| Year |
Category |
Shortlists |
Winner
|
| 2016[5]
|
Fiction
|
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
|
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
|
| The Green Road by Anne Enright
|
| The Muse by Jessie Burton
|
| This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell
|
| The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon
|
| Non-Fiction
|
It's All in Your Head by Suzanne O'Sullivan
|
Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
|
| Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane
|
| Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
|
| SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
|
| The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
|
| When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
|
| Biography & Autobiography
|
Alive Alive Oh! by Diana Athill
|
The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes From a Small Island
by Bill Bryson
|
| At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell
|
| Fingers in the Sparkle Jar by Chris Packham
|
| The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf
|
| The Last Act of Love by Cathy Rentzenbrink
|
The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes From a Small Island
by Bill Bryson
|
| Children's
|
Beetle Boy by M. G. Leonard
|
The Detective Dog by Julia Donaldson and Sara Ogilvie
|
| One by Sarah Crossan
|
| The Bear and the Piano by David Litchfield
|
The Day the Crayons Came Home
by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers
|
| The Detective Dog by Julia Donaldson and Sara Ogilvie
|
| The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
|
| Beautiful Book
|
Cartes Postales from Greece by Victoria Hislop
|
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
|
| Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
|
| Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
|
| Herbarium by Caz Hildebrand
|
| The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
|
| Breakthrough Author
|
Abi Elphinstone
|
Joanna Cannon
|
| Amy Liptrot
|
| Andrew Michael Hurley
|
| Han Kang
|
| Joanna Cannon
|
| Kit de Waal
|
| Lisa McInerney
|
| Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
|
| Readers' Choice
|
|
The Good Immigrant edited by Nikesh Shukla
|
| 2017[6]
|
Popular Fiction
|
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
|
How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
|
| How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
|
| Munich by Robert Harris
|
| The Dry by Jane Harper
|
| The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
|
| The Power by Naomi Alderman
|
| Non-Fiction
|
East West Street by Philippe Sands
|
This Is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
|
| Scribbles in the Margins by Daniel Gray
|
| The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrère
|
| This Is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
|
| Travels with my Sketchbook by Chris Riddell
|
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
by Reni Eddo-Lodge
|
| Novel
|
Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore
|
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
|
| Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
|
| Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
|
| Swing Time by Zadie Smith
|
| The End We Start From by Megan Hunter
|
| The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
|
| Young Adult
|
Piglettes by Clémentine Beauvais
|
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
|
| Release by Patrick Ness
|
| Ink by Alice Broadway
|
| The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
|
| Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls
|
| Welcome to Nowhere by Elizabeth Laird
|
| Middle Grade
|
Letters From the Lighthouse by Emma Carroll
|
Letters From the Lighthouse by Emma Carroll
|
| Moonlocket by Peter Bunzl
|
| Radio Boy by Christian O'Connell
|
| The Explorer by Katherine Rundell
|
| The Guggenheim Mystery by Robin Stephens and Siobhan Dowd
|
| Who Let the Gods Out by Maz Evans
|
| Beautiful Book
|
As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Alex Preston and Neil Gower
|
The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris
|
| Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
|
| Ravilious & Co by Andy Friend
|
| Tangleweed and Brine by Deirdre Sullivan
|
| The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley
|
| The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris
|
| Breakthrough Author
|
Abir Mukherjee
|
Kae Tempest
|
| Édouard Louis
|
| Fiona Mozley
|
| Harriet Cummings
|
| Kae Tempest
|
| Mary Paulson-Ellis
|
| Readers' Choice
|
|
This Is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
|
| 2018[7]
|
Novel
|
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
|
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
|
| Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLaverty
|
| The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
|
| The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
|
| The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
|
| Tin Man by Sarah Winman
|
| Non-Fiction
|
Educated by Tara Westover
|
The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
by The Secret Barrister
|
| How Not to Be a Boy by Robert Webb
|
| I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'Farrell
|
| Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig
|
| The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
|
The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
by The Secret Barrister
|
| Poetry
|
100 Poems by Seamus Heaney
|
The Last Hedgehog by Pam Ayres
|
| England: Poems from a School edited by Kate Clanchy
|
| Off the Shelf edited by Carol Ann Duffy
|
| She Must Be Mad by Charly Cox
|
| The Last Hedgehog by Pam Ayres
|
| The Poetry Pharmacy by William Sieghart
|
| Young Adult
|
A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge
|
La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One
by Philip Pullman
|
| A Sky Painted Gold by Laura Wood
|
| Bookshop Girl by Chloe Coles
|
| Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
|
La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One
by Philip Pullman
|
| Where the World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean
|
| Middle Grade
|
A Spoonful of Murder by Robin Stevens
|
The Storm Keeper's Island by Catherine Doyle
|
| Brightstorm by Vashti Hardy
|
| Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend
|
Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different
by Ben Brooks and Quinton Winter
|
| The 1,000-year-old Boy by Ross Welford
|
| The Storm Keeper's Island by Catherine Doyle
|
| Beautiful Book
|
A Sky Painted Gold by Laura Wood
|
Virago Modern Classics 40th anniversary series
designed by Hannah Wood, illustrated by Yehrin Tong
|
| Bookworm by Lucy Mangan
|
| Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively
|
| The Librarian by Salley Vickers
|
The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood
by John Lewis-Stempel
|
Virago Modern Classics 40th anniversary series
designed by Hannah Wood, illustrated by Yehrin Tong
|
| Breakthrough Author
|
A J Pearce
|
Sarah J. Harris
|
| Joe Heap
|
| Laura Carlin
|
| Polly Clark
|
| Preti Taneja
|
| Sarah J. Harris
|
| Sophie Mackintosh
|
| Tommy Orange
|
| Readers' Choice
|
|
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
|
| Outstanding Contribution to Bookselling
|
|
Vivian Archer, Newham Bookshop
|
| 2019[8]
|
Fiction
|
Lanny by Max Porter
|
Circe by Madeline Miller
|
| Circe by Madeline Miller
|
| An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
|
| The Binding by Bridget Collins
|
| Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession
|
| Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
|
| Non-Fiction
|
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
|
Becoming by Michelle Obama
|
| Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm by Isabella Tree
|
| No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
|
| Becoming by Michelle Obama
|
| Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
|
| A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings by Helen Jukes
|
| Poetry
|
The Flame by Leonard Cohen
|
The Flame by Leonard Cohen
|
| Poems to Fall in Love With by Chris Riddell
|
| The Poetry Pharmacy Returns by William Sieghart
|
| The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
|
| The Girl Aquarium by Jen Campbell
|
| A Year of Nature Poems by Joseph Coelho and Kelly Louise Judd
|
| Young Adult
|
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
|
Toffee by Sarah Crossan
|
| "I Will Not Be Erased": Our stories about growing up as people of colour by gal-dem
|
| Proud by various authors with foreword by Juno Dawson
|
| Toffee by Sarah Crossan
|
| Becoming Dinah by Kit de Waal
|
| Heartstopper Volume 1 by Alice Oseman
|
| Children's Fiction
|
Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
|
No Ballet Shoes In Syria by Catherine Bruton
|
| Malamander by Thomas Taylor
|
| Tilly and the Bookwanderers by Anna James
|
| No Ballet Shoes In Syria by Catherine Bruton
|
| Rumblestar by Abi Elphinstone
|
| The Good Thieves by Katherine Rundell
|
| Beautiful Book
|
Circe by Madeline Miller
|
The Binding by Bridget Collins
|
| The Binding by Bridget Collins
|
| The Lost Words: Spell Songs by various including Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris
|
| How To Eat a Peach by Diana Henry
|
| Migrations: Open Hearts, Open Borders with foreword by Shaun Tan
|
| All the Ways to be Smart by Davina Bell and Allison Colpoys
|
| Breakthrough Author
|
Candice Carty-Williams
|
Greta Thunberg
|
| Raynor Winn
|
| Ocean Vuong
|
| Onjali Q. Raúf
|
| Greta Thunberg
|
| Kerry Hudson
|
| Readers' Choice
|
|
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
|
| Outstanding Contribution to Bookselling
|
|
Trevor Goul-Wheeker, former chairman at Blackwell's
|
| 2020[9]
|
Fiction
|
Boy Parts by Eliza Clark
|
The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton
|
| The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton
|
| Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-joo
|
| The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
|
| Weather by Jenny Offill
|
| Non-Fiction
|
The Dance Cure by Dr Peter Lovatt
|
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
|
| Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
|
| Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
|
Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent
by Priyamvada Gopal
|
| Poetry
|
Homie by Danez Smith
|
Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright: An Animal Poem
for Every Day of the Year by Britta Teckentrup and Fiona Waters
|
| Seagull Seagull by James K. Baxter
|
| Sylvanian Family by Summer Young
|
Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright: An Animal Poem
for Every Day of the Year by Britta Teckentrup and Fiona Waters
|
| Young Adult Fiction
|
Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi
|
Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
|
| Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
|
| The Crossover: Graphic Novel by Kwame Alexander
|
| Heartstopper Vol 3 by Alice Oseman
|
| Children's Fiction
|
A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll
|
The Highland Falcon Thief by M. G. Leonard & Sam Sedgman
|
| Blended by Sharon Draper
|
| Gargantis by Thomas Taylor
|
| The Highland Falcon Thief by M. G. Leonard & Sam Sedgman
|
| Breakthrough Author
|
Brit Bennett
|
Jean Menzies
|
| Jean Menzies
|
| Kiley Reid
|
| Douglas Stuart
|
| Readers' Choice
|
|
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
|
| 2021[10]
|
Fiction
|
Still Life by Sarah Winman
|
Still Life by Sarah Winman
|
| Assembly by Natasha Brown
|
| Panenka by Rónán Hession
|
| The Appeal by Janice Hallett
|
| Non-Fiction
|
The Power of Geography by Tim Marshall
|
I Belong Here by Anita Sethi
|
| Ancestors by Alice Roberts
|
| The Book of Trespass by Nick Hayes
|
| I Belong Here by Anita Sethi
|
| Poetry
|
The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman
|
The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman
|
| Slug by Hollie McNish
|
| Empty Nest by Carol Ann Duffy
|
| The Heeding by Rob Cowen & Nick Hayes
|
| Young Adult Fiction
|
The Great Godden by Meg Rosoff
|
Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
|
| The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne by Jonathan Stroud
|
| Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
|
| All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O'Donoghue
|
| Children's Fiction
|
Amari and the Night Brothers by BB Alston
|
When the Sky Falls by Phil Earle
|
| Show Us Who You Are by Elle McNicoll
|
| By Ash, Oak and Thorn by Melissa Harrison
|
| When the Sky Falls by Phil Earle
|
| Breakthrough Author
|
Dara McAnulty
|
Marcus Rashford
|
| Elle McNicoll
|
| Monique Roffey
|
| Marcus Rashford
|
| Readers' Choice
|
|
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
|
| 2022[11]
|
Fiction
|
Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
|
Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson
|
| Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson
|
| Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
|
| Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
|
| Non-Fiction
|
Ghost Signs by Stu Hennigan
|
The Transgender Issue by Shon Faye
|
| Otherlands: A World in the Making by Thomas Halliday
|
| The Transgender Issue by Shon Faye
|
| Without Warnings and Only Sometimes by Kit de Waal
|
| Poetry
|
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in her Head by Warsan Shire
|
The Fire People: A Collection of British Black and Asian Poetry by Lemn Sissay
|
| The Fire People: A Collection of British Black and Asian Poetry by Lemn Sissay
|
| Limbic by Peter Scalpello
|
| 100 Queer Poems edited by Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan
|
| Young Adult Fiction
|
All That's Left in the World by Erik J. Brown
|
All That's Left in the World by Erik J. Brown
|
| I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston
|
| The King Is Dead by Benjamin Dean
|
| When Our Worlds Collided by Danielle Jawando
|
| Children's Fiction
|
Grimwood: Let the Fur Fly! by Nadia Shireen
|
Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good by Louie Stowell
|
| Like a Charm by Elle McNicoll
|
| Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good by Louie Stowell
|
| Skandar and the Unicorn Thief by A. F. Steadman
|
| Breakthrough Author
|
Mieko Kawakami
|
Alice Oseman
|
| Alice Oseman
|
| Jamie Smart
|
| Gabrielle Zevin
|
| Readers' Choice
|
|
Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
|
| 2023[12]
|
Fiction
|
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
|
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
|
| Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
|
| Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
|
| Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang
|
| Non-Fiction
|
Ultra Processed People by Chris van Tulleken
|
Strong Female Character by Fern Brady
|
| Why Women Grow by Alice Vincent
|
| Pageboy by Elliot Page
|
| Strong Female Character by Fern Brady
|
| Poetry
|
Divisible By Itself and One by Kae Tempest
|
The Cat Prince & Other Poems by Michael Pedersen
|
| More Fiya by Kayo Chingonyi
|
| Bad Diaspora Poems by Momtaza Mehri
|
| The Cat Prince & Other Poems by Michael Pedersen
|
| Young Adult Fiction
|
Gwen and Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher
|
Gwen and Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher
|
| Promise Boys by Nick Brooks
|
| The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes
|
| Girl, Goddess, Queen by Bea Fitzgerald
|
| Children's Fiction
|
Jamie by L. D. Lapinski
|
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
|
| Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
|
| The Skull by Jon Klassen
|
| Greenwild by Pari Thomson, illustrated by Elisa Paganelli
|
| Breakthrough Author
|
Rebecca F. Kuang
|
Bonnie Garmus
|
| Bonnie Garmus
|
| Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
|
| Sheena Patel
|
| Readers' Choice
|
|
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
|
