- Brotherless Night (2024) V. V. Ganeshananthan
- Demon Copperhead (2023) Barbara Kingsolver
- The Book of Form and Emptiness (2022) Ruth Ozeki
- Piranesi (2021) Susanna Clarke
- Hamnet (2020) Maggie O’Farrell
- An American Marriage (2019) Tayari Jones
- Home Fire (2018) Kamila Shamsie
- The Power (2017) Naomi Alderman
- The Glorious Heresies (2016) Lisa McInerney
- How to Be Both (2015) Ali Smith
- A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing (2014) Eimear McBride
- May We Be Forgiven (2013) A.M. Homes
- The Song of Achilles (2012) Madeline Miller
- The Tiger’s Wife (2011) Téa Obrecht
- The Lacuna (2010) Barbara Kingsolver
- Home (2009) Marilynne Robinson
- The Road Home (2008) Rose Tremain
- Half of a Yellow Sun (2007) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- On Beauty (2006) Zadie Smith
- We Need to Talk About Kevin (2005) Lionel Shriver
- Small Island (2004) Andrea Levy
- Property (2003) Valerie Martin
- Bel Canto (2002) Ann Patchett
- The Idea of Perfection (2001) Kate Grenville
- When I Lived in Modern Times (2000) Linda Grant
- A Crime in the Neighbourhood (1999) Suzanne Berne
- Larry’s Party (1998) Carol Shields
- Fugitive Pieces (1997) Ann Michaels
- A Spell of Winter (1996) Helen Dunmore