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2018
Home fire by Kamila Shamsie
The idiot by Elif Batuman
The mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
When I hit you; or, a portrait of the writer as a young wife by Meena Kandasamy
Sight by Jessie Greengrass
Sing, unburied, sing : a novel by Jesmyn Ward

2017
The power by Naomi Alderman
Stay with me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀̀
The dark circle by Linda Grant
The sport of kings by C. E. Morgan
First love by Gwendoline Riley
Do not say we have nothing : a novel by Madeleine Thien

2016
The glorious heresies : a novel by Lisa McInerney
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 : a novel by Hanya Yanagihara

2015
How to be both by Ali Smith
Outline : a novel 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

2014
A girl is a half-formed thing by Eimear McBride
Americanah : a novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Burial rites by Hannah Kent
The goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The lowland : a novel by Jhumpa Lahiri
The undertaking by Audrey Magee

2013
May we be forgiven by A. M. Homes
Bring up the bodies : a novel by Hilary Mantel
Flight behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver
Life after life : a novel by Kate Atkinson
NW : a novel by Zadie Smith
Where'd you go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

2012
The song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
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

2011
The tiger's wife by Téa Obrecht
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

2010
The lacuna : a novel by Barbara Kingsolver
The very thought of you by Rosie Alison
Black water rising by Attica Locke
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
A gate at the stairs : a novel by Lorrie Moore
The white woman on the green bicycle by Monique Roffey

2009
Home by Marilynne Robinson
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

2008
The road home by Rose Tremain
Fault lines by Nancy Huston
The outcast by Sadie Jones
When we were bad by Charlotte Mendelson
Lullabies for little criminals : a novel by Heather O'Neill
Lottery by Patricia Wood

2007
Half of a yellow sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
The inheritance of loss by Kiran Desai
A concise Chinese-English Dictionary for lovers by Xiaolu Guo
The observations : a novel by Jane Harris
Digging to America by Anne Tyler

2006
On beauty : a novel by Zadie Smith
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

2005
We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
The mammoth cheese : a novel by Sheri Holman
Liars and saints : a novel by Maile Meloy
A short history of tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka

2004
Small island by Andrea Levy
Oryx and Crake : a novel by Margaret Atwood
The great fire by Shirley Hazzard
Purple hibiscus : a novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Ice road by Gillian Slovo
The colour by Rose Tremain

2003
Property by Valerie Martin
Buddha Da by Anne Donovan
Heligoland by Shena Mackay
Unless by Carol Shields
The autograph man : a novel by Zadie Smith
The little friend by Donna Tartt

2002
Bel canto : a novel by Ann Patchett
No bones by Anna Burns
The siege by Helen Dunmore
The White family by Maggie Gee
A child's book of true crime : a novel by Chloe Hooper
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

2001
The idea of perfection by Kate Grenville
The blind assassin by Margaret Atwood
Hotel world by Ali Smith
Homestead by Rosina Lippi
Horse heaven by Jane Smiley
Fred & Edie by Jill Dawson

2000
When I lived in modern times by Linda Grant
If I told you once by Judy Budnitz
The dancers dancing by Éilis Ni Dhuibhne
White teeth : a novel by Zadie Smith
Amy and Isabelle : a novel by Elizabeth Strout
Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood : a novel by Rebecca Wells

1999
A crime in the neighborhood by Suzanne Berne
The short history of a prince : a novel by Jane Hamilton
The poisonwood Bible : a novel by Barbara Kingsolver
Paradise by Toni Morrison
The leper's companions by Julia Blackburn
Visible worlds : a novel by Marilyn Bowering

1998
Larry's party by Carol Shields
Lives of the monster dogs : a novel 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

1997
Fugitive pieces by Anne Michaels
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
I was Amelia Earhart : a novel by Jane Mendelsohn
One by one in the darkness by Deirdre Madden
Accordion crimes by E. Annie Proulx
Hen's teeth by Manda Scott

1996
A spell of winter by Helen Dunmore
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