2019 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
The Volunteer
Jack Fairweather
2018 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found
Bart van Es
2017 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
Inside the Wave
Helen Dunmore
2016 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
Days Without End
Sebastian Barry
2015 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
The Lie Tree
Frances Hardinge
2014 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
H is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald
2013 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
The Shock of the Fall
Nathan Filer
2012 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel
2011 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
Pure
Andrew Miller
2010 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
Of Mutability
Jo Shapcott
2009 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
A Scattering
Christopher Reid
2008 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
The Secret Scripture
Sebastian Barry
2007 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
Day
A.L. Kennedy
2006 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
The Tenderness of Wolves
Stef Penney
2005 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
Matisse the Master
Hilary Spurling
2004 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
Small Island
Andrea Levy
2003 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
2002 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
Claire Tomalin
2001 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
The Amber Spyglass
Philip Pullman
2000 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
English Passengers
Matthew Kneale
1999 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
Beowulf
Seamus Heaney
1998 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
Birthday Letters
Ted Hughes
1997 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
Tales from Ovid
Ted Hughes
1996 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
The Spirit Level
Seamus Heaney
1995 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Kate Atkinson
1994 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
Felicia’s Journey
William Trevor
1993 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
Theory of War
Joan Brady
1992 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
Swing Hammer Swing!
Jeff Torrington
1991 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
A Life of Picasso
John Richardson
1990 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
Hopeful Monsters
Nicholas Mosley
1989 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
Coleridge: Early Visions
Richard Holmes
1988 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
The Comforts of Madness
Paul Sayer
1987 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
Under the Eye of the Clock
Christopher Nolan
1986 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro
1985 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
Elegies
Douglas Dunn
1980 Costa Book Award – Book of the Year
