Six books have been shortlisted for the 2023 Ontario Speaker’s Book Award.

The shortlisted books are:

• Harvesting Freedom: The Life of a Migrant Worker in Canada by Gabriel Allahdua with Edward Dunsworth (Between the Lines)
• Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake by Lianne C. Leddy (University of Toronto Press)
• Cleaning Up: Portuguese Women’s Fight for Labour Rights in Toronto by Susana P. Miranda with Franca Iacovetta (Between the Lines)
• A Black American Missionary in Canada: The Life and Letters of Lewis Champion Chambers by Hilary Bates Neary, ed. (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
• Sideways: The City Google Couldn’t Buy by Josh O’Kane (Random House Canada)
• Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance by Jesse Wente (Penguin Canada)

The winner will be announced in the fall.

The Speaker’s Book Award is an annual award that was launched in 2012 and honours nonfiction books by Ontario authors that reflect the province’s diverse culture and history. The winner receives a monetary award and the winning book is stocked in the legislature gift shop and in the legislative library. Actor and director Anais Granofsky won last year’s award for her memoir.