2023 – Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
2022 – The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
2021 – Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
2020 – Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
2019 – An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
2018 – Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
2017 – The Power by Naomi Alderman
2016 – The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney
2015 – How to Be Both by Ali Smith
2014 – A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
2013 – May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes
2012 – The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
2011 – The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obrecht
2010 – The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
2009 – Home by Marilynne Robinson
2008 – The Road Home by Rose Tremain
2007 – Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2006 – On Beauty by Zadie Smith
2005 – We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
2004 – Small Island by Andrea Levy
2003 – Property by Valerie Martin
2002 – Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
2001 – The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville
2000 – When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant
1999 – A Crime in the Neighbourhood by Suzanne Berne
1998 – Larry’s Party by Carol Shields
1997 – Fugitive Pieces by Ann Michaels
1996 – A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore