2018 Costa Book Award – Novel
Normal People
Sally Rooney
2017 Costa Book Award – Novel
Reservoir 13
Jon McGregor
2016 Costa Book Award – Novel
Days Without End
Sebastian Barry
2015 Costa Book Award – Novel
A God in Ruins
Kate Atkinson
2014 Costa Book Award – Novel
How To Be Both
Ali Smith
2013 Costa Book Award – Novel
Life After Life
Kate Atkinson
2012 Costa Book Award – Novel
Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel
2011 Costa Book Award – Novel
Pure
Andrew Miller
2010 Costa Book Award – Novel
The Hand That First Held Mine
Maggie O’Farrell
2009 Costa Book Award – Novel
Brooklyn
Colm Toibin
2008 Costa Book Award – Novel
The Secret Scripture
Sebastian Barry
2007 Costa Book Award – Novel
Day
A. L. Kennedy
2006 Costa Book Award – Novel
Restless
William Boyd
2005 Costa Book Award – Novel
The Accidental
Ali Smith
2004 Costa Book Award – Novel
Small Island
Andrea Levy
2003 Costa Book Award – Novel
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
2002 Costa Book Award – Novel
Spies
Michael Frayn
2001 Costa Book Award – Novel
Twelve Bar Blues
Patrick Neate
2000 Costa Book Award – Novel
English Passengers
Matthew Kneale
1999 Costa Book Award – Novel
Music and Silence
Rose Tremain
1998 Costa Book Award – Novel
Leading the Cheers
Justin Cartwright
1997 Costa Book Award – Novel
Quarantine
Jim Crace
1996 Costa Book Award – Novel
Every Man for Himself
Beryl Bainbridge
1995 Costa Book Award – Novel
The Moor’s Last Sigh
Salman Rushdie
1994 Costa Book Award – Novel
Felicia’s Journey
William Trevor
1993 Costa Book Award – Novel
Theory of War
Joan Brady
1992 Costa Book Award – Novel
Poor Things
Alasdair Gray
1991 Costa Book Award – Novel
The Queen of the Tambourine
Jane Gardam
1990 Costa Book Award – Novel
Hopeful Monsters
Nicholas Mosley
1989 Costa Book Award – Novel
The Chymical Wedding
Lindsay Clarke
1988 Costa Book Award – Novel
The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie
1987 Costa Book Award – Novel
The Child in Time
Ian McEwan
1986 Costa Book Award – Novel
An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro
1985 Costa Book Award – Novel
Hawksmoor
Peter Ackroyd
1984 Costa Book Award – Novel
Kruger’s Alp
Christopher Hope
1983 Costa Book Award – Novel
Fools of Fortune
William Trevor
1982 Costa Book Award – Novel
Young Shoulders
John Wain
1981 Costa Book Award – Novel
Silver’s City
Maurice Leitch
1980 Costa Book Award – Novel
How Far Can You Go?
David Lodge
1979 Costa Book Award – Novel
The Old Jest
Jennifer Johnston
1978 Costa Book Award – Novel
Picture Palace
Paul Theroux
1977 Costa Book Award – Novel
Injury Time
Beryl Bainbridge
1976 Costa Book Award – Novel
The Children of Dynmouth
William Trevor
1975 Costa Book Award – Novel
Docherty
William McIlvanney
1974 Costa Book Award – Novel
The Sacred & Profane Love Machine
Iris Murdoch
1973 Costa Book Award – Novel
The Chip Chip Gatherers
Shiva Naipaul
1972 Costa Book Award – Novel
The Bird of Night
Susan Hill
1971 Costa Book Award – Novel
