All Book Awards

2018 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerNormal PeopleSally RooneyAnd as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other. Normal People is the story of mutual fascination, friendship and love....Amazon2018 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistFrom a Low and Quiet SeaDonal RyanAmazonThe Italian TeacherTom RachmanAmazonThe Silence of the GirlsPat BarkerAmazon

2017 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerReservoir 13Jon McGregorA new novel from celebrated British novelist Jon McGregor--twice longlisted for the Man Booker Prize--Reservoir 13 tells the story of a whole English village haunted by one family's loss....Amazon2017 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistHome FireKamila ShamsieAmazonTin ManSarah WinmanAmazonUnder a Pole StarStef PenneyAmazon

2016 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerDays Without EndSebastian BarryCOSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE "A true leftfield wonder: Days Without End is a violent, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making."—Kazuo Ishiguro, Booker Prize winning author...Amazon2016 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistThe Essex SerpentSarah PerryAmazonThe Gustav SonataRose TremainAmazonThis Must Be the PlaceMaggie O’FarrellAmazon

2015 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerA God in RuinsKate AtkinsonThe stunning companion to Kate Atkinson's #1 bestseller Life After Life, "one of the best novels I've read this century" (Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl). Kate Atkinson's dazzling Life After Life explored the possibility of infinite chances, following ...Amazon2015 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistA Place Called WinterPatrick GaleAmazonAt Hawthorn TimeMelissa HarrisonAmazonThe Green RoadAnne EnrightAmazon

2014 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerHow To Be BothAli SmithThis is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths, and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the ...Amazon2014 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistHouse of AshesMonique RoffeyAmazonNora WebsterColm ToibinAmazonThe Lives of OthersNeel MukherjeeAmazon

2013 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerLife After LifeKate AtkinsonWhat if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born,...Amazon2013 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistAll the Birds, SingingEvie WyldAmazonInstructions for a HeatwaveMaggie O'FarrellAmazonUnexpected Lessons in LoveBernardine BishopAmazon

2012 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerBring Up the BodiesHilary MantelBy 1535 Thomas Cromwell, the blacksmith’s son, is far from his humble origins. Chief Minister to Henry VIII, his fortunes have risen with those of Anne Boleyn, Henry’s second wife, for whose sake Henry has broken with Rome and created his own church. But H...Amazon2012 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistDays of the Bagnold SummerJoff WinterhartAmazonLife! Death! Prizes!Stephen MayAmazonThe Heart Broke InJames MeekAmazon

2011 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerPureAndrew Miller...Amazon2011 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistA Summer of DrowningJohn BurnsideAmazonMy Dear I Wanted to Tell YouLouisa YoungAmazonThe Sense of an EndingJulian BarnesAmazon

2009 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerBrooklynColm ToibinColm Tóibín’s New York Times bestselling novel—soon to be a film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent from the award-winning team that produced An Education—is “a moving, deeply satisfying read” (Entertainment Weekly) about a young Irish immigrant in B...Amazon2009 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistFamily AlbumPenelope LivelyAmazonThe Elephant KeeperChristopher NicholsonAmazonWolf HallHilary MantelAmazon