Year | Award | Author | Title | Publisher | Judges |
1969 | Winner | P. H. Newby | Something to Answer For | Faber & Faber | |
Shortlist | Barry England | Figures in a Landscape | Jonathan Cape |
Nicholas Mosley | Impossible Object | Hodder & Stoughton |
Iris Murdoch | The Nice and the Good | Chatto & Windus |
Muriel Spark | The Public Image | Macmillan |
Gordon Williams | From Scenes Like These | Secker & Warburg |
1970 | Winner | Bernice Rubens | The Elected Member | Eyre & Spottiswoode | |
Shortlist | A. L. Barker | John Brown's Body | Hogarth |
Elizabeth Bowen | Eva Trout | Jonathan Cape |
Iris Murdoch | Bruno's Dream | Chatto & Windus |
William Trevor | Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel | Bodley Head |
Terence Wheeler | The Conjunction | Angus & Robertson |
1970*[1] | Winner | J. G. Farrell | Troubles | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | |
Shortlist | Nina Bawden | The Birds on the Trees | Virago |
Shirley Hazzard | The Bay of Noon | Macmillan |
Mary Renault | Fire From Heaven | Longman |
Muriel Spark | The Driver's Seat | Macmillan |
Patrick White | The Vivisector | Jonathan Cape |
Longlist[2] | Brian Aldiss | The Hand Reared Boy | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
HE Bates | A Little Of What You Fancy? | Michael Joseph |
Melvyn Bragg | A Place in England | Secker & Warburg |
Christy Brown | Down All the Days | Secker & Warburg |
Len Deighton | Bomber | Jonathan Cape |
Elaine Feinstein | The Circle | Hutchinson |
Reginald Hill | A Clubbable Woman | HarperCollins |
Susan Hill | I'm the King of the Castle | Hamish Hamilton |
Francis King | A Domestic Animal | Longman |
Margaret Laurence | The Fire Dwellers | Macmillan |
David Lodge | Out of the Shelter | Macmillan |
Iris Murdoch | A Fairly Honourable Defeat | Chatto & Windus |
Shiva Naipaul | Fireflies | André Deutsch |
Patrick O'Brian | Master and Commander | Collins |
Joe Orton | Head To Toe | Methuen |
Ruth Rendell | A Guilty Thing Surprised | Hutchinson |
1971 | Winner | V. S. Naipaul | In a Free State | Deutsch | |
Shortlist | Thomas Kilroy | The Big Chapel | Faber & Faber |
Doris Lessing | Briefing for a Descent into Hell | Jonathan Cape |
Mordecai Richler | St. Urbain's Horseman | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Derek Robinson | Goshawk Squadron | Heinemann |
Elizabeth Taylor | Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont | Chatto & Windus |
1972 | Winner | John Berger | G. | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | |
Shortlist | Susan Hill | The Bird of Night | Hamish Hamilton |
Thomas Keneally | The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith | Angus & Robertson |
David Storey | Pasmore | Longman |
1973 | Winner | J. G. Farrell | The Siege of Krishnapur | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | |
Shortlist | Beryl Bainbridge | The Dressmaker | Duckworth |
Elizabeth Mavor | A Green Equinox | Michael Joseph |
Iris Murdoch | The Black Prince | Chatto & Windus |
1974 | Winners | Nadine Gordimer | The Conservationist | Jonathan Cape | |
Stanley Middleton | Holiday | Hutchinson |
Shortlist | Kingsley Amis | Ending Up | Jonathan Cape |
Beryl Bainbridge | The Bottle Factory Outing | Duckworth |
C. P. Snow | In Their Wisdom | Macmillan |
1975 | Winner | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Heat and Dust | John Murray | |
Shortlist | Thomas Keneally | Gossip from the Forest | Collins |
1976 | Winner | David Storey | Saville | Jonathan Cape | |
Shortlist | André Brink | An Instant in the Wind | W. H. Allen |
R. C. Hutchinson | Rising | Michael Joseph |
Brian Moore | The Doctor's Wife | Jonathan Cape |
Julian Rathbone | King Fisher Lives | Michael Joseph |
William Trevor | The Children of Dynmouth | Bodley Head |
1977 | Winner | Paul Scott | Staying On | Heinemann | |
Shortlist | Paul Bailey | Peter Smart's Confessions | Jonathan Cape |
Caroline Blackwood | Great Granny Webster | Duckworth |
Jennifer Johnston | Shadows on our Skin | Hamish Hamilton |
Penelope Lively | The Road to Lichfield | Heinemann |
Barbara Pym | Quartet in Autumn | Macmillan |
1978 | Winner | Iris Murdoch | The Sea, the Sea | Chatto & Windus | |
Shortlist | Kingsley Amis | Jake's Thing | Hutchinson |
André Brink | Rumours of Rain | W. H. Allen |
Penelope Fitzgerald | The Bookshop | Duckworth |
Jane Gardam | God on the Rocks | Hamish Hamilton |
Bernice Rubens | A Five-Year Sentence | W. H. Allen |
1979 | Winner | Penelope Fitzgerald | Offshore | Collins | |
Shortlist | Thomas Keneally | Confederates | Collins |
V. S. Naipaul | A Bend in the River | Deutsch |
Julian Rathbone | Joseph | Michael Joseph |
Fay Weldon | Praxis | Hodder & Stoughton |
1980 | Winner | William Golding | Rites of Passage | Faber & Faber | |
Shortlist | Anthony Burgess | Earthly Powers | Hutchinson |
J. L. Carr | A Month in the Country | Harvester |
Anita Desai | Clear Light of Day | Heinemann |
Alice Munro | The Beggar Maid | Viking |
Julia O'Faolain | No Country for Young Men | Viking |
Barry Unsworth | Pascali's Island | Michael Joseph |
1981 | Winner | Salman Rushdie | Midnight's Children | Jonathan Cape | |
Shortlist | Molly Keane | Good Behaviour | Deutsch |
Doris Lessing | The Sirian Experiments | Jonathan Cape |
Ian McEwan | The Comfort of Strangers | Jonathan Cape |
Ann Schlee | Rhine Journey | Macmillan |
Muriel Spark | Loitering with Intent | Bodley Head |
D. M. Thomas | The White Hotel | Gollancz |
1982 | Winner | Thomas Keneally | Schindler's Ark | Hodder & Stoughton | |
Shortlist | John Arden | Silence Among the Weapons | Methuen |
William Boyd | An Ice-Cream War | Hamish Hamilton |
Lawrence Durrell | Constance or Solitary Practices | Faber & Faber |
Alice Thomas Ellis | The 27th Kingdom | Duckworth |
Timothy Mo | Sour Sweet | Deutsch |
1983 | Winner | J. M. Coetzee | Life & Times of Michael K | Secker & Warburg | |
Shortlist | Malcolm Bradbury | Rates of Exchange | Secker & Warburg |
John Fuller | Flying to Nowhere | Salamander |
Anita Mason | The Illusionist | Hamish Hamilton |
Salman Rushdie | Shame | Jonathan Cape |
Graham Swift | Waterland | Heinemann |
1984 | Winner | Anita Brookner | Hotel du Lac | Jonathan Cape | |
Shortlist | J. G. Ballard | Empire of the Sun | Gollancz |
Julian Barnes | Flaubert's Parrot | Jonathan Cape |
Anita Desai | In Custody | Heinemann |
Penelope Lively | According to Mark | Heinemann |
David Lodge | Small World | Secker & Warburg |
1985 | Winner[4] | Keri Hulme | The Bone People | Hodder & Stoughton | |
Shortlist | Peter Carey | Illywhacker | Faber & Faber |
J. L. Carr | The Battle of Pollocks Crossing | Viking |
Doris Lessing | The Good Terrorist | Jonathan Cape |
Jan Morris | Last Letters from Hav | Viking |
Iris Murdoch | The Good Apprentice | Chatto & Windus |
1986 | Winner | Kingsley Amis | The Old Devils | Hutchinson | |
Shortlist | Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid's Tale | Jonathan Cape |
Paul Bailey | Gabriel's Lament | Jonathan Cape |
Robertson Davies | What's Bred in the Bone | Viking |
Kazuo Ishiguro | An Artist of the Floating World | Faber & Faber |
Timothy Mo | An Insular Possession | Chatto & Windus |
1987 | Winner | Penelope Lively | Moon Tiger | Deutsch | |
Shortlist | Chinua Achebe | Anthills of the Savannah | Heinemann |
Peter Ackroyd | Chatterton | Hamish Hamilton |
Nina Bawden | Circles of Deceit | Macmillan |
Brian Moore | The Colour of Blood | Jonathan Cape |
Iris Murdoch | The Book and the Brotherhood | Chatto & Windus |
1988 | Winner | Peter Carey | Oscar and Lucinda | Faber & Faber | |
Shortlist | Bruce Chatwin | Utz | Jonathan Cape |
Penelope Fitzgerald | The Beginning of Spring | Collins |
David Lodge | Nice Work | Secker & Warburg |
Salman Rushdie | The Satanic Verses | Viking |
Marina Warner | The Lost Father | Chatto & Windus |
1989 | Winner | Kazuo Ishiguro | The Remains of the Day | Faber & Faber | |
Shortlist | Margaret Atwood | Cat's Eye | Bloomsbury |
John Banville | The Book of Evidence | Secker & Warburg |
Sybille Bedford | Jigsaw | Hamish Hamilton |
James Kelman | A Disaffection | Secker & Warburg |
Rose Tremain | Restoration | Hamish Hamilton |
1990 | Winner | A. S. Byatt | Possession: A Romance | Chatto & Windus | |
Shortlist | Beryl Bainbridge | An Awfully Big Adventure | Duckworth |
Penelope Fitzgerald | The Gate of Angels | Collins |
John McGahern | Amongst Women | Faber & Faber |
Brian Moore | Lies of Silence | Bloomsbury |
Mordecai Richler | Solomon Gursky Was Here | Chatto & Windus |
1991 | Winner | Ben Okri | The Famished Road | Jonathan Cape | |
Shortlist | Martin Amis | Time's Arrow | Jonathan Cape |
Roddy Doyle | The Van | Secker & Warburg |
Rohinton Mistry | Such a Long Journey | Faber & Faber |
Timothy Mo | The Redundancy of Courage | Chatto & Windus |
William Trevor | Reading Turgenev[5] | Viking |
1992 | Winners | Michael Ondaatje | The English Patient | Bloomsbury | |
Barry Unsworth | Sacred Hunger | Hamish Hamilton |
Shortlist | Christopher Hope | Serenity House | Macmillan |
Patrick McCabe | The Butcher Boy | Picador |
Ian McEwan | Black Dogs | Jonathan Cape |
Michèle Roberts | Daughters of the House | Virago |
1993 | Winner | Roddy Doyle | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha | Secker & Warburg | |
Shortlist | Tibor Fischer | Under the Frog | Polygon |
Michael Ignatieff | Scar Tissue | Chatto & Windus |
David Malouf | Remembering Babylon | Chatto & Windus |
Caryl Phillips | Crossing the River | Bloomsbury |
Carol Shields | The Stone Diaries | 4th Estate |
1994 | Winner | James Kelman | How late it was, how late | Secker & Warburg | |
Shortlist | Romesh Gunesekera | Reef | Granta Books |
Abdulrazak Gurnah | Paradise | Hamish Hamilton |
Alan Hollinghurst | The Folding Star | Chatto & Windus |
George Mackay Brown | Beside the Ocean of Time | John Murray |
Jill Paton Walsh | Knowledge of Angels | Green Bay |
1995 | Winner | Pat Barker | The Ghost Road | Viking | |
Shortlist | Justin Cartwright | In Every Face I Meet | Sceptre |
Salman Rushdie | The Moor's Last Sigh | Jonathan Cape |
Barry Unsworth | Morality Play | Hamish Hamilton |
Tim Winton | The Riders | Picador |
1996 | Winner | Graham Swift | Last Orders | Picador | |
Shortlist | Margaret Atwood | Alias Grace | Bloomsbury |
Beryl Bainbridge | Every Man for Himself | Duckworth |
Seamus Deane | Reading in the Dark | Jonathan Cape |
Shena Mackay | The Orchard on Fire | Heinemann |
Rohinton Mistry | A Fine Balance | Faber & Faber |
1997 | Winner | Arundhati Roy | The God of Small Things | Flamingo | |
Shortlist | Jim Crace | Quarantine | Viking |
Mick Jackson | The Underground Man | Picador |
Bernard MacLaverty | Grace Notes | Jonathan Cape |
Tim Parks | Europa | Secker & Warburg |
Madeleine St John | The Essence of the Thing | 4th Estate |
1998 | Winner | Ian McEwan | Amsterdam | Jonathan Cape | |
Shortlist | Beryl Bainbridge | Master Georgie | Duckworth |
Julian Barnes | England, England | Jonathan Cape |
Martin Booth | The Industry of Souls | Dewi Lewis |
Patrick McCabe | Breakfast on Pluto | Picador |
Magnus Mills | The Restraint of Beasts | Flamingo |
1999 | Winner | J. M. Coetzee | Disgrace | Secker & Warburg | |
Shortlist | Anita Desai | Fasting, Feasting | Chatto & Windus |
Michael Frayn | Headlong | Faber & Faber |
Andrew O'Hagan | Our Fathers | Faber & Faber |
Ahdaf Soueif | The Map of Love | Bloomsbury |
Colm Tóibín | The Blackwater Lightship | Picador |
2000 | Winner | Margaret Atwood | The Blind Assassin | Bloomsbury | |
Shortlist | Trezza Azzopardi | The Hiding Place | Picador |
Michael Collins | The Keepers of Truth | Phoenix House |
Kazuo Ishiguro | When We Were Orphans | Faber & Faber |
Matthew Kneale | English Passengers | Hamish Hamilton |
Brian O'Doherty | The Deposition of Father McGreevy | Arcadia |
2001[7] | Winner | Peter Carey | True History of the Kelly Gang | Faber & Faber | |
Shortlist | Ian McEwan | Atonement | Jonathan Cape |
Andrew Miller | Oxygen | Sceptre |
David Mitchell | number9dream | Sceptre |
Rachel Seiffert | The Dark Room | William Heinemann |
Ali Smith | Hotel World | Hamish Hamilton |
Longlist | Beryl Bainbridge | According to Queeney | Duckworth |
Derek Beaven | If The Invader Comes | 4th Estate |
Melvyn Bragg | A Son of War | Sceptre |
Ciaran Carson | Shamrock Tea | Granta Books |
Stevie Davies | The Element of Water | The Women's Press |
Nadine Gordimer | The Pickup | Bloomsbury |
Patricia Grace | Dogside Story | The Women's Press |
Abdulrazak Gurnah | By The Sea | Bloomsbury |
Nick Hornby | How To Be Good | Viking |
Zvi Jagendorf | Wolfy and the Strudelbakers | Dewi Lewis |
James Kelman | Translated Accounts | Secker & Warburg |
Eion McNamee | The Blue Tango | Faber & Faber |
Ferdinand Mount | Fairness | Chatto & Windus |
VS Naipaul | Half a Life | Picador |
Philip Pullman | The Amber Spyglass | Scholastic |
Manil Suri | The Death of Vishnu | Bloomsbury |
Jane Urquhart | The Stone Carvers | Bloomsbury |
Marina Warner | The Leto Bundle | Chatto & Windus |
2002[8] | Winner | Yann Martel | Life of Pi | Canongate | |
Shortlist | Rohinton Mistry | Family Matters | Faber & Faber |
Carol Shields | Unless | 4th Estate |
William Trevor | The Story of Lucy Gault | Viking |
Sarah Waters | Fingersmith | Virago |
Tim Winton | Dirt Music | Picador |
Longlist | Dannie Abse | The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds and Dr Glass | Robson Books |
John Banville | Shroud | Picador |
Joan Barfoot | Critical Injuries | The Women's Press |
William Boyd | Any Human Heart | Hamish Hamilton |
Anita Brookner | The Next Big Thing | Viking |
Robert Edric | Peacetime | Black Swan |
Michael Frayn | Spies | Faber & Faber |
Linda Grant | Still Here | Little Brown |
Philip Hensher | The Mulberry Empire | Flamingo |
Howard Jacobson | Who’s Sorry Now? | Cape |
Jon McGregor | If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things | 4th Estate |
Will Self | Dorian, an Imitation | Viking |
Zadie Smith | The Autograph Man | Hamish Hamilton |
Colin Thubron | To The Last City | Chatto & Windus |
2003[9] | Winner | DBC Pierre | Vernon God Little | Faber & Faber | |
Shortlist | Monica Ali | Brick Lane | Doubleday |
Margaret Atwood | Oryx and Crake | Bloomsbury |
Damon Galgut | The Good Doctor | Atlantic Books |
Zoë Heller | Notes on a Scandal | Viking |
Clare Morrall | Astonishing Splashes of Colour | Tindal Street Press |
Longlist | Martin Amis | Yellow Dog | Cape |
Carol Birch | Turn Again Home | Virago |
Melvyn Bragg | Crossing the Lines | Sceptre |
J. M. Coetzee | Elizabeth Costello | Harvill Secker |
Julia Darling | The Taxi Driver’s Daughter | Penguin |
Gerard Donovan | Schopenhauer’s Telescope | Scribner |
Barbara Gowdy | The Romantic | Harper Perennial |
Mark Haddon | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Doubleday |
Francis King | The Nick of Time | Arcadia |
Shena Mackay | Heligoland | Cape |
John Murray | Jazz etc. | Flambard Press |
Julie Myerson | Something Might Happen | Cape |
Tim Parks | Judge Savage | Secker & Warburg |
Caryl Phillips | A Distant Shore | Secker & Warburg |
Jonathan Raban | Waxwings | Picador |
Graham Swift | The Light of Day | Simon & Schuster |
Barbara Trapido | Frankie & Stankie | Bloomsbury |
2004[10] | Winner | Alan Hollinghurst | The Line of Beauty | Picador | |
Shortlist | Achmat Dangor | Bitter Fruit | Atlantic |
Sarah Hall | The Electric Michelangelo | Faber & Faber |
David Mitchell | Cloud Atlas | Sceptre |
Colm Tóibín | The Master | Picador |
Gerard Woodward | I'll Go to Bed at Noon | Chatto & Windus |
Longlist | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Purple Hibiscus | 4th Estate |
Nadeem Aslam | Maps for Lost Lovers | Faber & Faber |
Nicola Barker | Clear: A Transparent Novel | 4th Estate |
John Bemrose | The Island Walkers | John Murray |
Ronan Bennett | Havoc, in its Third Year | Bloomsbury |
Susanna Clarke | Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | Bloomsbury |
Neil Cross | Always the Sun | Scribner |
Louise Dean | Becoming Strangers | Scribner |
Lewis Desoto | A Blade of Grass | Maia |
James Hamilton-Paterson | Cooking with Fernet Branca | Faber & Faber |
Justin Haythe | The Honeymoon | Picador |
Shirley Hazzard | The Great Fire | Virago |
Gail Jones | Sixty Lights | Harvill |
Sam North | The Unnumbered | Scribner |
Nicholas Shakespeare | Snowleg | Harvill |
Matt Thorne | Cherry | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
2005[11] | Winner | John Banville | The Sea | Picador | |
Shortlist | Julian Barnes | Arthur & George | Jonathan Cape |
Sebastian Barry | A Long Long Way | Faber & Faber |
Kazuo Ishiguro | Never Let Me Go | Faber & Faber |
Ali Smith | The Accidental | Hamish Hamilton |
Zadie Smith | On Beauty | Hamish Hamilton |
Longlist | Tash Aw | The Harmony Silk Factory | 4th Estate |
J. M. Coetzee | Slow Man | Secker & Warburg |
Rachel Cusk | In the Fold | Faber & Faber |
Dan Jacobson | All For Love | Hamish Hamilton |
Marina Lewycka | A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian | Viking |
Hilary Mantel | Beyond Black | 4th Estate |
Ian McEwan | Saturday | Jonathan Cape |
James Meek | The People’s Act of Love | Canongate |
Salman Rushdie | Shalimar the Clown | Jonathan Cape |
Harry Thompson | This Thing of Darkness | Headline Review |
William Wall | This Is The Country | Sceptre |
2006[12] | Winner | Kiran Desai | The Inheritance of Loss | Hamish Hamilton | |
Shortlist | Kate Grenville | The Secret River | Canongate |
M. J. Hyland | Carry Me Down | Canongate |
Hisham Matar | In the Country of Men | Viking |
Edward St Aubyn | Mother's Milk | Picador |
Sarah Waters | The Night Watch | Virago |
Longlist | Peter Carey | Theft: A Love Story | Faber & Faber |
Robert Edric | Gathering the Water | Black Swan |
Nadine Gordimer | Get A Life | Bloomsbury |
Howard Jacobson | Kalooki Nights | Jonathan Cape |
James Lasdun | Seven Lies | Jonathan Cape |
Mary Lawson | The Other Side of the Bridge | Chatto & Windus |
Jon McGregor | So Many Ways to Begin | Bloomsbury |
Claire Messud | The Emperor’s Children | Picador |
David Mitchell | Black Swan Green | Sceptre |
Naeem Murr | The Perfect Man | William Heinemann |
Andrew O’Hagan | Be Near Me | Faber & Faber |
James Robertson | The Testament of Gideon Mack | Hamish Hamilton |
Barry Unsworth | The Ruby In Her Navel | Hamish Hamilton |
2007[13] | Winner | Anne Enright | The Gathering | Jonathan Cape | |
Shortlist | Nicola Barker | Darkmans | 4th Estate |
Mohsin Hamid | The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Hamish Hamilton |
Lloyd Jones | Mister Pip | John Murray |
Ian McEwan | On Chesil Beach | Jonathan Cape |
Indra Sinha | Animal's People | Simon & Schuster |
Longlist | Edward Docx | Self Help | Picador |
Peter Ho Davies | The Welsh Girl | Sceptre |
Nikita Lalwani | Gifted | Penguin |
Catherine O'Flynn | What Was Lost | Tindal Street Press |
Michael Redhill | Consolation | William Heinemann |
Tan Twan Eng | The Gift of Rain | Myrmidon |
A. N. Wilson | Winnie & Wolf | Hutchinson |
2008 | Winner | Aravind Adiga | The White Tiger | Atlantic | |
Shortlist | Sebastian Barry | The Secret Scripture | Faber & Faber |
Amitav Ghosh | Sea of Poppies | John Murray |
Linda Grant | The Clothes on Their Backs | Virago |
Philip Hensher | The Northern Clemency | 4th Estate |
Steve Toltz | A Fraction of the Whole | Hamish Hamilton |
Longlist | Gaynor Arnold | Girl in a Blue Dress | Tindal Street Press |
John Berger | From A to X | Verso |
Michelle de Kretser | The Lost Dog | Chatto & Windus |
Mohammed Hanif | A Case of Exploding Mangoes | Jonathan Cape |
Joseph O'Neil | Netherland | 4th Estate |
Salman Rushdie | The Enchantress of Florence | Jonathan Cape |
Tom Rob Smith | Child 44 | Simon & Schuster |
2009[14] | Winner | Hilary Mantel | Wolf Hall | 4th Estate | |
Shortlist | A. S. Byatt | The Children's Book | Chatto and Windus |
J. M. Coetzee | Summertime | Harvill Secker |
Adam Foulds | The Quickening Maze | Jonathan Cape |
Simon Mawer | The Glass Room | Little, Brown |
Sarah Waters | The Little Stranger | Virago |
Longlist | Sarah Hall | How to Paint a Dead Man | Faber |
Samantha Harvey | The Wilderness | Jonathan Cape |
James Lever | Me Cheeta | 4th Estate |
Ed O’Loughlin | Not Untrue & Not Unkind | Penguin |
James Scudamore | Heliopolis | Harvill Secker |
Colm Tóibín | Brooklyn | Viking |
William Trevor | Love and Summer | Viking |
2010[15] | Winner | Howard Jacobson | The Finkler Question | Bloomsbury | |
Shortlist | Peter Carey | Parrot and Olivier in America | Faber & Faber |
Emma Donoghue | Room | Picador |
Damon Galgut | In a Strange Room | Atlantic Books |
Andrea Levy | The Long Song | Hachette |
Tom McCarthy | C | Jonathan Cape |
Longlist | Helen Dunmore | The Betrayal | Fig Tree |
David Mitchell | The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet | Sceptre |
Lisa Moore | February | Random House |
Paul Murray | Skippy Dies | Hamish Hamilton |
Rose Tremain | Trespass | Chatto & Windus |
Christos Tsiolkas | The Slap | Allen & Unwin |
Alan Warner | The Stars in the Bright Sky | Jonathan Cape |
2011[16] | Winner | Julian Barnes | The Sense of an Ending | Jonathan Cape | |
Shortlist | Carol Birch | Jamrach's Menagerie | Canongate |
Patrick deWitt | The Sisters Brothers | Granta Books |
Esi Edugyan | Half-Blood Blues | Serpent's Tail |
Stephen Kelman | Pigeon English | Bloomsbury |
A D Miller | Snowdrops | Atlantic Books |
Longlist | Sebastian Barry | On Canaan’s Side | Faber & Faber |
Yvvette Edwards | A Cupboard Full of Coats | Oneworld |
Alan Hollinghurst | The Stranger’s Child | Picador |
Patrick McGuinness | The Last Hundred Days | Seren |
Alison Pick | Far to Go | Tinder Press |
Jane Rogers | The Testament of Jessie Lamb | Canongate |
D. J. Taylor | Derby Day | Chatto & Windus |
2012[17] | Winner | Hilary Mantel | Bring Up the Bodies | 4th Estate | |
Shortlist | Deborah Levy | Swimming Home | And Other Stories/Faber & Faber |
Alison Moore | The Lighthouse | Salt Publishing |
Will Self | Umbrella | Bloomsbury |
Tan Twan Eng | The Garden of Evening Mists | Myrmidon Books |
Jeet Thayil | Narcopolis | Faber & Faber |
Longlist | Nicola Barker | The Yips | 4th Estate |
Ned Beauman | The Teleportation Accident | Sceptre |
André Brink | Philida | Harvill Secker |
Michael Frayn | Skios | Faber & Faber |
Rachel Joyce | The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry | Doubleday |
Sam Thompson | Communion Town | 4th Estate |
2013[18] | Winner | Eleanor Catton | The Luminaries | Granta | |
Shortlist | NoViolet Bulawayo | We Need New Names | Chatto & Windus |
Jim Crace | Harvest | Picador |
Jhumpa Lahiri | The Lowland | Bloomsbury |
Ruth Ozeki | A Tale for the Time Being | Canongate |
Colm Tóibín | The Testament of Mary | Viking |
Longlist | Tash Aw | Five Star Billionaire | 4th Estate |
Eve Harris | The Marrying of Chani Kaufman | Sandstone Press |
Richard House | The Kills | Picador |
Alison MacLeod | Unexploded | Hamish Hamilton |
Colum McCann | TransAtlantic | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Charlotte Mendelson | Almost English | Mantle |
Donal Ryan | The Spinning Heart | Doubleday |
2014[19] | Winner | Richard Flanagan | The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Chatto & Windus | |
Shortlist | Joshua Ferris | To Rise Again at a Decent Hour | Viking |
Karen Joy Fowler | We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves | Serpent's Tail |
Howard Jacobson | J | Jonathan Cape |
Neel Mukherjee | The Lives of Others | Chatto & Windus |
Ali Smith | How to Be Both | Hamish Hamilton |
Longlist | Siri Hustvedt | The Blazing World | Sceptre Press |
Paul Kingsnorth | The Wake | Unbound |
David Mitchell | The Bone Clocks | Sceptre Press |
David Nicholls | Us | Hodder and Stoughton |
Joseph O’Neill | The Dog | 4th Estate |
Richard Powers | Orfeo | Atlantic Books |
Niall Williams | History of the Rain | Bloomsbury |
2015 | Winner | Marlon James | A Brief History of Seven Killings | Oneworld Publications | |
Shortlist[20] | Tom McCarthy | Satin Island | Jonathan Cape |
Chigozie Obioma | The Fishermen | One |
Sunjeev Sahota | The Year of the Runaways | Picador |
Anne Tyler | A Spool of Blue Thread | Chatto & Windus |
Hanya Yanagihara | A Little Life | Picador |
Longlist | Bill Clegg | Did You Ever Have a Family | Gallery/Scout |
Anne Enright | The Green Road | Jonathan Cape |
Laila Lalami | The Moor’s Account | Bloomsbury |
Andrew O’Hagan | The Illuminations | Faber & Faber |
Marilynne Robinson | Lila | Virago |
Anuradha Roy | Sleeping on Jupiter | Maclehose Press |
Anna Smaill | The Chimes | Hodder & Stoughton |
2016[21] | Winner | Paul Beatty | The Sellout | Oneworld | |
Shortlist | Deborah Levy | Hot Milk | Hamish Hamilton |
Graeme Macrae Burnet | His Bloody Project | Contraband |
Ottessa Moshfegh | Eileen | Jonathan Cape |
David Szalay | All That Man Is | Jonathan Cape |
Madeleine Thien | Do Not Say We Have Nothing | Granta |
Longlist | J. M. Coetzee | The Schooldays of Jesus | Harvill Secker |
A.L. Kennedy | Serious Sweet | Jonathan Cape |
Ian McGuire | The North Water | Scribner |
David Means | Hystopia | Faber & Faber |
Wyl Menmuir | The Many | Salt |
Virginia Reeves | Work Like Any Other | Fanfare |
Elizabeth Strout | My Name Is Lucy Barton | Viking |
2017 | Winner | George Saunders | Lincoln in the Bardo | Bloomsbury | |
Shortlist[22] | Paul Auster | 4 3 2 1 | Faber & Faber |
Emily Fridlund | History of Wolves | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Mohsin Hamid | Exit West | Hamish Hamilton |
Fiona Mozley | Elmet | John Murray |
Ali Smith | Autumn | Hamish Hamilton |
Longlist | Sebastian Barry | Days Without End | Faber & Faber |
Mike McCormack | Solar Bones | Canongate |
Jon McGregor | Reservoir 13 | 4th Estate |
Arundhati Roy | The Ministry of Utmost Happiness | Hamish Hamilton |
Kamila Shamsie | Home Fire | Bloomsbury |
Zadie Smith | Swing Time | Hamish Hamilton |
Colson Whitehead | The Underground Railroad | Fleet Publishing |
2018 | Winner | Anna Burns | Milkman | Faber & Faber | |
Shortlist[23] | Esi Edugyan | Washington Black | Serpent's Tail |
Daisy Johnson | Everything Under | Jonathan Cape |
Rachel Kushner | The Mars Room | Jonathan Cape |
Richard Powers | The Overstory | William Heinemann |
Robin Robertson | The Long Take | Picador |
Longlist | Belinda Bauer | Snap | Bantam Press |
Nick Drnaso | Sabrina | Granta |
Guy Gunaratne | In Our Mad And Furious City | Tinder Press |
Sophie Mackintosh | The Water Cure | Hamish Hamilton |
Michael Ondaatje | Warlight | Jonathan Cape |
Sally Rooney | Normal People | Faber & Faber |
Donal Ryan | From a Low and Quiet Sea | Doubleday |
2019 | Winners[24][25] | Margaret Atwood | The Testaments | Chatto & Windus | |
Bernardine Evaristo | Girl, Woman, Other | Hamish Hamilton |
Shortlist[26] | Lucy Ellmann | Ducks, Newburyport | Galley Beggar |
Chigozie Obioma | An Orchestra of Minorities | Little, Brown |
Salman Rushdie | Quichotte | Jonathan Cape |
Elif Shafak | 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World | Viking |
Longlist | Kevin Barry | Night Boat to Tangier | Canongate |
Oyinkan Braithwaite | My Sister, the Serial Killer | Atlantic Books |
John Lanchester | The Wall | Faber & Faber |
Deborah Levy | The Man Who Saw Everything | Hamish Hamilton |
Valeria Luiselli | Lost Children Archive | 4th Estate |
Max Porter | Lanny | Faber & Faber |
Jeanette Winterson | Frankissstein | Jonathan Cape |
2020 | Winner | Douglas Stuart | Shuggie Bain | Picador | |
Shortlist[27][28] | Diane Cook | The New Wilderness | Oneworld Publications |
Tsitsi Dangarembga | This Mournable Body | Faber & Faber |
Avni Doshi | Burnt Sugar | Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House |
Maaza Mengiste | The Shadow King | Canongate |
Brandon Taylor | Real Life | Daunt Books |
Longlist | Gabriel Krauze | Who They Was | 4th Estate |
Hilary Mantel | The Mirror and the Light[29] | 4th Estate |
Colum McCann | Apeirogon | Bloomsbury |
Kiley Reid | Such a Fun Age | Bloomsbury |
Anne Tyler | Redhead by the Side of the Road | Chatto & Windus |
Sophie Ward | Love and Other Thought Experiments | Corsair |
C Pam Zhang | How Much of These Hills Is Gold | Virago |
2021 | Winner[30] | Damon Galgut | The Promise | Chatto & Windus | |
Shortlist[31] | Anuk Arudpragasam | A Passage North | Granta |
Patricia Lockwood | No One Is Talking About This | Bloomsbury |
Nadifa Mohamed | The Fortune Men | Viking |
Richard Powers | Bewilderment | Hutchinson Heinemann |
Maggie Shipstead | Great Circle | Doubleday |
Longlist[32] | Rachel Cusk | Second Place | Faber & Faber |
Nathan Harris | The Sweetness of Water | Tinder Press |
Kazuo Ishiguro | Klara and the Sun | Faber & Faber |
Karen Jennings | An Island | Holland House Books |
Mary Lawson | A Town Called Solace | Chatto & Windus |
Sunjeev Sahota | China Room | Harvill Secker |
Francis Spufford | Light Perpetual | Faber & Faber |
2022 | Winner | Shehan Karunatilaka | The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida | Sort of Books | |
Shortlist[33] | NoViolet Bulawayo | Glory | Chatto & Windus |
Percival Everett | The Trees | Influx Press |
Alan Garner | Treacle Walker | 4th Estate |
Claire Keegan | Small Things Like These | Faber & Faber |
Elizabeth Strout | Oh William! | Viking |
Longlist[34] | Graeme Macrae Burnet | Case Study | Saraband |
Hernan Diaz | Trust | Picador |
Karen Joy Fowler | Booth | Serpent's Tail |
Audrey Magee | The Colony | Faber & Faber |
Maddie Mortimer | Maps of our Spectacular Bodies | Picador |
Leila Mottley | Nightcrawling | Bloomsbury |
Selby Wynn Schwartz | After Sappho | Galley Beggar |
2023 | Winner[35] | Paul Lynch | Prophet Song | Oneworld Publications | |
Shortlist[36] | Sarah Bernstein | Study for Obedience | Granta |
Jonathan Escoffery | If I Survive You | 4th Estate |
Paul Harding | This Other Eden | Hutchinson Heinemann |
Paul Murray | The Bee Sting | Hamish Hamilton |
Chetna Maroo | Western Lane | Picador |
Longlist[37] | Ayobami Adebayo | A Spell of Good Things | Canongate |
Sebastian Barry | Old God's Time | Faber & Faber |
Elaine Feeney | How to Build a Boat | Harvill Secker |
Siân Hughes | Pearl | Indigo Press |
Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow | All the Little Bird-Hearts | Tinder Press |
Martin MacInnes | In Ascension | Atlantic Books |
Tan Twan Eng | The House of Doors | Canongate |