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.
How to End a Story: Collected Diaries
by Helen Garner
Baillie Gifford
Flesh
by David Szalay
Booker
Die Holländerinnen
by Dorothee Elmiger
Deutscher Buchpreis
Question 7
by Richard Flanagan
Baillie Gifford
Orbital
by Samantha Harvey
Booker
Hey guten Morgen, wie geht es dir?
by Martina Hefter
Deutscher Buchpreis
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
by John Vaillant
Baillie Gifford
Prophet Song
by Paul Lynch
Booker
Echtzeitalter
by Tonio Schachinger
Deutscher Buchpreis
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
by Katherine Rundell
Baillie Gifford
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
by Shehan Karunatilaka
Booker
A Desolation Called Peace
by Arkady Martine*
Hugo
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
by Patrick Radden Keefe
Baillie Gifford
The Promise
by Damon Galgut
Booker
Network Effect
by Martha Wells*
Hugo
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
by Craig Brown
Baillie Gifford
Shuggie Bain
by Douglas Stuart
Booker
Annette, ein Heldinnenepos
by Anne Weber
Deutscher Buchpreis
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
by Hallie Rubenhold
Baillie Gifford
The Testaments
by Margaret Atwood
Booker
The Calculating Stars
by Mary Robinette Kowal*
Hugo
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
by Serhii Plokhy
Baillie Gifford
Milkman
by Anna Burns
Booker
Archipel
by Inger-Maria Mahlke
Deutscher Buchpreis
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
by David France
Baillie Gifford
Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders
Booker
Die Hauptstadt
by Robert Menasse
Deutscher Buchpreis
East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
by Philippe Sands
Baillie Gifford
The Sellout
by Paul Beatty
Booker
Widerfahrnis
by Bodo Kirchhoff
Deutscher Buchpreis
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently
by Steve Silberman
Baillie Gifford
A Brief History of Seven Killings
by Marlon James
Booker
Die Erfindung der Roten Armee Fraktion durch einen manisch-depressiven Teenager im Sommer 1969
by Frank Witzel
Deutscher Buchpreis
H Is for Hawk
by Helen Macdonald
Baillie Gifford
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
by Richard Flanagan
Booker
Kruso
by Lutz Seiler
Deutscher Buchpreis
The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War
by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Baillie Gifford
The Luminaries
by Eleanor Catton
Booker
Das Ungeheuer
by Terézia Mora
Deutscher Buchpreis
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
by Wade Davis
Baillie Gifford
Bring Up the Bodies
by Hilary Mantel
Booker
Landgericht
by Ursula Krechel
Deutscher Buchpreis
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962
by Frank Dikötter
Baillie Gifford
The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes
Booker
In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts
by Eugen Ruge
Deutscher Buchpreis
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
by Barbara Demick
Baillie Gifford
The Finkler Question
by Howard Jacobson
Booker
The Windup Girl
by Paolo Bacigalupi*
Hugo
Leviathan or, The Whale
by Philip Hoare
Baillie Gifford
Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
Booker
Du stirbst nicht
by Kathrin Schmidt
Deutscher Buchpreis
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill House
by Kate Summerscale
Baillie Gifford
The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga
Booker
Der Turm
by Uwe Tellkamp
Deutscher Buchpreis
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Baillie Gifford
The Gathering
by Anne Enright
Booker
Die Mittagsfrau
by Julia Franck
Deutscher Buchpreis
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
by James S. Shapiro
Baillie Gifford
The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
Booker
Die Habenichtse
by Katharina Hacker
Deutscher Buchpreis
Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B. S. Johnson
by Jonathan Coe
Baillie Gifford
The Sea
by John Banville
Booker
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
by Susanna Clarke*
Hugo