Shortlist Love in Colour by Bolu Babalola The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession by Gavin Francis Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread by Michiko Kakutani Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty Black and British: A short, essential history by David Olusoga The Book of Hopes by Katherine Rundell The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive by Philippe Sands Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright! - An Animal Poem for Every Day of the Year by Fiona Waters illustrated by Britta Teckentrup
2019 Book of the Year Winner The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy
Author of the Year Winner No One Is Too Small to Make A Difference by Greta Thunberg
Shortlist The Testaments by Margaret Atwood Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams The Binding by Bridget Collins Underland by Robert Macfarlane Prisoners of Geography: Our World Explained in 12 Maps by Tim Marshall illustrated by Grace Easton Jessica Smith The House Without Windows by Barbara Newhall Follett illustrated by Jackie Morris Lanny by Max Porter On The Origin of Species by Sabina Radeva Dishoom by Shamil Thakrar, Kavi Thakrar & Naved Nasir
2018 Winner Normal People by Sally Rooney Shortlist Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How it's Broken by The Secret Barrister The Penguin Classics Book by Henry Eliot Why We Get the Wrong Politicians by Isabel Hardman The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850-1960 by Dan Jones & Marina Amaral Circe by Madeline Miller I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree - A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year by Frann Preston-Gannon & Fiona Waters
2017 Winner La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One by Philip Pullman Illustrated by Chris Wormell Shortlist Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane Illustrated by Jackie Morris Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders Mr Lear by Jenny Uglow Talking to My Daughter About the Economy by Yanis Varoufakis
2016 Winner The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry Shortlist Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi The Optician of Lampedusa by Emma-Jane Kirby The Tale of Kitty in Boots by Beatrix Potter Illustrated by Quentin Blake Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by JK Rowling , John Tiffany & Jack Thorne
2015 Winner The Fox and The Star by Coralie Bickford-Smith Shortlist SPQR by Mary Beard My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee The Shepherd's Life by James Rebanks A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
2014 Winner The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton Shortlist Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan Once Upon An Alphabet by Oliver Jeffers The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
2013 Winner Stoner by John Williams Shortlist Life After Life by Kate Atkinson Levels of Life by Julian Barnes The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil by Stephen Collins Maps by Aleksandra Mizielinska & Daniel Mizielinski Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe
2012 Winner POLPO by Russell Norman Shortlist HHhH by Laurent Binet Patrick Leigh-Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper On The Map by Simon Garfield The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel