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PREVIOUS NOMINATIONS

1998

Roddy Doyle

The Woman Who Walked into Doors

2026

Rachel Kushner

Creation Lake

2025

Justin Torres

Blackouts

2024

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Chain-Gang All-Stars

2023

Claire Keegan

Small Things Like These

2022

Megan Nolan

Acts of Desperation

2021

Maurice Ruffin

We Cast a Shadow

2020

Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Fruit of the Drunken Tree

2020

Lisa Halliday

Asymmetry

2020

Akwaeke Emezi

Freshwater

2019

Samanta Schweblin

Fever Dream

2019

Hernan Diaz

In the Distance

2018

Brad Watson

Miss Jane

2017

Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Sympathizer

2017

James Hannaham

Delicious Foods

2016

Rene Denfeld

The Enchanted

2015

Mahi Binebine

Horses of God

2014

Patrick Somerville

This Bright River

2014

Peter Heller

The Dog Stars

2012

Jill Paton Walsh

The Attenbury Emeralds

2012

Emma Donoghue

Room

2012

Michael Cunningham

By Nightfall

2011

Sarah Waters

The Little Stranger

2011

Kim Stanley Robinson

Galileo’s Dream

2011

Colm Tóibín

Brooklyn

2010

Walter Mosley

Diablerie

2010

Ursula Le Guin

Lavinia

2009

Salley Vickers

Where Three Roads Meet

2009

Patrick Gale

Notes from an Exhibition

2009

Andre Aciman

Call Me By Your Name

2008

Geoff Rymann

The King’s Last Song

2008

Verlyn Klinkenborg

Timothy, or, Notes of an Abject Reptile

2008

Kiran Desai

The Inheritance of Loss

2007

Kazuo Ishiguro

Never Let Me Go

2007

Neil Gaiman

Anansi Boys

2007

Patrick Gale

Friendly Fire

2006

Marilynne Robinson

Gilead

2006

David Mitchell

Cloud Atlas

2006

Péter Esterházy

Celestial Harmonies

2005

Monique Truong

The Book of Salt

2005

Mark Haddon

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

2004

Michel Faber

The Crimson Petal and the White

2004

Jeffrey Eugenides

Middlesex

2003

Alan Bennett

The Laying on of Hands

2003

Richard Russo

Empire Falls

2003

Jonathan Franzen

The Corrections

2002

Ursula Le Guin

The Telling

2002

Patrick Gale

Rough Music

2002

A.S. Byatt

The Biographer’s Tale

2001

Richard Bowes

Minions of the Moon

2001

Patricia Henley

Hummingbird House

2001

Anita Desai

Fasting, Feasting

2000

Clive Barker

Galilee

2000

Michael Cunningham

The Hours

2000

Louise Erdrich

The Antelope Wife

1999

Edmund White

The Farewell Symphony: a novel

1999

Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things

1998

John Updike

In the Beauty of the Lilies

1998

Margaret Atwood

Alias Grace

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