| 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 |
| H. E. 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[3] |
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[4] |
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[6] |
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 |
| Eoin 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[7] |
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[8] |
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[9] |
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[10] |
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[11] |
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[12] |
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[13] |
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 & 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 |
| Hernán Díaz |
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 |
| 2024 |
Winner[38] |
Samantha Harvey |
Orbital |
Jonathan Cape |
|
| Shortlist[39] |
Percival Everett |
James |
Mantle |
| Rachel Kushner |
Creation Lake |
Jonathan Cape |
| Anne Michaels |
Held |
Bloomsbury |
| Yael van der Wouden |
The Safekeep |
Viking |
| Charlotte Wood |
Stone Yard Devotional |
Sceptre |
| Longlist[40] |
Colin Barrett |
Wild Houses |
Jonathan Cape |
| Rita Bullwinkel |
Headshot |
Daunt Books Originals |
| Hisham Matar |
My Friends |
Viking |
| Claire Messud |
This Strange Eventful History |
Fleet |
| Tommy Orange |
Wandering Stars |
Harvill Secker |
| Sarah Perry |
Enlightenment |
Jonathan Cape |
| Richard Powers |
Playground |
Hutchinson Heinemann |
| 2025 |
Winner[41] |
David Szalay |
Flesh |
Jonathan Cape |
|
| Shortlist[42] |
Susan Choi |
Flashlight |
Jonathan Cape |
| Kiran Desai |
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny |
Hamish Hamilton |
| Katie Kitamura |
Audition |
Fern Press |
| Ben Markovits |
The Rest of Our Lives |
Faber |
| Andrew Miller |
The Land in Winter |
Sceptre |
| Longlist[43] |
Claire Adam |
Love Forms |
Faber |
| Tash Aw |
The South |
4th Estate |
| Natasha Brown |
Universality |
Faber |
| Jonathan Buckley |
One Boat |
Fitzcarraldo Editions |
| Maria Reva |
Endling |
Virago/Little, Brown |
| Benjamin Wood |
Seascraper |
Viking |
| Ledia Xhoga |
Misinterpretation |
Daunt Books Originals |