♔ owned ; ❤ loved

2013

• Jim Crace, Harvest (Picador) ♔
• Lars Iyer, Exodus (Melville House)
• ✔ Eimear McBride, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing (Galley Beggar Press) ♔
• David Peace, Red or Dead (Faber and Faber)
• ✔ Ali Smith, Artful (Penguin Books) ♔
• Philip Terry, tapestry (Reality Street)

2014

• Rachel Cusk, Outline (Vintage)
• Will Eaves, The Absent Therapist (CBeditions)
• Howard Jacobson, J. (Jonathan Cape)
• Paul Kingsnorth, The Wake (Unbound Publishing)
• Zia Haider Rahman, In the Light of What We Know (Picador)
• ✔ Ali Smith, How to Be Both (Penguin) ♔/❤

2015

• ✔ Kevin Barry, Beatlebone (Canongate) ♔/❤
• Richard Beard, Acts of the Assassins (Vintage)
• Magnus Mills, The Field of the Cloth of Gold (Bloomsbury Publishing)
• Tom McCarthy, Satin Island (Jonathan Cape) ♔
• ✔ Max Porter, Grief is the Thing with Feathers (Faber and Faber) ♔/❤
• Adam Thirlwell, Lurid & Cute (Jonathan Cape) ♔

2016

• Rachel Cusk, Transit (Jonathan Cape)
• ✔ Eimear McBride, The Lesser Bohemians (Faber and Faber) ♔/❤
• ✔ Anakana Schofield, Martin John (&Other Stories) ♔/❤
• Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun (Cassava Republic Press)
• ✔ Mike McCormack, Solar Bones (Tramp Press) ♔/❤
• ✔ Deborah Levy, Hot Milk (Hamish Hamilton) ♔

2017

• Nicola Barker, H(A)PPY (William Heinemann)
• ✔ Sara Baume, A Line Made by Walking (William Heinemann) ♔/❤
• Kevin Davey, Playing Possum (Aaargh! Press)
• Jon McGregor, Reservoir 13 (Fourth Estate) ♔
• Gwendoline Riley, First Love (Granta) ♔
• Will Self, Phone (Viking) ♔

2018

• Rachel Cusk, Kudos (Faber) $
• Will Eaves, Murmur (CB Editions)
• Guy Gunaratne, In Our Mad and Furious City (Headline) $
• Gabriel Josipovici, The Cemetery in Barnes (Carcanet)
• Olivia Laing, Crudo (Picador) ♔
• Robin Robertson, The Long Take (Picador)

2019

• Amy Arnold, Slip of a Fish (And Other Stories)
• Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport (Galley Beggar Press) $
• Mark Haddon, The Porpoise (Chatto & Windus) $
• Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything (Hamish Hamilton)
• Vesna Main, Good Day? (Salt)
• Isabel Waidner, We Are Made of Diamond Stuff (Dostoyevsky Wannabe)

2020

• Anakana Schofield, Bina (Fleet) $
• Paul Griffiths, Mr Beethoven (Henningham Family Press) $
• DBC Pierre, Meanwhile in Dopamine City (Faber & Faber)
• Xiaolu Guo, A Lover's Discourse (Chatto & Windus) $
• M John Harrison, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again (Gollancz)
• Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch (Peepal Tree Press)