Books by year

2024
Held	Anne Michaels
Creation Lake	Rachel Kushner
Orbital	Samantha Harvey
James	Percival Everett
The Safekeep	Yael van der Wouden
Stone Yard Devotional	Charlotte Wood
2023
Study for Obedience	Sarah Bernstein
If I Survive You	Jonathan Escoffery
This Other Eden	Paul Harding
Prophet Song	Paul Lynch
The Bee Sting	Paul Murray
Western Lane	Chetna Maroo
2022
Glory	NoViolet Bulawayo
The Trees	Percival Everett
Treacle Walker	Alan Garner
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida	Shehan Karunatilaka
Small Things Like These	Claire Keegan
Oh William!	Elizabeth Strout
2021
A Passage North	Anuk Arudpragasam
The Promise	Damon Galgut
No One Is Talking About This	Patricia Lockwood
The Fortune Men	Nadifa Mohamed
Bewilderment	Richard Powers
Great Circle	Maggie Shipstead
2020
Shuggie Bain	Douglas Stuart
The New Wilderness	Diane Cook
This Mournable Body	Tsitsi Dangarembga
Burnt Sugar	Avni Doshi
The Shadow King	Maaza Mengiste
Real Life	Brandon Taylor
2019
The Testaments	Margaret Atwood
Girl, Woman, Other	Bernardine Evaristo
Ducks, Newburyport	Lucy Ellmann
An Orchestra of Minorities	Chigozie Obioma
Quichotte	Salman Rushdie
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World	Elif Shafak
2018
Milkman	Anna Burns
Washington Black	Esi Edugyan
Everything Under	Daisy Johnson
The Mars Room	Rachel Kushner
The Overstory	Richard Powers
The Long Take	Robin Robertson
2017
Lincoln in the Bardo	George Saunders
4 3 2 1	Paul Auster
History of Wolves	Emily Fridlund
Exit West	Mohsin Hamid
Elmet	Fiona Mozley
Autumn	Ali Smith
2016
The Sellout	Paul Beatty
Hot Milk	Deborah Levy
His Bloody Project	Graeme Macrae Burnet
Eileen	Ottessa Moshfegh
All That Man Is	David Szalay
Do Not Say We Have Nothing	Madeleine Thien
2015
A Brief History of Seven Killings	Marlon James
Satin Island	Tom McCarthy
The Fishermen	Chigozie Obioma
The Year of the Runaways	Sunjeev Sahota
A Spool of Blue Thread	Anne Tyler
A Little Life	Hanya Yanagihara
2014
The Narrow Road to the Deep North	Richard Flanagan
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour	Joshua Ferris
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves	Karen Joy Fowler
J	Howard Jacobson
The Lives of Others	Neel Mukherjee
How to Be Both	Ali Smith
2013
The Luminaries	Eleanor Catton
We Need New Names	NoViolet Bulawayo
Harvest	Jim Crace
The Lowland	Jhumpa Lahiri
A Tale for the Time Being	Ruth Ozeki
The Testament of Mary	Colm Tóibín
2012
Bring Up the Bodies	Hilary Mantel
Swimming Home	Deborah Levy
The Lighthouse	Alison Moore
Umbrella	Will Self
The Garden of Evening Mists	Tan Twan Eng
Narcopolis	Jeet Thayil
2011
The Sense of an Ending	Julian Barnes
Jamrach's Menagerie	Carol Birch
The Sisters Brothers	Patrick deWitt
Half-Blood Blues	Esi Edugyan
Pigeon English	Stephen Kelman
Snowdrops	A D Miller
2010
The Finkler Question	Howard Jacobson
Parrot and Olivier in America	Peter Carey
Room	Emma Donoghue
In a Strange Room	Damon Galgut
The Long Song	Andrea Levy
C	Tom McCarthy
2009
Wolf Hall	Hilary Mantel
The Children's Book	A. S. Byatt
Summertime	J. M. Coetzee
The Quickening Maze	Adam Foulds
The Glass Room	Simon Mawer
The Little Stranger	Sarah Waters
2008
The White Tiger	Aravind Adiga
The Secret Scripture	Sebastian Barry
Sea of Poppies	Amitav Ghosh
The Clothes on Their Backs	Linda Grant
The Northern Clemency	Philip Hensher
A Fraction of the Whole	Steve Toltz
2007
The Gathering	Anne Enright
Darkmans	Nicola Barker
The Reluctant Fundamentalist	Mohsin Hamid
Mister Pip	Lloyd Jones
On Chesil Beach	Ian McEwan
Animal's People	Indra Sinha
2006
The Inheritance of Loss	Kiran Desai
The Secret River	Kate Grenville
Carry Me Down	M. J. Hyland
In the Country of Men	Hisham Matar
Mother's Milk	Edward St Aubyn
The Night Watch	Sarah Waters
2005
The Sea	John Banville
Arthur & George	Julian Barnes
A Long Long Way	Sebastian Barry
Never Let Me Go	Kazuo Ishiguro
The Accidental	Ali Smith
On Beauty	Zadie Smith
2004
The Line of Beauty	Alan Hollinghurst
Bitter Fruit	Achmat Dangor
The Electric Michelangelo	Sarah Hall
Cloud Atlas	David Mitchell
The Master	Colm Tóibín
I'll Go to Bed at Noon	Gerard Woodward
2003
Vernon God Little	DBC Pierre
Brick Lane	Monica Ali
Oryx and Crake	Margaret Atwood
The Good Doctor	Damon Galgut
Notes on a Scandal	Zoë Heller
Astonishing Splashes of Colour	Clare Morrall
2002
Life of Pi	Yann Martel
Family Matters	Rohinton Mistry
Unless	Carol Shields
The Story of Lucy Gault	William Trevor
Fingersmith	Sarah Waters
Dirt Music	Tim Winton
2001
True History of the Kelly Gang	Peter Carey
Atonement	Ian McEwan
Oxygen	Andrew Miller
number9dream	David Mitchell
The Dark Room	Rachel Seiffert
Hotel World	Ali Smith
2000
The Blind Assassin	Margaret Atwood
The Hiding Place	Trezza Azzopardi
The Keepers of Truth	Michael Collins
When We Were Orphans	Kazuo Ishiguro
English Passengers	Matthew Kneale
The Deposition of Father McGreevy	Brian O'Doherty
1999
Disgrace	J. M. Coetzee
Fasting, Feasting	Anita Desai
Headlong	Michael Frayn
Our Fathers	Andrew O'Hagan
The Map of Love	Ahdaf Soueif
The Blackwater Lightship	Colm Tóibín
1998
Amsterdam	Ian McEwan
Master Georgie	Beryl Bainbridge
England, England	Julian Barnes
The Industry of Souls	Martin Booth
Breakfast on Pluto	Patrick McCabe
The Restraint of Beasts	Magnus Mills
1997
The God of Small Things	Arundhati Roy
Quarantine	Jim Crace
The Underground Man	Mick Jackson
Grace Notes	Bernard MacLaverty
Europa	Tim Parks
The Essence of the Thing	Madeleine St John
1996
Last Orders	Graham Swift
Alias Grace	Margaret Atwood
Every Man for Himself	Beryl Bainbridge
Reading in the Dark	Seamus Deane
The Orchard on Fire	Shena Mackay
A Fine Balance	Rohinton Mistry
1995
The Ghost Road	Pat Barker
In Every Face I Meet	Justin Cartwright
The Moor's Last Sigh	Salman Rushdie
Morality Play	Barry Unsworth
The Riders	Tim Winton
1994
How late it was, how late	James Kelman
Reef	Romesh Gunesekera
Paradise	Abdulrazak Gurnah
The Folding Star	Alan Hollinghurst
Beside the Ocean of Time	George Mackay Brown
Knowledge of Angels	Jill Paton Walsh
1993
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha	Roddy Doyle
Under the Frog	Tibor Fischer
Scar Tissue	Michael Ignatieff
Remembering Babylon	David Malouf
Crossing the River	Caryl Phillips
The Stone Diaries	Carol Shields
1992
The English Patient	Michael Ondaatje
Sacred Hunger	Barry Unsworth
Serenity House	Christopher Hope
The Butcher Boy	Patrick McCabe
Black Dogs	Ian McEwan
Daughters of the House	Michèle Roberts
1991
The Famished Road	Ben Okri
Time's Arrow	Martin Amis
The Van	Roddy Doyle
Such a Long Journey	Rohinton Mistry
The Redundancy of Courage	Timothy Mo
Reading Turgenev	William Trevor
1990
Possession: A Romance	A. S. Byatt
An Awfully Big Adventure	Beryl Bainbridge
The Gate of Angels	Penelope Fitzgerald
Amongst Women	John McGahern
Lies of Silence	Brian Moore
Solomon Gursky Was Here	Mordecai Richler
1989
The Remains of the Day	Kazuo Ishiguro
Cat's Eye	Margaret Atwood
The Book of Evidence	John Banville
Jigsaw	Sybille Bedford
A Disaffection	James Kelman
Restoration	Rose Tremain
1988
Oscar and Lucinda	Peter Carey
Utz	Bruce Chatwin
The Beginning of Spring	Penelope Fitzgerald
Nice Work	David Lodge
The Satanic Verses	Salman Rushdie
The Lost Father	Marina Warner
1987
Moon Tiger	Penelope Lively
Anthills of the Savannah	Chinua Achebe
Chatterton	Peter Ackroyd
Circles of Deceit	Nina Bawden
The Colour of Blood	Brian Moore
The Book and the Brotherhood	Iris Murdoch
1986
The Old Devils	Kingsley Amis
The Handmaid's Tale	Margaret Atwood
Gabriel's Lament	Paul Bailey
What's Bred in the Bone	Robertson Davies
An Artist of the Floating World	Kazuo Ishiguro
An Insular Possession	Timothy Mo
1985
The Bone People	Keri Hulme
Illywhacker	Peter Carey
The Battle of Pollocks Crossing	J. L. Carr
The Good Terrorist	Doris Lessing
Last Letters from Hav	Jan Morris
The Good Apprentice	Iris Murdoch
1984
Hotel du Lac	Anita Brookner
Empire of the Sun	J. G. Ballard
Flaubert's Parrot	Julian Barnes
In Custody	Anita Desai
According to Mark	Penelope Lively
Small World	David Lodge
1983
Life & Times of Michael K	J. M. Coetzee
Rates of Exchange	Malcolm Bradbury
Flying to Nowhere	John Fuller
The Illusionist	Anita Mason
Shame	Salman Rushdie
Waterland	Graham Swift
1982
Schindler's Ark	Thomas Keneally
Silence Among the Weapons	John Arden
An Ice-Cream War	William Boyd
Constance or Solitary Practices	Lawrence Durrell
The 27th Kingdom	Alice Thomas Ellis
Sour Sweet	Timothy Mo
1981
Midnight's Children	Salman Rushdie
Good Behaviour	Molly Keane
The Sirian Experiments	Doris Lessing
The Comfort of Strangers	Ian McEwan
Rhine Journey	Ann Schlee
Loitering with Intent	Muriel Spark
The White Hotel	D. M. Thomas
1980
Rites of Passage	William Golding
Earthly Powers	Anthony Burgess
Clear Light of Day	Anita Desai
The Beggar Maid	Alice Munro
No Country for Young Men	Julia O'Faolain
Pascali's Island	Barry Unsworth
A Month in the Country	J. L. Carr
1979
Offshore	Penelope Fitzgerald
Confederates	Thomas Keneally
A Bend in the River	V. S. Naipaul
Joseph	Julian Rathbone
Praxis	Fay Weldon
1978
The Sea, the Sea	Iris Murdoch
Jake's Thing	Kingsley Amis
Rumours of Rain	André Brink
The Bookshop	Penelope Fitzgerald
God on the Rocks	Jane Gardam
A Five-Year Sentence	Bernice Rubens
1977
Staying On	Paul Scott
Peter Smart's Confessions	Paul Bailey
Great Granny Webster	Caroline Blackwood
Shadows on our Skin	Jennifer Johnston
The Road to Lichfield	Penelope Lively
Quartet in Autumn	Barbara Pym
1976
Saville	David Storey
An Instant in the Wind	André Brink
Rising	R. C. Hutchinson
The Doctor's Wife	Brian Moore
King Fisher Lives	Julian Rathbone
The Children of Dynmouth	William Trevor
1975
Heat and Dust	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Gossip from the Forest	Thomas Keneally
1974
The Conservationist	Nadine Gordimer
Holiday	Stanley Middleton
Ending Up	Kingsley Amis
The Bottle Factory Outing	Beryl Bainbridge
In Their Wisdom	C. P. Snow
1973
The Siege of Krishnapur	J. G. Farrell
The Dressmaker	Beryl Bainbridge
The Green Equinox	Elizabeth Mavor
The Black Prince	Iris Murdoch
1972
G.	John Berger
The Bird of Night	Susan Hill
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith	Thomas Keneally
Pasmore	David Storey
1971
In a Free State	V. S. Naipaul
The Big Chapel	Thomas Kilroy
Briefing for a Descent into Hell	Doris Lessing
St. Urbain's Horseman	Mordecai Richler
Goshawk Squadron	Derek Robinson
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont	Elizabeth Taylor
1970 Lost
Troubles	J. G. Farrell
The Birds on the Trees	Nina Bawden
The Bay of Noon	Shirley Hazzard
Fire From Heaven	Mary Renault
The Driver's Seat	Muriel Spark
The Vivisector	Patrick White
1970
The Elected Member	Bernice Rubens
John Brown's Body	A. L. Barker
Eva Trout	Elizabeth Bowen
Bruno's Dream	Iris Murdoch
Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel	William Trevor
The Conjunction	Terence Wheeler
1969
Something to Answer For	P. H. Newby
Figures in a Landscape	Barry England
The Impossible Object	Nicholas Mosley
The Nice and the Good	Iris Murdoch
The Public Image	Muriel Spark
From Scenes Like These	Gordon Williams