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Fiction Book of the Year - British Book Awards

2021
Winner
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

Shortlist
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
2020
Winner
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Shortlist
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
Lies Lies Lies by Adele Parks
The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman
2019
Winner
Normal People by Sally Rooney

Shortlist
Transcription by Kate Atkinson
Milkman by Anna Burns
Still Me by Jojo Moyes
Tombland by CJ Sansom
Why Mummy Swears by Gill Sims
2018
Winner
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor

Shortlist
Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore
How To Stop Time by Matt Haig
The Break by Marian Keyes 
Winter by Ali Smith
City of Friends by Joanna Trollope ​
2017
Winner
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
 
Shortlist
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
The Muse by Jessie Burton
Cartes Postales from Greece by Victoria Hislop
This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell

Popular Fiction Book of the Year - British Book Awards

2016
Winner
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
 
Shortlist
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
The Green Road by Anne Enright
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
Grey by EL James
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
After You by Jojo Moyes

Popular Fiction Award - British Book Awards

2009
Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks
 
2008
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
 
2007
Anybody Out There by Marian Keyes
 
2006
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Literary Fiction Award - British Book Awards

2005
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
 
2004
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon