The Amazon.ca First Novel Award, formerly the Books in Canada First Novel Award, is a literary award given annually to the best first novel in English published the previous year by a citizen or resident of Canada. It has been awarded since 1976 and has identified many rising stars in the Canadian literary world.

1976 Ian McLachlan, The Seventh Hexagram tie with
Michael Ondaatje, Coming Through Slaughter
1977 Oonah McFee, Sandbars
1978 Joan Barfoot, Abra
1979 Clark Blaise, Lunar Attractions
1980 W.D. Valgardson, Gentle Sinners
1981 Joy Kogawa, Obasan
1982 W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe
1983 Heather Robertson, Willie: A Romance
1984 Geoffrey Ursell, Perdue, or How the West Was Lost
1985 Wayne Johnston, The Story of Bobby O’Malley
1986 Karen Lawrence, The Life of Helen Alone
1987 Marion Quednau, The Butterfly Chair
1988 Rick Salutin, A Man of Little Faith
1989 Sandra Birdsell, The Missing Child
1990 Nino Ricci, Lives of the Saints
1991 Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey
1992 John Steffler, The Afterlife of George Cartwright
1993 Deborah Joy Corey, Losing Eddie
1994 Shyam Selvadurai, Funny Boy
1995 Keath Fraser, Popular Anatomy
1996 Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
1997 Margaret Gibson, Opium Dreams
1998 André Alexis, Childhood
1999 David Macfarlane, Summer Gone tie with
Alan R. Wilson, Before the Flood
2000 Eva Stachniak, Necessary Lies
2001 Michael Redhill, Martin Sloane
2002 Mary Lawson, Crow Lake
2003 Michel Basilières, Black Bird
2004 Colin McAdam, Some Great Thing
2005 Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road
2006 Madeleine Thien, Certainty
2007 Gil Adamson, The Outlander
2008 Joan Thomas, Reading by Lightning
2009 Jessica Grant, Come, Thou Tortoise
2010 Eleanor Catton, The Rehearsal