| Year | Fiction |
|---|
| 2000 |
The Hiding Place
Trezza Azzopardi
Picador | The Keepers of Truth
Michael Collins
Phoenix House | When we were Orphans
Kazuo Ishiguro
Faber & Faber | English Passengers
Matthew Kneale
Hamish Hamilton | The Deposition of Father McGreevy
Brian O'Doherty
Arcadia |
|
| 2001 |
Oxygen
Andrew Miller
Sceptre | number9dream
David Mitchell
Sceptre | The Dark Room
Rachel Seiffert
William Heinemann | Hotel World
Ali Smith
Hamish Hamilton | Atonement
Ian McEwan
Doubleday/Nan A. Talese (US)/Jonathan Cape (UK) |
|
| 2002 |
Family Matters
Rohinton Mistry
Faber & Faber | Unless
Carol Shields
Fourth Estate | The Story of Lucy Gault
William Trevor
Viking | Fingersmith
Sarah Waters
Virago | Dirt Music
Tim Winton
Picador |
|
| 2003 |
Brick Lane
Monica Ali
Scribner (US)/Doubleday (UK) | Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood
Bloomsbury | The Good Doctor
Damon Galgut
Atlantic Books | Notes on a Scandal
Zoë Heller
Viking Penguin | Astonishing Splashes Of Colour
Clare Morrall
Tindal Street Press |
|
| 2004 |
Bitter Fruit
Achmat Dangor
Atlantic Books | The Electric Michelangelo
Sarah Hall
Faber & Faber | Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell
Sceptre | The Master
Colm Tòib¨n
Picador | I'll go to Bed at Noon
Gerard Woodward
Chatto & Windus |
|
| 2005 |
Arthur & George
Julian Barnes
Jonathan Cape | A Long Long Way
Sebastian Barry
Faber & Faber | Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
Faber & Faber (UK) Alfred A. Knopf (US) | The Accidental
Ali Smith
Hamish Hamilton | On Beauty
Zadie Smith
Hamish Hamilton |
|
| 2006 |
The Night Watch
Sarah Waters
Virago | Mother’s Milk
Edward St. Aubyn
Picador | In the Country of Men
Hisham Matar
Viking | Carry Me Down
M.J. Hyland
Canongate | The Secret River
Kate Grenville
Canongate |
|
| 2007 |
Darkmans
Nicola Barker
4th Estate | The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mohsin Hamid
Hamish Hamilton | Mister Pip
Lloyd Jones
John Murray | On Chesil Beach
Ian McEwan
Jonathan Cape | Animal’s People
Indra Sinha
Simon & Schuster |
|
| 2008 |
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
|
|
| 2009 |
The Children’s Book
A S Byatt
Chatto & Windus | Summertime
J M Coetzee
Harvill Secker | The Quickening Maze
Adam Foulds
Jonathan Cape | The Glass Room
Simon Mawer
Little, Brown | The Little Stranger
Sarah Waters
Little, Brown |
|
| Year | Fiction |
|---|
| 2010 |
Parrot and Olivier in America
Peter Carey
Faber and Faber | Room
Emma Donoghue
Pan MacMillan - Picador | C
Tom McCarthy
Random House - Jonathan Cape | The Long Song
Andrea Levy
Headline Publishing Group - Headline Review | In a Strange Room
Damon Galgut
Grove Atlantic - Atlantic Books |
|
| 2011 |
Jamrach's Menagerie
Carol Birch
Canongate Books | The Sisters Brothers
Patrick deWitt
Granta | Half Blood Blues
Esi Edugyan
Serpent's Tail - Profile | Pigeon English
Stephen Kelman
Bloomsbury | Snowdrops
A.D. Miller
Atlantic |
|
| 2012 |
The Garden of Evening Mists
Tan Twan Eng
Myrmidon Books | Narcopolis
Jeet Thayil
Faber & Faber | Umbrella
Will Self
Bloomsbury | The Lighthouse
Alison Moore
Salt | Bring up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel
Fourth Estate | Swimming Home
Deborah Levy
And Other Stories/Faber & Faber |
|
| 2013 |
We Need New Names
NoViolet Bulawayo
Chatto & Windus | Harvest
Jim Crace
Picador | The Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri
Bloomsbury | A Tale for the Time Being
Ruth Ozeki
Canongate | The Testament of Mary
Colm Tóibín
Viking |
|
| 2014 |
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
Joshua Ferris
Viking | We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler
Serpent's Tail | J
Howard Jacobson
Jonathan Cape | The Lives of Others
Neel Mukherjee
Chatto & Windus | How to be Both
Ali Smith
Hamish Hamilton |
|
| 2015 |
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
Picador | A Spool of Blue Thread
Anne Tyler
Chatto & Windus | The Year of the Runaways
Sunjeev Sahota
Picador | The Fishermen
Chigozie Obioma
ONE, Pushkin Press | Satin Island
Tom McCarthy
Jonathan Cape |
|
| 2016 |
The Sellout
Paul Beatty
Oneworld | Hot Milk
Deborah Levy
Hamish Hamilton | His Bloody Project
Graeme Macrae Burnet
Contraband | Eileen
Ottessa Moshfegh
Jonathan Cape | All That Man Is
David Szalay
Jonathan Cape | Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Madeleine Thien
Granta Books |
|
| 2017 |
Autumn
Ali Smith
Hamish Hamilton | Elmet
Fiona Mozley
JM Originals | Exit West
Mohsin Hamid
Hamish Hamilton | History of Wolves
Emily Fridlund
Weidenfeld & Nicolson | 4 3 2 1
Paul Auster
Faber & Faber |
|
| 2018 |
Washington Black
Esi Edugyan
Serpent’s Tail | Everything Under
Daisy Johnson
Jonathan Cape | The Mars Room
Rachel Kushner
Jonathan Cape | The Overstory
Richard Powers
Willian Heinemann | The Long Take
Robin Robertson
Picador |
|
| 2019 |
Ducks, Newburyport
Lucy Ellmann
Galley Beggar Press | An Orchestra of Minorities
Chigozie Obioma
Little Brown | Quichotte
Salman Rushdie
Jonathan Cape | 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
Elif Shafak
Viking |
|
| Year | Fiction |
|---|
| 2020 |
The New Wilderness
Diane Cook
Oneworld Publications | This Mournable Body
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Faber & Faber | Burnt Sugar
Avni Doshi
Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House | The Shadow King
Maaza Mengiste
Canongate Books | Real Life
Brandon Taylor
Originals, Daunt Books Publishing |
|
| 2021 |
A Passage North
Anuk Arudpragasam
Granta Books, Granta Publications | No One is Talking About This
Patricia Lockwood
Bloomsbury Circus, Bloomsbury Publishing | The Fortune Men
Nadifa Mohamed
Viking, Penguin General, PRH | Bewilderment
Richard Powers
Hutchinson Heinemann, PRH | Great Circle
Maggie Shipstead
Doubleday, Transworld Publishers, PRH |
|
| 2022 |
Oh William!
Elizabeth Strout
Random House | The Trees
Percival Everett
Graywolf Press | Treacle Walker
Alan Garner
4th Estate, HarperCollins | Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan
Grove Press | Glory
NoViolet Bulawayo
Viking |
|
| 2023 |
The Bee Sting
Paul Murray
| Study for Obedience
Sarah Bernstein
| This Other Eden
Paul Harding
| Western Lane
Chetna Maroo
| If I Survive You
Jonathan Escoffery
MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers |
|
| 2024 |
Held
Anne Michaels
| The Safekeep
Yael van der Wouden
| Stone Yard Devotional
Charlotte Wood
| James
Percival Everett
Doubleday / Penguin Random House | Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner
Scribner / Simon & Schuster |
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