2021 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Shortlists
The 2021 shortlist comprises six books from each category, selected by Kobo’s team of expert booksellers, and now three bestselling Canadian author judges have the difficult task of choosing the winners: Kamal Al-Solaylee for Nonfiction, Jennifer Robson for Literary Fiction, and Amy Stuart for Mystery.

The Skin We're In
A Year of Black Resistance and Power

Missing from the Village
The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System That Failed Toronto's Queer Community

Field Notes from a Pandemic
A Journey Through a World Suspended

They Said This Would Be Fun
Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up

Dead Mom Walking
A Memoir of Miracle Cures and Other Disasters

Finding Murph
How Joe Murphy Went From Winning a Championship to Living Homeless in the Bush

Five Little Indians
A Novel

When We Were Vikings

Good Citizens Need Not Fear

Hunger Moon

Aftershock
A Novel

We Two Alone

The Woman in the Attic

Tell Me My Name

Night Call
