| 2009 | The Rise of the West and Canada’s New Power Elite, by Gordon Pitts, |
| 2008 | Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (and doesn't seem to care), by William Marsden, published by Alfred A. Knopf Canada |
| 2007 | The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization, by Thomas Homer-Dixon, published by Alfred A. Knopf Canada / Random House of Canada Limited |
| 2006 | Profiting the Crown: Canada’s Polymer Corporation, 1942-1990, by Matthew J. Bellamy, published by McGill-Queen's University Press |
| 2005 | Wrong Way: The Fall of Conrad Black, by Jacquie McNish and Sinclair Stewart, published Penguin Group (Canada) |
| 2004 | The Human Factor: Revolutioinizing the Way People Live With Technology, by Kim Vicente, published by Alfred A. Knopf Canada |
| 2003 | The Bubble and The Bear: How Nortel Burst the Canadian Dream, by Douglas Hunter, published by Doubleday Canada |
| 2002 | Free Rider: How a Bay St. Whiz Kid Stole and Spent $20 Million, by John Lawrence Reynolds, published by McArthur & Company |
| 2001 | No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, by Naomi Klein, published by Alfred A. Knopf Canada |
| 2000 | Unnatural Harvest — How Genetic Engineering is Altering Our Food, by Ingeborg Boyens, published by Doubleday Canada |
| 1999 | Fever — The Dark Mystery of the Bre-X Gold Rush, by Jennifer Wells, published by Penguin Books of Canada Ltd. |
| 1998 | The Reichmanns — Family, Faith, Fortune, and the Empire of Olympia & York, by Anthony Bianco, published by Random House Canada |
| 1997 | Who Killed Confederation Life? The Inside Story, by Rod McQueen, published by McClelland & Stewart |
| 1996 | Driving Force — The McLaughlin Family and the Age of the Car, by Heather Roberston, published by McClelland & Stewart |
| 1995 | The Edible Man: Dave Nichol, President's Choice & the Making of Popular Taste, by Anne Kingston, published by Macfarland Walter & Ross |
| 1994 | Quick to the Frontier: Canada's Royal Bank, by Duncan McDowall, published by McClelland & Stewart |
| 1993 | Self-Serve: How Petro-Canada Pumped Canadians Dry, by Peter Foster, published by Macfarlane Walter & Ross |
| 1992 | Faith & Fear — The Free Trade Story, by G. Bruce Doern and Brian W. Tomlin, published by Stoddart Published Co. Limited |
| 1991 | Steinberg: The Breakup of a Family Empire, by Ann Gibbon and Peter Hadekel, published by Macmillan of Canada |
| 1990 | Freewheeling, by Ian Brown, published by Harper & Collins |
| 1989 | Shutting Down the National Dream, by Greig Stewart, published by McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited |
| 1988 | Northern Enterprise, by Michael Bliss published by McClelland & Stewart |
| 1987 | Harvest From The Rock, by Phillip Smith, published by Macmillan of Canada |
| 1986 | A Matter of Trust, by Ann Shortell and Patricia Best, published by Viking Books |
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