Every Recorded Winner Since 2005
Scan two decades of celebrated books, grouped by award year. Click through to an award for the full history, buy links, and regional details.
Yearly breakdown
Award season highlights
4 winners recorded
Flesh
by David Szalay
Annie Bot
by Sierra Greer*
The Tainted Cup
by Robert Jackson Bennett*
The First State of Being
by Erin Entrada Kelly
Award season highlights
6 winners recorded
Orbital
by Samantha Harvey
My Great Arab Melancholy
by Lucas Rijneveld, My Heavenly Favourite (translated by Michele Hutchison)
In Ascension
by Martin MacInnes*
Some Desperate Glory
by Emily Tesh*
Someone You Can Build a Nest In
by John Wiswell*
The Eyes and the Impossible
by Dave Eggers
Award season highlights
6 winners recorded
Prophet Song
by Paul Lynch
Traces of Enayat
by Alexis Wright, Praiseworthy
Venomous Lumpsucker
by Ned Beauman*
Nettle & Bone
by Ursula Vernon (as T. Kingfisher)*
The Saint of Bright Doors
by Vajra Chandrasekera*
Freewater
by Amina Luqman-Dawson
Award season highlights
6 winners recorded
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
by Shehan Karunatilaka
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*
A Desolation Called Peace
by Arkady Martine*
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
by R. F. Kuang*
The Last Cuentista
by Donna Barba Higuera
Award season highlights
6 winners recorded
The Promise
by Damon Galgut
Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music
by Keith Ridgway, A Shock
The Animals in That Country
by Laura Jean McKay*
Network Effect
by Martha Wells*
A Master of Djinn
by P. Djèlí Clark*
When You Trap a Tiger
by Tae Keller
Award season highlights
6 winners recorded
Shuggie Bain
by Douglas Stuart
A Ghost in the Throat
by Shola von Reinhold, Lote
The Old Drift
by Namwali Serpell*
A Memory Called Empire
by Arkady Martine*
Network Effect
by Martha Wells*
New Kid
by Jerry Craft
Award season highlights
6 winners recorded
The Testaments
by Margaret Atwood
The Photographer at Sixteen
by Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport
Rosewater
by Tade Thompson*
The Calculating Stars
by Mary Robinette Kowal*
A Song for a New Day
by Sarah Pinsker*
Merci Suárez Changes Gears
by Meg Medina
Award season highlights
6 winners recorded
Milkman
by Anna Burns
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*
The Stone Sky
by N. K. Jemisin*
The Calculating Stars
by Mary Robinette Kowal*
Hello, Universe
by Erin Entrada Kelly
Award season highlights
6 winners recorded
Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders
Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
by Eley Williams, Attrib. and other stories
The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead*
The Obelisk Gate
by N. K. Jemisin*
The Stone Sky
by N. K. Jemisin*
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
by Kelly Barnhill
Award season highlights
6 winners recorded
The Sellout
by Paul Beatty
The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez
by Eimear McBride, The Lesser Bohemians
Children of Time
by Adrian Tchaikovsky*
The Fifth Season
by N. K. Jemisin*
All the Birds in the Sky
by Charlie Jane Anders*
Last Stop on Market Street
by Matt de la Peña
Award season highlights
7 winners recorded
A Brief History of Seven Killings
by Marlon James
Hungary
by László Krasznahorkai
Translated by George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet
1606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear
by Benjamin Markovits, You Don't Have to Live Like This
Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel*
The Three-Body Problem
by Cixin Liu (Chinese)*[g]
Uprooted
by Naomi Novik*
The Crossover
by Kwame Alexander
Award season highlights
6 winners recorded
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
by Richard Flanagan
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*
Ancillary Justice
by Ann Leckie*
Annihilation
by Jeff VanderMeer*
Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
by Kate DiCamillo
Award season highlights
7 winners recorded
The Luminaries
by Eleanor Catton
United States
by Lydia Davis
Translated by N/A
Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
by Jim Crace, Harvest
Dark Eden
by Chris Beckett*
Redshirts
by John Scalzi*
Ancillary Justice
by Ann Leckie*
The One and Only Ivan
by Katherine Applegate
Award season highlights
6 winners recorded
Bring Up the Bodies
by Hilary Mantel
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*
Among Others
by Jo Walton*
2312
by Kim Stanley Robinson*
Dead End in Norvelt
by Jack Gantos
Award season highlights
7 winners recorded
The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes
United States
by Philip Roth
Translated by N/A
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
by Padgett Powell, You and I
Zoo City
by Lauren Beukes*
Blackout/All Clear
by Connie Willis*
Among Others
by Jo Walton*
Moon Over Manifest
by Clare Vanderpool
Award season highlights
6 winners recorded
The Finkler Question
by Howard Jacobson
Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China
by Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters
The City & the City
by China Miéville*
The Windup Girl
by Paolo Bacigalupi*
Blackout/All Clear
by Connie Willis*
When You Reach Me
by Rebecca Stead
Award season highlights
7 winners recorded
Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
Canada
by Alice Munro
Translated by N/A
William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies
by A. S. Byatt, The Children's Book
Song of Time
by Ian R. MacLeod*
The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman*
The Windup Girl
by Paolo Bacigalupi*
The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman
Award season highlights
6 winners recorded
The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga
A Strange Eventful History
by Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture
Black Man
by Richard K. Morgan*
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
by Michael Chabon*
Powers
by Ursula K. Le Guin*
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
by Laura Amy Schlitz
Award season highlights
7 winners recorded
The Gathering
by Anne Enright
Nigeria
by Chinua Achebe
Translated by N/A
God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain
by Rosalind Belben, Our Horses in Egypt
Nova Swing
by M. John Harrison*
Rainbows End
by Vernor Vinge*
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
by Michael Chabon*
The Higher Power of Lucky
by Susan Patron
Award season highlights
6 winners recorded
The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
The Man Who Went Into the West: The Life of R. S. Thomas
by Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Air
by Geoff Ryman*
Spin
by Robert Charles Wilson*
Seeker
by Jack McDevitt*
Criss Cross
by Lynne Rae Perkins
Award season highlights
7 winners recorded
The Sea
by John Banville
Albania
by Ismail Kadare
Translated by N/A
Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream
by Ian McEwan, Saturday
Iron Council
by China Miéville*
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
by Susanna Clarke*
Camouflage
by Joe Haldeman*
Kira-Kira
by Cynthia Kadohata