This project is for the nominees for the Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction. The winners of the Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction are in a separate project.
1994
Jury: Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler, David Staines
- Bonnie Burnard, Casino and Other Stories
- Eliza Clark, What You Need
- Shyam Selvadurai, Funny Boy
- Steve Weiner, The Museum of Love
1995
Jury: Mordecai Richler, David Staines, Jane Urquhart
- Timothy Findley, The Piano Man's Daughter
- Barbara Gowdy, Mister Sandman
- Leo McKay, Jr., Like This
- Richard B. Wright, The Age of Longing
1996
Jury: Bonnie Burnard, Carol Shields, David Staines
- Gail Anderson-Dargatz, The Cure for Death by Lightning
- Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees
- Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
- Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman's Boy
1997
Jury: Bonnie Burnard, Mavis Gallant, Peter Gzowski
- Michael Helm, The Projectionist
- Shani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night
- Nino Ricci, Where She Has Gone
- Carol Shields, Larry's Party
1998
Jury: Margaret Atwood, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Peter Gzowski
- André Alexis, Childhood
- Gail Anderson-Dargatz, A Recipe for Bees
- Barbara Gowdy, The White Bone
- Greg Hollingshead, The Healer
- Wayne Johnston, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
1999
Jury: Alberto Manguel, Judith Mappin, Nino Ricci
- Timothy Findley, Pilgrim
- Anne Hébert, Am I Disturbing You?
- Nancy Huston, The Mark of the Angel
- David Macfarlane, Summer Gone
2000
Jury: Margaret Atwood, Alistair MacLeod, Jane Urquhart
- Alan Cumyn, Burridge Unbound
- Elizabeth Hay, A Student of Weather
- Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
- Fred Stenson, The Trade
2001
Jury: David Adams Richards, Joan Clark, Robert Fulford
- Sandra Birdsell, The Russlander
- Michael Crummey, River Thieves
- Michael Redhill, Martin Sloane
- Timothy Taylor, Stanley Park
- Jane Urquhart, The Stone Carvers
2002
Jury: Barbara Gowdy, Thomas King, W. H. New
- Bill Gaston, Mount Appetite
- Wayne Johnston, The Navigator of New York
- Lisa Moore, Open
- Carol Shields, Unless
2003
Jury: Rosalie Abella, David Staines, Rudy Wiebe
* Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
- John Bemrose, The Island Walkers
- John Gould, Kilter: 55 Fictions
- Ann-Marie MacDonald, The Way the Crow Flies
2004
Jury: M. G. Vassanji, Alistair MacLeod, Charlotte Gray
- Shauna Singh Baldwin, The Tiger Claw
- Wayson Choy, All That Matters
- Pauline Holdstock, Beyond Measure
- Paul Quarrington, Galveston
- Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
2005
Jury: Warren Cariou, Elizabeth Hay, Richard B. Wright
- Joan Barfoot, Luck
- Camilla Gibb, Sweetness in the Belly
- Lisa Moore, Alligator
- Edeet Ravel, A Wall of Light
2006
Jury: Adrienne Clarkson, Alice Munro, Michael Winter
- Rawi Hage, De Niro's Game
- Pascale Quiviger, The Perfect Circle (translation by Sheila Fischman)
- Gaétan Soucy, The Immaculate Conception (translation by Lazer Lederhendler)
- Carol Windley, Home Schooling
2007
Jury: David Bergen, Camilla Gibb, Lorna Goodison
- Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero
- Daniel Poliquin, A Secret Between Us (trans. Donald Winkler)
- M. G. Vassanji, The Assassin's Song
- Alissa York, Effigy
2008
Jury: Margaret Atwood, Bob Rae, Colm Toibin
- Anthony De Sa, Barnacle Love
- Marina Endicott, Good to a Fault
- Rawi Hage, Cockroach
- Mary Swan, The Boys in the Trees
2009
Jury: Russell Banks, Victoria Glendinning, Alistair MacLeod
- Kim Echlin, The Disappeared
- Annabel Lyon, The Golden Mean
- Colin McAdam, Fall
- Anne Michaels, The Winter Vault
2010
Jury: Michael Enright, Claire Messud, Ali Smith
- David Bergen, The Matter with Morris
- Alexander MacLeod, Light Lifting
- Sarah Selecky, This Cake Is for the Party
- Kathleen Winter, Annabel
2011
Jury: Howard Norman, Annabel Lyon, Andrew O'Hagan
- David Bezmozgis, The Free World
- Lynn Coady, The Antagonist
- Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers
- Zsuzsi Gartner, Better Living Through Plastic Explosives
- Michael Ondaatje, The Cat's Table
2012
Jury: Roddy Doyle, Gary Shteyngart, Anna Porter
- Alix Ohlin, Inside
- Nancy Richler, The Imposter Bride
- Kim Thúy, Ru
- Russell Wangersky, Whirl Away
2013
Jury: Margaret Atwood, Esi Edugyan, Jonathan Lethem
- Dennis Bock, Going Home Again
- Craig Davidson, Cataract City
- Lisa Moore, Caught
- Dan Vyleta, The Crooked Maid
2014
Jury: Shauna Singh Baldwin, Justin Cartwright, Francine Prose
- David Bezmozgis, The Betrayers
- Frances Itani, Tell
- Heather O'Neill, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
- Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows
- Padma Viswanathan, The Ever After of Ashwin Rao
2015
Jury: John Boyne, Cecil Foster, Alexander MacLeod, Helen Oyeyemi, Alison Pick
- Samuel Archibald, Arvida (translated by Donald Winkler)
- Rachel Cusk, Outline
- Heather O'Neill, Daydreams of Angels
- Anakana Schofield, Martin John