The McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award is associated with the Manitoba Book Awards and was established in 1988. It is presented to the Manitoba writer whose adult English language book is judged the best written. The author receives a cash award of $5,000, donated by McNally Robinson Booksellers.
| 1988 | Recent Mistakes | ||
| 1989 | The Prowler | ||
| 1990 | Agnes in the sky | ||
| 1991 | Fox | ||
| 1992 | The Chrome Suite | ||
| 1993 | The Stone Diaries | ||
| 1994 | Blasphemer's Wheel | ||
| 1995 | Kabloona in the Yellow Kayak | ||
| 1996 | A Year of Lesser | ||
| 1997 | Latent Heat | ||
| 1998 | A Boy of Good Breeding | ||
| 1999 | Cowboys and Indians | ||
| 2000 | Swing Low: A Life | ||
| 2001 | When Alice Lay Down With Peter | ||
| 2002 | Houseboat Chronicles: Notes from a Life in Shield Country | ||
| 2003 | Tatsea | ||
| 2004 | A Complicated Kindness | ||
| 2005 | The Time in Between | ||
| 2006 | A Great Restlessness: The Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen | ||
| 2008 | Be Wolf: A True Account of the Survival of Reinhold Kaletsch | ||
| 2009 | The Retreat | ||
| 2010 | Coming of Age: A History of the Jewish People of Manitoba | ||
| 2011 | This Hidden Thing | ||
| 2012 | Not Being on a Boat | ||
| 2013 | The House on Sugarbush Road | ||
| 2014 | Kisiskatchewan | ||
| 2015 | The Opening Sky | ||
| 2016 | The Reason You Walk | ||
| 2017 | The Break | ||
| 2018 | The Water Beetles | ||
| 2019 | More Abandoned Manitoba: Rivers, Rails, and Ruins | ||
| 2020 | et al. | This Place: 150 Year Retold | |
| 2021 | Here the Dark | ||
| 2022 | Out of Mind | ||
| 2023 | Shelterbelts |