2019 Winner Half the Night is Gone by Amitabha Bagchi
Shortlist The Empty Room by Sadia Abbas There’s Gunpowder in the Air by Manoranjan Byapari translated by Arunava Sinha The City and the Sea by Raj Kamal Jha 99 Nights in Logar by Jamil Jan Kochai The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay
Longlist The Runaways by Fatima Bhutto Half Gods by Akil Kumarasamy The Atlas of Reds and Blues by Devi S Laskar A Lonely Harvest by Perumal Murugan translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan Sugandhi alias Andal Devanayaki by TD Ramakrishnan translated by Priya K Nair Mother India by Tova Reich Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup Tell Her Everything by Mirza Waheed In the Time of the Others by Nadeem Zaman
2018 Winner No Presents Please by Jayant Kaikini translated by Tejaswini Niranjana
Shortlist Exit West by Mohsin Hamid Miss Laila Armed And Dangerous by Manu Joseph State of Freedom by Neel Mukherjee Harilal & Sons by Sujit Saraf Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Longlist Leila by Prayaag Akbar The Saga Of Satisar by Chandrakanta Chandrakanta translated by Ranjana Kaul Chinatown Days by Rita Chowdhury translated by Rita Chowdhury Night Of Happiness by Tabish Khair Poonachi by Perumal Murugan translated by N Kalyan Raman All The Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy Marriage Of A Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu The Book of Chocolate Saints by Jeet Thayil Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan
2016 Winner Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy
Shortlist She Will Build Him A City by Raj Kamal Jha Hang Woman by KR Meera translated by J Devika The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee Family Life by Akhil Sharma The Book of Gold Leaves by Mirza Waheed
Longlist The Girl in the Road by Monica Byrne Odysseus Abroad by Amit Chaudhuri Don’t Let Him Know by Sandip Roy A Little Dust on the Eyes by Minoli Salgado The Way Things Were by Aatish Taseer
2015 Winner The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
Shortlist The Mirror of Beauty by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi Noontide Toll by Romesh Gunesekera A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie The Scatter Here is Too Great by Bilal Tanweer
Longlist The Prisoner by Omar Shahid Hamid And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini The Gypsy Goddess by Meena Kandasamy Mad Girl’s Love Song by Rukmini Bhaya Nair Helium by Jaspreet Singh
2014 Winner Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer by Cyrus Mistry
Shortlist Book of Destruction by Anand translated by Chetana Sachidanandan The Blind Man’s Garden by Nadeem Aslam Goat Days by Benyamin Benyamin translated by Joseph Koyippalli How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera
Longlist On Sal Mal Lane by Ru Freeman Scenes from Early Life by Philip Hensher Foreign by Sonora Jha The Illicit Happiness of Other People by Manu Joseph Thinner Than Skin by Uzma Aslam Khan Cobalt Blue by Sachin Kundalkar translated by Jerry Pinto The Wildings by Nilanjana Roy The Watch by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya The Hungry Ghosts by Shyam Selvadurai
2013 Winner Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
Shortlist The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmad The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh Our Lady of Alice Bhatti by Mohammed Hanif The Walls of Delhi by Uday Prakash translated by Jason Grunebaum
Longlist Leela's Book: A Novel by Alice Albinia Between Clay and Dust by Musharraf Ali Farooqi The Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattacharya The Flying Man by Roopa Farooki Black Bread White Beer by Niven Govinden So Good in Black by Sunetra Gupta Em and the Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto The Folded Earth by Anuradha Roy The Song Seekers by Saswati Sengupta The Empty Space by Geetanjali Shree translated by Nivedita Menon
2012 Winner Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew by Shehan Karunatilaka
Shortlist Bharathipura by UR Ananthamurthy translated by Susheela Punitha A Street in Srinagar by Chandrakanta Chandrakanta translated by Manisha Chaudhry The Thing About Thugs by Tabish Khair Monkey-man by Usha KR The Story that Must Not Be Told by Kavery Nambisan
Longlist Jimmy the Terrorist by Omair Ahmad Day Scholar by Siddharth Chowdhury Witness the Night by Kishwar Desai Aftertaste by Namita Devidayal One Amazing Thing by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Serious Men by Manu Joseph The Last Kestrel by Jill McGivering The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi The Quarantine Papers by Kalpish Ratna Buddha’s Orphan by Samrat Upadhyay
2011 Winner Home Boy by HM Naqvi
Shortlist The Story of a Widow by Musharraf Ali Farooqi The Immortals by Amit Chaudhuri Atlas of Unknowns by Tania James The Immigrant by Manju Kapur A Life Apart by Neel Mukherjee
Longlist Way To Go by Upamanyu Chatterjee Arzee the Dwarf by Chandrahas Choudhury A Disobedient Girl by Ru Freeman Neti Neti by Anjum Hassan In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin The Hour Past Midnight by Salma Salma translated by Lakshmi Holmstrom The Middleman by Sankar Sankar translated by Arunava Sinha The Wish Maker by Ali Sethi Chef by Jaspreet Singh The Temple Goers by Aatish Taseer