Shortlist Nobber by Oisin Fagan Rules for Visiting by Jessica Francis Kane Weather by Jenny Offill 46% Better than Dave by Alastair Puddick House of Trelawney by Hannah Rothschild
2019 Winner Reasons To Be Cheerful by Nina Stibbe
Shortlist Vacuum In The Dark by Jen Beagin In At The Deep End by Kate Davies Charlie Savage by Roddy Doyle Old Baggage by Lissa Evans Francis Plug: How To Be A Public Author by Paul Ewen
2018 No prize awarded
2017 Winner Bridget Jones’s Baby: The Diaries by Helen Fielding Shortlist Razor Girl by Carl Hiaasen To Be Continued… by James Robertson Everybody’s Fool by Richard Russo Paradise Lodge by Nina Stibbe Here Comes Trouble by Simon Wroe
2016 Winners The Mark and the Void by Paul Murray The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild Shortlist The Sellout by Paul Beatty The Lubetkin Legacy by Marina Lewycka There's Only Two David Beckhams by John O'Farrell
2015 Winner Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party by Alexander McCall Smith Shortlist How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran The Dog by Joseph O'Neill Man at the Helm by Nina Stibbe A Decent Ride by Irvine Welsh
2014 Winner Lost for Words by Edward St Aubyn Shortlist Jeeves and the Wedding Bells by Sebastian Faulks Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding The Last Word by Hanif Kureishi Straight White Male by John Niven The Thrill of it Allby Joseph O’Connor
2013 Winner Zoo Time by Howard Jacobson Shortlist England's Lane by Joseph Connolly Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt Skios by Michael Frayn Heartbreak Hotel by Deborah Moggach
2012 Winner Snuff by Terry Pratchett Shortlist Jude in London (Old Street) by Julian Gough Capital by John Lanchester The Man Who Forgot His Wife by John O'Farrell The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year by Sue Townsend
2011 Winner Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart Shortlist Serious Men by Manu Joseph Comfort and Joy by India Knight The Coincidence Engine by Sam Leith The News Where You Are by Catherine O'Flynn
2010 Winner Solar by Ian McEwan Shortlist Skippy Dies by Paul Murray Diamond Star Halo by Tiffany Murray One Day by David Nicholls From Aberystwyth with Love by Malcolm Pryce
2009 Winner Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer Shortlist A Snowball in Hell by Christopher Brookmyre Their Finest Hour and a Half by Lissa Evans Rancid Pansies by James Hamilton-Paterson How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišić A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
2008 Winner The Butt by Will Self Shortlist The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett Submarine by Joe Dunthrone Jude: Level 1 by Julian Gough Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon by Garrison Keillor Sunday at the Cross Bones by John Walsh
2007 Winner Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday Shortlist Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka Cupid's Dart by David Nobbs
2006 Winner All Fun and Games until Somebody Loses an Eye by Christopher Brookmyre Shortlist Wicked! by Jilly Cooper The Last Llanelli Train by Robert Lewis May Contain Nuts by John O'Farrell Thud! by Terry Pratchett On Beauty by Zadie Smith
2005 Winner A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka Shortlist Cooking with Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Paterson Mr Vogel by Lloyd Jones Happy Accidents by Tiffany Murray Going Postal by Terry Pratchett The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth by Malcolm Pryce
2004 Winner The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde Shortlist Penguin Lost by Andrey Kurkov These Foolish Things by Deborah Moggach Overtaken by Alexei Sayle
2003 Winner Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre Shortlist Dot in the Universe by Lucy Ellmann Don't You Want Me by India Knight Life of Pi by Yann Martel I Don't Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
2002 Winner Spies by Michael Frayn Shortlist The Gatekeeper by Terry Eagleton Spencer's List by Lissa Evans Are You Dave Gorman? by Dave Gorman Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
2001 Winner The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe
2000 Winner The Mighty Walzer by Howard Jacobson Shortlist Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding Playing the Moldovans at Tennis by Tony Hawks The Book of Obituaries by Hugh Massingberd Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years by Sue Townsend