The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland. In 2014, it was opened for the first time to any work published in the United Kingdom and written in (not translated into) the English language.
There have been three special awards celebrating the Booker's history. In 1993, the "Booker of Bookers" prize was awarded to Salman Rushdie for Midnight's Children (the 1981 winner) as the best novel to win the award in its first 25 years. Midnight's Children also won a public vote in 2008, on the prize's fortieth anniversary, for "The Best of the Booker". In 2018 a special "Golden Booker" was awarded celebrating 50 years of the award; this was won by Michael Ondaatje for The English Patient.
Winners, shortlists and longlists
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!Year
!Award
!Author
!Title
!Publisher
!Judges
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! rowspan="6" | 1969
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Something to Answer For
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Faber & Faber
| rowspan="6" |
- W. L. Webb (chair)
- David Farrer
- Frank Kermode
- Stephen Spender
- Dame Rebecca West
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
||| Figures in a Landscape
|Jonathan Cape
|-
||| Impossible Object
|Hodder & Stoughton
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||| The Nice and the Good
|Chatto & Windus
|-
||| The Public Image
|Macmillan
|-
||| From Scenes Like These
|Secker & Warburg
|-
! rowspan="6" | 1970
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |The Elected Member
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Eyre & Spottiswoode
| rowspan="6" |
- David Holloway (chair)
- Antonia Fraser
- Ross Higgins
- Richard Hoggart
- Dame Rebecca West
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
||| John Brown's Body
|Hogarth
|-
||| Eva Trout
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|
| Bruno's Dream
|Chatto & Windus
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||| Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel
|Bodley Head
|-
||| The Conjunction
|Angus & Robertson
|-
! rowspan="22" | 1970
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | || style="background:#FAEB86;white-space:nowrap" | Troubles
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Weidenfeld & Nicolson
| rowspan="22" |
- Rachel Cooke
- Katie Derham
- Tobias Hill
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
||| The Birds on the Trees
|Virago
|-
||| The Bay of Noon
|Macmillan
|-
||| Fire From Heaven
|Longman
|-
||| The Driver's Seat
|Macmillan
|-
||| The Vivisector
|Jonathan Cape
|-
| rowspan="16" |Longlist
|
|The Hand-Reared Boy
|Weidenfeld & Nicolson
|-
|
|A Little of What You Fancy?
|Michael Joseph
|-
|
|A Place in England
|Secker & Warburg
|-
|
|Down All the Days
|Secker & Warburg
|-
|
|Bomber
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|
|The Circle
|Hutchinson
|-
|
|A Clubbable Woman
|HarperCollins
|-
|
|I'm the King of the Castle
|Hamish Hamilton
|-
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|A Domestic Animal
|Longman
|-
|
|The Fire Dwellers
|Macmillan
|-
||
|Out of the Shelter
|Macmillan
|-
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|A Fairly Honourable Defeat
|Chatto & Windus
|-
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|Fireflies
|André Deutsch
|-
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| Master and Commander
|Collins
|-
|
|Head To Toe
|Methuen
|-
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|A Guilty Thing Surprised
|Hutchinson
|-
! rowspan="6" | 1971
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | In a Free State
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Deutsch
| rowspan="6" |
- John Gross (chair)
- Saul Bellow
- John Fowles
- Lady Antonia Fraser
- Philip Toynbee
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
| || The Big Chapel
|Faber & Faber
|-
| || Briefing for a Descent into Hell
|Jonathan Cape
|-
| || St. Urbain's Horseman
|Weidenfeld & Nicolson
|-
| || Goshawk Squadron
|Heinemann
|-
| || Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
|Chatto & Windus
|-
! rowspan="4" | 1972
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | G.
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Weidenfeld & Nicolson
| rowspan="4" |
- Cyril Connolly (chair)
- George Steiner
- Elizabeth Bowen
|-
| rowspan="3" |Shortlist
| || The Bird of Night
|Hamish Hamilton
|-
| || The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
|Angus & Robertson
|-
| || Pasmore
|Longman
|-
! rowspan="4" | 1973
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | The Siege of Krishnapur
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Weidenfeld & Nicolson
| rowspan="4" |
- Karl Miller (chair)
- Edna O'Brien
- Mary McCarthy
|-
| rowspan="3" |Shortlist
| || The Dressmaker
|Duckworth
|-
| || A Green Equinox
|Michael Joseph
|-
| || The Black Prince
|Chatto & Windus
|-
! rowspan="5" | 1974
| rowspan="2" style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winners
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | The Conservationist
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Jonathan Cape
| rowspan="5" |
- Ion Trewin (chair)
- A. S. Byatt
- Elizabeth Jane Howard
|-
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Holiday
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Hutchinson
|-
| rowspan="3" |Shortlist
| || Ending Up
|Jonathan Cape
|-
| || The Bottle Factory Outing
|Duckworth
|-
| || In Their Wisdom
|Macmillan
|-
! rowspan="2" | 1975
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Heat and Dust
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |John Murray
| rowspan="2" |
- Angus Wilson (chair)
- Peter Ackroyd
- Susan Hill
- Roy Fuller
|-
|Shortlist
| || Gossip from the Forest
|Collins
|-
! rowspan="6" | 1976
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Saville
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Jonathan Cape
| rowspan="6" |
- Walter Allen (chair)
- Mary Wilson
- Francis King
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
| || An Instant in the Wind
|W. H. Allen
|-
| || Rising
|Michael Joseph
|-
| || The Doctor's Wife
|Jonathan Cape
|-
| || King Fisher Lives
|Michael Joseph
|-
| || The Children of Dynmouth
|Bodley Head
|-
! rowspan="6" | 1977
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Staying On
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Heinemann
| rowspan="6" |
- Philip Larkin (chair)
- Beryl Bainbridge
- Brendan Gill
- David Hughes
- Robin Ray
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
| || Peter Smart's Confessions
|Jonathan Cape
|-
| || Great Granny Webster
|Duckworth
|-
| || Shadows on Our Skin
|Hamish Hamilton
|-
| || The Road to Lichfield
|Heinemann
|-
| || Quartet in Autumn
|Macmillan
|-
! rowspan="6" | 1978
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | The Sea, the Sea
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Chatto & Windus
| rowspan="6" |
- Sir Alfred Ayer (chair)
- Derwent May
- P. H. Newby
- Angela Huth
- Clare Boylan
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|Kingsley Amis || Jake's Thing
|Hutchinson
|-
|André Brink|| Rumours of Rain
|W. H. Allen
|-
|Penelope Fitzgerald|| The Bookshop
|Duckworth
|-
|Jane Gardam|| God on the Rocks
|Hamish Hamilton
|-
||| A Five-Year Sentence
|W. H. Allen
|-
! rowspan="5" | 1979
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Penelope Fitzgerald || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Offshore
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Collins
| rowspan="5" |
- Lord Briggs (chair)
- Benny Green
- Michael Ratcliffe
- Hilary Spurling
- Paul Theroux
|-
| rowspan="4" |Shortlist
|Thomas Keneally ||Confederates
|Collins
|-
||| A Bend in the River
|Deutsch
|-
|Julian Rathbone|| Joseph
|Michael Joseph
|-
|Fay Weldon|| Praxis
|Hodder & Stoughton
|-
! rowspan="7" | 1980
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | William Golding || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Rites of Passage
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Faber & Faber
| rowspan="7" |
- David Daiches (chair)
- Ronald Blythe
- Margaret Forster
- Claire Tomalin
- Brian Wenham
|-
| rowspan="6" |Shortlist
|Anthony Burgess || Earthly Powers
|Hutchinson
|-
|J. L. Carr|| A Month in the Country
|Harvester
|-
|Anita Desai|| Clear Light of Day
|Heinemann
|-
|Alice Munro|| The Beggar Maid
|Viking
|-
|Julia O'Faolain|| No Country for Young Men
|Viking
|-
|Barry Unsworth|| Pascali's Island
|Michael Joseph
|-
! rowspan="7" | 1981
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Salman Rushdie || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Midnight's Children
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Jonathan Cape
| rowspan="7" |
- Professor Malcolm Bradbury (chair)
- Brian Aldiss
- Joan Bakewell
- Samuel Hynes
- Hermione Lee
|-
| rowspan="6" |Shortlist
|Molly Keane || Good Behaviour
|Deutsch
|-
||| The Sirian Experiments
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|Ian McEwan|| The Comfort of Strangers
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|Ann Schlee|| Rhine Journey
|Macmillan
|-
|Muriel Spark|| Loitering with Intent
|Bodley Head
|-
|D. M. Thomas|| The White Hotel
|Gollancz
|-
! rowspan="6" | 1982
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Thomas Keneally || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Schindler's Ark
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Hodder & Stoughton
| rowspan="6" |
- John Carey (chair)
- Paul Bailey
- Frank Delaney
- Janet Morgan
- Lorna Sage
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|John Arden || Silence Among the Weapons
|Methuen
|-
|William Boyd|| An Ice-Cream War
|Hamish Hamilton
|-
|Lawrence Durrell|| Constance or Solitary Practices
|Faber & Faber
|-
|Alice Thomas Ellis|| The 27th Kingdom
|Duckworth
|-
|Timothy Mo|| Sour Sweet
|Deutsch
|-
! rowspan="6" | 1983
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | J. M. Coetzee || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Life & Times of Michael K
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Secker & Warburg
| rowspan="6" |
- Fay Weldon (chair)
- Angela Carter
- Terence Kilmartin
- Peter Porter
- Libby Purves
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|Malcolm Bradbury || Rates of Exchange
|Secker & Warburg
|-
|John Fuller|| Flying to Nowhere
|Salamander
|-
|Anita Mason|| The Illusionist
|Hamish Hamilton
|-
|Salman Rushdie|| Shame
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|Graham Swift|| Waterland
|Heinemann
|-
! rowspan="6" | 1984
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Anita Brookner || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Hotel du Lac
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Jonathan Cape
| rowspan="6" |
- Professor Richard Cobb (chair)
- Anthony Curtis
- Polly Devlin
- John Fuller
- Ted Rowlands
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|J. G. Ballard || Empire of the Sun
|Gollancz
|-
|Julian Barnes|| Flaubert's Parrot
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|Anita Desai|| In Custody
|Heinemann
|-
|Penelope Lively|| According to Mark
|Heinemann
|-
|David Lodge|| Small World
|Secker & Warburg
|-
! rowspan="6" | 1985
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Keri Hulme || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | The Bone People
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Hodder & Stoughton
| rowspan="6" |
- Norman St John-Stevas (chair)
- Nina Bawden
- J. W. Lambert
- Joanna Lumley
- Marina Warner
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|Peter Carey || Illywhacker
|Faber & Faber
|-
|J. L. Carr|| The Battle of Pollocks Crossing
|Viking
|-
||| The Good Terrorist
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|Jan Morris|| Last Letters from Hav
|Viking
|-
|Iris Murdoch|| The Good Apprentice
|Chatto & Windus
|-
! rowspan="6" | 1986
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Kingsley Amis || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | The Old Devils
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Hutchinson
| rowspan="6" |
- Anthony Thwaite (chair)
- Edna Healey
- Isabel Quigley
- Gillian Reynolds
- Bernice Rubens
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|Margaret Atwood || The Handmaid's Tale
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|Paul Bailey|| Gabriel's Lament
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|Robertson Davies|| What's Bred in the Bone
|Viking
|-
|Kazuo Ishiguro|| An Artist of the Floating World
|Faber & Faber
|-
|Timothy Mo|| An Insular Possession
|Chatto & Windus
|-
! rowspan="6" | 1987
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Penelope Lively || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Moon Tiger
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Deutsch
| rowspan="6" |
- P. D. James (chair)
- Selina Hastings
- Allan Massie
- Trevor McDonald
- John B. Thompson
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|Chinua Achebe || Anthills of the Savannah
|Heinemann
|-
|Peter Ackroyd|| Chatterton
|Hamish Hamilton
|-
||| Circles of Deceit
|Macmillan
|-
|Brian Moore|| The Colour of Blood
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|Iris Murdoch|| The Book and the Brotherhood
|Chatto & Windus
|-
! rowspan="6" | 1988
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Peter Carey || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Oscar and Lucinda
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Faber & Faber
| rowspan="6" |
- The Rt Hon Michael Foot (chair)
- Sebastian Faulks
- Philip French
- Blake Morrison
- Rose Tremain
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|Bruce Chatwin || Utz
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|Penelope Fitzgerald|| The Beginning of Spring
|Collins
|-
|David Lodge|| Nice Work
|Secker & Warburg
|-
|Salman Rushdie|| The Satanic Verses
|Viking
|-
|Marina Warner|| The Lost Father
|Chatto & Windus
|-
! rowspan="6" | 1989
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Kazuo Ishiguro || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | The Remains of the Day
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Faber & Faber
| rowspan="6" |
- David Lodge (chair)
- Maggie Gee
- Helen McNeil
- David Profumo
- Edmund White
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|Margaret Atwood || Cat's Eye
|Bloomsbury
|-
|John Banville|| The Book of Evidence
|Secker & Warburg
|-
|Sybille Bedford|| Jigsaw
|Hamish Hamilton
|-
|James Kelman|| A Disaffection
|Secker & Warburg
|-
|Rose Tremain|| Restoration
|Hamish Hamilton
|-
! rowspan="6" | 1990
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | A. S. Byatt || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Possession: A Romance
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Chatto & Windus
| rowspan="6" |
- Sir Denis Forman (chair)
- Susannah Clapp
- A. Walton Litz
- Hilary Mantel
- Kate Saunders
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|Beryl Bainbridge || An Awfully Big Adventure
|Duckworth
|-
|Penelope Fitzgerald|| The Gate of Angels
|Collins
|-
|John McGahern|| Amongst Women
|Faber & Faber
|-
|Brian Moore|| Lies of Silence
|Bloomsbury
|-
||| Solomon Gursky Was Here
|Chatto & Windus
|-
! rowspan="6" | 1991
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Ben Okri || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | The Famished Road
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Jonathan Cape
| rowspan="6" |
- Jeremy Treglown (chair)
- Penelope Fitzgerald
- Jonathan Keates
- Nicholas Mosley
- Ann Schlee
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|Martin Amis || Time's Arrow
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|Roddy Doyle|| The Van
|Secker & Warburg
|-
|Rohinton Mistry|| Such a Long Journey
|Faber & Faber
|-
|Timothy Mo|| The Redundancy of Courage
|Chatto & Windus
|-
||| Reading Turgenev
|Viking
|-
! rowspan="6" | 1992
| rowspan="2" style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winners
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Michael Ondaatje || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | The English Patient
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Bloomsbury
| rowspan="6" |
- Victoria Glendinning (chair)
- John Coldstream
- Valentine Cunningham
- Dr Harriet Harvey Wood
- Mark Lawson
|-
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Barry Unsworth|| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Sacred Hunger
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Hamish Hamilton
|-
| rowspan="4" |Shortlist
|Christopher Hope|| Serenity House
|Macmillan
|-
|Patrick McCabe|| The Butcher Boy
|Picador
|-
|Ian McEwan|| Black Dogs
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|Michèle Roberts|| Daughters of the House
|Virago
|-
! rowspan="6" | 1993
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Roddy Doyle || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Secker & Warburg
| rowspan="6" |
- Lord Gowrie (chair)
- Professor Gillian Beer
- Anne Chisholm
- Nicholas Clee
- Olivier Todd
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|Tibor Fischer|| Under the Frog
|Polygon
|-
|Michael Ignatieff|| Scar Tissue
|Chatto & Windus
|-
|David Malouf|| Remembering Babylon
|Chatto & Windus
|-
|Caryl Phillips|| Crossing the River
|Bloomsbury
|-
|Carol Shields|| The Stone Diaries
|4th Estate
|-
! rowspan="6" | 1994
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | James Kelman || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | How Late It Was, How Late
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Secker & Warburg
| rowspan="6" |
- Professor John Bayley (chair)
- Rabbi Julia Neuberger
- Dr Alastair Niven
- Alan Taylor
- James Wood
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|Romesh Gunesekera|| Reef
|Granta Books
|-
|Abdulrazak Gurnah|| Paradise
|Hamish Hamilton
|-
|Alan Hollinghurst|| The Folding Star
|Chatto & Windus
|-
|George Mackay Brown|| Beside the Ocean of Time
|John Murray
|-
|Jill Paton Walsh|| Knowledge of Angels
|Green Bay
|-
! rowspan="5" | 1995
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Pat Barker || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | The Ghost Road
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Viking
| rowspan="5" |
- George Walden MP (chair)
- Kate Kellaway
- Peter Kemp
- Adam Mars-Jones
- Ruth Rendell
|-
| rowspan="4" |Shortlist
|Justin Cartwright|| In Every Face I Meet
|Sceptre
|-
|Salman Rushdie|| The Moor's Last Sigh
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|Barry Unsworth|| Morality Play
|Hamish Hamilton
|-
|Tim Winton|| The Riders
|Picador
|-
! rowspan="6" | 1996
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Graham Swift || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Last Orders
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Picador
| rowspan="6" |
- Carmen Callil (chair)
- Jonathan Coe
- Ian Jack
- A. L. Kennedy
- A. N. Wilson
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|Margaret Atwood || Alias Grace
|Bloomsbury
|-
|Beryl Bainbridge|| Every Man for Himself
|Duckworth
|-
|Seamus Deane|| Reading in the Dark
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|Shena Mackay|| The Orchard on Fire
|Heinemann
|-
|Rohinton Mistry|| A Fine Balance
|Faber & Faber
|-
! rowspan="6" | 1997
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Arundhati Roy || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | The God of Small Things
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Flamingo
| rowspan="6" |
- Professor Gillian Beer (chair)
- Rachel Billington
- Jason Cowley
- Jan Dalley
- Professor Dan Jacobson
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|Jim Crace || Quarantine
|Viking
|-
|Mick Jackson|| The Underground Man
|Picador
|-
|Bernard MacLaverty|| Grace Notes
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|Tim Parks|| Europa
|Secker & Warburg
|-
|Madeleine St John|| The Essence of the Thing
|4th Estate
|-
! rowspan="6" | 1998
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Ian McEwan || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Amsterdam
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Jonathan Cape
| rowspan="6" |
- Douglas Hurd (chair)
- Professor Valentine Cunningham
- Penelope Fitzgerald
- Miriam Gross
- Nigella Lawson
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|Beryl Bainbridge || Master Georgie
|Duckworth
|-
|Julian Barnes|| England, England
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|Martin Booth|| The Industry of Souls
|Dewi Lewis
|-
|Patrick McCabe|| Breakfast on Pluto
|Picador
|-
|Magnus Mills|| The Restraint of Beasts
|Flamingo
|-
! rowspan="6" | 1999
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | J. M. Coetzee || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Disgrace
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Secker & Warburg
| rowspan="6" |
- Gerald Kaufman (chair)
- Shena Mackay
- John Sutherland
- Boyd Tonkin
- Natasha Walter
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|Anita Desai || Fasting, Feasting
|Chatto & Windus
|-
|Michael Frayn|| Headlong
|Faber & Faber
|-
|Andrew O'Hagan|| Our Fathers
|Faber & Faber
|-
|Ahdaf Soueif|| The Map of Love
|Bloomsbury
|-
|Colm Tóibín|| The Blackwater Lightship
|Picador
|-
! rowspan="6" | 2000
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Margaret Atwood || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | The Blind Assassin
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Bloomsbury
| rowspan="6" |
- Simon Jenkins (chair)
- Professor Roy Foster
- Mariella Frostrup
- Caroline Gascoigne
- Rose Tremain
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|Trezza Azzopardi || The Hiding Place
|Picador
|-
|Michael Collins|| The Keepers of Truth
|Phoenix House
|-
|Kazuo Ishiguro|| When We Were Orphans
|Faber & Faber
|-
|Matthew Kneale|| English Passengers
|Hamish Hamilton
|-
|Brian O'Doherty|| The Deposition of Father McGreevy
|Arcadia
|-
! rowspan="24" | 2001
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Peter Carey || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | True History of the Kelly Gang
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Faber & Faber
| rowspan="24" |
- Kenneth Baker (chair)
- Philip Hensher
- Michèle Roberts
- Kate Summerscale
- Professor Rory Watson
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|Ian McEwan || Atonement
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|Andrew Miller|| Oxygen
|Sceptre
|-
|David Mitchell|| number9dream
|Sceptre
|-
|Rachel Seiffert|| The Dark Room
|William Heinemann
|-
|Ali Smith|| Hotel World
|Hamish Hamilton
|-
| rowspan="18" |Longlist
|Beryl Bainbridge
|According to Queeney
|Duckworth
|-
|Derek Beaven
|If The Invader Comes
|4th Estate
|-
|Melvyn Bragg
|A Son of War
|Sceptre
|-
|Ciaran Carson
|Shamrock Tea
|Granta Books
|-
|Stevie Davies
|The Element of Water
|The Women's Press
|-
|Nadine Gordimer
|The Pickup
|Bloomsbury
|-
|Patricia Grace
|Dogside Story
|The Women's Press
|-
|Abdulrazak Gurnah
|By The Sea
|Bloomsbury
|-
|Nick Hornby
|How to Be Good
|Viking
|-
|Zvi Jagendorf
|Wolfy and the Strudelbakers
|Dewi Lewis
|-
|James Kelman
|Translated Accounts
|Secker & Warburg
|-
|Eoin McNamee
|The Blue Tango
|Faber & Faber
|-
|Ferdinand Mount
|Fairness
|Chatto & Windus
|-
|VS Naipaul
|Half a Life
|Picador
|-
|Philip Pullman
|The Amber Spyglass
|Scholastic
|-
|Manil Suri
|The Death of Vishnu
|Bloomsbury
|-
|Jane Urquhart
|The Stone Carvers
|Bloomsbury
|-
|Marina Warner
|The Leto Bundle
|Chatto & Windus
|-
! rowspan="20" | 2002
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Yann Martel || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Life of Pi
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Canongate
| rowspan="20" |
- Lisa Jardine (chair)
- David Baddiel
- Russell Celyn Jones
- Salley Vickers
- Erica Wagner
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|Rohinton Mistry || Family Matters
|Faber & Faber
|-
|Carol Shields|| Unless
|4th Estate
|-
|William Trevor|| The Story of Lucy Gault
|Viking
|-
|Sarah Waters|| Fingersmith
|Virago
|-
|Tim Winton|| Dirt Music
|Picador
|-
| rowspan="14" |Longlist
|Dannie Abse
|The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds and Dr Glas
|Robson Books
|-
|John Banville
|Shroud
|Picador
|-
|Joan Barfoot
|Critical Injuries
|The Women's Press
|-
|William Boyd
|Any Human Heart
|Hamish Hamilton
|-
|Anita Brookner
|The Next Big Thing
|Viking
|-
|Robert Edric
|Peacetime
|Black Swan
|-
|Michael Frayn
|Spies
|Faber & Faber
|-
|Linda Grant
|Still Here
|Little Brown
|-
|Philip Hensher
|The Mulberry Empire
|Flamingo
|-
|Howard Jacobson
|Who's Sorry Now?
|Cape
|-
|Jon McGregor
|If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
|4th Estate
|-
|Will Self
|Dorian, an Imitation
|Viking
|-
|Zadie Smith
|The Autograph Man
|Hamish Hamilton
|-
|Colin Thubron
|To the Last City
|Chatto & Windus
|-
! rowspan="23" | 2003
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | DBC Pierre|| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Vernon God Little
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Faber & Faber
| rowspan="23" |
- John Carey (Chair)
- A. C. Grayling
- Francine Stock
- Rebecca Stephens MBE
- D. J. Taylor
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|Monica Ali || Brick Lane
|Doubleday
|-
|Margaret Atwood|| Oryx and Crake
|Bloomsbury
|-
|Damon Galgut|| The Good Doctor
|Atlantic Books
|-
|Zoë Heller|| Notes on a Scandal
|Viking
|-
|Clare Morrall|| Astonishing Splashes of Colour
|Tindal Street Press
|-
| rowspan="17" |Longlist
|Martin Amis
|Yellow Dog
|Cape
|-
|Carol Birch
|Turn Again Home
|Virago
|-
|Melvyn Bragg
|Crossing the Lines
|Sceptre
|-
|J. M. Coetzee
|Elizabeth Costello
|Harvill Secker
|-
|Julia Darling
|The Taxi Driver's Daughter
|Penguin
|-
|Gerard Donovan
|Schopenhauer's Telescope
|Scribner
|-
|Barbara Gowdy
|The Romantic
|Harper Perennial
|-
|Mark Haddon
|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
|Doubleday
|-
|Francis King
|The Nick of Time
|Arcadia
|-
|Shena Mackay
|Heligoland
|Cape
|-
|John Murray
|Jazz etc.
|Flambard Press
|-
|Julie Myerson
|Something Might Happen
|Cape
|-
|Tim Parks
|Judge Savage
|Secker & Warburg
|-
|Caryl Phillips
|A Distant Shore
|Secker & Warburg
|-
|Jonathan Raban
|Waxwings
|Picador
|-
|Graham Swift
|The Light of Day
|Simon & Schuster
|-
|Barbara Trapido
|Frankie & Stankie
|Bloomsbury
|-
! rowspan="22" | 2004
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Alan Hollinghurst || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | The Line of Beauty
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Picador
| rowspan="22" |
- Chris Smith (chair)
- Tibor Fischer
- Robert Macfarlane
- Rowan Pelling
- Fiammetta Rocco
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|Achmat Dangor|| Bitter Fruit
|Atlantic
|-
|Sarah Hall|| The Electric Michelangelo
|Faber & Faber
|-
|David Mitchell|| Cloud Atlas
|Sceptre
|-
|Colm Tóibín|| The Master
|Picador
|-
|Gerard Woodward|| I'll Go to Bed at Noon
|Chatto & Windus
|-
| rowspan="16" |Longlist
|Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
|Purple Hibiscus
|4th Estate
|-
|Nadeem Aslam
|Maps for Lost Lovers
|Faber & Faber
|-
|Nicola Barker
|Clear: A Transparent Novel
|4th Estate
|-
|John Bemrose
|The Island Walkers
|John Murray
|-
|Ronan Bennett
|Havoc, in Its Third Year
|Bloomsbury
|-
|Susanna Clarke
|Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
|Bloomsbury
|-
|Neil Cross
|Always the Sun
|Scribner
|-
|Louise Dean
|Becoming Strangers
|Scribner
|-
|Lewis Desoto
|A Blade of Grass
|Maia
|-
|James Hamilton-Paterson
|Cooking with Fernet Branca
|Faber & Faber
|-
|Justin Haythe
|The Honeymoon
|Picador
|-
|Shirley Hazzard
|The Great Fire
|Virago
|-
|Gail Jones
|Sixty Lights
|Harvill
|-
|Sam North
|The Unnumbered
|Scribner
|-
|Nicholas Shakespeare
|Snowleg
|Harvill
|-
|Matt Thorne
|Cherry
|Weidenfeld & Nicolson
|-
! rowspan="17" | 2005
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | John Banville || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | The Sea
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Picador
| rowspan="17" |
- John Sutherland (chair)
- Lindsay Duguid
- Rick Gekoski
- Josephine Hart
- David Sexton
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|Julian Barnes || Arthur & George
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|Sebastian Barry|| A Long Long Way
|Faber & Faber
|-
|Kazuo Ishiguro|| Never Let Me Go
|Faber & Faber
|-
|Ali Smith|| The Accidental
|Hamish Hamilton
|-
|Zadie Smith|| On Beauty
|Hamish Hamilton
|-
| rowspan="11" |Longlist
|Tash Aw
|The Harmony Silk Factory
|4th Estate
|-
|J. M. Coetzee
|Slow Man
|Secker & Warburg
|-
|Rachel Cusk
|In the Fold
|Faber & Faber
|-
|Dan Jacobson
|All For Love
|Hamish Hamilton
|-
|Marina Lewycka
|A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
|Viking
|-
|Hilary Mantel
|Beyond Black
|4th Estate
|-
|Ian McEwan
|Saturday
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|James Meek
|The People's Act of Love
|Canongate
|-
|Salman Rushdie
|Shalimar the Clown
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|Harry Thompson
|This Thing of Darkness
|Headline Review
|-
|William Wall
|This Is The Country
|Sceptre
|-
! rowspan="19" | 2006
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Kiran Desai || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | The Inheritance of Loss
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Hamish Hamilton
| rowspan="19" |
- Hermione Lee (chair)
- Simon Armitage
- Candia McWilliam
- Antony Quinn
- Fiona Shaw
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|Kate Grenville|| The Secret River
|Canongate
|-
|M. J. Hyland|| Carry Me Down
|Canongate
|-
|Hisham Matar|| In the Country of Men
|Viking
|-
|Edward St Aubyn|| Mother's Milk
|Picador
|-
|Sarah Waters|| The Night Watch
|Virago
|-
| rowspan="13" |Longlist
|Peter Carey
|Theft: A Love Story
|Faber & Faber
|-
|Robert Edric
|Gathering the Water
|Black Swan
|-
|Nadine Gordimer
|Get A Life
|Bloomsbury
|-
|Howard Jacobson
|Kalooki Nights
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|James Lasdun
|Seven Lies
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|Mary Lawson
|The Other Side of the Bridge
|Chatto & Windus
|-
|Jon McGregor
|So Many Ways to Begin
|Bloomsbury
|-
|Claire Messud
|The Emperor's Children
|Picador
|-
|David Mitchell
|Black Swan Green
|Sceptre
|-
|Naeem Murr
|The Perfect Man
|William Heinemann
|-
|Andrew O'Hagan
|Be Near Me
|Faber & Faber
|-
|James Robertson
|The Testament of Gideon Mack
|Hamish Hamilton
|-
|Barry Unsworth
|The Ruby in Her Navel
|Hamish Hamilton
|-
! rowspan="13" | 2007
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Anne Enright || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | The Gathering
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Jonathan Cape
| rowspan="13" |
- Howard Davies (chair)
- Wendy Cope
- Giles Foden
- Ruth Scurr
- Imogen Stubbs
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|Nicola Barker || Darkmans
|4th Estate
|-
|Mohsin Hamid || The Reluctant Fundamentalist
|Hamish Hamilton
|-
|Lloyd Jones || Mister Pip
|John Murray
|-
|Ian McEwan || On Chesil Beach
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|Indra Sinha || Animal's People
|Simon & Schuster
|-
| rowspan="7" |Longlist
|Edward Docx
|Self Help
|Picador
|-
|Peter Ho Davies
|The Welsh Girl
|Sceptre
|-
|Nikita Lalwani
|Gifted
|Penguin
|-
|Catherine O'Flynn
|What Was Lost
|Tindal Street Press
|-
|Michael Redhill
|Consolation
|William Heinemann
|-
|Tan Twan Eng
|The Gift of Rain
|Myrmidon
|-
|A. N. Wilson
|Winnie & Wolf
|Hutchinson
|-
! rowspan="13" | 2008
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Aravind Adiga || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | The White Tiger
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Atlantic
| rowspan="13" |
- Michael Portillo (chair)
- Alex Clark
- Louise Doughty
- James Heneage
- Hardeep Singh Kohli
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|Sebastian Barry || The Secret Scripture
|Faber & Faber
|-
|Amitav Ghosh || Sea of Poppies
|John Murray
|-
|Linda Grant || The Clothes on Their Backs
|Virago
|-
|Philip Hensher || The Northern Clemency
|4th Estate
|-
|Steve Toltz || A Fraction of the Whole
|Hamish Hamilton
|-
| rowspan="7" |Longlist
|Gaynor Arnold
|Girl in a Blue Dress
|Tindal Street Press
|-
|John Berger
|From A to X
|Verso
|-
|Michelle de Kretser
|The Lost Dog
|Chatto & Windus
|-
|Mohammed Hanif
|A Case of Exploding Mangoes
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|Joseph O'Neill
|Netherland
|4th Estate
|-
|Salman Rushdie
|The Enchantress of Florence
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|Tom Rob Smith
|Child 44
|Simon & Schuster
|-
! rowspan="13" | 2009
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Hilary Mantel || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Wolf Hall
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |4th Estate
| rowspan="13" |
- James Naughtie (chair)
- Lucasta Miller
- John Mullan
- Sue Perkins
- Michael Prodger
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|A. S. Byatt || The Children's Book
|Chatto and Windus
|-
|J. M. Coetzee || Summertime
|Harvill Secker
|-
|Adam Foulds || The Quickening Maze
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|Simon Mawer || The Glass Room
|Little, Brown
|-
|Sarah Waters || The Little Stranger
|Virago
|-
| rowspan="7" |Longlist
|Sarah Hall
|How to Paint a Dead Man
|Faber
|-
|Samantha Harvey
|The Wilderness
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|James Lever
|Me Cheeta
|4th Estate
|-
|Ed O'Loughlin
|Not Untrue & Not Unkind
|Penguin
|-
|James Scudamore
|Heliopolis
|Harvill Secker
|-
|Colm Tóibín
|Brooklyn
|Viking
|-
|William Trevor
|Love and Summer
|Viking
|-
! rowspan="13" | 2010
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Howard Jacobson || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | The Finkler Question
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Bloomsbury
| rowspan="13" |
- Andrew Motion (chair)
- Rosie Blau
- Deborah Bull
- Tom Sutcliffe
- Frances Wilson
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|Peter Carey || Parrot and Olivier in America
|Faber & Faber
|-
|Emma Donoghue || Room
|Picador
|-
|Damon Galgut || In a Strange Room
|Atlantic Books
|-
|Andrea Levy || The Long Song
|Hachette
|-
|Tom McCarthy || C
|Jonathan Cape
|-
| rowspan="7" |Longlist
|Helen Dunmore
|The Betrayal
|Fig Tree
|-
|David Mitchell
|The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
|Sceptre
|-
|Lisa Moore
|February
|Random House
|-
|Paul Murray
|Skippy Dies
|Hamish Hamilton
|-
|Rose Tremain
|Trespass
|Chatto & Windus
|-
|Christos Tsiolkas
|The Slap
|Allen & Unwin
|-
|Alan Warner
|The Stars in the Bright Sky
|Jonathan Cape
|-
! rowspan="13" | 2011
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Julian Barnes || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | The Sense of an Ending
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Jonathan Cape
| rowspan="13" |
- Dame Stella Rimington (chair)
- Matthew d'Ancona
- Susan Hill
- Chris Mullin
- Gaby Wood
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|Carol Birch || Jamrach's Menagerie
|Canongate
|-
|Patrick deWitt || The Sisters Brothers
|Granta Books
|-
|Esi Edugyan || Half-Blood Blues
|Serpent's Tail
|-
|Stephen Kelman || Pigeon English
|Bloomsbury
|-
|A D Miller || Snowdrops
|Atlantic Books
|-
| rowspan="7" |Longlist
|Sebastian Barry
|On Canaan's Side
|Faber & Faber
|-
|Yvvette Edwards
|A Cupboard Full of Coats
|Oneworld
|-
|Alan Hollinghurst
|The Stranger's Child
|Picador
|-
|Patrick McGuinness
|The Last Hundred Days
|Seren
|-
|Alison Pick
|Far to Go
|Tinder Press
|-
|Jane Rogers
|The Testament of Jessie Lamb
|Canongate
|-
|D. J. Taylor
|Derby Day
|Chatto & Windus
|-
! rowspan="12" | 2012
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Hilary Mantel || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Bring Up the Bodies
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |4th Estate
| rowspan="12" |
- Sir Peter Stothard (chair)
- Dinah Birch
- Dan Stevens
- Amanda Foreman
- Bharat Tandon
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|Deborah Levy || Swimming Home
|And Other Stories/Faber & Faber
|-
|Alison Moore || The Lighthouse
|Salt Publishing
|-
|Will Self || Umbrella
|Bloomsbury
|-
|Tan Twan Eng || The Garden of Evening Mists
|Myrmidon Books
|-
|Jeet Thayil || Narcopolis
|Faber & Faber
|-
| rowspan="6" |Longlist
|Nicola Barker
|The Yips
|4th Estate
|-
|Ned Beauman
|The Teleportation Accident
|Sceptre
|-
|André Brink
|Philida
|Harvill Secker
|-
|Michael Frayn
|Skios
|Faber & Faber
|-
|Rachel Joyce
|The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
|Doubleday
|-
|Sam Thompson
|Communion Town
|4th Estate
|-
! rowspan="13" | 2013
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Eleanor Catton || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | The Luminaries
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Granta
| rowspan="13" |
- Robert Macfarlane (chair)
- Martha Kearney
- Stuart Kelly
- Natalie Haynes
- Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
| NoViolet Bulawayo
|| We Need New Names
|Chatto & Windus
|-
|Jim Crace || Harvest
|Picador
|-
|Jhumpa Lahiri|| The Lowland
|Bloomsbury
|-
|Ruth Ozeki|| A Tale for the Time Being
|Canongate
|-
| Colm Tóibín|| The Testament of Mary
|Viking
|-
| rowspan="7" |Longlist
|Tash Aw
|Five Star Billionaire
|4th Estate
|-
|Eve Harris
|The Marrying of Chani Kaufman
|Sandstone Press
|-
|Richard House
|The Kills
|Picador
|-
|Alison MacLeod
|Unexploded
|Hamish Hamilton
|-
|Colum McCann
|TransAtlantic
|Bloomsbury Publishing
|-
|Charlotte Mendelson
|Almost English
|Mantle
|-
|Donal Ryan
|The Spinning Heart
|Doubleday
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! rowspan="13" | 2014
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Richard Flanagan || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | The Narrow Road to the Deep North
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Chatto & Windus
| rowspan="13" |
- A. C. Grayling (chair)
- Sarah Churchwell
- Jonathan Bate
- Dr Daniel Glaser
- Dr Alastair Niven
- Erica Wagner
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| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
| Joshua Ferris|| To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
|Viking
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| Karen Joy Fowler|| We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
|Serpent's Tail
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| Howard Jacobson|| J
|Jonathan Cape
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| Neel Mukherjee|| The Lives of Others
|Chatto & Windus
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| Ali Smith|| How to Be Both
|Hamish Hamilton
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| rowspan="7" |Longlist
|Siri Hustvedt
|The Blazing World
|Sceptre Press
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|Paul Kingsnorth
|The Wake
|Unbound
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|David Mitchell
|The Bone Clocks
|Sceptre Press
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|David Nicholls
|Us
|Hodder and Stoughton
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|Joseph O'Neill
|The Dog
|4th Estate
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|Richard Powers
|Orfeo
|Atlantic Books
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|Niall Williams
|History of the Rain
|Bloomsbury
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! rowspan="13" | 2015
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Marlon James || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | A Brief History of Seven Killings
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Oneworld Publications
| rowspan="13" |
- Michael Wood (chair)
- John Burnside
- Sam Leith
- Frances Osborne
- Ellah Wakatama Allfrey
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| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
| Tom McCarthy|| Satin Island
|Jonathan Cape
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| Chigozie Obioma|| The Fishermen
|One
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|Sunjeev Sahota||The Year of the Runaways
|Picador
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| Anne Tyler|| A Spool of Blue Thread
|Chatto & Windus
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| Hanya Yanagihara|| A Little Life
|Picador
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| rowspan="7" |Longlist
|Bill Clegg
|Did You Ever Have a Family
|Gallery/Scout
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|Anne Enright
|The Green Road
|Jonathan Cape
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|Laila Lalami
|The Moor's Account
|Bloomsbury
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|Andrew O'Hagan
|The Illuminations
|Faber & Faber
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|Marilynne Robinson
|Lila
|Virago
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|Anuradha Roy
|Sleeping on Jupiter
|Maclehose Press
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|Anna Smaill
|The Chimes
|Hodder & Stoughton
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! rowspan="13" | 2016
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Paul Beatty || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | The Sellout
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Oneworld
| rowspan="13" |
- Amanda Foreman (chair)
- Jon Day
- David Harsent
- Olivia Williams
- Abdulrazak Gurnah
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| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
| Deborah Levy || Hot Milk
|Hamish Hamilton
|-
| Graeme Macrae Burnet || His Bloody Project
|Contraband
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| Ottessa Moshfegh || Eileen
|Jonathan Cape
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| David Szalay || All That Man Is
|Jonathan Cape
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| Madeleine Thien || Do Not Say We Have Nothing
|Granta
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| rowspan="7" |Longlist
|J. M. Coetzee
|The Schooldays of Jesus
|Harvill Secker
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|A.L. Kennedy
|Serious Sweet
|Jonathan Cape
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|Ian McGuire
|The North Water
|Scribner
|-
|David Means
|Hystopia
|Faber & Faber
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|Wyl Menmuir
|The Many
|Salt
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|Virginia Reeves
|Work Like Any Other
|Fanfare
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|Elizabeth Strout
|My Name Is Lucy Barton
|Viking
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! rowspan="13" | 2017
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | George Saunders || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Lincoln in the Bardo
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Bloomsbury
| rowspan="13" |
- Baroness Lola Young (chair)
- Lila Azam Zanganeh
- Sarah Hall
- Colin Thubron
- Tom Phillips
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
| Paul Auster || 4 3 2 1
|Faber & Faber
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| Emily Fridlund || History of Wolves
|Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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| Mohsin Hamid || Exit West
|Hamish Hamilton
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| Fiona Mozley || Elmet
|John Murray
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| Ali Smith || Autumn
|Hamish Hamilton
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| rowspan="7" |Longlist
|Sebastian Barry
|Days Without End
|Faber & Faber
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|Mike McCormack
|Solar Bones
|Canongate
|-
|Jon McGregor
|Reservoir 13
|4th Estate
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|Arundhati Roy
|The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
|Hamish Hamilton
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|Kamila Shamsie
|Home Fire
|Bloomsbury
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|Zadie Smith
|Swing Time
|Hamish Hamilton
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|Colson Whitehead
|The Underground Railroad
|Fleet Publishing
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! rowspan="13" | 2018
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Anna Burns || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Milkman
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Faber & Faber
| rowspan="13" |
- Kwame Anthony Appiah (chair)
- Val McDermid
- Leo Robson
- Leanne Shapton
- Jacqueline Rose
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|Esi Edugyan||Washington Black
|Serpent's Tail
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| Daisy Johnson|| Everything Under
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|Rachel Kushner||The Mars Room
|Jonathan Cape
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|Richard Powers||The Overstory
|William Heinemann
|-
|Robin Robertson||The Long Take
|Picador
|-
| rowspan="7" |Longlist
|Belinda Bauer
|Snap
|Bantam Press
|-
|Nick Drnaso
|Sabrina
|Granta
|-
|Guy Gunaratne
|In Our Mad And Furious City
|Tinder Press
|-
|Sophie Mackintosh
|The Water Cure
|Hamish Hamilton
|-
|Michael Ondaatje
|Warlight
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|Sally Rooney
|Normal People
|Faber & Faber
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|Donal Ryan
|From a Low and Quiet Sea
|Doubleday
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! rowspan="13" |2019
| rowspan="2" style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winners
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Margaret Atwood || style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |The Testaments
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Chatto & Windus
| rowspan="13" |
- Peter Florence (chair)
- Afua Hirsch
- Liz Calder
- Xiaolu Guo
- Joanna MacGregor
|-
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Bernardine Evaristo|| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" | Girl, Woman, Other
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Hamish Hamilton
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| rowspan="4" |Shortlist
|Lucy Ellmann||Ducks, Newburyport
|Galley Beggar
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|Chigozie Obioma||An Orchestra of Minorities
|Little, Brown
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|Salman Rushdie||Quichotte
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|Elif Shafak||10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
|Viking
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| rowspan="7" |Longlist
|Kevin Barry
|Night Boat to Tangier
|Canongate
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|Oyinkan Braithwaite
|My Sister, the Serial Killer
|Atlantic Books
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|John Lanchester
|The Wall
|Faber & Faber
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|Deborah Levy
|The Man Who Saw Everything
|Hamish Hamilton
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|Valeria Luiselli
|Lost Children Archive
|4th Estate
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|Max Porter
|Lanny
|Faber & Faber
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|Jeanette Winterson
|Frankissstein
|Jonathan Cape
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! rowspan="13" |2020
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Douglas Stuart|| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Shuggie Bain
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Picador
| rowspan="13" |
- Margaret Busby (chair)
- Lee Child
- Lemn Sissay
- Sameer Rahim
- Emily Wilson
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|Diane Cook ||The New Wilderness
|Oneworld Publications
|-
|Tsitsi Dangarembga||This Mournable Body
|Faber & Faber
|-
|Avni Doshi||Burnt Sugar
|Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House
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|Maaza Mengiste||The Shadow King
|Canongate
|-
|Brandon Taylor||Real Life
|Daunt Books
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| rowspan="7" |Longlist
|Gabriel Krauze
|Who They Was
|4th Estate
|-
|Hilary Mantel
|The Mirror & the Light
|4th Estate
|-
|Colum McCann
|Apeirogon
|Bloomsbury
|-
|Kiley Reid
|Such a Fun Age
|Bloomsbury
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|Anne Tyler
|Redhead by the Side of the Road
|Chatto & Windus
|-
|Sophie Ward
|Love and Other Thought Experiments
|Corsair
|-
|C Pam Zhang
|How Much of These Hills Is Gold
|Virago
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! rowspan="13" |2021
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Damon Galgut|| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |The Promise
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Chatto & Windus
| rowspan="13" |
- Maya Jasanoff (chair)
- Horatia Harrod
- Natascha McElhone
- Chigozie Obioma
- Rowan Williams
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|Anuk Arudpragasam
|A Passage North
|Granta
|-
|Patricia Lockwood
|No One Is Talking About This
|Bloomsbury
|-
|Nadifa Mohamed
|The Fortune Men
|Viking
|-
|Richard Powers
|Bewilderment
|Hutchinson Heinemann
|-
|Maggie Shipstead
|Great Circle
|Doubleday
|-
| rowspan="7" |Longlist
|Rachel Cusk
|Second Place
|Faber & Faber
|-
|Nathan Harris
|The Sweetness of Water
|Tinder Press
|-
|Kazuo Ishiguro
|Klara and the Sun
|Faber & Faber
|-
|Karen Jennings
|An Island
|Holland House Books
|-
|Mary Lawson
|A Town Called Solace
|Chatto & Windus
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|Sunjeev Sahota
|China Room
|Harvill Secker
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|Francis Spufford
|Light Perpetual
|Faber & Faber
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! rowspan="13" |2022
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Shehan Karunatilaka
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Sort of Books
| rowspan="13" |
- Neil MacGregor (chair)
- Shahidha Bari
- Helen Castor
- M. John Harrison
- Alain Mabanckou
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|NoViolet Bulawayo
|Glory
|Chatto & Windus
|-
|Percival Everett
|The Trees
|Influx Press
|-
|Alan Garner
|Treacle Walker
|4th Estate
|-
|Claire Keegan
|Small Things Like These
|Faber & Faber
|-
|Elizabeth Strout
|Oh William!
|Viking
|-
| rowspan="7" |Longlist
|Graeme Macrae Burnet
|Case Study
|Saraband
|-
|Hernán Díaz
|Trust
|Picador
|-
|Karen Joy Fowler
|Booth
|Serpent's Tail
|-
|Audrey Magee
|The Colony
|Faber & Faber
|-
|Maddie Mortimer
|Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
|Picador
|-
|Leila Mottley
|Nightcrawling
|Bloomsbury
|-
|Selby Wynn Schwartz
|After Sappho
|Galley Beggar
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! rowspan="13" | 2023
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Paul Lynch
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Prophet Song
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Oneworld Publications
| rowspan="13"|
- Esi Edugyan (chair)
- Adjoa Andoh
- Mary Jean Chan
- James S. Shapiro
- Robert Webb
|-
| rowspan="5"| Shortlist
| Sarah Bernstein
| Study for Obedience
| Granta
|-
| Jonathan Escoffery
| If I Survive You
| 4th Estate
|-
| Paul Harding
| This Other Eden
| Hutchinson Heinemann
|-
| Paul Murray
| The Bee Sting
| Hamish Hamilton
|-
| Chetna Maroo
| Western Lane
| Picador
|-
|rowspan=7|Longlist
| Ayobami Adebayo
| A Spell of Good Things
| Canongate
|-
| Sebastian Barry
| Old God's Time
| Faber & Faber
|-
| Elaine Feeney
| How to Build a Boat
| Harvill Secker
|-
| Siân Hughes
| Pearl
| Indigo Press
|-
| Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
| All the Little Bird-Hearts
| Tinder Press
|-
| Martin MacInnes
|In Ascension
| Atlantic Books
|-
| Tan Twan Eng
| The House of Doors
| Canongate
|-
! rowspan="13" | 2024
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black"|Samantha Harvey
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black"|Orbital
|style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black"|Jonathan Cape
|rowspan=13|
- Edmund de Waal (chair)
- Sara Collins
- Justine Jordan
- Yiyun Li
- Nitin Sawhney
|-
|rowspan=5|Shortlist
|Percival Everett
|James
| Mantle
|-
|Rachel Kushner
|Creation Lake
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|Anne Michaels
|Held
|Bloomsbury
|-
|Yael van der Wouden
|The Safekeep
|Viking
|-
|Charlotte Wood
|Stone Yard Devotional
|Sceptre
|-
| rowspan="7" |Longlist
|Colin Barrett
|Wild Houses
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|Rita Bullwinkel
|Headshot
|Daunt Books Originals
|-
|Hisham Matar
|My Friends
|Viking
|-
|Claire Messud
|This Strange Eventful History
|Fleet
|-
|Tommy Orange
|Wandering Stars
|Harvill Secker
|-
|Sarah Perry
|Enlightenment
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|Richard Powers
|Playground
|Hutchinson Heinemann
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! rowspan="13" |2025
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black" |Winner
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black"|David Szalay
| style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black"|Flesh
|style="background:#FAEB86; white-space:nowrap; color:black"|Jonathan Cape
| rowspan="13" |
- Roddy Doyle (chair)
- Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
- Sarah Jessica Parker
- Chris Power
- Kiley Reid
|-
| rowspan="5" |Shortlist
|Susan Choi
|Flashlight
|Jonathan Cape
|-
|Kiran Desai
|The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
|Hamish Hamilton
|-
|Katie Kitamura
|Audition
|Fern Press
|-
|Ben Markovits
|The Rest of Our Lives
|Faber
|-
|Andrew Miller
|The Land in Winter
|Sceptre
|-
| rowspan="7" |Longlist
|Claire Adam
|Love Forms
|Faber
|-
|Tash Aw
|The South
|4th Estate
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|Natasha Brown
|Universality
|Faber
|-
|Jonathan Buckley
|One Boat
|Fitzcarraldo Editions
|-
|Maria Reva
|Endling
|Virago/Little, Brown
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|Benjamin Wood
|Seascraper
|Viking
|-
|Ledia Xhoga
|Misinterpretation
|Daunt Books Originals
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Writers with multiple awards
Five authors have won the award twice:
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- Margaret Atwood
- Peter Carey
- J. M. Coetzee
- J. G. Farrell
- Hilary Mantel
Writers with multiple nominations
The following writers have received two or more nominations: