Shuggie Bain (2020)
- Prophet Song (2023) Paul Lynch
- The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (2022) Shehan Karunatilaka
- The Promise (2021) Damon Galgut
- Shuggie Bain (2020) Douglas Stuart
- Girl, Woman, Other (2019) Bernadine Evaristo
- The Testaments (2019) Margaret Atwood
- Milkman (2018) Anna Burns
- Lincoln in the Bardo (2017) George Saunders
- The Sellout (2016) Paul Beatty
- A Brief History of Seven Killings (2015) Marlon James
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2014) Richard Flanagan
- The Luminaries (2013) Eleanor Catton
- Bring Up The Bodies (2012) Hilary Mantel
- The Sense of an Ending (2011) Julian Barnes
- The Finkler Question (2010) Howard Jacobson
- Wolf Hall (2009) Hilary Mantel
- The White Tiger (2008) Aravind Adiga
- The Gathering (2007) Anne Enright
- The Inheritance of Loss (2006) Kiran Desai
- The Sea (2005) John Banville
- The Line of Beauty (2004) Allan Hollinghurst
- Vernon God Little (2003) DBC Pierre
- Life of Pi (2002) Yann Martel
- True History of the Kelly Gang (2001) Peter Carey
- The Blind Assassin (2000) Margaret Atwood
- Disgrace (1999) J. M. Coetzee
- Amsterdam (1998) Ian McEwan
- The God of Small Things (1997) Arundhati Roy
- Last Orders (1996) Graham Swift
- The Ghost Road (1995) Pat Barker
- How Late It Was, How Late (1994) James Kelman
- Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1993) Roddy Doyle
- Sacred Hunger (1992) Barry Unsworth
- The English Patient (1992) Michael Ondaatje
- 1991 – The Famished Road by Ben Okri
- 1990 – Possession by A. S. Byatt
- 1989 – The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- 1988 – Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
- 1987 – Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
- 1986 – The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
- 1985 – The Bone People by Keri Hulme
- 1984 – Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
- 1983 – Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee
- 1982 – Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally
- 1981 – Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
- 1980 – Rites of Passage by William Golding
- 1979 – Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
- 1978 – The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
- 1977 – Staying On by Paul Scott
- 1976 – Saville by David Storey
- 1975 – Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- 1974 – The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
- 1974 – Holiday by Stanley Middleton
- 1973 – The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell
- 1972 – G. by John Berger
- 1971 – In a Free State (short story) by V. S. Naipaul
- Troubles (1970) J. G. Farrell
- The Elected Member (1970) Bernice Rubens
- Something to Answer For (1969) P. H. Newby
