Liste des Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général pour 1985, chacun suivi des finalistes.
- Ramsay Cook, The Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada
- Michael D. Behiels, Prelude to Quebec's Quiet Revolution: Liberalism versus Neo-nationalism
- John Herd Thompson, Canada 1922-1939: Decades of Discord
- P.B. Waite, The Man from Halifax: Sir John Thompson, Prime Minister