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The Second Annual CBC Bookie Awards

Submitted by danielle on March 8, 2012 - 12:37pm
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CBC Bookie Award

It’s time to cast your votes for the “people’s choice” of literary awards: The Second Annual CBC Bookie Awards. This year’s finalists are broken down into ten categories with five nominees in each. The finalists represent the country’s favourite CanLit reads (with the exception of two international categories).

Now it’s up to you to decide which titles will take home a Bookie. So head over to CBC Books to vote for your favourite in each of the following categories:

Literary Fiction
Non-Fiction
Poetry
Thriller, Mystery or Crime
Science Fiction, Fantasy or Speculative Fiction
Young Adult
Graphic Novel or Comic Book
Short Story Collection
International Fiction
International Non-Fiction

The polls close Saturday, March 31 and the winners will be announced Thursday, April 5.

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Recommended Reading: Top 100 Unusual Things to See in Ontario by Ron Brown

Ron Brown (Boston Mills Press, 2007)

Uncovering the unexpected in Ontario - from floating mansions to the province's very own Taj Mahal.

In his relentless quest to discover the unusual, Ron Brown has traveled nearly every road in Ontario. This book features 100 of the very best trips from his three best-selling "50 Unusual" collections: 50 Unusual Things to See in Ontario, 50 Even More Unusual Things to See in Ontario, and Ontario's Secret Landscapes: 50 More Visits to Unusual Ontario.

What's an unusual thing? "Anything that is unexpected. Something that shouldn't belong where you found it." Most locations are easy to reach from Ontario's major population centers, and a few are for more adventurous explorers. Locations include:

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