Costa Book Awards — Novel

• Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller

  2021CostaNovel
• The Mermaid of Black Conch: A Love Story by Monique Roffey

  2020CostaNovel
• Middle England by Jonathan Coe

  2019CostaNovel
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  Normal People by Sally Rooney

  2018CostaNovel
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  Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor

  2017CostaNovel
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  Days Without End by Sebastian Barry

  2016CostaNovel
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  A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson

  2015CostaNovel
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  How to Be Both by Ali Smith

  2014CostaNovel
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  Life after Life by Kate Atkinson

  2013CostaNovel
• Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

  2012CostaNovel
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  Pure by Andrew Miller

  2011CostaNovel
• The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell

  2010CostaNovel
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  Brooklyn by Colm Tóibin

  2009CostaNovel
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  The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry

  2008CostaNovel
• Day by A.L. Kennedy

  2007CostaNovel
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  Restless by William Boyd

  2006CostaNovel
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  The Accidental by Ali Smith

  2005CostaNovel
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  Small Island by Andrea Levy

  2004CostaNovel
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  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

  2003CostaNovel
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  Spies by Michael Frayn

  2002CostaNovel
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  Twelve Bar Blues by Patrick Neate

  2001CostaNovel
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  English Passengers by Matthew Kneale

  2000CostaNovel
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  Music and Silence by Rose Tremain

  1999CostaNovel
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  Leading the Cheers by Justin Cartwright

  1998CostaNovel
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  Quarantine by Jim Crace

  1997CostaNovel
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  Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge

  1996CostaNovel
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  The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie

  1995CostaNovel
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  Felicia's Journey by William Trevor

  1994CostaNovel
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  Theory of War by Joan Brady

  1993CostaNovel
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  Poor Things by Alasdair Gray

  1992CostaNovel
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  The Queen of the Tambourine by Jane Gardam

  1991CostaNovel
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  Hopeful Monsters by Nicholas Mosley

  1990CostaNovel
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  The Chymical Wedding by Lindsay Clarke

  1989CostaNovel
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  The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

  1988CostaNovel
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  The Child in Time by Ian McEwan

  1987CostaNovel
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  An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

  1986CostaNovel
• Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd

  1985CostaNovel
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  Kruger's Alp by Christopher Hope

  1984CostaNovel
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  Fools of Fortune by William Trevor

  1983CostaNovel
• Young Shoulders by John Wain

  1982CostaNovel
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  Silver's City by Maurice Leitch

  1981CostaNovel
• How Far Can You Go by David Lodge

  1980CostaNovel
• The Old Jest by Jennifer Johnston

  1979CostaNovel
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  Picture Palace by Paul Theroux

  1978CostaNovel
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  Injury Time by Beryl Bainbridge

  1977CostaNovel
• The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor

  1976CostaNovel
• Docherty by William McIlvanney

  1975CostaNovel
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  The Sacred and Profane Love Machine by Iris Murdoch

  1974CostaNovel
• The Chip-Chip Gatherers by Shiva Naipaul

  1973CostaNovel
• The Bird of Night by Susan Hill

  1972CostaNovel
• The Destiny Waltz by Gerda Charles

  1971CostaNovel