British Book Awards

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Book of the Year

1994: Wild Swans by Jung Chang

1995: Writing Home by Alan Bennett

1996: Delia Smith's Winter Collection by Delia Smith

1997: Longitude by Dava Sovel

1998: Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

1999: Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes

2000: Managing My Life by Alex Ferguson

2001: Man and Boy by Tony Parsons

2002: Billy by Pamela Stephenson

2003: Stupid White Men by Michael Moore

2004: Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Tryss

2005: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

2006: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J K Rowling

2007: The Dangerous Book for Boys by Con and Hal Iggulden

2008: On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

2009: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale

2010: One Day by David Nichols

2011: How To Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran

2012: Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James

2013: The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

2014: The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton

2015: no award

2016: no award

From 2017 there were three fiction sections. All shortlisted books are listed.

Fiction book of the year:

2017: 

• The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry (winner)
• Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
• The Sellout by Paul Beatty
• The Muse by Jessie Burton
• Cartes Postales from Greece by Victoria Hislop
• This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell

2018:

• Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor (winner)
• The Break by Marian Keyes
• Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore
• Winter by Ali Smith
• How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
• City of Friends by Joanna Trollope

2019:

• Normal People by Sally Rooney (winner)
• Transcription by Kate Atkinson
• Milkman by Anna Burns
• Still Me by Jojo Moyes
• Tombland by C J Samson
• Why Mummy Swears by Gill Sims

2020:

• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo (winner)
• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood 
• The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman
• The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
• Lies, Lies, Lies by Adele Parks
• Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris

2021:

• Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell (winner)
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
• The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel

2022:

• Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason (winner)
• The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
• Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff
• Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

2023:

• Babel by R F Kuang (winner)
• Love Marriage by Monica Ali
• Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
• Fairy Tale by Stephen King
• The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
• Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart

2024:

• Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang (winner)
• Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
• So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
• Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt by Lucinda Riley and Harry Whittaker
• Tackle! by Jilly Cooper
• The Ghost Ship by Kate Mosse

Debut fiction book of the year: 

2017:

• What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell (winner)
• The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon
• The Girls by Emma Cline
• My Name Is Leon by Kit de Waal
• Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain by Barney Norris
• Golden Hill by Francis Spufford

2018:

• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (winner)
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• Sirens by Joseph Knox
• Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
• Why Mummy Drinks by Gill Sims
• My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent

2019:

• Lullaby by Leila Slimani
• The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowat
• Never Greener by Ruth Jones
• The Tattooist of Aushwitz by Heather Morris
• Dear Mrs Bird by A J Pearce
• The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

2020:

• Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams (winner)
• The Binding by Bridget Collins
• The Familiars by Stacey Halls
• Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
• Leonard and Hungry Paul by Roman Hession
• The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins

2021:

• Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (winner)
• Ghosts by Dolly Alderton
• The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
• Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
• Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez
• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

2022:

• Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson (winner)
• Assembly by Natasha Brown
• Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden
• Lustre by Raven Lailani
• How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie
• She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

2023:

• Trespasses by Louise Kennedy (winner)
• Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
• The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
• The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer
• The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn

2024:

• In Memoriam by Alice Winn (winner)
• Talking at Night by Claire Daverley
• The List by Yomi Adegoke
• Godkiller by Hannah Kaner
• Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey
• Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa

Crime/ thriller book of the year:

2017: 

• Dodgers by Bill Beverley (winner)
• The Widow by Fiona Barton
• Night School by Lee Child
• Lie with Me by Sabine Durrant
• Conclave by Robert Harris
• I See You by Claire Mackintosh

2018:

• The Dry by Jane Harper (winner)
• The Midnight Line by Lee Child
• The Girl Before by J P Delaney
• Spook Street by Mick Herron
• He Said/ She Said by Erin Kelly
• Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough

2019:

• Our House by Louise Candlish
• The Woman in the Window by A J Finn
• The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks
• Close to Home by Cara Hunter
• Macbeth by Jo Nesbo
• In a House of Lies by Ian Rankin

2020:

• My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (winner)
• How the Dead Speak by Val McDermid
• The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley
• Imposter by L J Ross
• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
• Blue Moon by Lee Child

2021:

• Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith (winner)
• The Sentinel by Lee Child and Andrew Child
• The Patient Man by Joy Ellis
• The Guest List by Lucy Foley
• The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
• A Song for the Dark Times by Ian Rankin

2022:

• The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin (winner)
• Girl A by Abigail Dean
• The Appeal by Janice Hallett
• A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins
• 1979 by Val McDermid
• The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman

2023:

• The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett (winner)
• Murder Before Evensong by Revd Richard Coles
• The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
• Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
• The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman
• Bamburgh by L J Ross

2024:

• None of this is True by Lisa Jewell (winner)
• The Woman Who Lied by Claire Douglas
• The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman
• Damascus Station by David McCloskey
• The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith
• The Secret Hours by Mick Herron