Two Decades of Award-Winning Books
Follow every recorded award year and scan the standout winners. This condensed view surfaces each season's highlights across all regions.
Flesh
by David Szalay
Booker
Annie Bot
by Sierra Greer*
Clarke Award
The Tainted Cup
by Robert Jackson Bennett*
Hugo
Orbital
by Samantha Harvey
Booker
My Great Arab Melancholy
by Lucas Rijneveld, My Heavenly Favourite (translated by Michele Hutchison)
In Ascension
by Martin MacInnes*
Clarke Award
Prophet Song
by Paul Lynch
Booker
Traces of Enayat
by Alexis Wright, Praiseworthy
Venomous Lumpsucker
by Ned Beauman*
Clarke Award
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
by Shehan Karunatilaka
Booker
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
by Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
Deep Wheel Orcadia
by Harry Josephine Giles*
Clarke Award
The Promise
by Damon Galgut
Booker
Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music
by Keith Ridgway, A Shock
The Animals in That Country
by Laura Jean McKay*
Clarke Award
Shuggie Bain
by Douglas Stuart
Booker
A Ghost in the Throat
by Shola von Reinhold, Lote
The Old Drift
by Namwali Serpell*
Clarke Award
The Testaments
by Margaret Atwood
Booker
The Photographer at Sixteen
by Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport
Rosewater
by Tade Thompson*
Clarke Award
Milkman
by Anna Burns
Booker
In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin
by Olivia Laing, Crudo
Dreams Before the Start of Time
by Anne Charnock*
Clarke Award
Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders
Booker
Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
by Eley Williams, Attrib. and other stories
The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead*
Clarke Award
The Sellout
by Paul Beatty
Booker
The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez
by Eimear McBride, The Lesser Bohemians
Children of Time
by Adrian Tchaikovsky*
Clarke Award
A Brief History of Seven Killings
by Marlon James
Booker
Hungary
by László Krasznahorkai
Int. Booker
1606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear
by Benjamin Markovits, You Don't Have to Live Like This
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
by Richard Flanagan
Booker
The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Family
by Zia Haider Rahman, In the Light of What We Know
Ancillary Justice
by Ann Leckie*
Clarke Award
The Luminaries
by Eleanor Catton
Booker
United States
by Lydia Davis
Int. Booker
Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
by Jim Crace, Harvest
Bring Up the Bodies
by Hilary Mantel
Booker
The Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew, Modern Pots, Colonialism and the Counterculture
by Alan Warner, The Deadman's Pedal
The Testament of Jessie Lamb
by Jane Rogers*
Clarke Award
The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes
Booker
United States
by Philip Roth
Int. Booker
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
by Padgett Powell, You and I
The Finkler Question
by Howard Jacobson
Booker
Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China
by Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters
The City & the City
by China Miéville*
Clarke Award
Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
Booker
Canada
by Alice Munro
Int. Booker
William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies
by A. S. Byatt, The Children's Book
The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga
Booker
A Strange Eventful History
by Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture
Black Man
by Richard K. Morgan*
Clarke Award
The Gathering
by Anne Enright
Booker
Nigeria
by Chinua Achebe
Int. Booker
God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain
by Rosalind Belben, Our Horses in Egypt
The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
Booker
The Man Who Went Into the West: The Life of R. S. Thomas
by Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Air
by Geoff Ryman*
Clarke Award
The Sea
by John Banville
Booker
Albania
by Ismail Kadare
Int. Booker
Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream
by Ian McEwan, Saturday