2015 — Ali Smith: How to be both
2014 — Eimear McBride: A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing
2013 — A.M. Homes: May We Be Forgiven
2012 — Madeline Miller: The Song of Achilles
2011 — Téa Obreht: The Tiger’s Wife
2010 — Barbara Kingsolver: The Lacuna
2009 — Marilynne Robinson: Home
2008 — Rose Tremain: The Road Home
2007 — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Half of a Yellow Sun
2006 — Zadie Smith: On Beauty
2005 — Lionel Shriver: We Need to Talk About Kevin
2004 — Andrea Levy: Small Island
2003 — Valerie Martin: Property
2002 — Ann Patchett: Bel Canto
2001 — Kate Grenville: The Idea of Perfection
2000 — Linda Grant: When I Lived in Modern Times
1999 — Suzanne Berne: A Crime in the Neighborhood
1998 — Carol Shields: Larry’s Party
1997 — Anne Michaels: Fugitive Pieces
1996 — Helen Dunmore: A Spell of Winter
