- Polpo: A Venetian Cookbook (of Sorts) by Russell Norman (winner)
- HHhH by Laurent Binet
- Patrick Leigh Fermor by Artemis Cooper
- On the Map by Simon Garfield
- The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane
- Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel
- Stoner by John Williams (winner)
2014
- The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton (winner)
- Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
- Persiana: Recipes from the Middle East and Beyond by Sabrina Ghayour
- Once Upon an Alphabet by Oliver Jeffers
- The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan
- H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonlad
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
- The Fox and the Star by Coralie Bickford-Smith (winnner)
- Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
- My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
- The Shepherd’s Life by James Rebanks
- Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
- SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
- A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
- The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry (winner)
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J K Rowling
- The Optician of Lampedusa by Emma Jane Riley
- The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots by Beatrix Potter (with Quentin Blake)
- Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanthi
- Le Belle Sauvage (Book of Dust volume 1) by Philip Pullman (winner)
- Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesco Cavallo
- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
- Mr Lear by Jenny Uglow
- Talking to my Daughter About the Economy by Yanis Varoufakis
- A Skinful of Shadows by Francis Hardinge
- The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris
- Normal People by Sally Rooney (winner)
- Why We Get the Wrong Politicians by Isabel Hardman
- The Colour of Time: A New History of the World 1850 - 1960 by Dan Jones and Marina Amaral
- The Secret Barrister by The Secret Barrister
- Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
- The Penguin Classics Book by Henry Eliot
- Circe by Madeleine Miller
- I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree by Fiona Waters and Frann Preston-Gannon
- The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy (winner)
- The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
- Queenie by Candace Carty-Williams
- The Binding by Bridget Collins
- Underland by Robert Macfarlane
- Lanny by Max Porter
- No One is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
- Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell (winner)
- Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dar McAnulty
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- Ex Libris by Michiko Kakutani
- Island Dreams by Gavin Francis
- The Ratline by Philippe Sands
- One, Two, Three, Four: the Beatles in Time by Craig Brown
- Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
- Love in Colour by Bolu Babalola
- Black and British: A Short Essential History by David Olusoga
- Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright by Fiona Waters with Britta Teckentrup (illus.)
- The Book of Hopes by Rundell Katherine (ed)
- The Lyrics by Paul McCartney with Paul Muldoon (ed) (winner)
- Around the World in 80 Plants by Jonathan Drori with Lucille Clerc (illus)
- The Appeal by Janice Hallett
- Julia and the Shark by Kiran Millwood Hargrave with Tom de Freston (illus)
- Greek Myths by Charlotte Higgins with Chris Ofili (illus)
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Storyland by Amy Jeffs
- Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
- You Are a Champion by Marcus Rashford and Carl Anka
- Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
- They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
- Amur River by Colin Thubron
- British Museum: History of the World in 25 Cities by Tracey Turner and Andrew Donkin with Libby VanderPloeg (illus)
- The Story of Art without Men by Katy Hessel (winner)
- The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
- Heartstopper volume 1 by Alice Oseman
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
- The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland
- Otherlands by Thomas Halliday
- In the Golden Mole by Katherine Rundell with Talya Baldwin (illus)
- Cooking by Jeremy Lee
- Babel by R F Kuang
- Skandar and the Unicorn Thief by A F Steadman
2023:
- Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell (winner; Children's Book of the Year)
- In Memoriam by Alice Winn (novel of the year)
- Murdle by G T Karber (gift of the year)
- Emperor of Rome by Mary Beard
- Abroad in Japan by Chris Broad
- The Wager by David Grann
- How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney by Mac Barnett
- Yellowface by R F Kuang
- Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
- A Whale of a Time by Lou Peacock
- The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
- The Fraud by Zadie Smith
- Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken
- Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
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