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2020
Winner
Afropean: Notes From Black Europe by Johny Pitts

Shortlist
The Black Flamingo​ by Dean Atta
Remembered by Yvonne Battle-Felton
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Fleche by Mary Jean Chan
Suncatcher by Romesh Gunesekera

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Golden Child by Claire Adam
Surge by Jay Bernard
Asha & the Spirit Bird by Jasbinder Bilan
The Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats by Maya Goodfellow
This Brutal House by Niven Govinden
Nudibranch by Irenosen Okojie
2019
Winner
In Our Mad And Furious City by Guy Gunaratne​

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Built: The Hidden Stories Behind Our Structures by Roma Agrawal
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of the Empire by Akala Akala
The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus
Happiness by Aminatta Forna
The Boy At The Back of The Class by Onjali Q Rauf​

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Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children by Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
The Terrible by Yrsa Daley-Ward
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging by Afua Hirsch
Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain by Damian Le Bas
The Healing Next Time by Roy McFarlane
Ponti by Sharlene Teo​
2017
Winner
Why I ‘m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

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The Golden Legend by Nadeem Aslam
Kumakanda by Kayo Chongonyi
Once Upon a Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up by Xiaolu Guo
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandaswamy
The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
 
Longlist
Come All You Little Persons by John Agard
Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millennials and the Meaning of Grime by Jeffrey Boakye
Worry Angels by Sita Brahmachari
Bone by Yrsa Daley-Ward
Come Let Us Sing Anyway by Leone Ross
We That Are Young by Preti Taneja
2016
Winner
The Bone Readers by Jacob Ross
 
Shortlist
The Girl Of Ink And Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee
Speak Gigantular by Irenosen Okojie
Black And British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga
Another Day In The Death Of America by Gary Younge
 
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Chasing the Stars by Malorie Blackman
Harmless Like You by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
(Nina Is Not OK by Shappi Khorsandi) WITHDRAWN
Orangeboy by Patrice Lawrence
Augustown by Kei Miller
In the Bonesetter’s Waiting Room: Travels through Indian Medicine by Aarathi Prasad