Awards

A two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour and a CBC Canada Reads winner, Terry Fallis is the author of nine national bestsellers (including six #1 bestsellers), all published by McClelland & Stewart (M&S).

2025

• One Book, One Community Selection (Thompson-Nicola Regional Library, B.C.): A New Season

2023

• Winnipeg Free Press Top Books of 2023 Fiction list: A New Season 
• The County Reads (Prince Edward County, Ontario) winner: Operation Angus

2021

• CBC Books Best Canadian Fiction of 2021 selection: Operation Angus

2018

• Stormont-Dundas-Glengarry Reads 2018 Selection: One Brother Shy

2016

• Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour Finalist: Poles Apart (author’s blog post)

2015

• Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour Winner: No Relation (author’s blog post)

2014

• McMaster University Faculty of Engineering L.W. Shemilt Distinguished Alumni Award Winner (author’s blog post)

2013

• Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award Winner: Author of the Year (author’s blog post)

• Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour Finalist: Up and Down (author’s blog post)

• Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award Winner: Up and Down (author’s blog post)

• CBC Bookie Award Winner for Most Hilarious Canadian Book: Up and Down

2012

• Woodstock Reads Selection: The High Road (author’s blog post)

2011

• CBC Canada Reads Winner: The Best Laid Plans (author’s blog post)

• Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour Finalist: The High Road (author’s blog post)

2010

• One Book, One Community Selection (Kitchener Waterloo Region): The Best Laid Plans (author’s blog post)

2008

• Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour Winner: The Best Laid Plans (author’s blog post)

• Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal Winner (Canada East, Fiction): The Best Laid Plans (author’s blog post)