria Coffey - Sailing Back in Time
- 1998 Ian McAllister, Karen McAllister, Cameron Young - The Great Bear Rainforest
- * Keith Keller - Dangerous Waters
- * Ian Gill - Haida Gwaii
- 1999 Tom Henry - Westcoasters: Boats that Built BC
- * Wade Davis - The Clouded Leopard
- * Chris Jaksa, Lynn Tanod - Guiding Lights: BC's Lighthouses and their Keepers
- 2000 Derek Hayes - Historical Atlas of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest
- * Faith Moosang - First Son: Portraits by C. D. Hoy
- * Lilia D'Acres, Don Luxton - Lions Gate
- * John Baldwin - Mountains of the Coast
- * Kenneth Macrae Leighton - Oar & Sail: An Odyssey of the West Coast
- 2001 Dan Francis - The Encyclopedia of British Columbia
- * Patricia Van Tighem - The Bear's Embrace
- * Douglas Coupland - City of Glass
- * Terry Glavin - The Last Great Sea
- * Rosemary Neering - Wild West Women
- 2002 Terry Reksten - Illustrated History of BC
- * Will Ferguson, Ian Ferguson - How to Be a Canadian
- * Wade Davis - Light at the Edge of the World
- * Rick Blacklaws, Diana French - Ranchland
- * Keith Thor Carlson, Colin Duffield, Albert McHalsie, Jan Perrier, Leeanna Lynn Rhodes, David M. Schaepe and David Smith - A Stó:lo–Coast Salish Historical Atlas
- 2003 Robb Douglas, Peter A. Robson, Betty Keller - Skookum Tugs: British Columbia's Working Tugboats
- * Bill Richardson - Dear Sad Goat
- * Ian Thom - E. J. Hughes
- * Derek Hayes - Historical Atlas of Canada
- * Alison Watt - The Last Island: A Naturalist's Sojourn on Triangle Island
- 2004 R. Samuel Bawif - The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577-1580
- * Doreen Armitage - From the Wheelhouse: Tug Boaters Tell Their Own Stories
- * Bill Proctor and Yvonne Maximchuk - Full Moon, Flood Tide: Bill Proctor's Raincoast
- * David Nunuk - Natural Light: Visions of British Columbia
- * Andrew Scott - Painter, Paddler: The Art and Adventures of Stewart Marshall
- 2005 Harvey Thommasen, Kevin Hutchings, R. Wayne Campbell, Mark Hume - Birds of the Raincoast: Habits and Habitat
- * Anny Scoones - Home: Tales of a Heritage Farm
- * Stephen Hume - Raincoast Chronicles 20: Lilies and Fireweed: Frontier Women of British Columbia
- * Douglas Coupland - Souvenir of Canada 2
- * David Suzuki and Wayne Grady - '
- 2006 James P. Delgado - Waterfront: The Illustrated Maritime Story of Greater Vancouver
- * Sheila Harrington, Judith Stevenson, and Kathy Dunster - Islands in the Salish Sea: A Community Atlas
- * Andy Lamb, Bernard Hanby - Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest
- * Douglas Coupland - Terry
- * Juri Peepre and Sarah Locke - Three Rivers: The Yukon's Great Boreal Wilderness
- 2007 David Suzuki - '
- * Lynne Van Luven - Nobody's Mother: Life Without Kids
- * Daina Augaitis, Lucille Bell, Nika Collison, Vince Collison, Robert Davidson, Jacqueline Gijssen, Guujaw, Marianne Jones, Peter Macnair, Bill Reid, Isabel Rorick, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Don Yoemans - Raven Travelling: Two Centuries of Haida Art
- * Michael Kluckner - Vancouver Remembered
- * Sylvia Olsen - Yetsa's Sweater
- 2008 Ian McAllister - The Last Wild Wolves: Ghosts of the Great Bear Rainforest
- * Mike McCardell - The Blue Flames that Keep Us Warm: Mike McCardell's Favourite Stories
- * Grant Arnold, Michael Turner - Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs
- * Ishmael Beah - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
- * Chris Harris - Spirit In the Grass: The Cariboo Chilcotin's Forgotten Landscape
- 2009 Stephen R. Bown – Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver
- * Jean Barman – British Columbia: Spirit of the People
- * Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas – Flight of the Hummingbird: A Parable for the Environment
- * Cathy Converse – Following the Curve of Time: The Legendary M. Wylie Blanchet
- * Andrew Nikiforuk – Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent
- 2010 Brian Brett – Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life
- *Andrew Scott - Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia
- *Dal Richards with Jim Taylor - One More Time: The Dal Richards Story
- *Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas - Red: A Haida Manga
- *Masako Fukawa, Stanley Fukawa - Spirit of the Nikkei Fleet: BC's Japanese Canadian Fishermen
- 2011 Grant Lawrence – Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound
- *Zsuzsi Gartner - Darwin's Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow
- *Ross King - Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven
- *Gary Kent, illustrated by Kim La Fave - Fishing with Gubby
- *Robert Budd - Voices of British Columbia: Stories from Our Frontier
- 2012 Chuck Davis – The Chuck Davis History of Metropolitan Vancouver
- *Charlotte Gill - Eating Dirt
- *Fred Herzog - Fred Herzog: Photographs
- *Gary Hynes - Island Wineries of British Columbia
- *Robert Wiersema - Walk Like a Man: Coming of Age with the Music of Bruce Springsteen
- 2013 Shelley Fralic, with research by Kate Bird - Making Headlines: 100 Years of The Vancouver Sun
- *Jackson Davies and Marc Strange - Bruno and the Beach: The Beachcombers at 40
- *Daniel Francis - Trucking in British Columbia: An Illustrated History
- *Derek Hayes - British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas
- *Harold Kalman and Robin Ward - Exploring Vancouver: The Architectural Guide
- 2014 Grant Lawrence - The Lonely End of the Rink: Confessions of a Reluctant Goalie
- *Jesse Donaldson - This Day in Vancouver
- *Michael Layland - The Land of Heart's Delight: Early Maps and Charts of Vancouver Island
- *Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd - Raven Brings the Light
- *Paula Wild - The Cougar: Beautiful, Wild and Dangerous
- 2015 Aaron Chapman - Live at the Commodore: The Story of Vancouver's Historic Commodore Ballroom
- *Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd - Cloudwalker
- *Alicia Priest - A Rock Fell on the Moon: Dad and the Great Yukon Silver Ore Heist
- *Richard Beamish and Gordon McFarlane - The Sea Among Us: The Amazing Strait of Georgia
- *Lisa Ahier with Andrew Morrison - The Sobo Cookbook: Recipes from the Tofino Restaurant at the End of the Canadian Road
- 2016 Susan Musgrave - A Taste of Haida Gwaii: Food Gathering and Feasting at the Edge of the World
- *Caroline Adderson, John Atkin, Kerry Gold, Evelyn Lau, Eve Lazarus, John Mackie, Elise & Stephen Partridge, and Bren Simmers with an introduction by Michael Kluckner and photographs by Tracey Ayton and Caroline Adderson - Vancouver Vanishes: Narratives of Demolition and Revival
- *Eve Lazarus - Cold Case Vancouver: The City's Most Baffling Unsolved Murders
- *Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd - Orca Chief
- *Caroline Woodward - Light Years: Memoir of a Modern Lighthouse Keeper
- 2017 Richard Wagamese - Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations
- *Aaron Chapman - The Last Gang in Town: The Epic Story of the Vancouver Police vs. the Clark Park Gang
- *Wade Davis - Wade Davis: Photographs
- *Michael Layland - A Perfect Eden: Encounters by Early Explorers of Vancouver Island
- *Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd - Peace Dancer
- 2018 Pat Carney - On Island: Life Among the Coast Dwellers
- *Carleigh Baker - Bad Endings
- *Anita Hadley and Michael L. Hadley - Spindrift: A Canadian Book of the Sea
- *Grant Lawrence - Dirty Windshields: The Best and the Worst of the Smugglers Tour Diaries
- *Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd - Hello Humpback!