The Mookse and the Gripes

2011 – Julian Barnes: The Sense of an Ending
2010 – Howard Jacobson: The Finkler Question
2009 – Hilary Mantel: Wolf Hall
2008 – Aravind Adiga: The White Tiger
2007 – Anne Enright: The Gathering
2006 – Kiran Desai: The Inheritance of Loss
2005 – John Banville: The Sea
2004 – Alan Hollinghurst: The Line of Beauty
2003 – DBC Pierre: Vernon God Little
2002 – Yann Martel: Life of Pi
2001 – Peter Carey: True History of the Kelly Gang
2000 – Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin
1999 – J.M. Coetzee: Disgrace
1998 – Ian McEwan: Amsterdam
1997 – Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things
1996 – Graham Swift: Last Orders
1995 – Pat Barker: The Ghost Road
1994 – James Kelman: How Late It Was, How Late
1993 – Roddy Doyle: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
1992 – Barry Unsworth: Sacred Hunger; Michael Ondaatje: The English Patient
1991 – Ben Okri: The Famished Road
1990 – A.S. Byatt: Possession: A Romance
1989 – Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day
1988 – Peter Carey: Oscar and Lucinda
1987 – Penelope Lively: Moon Tiger
1986 – Kingsley Amis: The Old Devils
1985 – Keri Hulme: The Bone People
1984 – Anita Brookner: Hotel du Lac
1983 – J.M. Coetzee: Life and Times of Michael K
1982 – Thomas Keneally: Schindler’s Ark
1981 – Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children
1980 – William Golding: Rites of Passage
1979 – Penelope Fitzgerald: Offshore
1978 – Iris Murdoch: The Sea, the Sea
1977 – Paul Scott: Staying On
1976 – David Storey: Saville
1975 – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: Heat and Dust
1974 – Nadine Gordimer: The Conservationist; Stanley Middleton: Holiday
1973 – J.G. Farrell: The Siege of Krishnapur
1972 – John Berger: G.
1971 – V.S. Naipaul: In a Free State
1970 – Bernice Rubens: The Elected Member
1969 – P.H. Newby: Something to Answer For