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2021
Longlist
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
Things That Fall From The Sky by Selja Ahava translated by Emily & Fleur Jeremiah
Homeland by Fernando Aramburu translated by Alfred MacAdam
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The White Girl by Tony Birch
It Would Be Night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo translated by Elizabeth Bryer
The Cat and the City by Nick Bradley
The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
The Innocents by Michael Crummey
The Pelican:A Comedy by Martin Michael Driessen translated by Jonathan Reeder
Catacombs by Mary Anna Evans
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
The Other Name: Septology I – II by Jon Fosse translated by Damion Searls
Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh
When All Is Said by Anne Griffin
The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili translated by Charlotte Collins & Ruth Martin
Beyond Yamashita and Percival by Shaari Isa translated by Shaari Isa
Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann translated by Ross Benjamin
The Ditch by Herman Koch translated by Sam Garrett
While the Music Played by Nathaniel Lande
Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water by Antonio Lobo Antunes translated by Jeff Love
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
The Boy by Marcus Malte translated by Emma Ramadan & Tom Roberge
Aue by Becky Manawatu
Apeirogon by Colum McCann
Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor translated by Sophie Hughes
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris
Dark Mother Earth by Kristian Novak translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac
Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars by Joyce Carol Oates
Inland by Tea Obreht
Shadowplay by Joseph O'Connor
Mona in Three Acts by Griet Op de Beeck translated by Michele Hutchison
This Excellent Machine by Stephen Orr
Mary Toft; Or, The Rabbit Queen by Dexter Palmer
The Pine Islands by Marion Poschmann translated by Jen Calleja
A Chronicle of Forgetting by Sebastijan Pregelj translated by Rawley Grau
We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Beside Myself by Sasha Marianna Salzmann translated by Imogen Taylor
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
The Subtweet: A Novel by Vivek Shraya
The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel
Crossing by Pajtim Statovci translated by David Hackston
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
The Trumpet Shall Sound by Eibhear Walshe
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Reproduction by Ian Williams
The Bird King by G Willow Wilson
The Yield by Tara June Winch
2020
Winner
Milkman by Anna Burns

Shortlist
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
Disoriental by Negar Djavadi translated by Tina Kover
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
History of Violence by Edouard Louis translated by Lorin Stein
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
There There by Tommy Orange
All The Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy
Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead by Olga Tokarczuk translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Longlist
Burning Cities by Kai Aareleid translated by Adam Cullen
The Farm by Hector Abad translated by Anne McLean
Insurrecto by Gina Apostol translated by Shahnaz Habib
Waiting for Tomorrow by Nathacha Appanah translated by Geoffrey Strachan
Flames by Robbie Arnott
Transcription by Kate Atkinson
The Boat People by Sharon Bala
The Luminous Sea by Melissa Barbeau
The Only Story by Julian Barnes
Damnation by Peter Beck translated by Jamie Bulloch
Jasmine Days by Benyamin Benyamin
The Perfect Family by Shalini Boland
A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
My German Brother by Chico Buarque translated by Alison Entrekint
The Sacco Gang by Andrea Camilleri translated by Stephen Sartarelli
Little by Edward Carey
The Making Of Martin Sparrow by Peter Cochrane
Middle England by Jonathan Coe
The Eight Mountains by Paolo Cognetti translated by Simon Camell
The Woman in the Woods by John Connolly
Woman of the Ashes by Mia Couto translated by David Brookshaw
Begotten Not Made by Conal Creedon
Kudos by Rachel Cusk
Vox by Christina Dalcher translated by Adriana Hunter
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson
The Last of Our Kind by Adelaide de Clermont-Tonnerre translated by Adriana Hunter
Nameless Serenade by Maurizio de Giovanni translated by Antony Shugaar
The Trick to Time by Kit de Waal
French Exit by Patrick deWitt
The Toymakers by Robert Dinsdale
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
The Waiter by Matias Faldbakken
A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
Small Country by Gael Faye translated by Sarah Ardizzone
In/Half by Jasmin B Frelih translated by Jason Blake
Resistance by Julian Fuks translated by Daniel Hahn
Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller
Second Chinese Daughter by Shirley Fung
The Ensemble by Aja Gabel
Take Nothing With You by Patrick Gale
Peach by Emma Glass
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
An Orphan's War by Molly Green
Sight by Jessie Greengrass
Story of a Marriage by Geir Gulliksen translated by Deborah Dawkin
A Stolen Season by Rodney Hall
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
Letters to God by Norhafsah Hamid
The Great Fall by Peter Handke translated by Krishna Winston
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey
Woman at 1,000 Degrees by Hallgrimur Helgason translated by Brian Fitzgibbon
The Red Word by Sarah Henstra
Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson
Eternal Life by Dara Horn translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac & David Williams
The Beast of Kukuyo by Kevin Jared Hosein
Orchid and the Wasp by Caoilinn Hughes
Hanuman’s Travels by Andrei Ivanov translated by Matthew Hyde
Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala
The Ones With Purpose by Nozizwe Cynthia Jele
Sonka by Ignacy Karpowicz translated by Maya Zakrzewska-Pim
The Gunners by Rebecca Kauffman
The Ice Shelf by Anne Kennedy
The Hoarder by Jess Kidd
This Mortal Boy by Fiona Kidman
OK, Mr Field by Katharine Kilalea
The Plotters by Un-su Kim translated by Sora Kim-Russell
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
River by Esther Kinsky translated by Iain Galbraith
Brother in Ice by Alicia Kopf
Immigrant, Montana by Amitava Kumar
Comemadre by Roque Larraquy translated by Heather Cleary
The End of Sunset Grove by Minna Lindgren translated by Kristian London
Oneiron by Laura Lindstedt translated by Owen Witesman
Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
Self-Portrait With Boy by Rachel Lyon
Severance by Ling Ma
The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh
The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke by Tina Makereti
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Berta Isla by Javier Marias translated by Margaret Jull Costa
Ohio by Stephen Markley
Prague Spring by Simon Mawer
Bird Cottage by Eva Meijer translated by Antoinette Fawcett
Name of the Dog by Elmer Mendoza translated by Mark Fried
The Hum of the Sun by Kirsten Miller
Circe by Madeline Miller
The Arid Sky by Emiliano Monge translated by Thomas Bunstead
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami translated by Philip Gabriel & Ted Goossen
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
Skin Deep by Liz Nugent
The Gold Diggers by Sue Nyathi
An Image in a Mirror by Ijangolet S Ogwang
Hotel Silence by Audur Ava Olafsdottir translated by Brian FitzGibbon
Shell by Kristina Olsson
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
Transparent City by Ondjaki Ondjaki translated by Stephen Henighan
All This by Chance by Vincent O'Sullivan
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Travelling in a Strange Land by David Park
Woman at Sea by Catherine Poulain translated by Adriana Hunter
The Overstory by Richard Powers
The Art of White Roses by Viviana Prado-Nunez
Resin by Ane Riel translated by Charlotte Barslund
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland
The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza translated by Suzanne Jill Levine & Aviva Kana
Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Normal People by Sally Rooney
The Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi translated by Jonathan Wright
Painter To The King by Amy Sackville
Piranhas by Roberto Saviano translated by Antony Shugaar
Sophia, or The Beginning of all Tales by Rafik Schami translated by Monique Arav & John Hannon
The Language of Birds by Norbert Scheuer translated by Stephen Brown
Theory of Bastards by Audrey Schulman
The Book of M by Peng Shepherd
Lake Success by Gary Shteyngart
Oraefi: The Wasteland by Ofeigur Sigurdsson translated by Lytton Smith
Catching the Light by Susan Sinnott
Lullaby (The Perfect Nanny) by Leila Slimani translated by Sam Taylor
The Lucky Galah by Tracy Sorensen
My Father Was a Man on Land and a Whale in the Water by Michelle Steinbeck translated by Jen Calleja
Elefant by Martin Suter translated by Jamie Bulloch
Children of God by Lars Petter Sveen translated by Guy Puzey
Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup
Pobeda 1946 A Car Called Victory by Ilmar Taska translated by Christopher Moseley
Matei Brunul by Lucian Dan Teodorovici translated by Alistair Ian Blyth
Women Talking by Miriam Toews
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Fox by Dubravka Ugresic
Don’t Skip Out on Me by Willy Vlautin
The End of Loneliness by Benedict Wells
The Glass Ocean by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig & Karen White
Tell the Machine Goodnight by Katie Williams
Blue Jewellery by Katharina Winkler translated by Laura Wagner
The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton
A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better by Benjamin Wood
Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson
Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
2019
Winner
Idaho by Emily Ruskovich

Shortlist
Compass by Mathias Enard
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLaverty
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
A Boy in Winter by Rachel Seiffert
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie​

​Longlist
The New Animals by Pip Adam
Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
Beartown (The Scandal) by Fredrik Backman
Mrs. Osmond by John Banville
The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao by Martha Batalha
A Line Made By Walking by Sara Baume
The Trick by Emanuel Bergmann
The 7th Function of Language by Laurent Binet
The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes by Bridget Canning
A Long Way from Home by Peter Carey
Marlborough Man by Alan Carter
Song of the Sun God by Shankari Chandran
Dragon Springs Road by Janie Chang
Brother by David Chariandy
What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons
Terra Nullius by Claire G Coleman
The Last Beothuk by Gary Collins
Acts of Allegiance by Peter Cunningham
The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser
In the Distance by Hernán Diaz
Her by Garry Disher
Smile by Roddy Doyle
A Vineyard in Andalusia by Maria Duenas
Special Envoy by Jean Echenoz
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
American War by Omar El Akkad
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
Decline and Fall on Savage Street by Fiona Farrell
First Person by Richard Flanagan
This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel
The Invented Part by Rodrigo Fresan
Return to the Dark Valley by Santiago Gamboa
Here in Berlin by Cristina Garcia
Dreams Beyond the Shore by Tamika Gibson
There Your Heart Lies by Mary Gordon
Little Sister by Barbara Gowdy
The Road to Shenzhen by Huang Guosheng
How To Stop Time by Matt Haig
A House in Norway by Vigdis Hjorth
The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Sleeps Standing Moetu by Witi Ihimaera
Darker by EL James
The Stone Sky by NK Jemisin
Baby by Annaleese Jochems
First Snow, Last Light by Wayne Johnson
The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar
English Animals by Laura Kaye
You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann
Of Darkness by Josefine Klougart
The Leavers by Lisa Ko
The Harvest of Chronos by Mojca Kumerdej
Ferocity by Nicola Lagioia
The Choke by Sofie Laguna
A Poison Apple by Michel Laub
The Changeling by Victor LaValle
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Barrowfields by Phillip Lewis
Escape from Sunset Grove by Minna Lindgren
The End of Eddy by Edouard Louis
The History Of Bees by Maja Lunde
The Temptation to be Happy by Lorenzo Marone
All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
​The Blood Miracles by Lisa McInerney
Ithaca by Alan McMonagle
Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed
The Forensic Records Society by Magnus Mills
Like a Fading Shadow by Antonio Munoz Molina
Elmet by Fiona Mozley
The Sixteen Trees of the Somme by Lars Mytting
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Mirror, Shoulder, Signal by Dorthe Nors
A Book of American Martyrs by Joyce Carol Oates
The Dead House by Billy O'Callaghan
Mama’s Maze by Agnes Ong
Incredible Floridas by Stephen Orr
Heretics by Leonardo Padura
Uncertain Weights and Measures by Jocelyn Parr
Next Year for Sure by Zoey Leigh Peterson
Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore
No One is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts
​The Bedlam Sticks by Natasha Pulley
The Death of the Perfect Sentence by Rein Raud
Through the Lonesome Dark by Paddy Richardson
The Fish Girl by Mirandi Riwoe
White Bodies by Jane Robins
Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
To Die in Spring by Ralf Rothman
The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
Breathe by Beni Rusani
The Golden House by Salman Rushdie
The Bridge Troll Murders by Sheldon Russell
No One Can Pronounce My Name by Rakesh Satyal
Adua by Igiaba Scego
Tench by Inge Schilperoord
See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
Taboo by Kim Scott
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
Kruso by Lutz Seiler
The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
House of Spies by Daniel Silva
To the Back of Beyond by Peter Stamm
My Cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci
The Necessary Angel by CK Stead
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson & Nicole Galland
Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
Monte Carlo by Peter Terrin
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Naondel: The Red Abbey Chronicles by Maria Turtschaninoff
Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan
They Know Not What They Do by Jussi Valtonen
Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
And Fire Came Down by Emma Viskic
Radiant Terminus by Antoine Volodine
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Clear to the Horizon by Dave Warner
Girlcott by Florenz Webbe Maxwell
The Consequences by Nina Weijers
When the English Fall by David Williams
Tin Man by Sarah Winman
Lost in September by Kathleen Winter
The Resurrection of Joan Ashby by Cherise Wolas
The Impossible Fairytale by Han Yujoo
The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch
The Image Interpreter by Zoran Zivkovic
2018
Winner
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack

​Shortlist
Baba Dunja’s Last Love by Alina Bronsky
The Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera
The Unseen by Roy Jacobsen
Human Acts by Han Kang
The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
Distant Light by Antonio Moresco
Ladivine by Marie NDiaye
The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
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Longlist
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Enchanted Islands by Allison Amend
The Red Bicycle by Dave Anthony
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad
Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
The Young Bride by Alessandro Baricco
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
Seven Days in August by Brit Bildøen
The Terranauts by TC Boyle
The Museum of You by Carys Bray
All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage
The Muse by Jessie Burton
This Too Shall Pass by Milena Busquets
This Marlowe by Michelle Butler Hallett
Don’t Tell Me You’re Afraid by Giuseppe Catozzella
Moonglow by Michael Chabon
The Wish Child by Catherine Chidgey
The Girls by Emma Cline
Transit by Rachel Cusk
The Extra-Terrestrial Delivery by Sudipta Das
Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble
The Sound by Sarah Drummond
The Years That Followed by Catherine Dunne
Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers
Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue
LaRose by Louise Erdrich
After the Lie by Kerry Fisher
I Am No One by Patrick Flanery
The Island of Books by Dominique Fortier
Things To Leave Behind by Namita Gokhale
Dear Charlie by ND Gomes
The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales
What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
This House is Mine by Dörte Hansen
The Dry by Jane Harper
Like the Starlings by Diyar Harraz
Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms by Anita Heiss
Where Love Begins by Judith Hermann
War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans
The Nix by Nathan Hill
Faithful by Alice Hoffman
One by Patrick Holland
The Repenters by Kevin Jared Hosein
The Parcel by Anosh Irani
To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan
Dancing in the Rain by Lynn Joseph
Dirt Road by James Kelman
The Good People by Hannah Kent
The Other Side of Silence by Philip Kerr
All Day at the Movies by Fiona Kidman
Almost Everything Very Fast by Christopher Kloeble
One of Us is Sleeping by Josefine Klougart
Dear Mr. M by Herman Koch
Two Gentlemen on the Beach by Michael Köhlmeier
Mischling by Affinity Konar
None Like Her by Jela Krečič
The Allegations by Mark Lawson
The Party Wall by Catherine Leroux
Shtum by Jem Lester
Death in Sunset Grove by Minna Lindgren
Niagara Motel by Ashley Little
The Shelf Life of Happiness by David Machado
An Isolated Incident by Emily Maguire
The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
The River is Indigo by Suleiman Manan
Thus Bad Begins by Javier Marías
The Yearning by Mohale Mashigo
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Gone to Drift by Diana McCaulay
Nutshell by Ian McEwan
The North Water by Ian McGuire
I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows
Bricks and Mortar by Clemens Meyer
Pleasure by Nthikeng Mohlele
Flannery by Lisa Moore
Billy Bird by Emma Neale
Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain by Barney Norris
Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent
Judas by Amos Oz
Version Control by Dexter Palmer
Anatomy of a Soldier by Harry Parker
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
La Superba by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
Black Deutschland by Darryl Pinckney
The Attempt by Magdaléna Platzová
Sergio Y by Alexandre Vidal Porto
By Gaslight by Steven Price
Barkskins by E Annie Proulx
The Hill by Ivica Prtenjača
Freya by Anthony Quinn
The Bird Tribunal by Agnes Ravatn
Today I Learned It Was You by Edward Riche
The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose
The Last Half of the Year by Paul Rowe
All We Shall Know by Donal Ryan
Here I Am by Jonathon Safran Foer
Cry, Mother Spain by Lydie Salvayre
Panorama by Dušan Šarotar
The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler
Ma Belle by Maja Herman Sekulić
Scythe by Neal Shusterman
Why Did You Lie? by Yrsa Sigurdardóttir
The Black Widow by Daniel Silva
The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo
Moonstone: the boy who never was by Sjón
Vigil by Angela Slatter
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
The Conjoined by Jen Sookfong Lee
The invisible life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach
Fish Have No Feet by Jón Kalman Stefansson
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
All That Man Is by David Szalay
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
Estoril by Dejan Tiago-Stanković
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain
Reputations by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
The Man I Became by Peter Verhelst
The Latecomer by Dimitri Verhulst
The Break by Katherena Vermette
I’ll Sell You a Dog by Juan Pablo Villalobos
Living Memories by Joseph Wanshe
Miss Jane by Brad Watson
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
A Beautiful Young Wife by Tommy Wieringa
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
The Lost Time Accidents by John Wray
Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra
2017
Winner
A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa
 
Shortlist
Confessions of the Lioness by Mia Couto
The Green Road by Anne Enright
The Prophets of Eternal Fjord by Kim Leine
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
A Strangeness in my Mind by Orhan Pamuk
A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
 
Longlist
Woman of the Dead by Bernhard Aichner
The Automobile Club of Egypt by Alaa Al Aswany
Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
Dry Season by Gabriela Babnik
My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises by Fredrik Backman
The Blue Guitar by John Banville
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Inside the Black Horse by Ray Berard
The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney
Sweet Caress by William Boyd
The Harder They Come by TC Boyle
Clade by James Bradley
The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
The Weather Changed, Summer Came and So On by Pedro Carmona-Alvarez
Out in the Open by Jesus Carrasco
Forever Young by Steven Carroll
It I Fall, If I Die by Michael Christie
The Birthday Lunch by Joan Clark
Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
Coming Rain by Stephen Daisley
The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud
Ancestral Affairs by Keki N Daruwalla
The Devil You Know by Elisabeth de Mariaffi
The Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev
Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt
Hollow Heart by Viola Di Grado
The Heat by Garry Disher
Against Nature by Tomas Espedal
Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum
The Mirror World of Melody Black by Gavin Extence
Where My Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
The Pope’s Daughter by Dario Fo
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
Hope Farm by Peggy Frew
Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill
A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
Craving by Esther Gerritsen
Gliding Flight by Anne-Gine Goemans
The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov
Best Boy by Eli Gottlieb
Chappy by Patricia Grace
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The Silent Room by Mari Hannah
Delicious Foods by James Hannaham
One Minute to Midnight by Diyar Harraz
Dictator by Robert Harris
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
This Place Holds No Fear by Monika Held
The Making of Zombie Wars by Aleksandar Hemon
The Illegal by Lawrence Hill
Submission by Michel Houellebecq
Black River by SM Hulse
The Evening Chorus by Helen Humphreys
Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Star Side of Bird Hill by Naomi Jackson
Day Boy by Trent Jamieson
The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin
Where All Light Tends To Go by David Joy
The World Without Us by Mireille Juchau
Man on Fire by Stephen Kelman
The African Equation by Yasmina Khadra
The Helios Disaster by Linda Boström Knausgård
Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
Imperium by Christian Kracht
The Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera
Fortunate Slaves by Tom Lanoye
The Great Swindle by Pierre Lemaitre
Birdie by Tracey Lindberg
Bits of Heaven by Aishah Madadiy
Don’t Forget to Remember by Sonia Mael
The Offering by Grace McCleen
The Antipodeans by Greg McGee
Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
Slade House by David Mitchell
A Reunion of Ghosts by Judith Claire Mitchell
The Legend of Winstone Blackhat by Tanya Moir
The Promise Seed by Cass Moriarty
Signs for Lost Children by Sarah Moss
Till Kingdom Come by Andrej Nikolaidis
Girl at War by Sara Novic
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
The Little Red Chairs by Edna O'Brien
Miss Emily by Nuala O'Connor
The Illuminations by Andrew O'Hagan
Orhan’s Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian
When The Doves Disappeared by Sofi Oksanen
Asking for It by Louise O'Neill
The Horn of Love by Bozin Pavlovski
The Lost Child by Caryl Phillips
A Measure of Light by Beth Powning
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
Above the Waterfall by Ron Rash
You Have Me to Love by Jaap Robben
Feast of the Innocents by Evelio Rosero
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie
The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
The Kindness by Polly Samson
The Mystics of Mile End by Sigal Samuel
Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag
The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard
Yo-yo by Steinunn Sigurðardóttir
The English Spy by Daniel Silva
The Chimes by Anna Smaill
Jane Smiley by Jane Smiley
Before the Feast by Saša Stanišić
The Winter War by Philip Teir
Duke by Sara Tilley
The Last Flight of Poxl West by Daniel Torday
Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar
The Orange Grove by Larry Tremblay
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
The Jaguar’s Children by John Vaillant
Aquarium by David Vann
The Discreet Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Illogic of Kassel by Enrique Vila-Matas
Yugoslavia, My Fatherland by Goran Vojnović
The Dying Grass by William T Vollmann
Ledger of the Open Hand by Leslie Vryenhoek
My Sunshine Away by MO Walsh
Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins
These Are The Names by Tommy Wieringa
The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
Weathering by Lucy Wood
Eighty Days of Sunlight by Robert Yune
2016
Winner
Family Life by Akhil Sharma
 
Shortlist
Outlaws by Javier Cercas
Academy Street by Mary Costello
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? by Dave Eggers
The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Diary of the Fall by Michel Laub
Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Lila by Marilynne Robinson
 
Longlist
The King by Kader Abdolah
The Michelangelo Code by Nazehran Jose Ahmad
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
Song of the Shank by Jeffery Renard Allen
The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
Cairo by Louis Armand
The Incarnations by Susan Barker
The Temporary Gentleman by Sebastian Barry
A Fairy Tale by Jonas T Bengtsson
Above the East China Sea by Sarah Bird
The Strays by Emily Bitto
Life Drawing by Robin Black
Rapids by Patrick Boltshauser
Texas: The Great Theft by Carmen Boullosa
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
Ghost Moon by Ron Butlin
Bonita Avenue by Peter Buwalda
Confessions by Jaume Cabré
Gutenberg’s Apprentice by Alix Christie
Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement
Adultery by Paulo Coelho
Tales of the Metric System by Imraan Coovadia
Sweetland by Michael Crummey
The Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham
Outline by Rachel Cusk
Lost & Found by Brooke Davis
News from Berlin by Otto de Kat
Tiger Milk by Stefanie de Velasco
The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair by Joël Dicker
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Avenue of the Giants by Marc Dugain
1914 by Jean Echenoz
Kamal Jann by Dominique Eddé
On Earth As It Is In Heaven by Davide Enia
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
The Barefoot Queen by Ildefonso Falcones
I Called Him Necktie by Milena Michiko Flašar
The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
Blood-Drenched Beard by Daniel Galera
Who is Martha? by Marjana Gaponenko
The Great War by Aleksandar Gatalica
The Hilltop by Assaf Gavron
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
Live Bait by Fabio Genovesi
What Came Before by Anna George
Tree of Sorrow by Malim Ghozali PK
Little Egypt by Lesley Glaister
Thai by Goran Gocić
All Russians Love Birch Trees by Olga Grjasnowa
Falling Out of Time by David Grossman
In the Light of What we Know by Zia Haider Rahman
The Hollow Ground by Natalie S Harnett
Golden Boys by Sonya Hartnett
A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain by Adrianne Harun
The Amber Fury by Natalie Haynes
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
This Should Be Written in the Present Tense by Helle Helle
Last Bus to Coffeeville by J Paul Henderson
Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson
The Claimant by Janette Turner Hospital
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
The Scribe by Sobani Iddamalgoda
Song for an Approaching Storm by Peter Fröberg Idling
Natchez Burning by Greg Iles
The Dead Lake by Hamid Ismailov
Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta
The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
Fallout by Sadie Jones
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce
F by Daniel Kehlmann
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Euphoria by Lily King
The Back of the Turtle by Thomas King
Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch
The Eye of the Sheep by Sofie Laguna
The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami
Uncle Brother by Barbara Lalla
The Texture of Shadows by Mandla Langa
On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee
10:04 by Ben Lerner
The Golden Age by Joan London
The Undertaking by Audrey Magee
Placebo: The Beauty and Horror of Lies by Sead Mahmutefendić
Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings by Tina Makereti
Very Little Light by Vladan Matijevic
Of Things Gone Astray by Janina Matthewson
Limbo by Melania G Mazzucco
The Children Act by Ian McEwan
Cicada by Moira McKinnon
Rachel’s Blue by Zakes Mda
All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu
Us Conductors by Sean Michaels
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran
Invisible Beasts by Sharona Muir
The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
Here Come the Dogs by Omar Musa
The Luminous Heart of Jonah S. by Gina Barkhordar Nahai
Talking to Ourselves by Andrés Neuman
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Us by David Nicholls
Unravelling Oliver by Liz Nugent
The Thrill of it All by Joseph O'Connor
The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O'Neill
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
The Bees by Laline Paull
I Refuse by Per Petterson
Fives and Twenty-Fives by Michael Pitre
Orfeo by Richard Powers
The Bright Side of my Condition by Charlotte Randall
White Lama by Merab Ratishvili
See You Tomorrow by Tore Renberg
Severina by Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Last Night at the Blue Angel by Rebecca Rotert
The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss
Lock In by John Scalzi
The Giraffe’s Neck by Judith Schalansky
Nowhere People by Paulo Scott
Notes from Underground by Roger Scruton
Ten Women by Marcela Serrano
The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
The Heist by Daniel Silva
Some Luck by Jane Smiley
How to be Both by Ali Smith
I Loved You More by Tom Spanbauer
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
All Days Are Night by Peter Stamm
Who By Fire by Fred Stenson
We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas
A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar
House of Purple Cedar by Tim Tingle
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
Nora Webster by Colm Toibin
Christ’s Entry into Brussels by Dimitri Verhulst
Look Who’s Back by Timur Vermes
Completion by Tim Walker
The Diary of Mary Travers by Eibhear Walshe
The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle by Kirsty Wark
Their Lips Talk of Mischief by Alan Warner
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
Will Starling by Ian Weir
Small Blessings by Martha Woodroof
​Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique
Decompression by Juli Zeh
The Lobster Kings by Alexi Zentner
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
The Night Watchman by Richard Zimler
2015
Winner
Harvest by Jim Crace
 
Shortlist
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Horses of God by Mahi Binebine
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
K by Bernardo Kucinski
Brief Loves that Live Forever by Andrei Makine
TransAtlantic by Colum McCann
Someone by Alice McDermott
 
Longlist
Free City by João Almino
Let the Games Begin by Niccolò Ammaniti
As Flies to Whatless Boys by Robert Antoni
Kind of Kin by Rilla Askew
The Blind Man’s Garden by Nadeem Aslam
This Place by Amitabha Bagchi
The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
A Blind Goddess by James R Benn
Reply to a Letter from Helga by Bergsveinn Birgisson
Omunkashyu by Dilshan Boange
The Parrots by Filippo Bologna
The Strangers’ Gallery by Paul Bowdring
The Herbalist by Niamh Boyce
The Orenda by Joseph Boyden
We Need New Names by Noviolet Bulawayo
Mr Darwin’s Gardener by Kristina Carlson
The Silence of the Wave by Gianrico Carofiglio
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Return to Killybegs by Sorj Chalandon
Three Souls by Janie Chang
Expo 58 by Jonathan Coe
The Schooldays of Jesus by JM Coetzee
The Tuner of Silences by Mia Couto
The Only Happy Ending for a Love Story is an Accident by JP Cuenca
For Sure by France Daigle
Nothing Holds Back the Night by Delphine de Vigan
S. by Doug Dorst
The Guts by Roddy Doyle
The Circle by Dave Eggers
The Things We Never Said by Susan Elliot Wright
No One Writes Back by Jang Eun-jin
Percival Everett by Virgil Russell by Percival Everett
The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer
On The Gold Coast by Evald Flisar
The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
Back to Back by Julia Franck
On Sal Mal Lane by Ru Freeman
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
All Over Again by A-dZiko Simba Gegele
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Dark Heart of Florence by Michele Giuttari
Roman Elegy by Sabine Gruber
The Humans by Matt Haig
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
Benediction by Kent Haruf
Before I Burn by Gaute Heivoll
Cold Courage by Pekka Hiltunen
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
The Abyssinian Cache by Kurt J Jaeger
Saving Mozart by Raphaël Jerusalmy
The Dark Road by Ma Jian
Perfect by Rachel Joyce
Under Budapest by Ailsa Kay
Fever by Mary Beth Keane
The Last Days of the National Costume by Anne Kennedy
Wedding Speech by Khaliza Khalid
The Infinite Air by Fiona Kidman
At Least We Can Apologize by Lee Ki-ho
The Bones of Paris by Laurie R King
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything by Daniela Krien
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Good House by Ann Leary
Tula – The Revolt by Jeroen Leinders
Naw Much of a Talker by Pedro Lenz
Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem
Crow Blue by Adriana Lisboa
Anatomy of a Girl Gang by Ashley Little
The Bookman’s Tale by Charlie Lovett
Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko
The Disestablishment of Paradise by Phillip Mann
The Infatuations by Javier Marías
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
The Pieces We Keep by Kristina McMorris
The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
The Son by Phillip Meyer
Coal Creek by Alex Miller
In the Night of Time by Antonio Munoz Molina
Brittle Star by Rod Val Moore
The Rising of Bella Casey by Mary Morrissy
Stolen by Rebecca Muddiman
The Banner of the Passing Clouds by Anthea Nicholson
Life Form by Amelie Nothomb
Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth L Ozeki
The Story of My Purity by Francesco Pacifico
The Collector of Lost Things by Jeremy Page
The Mussolini Canal by Antonio Pennacchi
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
A Crack in the Wall by Claudia Pineiro
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
Love Letters of the Angels of Death by Jennifer Quist
The Victoria System by Éric Reinhardt
Sparta by Roxana Robinson
In Times of Fading Light by Eugen Ruge
Paris by Edward Rutherfurd
The Thing About December by Donal Ryan
Orkney by Amy Sackville
Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
The Light and the Dark by Mikhail Shishkin
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
Like It Happened Yesterday by Ravinder Singh
The Days of the Rainbow by Antonio Skarmeta
The Sorrow of Angels by Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Death of the Black-Haired Girl by Robert Stone
Voices from Chernobyl by Ingrid Storholmen
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Violent Century by Lavie Tidhar
John Solomon and the Fifth Island by Samuill Tiew
The Devil’s Workshop by Jachym Topol
Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas
Plan D by Simon Urban
Betrayal by Adriaan Van Dis
Quesadillas by Juan Pablo Villalobos
Let Him Go by Larry Watson
Eyrie by Tim Winton
Cairo by Chris Womersley
The Maid’s Version by Daniel Woodrell
The Swan Book by Alexis Wright
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
Gloria by Kerry Young
Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra
2014
Winner
The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
 
Shortlist
The Detour by Gerbrand Bakker
Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
Absolution by Patrick Flanery
A Death in the Family: My Struggle Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgard
Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye
The Light of Amsterdam by David Park
The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan
 
Longlist
The Book of Emotions by João Almino
Waiting for the Monsoon by Threes Anna
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
No One Is Here Except All Of Us by Ramona Ausubel
Swimming to Elba by Silvia Avallone
Seven Terrors by Selvedin Avdić
The Voyage by Murray Bail
The Guilty One by Lisa Ballantyne
Emmaus by Alessandro Baricco
Toby’s Room by Pat Barker
In the Kingdom of Men by Kim Barnes
Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles by Fabio Bartolomei
The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman
Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron
The Woman Who Dived into the Heart of the World by Sabina Berman
Miss Fuller by April Bernard
Kaltenburg by Marcel Beyer
HHhH by Laurent Binet
The Sandcastle Girls by Christopher Bohjalian
Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd
Lola Bensky by Lily Brett
Spilt Milk by Chico Buarque
The Literature Express by Lasha Bugadze
Léon and Louise by Alex Capus
The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Brunt Carol Rifka
Land More Kind than Home by Wiley Cash
Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
Gold by Chris Cleave
Finton Moon by Gerard Collins
The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
The House I Loved by Tatiana de Rosnay
70% Acrylic 30% Wool by Viola Di Grado
A Partial History of Lost Causes by Jennifer duBois
A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Sufficient Grace by Amy Espeseth
Eyes and Mist by Tariku Abas Etenesh
The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison
The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
A Possible Life by Sebastian Faulks
The Intentions Book by Gigi Fenster
419 by Will Ferguson
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Canada by Richard Ford
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
Follow the Spinning Sun by Thomas Gonzales
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Green
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
The Big Music by Kirsty Gunn
Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding
Axolotl Roadkill by Helene Hegemann
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
The Elephant Keepers’ Children by Peter Hoeg
May We Be Forgiven by AM Homes
In One Person by John Irving
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
The Open World by Stephanie Johnson
A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
The Illicit Happiness of Other People by Manu Joseph
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
The Vanishers by Heidi Julavits
The Murder of Halland by Pia Juul
The Cannon was Red Hot by Vladimir Kecmanović
The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally
Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver
Lost Voices by Christopher Koch
The Dinner by Herman Koch
The Headmaster’s Wager by Vincent Lam
Sea Hearts / The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan
Capital by John Lanchester
Anna From Away by DR MacDonald
People Park by Pasha Malla
Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
A Blessed Snarl by Samuel Thomas Martin
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
The German Lottery by Miha Mazzini
In the Absence of Heroes by Anthony McCarten
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
Railsea by China Miéville
Heft by Liz Moore
Home by Toni Morrison
The Hunger Angel by Herta Muller
Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera
Phantom by Jo Nesbø
Traveller of the Century by Andrés Neuman
Mudwoman by Joyce Carol Oates
Flying Leap by Ralf W Oliver
The Forrests by Emily Perkins
Em and the Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto
Persecution by Alessandro Piperno
Freeman by Leonard Pitts Jr
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
True by Riikka Pulkkinen
Standing in Another Man's Grave by Ian Rankin
The Cove by Ron Rash
Above All Things by Tanis Rideout
Ignorance by Michèle Roberts
The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan
The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling
The Watch by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
The Brothers by Asko Sahlberg
Dominion by CJ Sansom
Light Falling on Bamboo by Lawrence Scott
Umbrella by Will Self
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Honour by Elif Shafak
The Perfect Landscape by Ragna Sigurdardottir
The Fallen Angel by Daniel Silva
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
NW by Zadie Smith
This Bright River by Patrick Somerville
The Purchase by Linda Spalding
Risk by CK Stead
The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman
The Canvas by Benjamin Stein
A Matter of Life and Death or Something by Ben Stephenson
The Guard by Peter Terrin
Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
The Lower River by Paul Theroux
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
Ru by Kim Thúy
Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany
The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin
The Beginner’s Goodbye by Anne Tyler
Night Dancer by Chika Unigwe
Dirt by David Vann
The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa
Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-Matas
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
Mesmerized by Alissa Walser
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Skagboys by Irvine Welsh
Jack Holmes and his Friend by Edmund White
Care of Wooden Floors by Will Wiles
An Available Man by Hilma Wolitzer
The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood
The Rent Collector by Camron Wright
The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Method by Juli Zeh
2013
Winner
City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
 
Shortlist
The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq
Pure by Andrew Miller
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
The Tragedy of Arthur by Arthur Phillips
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
From the Mouth of the Whale by Sjón Sjón
The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am by Kjersti A Skomsvold
Caesarion by Tommy Wieringa
 
Longlist
Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga
The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen
What the Family Needed by Steven Amsterdam
Bountiful Famine by Sheg Aranmolate
Dirty Feet by Edem Awumey
Tell It To The Trees by Anita Rau Badami
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
On Canaan’s Side by Sebastian Barry
The Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattacharya
Jamrach’s Menagerie by Carol Birch
Beggar’s Feast by Randy Boyagoda
When the Killing’s Done by TC Boyle
The Absolutist by John Boyne
The Cocaine Salesman by Conny Braam
The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky
Estuary by Sam Bunny
The Dulang Washer by Paul Callan
The Potter's Field by Andrea Camilleri
Temporary Perfections by Gianrico Carofiglio
Spirit of Progress by Steven Carroll
Awakened by PC Cast & Kristen Cast
My Two Worlds by Sergio Chejfec
Wulf by Hamish Clayton
The Grief of Others by Leah Hager Cohen
Red on Red by Edward Conlon
Julia by Otto de Kat
The Book of Doubt by Tessa de Loo
Underground Time by Delphine de Vigan
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Time In Between by Maria Dueñas
Lightning by Jean Echenoz
The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
A Cupboard Full of Coats by Yvvette Edwards
Against Art by Tomas Espedal
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Assumption by Percival Everett
Waiting for Robert Capa by Susana Fortes
All That I Am by Anna Funder
Kafka’s Friend by Miro Gavran
The Dinosaur Feather by Sissel-Jo Gazan
River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman
Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville
Ed King by David Guterson
Our Lady of Alice Bhatti by Mohammed Hanif
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
Remember Ben Clayton by Stephen Harrigan
Gillespie and I by Jane Harris
Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes
Long Time, No See by Dermot Healy
Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson
Alice by Judith Hermann
Cold Eye of Heaven by Christine Dwyer Hickey
The Thread by Victoria Hislop
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
The Reinvention of Love by Helen Humphreys
The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt
Child Wonder by Roy Jacobsen
Death Comes to Pemberley by PD James
The Lightning Field by Heather Jessup
Hell is Empty by Craig Johnson
A World Elsewhere by Wayne Johnston
Five Bells by Gail Jones
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
Dagny or a Love Feast by Zurab Karumidze
Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman
The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler
11/22/63 by Stephen King
The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak
The Return by Dany Laferrière
The Dewey Decimal System by Nathan Larson
Hut of Fallen Persimmons by Adriana Lisboa
How It All Began by Penelope Lively
A Man of Parts by David Lodge
A Possible Madness by Frank Macdonald
The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai
The Larnachs by Owen Marshall
The Girl in the Blue Beret by Bobbie Ann Mason
Anatomy of a Disappearance by Hisham Matar
Twice Born by Margaret Mazzantini
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
To Be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal
Foal’s Bread by Gillian Mears
Snowdrops by AD Miller
Autumn Laing by Alex Miller
A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In by Magnus Mills
The Mark by Blazhe Minevski
Cold Light by Frank Moorhouse
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Rangatira by Paula Morris
Tyrant Memory by Horacio Castellanos Moya
Accabadora by Michela Murgia
The Town that Drowned by Riel Nason
Niko by Dimitri Nasrallah
The Second Coming by John Niven
Duke by Roslan Mohd Noor
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
Emily Alone by Stewart O'Nan
The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje
Damned by Chuck Palahniuk
The Map of Time by Félix J Palma
Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Part of the Solution by Ulrich Peltzer
The Invisible Ones by Stef Penney
The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman
Funeral for a Dog by Thomas Pletzinger
The Conductor by Sarah Quigley
Half of the Human Race by Anthony Quinn
Splithead by Julya Rabinowich
Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul by David Adams Richards
Easy to Like by Edward Riche
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
The Goat Woman of Largo Bay by Gillian Royes
Doc by Mary Doria Russell
Adam and Evelyn by Ingo Schulze
The Emperor of Lies by Steve Sem-Sandberg
Dancing Lessons by Olive Senior
13, Rue Thérèse by Elena Mauli Shapiro
Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin
Portrait of a Spy by Daniel Silva
The Iron Fence by Neluka Silva
Everybody’s Right by Paolo Sorrentino
Wish You Were Here by Graham Swift
Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique by Gonçalo M Tavares
We the Animals by Justin Torres
The Truth about Marie by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
A Good Man by Guy Vanderhaeghe
Caribou Island by David Vann
The Submission by Amy Waldman
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
double talk by Patrick Warner
Before I Go to Sleep by SJ Watson
Bed by David Whitehouse
When God was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman
My Dear I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young
Touch by Alexi Zentner
The Warsaw Anagrams by Richard Zimler
The Five Wonders of the Danube by Zoran Zivkovic
2012
Winner
Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor
 
Shortlist
Rocks in the Belly by Jon Bauer
The Matter with Morris by David Bergen
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
Landed by Tim Pears
Limassol by Yishai Sarid
The Eternal Son by Cristovao Tezza
Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin
 
Longlist
Lyrics Alley by Leila Aboulela
The Sky is Falling by Caroline Adderson
The Lessons by Naomi Alderman
Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
Sunset Park by Paul Auster
The Silence of Mohammed by Salim Bachi
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
Goree: a point of departure by Angela Barry
Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
Aphrodite’s War by Andrea Bushfield
Bandit Love by Massimo Carlotto
The Vintage and the Gleaning by Jeremy Chambers
A Different Sky by Meira Chand
Exley by Brock Clarke
The Water Theatre by Lindsay Clarke
The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim by Jonathan Coe
Mocking Jay by Suzanne Collins
The Reversal by Michael Connelly
The Passage by Justin Cronin
By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham
Point Omega by Don DeLillo
Witness the Night by Kishwar Desai
One Amazing Thing by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Room by Emma Donoghue
The Einstein Enigma by José Rodrigues dos Santos
The Pleasure Seekers by Tishani Doshi
The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore
Kaya, Belgrade and the Good American by Mirjana Durdevic
Days of Change by Chuah Guat Eng
Counterpoint by Anna Enquist
Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich
Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck
Gifted by Patrick Evans
The Book of Lost Threads by Tess Evans
The Blasphemer by Nigel Farndale
The Hut Builder by Laurence Fearnley
The Book Club by Marjolijn Februari
Juliet by Anne Fortier
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Faithful Place by Tana French
Consolation by Anna Gavalda
The Only Witness to Beauty by Miro Gavran
The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb
Chosen by Lesley Glaister
The Widower’s Tale by Julia Glass
Unfinished Desires by Gail Godwin
Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
To the End of the Land by David Grossman
The Body in the Clouds by Ashley Hay
Snakewoman of Little Egypt by Robert Hellenga
Elegies for the Broken Hearted by Christie Hodgen
Mr. Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt
My Friend Jesus Christ by Lars Husum
Daisy Chains by Kevin Ireland
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
Da Happie Laand by Alan Jamieson
World and Town by Gish Jen
We, the drowned by Carsten Jensen
Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones
Serious Men by Manu Joseph
The Eighth Day by Mitsuyo Kakuta
Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay
The Convent by Panos Karnezis
Swell by Ioanna Karystiani
Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay
Fame by Daniel Kehlmann
Under the Poppy by Kathe Koja
Great House by Nicole Krauss
The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee
A Watermelon, a Fish and a Bible by Christy Lefteri
The Long Song by Andrea Levy
Lost by Alice Lichtenstein
Harbour by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Train to Budapest by Dacia Maraini
Beatrice & Virgil by Yann Martel
Dog-Heart by Diana McCaulay
The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
When Colts Ran by Roger McDonald
Solar by Ian McEwan
Kraken: an anatomy by China Miéville
The Last Warner Woman by Kei Miller
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
The Book of Heroes by Miyabe Miyuki
The Extinction Club by Jeffrey Moore
The Last Weekend by Blake Morrison
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
The Gendarme by Mark T Mustian
The Snowman by Jo Nesbø
Settler’s Creek by Carl Nixon
21 Immortals by Roslan Mohd Noor
The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell
The News Where You Are by Catherine O'Flynn
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
Purge by Sofi Oksanen
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
The Piano Cemetery by José Luis Peixoto
I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson
The Sea Captain’s Wife by Beth Powning
Model Home by Eric Puchner
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi
The Lament of the Dhobi Woman by Karen Roberts
The Still Point by Amy Sackville
Heartstone by CJ Sansom
The Three Weissmans of Westport by Cathleen Schine
The Weekend by Bernhard Schlink
That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott
Chilli, Chicks & Heart Attacks by Sanjaya Senanayake
The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
Inheritance by Nicholas Shakespeare
Happy Now? by Katherine Shonk
So Much for That by Lionel Shriver
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
The Rembrandt Affair by Daniel Silva
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Birdbrain by Johanna Sinisalo
Dry Season by Dan Smith
Constantine’s Crossing by Dejan Stojiljkovic
Curiosity by Joan Thomas
The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall
Goodnight Father by Chike Uzoma
Bride Flight by Marieke Van Der Pol
The Secret History of Costaguana by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
The Russian Window by Dragan Velikic
Cool Water by Dianne Warren
Weeping Underwater Looks a Lot Like Laughter by Michael J White
In the Same Boat by Channa Wickremesekera
Luke and Jon by Robert Williams
A Death in Panama by Ronald I Williams
Their Faces Were Shining by Tim Wilson
Annabel by Kathleen Winter
Bereft by Chris Womersley
The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra
The Sandbox by David Zimmerman
2011
Winner
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
 
Shortlist
Galore by Michael Crummey
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
Ransom by David Malouf
Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates
Inner-City Girl by Colleen Smith-Dennis
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Love and Summer by William Trevor
After the Fire, a Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld
 
Longlist
The House in Via Manno by Milena Agus
As God Commands by Niccolò Ammaniti
The Danger Game by Kalinda Ashton
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
Invisible by Paul Auster
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Hamam Balkania by Vladislav Bajac
The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker
The Ninth by Ferenc Barnás
Kings of the Water by Mark Behr
Infinity in the Palm of her Hand by Gioconda Belli
Above All, Don’t Look Back by Maissa Bey
The Library of Shadows by Mikkel Birkegaard
Rebecca, Born in the Maelstrom by Marie-Claire Blais
Breaking Lorca by Giles Blunt
Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd
The Women by TC Boyle
Strangers by Anita Brookner
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
No Place Strange by Diana Fitzgerald Bryden
The Children’s Book by AS Byatt
Poisonville by Massimo Carlotto
The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
Hyperdream by Hélène Cixous
Brodeck’s Report by Philippe Claudel
Red Bones by Ann Cleeves
Summertime by JM Coetzee
Everything Matters! by Ron Currie Jr.
Grand Junction by Maurice G Dantec
Solo by Rana Dasgupta
Spooner by Pete Dexter
Homer and Langley by EL Doctorow
A Day and a Night and a Day by Glen Duncan
Running by Jean Echenoz
The Disappeared by Kim Echlin
The Wild Things by Dave Eggers
The Family Tree by Ilsa Evans
The Way Things Look to Me by Roopa Farooki
Limestone by Fiona Farrell
A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks
Mother’s Day by Laurence Fearnley
The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
The Blind Side of the Heart by Julia Franck
The Whole Day Through by Patrick Gale
Alone in the Crowd by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam
Access Road by Maurice Gee
The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
Sunnyside by Glen David Gold
Half World by Hiromi Goto
Come, Thou Tortoise by Jessica Grant
The Weather Fifteen Years Ago by Wolf Haas
Valley of Grace by Marion Halligan
Tinkers by Paul Harding
The Double Crown by Marié Heese
The Turtle Catcher by Nicole Helget
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
Blame by Michelle Huneven
The Moon in the Water by Ameena Hussein
This is How by MJ Hyland
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
Leaving Tangier by Tahar Ben Jelloun
The Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles
The Age of Orphans by Laleh Khadivi
Sifu: An Unusual Teacher in the Turbulence of the Malayan War by Khoo Kheng-Hor
Magpie Hall by Rachael King
Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella
Farewell: A Mansion in Occupied Istanbul by Ayse Kulin
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
The Game of Opposites by Norman Lebrecht
A Minute’s Silence by Siegfried Lenz
Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
Border Songs by Jim Lynch
The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon
Broken Glass by Alain Mabanckou
The Bishop’s Man by Linden MacIntyre
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Your Face Tomorrow by Javier Marías
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
All the Colours of the Town by Liam McIlvanney
Black Diamond by Zakes Mda
Lost World by Patricia Melo
American Rust by Phillip Meyer
A Man Who is Not a Man by Thando Mgqolozana
The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
The City & the City by China Miéville
Lovesong by Alex Miller
Manituana by Wu Ming
Under This Unbroken Sky by Shandi Mitchell
February by Lisa Moore
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
All the Living by CE Morgan
In a Dark Wood by Marcel Moring
The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse
John the Revelator by Peter Murphy
Home Boy by HM Naqvi
One Day by David Nicholls
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Anna In-Between by Elizabeth Nunez
Adulterers by Vida Ognjenovic
The China Garden by Kristina Olsson
Rhyming Life and Death by Amos Oz
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
Little Ice Cream Boy by Jacques Pauw
They All Ate Sushi by Eva Petric
In the Falling Snow by Caryl Phillips
Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
Thursday Night Widows by Claudia Pineiro
The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger
The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn
Galileo’s Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson
Red April by Santiago Roncagliolo
The Devil’s Music by Jane Rusbridge
Joseph’s Box by Suhayl Saadi
Without Saying Goodbye by Maryam Sachs
The Shape of Him by Gill Schierhout
Beauty by Raphael Selbourne
Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
A Monster’s Notes by Laurie Sheck
The Defector by Daniel Silva
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
Sunset Oasis by Bahaa Taher
Giv: The Story of a Dog and America by Boston Teran
Running Away by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Waiting for Columbus by Thomas Trofimuk
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugresic
On Black Sisters’ Street by Chika Unigwe
Lake Como by Srdjan Valjarevic
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Close-Up by Esther Verhoef
Madame Verona Comes Down the Hill by Dimitri Verhulst
Deaf Heaven by Pinki Virani
Season of Ash by Jorge Volpi
In the United States of Africa by Abdourahman Waberi
A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert
Half- Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
The German Wedding by Pieter Waterdrinker
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
Joe Speedboat by Tommy Wieringa
Theravada Man by Manuka Wijesinghe
Somebody Loves Us All by Damien Wilkins
As the Earth Turns Silver by Alison Wong
The Leisure Seeker by Michael Zadoorian
The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
2010
Winner
The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker
 
Shortlist
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
In Zodiac Light by Robert Edric
Settlement by Christoph Hein
The Believers by Zöe Heller
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
God's Own Country by Ross Raisin
Home by Marilynne Robinson
 
Longlist
A Girl Made of Dust by Nathalie Abi-Ezzi
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Machine by Peter Adolphsen
My Father’s Wives by José Eduardo Agualusa
Chicago by Alaa Al Aswany
The Hakawati/Storyteller by Rabih Alameddine
The Story of a Widow by Musharraf Ali Farooqi
The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam
When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
The Only Son by Stéphane Audeguy
Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
Exit Lines by Joan Barfoot
A Country Called Home by Kim Barnes
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
The Black Tower by Louis Bayard
City of Thieves by David Benioff
Beautiful Children by Charles Bock
Blood Trail by CJ Box
Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
The Angel Maker by Stefan Brijs
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Black Flies by Shannon Burke
The China Lover by Ian Buruma
The Paper Moon by Andrea Camilleri
America, America by Ethan Canin
Valfierno: the man who stole the Mona Lisa by Martin Caparrós
His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
The Island of Eternal Love by Daína Chaviano
The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
Cosmos Incorporated by Maurice G Dantec
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
God of Speed by Luke Davies
The 10pm Question by Kate de Goldi
The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Codex 632: The Secret Identity of Christopher Columbus by José Rodrigues dos Santos
The White King by Gyorgy Dragoman
Frida’s Bed by Slavenka Drakulic
The Voyage of the Short Serpent by Bernard du Boucheron
Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott
So Brave, Young and Handsome by Leif Enger
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo
The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
Strange Music by Laura Fish
Wanting by Richard Flanagan
The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford
There are Ants in my Sugar by Annica Foxcroft
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
Blackout by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
The Spare Room by Helen Garner
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
Learning to Fly by Shehani Gomes
The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
The Jewish Messiah by Arnon Grunberg
The Prince by Manu Gunasena
Cockroach by Rawi Hage
Blackstrap Hawco: said to be about a Newfoundland family by Kenneth J Harvey
Ashes of the Amazon by Milton Hatoum
This Part of the World by Samuel Hazo
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
People of the Whale by Linda Hogan
Show Me The Sky by Nicholas Hogg
The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
The Sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt
Arctic Chill by Arnaldur Indriðason
Gems in the Cracks by Rowley Jeffrey
Beijing Coma by Ma Jian
Swimmers’ Rope by Stephanie Johnson
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Waltenberg by Hedi Kaddour
The Red Coat by Emmanuel Kariuki
Kieron Smith, Boy by James Kelman
A Time To Every Purpose Under Heaven by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Salvage by Jane F Kotapish
World Made By Hand by James Howard Kunstler
Something To Tell You by Hanif Kureishi
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
Murisa by Feri Lainscek
Little Monsters by Charles Lambert
Red Dog, Red Dog by Patrick Lane
The Lost Colours of the Chameleon by Mandla Langa
Lavinia by Ursula K Le Guin
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam by Lauren Liebenberg
Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
Molly Fox's Birthday by Deirdre Madden
Human Love by Andrei Makine
The End of the Jews by Adam Mansbach
Pilcrow by Adam Mars-Jones
The Lighted Rooms by Richard Mason
We Are Now Beginning Our Descent by James Meek
The Same Earth by Kei Miller
After River by Donna Milner
Sashenka by Simon Montefiore
The Language of Others by Clare Morrall
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Diablerie by Walter Mosley
1940 by Jay Neugeboren
The Legend of Redenta Tiria by Salvatore Niffoi
Blossoms of the Savannah by HR Ole Kulet
Sonata for Miriam by Linda Olsson
Songs for the Missing by Stewart O'Nan
The Truth Commissioner by David Park
Novel About My Wife by Emily Perkins
City of Refuge by Tom Piazza
Lush Life by Richard Price
The Garland of Fate by Ruana Rajepakse
Serena by Ron Rash
Cost by Roxana Robinson
Hotel Crystal by Olivier Rolin
Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong
The Armies by Evelio Rosero
Indignation by Philip Roth
An Atlas of Impossible Longing by Anuradha Roy
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
Death With Interuptions by José Saramago
New Lives: The youth of Enrico Turmer in letter and prose by Ingo Schulze
Falling by Anne Simpson
Chef by Jaspreet Singh
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
Rainforest Tears; A Borneo Story by Paul Leslie Smith
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišić
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The Great Karoo by Fred Stenson
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Reading by Lightning by Joan Thomas
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
The Collector of Worlds by Iliya Troyanov
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
A Blessed Child by Linn Ullmann
A Tuesday Like Today by Cecilia Urbina
The Reunion by Simone Van Der Vlugt
This Night's Foul Work by Fred Vargas
The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Beyond Suspicion by Tanguy Viel
Fanon by John Edgar Wideman
Breath by Tim Winton
Piano Angel by Esther Woolfson
The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Sea of Many Returns by Arnold Zable
Escher’s Loops by Zoran Zivkovic
2009
Winner
Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas
 
Shortlist
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Ravel by Jean Echenoz
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
The Archivist’s Story by Travis Holland
The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles by Roy Jacobsen
The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
Animal’s People by Indra Sinha
 
Longlist
The Lost Diary of Don Juan by Douglas Carlton Abrams
Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
The Outlander by Gil Adamson
Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcón
Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea
Skylark Farm by Antonia Arslan
Harpsong by Rilla Askew
The Theory of Clouds by Stéphane Audeguy
Burma Boy by Biyi Bandele
Life Class by Pat Barker
Ishq and Mushq by Priya Basil
Matters of Honor by Louis Begley
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski
Away by Amy Bloom
The Devil’s Footprints by John Burnside
Tales from the Town of Widows by James Cañón
The Past is a Foreign Country by Gianrico Carofiglio
The Time We Have Taken by Steven Carroll
The Pirate’s Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Soucouyant by David Chariandy
Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier
The Model by Lars Saabye Christensen
The Rain Before it Falls by Jonathan Coe
Diary of a Bad Year by JM Coetzee
The Trout Opera by Matthew Condon
The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland
The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
Falling Man by Don DeLillo
The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
Love and the Platypus by Nicholas Drayson
Vie Francaise by Jean-Paul Dubois
Garcia’s Heart by Liam Durcan
The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander
The Gathering by Anne Enright
The Book of Words by Jenny Erpenbeck
A Good and Happy Child by Justin Evans
Knots by Nuruddin Farah
Mr. Allbones’ Ferrets by Fiona Farrell
Engleby by Sebastian Faulks
Edwin + Mathilda by Laurence Fearnley
Spanish Fly by Will Ferguson
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
World Without End by Ken Follett
Reading the Ceiling by Dayo Forster
Love Falls by Esther Freud
Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale
A Handbook to Luck by Cristina Garcia
Measuring Time by Helon Habila
Uprising by Margaret Petterson Haddix
The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall
The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton
Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay
The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
The Quiet Girl by Peter Høeg
Slam by Nick Hornby
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Castorp by Pawel Huelle
The Good Father by Marion Husband
Remembering the Bones by Frances Itani
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
The Birthday Party by Panos Karnezis
Be Mine by Laura Kasischke
The Widow and her Hero by Thomas Keneally
Day by AL Kennedy
The Hangman's Game by Karen King-Aribisala
Love Life by Ray Kluun
The Memory Room by Christopher Koch
The Butterfly Month by Ariella Kornmehl
The Mire by Krassin Krastev
The President’s Last Love by Andrey Kurkov
The Cleft by Doris Lessing
Consequences by Penelope Lively
Where White Horses Gallop by Beatrice MacNeil
Quarter Tones by Susan Mann
Drybread by Owen Marshall
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo
After Tears by Niq Mhlongo
Landscape of Farewell by Alex Miller
Feelings; expiry date by Yordanka Mineva
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
Rocking Horse Road by Carl Nixon
The Dinner Club by Saskia Noort
Lost Paradise by Cees Nooteboom
The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
Redemption Falls by Joseph O'Connor
What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn
Gregorius by Bengt Ohlsson
Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
The Opposite House by Helen Oyeyemi
Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
Rough Justice by Ralph Palmer
Run by Ann Patchett
The Past by Alan Pauls
The Painter of Battles by Arturo Pe‚rez-Reverte
The Worst Intentions by Alessandro Piperno
Doghead by Morten Ramsland
Exit Music by Ian Rankin
Delirium by Laura Restrepo
Gold by Dan Rhodes
The Lost Highway by David Adams Richards
Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
Other Country by Stephen Scourfield
Secrets of the Sea by Nicholas Shakespeare
Jamestown by Matthew Sharpe
Custer’s Brother’s Horse by Edwin Shrake
Holy Hill by Angelina Sithebe
The Visible World by Mark Slouka
Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
By George by Wesley Stace
Ghostwalk by Rebecca Stott
Tomorrow by Graham Swift
Between Each Breath by Adam Thorpe
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
Escape by Heleen Van Royen
The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa
Omega Minor by Paul Verhaeghen
Dante’s Ballad by Eduardo González Viaña
Where Three Roads Meet by Salley Vickers
Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland
The Milk Chicken Bomb by Andrew Wedderburn
Lucky Bastard by Peter Wells
A Curious Intimacy by Jessica White
The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins
The Architects are Here by Michael Winter
The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
The Seamstress by Geraldine Wooller
​October by Richard B Wright
Effigy by Alissa York
The Succubus by Vlado Zabot
The Seventh Gate by Richard Zimler
2008
Winner
De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage
 
Shortlist
The Speed of Light by Javier Cercas
The Sweet and Simple Kind by Yasmine Gooneratne
Dreams of Speaking by Gail Jones
Let it be Morning by Sayed Kashua
The Attack by Yasmina Khadra
The Woman Who Waited by Andrei Makine
Winterwood by Patrick McCabe
 
Longlist
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa
Disobedience by Naomi Alderman
Foreign Words by Vassilis Alexakis
Alentejo Blue by Monica Ali
Inés of my Soul by Isabel Allende
House of Meetings by Martin Amis
Cellophane by Marie Arana
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood
Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster
Can you Hear the Nightbird Call? by Anita Rau Badami
The Judas Field by Howard Bahr
An Iliad by Alessandro Baricco
Brookland by Emily Barton
The Law of Dreams by Peter Behrens
Margherita Dolce Vita by Stefano Benni
The Lieutenant’s Lover by Harry Bingham
The Nubian Prince by Juan Bonilla
Restless by William Boyd
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
The Wedding Officer by Anthony Capella
Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey
Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
Winkie by Clifford Chase
Weight Loss by Upamanyu Chatterjee
Unconfessed by Yvette Christianse
Promise Me by Harlan Coben
The Fearsome Particles by Trevor Cole
The Secret Life of E. Robert Pendleton by Michael Collins
The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox
The Famished Lover by Alan Cumyn
Journey in Blue by Stig Dalager
The Thin Place by Kathryn Davis
The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
The Keep by Jennifer Egan
What Is the What by Dave Eggers
The Book about Blanche and Marie by Per Olov Enquist
Malinche by Laura Esquivel
The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
Ancestor Stones by Aminatta Forna
My Name is Bosnia by Madeleine Gagnon
The Syringa Tree by Pamela Gien
Golden Country by Jennifer Gilmore
Saving Caravaggio by Neil Griffiths
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Just Like Tomorrow by Faïza Guène
Touched by Love by Soecy Gummels
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
Little Face by Sophie Hannah
Imperium by Robert Harris
Inside by Kenneth J Harvey
Philosophy Made Simple by Robert Hellenga
This man and me by Alison Jameson
The Last Friend by Tahar Ben Jelloun
The Priest of Evil by Matti Joensuu
Unburnable by Marie-Elena John
The Native Commissioner by Shaun Johnson
John Tomb’s Head by Stephanie Johnson
Alonso and the Drug Baron by Evan Jones
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
The Exception by Christian Jungersen
American Cookery by Laura Kalpakian
Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
Tenderwire by Claire Kilroy
Timothy, or, notes of an Abject Reptile by Verlyn Klinkenborg
My Best Friend’s Girl by Dorothy Koomson
The Librarians of Alexandra by Alessandra Lavagnino
The Travel Writer by Simone Lazaroo
The Inhabited World by David Long
Madame Zee by Pearl Luke
Jouvert by Joy Mahabir
Londonstani by Gautam Malkani
In The Country of Men by Hisham Matar
Zoli by Colum McCann
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
After This by Alice McDermott
Underground by Andrew McGahan
So Many Ways to Begin by Jon McGregor
The Good Life by Jay McInerney
The Birth House by Ami McKay
Vienna by Eva Menasse
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Natural Flights of the Human Mind by Clare Morrall
The Last Town On Earth by Thomas Mullen
The Rug Merchant by Meg Mullins
The Perfect Man by Naeem Murr
The Story of You by Julie Myerson
Own Death by Peter Nadas
The Life of Hunger by Amelie Nothomb
Tuvalu by Andrew O'Connor
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill
Cleaver by Tim Parks
The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
Coalescing with Omega by Rita Perera
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
The Friends of Meager Fortune by David Adams Richards
Careless by Deborah Robertson
The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson
Everyman by Philip Roth
The King’s Last Song by Geoff Ryman
The Stone Angel by Katherine Scholes
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Davey Darling by Paul Shannon
Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
The Silent Sin by Anja Sicking
The Pure Land by Alan Spence
My Name Was Judas by CK Stead
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
Terrorist by John Updike
Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk
Wizard of the Crow by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
The Worms Can Carry Me To Heaven by Alan Warner
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Triangle by Katharine Weber
Apex Hides The Hurt by Colson Whitehead
The Fainter by Damien Wilkins
Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
The Uninvited by Geling Yan
She And The Three Men by Nadezhda Zaharieva
2007
Winner
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
 
Shortlist
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
Slow Man by JM Coetzee
The Short Day Dying by Peter Hobbs
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathon Safran Foer
 
Longlist
Minaret by Leila Aboulela
A Sultan in Palermo by Tariq Ali
Zorro by Isabel Allende
Queen Cocaine by Nuria Amat
Brecht’s Lover by Jacques-Pierre Amette
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw
The Ten Incarnations of Adam Avatar by Kevin Baldeosingh
The Waiting Time by Sara Banerji
The Sea by John Banville
The Time in Between by David Bergen
Children of the Day by Sandra Birdsell
A Cause Untrue by David Blacker
Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
Praying Mantis by André Brink
March by Geraldine Brooks
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
Involuntary Witness by Gianrico Carofiglio
The Saint of Lost Things by Christopher Castellani
The Garden Book by Brian Castro
It’s All Right Now by Charles Chadwick
An Audience of Chairs by Joan Clark
George and Rue by George Elliott Clarke
Grey Souls by Philippe Claudel
The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly
Pocketful of Names by Joe Coomer
The Fossil Pits by Tim Corballis
White Thorn by Bryce Courtenay
Lord Byron’s Novel by John Crowley
The Wreckage by Michael Crummey
Let It Rain Coffee by Angie Cruz
Drums of My Flesh by Cyril Dabydeen
The Kreutzer Sonata by Margriet De Moor
An Outline of the Republic by Siddhartha Deb
Twins by Marcy Dermansky
The March by EL Doctorow
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich
26a by Diana Evans
The Geographer’s Library by Jon Fasman
Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks
The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
In the Shadow of the Tamarind Tree by Matthew S Friedman
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
Friendly Fire by Patrick Gale
A Window in Copacabana by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
Pontius Pilate by Miro Gavran
Blindsight by Maurice Gee
Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb
A Perfect Night to go to China by David Gilmour
The Middle Sister by Bonnie J Glover
Get a Life by Nadine Gordimer
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin
Circle of Love by Soecy Gummels
Desertion by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Extinction by Ray Hammond
Surrender by Sonya Hartnett
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
The Almond Picker by Simonetta Agnello Hornby
The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq
Mercedes-Benz by Pawel Huelle
Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indriðason
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
All For Love by Dan Jacobson
In Lucia’s Eyes by Arthur Japin
The Successor by Ismael Kadare
Empire Rising by Thomas Kelly
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
The Captive Wife by Fiona Kidman
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
1972: A Novel of Ireland’s Unfinished Revolution by Morgan Llywelyn
Truth and Consequences by Alison Lurie
A Forest For Calum by Frank MacDonald
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez
The Bright Forever by Lee Martin
Snow White and Russian Red by Dorota Maslowska
Vita by Melania G Mazzucco
The Ballad of Desmond Kale by Roger McDonald
Saturday by Ian McEwan
Odalisque by Fiona McIntosh
The Whale Caller by Zakes Mda
The Cigar Roller by Pablo Medina
The People’s Act of Love by James Meek
Lost in the Forest by Sue Miller
Aligator by Lisa Moore
He Drown She in the Sea by Shani Mootoo
Hibiscus Coast by Paula Morris
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Freshwater Road by Denise Nicholas
The Quick Sands by Jude Njoku
The Nightingale Papers by David Nokes
Missing Mom by Joyce Carol Oates
Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs by Linda Olsson
The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi
The Girl from the Chartreuse by Pierre Péju
Dancing in the Dark by Caryl Phillips
Cold Skin by Albert Sánchez Pinol
Sky Bridge by Laura Pritchett
The Spruiker’s Tale by Catherine Rey
The Butterfly Man by Heather Rose
The Marsh Birds by Eva Sallis
Any Wednesday I’m Yours by Mayra Santos-Febres
Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie
An Iraqi in Paris by Samuel Shimon
The Method Actors by Carl Shuker
The Accidental by Ali Smith
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Trance by Christopher Sorrentino
Father Michael’s Lottery by Johan Steyn
Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan
The Republic of Trees by Sam Taylor
Cry of the Oppressed by Ndikaru Wa Teresia
Echoes of Pain by Ravi Thapaliya
Shadow Child by PF Thomése
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living by Carrie Tiffany
Affection by Ian Townsend
Moving Parts by Magdalena Tulli
The Hummingbird’s Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
Europe Central by William T Vollmann
Lang by Kjell Westö
A Jealous Ghost by AN Wilson
The Search for Sana by Richard Zimler
Hidden Camera by Zoran Zivkovic
2006
Winner
The Master by Colm Toibin

Shortlist
Graceland by Chris Abani
Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam
Havoc, in its Third Year by Ronan Bennett
The Closed Circle by Jonathan Coe
An Altered Light by Jens Christian Grondahl
The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra
Breaking the Tongue by Vyvyane Loh
Don’t Move by Margaret Mazzantini
The Logogryph by Thomas Wharton

Longlist
The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd
Buenas Noches Buenos Aires by Gilbert Adair
PS, I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany
Kingdom of the Golden Dragon by Isabel Allende
The Search by Premini Amerasinghe
Oceans of Time by Merete Morken Andersen
The Famished Waterfall by Jean Arasanayagam
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
There is Room for You by Charlotte Bacon
Windows on the World by Frederic Beigbeder
Cape Grimm by Carmel Bird
Before I Forget by Andre Brink
Budapest by Chico Buarque
The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell
All That Matters by Wayson Choy
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Norman Bray in the Performance of his Life by Trevor Cole
The Last Flight of the Flamingo by Mia Couto
Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres
Becoming Strangers by Louise Dean
Ireland by Frank Delaney
About Grace by Anthony Doerr
Oh, Play That Thing by Roddy Doyle
The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
Piano by Jean Echenoz
Nordkraft by Jakob Ejersbo
Shock Waves Across the Ocean by Bananuka Jocelyn Ekochu
Happy Baby by Stephen Elliott
The Persistence of Memory by Tony Eprile
Celestial Harmonies by Peter Esterhazy
Young Turk by Moris Farhi
Book Book by Fiona Farrell
Away From You by Melanie Finn
Whiteout by Ken Follett
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
Tu by Patricia Grace
The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer
In Another Light by Andrew Greig
Village of Stone by Xiaolu Guo
In Remembrance of Her by Denise Harris
True North by Jim Harrison
The Sundial by Maarten ‘t Hart
Eventide by Kent Haruf
Flesh and Blood by John Harvey
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Bedlam by Greg Hollingshead
The Stowaway by Robert Hough
Down to the Dirt by Joel Hynes
Tapestry by Sobani Iddamalgoda
Jar City by Arnaldur Indridason
The Story of My Baldness by Marek van der Jagt
Hidden by Paul Jaskunas
My Nine Lives by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
War Trash by Ha Jin
Music From a Distant Room by Stephanie Johnson
The Broken Book by Susan Johnson
Sixty Lights by Gail Jones
An Unfinished Season by Ward Just
Ordinary Wolves by Seth Kantner
The Maze by Panos Karnezis
The Houses of Alphonso by Anthony Kellman
You Have to be Careful in the Land of the Free by James Kelman
Paradise by AL Kennedy
Taikor by Khoo Kheng-Hor
A Private Man by Malcolm Knox
Transmission by Hari Kunzru
Aloft by Chang-rae Lee
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Hash by Torny Lindgren
Ghost Story by Toby Litt
The Philosopher’s Doll by Amanda Lohrey
Day After Day by Carlo Lucarelli
Touching Earth by Rani Manicka
One Tongue Singing by Susan Mann
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith
The White Earth by Andrew McGahan
Black Waltz by Patricia Melo
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley
Magic Seeds by VS Naipaul
The Book of Proper Names by Amelie Nothomb
The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates
The Bear Boy (Heir to the Glimmering World) by Cynthia Ozick
100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed by Melissa P
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
The Queen of the South by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Little Children by Tom Perrotta
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Skin of the Sky by Elena Poniatowska
The Hatbox Letters by Beth Powning
In the Shadow of the Ark by Anne Provoost
Something Borrowed by Tina Reilly
The Ballad of the Low Lifes by Enrico Remmert
Thirteen Steps Down by Ruth Rendell
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
The Voyage Home by Jane Rogers
Brazil Red by Jean-Christophe Rufin
Air by Geoff Ryman
Psychoraag by Suhayl Saadi
Night Calypso by Lawrence Scott
Snowleg by Nicholas Shakespeare
The Last Song of Dusk by Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
Islands by Dan Sleigh
Muriella Pent by Russell Smith
The Finishing School by Muriel Spark
An Unfinished Life by Mark Spragg
Mansfield by CK Stead
A Castle in Romagna by Igor stiks
A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
Making Love by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck
The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler
Now is the Time to Open Your Heart by Alice Walker
The Bastard Boy by James Wilson
The Big Why by Michael Winter
Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson
I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
Adultery by Richard B Wright
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
2005
Winner
The Known World by Edward P Jones
 
Shortlist
Gardening at Night by Diane Awerbuck
The Half Brother by Lars Saabye Christensen
The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut
Elle by Douglas Glover
Phantom Pain by Arnon Grunberg
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
Willenbrock by Christoph Hein
Deafening by Frances Itani
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
 
Longlist
Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber
The Clerkenwell Tales by Peter Ackroyd
The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
The Marriage of the Sea by Jane Alison
Yellow Dog by Martin Amis
I'm Not Scared by Niccolò Ammaniti
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Oracle Night by Paul Auster
A Box of Matches by Nicholson Baker
Shipwreck by Louis Begley
Best Friends by Thomas Berger
The Delicate Storm by Giles Blunt
Drop City by TC Boyle
The Rules of Engagement by Anita Brookner
Legally Blonde by Amanda Brown
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Last Car to Elysian Fields by James Lee Burke
A Memory of War by Frederick Busch
Alva and Irva by Edward Carey
My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey
Shanghai Dancing by Brian Castro
Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas
The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
Persuader by Lee Child
Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho
Elizabeth Costello by JM Coetzee
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Gil Courtemanche
Moon’s Crossing by Barbara Croft
The Lucky Ones by Rachel Cusk
The Mindless Ferocity of Sharks by Brett D’Arcy
Faceless by Amma Darko
The Taxi Driver’s Daughter by Julia Darling
The Hamilton Case by Michelle de Kretser
The Road From Elephant Pass by Nihal de Silva
Buddha Da by Anne Donovan
Schopenhauer’s Telescope by Gerard Donovan
Mourning Ruby by Helen Dunmore
The Voices by Susan Elderkin
The Ice Carriers by Anna Enquist
The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
The Swinging Bridge by Ramabai Espinet
Thomas Gage by James Fleming
Secret Smile by Nicci French
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
An Evening at the Club by Christian Gailly
A Sweet Obscurity by Patrick Gale
John the Baptist by Miro Gavran
The Scornful Moon by Maurice Gee
Three Dog Night by Peter Goldsworthy
The Seduction of Water by Carol Goodman
Crabwalk by Günter Grass
The King of Torts by John Grisham
Virginia by Jens Christian Grøndahl
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Holy Fools by Joanne Harris
Pompeii by Robert Harris
Notes on a Scandal by Zöe Heller
Distance by Jack Hodgins
The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson
Due Preparations for the Plague by Janette Turner Hospital
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
An Adoration by Nancy Huston
What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
Sky Dancer by Witi Ihimaera
Confessions of a Gambler by Rayda Jacobs
Peyton Amberg by Tama Janowitz
People Like Ourselves by Pamela Jooste
My Little Boat by Mariam Karim-Ahlawat
The Fifth Book of Peace by Maxine Hong Kingston
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
The King is Dead by Jim Lewis
The Coffee Trader by David Liss
Too Beautiful to Die by Glenville Lovell
The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald
The Broken Cedar by Martin Malone
Between Lives by KS Maniam
The Return of the Dancing Master by Henning Mankell
Property by Valerie Martin
Dancer by Colum McCann
Who Sleeps with Katz by Todd McEwen
Heart of the Hunter by Deon Meyer
Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall
My Fellow Skin by Erwin Mortier
Siegfried by Harry Mulisch
The Miracle Merchant by Wahome Mutahi
Something Might Happen by Julie Myerson
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Walking Into the Night by Olaf Olafsson
Presumption of Death by Perri O'Shaughnessy
Judge Savage by Tim Parks
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
White Lies by Dexter Petley
In the Wake by Per Petterson
A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips
Benjamin, My Son by Geoffrey Philp
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
Recessional for Grace by Marguerite Poland
The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers
Samaritan by Richard Price
Shot by Sarah Quigley
Waxwings by Jonathan Raban
River of the Brokenhearted by David Adams Richards
No One Will See Me Cry by Cristina Rivera-Garza
Villa Incognito by Tom Robbins
Joseph Knight by James Robertson
Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff
The Golden Section by Pernille Rygg
Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
The Cuban Prospect by Brian Shawver
All He Ever Wanted by Anita Shreve
Not Before Sundown by Johanna Sinisalo
Good Faith by Jane Smiley
Grass Roof, Tin Roof by Dao Strom
The Light of Day by Graham Swift
Politics by Adam Thirlwell
Forever in Paradise by Apelu Tielu
The Builder by Edith L Tiempo
Frankie & Stankie by Barbara Trapido
The Colour by Rose Tremain
Lucia, Lucia by Adriana Trigiani
The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
Easter Island by Jennifer Vanderbes
The Way to Paradise by Mario Vargas Llosa
The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by MG Vassanji
Tonguecat by Peter Verhelst
Bump by Diana Wagman
Iridescence by Peter Wells
The Mango’s Kiss by Albert Wendt
The Blind Man of Seville by Robert Wilson
Old School by Tobias Wolff
The Alphabet of Light and Dark by Danielle Wood
The Liberated Bride by AB Yehoshua
Eagles and Angels by Juli Zeh
Hunting Midnight by Richard Zimler
The Book by Zoran Zivkovic
2004
Winner
This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun
 
Shortlist
The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The White Family by Maggie Gee
Balthasar’s Odyssey by Amin Maalouf
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
Earth and Ashes by Atiq Rahimi
House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk
 
Longlist
God’s Own Country by Jonah Ageda
City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende
Loving Geordie by Andrea Badenoch
Dead Air by Iain Banks
Shroud by John Banville
Melal by Robert Barclay
Annie Dunne by Sebastian Barry
Evolution by Stephen Baxter
£9.99 by Frederic Beigbeder
A Whistling Woman by AS Byatt
The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L Carter
The Eye of the Cybele by Daniel Chavarria
The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke
Youth by JM Coetzee
The Resurrectionists by Michael Collins
Matrix by Patrick Cullinan
A Bed in Heaven by Tessa de Loo
God’s Mountain by Erri de Luca
Good Intentions by Agnès Desarthe
And Then You Die by Michael Dibdin
Winston’s War by Michael Dobbs
The Seven Sisters by Margaret Drabble
Rain by Karen Duve
Baudolino by Umberto Eco
The Mount by Carol Emshwiller
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
The Hopeful Traveller by Fiona Farrell
Spies by Michael Frayn
Land of the Living by Nicci French
Inez by Carlos Fuentes
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
Clara by Janice Galloway
The Beekeeper’s Pupil by Sara George
Three Junes by Julia Glass
The Shadow of God by Anthony A Goodman
The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
A Cock-eyed Comedy by Juan Goytisolo
Still Here by Linda Grant
Lucca by Jens Christian Grøndahl
The English Years by Norbert Gstrein
The Road to Jerusalem by Jan Guillou
Waiting for an Angel by Helon Habila
Of a Boy by Sonya Hartnett
The Brothers by Milton Hatoum
Nowhere Man by Aleksandar Hemon
A Simple Habana Melody by Oscar Hijuelos
A Child’s Book of True Crime by Chloe Hooper
Platform by Michel Houellebecq
Windmill Hill by Michael Jacobson
Moral Hazard by Kate Jennings
The Navigator of New York by Wayne Johnston
Black Mirror by Gail Jones
Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance by Lloyd Jones
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismael Kadare
The Pygates by Nelson Karanja
An Angel in Australia (The Office of Innocence) by Thomas Keneally
Roscoe by William Kennedy
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Billie’s Kiss by Elizabeth Knox
Ignorance by Milan Kundera
The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru
Kimberlite Flame by Amma Kyerewaa
Fragrant Harbour by John Lanchester
The White by Deborah Larsen
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka
Our Moment in Time by Stella Martins
The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
Guarding Hanna by Miha Mazzini
Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott
The Madonna of Excelsior by Zakes Mda
Inferno by Patricia Melo
Journey to the Stone Country by Alex Miller
The Scheme for Full Employment by Magnus Mills
The Dream Room by Marcel Moring
Judgement Rock by Joanna Murray-Smith
The Special Document by Mike S Mvona
I’ll Take You There by Joyce Carol Oates
Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor
A Season of Waiting by David Omowale
End of the Tunnel by Peggy Oppong
When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka
Shadow Without a Name by Ignacio Padilla
Man and Wife by Tony Parsons
The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears
Wake Up by Tim Pears
Prague by Arthur Phillips
That Old Ace in the Hole by E Annie Proulx
Leaves of Narcissus by Somaya Ramadan
Unknown Destination by Maya Rasker
The Dark Bride by Laura Restrepo
Desolation by Yasmina Reza
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathon Safran Foer
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Waiting Period by Hubert Selby Jr
Husband and Wife by Zeruya Shalev
Sea Glass by Anita Shreve
The Russian Debutante’s Handbook by Gary Shteyngart
God’s Fool by Mark Slouka
The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
Kilali Crossing by C Suriyakumaran
Con Brio by Brina Svit
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
In the Hand of Dante by Nick Tosches
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
Seek My Face by John Updike
A Father’s Affair by Karel van Loon
The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe
The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland
The Hound in the Lefthand Corner by Giles Waterfield
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
The Heaven of Mercury by Brad Watson
Chemistry by Damien Wilkins
One Man’s Bible by Gao Xingjian
The Library by Zoran Zivkovic
2003
Winner
My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
 
Shortlist
The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock
Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor
The Royal Physician’s Visit by Per Olov Enquist
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Migrant Painter of Birds by Lidia Jorge
That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
 
Longlist
Hope at Sunset by Kudzo Agamasu
Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende
The Swing Around by Barbara Anderson
The Book of Fred by Abby Bardi
Border Crossing by Pat Barker
The Laying on of Hands by Alan Bennett
Leaving Tabasco by Carmen Boullosa
The Bay of Angels by Anita Brookner
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Tarzan’s Tonsillitis by Alfredo Bryce Echenique
Tell No One by Harlan Coben
The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe
About the Author by John Colapinto
The Wedding by Imraan Coovadia
River Thieves by Michael Crummey
Sing! by Michael Curtin
The Story of Jane by Catherine Cusset
The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
Five Photos of My Wife by Agnes Desarthe
Corfu by Robert Dessaix
The Quiet Violence of Dreams by K Sello Duiker
The Siege by Helen Dunmore
The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
Swift as Desire by Laura Esquivel
Erasure by Percival Everett
On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks
Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
Ariadne’s Dream by Tess Fragoulis
Judith by Miro Gavran
Ellie and the Shadow Man by Maurice Gee
Carter Beats The Devil by Glen David Gold
The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer
Dogside Story by Patricia Grace
The Artist is a Thief by Stephen Gray
Cliff House Mansion by Mahasara Gunaratne
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
Ama by Manu Herbstein
How to be Good by Nick Hornby
Shanghai Baby by Wei Hui
The Fourth Hand by John Irving
Sam’s Story by Elmo Jayawardena
An Innocent Gentleman by Elizabeth Jolley
The Earthquake Bird by Susanna Jones
Panch Kanya by Ritu Kamal
The Confessions of Nipper Mooney by Ed Kavanagh
Tide Running by Oonya Kempadoo
The Rainbow Singer by Simon Kerr
No Saints or Angels by Ivan Klima
Gabriel’s Gift by Hanif Kureishi
The Grand Complication by Allen Kurzweil
A Pawn for the Queen by Ken Lake
The Sweetest Dream by Doris Lessing
Eva Moves the Furniture by Margot Livesey
Thinks… by David Lodge
Gilgamesh by Joan London
Silence and Shadows by James Long
The Necessary Rituals of Maren Gripe by Oystein Lonn
The Dark Ship by Anne MacLeod
First Lady by Michael Malone
Stonedogs by Craig Marriner
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Coldwater by Mardi McConnochie
Niagara Falls All Over Again by Elizabeth McCracken
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Grand Ambition by Lisa Michaels
Marcel by Erwin Mortier
The Procedure by Harry Mulisch
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
Half a Life by VS Naipaul
Mutilated by Annor Nimako
All Souls Day by Cees Nooteboom
Fear and Trembling by Amelie Nothomb
Middle Age by Joyce Carol Oates
My Dream of You by Nuala O'Faolain
At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill
The Missing Links by Tobias O Otieno
The Same Sea by Amos Oz
The Nautical Chart by Arturo Perez-Reverte
A Handsome Man by PCK Prem
In Our Strange Gardens by Michel Quint
Monstruary by Julian Rios
The Carpenter’s Pencil by Manuel Rivas
July by Karen Roberts
The Discovery of Chocolate by James Runcie
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve
King Bimbisara’s Chronicler by Jason Siff
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Hotel World by Ali Smith
The Secret History of Modernism by CK Stead
The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
Cane River by Lalita Tademy
The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan
Our Lady of the Circus by David Toscana
Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler
The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart
Love’s Death by Oscar Van Den Boogaard
On the Water by HM Van Den Brink
The Happy Housewife by Heleen Van Royen
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Last Canyon by John Vernon
Instances of the Number Three by Salley Vickers
The Restless Supermarket by Ivan Vladislavic
The Gardens of Kyoto by Kate Walbert
The Leto Bundle by Marina Warner
Lost Soldiers by James Webb
John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
Martyrs’ Crossing by Amy Wilentz
The Fall of Light by Niall Williams
The Company of Strangers by Robert Wilson
Crooked River Burning by Mark Winegardner
Dirt Music by Tim Winton
The Death of Sweet Mister by Daniel Woodrell
Clara Callan by Richard B Wright​
2002
Winner
Atomised (Elementary Particles) by Michel Houellebecq
 
Shortlist
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
The Keepers of Truth by Michael Collins
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
The Years with Laura Diaz by Carlos Fuentes
Madame by Antoni Libera
 
Longlist
Sealed Scroll by Kodwo Abaidoo
My Grandmother’s Erotic Folktales by Robert Antoni
Home at Last by Sam Aryeetey
Excess Baggage by Judy Astley
Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson
The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi
Lost Geography by Charlotte Bacon
The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami
Eclipse by John Banville
The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
Schmidt Delivered by Louis Begley
Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
A Friend of the Earth by TC Boyle
The Rights of Desire by André Brink
The Biographer’s Tale by AS Byatt
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
A New World by Amit Chaudhuri
The Visitor by Lee Child
Latitudes of Melt by Joan Clark
Deus Lo Volt! by Evan S Jr Connell
Mr. Mee by Andrew Crumey
Winter Range by Claire Davis
Return to Paradise by Yusuf K Dawood
Fred & Edie by Jill Dawson
The Tempest by Juan Manuel de Prada
Liar’s Game by Eric Jerome Dickey
Only Human by Jenny Diski
A Heart of Stone by Renate Dorrestein
The Black Rose by Tananarive Due
The Company by Arabella Edge
The Secret by Anna Enquist
Where Were You, Robert? by Hans Magnus Enzenberger
First Fruits by Penelope Evans
Under the Skin by Michel Faber
Remembering Blue by Connie May Fowler
Above the Law by JF Freedman
The Wild by Esther Freud
Maya by Jostein Gaarder
Rough Music by Patrick Gale
The Flight of the Maidens by Jane Gardam
The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
Stern Men by Elizabeth Gilbert
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
The Garden of Secrets by Juan Goytisolo
Silence in October by Jens Christian Grondahl
Silent Extras by Arnon Grunberg
The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan
Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris
The Binding Chair by Kathryn Harrison
A Student of Weather by Elizabeth Hay
The Old American by Ernest Hebert
Special Delivery by Iselin C Hermann
The River King by Alice Hoffman
The Uncle’s Story by Witi Ihimaera
Tierra Del Fuego by Sylvia Iparraguirre
Abyssinian Chronicles by Moses Isegawa
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi by Arthur Japin
The Book of Fame by Lloyd Jones
Other Secrets by Farida Karodia
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
Mr. Phillips by John Lanchester
The Snake in Sydney by Michael Larsen
The Black Rood by Stephen Lawhead
The Australian Fiance by Simone Lazaroo
The Telling by Ursula K Le Guin
Martin Bauman; or, a sure thing by David Leavitt
The Diagnosis by Alan Lightman
A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss
The Barbarians are Coming by David Wong Louie
The Pretoria Conspiracy by Lily Mabura
The Fisher King by Paule Marshall
The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin
Martha Peake by Patrick McGrath
The Heart of Redness by Zakes Mda
Conditions of Faith by Alex Miller
King of the City by Michael Moorcock
Dark Palace by Frank Moorhouse
The Pretender by Mary Morrissy
The Last Plague by Meja Mwangi
Doubting Thomas by Atle Naess
Living to Tell by Antonya Nelson
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
Inishowen by Joseph O'Connor
The Journey Home by Olafur Olafsson
Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
Blue Ridge by TR Pearson
Babylon by Victor Pelevin
Skyline by Patricia S Pinnock
Mrs. Hollingsworth’s Men by Padgett Powell
Bodega Dreams by Ernesto Quinonez
The Curative by Charlotte Randall
Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice
Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards
Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
The Song and the Truth by Helga Ruebsamen
Lying Awake by Mark Salzman
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
Family Album by Margaret Scott
Antigua and My Life Before by Marcela Serrano
Fordlandia by Eduardo Sguiglia
Love Life by Zeruya Shalev
The Gravity of Sunlight by Rosa Shand
An Obedient Father by Akhil Sharma
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
In America by Susan Sontag
The Trade by Fred Stenson
London Bridges by Jane Stevenson
The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro by Antonio Tabucchi
Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
A Mouthful of Glass by Henk van Woerden
Miss Garnet’s Angel by Salley Vickers
The Married Man by Edmund White
The Case of Doctor Sachs by Martin Winckler
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2001
Winner
No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod
 
Shortlist
The True History of Paradise by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
The Love You Promised Me by Silvia Molina
Our Fathers by Andrew O'Hagan
The Clay Machine-Gun (Buddha's Little Finger) by Victor Pelevin
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
 
Longlist
The Translator by Leila Aboulela
The Plato Papers by Peter Ackroyd
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Turn of the Century by Kurt Andersen
A Recipe for Bees by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Drylands by Thea Astley
The Lone Woman by Bernardo Atxaga
Timbuktu by Paul Auster
Wedding by the Sea by Abdelkader Benali
In the Hands of the Living God by Lillian Bouzane
Minions of the Moon by Richard Bowes
Lamb in Love by Carrie Brown
A Good House by Bonnie Burnard
The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch
Last of the Sane Days by Fiona Capp
Peel My Love Like an Onion by Ana Castillo
Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
Disgrace by JM Coetzee
Being Dead by Jim Crace
A Harlot’s Progress by David Dabydeen
The Dinner by Anna Davis
Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
The Nanny and the Iceberg by Ariel Dorfman
A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
With Your Crooked Heart by Helen Dunmore
The Blue Tower by Thorarinn Eldjarn
Thine is the Kingdom by Abilio Estevez
Headlong by Michael Frayn
The Sooterkin by Tom Gilling
Carl Haffner’s Love of the Draw by Thomas Glavinic
My Century by Gunter Grass
The Honey Thief by Elizabeth Graver
The Testament by John Grisham
East of the Mountains by David Guterson
Shame by Bergljot Hobæk Haff
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf by Sonya Hartnett
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Remember Me by Laura Hendrie
Hummingbird House by Patricia Henley
Neap Tide by Dorothy Hewett
Empress of the Splendid Season by Oscar Hijuelos
Still Waters in Niger by Kathleen Hill
The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman
The Blue Bedspread by Raj Kamal Jha
Waiting by Ha Jin
Frieda and Min by Pamela Jooste
A Dangerous Friend by Ward Just
Reconnaissance by Kapka Kassabova
Liar’s Moon by Philip Kimball
The Sinister Trophy by John Kiriamiti
Cracks by Sheila Kohler
Sabbathday River by Jean Haruff Korelitz
A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee
Mara and Dann by Doris Lessing
Mr. Dalloway by Robin Lippincott
Home Truths by David Lodge
White City Blue by Tim Lott
The Crime of Olga Arbyelina by Andrei Makine
Prince by Ib Michael
While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
The Strangeness of Beauty by Lydia Minatoya
Finding Mr. Madini by Jonathan Morgan
In Babylon by Marcel Moring
Christ in Khaki by Theresa Murphy
Doomsday by Wahome Mutahi
A Lovely Tale of Photography by Peter Nadas
Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith by Gina Barkhordar Nahai
Ahab’s Wife or The Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund
Voyage to the North Star by Peter Nichols
A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan
The Unburied by Charles Palliser
The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison
Pest Maiden by Dilys Rose
The Abyssinian by Jean-Christophe Rufin
The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
Benang: From the Heart by Kim Scott
Gods of Our Time by Mongane Wally Serote
An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
Gardens in the Dunes by Leslie Marmon Silko
The German Numbers Woman by Alan Sillitoe
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
A Foreign Country by Francine Stock
The Happy Hunting Grounds by Nanne Tepper
God Is a Bullet by Boston Teran
Isobel Gunn by Audrey Thomas
Lost by Hans-Ulrich Treichel
Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
Before You Sleep by Linn Ullmann
Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
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2000
Winner
Wide Open by Nicola Barker
 
Shortlist
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Trumpet by Jackie Kay
This Side of Brightness by Colum McCann
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
Paradise by Toni Morrison
I Married a Communist by Philip Roth
 
Longlist
Childhood by Andre Alexis
Magic Hoffmann by Jakob Arjouni
Eucalyptus by Murray Bail
Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge
The Everlasting Story of Nory by Nicholson Baker
Galilee by Clive Barker
Another World by Pat Barker
England, England by Julian Barnes
The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty by Sebastian Barry
Mistler’s Exit by Louis Begley
The Catastrophist by Ronan Bennett
Island Madness by Tim Binding
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
Olympia by Dennis Bock
The Industry of Souls by Martin Booth
Armadillo by William Boyd
Devil’s Valley by Andre Brink
Falling Slowly: a novel by Anita Brookner
The Handless Maiden by Loranne Brown
The Storm by Frederick Buechner
Ingratitude by Ying Chen
The Fifth Mountain by Paulo Coelho
Windward Heights by Maryse Conde
The Archivist by Martha Cooley
The Wake of the Wind by J California Cooper
The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai
This Body by Laurel Doud
The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich
The Loop by Nicholas Evans
Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks
Hanna’s Daughters by Marianne Fredriksson
Saints & Villains by Denise Giardina
Flutie by Diane Glancy
The House Gun by Nadine Gordimer
The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy
The Sandglass by Romesh Gunesekera
The Golden Dress by Marion Halligan
Archangel by Robert Harris
The Road Home by Jim Harrison
Broken Ground by Jack Hodgins
Power by Linda Hogan
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
A Widow for One Year by John Irving
Going Inland by Pat Jacobs
Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter by Pamela Jooste
Buxton Spice by Oonya Kempadoo
Daughter of My People by James Kilgo
Ex Libris by Ross King
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Vintner’s Luck by Elizabeth Knox
Identity by Milan Kundera
Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi
I know this much is true by Wally Lamb
Spiderweb by Penelope Lively
Mother to Mother by Sindiwe Magona
Defiance by Carole Maso
Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
Mr Darwin’s Shooter by Roger McDonald
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
After Dunkirk by Milena McGraw
Hyssop by Kevin McIlvoy
Model Behaviour by Jay McInerney
The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills
Evening by Susan Minot
Out of the Dark by Patrick Modiano
The World I Made for Her by Thomas Moran
My Heart Laid Bare by Joyce Carol Oates
The Greatest Sorrow by Keith Ovenden
My Year of Meats by Ruth L Ozeki
The Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte
To Siberia by Per Petterson
Gain by Richard Powers
Roxanna Slade by Reynolds Price
The World More or Less by Jean Rouaud
The Electrical Field by Kerri Sakamoto
Aelred's Sin by Lawrence Scott
The Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald
Cinnamon Gardens by Shyam Selvadurai
Caucasia (From Caucasia with Love) by Danzy Senna
The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton by Jane Smiley
Way to Go by Alan Spence
Death in Summer by William Trevor
Other People’s Children by Joanna Trollope
A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
Kikuyu by Etienne van Heerden
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy by Barbara Vine
Namako: Sea Cucumbers by Linda Watanabe McFerrin
Quite a Year for Plums by Bailey White
A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
Tomato Red by Daniel Woodrell
1999
Winner
Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller
 
Shortlist
Quarantine by Jim Crace
Underworld by Don DeLillo
The Ordinary Seaman by Francisco Goldman
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
 
Longlist
Yo! by Julia Alvarez
The Mercy Seat by Rilla Askew
Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson
Lava by Pamela Ball
The Untouchable by John Banville
Silk by Alessandro Baricco
Visible Worlds by Marilyn Bowering
Visitors by Anita Brookner
On the Road with the Archangel by Frederick Buechner
Andorra by Peter Cameron
Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao
Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
Class Trip by Emmanuel Carrere
Love and Longing in Bombay by Vikram Chandra
The Crab Nebula by Eric Chevillard
In the Deep Midwinter by Robert Clark
Boyhood: scenes from a provincial life by JM Coetzee
Night Talk by Elizabeth Cox
Feeding the Ghosts by Fred D'Aguiar
The Diary of Mattie Spenser by Sandra Dallas
Pig Tales by Marie Darrieussecq
Lambs of God by Marele Day
A God strolling in the cool of the evening by Mario de Carvalho
Cloud Chamber by Michael Dorris
In Desolate Heaven by Robert Edric
Origin of the Earth by Jorge Edwards
She Loves Me by Peter Esterhazy
Wonderful Women by the Sea by Monika Fagerholm
The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan
Women with Men by Richard Ford
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
The Shovel and the Loom by Carl Friedman
Vita Brevis by Jostein Gaarder
The Aguero Sisters by Cristina Garcia
Julie’s Wolf Pack by Jean Craighead George
Her Night on Red by Kostis Gimosoulis
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Z – a Love Story by Vigdis Grimsdottir
The Partner by John Grisham
Blue Mondays by Arnon Grunberg
Dark Demon Rising by Tunku Halim
The Saskiad by Brian Hall
The Ministry of Hope by Roy Heath
The Telling of Angus Quain by Jenny Hobbs
The Woman and the Ape by Peter Hoeg
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
Round Rock by Michelle Huneven
Ramses 1: The Son of Light by Christian Jacq
The Three-arched Bridge by Ismael Kadare
The Grapevine Stories by Ngumi Kibera
Genre by John Kinsella
The Ultimate Intimacy by Ivan Klima
Crooked Little Heart by Anne Lamott
Dust Devils by Robert Laxalt
Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty
The Oatmeal Ark by Rory MacLean
The Gospel according to the Son by Norman Mailer
Perhaps in Paradise by Ellina binti Abdul Majid
Le Testament Francais by Andrei Makine
Voices by Dacia Maraini
Chira by Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye
About Yvonne by Donna Masini
Lovesick by Angeles Mastretta
Chasing Cezanne by Peter Mayle
It Could be You by Sue McCauley
A Face at the Window by Dennis McFarland
The Ventriloquist’s Tale by Pauline Melville
Purple America by Rick Moody
The Magician’s Wife by Brian Moore
The Scholar by Courttia Newland
The Thirteenth Daughter of the Moon by Steven Nightingale
Just One More Chance by Mwaura Njoroge
Panther in the Basement by Amos Oz
The New Life by Orhan Pamuk
The Secret Book of Grazia Dei Rossi by Jacqueline Park
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
In a Land of Plenty by Tim Pears
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
The Dog King by Christoph Ransmayr
The Angel of Galilea by Laura Restrepo
Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler
Little Miss Strange by Joanna Rose
The Von Veltheim file by Valerie Rosenberg
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Of Illustrious Men by Jean Rouaud
The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Straight Man by Richard Russo
London by Edward Rutherfurd
The Butterfly Effect by Pernille Rygg
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Literature or Life by Jorge Semprun
Larry's Party by Carol Shields
The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
One Thousand Chestnut Trees by Mira Stout
Kowloon Tong by Paul Theroux
The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart
Yocandra in the Paradise of Nada by Zoe Valdes
Leap Year by Etienne van Heerden
The Chin Kiss King by Ana Veciana-Suarez
Bringing up girls in Bohemia by Michal Viewegh
Voices and Visions by Carolyn Visser
The Farewell Symphony by Edmund White
Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams
Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson
Angel Falls by Tim Wynveen
Amrita by Banana Yoshimoto
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1998
Winner
The Land of Green Plums by Herta Muller
 
Shortlist
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Imaginings of Sand by Andre Brink
The Counting House by David Dabydeen
The Glade within the Grove by David Foster
The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
Salt by Earl Lovelace
The Pope’s Rhinocerous by Lawrence Norfolk
Last Orders by Graham Swift
The Englishman’s Boy by Guy Vanderhaeghe
 
Longlist
The Joy of Being Awake by Hector Abad Faciolince
Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie
The Lone Man by Bernardo Atxaga
According to the Law by Solvej Balle
Acts of Revision by Martyn Bedford
About Schmidt by Louis Begley
High Latitudes by James Buchan
A Conspiracy of Hope by Michael Cannon
Urwind by Bo Carpelan
By the River Piedra I sat down and wept by Paulo Coelho
Dear Future by Fred D'Aguiar
Unholy Ghosts by Ita Daly
The Virtuoso by Margriet De Moor
Reading In the Dark by Seamus Deane
The Woman who walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle
The Drowner by Robert Drewe
Hallucinating Foucault by Patricia Duncker
Law of Love by Laura Esquivel
Shadow Baby by Margaret Forster
Before Women had Wings by Connie May Fowler
Diana, the Goddess who hunts alone by Carlos Fuentes
Blood Brothers by Clifford Fyle
Strandloper by Alan Garner
Links of a Chain by Monica Genya
Pushing the Bear by Diane Glancy
The Marx family Saga by Juan Goytisolo
Trolls’ Cathedral by Olafur Gunnarsson
The Arizona Game by Georgina Hammick
Atticus by Ron Hansen
Jonestown by Wilson Harris
The Fallen Man by Tony Hillerman
Oyster by Janette Turner Hospital
The Enchantment of Lily Dahl by Siri Hustvedt
Middle Son by Deborah Iida
The State of Absence by Tahar Ben Jelloun
Slowness by Milan Kundera
The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester
Love, again by Doris Lessing
Epigraph by Gordon Lish
Heat Wave by Penelope Lively
The Rooms in my Mother’s House by Olga Lorenzo
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Zenzele: a letter for my daughter by Nozipo J Maraire
Carolina Moon by Jill McCorkle
The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken
Asylum by Patrick McGrath
I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch
We were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
Down by the River by Edna O'Brien
The River Beyond the World by Janet Peery
The Dumas Club by Arturo Perez-Reverte
City of Darkness, City of Light by Marge Piercy
Tinisima by Elena Poniatowska
Accordion Crimes by E Annie Proulx
Rasero by Francisco Rebolledo
The Innocence of Roast Chicken by Jo-anne Richards
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
A Chance to see Egypt by Sandra Scofield
The Emigrants by WG Sebald
Love-fifteen by Antonio Skarmeta
Anita and Me by Meera Syal
The Story of the Night by Colm Toibin
After Hannibal by Barry Unsworth
In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike
My Father’s War by Adriaan Van Dis
Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa
Steal Away by Timothy Watts
The Veracruz Blues by Mark Winegardner
Doctor Neruda’s Cure for Evil by Rafael Yglesias
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1997
Winner
A Heart So White by Javier Marias
 
Shortlist
Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
A Tiler’s Afternoon by Lars Gustafsson
Novel Without a Name by Duong Thu Huong
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Declares Pereira by Antonio Tabucchi
The Good Negress by AJ Verdelle
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
 
Longlist
A few youths in the Moon by Humayun Ahmed
Paula by Isabel Allende
The Infinite Plan by Isabel Allende
The Information by Martin Amis
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks
Athena by John Banville
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
Ill Wind by Nevada Barr
The Smell of Apples by Mark Behr
To The Wedding by John Berger
Tree of Heaven by RC Binstock
The Miracle Worker by Carmen Boullosa
Tortilla Curtain by TC Boyle
Incidents in the rue Laugier by Anita Brookner
In Every Face I Meet by Justin Cartwright
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra
The Valkyries: an Encounter with Angels by Paulo Coelho
The Measurable World by Katherine Coles
Battle Flag by Bernard Cornwell
Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
Journey to Ithaca by Anita Desai
The American Standard by Sam Desanto
The Paperboy by Pete Dexter
Woof, Woof, Dear Lord by Sotiris Dimitriou
Unnatural Mothers by Renate Dorrestein
River Teeth : Stories and Writing by David James Duncan
The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
Belgarath the Sorcerer by David Eddings
Blackwater by Kerstin Ekman
The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
The Piano Man’s Daughter by Timothy Findley
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
Independence Day by Richard Ford
Nightfather by Carl Friedman
The Age of Miracles by Ellen Gilchrist
Mister Sandman by Barbara Gowdy
The Lighthouse Spark by Heather Grace
How to Read an Unwritten Language by Philip Graham
The Rainmaker by John Grisham
Angels of the Universe by Einar Mar Gudmundsson
The Chess Garden by Brooks Hansen
Exiled by Khadijah Hashim
Salt Dancers by Ursula Hegi
Memoir from Antproof Case by Mark Helprin
Mr. Ives’ Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos
Borderliners by Peter Hoeg
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Solar Storms by Linda Hogan
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Sultan by Hasnat Abdul Hye
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
Corruption by Tahar Ben Jelloun
Shards of Memory by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Billy Sunday by Rod Jones
Cold Snap : Stories by Thom Jones
A River Town by Thomas Keneally
So I Am Glad by AL Kennedy
Looking Through Glass by Mukul Kesavan
Highways to a War by Christopher Koch
The Hanging Tree by David Lambkin
Our Game by John le Carre
Four Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula K Le Guin
Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
Therapy by David Lodge
Camille’s Bread by Amanda Lohrey
An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel
Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
All the Days & Nights by William Maxwell
Songdogs by Colum McCann
The Crying Room by Chris McLeod
The Year of the Flood by Eduardo Mendoza
The Distinguished Guest by Sue Miller
The Statement by Brian Moore
Loose Living by Frank Moorhouse
The Great Longing by Marcel Moring
Hearthstones by Kekelwa Nyaya
Astonishing The Gods by Ben Okri
Raising Holy Hell by Bruce Olds
Don’t call it Night by Amos Oz
The Contract by William Palmer
The Carousel by Belva Plain
Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers
The Promise of Rest by Reynolds Price
Sabbath's Theatre by Philip Roth
The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
The Cross by Mandy Sayer
Brother of Sleep by Robert Schneider
Discerner of Hearts and other stories by Olive Senior
Cheap Lives by Antony Sher
A Corpse of One’s Own by Isabel-Clara Simo
All Souls' Rising by Madison Smartt Bell
Follow Your Heart by Susanna Tamaro
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
The Best of Friends by Joanna Trollope
Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
City of Light by Dave Warner
Objects in Mirror are Closer than they Appear by Katharine Weber
The Wedding by Dorothy West
Eveless Eden by Marianne Wiggins
Going Home to Teach by Anthony C Winkler
Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto
Panama by Eric Zencey
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1996
Winner
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
 
Shortlist
Ghosts by John Banville
A Way in the World by VS Naipaul
The Following Story by Cees Nooteboom
The Laws by Conny Palmen
The Gospel according to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago
Away by Jane Urquhart
 
Longlist
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
A Second Life by Dermot Bolger
Theory of War by Joan Brady
The Red Haired Khumalo by Elana Bregin
On the Contrary by Andre Brink
Louisiana by Erna Brodber
Bridge of Triangles by John Burke
Brothers & Sisters by Bebe Moore Campbell
The Palace Thief by Ethan Canin
Commission by Finn Carling
A Keeper of Sheep by William Carpenter
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
Masai Dreaming by Justin Cartwright
Face of an Angel by Denise Chavez
The Master of Petersburg by JM Coetzee
The Body Farm by Patricia Cornwell
Every Man is a Race by Mia Couto
Signals of Distress by Jim Crace
Saving Agnes by Rachel Cusk
Inca Gold by Clive Cussler
Disappearance by David Dabydeen
The Longest Memory by Fred D'Aguiar
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
First Grey, Then White, Then Blue by Margriet De Moor
The Waterworks by EL Doctorow
Taratuta by Jose Yanez Donoso
Konfidenz by Ariel Dorfman
Sapphires by Sara Dowse
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
Here We Are in Paradise by Tony Earley
Captain Nemo’s Library by Per Olov Enquist
The Bingo Palace by Louise Erdrich
The Book of Hrabal by Peter Esterhazy
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
The Day After Tomorrow by Allan Folsom
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J Gaines
Across the Bridge by Mavis Gallant
Sweetbitter by Reginald Gibbons
The Good Husband by Gail Godwin
None to Accompany Me by Nadine Gordimer
The Book of Intimate Grammar by David Grossman
Reef by Romesh Gunesekera
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
The Grisly Wife by Rodney Hall
A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
Ekaterina by Donald Harington
The Cardinals by Bessie Head
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
Finding Hobbes by RH Hickling
The Sweet Smelling Jasmine by Jenny Hobbs
For the Life of Laetitia by Merle Hodge
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst
Moving House and Other Stories by Pawel Huelle
Bulibasha : King of the Gypsies by Witi Ihimaera
Shrine of Tears by Francis Imbuga
Contemporary Slovene Short Stories by Drago Jancar
Earth in the Mouth by Carsten Jensen
Stone Haven by Evan Jones
The Journey by Nuno Judice
Gediminas’ Dream by Dainius Juozenas
How Late it Was, How Late by James Kelman
The Way to Cats by Yehosua Kenaz
Cosmic Dance by Harischandra Khemraj
Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light by Ivan Klima
The World Waiting to Be Made by Simone Lazaroo
One Night Stands by Rosa Liksom
In Praise of Truth by Torny Lindgren
Letter to Constantine by Joan London
Consolation by Earl G Long
Beside the Ocean of Time by George Mackay Brown
The Journalist by Harry Mathews
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy
The Orchard by Drusilla Modjeska
Waiting for Time by Bernice Morgan
Open Secrets by Alice Munro
Wolf Whistle by Lewis Nordan
The Bird Artist by Howard Norman
Foxfire : Confessions of a Girl Gang by Joyce Carol Oates
House of Splendid Isolation by Edna O'Brien
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
The River and the Source by Margaret A Ogola
Absolution by Olafur Olafsson
The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk
The Inner Side of the Wind by Milorad Pavic
Reads Like a Novel by Daniel Pennac
The Flanders Panel by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips
The Grass Dancer by Susan Power
Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers
Jennie by Douglas Preston
The Shipping News by E Annie Proulx
Invisible Man at the Window by Monique Proulx
All the Worlds’ Mornings by Pascal Quignard
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
Brother Jacob by Henrik Stangerup
The Kommandant’s Mistress by Sherri Szeman
Requiem by Antonio Tabucchi
In the Tennessee Country by Peter Taylor
Felicia's Journey by William Trevor
The Colours will come alive by Lodongiin Tudev
The Book of Secrets by MG Vassanji
The Folly by Ivan Vladislavic
The Unfastened Heart by Lane Von Herzen
The Maerlande Chronicles by Elisabeth Vonarburg
The Three Circles by Petros Voskarides
Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
Not Where I Started From by Kate Wheeler
The Drowned Land by Paul Willems
What Remains and Other Stories by Christa Wolf
NP by Banana Yoshimoto
The Corridors of Power by Liu Zhenyun
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