City of Victoria Butler Book Prize Entries for 2009
| Author | Title | Publisher |
| Non-Fiction | ||
| Brenda Clark, Nicole Kilburn & Nick Russell | Victoria Underfoot: Excavating a City’s Secrets | Harbour Publishing |
| Blaise Eagleheart | Journey to the Inner Circle, and Beyond | AGIO Publishing House |
| Brian Harvey | The End of the River | ECW Press |
| Dr. Dave Hepburn | The Doctor is (In)sane: Indispensable Advice from Dr. Dave | Greystone Books |
| Stephen Hume | Simon Fraser: In Search of Modern British Columbia | Harbour Publishing |
| Paula Johanson | Genetic and Developmental Diseases and Disorders: Muscular Dystrophy | Rosen Publishing |
| Paula Johanson | What’s in your Food? Recipe for Disaster: Processed Food | Rosen Publishing |
| David Leach | Fatal Tide | Viking Canada |
| Tim Lilburn | Going Home: Essays | House of Anansi Press |
| Charles Scheideman | Policing the Fringe: the Curious Life of a Small-town Mountie | Harbour Publishing |
| Andrew Weaver | Keeping Our Cool | Viking Canada |
| E. Paul Zehr | Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero | The Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Mark Zuehlke | Operation Husky: The Canadian Invasion of Sicily, July 10-August 7, 1943 | Douglas & McIntyre |
| Fiction | ||
| Lou Allin | And on the Surface Die | Napoleon & Company |
| Patrick Blennerhassett | Monument | Now or Never Publishing Co |
| Grant Buday | Dragonflies | Biblioasis |
| Dede Crane | The Cult of Quick Repair | Coteau Books |
| William Deverell | Kill All the Judges | McClelland & Stewart |
| Tricia Dower | Silent Girl | Inanna |
| Don Easton | Angel in the Full Moon | Dundurn Press Ltd |
| Ann Eriksson | In the Hands of Anubis | Brindle & Glass Publishing |
| Stanley Evans | Seaweed on the Rocks | TouchWood Editions |
| Maggi Feehan | The Serpent’s Veil | Thistledown Press |
| Bill Gaston | The Order of Good Cheer | House of Anansi Press |
| Lorna Jackson | Flirt: The Interviews | Biblioasis |
| Patrick Lane | Red Dog, Red Dog | McClelland & Stewart |
| Stephen Legault | The Cardinal Divide | NeWest Press |
| Joan MacLeod | Homechild | Talon Books Ltd |
| Hal Sisson | Potshots | Cachet Communications |
| Ilana Stanger-Ross | Sima’s Undergarments for Women | Overlook Press (Penguin) |
| Poetry | ||
| Dorothy Field | Wearing My People Like a Shawl | Sono Nis Press |
| Lala Heine-Koehn | Seduction of the Written Word | Ekstasis Editions |
| Dvora Levin | Sharav | Ekstasis Editions |
| Peter Levitt | Within Within | Black Moss Press |
| Miles Lowry | Blood Orange: The Paul Bowles Poems | Ekstasis Editions |
| Eric Miller | The Day in Moss | Fitzhenry and Whiteside |
| Isa Milman | Prairie Kaddish | Coteau Books |
| Mitchell Parry | Imperfect Penance | Goose Lane Editions |
| Kelly Parsons (deceased) | I Will ask for Birds | Sono Nis Press |
| Philip Kevin Paul | Little Hunger | Nightwood Editions |
| Barbara Colebrook Peace | Duet for Wings and Earth | Sono Nis Press |
| Barbara Pelman | Borrowed Rooms | Ronsdale Press |
| Pamela Porter | The Intelligence of Animals | The Backwaters press |
| Stephen Scobie | RLS: At the World’s End | Ekstasis Editions |
| Madeline Sonik | Stone Sightings | Inanna Publications |
| Anne Swannell | Shifting | Ekstasis Editions |
| Charles Tidler | Straw Things: Selected Poetry & Song 1963-2007 | Ekstasis Editions |
| Rosalee van Stelten | Pavlov’s Elephant | Frontenac House |
| Patricia Young | Here Come the Moonbathers | Biblioasis |