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2021
Shortlist
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones
No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

Longlist
Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers
The Golden Rule by Amanda Craig
Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
Because of You by Dawn French
Luster by Raven Leilani
Consent by Annabel Lyon
Nothing But Blue Sky by Kathleen MacMahon
2020
Winner
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

Shortlist
Dominicana by Angie Cruz
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
Weather by Jenny Offill

Longlist
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Actress by Anne Enright
Nightingale Point by Luan Goldie
How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee
The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
Girl by Edna O'Brien
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
2019
Winner
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

Shortlist
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Milkman by Anna Burns
Ordinary People by Diana Evans
Circe by Madeline Miller​

Longlist
Remembered by Yvonne Battle-Felton
The Pisces by Melissa Broder
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
Praise Song for the Butterflies by Bernice L McFadden
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Bottled Goods by Sophie van Llewyn
2018
Winner
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie​

Shortlist
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
Sight by Jessie Greengrass
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Longlist
H(A)PPY by Nicola Barker
Three Things About Elsie by Joanna Cannon
Miss Burma by Charmaine Craig
The Trick to Time by Kit de Waal
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Elmet by Fiona Mozley
The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt
A Boy in Winter by Rachel Seiffert
2017
Winner
The Power by Naomi Alderman
  
Shortlist
Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
The Dark Circle by Linda Grant
The Sport of Kings by CE Morgan
First Love by Gwendoline Riley
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien

Longlist
Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
Little Deaths by Emma Flint
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill
The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
Midwinter by Fiona Melrose
The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso
The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neill
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
Barkskins by E Annie Proulx
The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain​
2016
Winner
The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney
 
Shortlist
Ruby by Cynthia Bond
The Green Road by Anne Enright
The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie
The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
 
Longlist
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
A Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding by Jackie Copleton
Whispers Through a Megaphone by Rachel Elliott
The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah
Gorsky by Vesna Goldsworthy
The Anatomist's Dream by Clio Gray
At Hawthorne Time by Melissa Harrison
Pleasantville by Attica Locke
Girl at War by Sara Novic
The House at the Edge of the World by Julia Rochester
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
After Before by Jemma Wayne
2015
Winner
How to be Both by Ali Smith
 
Shortlist
Outline by Rachel Cusk
The Bees by Laline Paull
A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
 
Longlist
Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans
Aren't We Sisters? by Patricia Ferguson
I am China by Xiaolu Guo
Dear Theif by Samantha Harvey
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
The Country of Ice Cream Star by Sandra Newman
The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O'Neill
The Table of Less Valued Knights by Marie Phillips
The Walk Home by Rachel Seiffert
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
The Shore by Sara Taylor
The Life of a Banana by PP Wong
2014
Winner
A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
 
Shortlist
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Undertaking by Audrey Magee
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
 
Longlist
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
The Dogs of Littlefield by Suzanne Berne
The Shadow of the Crescent Moon by Fatima Bhutto
The Bear by Claire Cameron
Eleven Days by Lea Carpenter
The Strangler Vine by MJ Carter
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Reasons She Goes to the Woods by Deborah Kay Davies
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Flamethrowers  by Rachel Kushner
Almost English by Charlotte Mendelson
Still Life with Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
2013
Winner
May We Be Forgiven by AM Homes
 
Shortlist
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver
Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
NW by Zadie Smith
 
Longlist
A Trick I Learned From Dead Men by Kitty Aldridge
The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber
The People of Forever are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti
The Red Book by Deborah Copaken Kogan
Lamb by Bonnie Nadzam
The Forrests by Emily Perkins
Ignorance by Michèle Roberts
The Innocents by Francesca Segal
Honour by Elif Shafak
The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman
Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany
Alif the Unseen by G Willow Wilson
2012
Winner
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
 
Shortlist
Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright
Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding
Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
 
Longlist
Island of Wings by Karin Altenberg
On the Floor by Aifric Campbell
The Grief of Others by Leah Hager Cohen
The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue
The Flying Man by Roopa Farooki
Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
Gillespie and I by Jane Harris
The Translation of the Bones by Francesca Kay
The Blue Book by AL Kennedy
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
There but for the… by Ali Smith
The Pink Hotel by Anna Stothard
Tides of War by Stella Tillyard
The Submission by Amy Waldman
2011
Winner
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
 
Shortlist
Room by Emma Donoghue
The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
Grace Williams Says it Loud by Emma Henderson
Great House by Nicole Krauss
Annabel by Kathleen Winter
 
Longlist
Lyrics Alley by Leila Aboulela
Jamrach’s Menagerie by Carol Birch
The Pleasure Seekers by Tishani Doshi
Whatever you Love by Louise Doughty
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
The London Train by Tessa Hadley
The Seas by Samantha Hunt
The Birth of Love by Joanna Kavenna
The Road to Wanting by Wendy Law-Yone
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
Repeat it Today with Tears by Anne Peile
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin
The Swimmer by Roma Tearne
2010
Winner
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
 
Shortlist
The Very Thought of You by Rosie Alison
Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey
 
Longlist
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
Savage Lands by Clare Clark
Hearts and Minds by Amanda Craig
The Way Things Look to Me by Roopa Farooki
The Twisted Heart by Rebecca Gowers
This is How by MJ Hyland
Small Wars by Sadie Jones
Secret Son by Laila Lalami
The Long Song by Andrea Levy
The Wilding by Maria McCann
Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed
The Still Point by Amy Sackville
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
2009
Winner
Home by Marilynne Robinson
 
Shortlist
Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman
The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
Molly Fox's Birthday by Deirdre Madden
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
 
Longlist
The Household Guide to Dying by Debra Adelaide
Girl In A Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold
The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser
Their Finest Hour and a Half by Lissa Evans
Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo
Strange Music by Laura Fish
Love Marriage by V Ganeshananthan
Intuition by Allegra Goodman
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight by Gina Ochsner
Evening is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber
2008
Winner
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
 
Shortlist
Fault Lines by Nancy Huston
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
When We Were Bad by Charlotte Mendelson
Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill
Lottery by Patricia Wood
 
Longlist
The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
The Room of Lost Things by Stella Duffy
The Keep by Jennifer Egan
The Gathering by Anne Enright
The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant
The Master Bedroom by Tessa Hadley
Sorry by Gail Jones
The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam by Lauren Liebenberg
In the Dark by Deborah Moggach
Mistress by Anita Nair
The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas
Monster Love by Carol Topolski
2007
Winner
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
 
Shortlist
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
The Observations by Jane Harris
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
 
Longlist
Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allan
Peripheral Vision by Patricia Ferguson
Over by Margaret Forster
The Dissident by Nell Freudenberger
When to Walk by Rebecca Gowers
Carry Me Down by MJ Hyland
The Girls by Lori Lansens
Aligator by Lisa Moore
What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
Careless by Deborah Robertson
Afterwards  by Rachel Seiffert
Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
The Housekeeper by Melanie Wallace
2006
Winner
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
 
Shortlist
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
The Accidental by Ali Smith
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living by Carrie Tiffany
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
 
Longlist
Minaret by Leila Aboulela
Harbor by Lorraine Adams
Disobedience  by Naomi Alderman
Watch Me Disappear by Jill Dawson
House of Orphans by Helen Dunmore
White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway
The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
Dreams of Speaking by Gail Jones
Lost in the Forest by Sue Miller
Rape: a Love Story by Joyce Carol Oates
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
Frangipani by Célestine Hitiura Vaite
The Position by Meg Wolitzer
2005
Winner
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
 
Shortlist
Billy Morgan by Joolz Denby
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
The Mammoth Cheese by Sheri Holman
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Liars and Saints by Maile Meloy
 
Longlist
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
The Great Stink by Clare Clark
Escape Routes for Beginners by Kira Cochrane
The Zigzag Way by Anita Desai
It So Happens by Patricia Ferguson
Away From You by Melanie Finn
The Mysteries of Glass by Sue Gee
Nelson's Daughter by Miranda Hearn
Tatty by Christine Dwyer Hickey
Ursula, Under by Ingrid Hill
Black Dirt by Nell Leyshon
The Remedy by Michelle Lovric
The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates
The River by Tricia Wastvedt
2004
Winner
Small Island by Andrea Levy
 
Shortlist
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
Ice Road by Gillian Slovo
The Colour by Rose Tremain
 
Longlist
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
The Sari Shop by Rupa Bajwa
Kith and Kin by Stevie Davies
State of Happiness by Stella Duffy
The Flood by Maggie Gee
The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall
Notes on a Scandal by Zöe Heller
A Visit from Voltaire by Dinah Küng
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Gilgamesh by Joan London
The Internationals by Sarah May
Love by Toni Morrison
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler
2003
Winner
Property by Valerie Martin
 
Shortlist
Buddha Da by Anne Donovan
Heligoland by Shena Mackay
Unless by Carol Shields
The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
 
Longlist
Special by Bella Bathurst
Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
English Correspondence by Janet Davey
Dot in the Universe by Lucy Ellmann
What the Birds See by Sonya Hartnett
What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
War Crimes for the Home by Liz Jensen
Fox Girl by Nora Okja Keller
The Solace of Leaving Early by Haven Kimmel
In the Forest by Edna O'Brien
When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh
Water Street by Crystal E Wilkinson
2002
Winner
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
 
Shortlist
No Bones by Anna Burns
The Siege by Helen Dunmore
The White Family by Maggie Gee
A Child’s Book of True Crime by Chloe Hooper
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
 
Longlist
Pop by Kitty Aldridge
The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami
A True Story Based on Lies by Jennifer Clement
The Element of Water by Stevie Davies
Now You See Me by Lesley Glaister
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Niagara Falls All Over Again by Elizabeth McCracken
Middle Age by Joyce Carol Oates
The Story of My Face by Kathy Page
Crawling at Night  by Nani Power
La Cucina by Lily Prior
Sister Crazy by Emma Richler
The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
2001
Winner
The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville
 
Shortlist
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Fred & Edie by Jill Dawson
Homestead by Rosina Lippi
Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley
Hotel World by Ali Smith
 
Longlist
The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi
In the Blue House by Meaghan Delahunt
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
Fish, Blood and Bone by Leslie Forbes
The Wild by Esther Freud
Dog Days, Glenn Miller Nights by Laurie Graham
Nowhere Else on Earth by Josephine Humphreys
Ahab’s Wife or The Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund
Motherkind by Jayne Anne Phillips
Caucasia (From Caucasia with Love) by Danzy Senna
The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan
The PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson
2000
Winner
When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant
 
Shortlist
If I Told You Once by Judy Budnitz
The Dancers Dancing by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
 
Longlist
The Translator by Leila Aboulela
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
A Dangerous Vine by Barbara Ewing
Danny Boy by Jo-Ann Goodwin
A Sin of Colour by Sunetra Gupta
Born Free by Laura Hird
Everything You Need by AL Kennedy
The Hunter by Julia Leigh
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith by Gina Barkhordar Nahai
Last Chance Texaco by Christine Pountney
Island by Jane Rogers
What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin
1999
Winner
A Crime in the Neighborhood by Suzanne Berne
 
Shortlist
The Leper's Companions by Julia Blackburn
Visible Worlds by Marilyn Bowering
The Short History of a Prince by Jane Hamilton
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Paradise by Toni Morrison
 
Longlist
Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge
The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett
In a Fishbone Church by Catherine Chidgey
Crocodile Soup by Julia Darling
Restitution by Maureen Duffy
Trumpet by Jackie Kay
Comfort Women by Nora Okja Keller
Buxton Spice by Oonya  Kempadoo
The Vintner’s Luck by Elizabeth Knox
Marchlands by Karla Kuban
The Giant, O'Brien by Hilary Mantel
The Most Wanted by Jacquelyn Mitchard
A History of Silence by Barbara Neil
Evening News by Marly Swick
1998
Winner
Larry's Party by Carol Shields
 
Shortlist
Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis
The Ventriloquist’s Tale by Pauline Melville
The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett
Love Like Hate Adore by Deirdre Purcell
The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
 
Longlist
Bitter Grounds by Sandra Benítez
Man or Mango? by Lucy Ellmann
Summer at Gaglow by Esther Freud
The Agüero Sisters by Cristina Garcia
The House Gun by Nadine Gordimer
The Breaking by Kathryn Heyman
Round Rock by Michelle Huneven
Ark Baby by Liz Jensen
Undiscovered Country by Christina Koning
The Orchard by Drusilla Modjeska
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
Impossible Saints by Michèle Roberts
The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart
Baby Love by Louisa Young
1997
Winner
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
 
Shortlist
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
One by One in the Darkness by Deirdre Madden
I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn
Accordion Crimes by E Annie Proulx
Hen's Teeth by Manda Scott
 
Longlist
Every Man For Himself by Beryl Bainbridge
Death Comes for Peter Pan by Joan Brady
The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion
The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Cast Iron Shore by Linda Grant
The Enchantment of Lily Dahl by Siri Hustvedt
The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
With Child by Laurie R King
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
All The Blood is Red by Leone Ross
Red Leaves by Paullina Simons
Anita and Me by Meera Syal
Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson
Frequency of Souls by Mary Kay Zuravleff
1996
Winner
A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore
 
Shortlist
The Book of Colour by Julia Blackburn
Spinsters by Pagan Kennedy
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
Eveless Eden by Marianne Wiggins
 
Longlist
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
Official and Doubtful by Ajay Close
The Rape of Sita by Lindsey Collen
Keeping Up With Magda by Isla Dewar
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Private Parts of Women by Lesley Glaister
The Passion of Alice by Stephanie Grant
Egg Dancing by Liz Jensen
So I Am Glad by AL Kennedy
Never Far From Nowhere by Andrea Levy
Mother of Pearl by Mary Morrissy
Promised Lands by Jane Rogers
River Lines by Elspeth Sandys
The Love Letter by Cathleen Schine