Winners: 4/20 | Shortlisted: 8/100

Winners

• 1996: Helen Dunmore - A Spell of Winter
• 1997: Anne Michaels - Fugitive Pieces
• 1998: Carol Shields -Larry's Party
• 1999: Suzanne Berne - A Crime in the Neighborhood
• 2000: Linda Grant - When I Lived in Modern Times
• 2001: Kate Grenville - The Idea of Perfection
• 2002: Ann Patchett - Bel Canto
• 2003: Valerie Martin - Property
• 2004: Andrea Levy - Small Island
• 2005: Lionel Shriver - We Need to Talk About Kevin
• 2006: Zadie Smith - On Beauty
• 2007: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun
• 2008: Rose Tremain - The Road Home
• 2009: Marilynne Robinson - Home
• 2010: Barbara Kingsolver - The Lacuna
• 2011: Téa Obreht - The Tiger's Wife
• 2012: Madeline Miller - The oSong of Achilles
• 2013: A.M. Homes - May We Be Forgiven
• 2014: Eimear McBride - A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
• 2015: Ali Smith – How to be Both

Shortlisted

1996:

• Julia Blackburn - The Book of Colour
• Pagan Kennedy - Spinsters
• Amy Tan - The Hundred Secret Senses
• Anne Tyler - Ladder of Years
• Marianne Wiggins - Eveless Eden

1997:

• Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace
• Deirdre Madden - One by One in the Darkness
• Jane Mendelsohn - I Was Amelia Earhart
• Annie Proulx - Accordion Crimes
• Manda Scott - Hen's Teeth

1998:

• Kirsten Bakis - Lives of the Monster Dogs
• Pauline Melville - The Ventriloquist's Tale
• Ann Patchett - The Magician's Assistant
• Deirdre Purcell - Love Like Hate Adore
• Anita Shreve - The Weight of Water

1999:

• Julia Blackburn - The Leper's Companions
• Marilyn Bowering- Visible Worlds
• Jane Hamilton - The Short History of a Prince
• Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible
• Toni Morrison - Paradise

2000:

• Judy Budnitz - If I Told You Once
• Éilís Ní Dhuibhne - The Dancers Dancing
• Zadie Smith - White Teeth
• Elizabeth Strout - Amy and Isabelle
• Rebecca Wells - Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

2001:

• Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin
• Jill Dawson - Fred & Edie
• Rosina Lippi -Homestead
• Jane Smiley -Horse Heaven
• Ali Smith - Hotel World

2002:

• Anna Burns - No Bones
• Helen Dunmore - The Siege
• Maggie Gee - The White Family
• Chloe Hooper - A Child's Book of True Crime
• Sarah Waters - Fingersmith

2003:

• Anne Donovan - Buddha Da
• Shena Mackay - Heligoland
• Carol Shields - Unless
• Zadie Smith - The Autograph Man
• Donna Tartt - The Little Friend

2004:

• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Purple Hibiscus
• Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake
• Shirley Hazzard - The Great Fire
• Gillian Slovo - Ice Road
• Rose Tremain - The Colour

2005:

• Joolz Denby - Billie Morgan
• Jane Gardam - Old Filth
• Sheri Holman - The Mammoth Cheese
• Marina Lewycka - A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
• Maile Meloy - Liars and Saints

2006:

• Nicole Krauss - The History of Love
• Hilary Mantel - Beyond Black
• Ali Smith - The Accidental
• Carrie Tiffany - Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living
• Sarah Waters - The Night Watch

2007:

• Rachel Cusk - Arlington Park
• Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss
• Xiaolu Guo - A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
• Jane Harris - The Observations
• Anne Tyler - Digging to America

2008:

• Nancy Huston - Fault Lines
• Sadie Jones - The Outcast
• Charlotte Mendelson - When We Were Bad
• Heather O'Neill - Lullabies for Little Criminals
• Patricia Wood - Lottery

2009:

• Ellen Feldman - Scottsboro
• Samantha Harvey - The Wilderness
• Samantha Hunt - The Invention of Everything Else
• Deirdre Madden - Molly Fox's Birthday
• Kamila Shamsie - Burnt Shadows

2010:

• Rosie Alison - The Very Thought of You
• Attica Locke - Black Water Rising
• Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall
• Lorrie Moore - A Gate at the Stairs
• Monique Roffey - The White Woman on the Green Bicycle

2011:

• Emma Donoghue - Room
• Aminatta Forna - The Memory of Love
• Emma Henderson - Grace Williams Says it Loud
• Nicole Krauss - Great House
• Kathleen Winter - Annabel

2012:

• Esi Edugyan - Half-Blood Blues
• Anne Enright - The Forgotten Waltz
• Georgina Harding - Painter of Silence
• Cynthia Ozick - Foreign Bodies
• Ann Patchett - State of Wonder

2013:

• Maria Semple - Where'd You Go, Bernadette
• Hilary Mantel - Bring Up the Bodies
• Barbara Kingsolver - Flight Behaviour
• Kate Atkinson - Life After Life
• Zadie Smith - NW

2014:

• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah
• Hannah Kent - Burial Rites
• Jhumpa Lahiri - The Lowland
• Audrey Magee - The Undertaking
• Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch

2015:

• Rachel Cusk – Outline
• Laline Paull – The Bees
• Kamila Shamsie – A God in Every Stone
• Anne Tyler – A Spool of Blue Thread
• Sarah Waters – The Paying Guests