Costa Book Award for Novel

Winners

2021Unsettled Ground ★☆Claire Fuller ★☆
2020The Mermaid of Black Conch ☆Monique Roffey ★☆☆
2019Middle England ☆Jonathan Coe ★☆
2018Normal People ☆☆Sally Rooney ★☆☆
2017Reservoir 13 ★☆☆Jon McGregor ★★☆☆☆☆
2016Days Without End ☆☆Sebastian Barry ★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
2015A God in Ruins ☆Kate Atkinson ★★☆☆
2014How to Be Both ★☆☆Ali Smith ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆
2013Life after Life ★☆Kate Atkinson ★★☆☆
2012Bring Up the Bodies ★★☆Hilary Mantel ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
2011Pure ★☆Andrew Miller ★★☆☆☆☆
2010The Hand That First Held Mine ☆Maggie O'Farrell ★★☆☆☆
2008The Secret Scripture ☆☆Sebastian Barry ★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
2007Day ☆A.L. Kennedy ★☆
2006Restless ☆William Boyd ★☆☆☆
2005The Accidental ★☆☆Ali Smith ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆
2003The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time ☆☆Mark Haddon ★☆☆
2002Spies ☆☆Michael Frayn ★☆☆☆☆
2001Twelve Bar Blues ☆Patrick Neate ★
2000English Passengers ☆☆Matthew Kneale ★☆
1999Music and Silence ☆Rose Tremain ★★☆☆☆☆☆
1998Leading the Cheers ☆Justin Cartwright ★☆☆☆
1997Quarantine ★☆☆Jim Crace ★★☆☆☆☆
1996Every Man for Himself ☆☆Beryl Bainbridge ★★☆☆☆☆☆☆
1995The Moor's Last Sigh ☆☆Salman Rushdie ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
1994Felicia's Journey ☆William Trevor ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
1993Theory of War ☆Joan Brady ★
1992Poor Things ☆Alasdair Gray ★
1991The Queen of the Tambourine ☆Jane Gardam ★☆☆
1990Hopeful Monsters ☆Nicholas Mosley ★☆
1989The Chymical Wedding ☆Lindsay Clarke ★
1988The Satanic Verses ☆☆Salman Rushdie ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
1987The Child in Time ☆Ian McEwan ★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
1986An Artist of the Floating World ☆☆Kazuo Ishiguro ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆
1985Hawksmoor ☆Peter Ackroyd ★☆
1984Kruger's Alp ☆Christopher Hope ★☆
1983Fools of Fortune ☆William Trevor ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
1982Young Shoulders ☆John Wain ★
1981Silver's City ☆Maurice Leitch ★
1980How Far Can You Go? ☆David Lodge ★☆☆☆
1979The Old Jest ☆Jennifer Johnston ★☆
1978Picture Palace ☆Paul Theroux ★☆☆
1977Injury Time ☆Beryl Bainbridge ★★☆☆☆☆☆☆
1976The Children of Dynmouth ☆☆William Trevor ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
1975Docherty ☆William McIlvanney ★
1974The Sacred and Profane Love Machine ☆Iris Murdoch ★★☆☆☆☆☆☆
1973The Chip-Chip Gatherers ☆Shiva Naipaul ★☆
1972The Bird of Night ☆☆Susan Hill ★☆☆
1971The Destiny Waltz ☆Gerda Charles ★