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Waterstones Book of the Year

2017
La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One by Philip Pullman Illustrated by Chris Wormell

Shortlist
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo
A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge
The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane Illustrated by Jackie Morris
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Mr Lear by Jenny Uglow
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy by Yanis Varoufakis

2016
Winner
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry

Shortlist
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
The Optician of Lampedusa by Emma-Jane Kirby
The Tale of Kitty in Boots by Beatrix Potter Illustrated by Quentin Blake
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by JK Rowling , John Tiffany & Jack Thorne

2015
Winner
The Fox and The Star by Coralie Bickford-Smith

Shortlist
SPQR by Mary Beard
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
The Shepherd's Life by James Rebanks
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

2014
Winner
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton

Shortlist
Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Once Upon An Alphabet by Oliver Jeffers
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty

2013
Winner
Stoner by John Williams

Shortlist
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Levels of Life by Julian Barnes
The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil by Stephen Collins
Maps by Aleksandra Mizielinska & Daniel Mizielinski
Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe

2012
Winner
POLPO by Russell Norman

Shortlist
HHhH by Laurent Binet
Patrick Leigh-Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper
On The Map by Simon Garfield
The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane
Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

Man Booker International Prize 2018

Longlist

The 7th Function of Language by Laurent Binet
The Impostor by Javier Cercas
Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz
The White Book by Han Kang
The World Goes On by László Krasznahorkai
The Stolen Bicycle by Wu Ming-Yi
Like a Fading Shadow by Antonio Munoz Molina
The Flying Mountain by Christoph Ransmayr
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
The Dinner Guest by Gabriela Ybarra

Women's Prize for Fiction 2018

Longlist
H(A)PPY by Nicola Barker
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
Three Things About Elsie by Joanna Cannon
Miss Burma by Charmaine Craig
The Trick to Time by Kit de Waal
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
Sight by Jessie Greengrass
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy
Elmet by Fiona Mozley
The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt
A Boy in Winter by Rachel Seiffert
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Guardian Not the Booker Prize 2017

Winner
Dark Chapter by Winnie M Li

Shortlist
Not Thomas by Sara Gethin
The Threat Level Remains Severe by Rowena Macdonald
The Ludlow Ladies’ Society by Ann O'Loughlin
Man with a Seagull on His Head by Harriet Paige
Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout

Longlist
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Open My Eyes, That I May See Marvellous Things by Alice Allan
The Rift by Nina Allan
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
An American Decade by Richard Aronowitz
The Night Visitors by Jenn Ashworth & Richard V Hirst
The Golden Legend by Nadeem Aslam
Dark Waters by Sara Bailey
H(A)PPY by Nicola Barker
Greatest Hits by Laura Barnett
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
A Line Made By Walking by Sara Baume
The Gingerbread House by Kate Beaufoy
Two Cousins of Azov by Andrea Bennett
The Last Wave by Gillian Best
The Return of the Courtesan by Victoria Blake
The Cruelty of Lambs by Angelena Boden
No Place To Call Home by JJ Bola
The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Guest by SJ Bradley
Sealskin by Su Bristow
Ink by Alice Broadway
The Clocks in the House All Tell Different Times by Xan Brooks
Marlena by Julie Buntin
Moonglow by Michael Chabon
In the Still by Jacqueline Chadwick
Larchfield by Polly Clark
Death’s Silent Judgement by Anne Coates
Moving Kings by Joshua Cohen
The Uncommon Life of Alfred Warner in Six Days by Juliet Conlin
These Dividing Walls by Fran Cooper
Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patty Yumi Cottrell
The Lie of the Land by Amanda Craig
Don’t Look for Me by Mason Cross
Moonrise by Sarah Crossan
Our Bright Dark Summer by Richard Daniels
Universal Harvester by John Darnielle
Little Bird by Sharon Dempsey
Day 7 by Kerry Drewery
In the Name of the Family by Sarah Dunant
Goblin by Ever Dundas
The Dragonfly by Kate Dunn
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames
The Hopkins Conundrum by Simon Edge
Doorways: A Bermuda Jones Casefile by Robert Enright
Finding Alison by Deirdre Eustace
Death of a Devil by Derek Farrell
The Sewing Machine by Natalie Fergie
Desperation Road by Michael Farris Smith
All The Good Things by Clare Fisher
Little Deaths by Emma Flint
This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel
Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller
This is How We Talk by Julian Furman
All the Places I’ve Ever Lived by David Gafney
Every Fox is a Rabid Fox by Harry Gallon
The Giddy Career of Mr Gadd (Deceased) by Marie Gameson
Montpelier Parade by Karl Geary
Strange Heart Beating by Eli Goldstone
The Dark Circle by Linda Grant
Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash
How To Stop Time by Matt Haig
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Reconciliation for the Dead by Paul E Hardisty
The Dry by Jane Harper
Seeking Eden by Beverley Harvey
None So Blind by Alis Hawkins
The Other Twin by LV Hay
Spook Street by Mick Herron
The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
Flesh Evidence by Malcolm Hollingdrake
Pseudotooth by Verity Holloway
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Another Justified Sinner by Sophie Hopesmith
The Evening Road by Laird Hunt
The End We Start From by Megan Hunter
The Dark Places by Elizabeth Jenner
Travels with My Father by Karen Jennings
The Haunting of Henry Twist by Rebecca F John
Court of Lions by Jane Johnson
Wait for Me, Jack by Addison Jones
Anglesey Blue by Dylan H Jones
Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandaswamy
The Dancing Girl and the Turtle by Karen Kao
English Animals by Laura Kaye
This is Memorial Device by David Keenan
The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan
Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong
Himself by Jess Kidd
Handcuffs, Truncheon, and a Polyester Thong by Gina Kirkham
The Friend by Dorothy Koomson
The Patriots by Sana Krasikov
At First Light by Vanessa LaFaye
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The State of Grace by Rachel Lucas
Legends of Persia by Jennifer Macaire
Being Simon Haines by Tom Vaughan MacAulay
Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLaverty
An Honest Deceit by Guy Mankowski
How Saints Die by Carmen Marcus
Rapeseed by Alwyn Marriage
The Wild Air by Rebecca Mascull
Dare to Fall by Estelle Maskame
Stronger Than Skin by Stephen May
The Gift Maker by Mark Mayes
Flesh of the Peach by Helen McClory
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack
Narcissism for Beginners by Martine McDonagh
The Book of Harlan by Bernice L McFadden
The Watch House by Bernie McGill
Electric Souk by Rose McGinty
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
A Ton of Malice by Barry McKinley
Ithaca by Alan McMonagle
Under the Almond Tree by Laura McVeigh
An Unlikely Agent by Jane Menczer
All the Galaxies by Philip Miller
State of Freedom by Neel Mukherjee
The Possessions by Sara Flannery Murphy
The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers
We Shall Not All Sleep by Estep Nagy
Release by Patrick Ness
Beware the Cuckoo by Julie Newman
The End of the Day by Claire North
In the Absence of Absalon by Simon Okotie
Brat by Ghillian Potts
The Jungle by Pooja Puri
The Secret Wound by Deirdre Quiery
A Natural by Ross Raisin
Blame by Paul Read
The Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak
A Song For Will by Hilary Robinson
The Tryst by Monique Roffey
Little Gold by Allie Rogers
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
Unspeakable by Dilys Rose
“Green Lion” by Henrietta Rose-Innes
The Man Who Loved Islands by David F Ross
The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
An English Guide to Birdwatching by Nicholas Royle
The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir by Jennifer Ryan
Flesh and Bone and Water by Luiza Sauma
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Mary’s the Name by Ross Sayer
See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt
Dead Cat Bounce by Kevin Scott
Phone by Will Self
Fallow by Daniel Shand
The Prague Ultimatum by James Silvester
A Woman of Integrity by J David Simons
The Cardinal’s Man by MG Sinclair
The Red Cobra by Rob Sinclair
A Murder of Crows by Ian Skewis
Autumn by Ali Smith
The Speech by Andrew Smith
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
Falling Creatures by Katherine Stansfield
Widdershins by Helen Steadman
Conflicts of Interest by Terry Stiastny
How to Kill Friends and Implicate People by Jay Stringer
Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile by Adelle Stripe
Sympathy by Olivia Sudjic
A Sea of Straw by Julia Sutton
Players of the Game by Graeme K Talboys
Losing Juliet by June Taylor
Black Wave by Michelle Tea
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Missing Fay by Adam Thorpe
House of Names by Colm Toibin
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Eyes of the Blind by Alex Tresillian
A Thousand Paper Birds by Tor Udall
The Witchfinder's Sister by Beth Underdown
Spoils by Brian Van Reet
Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
A Monster by Violet by Laura Wake
Not the Only Sky by Alyssa Warren
The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Man Who Played Trains by Richard Whittle
The Goddess Project by Bryan Wigmore
Skin Deep by Laura Wilkinson
Street Song by Sheena Wilkinson
The Ninth Rain by Jen Williams
The Photographer by Meike Ziervogel

Guardian Not the Booker Prize 2016

Winner
The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel

Shortlist
Walking the Lights by Deborah Andrews
The Combinations by Louis Armand
What Will Remain by Dan Clements
The Less Than Perfect Legend of Donna Creosote by Dan Micklethwaite
Chains of Sand by Jemma Wayne

Longlist
You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott
The Lonely Life of Biddy Weir by Lesley Allen
The Storyteller by Kate Armstrong
The Last Days Of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp
Fell by Jenn Ashworth
The Throwback Special by Chris Bachelder
A Country Road by Jo Baker
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
Rush Oh! by Shirley Barrett
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
The Mountain in My Shoe by Louise Beech
Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett
Dodgers by Bill Beverly
The Wave by Lochlan Bloom
Sitting Ducks by Lisa Blower
Everyone Is Watching by Megan Bradbury
The Memory Stones by Caroline Brothers
Wild Life by Liam Brown
Harmless Like You by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Addlands by Tom Bullough
The Black Path by Paul Burston
Glass Houses by Jackie Buxton
The Swimming Pool by Louise Candlish
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon
The Last Photograph by Emma Chapman
Tainted Love by Anna Chilvers
Everyone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
The Girls by Emma Cline
Stickleback by Mark Connors
River of Ink by Paul MM Cooper
Paris Mon Amour by Isabel Costello
Dodge Rose by Jack Cox
The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin
Transit by Rachel Cusk
The Confession of Stella Moon by Shelley Day
Zero K by Don DeLillo
Bright Stars by Sophie Duffy
Nowhere Girl by Ruth Dugdall
Country Life by Ken Edwards
Stone Seeds by Jo Ely
Back to Moscow by Guillermo Erades
Eleven Hours by Pamela Erens
The Wacky Man by Lyn G Farrell
What a Way to Go by Julia Forster
The Shapes Of Dogs’ Eyes by Harry Gallon
Nine Folds Make A Paper Swan by Ruth Gilligan
The Words in My Hand by Guinevere Glasfurd
We Go Around in the Night Consumed By Fire by Jules Grant
What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
Infinite Rooms by David John Griffin
Epiphany Jones by Michael Grothaus
The Bastard Wonderland by Lee Harrison
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
Graft by Matt Hill
Blood and Roses by Catherine Hokin
The Ballroom by Anna Hope
The Countenance Divine by Michael Hughes
Europe at Midnight by Dave Hutchinson
In Her Wake by Amanda Jennings
Born on a Tuesday by Elnathan John
The Living by Anjali Joseph
Sometimes a River Song by Avril Joy
The World Without Us by Mireille Juchau
Dirt Road by James Kelman
Everything Love Is by Claire King
The Outside Lands by Hannah Kohler
Amy and the Fox by John Lake
Shtum by Jem Lester
Raven and Skull by Ashley Lister
Ghostbird by Carol Lovekin
Armadillos by PK Lynch
Infinite Ground by Martin MacInnes
The Brilliant and Forever by Kevin MacNeil
Dodge and Burn by Seraphina Madsen
The Turning Tide by Brooke Magnanti
Sofia Khan is not Obliged by Ayisha Malik
Bad Samaritan by Michael J Malone
The Waves Burn Bright by Iain Maloney
Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun by Sarah Ladipo Manyika
The Darkest Secret by Alex Marwood
Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann
The North Water by Ian McGuire
The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie
The Many by Wyl Menmuir
Knowing Anna by Sarah Meyrick
This Census-Taker by China Miéville
Augustown by Kei Miller
Jerusalem by Alan Moore
Death and the Seaside by Alison Moore
When the Floods Came by Clare Morrall
The Natashas by Yelena Moskovich
The Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
Resolution Way by Carl Neville
Fractured by Clár Ni Chonghaile
Duff by Suzy Norman
Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain by Barney Norris
The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North
The Little Red Chairs by Edna O'Brien
The Maker of Swans by Paraic O'Donnell
This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell
Anatomy of a Soldier by Harry Parker
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
The Dowry Blade by Cherry Potts
The Unforgotten by Laura Powell
The Gradual by Christopher Priest
The Amber Shadows by Lucy Ribchester
After She Fell by Mary-Jane Riley
The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts
A Mystery’s No Problem by Lou Rowan
As If I Were a River by Amanda Saint
Willnot by James Sallis
They Are Trying to Break Your Heart by David Savill
Martin John by Anakana Schofield
The Comet Seekers by Helen Sedgwick
The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver
The Kept Woman by Karin Slaughter
Changed Times by Ethyl Smith
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
If You Look For Me I Am Not Here by Sarayu Srivatsa
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Hunters and Collectors by M Suddain
Owl Song at Dawn by Emma Claire Sweeney
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
All That Man Is by David Szalay
Melissa by Jonathan Taylor
Lingua Franca by William Thacker
Jihadi: A Love Story by Yusuf Toropov
Killing Hapless Alley by Anna Vaught
Smoke by Dan Vyleta
A Quiet Life by Natasha Walter
Love and a Dozen Roast Potatoes by Simon Wan
Foxlowe by Eleanor Wasserberg
Tall Oaks by Chris Whitaker
The Arrival of the Missives by Aliya Whiteley
The Reflection by Hugo Wilcken
The Blackbird Singularity by Matt Wilven
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
Three Craws by James Yorkston

Guardian Not the Booker Prize 2015

Winner
Fishnet by Kirstin Innes

Shortlist
Shame by Melanie Finn
The Artificial Anatomy of Parks by Kat Gordon
Things We Have In Common by Tasha Kavanagh
Dark Star by Oliver Langmead
The Good Son by Paul McVeigh

Longlist
Abacus by Louis Armand
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume
Acts of the Assassins by Richard Beard
Dorek: Deaf and Unheard by Patricia Borlenghi
Real Monsters by Liam Brown
The Longest Fight by Emily Bullock
Tying Down the Lion by Joanna Campbell
Glass by Alex Christofi
Green Glowing Skull by Gavin Corbett
Across the Rebel Network by Peter Cowlam
Sweetland by Michael Crummey
The Limits of the World by Andrew Raymond Drennan
Mr Mac and Me by Esther Freud
Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller
All Involved by Ryan Gattis
A Moment More Sublime by Stephen Grant
The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall
The A-Z of You and Me by James Hannah
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
One Third of Paradise by Julietta Harvey
The Making of Zombie Wars by Aleksandar Hemon
Tokyo by Nicholas Hogg
In My House by Alex Hourston
The Bones of You by Debbie Howells
The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
A Field Guide to Lost Things by Peter Jaeger
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
The Last Pilot by Benjamin Johncock
Esperanza Street by Niyati Keni
Nobody Is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey
A Want of Kindness: A Novel of Queen Anne by Joanne Limburg
Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish
Pleasantville by Attica Locke
The Letters of Ivor Punch by Colin Macintyre
Mourning by Richard Makin
Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
Mrs Engels by Gavin McCrea
The Blue Horse by Philip Miller
Bitter Sixteen by Stefan Mohamed
Beauty Tips for Girls by Margaret Montgomery
The Mark and the Void by Paul Murray
The Rocks by Peter Nichols
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
Black Neon by Tony O'Neill
Church of Marvels by Leslie Parry
The Death House by Sarah Pinborough
Mercy Seat by Wayne Price
The Hourglass Factory by Lucy Ribchester
Lila by Marilynne Robinson
Out of Such Darkness by Robert Ronsson
Meridian by David Rose
The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard
Way Down Dark by JP Smythe
The Secret to Not Drowning by Colette Snowden
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
The Shore by Sara Taylor
The Seed Collectors by Scarlett Thomas
Find Me by Laura Van Den Berg
The Followers by Rebecca Wait
Rawblood by Catriona Ward
The Ecliptic by Benjamin Wood
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
The Wallcreeper by Nell Zink

Guardian Not the Booker Prize 2014

Winner
The Visitors by Simon Sylvester

Shortlist
Cairo by Louis Armand
The Last Tiger by Tony Black
First time Solo by Iain Maloney
The Smoke Is Rising by Mahesh Rao
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Longlist
Son of the Morning by Mark Alder
Faded Letters by Maurizio Ascari
Travelling Sprinkler by Nicholson Baker
In the Approaches by Nicola Barker
The Incarnations by Susan Barker
The Ghostly Father by Sue Barnard
The Temporary Gentleman by Sebastian Barry
Glow by Ned Beauman
The Dead Wife's Handbook by Hannah Beckerman
Dodger of the Dials by James Benmore
Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
Life Drawing by Robin Black
The List: My Year of Sexual Adventures by Joanna Bolouri
The Orenda by Joseph Boyden
Brick Mother by SJ Bradley
A Song for Issy Bradley by Carys Bray
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
Go To Work and Do Your Job. Care For Your Children. Pay Your Bills. Obey The Law. Buy Products. by Noah Cicero
Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement
131 by Julian Cope
The Fifty Year Sword by Mark Danielewski
The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld
The Cartographer of No Man's Land by PS Duffy
Tendrils by Lucy Duggan
The Circle by Dave Eggers
Six Pounds Eight Ounces by Rhian Elizabeth
Black Cloud by Juliet Escoria
The Good Children by Roopa Farooki
American Sycamore by Karen Fielding
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
The Book Of The Needle by Matthew Francis
The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman
Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
Virginia Woolf in Manhattan by Maggie Gee
Little Egypt by Lesley Glaister
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed by Bradley Greenburg
Hild by Nicola Griffith
I am China by Xiaolu Guo
In the Light of What we Know by Zia Haider Rahman
Tigerman by Nick Harkaway
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
Last Bus to Coffeeville by J Paul Henderson
Books by Charlie Hill
The Scrapbook by Carly Holmes
Wake by Anna Hope
Thirst by Kerry Hudson
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
Wounding by Heidi James
The Dig by Cynan Jones
Hotel Andromeda by Gabriel Josipovici
The Gypsy Goddess by Meena Kandasamy
Indian Magic by Balraj Khanna
The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth
With a Zero at Its Heart by Charles Lambert
The Sudden Arrival of Violence by Malcolm Mackay
Any Other Mouth by Anneliese Mackintosh
The Ghost Of Mary Celeste by Valerie Martin
We Are Called To Rise by Laura McBride
The Professor of Poetry by Grace McCleen
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air by Darragh McKeon
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
Caught by Lisa Moore
The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee
Beastings by Benjamin Myers
British Story by Michael Nath
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
The Bees by Laline Paull
After Me Comes the Flood by Sarah Perry
Hive Monkey (Ack-Ack Macaque) by Gareth L Powell
Orfeo by Richard Powers
The Fan by Danny Rhodes
Vulgar Things by Lee Rourke
Meatspace by Nikesh Shukla
Love And Fallout by Kathryn Simmonds
Devilskein and Dearlove by Alex Smith
Wild Ink by Richard Smyth
No Harm Can Come To A Good Man by James Smythe
Lost for Words by Edward St Aubyn
The Glasgow Coma Scale by Neil DA Stewart
The Violent Century by Lavie Tidhar
The Tongues Of Men by Jonathan Trigell
Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas
Half Plus Seven by Dan Tyte
Animals by Emma Jane Unsworth
In Between dreams by Iman Verjee
The Free by Willy Vlautin
That Dark Remembered Day by Tom Vowler
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
After Before by Jemma Wayne
The Way Inn by Will Wiles
Mrs. Hemingway by Naomi Wood
Once Upon A Timepiece by Starr Wood

Guardian Not the Booker Prize 2013

Winner
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Shortlist
The Trader of Saigon by Lucy Cruickshanks
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Little White Lies and Butterflies by Suzie Tullett
Anywhere's Better Than Here by Zoe Venditozzi
Magda by Meike Ziervogel

Longlist
A Modern Family by Socrates Adams
The Breath of Night by Michael Arditti
The Friday Gospels by Jenn Ashworth
Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer
Dodger by James Benmore
World of Dust by Joel Biroco
Dividing Lines by Neil Blower
A Little Bit of Madness by Sheryl Browne
Learning To Love by Sheryl Browne
Breath of Africa by JL Bwye
Idiopathy by Sam Byers
This Is Where I Am by Karen Campbell
The Vorrh by Brian Catling
Byron Easy by Jude Cook
This is the Way by Gavin Corbett
The Secret Knowledge by Andrew Crumey
Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt
Killing Daniel by Sarah Dobbs
Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty
The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer
The Cry by Helen Fitzgerald
Myopia by Jeff Gardiner
Ostrich by Matt Greene
The Last Banquet by Jonathan Grimwood
The Humans by Matt Haig
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
Hell to Pay by Matthew Hughes
The Deconstruction of Professor Thrub by DD Johnston
The Year of the Ladybird by Graham Joyce
The Drive by Tyler Keevil
The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
The Night Rainbow by Claire King
A Delicate Truth by John le Carré
The First Book of Calamity Leek by Paula Lichtarowicz
Bass Instinct by Will Macmillan Jones
Angel Exterminatus by Graham McNeill
The Orchard of Lost Souls by Nadifa Mohamed
The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness
The Trade Secret by Robert Newman
Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell
Whatever Happened to Harold Absalon by Simon Okotie
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth L Ozeki
An Accidental King by Mark Patton
The Adjacent by Christopher Priest
The Rice Paper Diaries by Francesca Rhydderch
The Human Script by Johnny Rich
Cooking With Bones by Jess Richards
Call It Dog by Marli Roode
The Killing Pool by Kevin Sampson
King of the Jungle by KS Silkwood
An Exquisite Sense of What Is Beautiful by J David Simons
The Drowning of Arthur Braxton by Caroline Smailes
The Machine by James Smythe
The Visitor by Katherine Stansfield
Homecoming by Susie Steiner
Entertaining Strangers by Jonathan Taylor
The Beautiful Child by Emma Tennant
Strange Bodies by Marcel Theroux
Burnt Island by Alice Thompson
The Detective's Daughter by Lesley Thomson
The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin
Your Brother's Blood by David Towsey
Goodbye Henrietta Street by Lin Treadgold
The View on the Way Down by Rebecca Wait
She Rises by Kate Worsley
How Not to Murder Your Grumpy by Carol E Wyer
Just Add Spice by Carol E Wyer
All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld

Guardian Not the Booker Prize 2012

Winner
Tales from the Mall by Ewan Morrison

Shortlist
The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder by JW Ironmonger
Paint This Town Red by AJ Kirby
Life! Death! Prizes! by Stephen May
Pig Iron by Benjamin Myers
The Revelations by Alex Preston
The Casablanca Case by Simon Swift

Longlist
Everything's Fine by Socrates Adams
A Trick I Learned From Dead Men by Kitty Aldridge
Breakfast at Midnight by Louis Armand
The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber
The Yips by Nicola Barker
The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman
So It Is by Liam Murray Bell
Hinterland by Caroline Brothers
The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey
Empire State by Adam Christopher
Talulla Rising by Glen Duncan
Ratmen by Steve Ely
If This is Home by Stuart Evers
The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
Absolution by Patrick Flanery
The Coward's Tale by Vanessa Gebbie
Malice in Blunderland by Jonny Gibbings
The White Lie by Andrea Gillies
Empty Space by M John Harrison
Captivity by Lander Hawes
In the Orchard, the Swallows by Peter Hobbs
Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma by Kerry Hudson
Dogma by Lars Iyer
A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson
When Nights Were Cold by Susanna Jones
Sea Hearts / The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan
Capital by John Lanchester
Alys, Always by Harriet Lane
Central Reservation by Will Le Fleming
Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
The Colour of Milk by Nell Leyshon
Redemption In Indigo by Karen Lord
The Incident by Kenneth Macleod
Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Rare Earth by Paul Mason
The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Simon Mawer
The Quiddity of Will Self by Samantha Mills
Pure by Timothy Mo
A Soldier's Farewell by Alan Monaghan
Dark Room by Steve Mosby
The Truth by Michael Palin
The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman
Dead Men by Richard Pierce
The City's Son by Tom Pollock
The Heat of the Sun by David Rain
Signs of Life by Anna Raverat
This Is Life by Dan Rhodes
Hawthorn and Child by Keith Ridgway
Opposed Positions by Gwendoline Riley
Jack Glass by Adam Roberts
My Policeman by Bethan Roberts
The Most Beautiful Thing by Fiona Robyn
One of Us by Iain Rowan
NW by Zadie Smith
The Testimony by James Smythe
Stealing Into Winter by Graeme K Talboys
The Story of My Assassins by Tarun Tejpal
Flight by Adam Thorpe
The Legacy of Hartlepool Hall by Paul Torday
Dead Man's Pedal by Alan Warner
The Passenger by Peter Wild
Care of Wooden Floors by Will Wiles
Red Army Faction Blues by Ada Wilson
Elegy For Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear

Guardian Not the Booker Prize 2011

Winner
King Crow by Michael Stewart

Shortlist
Sherry Cracker Gets Normal by DJ Connell
Jude in London (Old Street) by Julian Gough
Spurious by Lars Iyer
Fireball by Tyler Keevil
English Slacker by Chris Morton

Longlist
Jubilate by Michael Arditti
Cold Light by Jenn Ashworth
The Death of Eli Gold by David Baddiel
Chapman's Odyssey by Paul Bailey
Fallen Star by Ian Barker
City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
Lazarus is Dead by Richard Beard
The Afterparty by Leo Benedictus
Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke by Peter Benson
Made in Britain by Gavin James Bower
How To Forget by Marius Brill
Wall of Days by Alastair Bruce
A Summer of Drowning by John Burnside
Open City by Teju Cole
Exacerbyte by Cat Connor
Jump! by Jilly Cooper
Lucky Bunny by Jill Dawson
According to Luke by Rosanne Dingli
The Wordsmith's Tale by Stephen Edden
Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
The Clockwork Rocket by Greg Egan
The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright
Verruca Music by Stuart Estell
On Loving Josiah by Olivia Fane
River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
Honor's Shadow by Voula Grand
We Had It So Good by Linda Grant
The London Train by Tessa Hadley
Reality 36 by Guy Haley
Gillespie and I by Jane Harris
Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes
Long Time, No See by Dermot Healy
King of the Badgers by Philip Hensher
22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson
The Office of Lost and Found by Vincent Holland-Keen
The Brothers' Lot by Kevin Holohan
The Book of Lies by Mary Horlock
The Hairdresser of Harare by Tendai Huchu
This Road is Red by Alison Irvine
The Dead Beat by Cody James
Everything I found on the Beach by Cynan Jones
The Slient Land by Graham Joyce
Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman
First Night by Gabriel J Klein
The Life by Malcolm Knox
Sharaf by Raj Kumar
A Lily of the Field by John Lawton
Scream if you Want to go Faster by Russ Litten
Shadows on the Moon by Zoe Marriott
History of a Pleasure Seeker by Richard Mason
A Beautiful Lie by Irfan Master
Anatomy of a Disappearance by Hisham Matar
Sons and Fascination by GS Mattu
The Concrete Grove by Gary McMahon
Embassytown by China Miéville
Snowdrops by AD Miller
Pure by Andrew Miller
Today by David Miller
A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In by Magnus Mills
The Soldier's Return by Alan Monaghan
Black Flowers by Steve Mosby
Night Waking by Sarah Moss
Richard by Ben Myers
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
The Second Coming by John Niven
Mr Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett
Long Lies the Shadow by Gerda Pearce
Mrs Darcy versus the Aliens by Jonathan Pinnock
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher
Vault: an anti-novel by David Rose
Regicide by Nicholas Royle
Ours Are The Streets by Sunjeev Sahota
The Coffee Story by Peter Salmon
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
There but for the… by Ali Smith
The Novel in the Viola by Natasha Solomons
The Boy in the Gap by Paul Soye
At Last by Edward St Aubyn
Spring by David Szalay
Thin Reflections by Graeme K Talboys
The Knife Drawer by Padrika Tarrant
Genus by Jonathan Trigell
Saturdays Are Gold by Pierre Van Rooyen
What I Did by Christopher Wakling
The English German Girl by Jake Wallis Simons
Girl Reading by Katie Ward
Bed by David Whitehouse
One Dead Hen by Charlie Williams
The Echo Chamber by Luke Williams
The Visiting Angel by Paul Wilson
When God was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman
The Godless Boys by Naomi Wood

Guardian Not the Booker Prize 2010

Winners
Deloume Road by Matthew Hooton
The Canal by Lee Rourke

Shortlist
The Cuckoo Boy by Grant Gillespie
Advice for Strays by Justine Kilkerr
Pictures Of Lily by Matthew Yorke

Longlist
Triumff by Dan Abnett
The Lessons by Naomi Alderman
Krakow Waltz by Kate Allan
The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis
Things We Didn't See Coming by Steven Amsterdam
Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
Hemispheres by Stephen Baker
Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman
Contact by Jonathan Buckley
Archie And The North Wind by Angus Peter Campbell
The Trout Opera by Matthew Condon
The Gates by John Connolly
Galore by Michael Crummey
JEW by DO Dodd
Room by Emma Donoghue
Whatever you Love by Louise Doughty
Mr Bawman Wants to Tango by Mogue Doyle
The Dead Republic by Roddy Doyle
Ellipsis by Nikki Dudley
Shades Of Grey by Jasper Fforde
The Leaping by Tom Fletcher
The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
Faithful Place by Tana French
Zero History by William Gibson
The Evolutionary Void by Peter F Hamilton
Of Beasts And Beings by Ian Holding
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
Da Happie Laand by Alan Jamieson
Truth Or Fiction by Jennifer Johnston
Saraswati Park by Anjali Joseph
Mother Land by Dmetri Kakmi
The Waterproof Bible by Andrew Kaufman
Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay
Wolfsangel by MD Lachlan
Any Human Face by Charles Lambert
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
King Death by Toby Litt
The Book of Human Skin by Michelle Lovric
The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon
And This is True by Emily Mackie
C by Tom McCarthy
The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
Wonders Of A Godless World by Andrew McGahan
Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor
Kraken: an anatomy by China Miéville
Kick Ass by Mark Millar illustrated by John Romita Jr
The Last Warner Woman by Kei Miller
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
February by Lisa Moore
The Last Weekend by Blake Morrison
A Life Apart by Neel Mukherjee
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
Ghost Light by Joseph O'Connor
The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell
The Life And Times Of Maf The Dog And His Friend Marilyn Monroe by Andrew O'Hagan
Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Sick City by Tony O'Neill
The Folding Knife by KJ Parker
Landed by Tim Pears
Repeat it Today with Tears by Anne Peile
Lights Out In Wonderland by DBC Pierre
This Bleeding City by Alex Preston
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
Gabriel's Angel by Mark A Radcliffe
The Misognyist by Piers Paul Read
Little Hands Clapping by Dan Rhodes
And the Land Lay Still by James Robertson
Forgetting Zoë by Ray Robinson
Strange Magic by Gord Rollo
Children of the Sun by Max Schaefer
Like Bees To Honey by Caroline Smailes
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
American Devil by Oliver Stark
At the Chime of a City Clock by DJ Taylor
Truth by Peter Temple
Pocket Notebook by Mike Thomas
Our Tragic Universe by Scarlett Thomas
Mission Of Honor by David Weber
Bereft by Chris Womersley
Gerard Woodward by Gerard Woodward
Kissing Alice by Jacqueline Yallop

Guardian Not the Booker Prize 2009

Winner
Solo by Rana Dasgupta

Shortlist
A Kind of Intimacy by Jenn Ashworth
Neverland by Simon Crump
This is How by MJ Hyland
Tomas by James Palumbo
The Tin-Kin by Eleanor Thom

Longlist
Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
The Outlander by Gil Adamson
Map Of The Invisible World by Tash Aw
The Children’s Book by AS Byatt
Ghosts and Lightening by Trevor Byrne
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
Harare North by Brian Chickwava
Summertime by JM Coetzee
Generation A by Douglas Coupland
Grace, Lamar and Laszlo The Beautiful by Deborah Kay Davies
The Harrowing by Robert Dinsdale
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
Rose by Gillian Green
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
Cockroach by Rawi Hage
How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall
Tender by Mark Illis
Spirit by Gwyneth Jones
The Father Of Locks by Andrew Killeen
Red Dog, Red Dog by Patrick Lane
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Quiet War by Paul McAuley
All the Colours of the Town by Liam McIlvanney
The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
The City & the City by China Miéville
Ten Storey Love Song by Richard Milward
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
John the Revelator by Peter Murphy
Jerusalem by Patrick Neate
Down On Out On Murder Mile by Tony O'Neill
White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
Stone's Fall by Iain Pears
Little Gods by Anna Richards
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
Black Rock by Amanda Smyth
The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
Hodd by Adam Thorpe
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Great Waters by Kit Whitfield

National Book Critics Circle Award

2017
Winner
Improvement by Joan Silber

Finalists
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

2016
Winner
LaRose by Louise Erdrich

Finalists
Moonglow by Michael Chabon
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Swing Time by Zadie Smith

2015
Winner
The Sellout by Paul Beatty

Finalists
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

2014
Winner
Lila by Marilynne Robinson

Finalists
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Euphoria by Lily King
On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee

2013
Winner
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Finalists
The Infatuations by Javier Marías
Someone by Alice McDermott
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth L Ozeki
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

2012
Winner
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain

Finalists
HHhH by Laurent Binet
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
Magnificence by Lydia Millet
NW by Zadie Smith

2011
Winner
Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman

Finalists
Open City by Teju Cole
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta

2010
Winner
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Finalists
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
To the End of the Land by David Grossman
Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray

2009
Winner
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Finalists
American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Blame by Michelle Huneven
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips

2008
Winner
2666 by Roberto Bolaño

Finalists
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
Home by Marilynne Robinson
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart by M Glenn Taylor

2007
Winner
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

Finalists
Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
In The Country of Men by Hisham Matar
The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins

2006
Winner
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

Finalists
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
What Is the What by Dave Eggers
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

2005
Winner
The March by EL Doctorow

Finalists
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Europe Central by William T Vollmann

2004
Winner
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Finalists
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

2003
Winner
The Known World by Edward P Jones

Finalists
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips
The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers
Old School by Tobias Wolff

2002
Winner
Atonement by Ian McEwan

Finalists
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Nowhere Man by Aleksandar Hemon
Roscoe by William Kennedy
The Darts of Cupid: And Other Stories by Edith Templeton

2001
Winner
Austerlitz by WG Sebald

Finalists
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead

2000
Winner
Being Dead by Jim Crace

Finalists
A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You by Amy Bloom
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Assorted Fire Events: Stories by David Means
White Teeth by Zadie Smith

1999
Winner
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem

Finalists
Midnight Champagne by A Manette Ansay
The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch
Disgrace by JM Coetzee
The Wonders of the Invisible World: Stories by David Gates

1998
Winner
The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro

Finalists
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Preston Falls by David Gates
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
No Lease on Life by Lynne Tillman

1997
Winner
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald

Finalists
Underworld by Don DeLillo
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andrei Makine
American Pastoral by Philip Roth

1996
Winner
Women in Their Beds by Gina Berriault

Finalists
About Schmidt by Louis Begley
Dancing After Hours by Andre Dubus
The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
From Bondage by Henry Roth

1995
Winner
Mrs Ted Bliss by Stanley Elkin

Finalists
Independence Day by Richard Ford
Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers
Moo by Jane Smiley
The Tent of Orange Mist by Paul West

1994
Winner
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

Finalists
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
The Prince of West End Avenue by Alan Isler
And All Our Wounds Forgiven by Julius Lester

1993
Winner
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J Gaines

Finalists
The Jade Cabinet by Rikki Ducornet
Feather Crowns by Bobbie Ann Mason
The Shipping News by E Annie Proulx
Vindication by Frances Sherwood

1992
Winner
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

Finalists
Let the Dead Bury Their Dead by Randall Kenan
Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates
Clockers by Richard Price
Outerbridge Reach by Robert Stone

1991
Winner
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

Finalists
Wartime Lies by Louis Begley
Typical American by Gish Jen
The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers
Mating by Norman Rush

1990
Winner
Rabbit at Rest by John Updike

Finalists
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
Family Pictures by Sue Miller
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Collected Stories by Wallace Stegner

1989
Winner
Billy Bathgate by EL Doctorow

Finalists
Spartina by John Casey
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
Ordinary Love & Good Will by Jane Smiley
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

1988
Winner
The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee

Finalists
Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver
Libra by Don DeLillo
Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
Wheat That Springeth Green by JF Powers

1987
Winner
The Counterlife by Philip Roth

Finalists
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Age of Grief by Jane Smiley
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

1986
Winner
Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price

Finalists
The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich
A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
Roger's Version by John Updike
The Moon Pinnacle by Thomas Williams

1985
Winner
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

Finalists
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Richard Powers
The Old Forest by Peter Taylor

1984
Winner
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

Finalists
Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr
Family Dancing by David Leavitt
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
Machine Dreams by Jayne Anne Phillips

1983
Winner
Ironweed by William Kennedy

Finalists
Cathedral by Raymond Carver
During the Reign of the Queen by Joan Chase
Magnetic Field(s) by Ron Loewinsohn
The Anatomy Lesson by Philip Roth

1982
Winner
George Mills by Stanley Elkin

Finalists
Shiloh and Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason
Levitation: Five Fictions by Cynthia Ozick
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
The Color Purple by Alice Walker

1981
Winner
Rabbit is Rich by John Updike

Finalists
Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
The Men's Club by Leonard Michaels
A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone

1980
Winner
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard

Finalists
Loon Lake by EL Doctorow
So Long, See you Tomorrow by William Maxwell
The Second Coming by Walker Percy
Morgan's Passing by Anne Tyler

1979
Winner
The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan

Finalists
King of the Jews: A Novel of the Holocaust by Leslie Epstein
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
The Executioners Song by Norman Mailer
The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
Sophie's Choice by William Styron

1978
Winner
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever

Finalists
Final Payments by Mary Gordon
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Wrinkles by Charles Simmons
The Coup by John Updike

1977
Winner
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Finalists
Falconer by John Cheever
A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
The Professor of Desire by Philip Roth
Union Dues by John Sayles

1976
Winner
October Light by John Gardner

Finalists
Speedboat by Renata Adler
Details of a Sunset and Other Stories by Vladimir Nabokov
Bloodshed and Three Novellas by Cynthia Ozick
The Easter Parade by Richard Yates