The shortlist for the 2019/2020 Donner Prize, which honours the best public policy book by a Canadian, was announced on April 15.

This year’s shortlisted titles were chosen from 74 submissions. The winner, who will be announced at a gala event postponed to this fall, will receive $50,000 with each of the finalists receiving $7,500.

The shortlisted books are:

• Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline, Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson (Signal/McClelland & Stewart)
• Living with China: A Middle Power Finds Its Way, Wendy Dobson (University of Toronto Press)
• Wealth of First Nations, Thomas Flanagan (Fraser Institute)
• Breakdown: The Pipeline Debate and the Threat to Canada’s Future, Dennis McConaghy (Dundurn Press)
• The Tangled Garden: A Canadian Cultural Manifesto for the Digital Age, Richard Stursberg and Stephen Armstrong (Lorimer)

Correction: An earlier version of this post omitted to include The Tangled Garden on the shortlist. Q&Q regrets the error.