A week after the new kid on the awards block was handed out, the long-list for Canada’s second richest prize for non-fiction, the $40,000 B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-fiction, has been announced.

D&M Publishers and Random House of Canada lead with three nominations apiece:

• Afflictions & Departures by Madeline Sonik (Anvil Press)

• Bad Animals: A Father’s Accidental Education in Autism by Joel Yanofsky (Viking Canada)

• Captivity: 118 Days in Iraq and the Struggle for a World Without War by James Loney (Knopf Canada)

• The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A Canadian Story of Resilience and Recovery by Andrew Westoll (HarperCollins Canada)

• Decade of Fear: Reporting from Terrorism’s Grey Zone by Michelle Shephard (Douglas & McIntyre)

• Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe by Charlotte Gill (Greystone Books)

• Human Happiness by Brian Fawcett (Thomas Allen Publishers)

• The Leap: How to Survive and Thrive in the Sustainable Economy by Chris Turner (Random House Canada)

• Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times, Volume Two: 1867“1891 by Richard Gwyn (Random House Canada)

• Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter by Carmen Aguirre (Douglas & McIntyre)

The 10-title long-list was chosen from among 134 submissions by a jury comprising Paul Whitney, former city librarian at Vancouver Public Library; Patricia Graham, vice-president of digital for Pacific Newspaper Group; and author and editor Shari Graydon.

The finalists for the prize will be announced Dec. 5, with the award presentation taking place Feb. 6 in Vancouver. The winner of a third major non-fiction prize, the 2012 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction, will be announced March 5.