Noticing that the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is entirely American, and that I am not, I decided to challenge the challenge by also reading a Governor General Literary Prize winning book from each decade. I won’t read one for the 1920s because the award was first given out in 1936. Below is the list I will choose from. Once again, please give me any recommendations from any decade, and also any recommendations on Pulitzer books too.
The beauty is that I could one day be eligible for this one. The beauty is also that I can compare decades in America and Canada. The beauty is also Canada itself. 
1930s
- 1936: Bertram Brooker, Think of the Earth
- 1937: Laura Salverson, The Dark Weaver
- 1938: Gwethalyn Graham, Swiss Sonata
- 1939: Franklin D. McDowell, The Champlain Road
1940s
- 1940: Ringuet, Thirty Acres
- 1941: Alan Sullivan, Three Came to Ville Marie
- 1942: G. Herbert Sallans, Little Man
- 1943: Thomas H. Raddall, The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek
- 1944: Gwethalyn Graham, Earth and High Heaven
- 1945: Hugh MacLennan, Two Solitudes
- 1946: Winifred Bambrick, Continental Revue
- 1947: Gabrielle Roy, The Tin Flute
- 1948: Hugh MacLennan, The Precipice
- 1949: Philip Child, Mr. Ames Against Time
1950s
- 1950: Germaine Guèvremont, The Outlander
- 1951: Morley Callaghan, The Loved and the Lost
- 1952: David Walker, The Pillar
- 1953: David Walker, Digby
- 1954: Igor Gouzenko, The Fall of a Titan
- 1955: Lionel Shapiro, The Sixth of June
- 1956: Adele Wiseman, The Sacrifice
- 1957: Gabrielle Roy, Street of Riches
- 1958: Colin McDougall, Execution
- 1959: Hugh MacLennan, The Watch That Ends the Night
1960s
- 1960: Brian Moore, The Luck of Ginger Coffey
- 1961: Malcolm Lowry, Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place
- 1962: Kildare Dobbs, Running to Paradise
- 1963: Hugh Garner, Hugh Garner’s Best Stories
- 1964: Douglas LePan, The Deserter
- 1965: (none)
- 1966: Margaret Laurence, A Jest of God
- 1967: (none)
- 1968: Alice Munro, Dance of the Happy Shades
- 1969: Robert Kroetsch, The Studhorse Man
1970s
- 1970: Dave Godfrey, The New Ancestors
- 1971: Mordecai Richler, St. Urbain’s Horseman
- 1972: Robertson Davies, The Manticore
- 1973: Rudy Wiebe, The Temptations of Big Bear
- 1974: Margaret Laurence, The Diviners
- 1975: Brian Moore, The Great Victorian Collection
- 1976: Marian Engel, Bear
- 1977: Timothy Findley, The Wars
- 1978: Alice Munro, Who Do You Think You Are?
- 1979: Jack Hodgins, The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne
1980s
- 1980: George Bowering, Burning Water
- 1981: Mavis Gallant, Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories
- 1982: Guy Vanderhaeghe, Man Descending
- 1983: Leon Rooke, Shakespeare’s Dog
- 1984: Josef Skvorecky, The Engineer of Human Souls
- 1985: Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
- 1986: Alice Munro, The Progress of Love
- 1987: M.T. Kelly, A Dream Like Mine
- 1988: David Adams Richards, Nights Below Station Street
- 1989: Paul Quarrington, Whale Music
1990s
- 1990: Nino Ricci, Lives of the Saints
- 1991: Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey
- 1992: Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
- 1993: Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
- 1994: Rudy Wiebe, A Discovery of Strangers
- 1995: Greg Hollingshead, The Roaring Girl
- 1996: Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman’s Boy
- 1997: Jane Urquhart, The Underpainter
- 1998: Diane Schoemperlen, Forms of Devotion
- 1999: Matt Cohen, Elizabeth and After
2000s
- 2000: Michael Ondaatje, Anil’s Ghost
- 2001: Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan
- 2002: Gloria Sawai, A Song for Nettie Johnson
- 2003: Douglas Glover, Elle
- 2004: Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
- 2005: David Gilmour, A Perfect Night to Go to China
- 2006: Peter Behrens, The Law of Dreams
- 2007: Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero
- 2008: Nino Ricci, The Origin of Species
- 2009: Kate Pullinger, The Mistress of Nothing
2010s
- 2010: Dianne Warren, Cool Water
- 2011: Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers
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