Not the Booker Prize

Given by The Guardian

69 Works / 70 Items 51,696 Books 3,139 Reviews ½ 4.0

Sam Jordison leads a hunt by readers of the Guardian books blog to find the year's best book, which may – or may not – tally with the assessment of the Booker prize judges

Stages:
All, Winner (12), Shortlist (58)
Years:
All, 2020 (6), 2019 (6), 2018 (5), 2017 (7), 2016 (6), 2015 (6), 2014 (6), 2013 (6), 2012 (6), 2011 (5), 2010 (5), 2009 (6)

Winner 12

WorkYear
Hello Friend We Missed You by Richard Owain Roberts2020
Supper Club by Lara Williams2019
Sweet Fruit, Sour Land by Rebecca Ley2018
Dark Chapter by Winnie M. Li2017
The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel2016
Fishnet by Kirstin Innes2015
The Visitors by Simon Sylvester2014
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson2013
Tales from the Mall by Ewan Morrison2012
Deloume Road by Matthew Hooton2010
The canal by Lee Rourke2010
Solo by Rana Dasgupta2009

Shortlist 58

WorkYear
Hashim & Family by Shahnaz Ahsan2020
Underdogs by Chris Bonnello2020
The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Daré2020
Akin by Emma Donoghue2020
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell2020
Flames by Robbie Arnott2019
Skin by Liam Brown2019
Please Read This Leaflet Carefully: Keep This Leaflet. You May Need to Read It Again. by Karen Havelin2019
The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas by Daniel James2019
Spring by Ali Smith2019
Sealed by Naomi Booth2018
Dark Pines by Will Dean2018
Raising sparks by Ariel Kahn2018
The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan2018
Not Thomas by Sara Gethin2017
Dark Chapter by Winnie M. Li2017
The Threat Level Remains Severe by Rowena MacDonald2017
The Ludlow Ladies Society by Ann O'Loughlin2017
Man with a Seagull on His Head by Harriet Paige2017
Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout2017
Walking the Lights by Deborah Andrews2016
The Combinations by Louis Armand2016
what will remain: A harrowing and captivating war novel born out of the author's experiences of serving in Afghanistan by Dan Clements2016
The Less Than Perfect Legend of Donna Creosote by Dan Micklethwaite2016
Chains of Sand by Jemma Wayne2016
Shame by Melanie Finn2015
The Artificial Anatomy of Parks by Kat Gordon2015
Things We Have in Common by Tasha Kavanagh2015
Dark Star by Oliver Langmead2015
The Good Son by Paul McVeigh2015
Cairo by Louis Armand2014
The Last Tiger by Tony Black2014
First Time Solo. by Iain Maloney2014
The Smoke is Rising by Mahesh Rao2014
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt2014
The Trader of Saigon by Lucy Cruickshanks2013
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman2013
Little White Lies and Butterflies by Suzie Tullett2013
Anywhere's Better Than Here by Zoe Venditozzi2013
Magda by Meike Ziervogel2013
The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder by J. W. Ironmonger2012
Life! Death! Prizes! by Stephen May2012
Pig Iron by Benjamin Myers2012
The Revelations by Alex Preston2012
The Casablanca Case by Simon Swift2012
Jude in London by Julian Gough2011
Spurious by Lars Iyer2011
Fireball by Tyler Keevil2011
English Slacker by Chris Morton2011
King Crow by Michael Stewart2011
The Cuckoo Boy by Grant Gillespie2010
Advice for Strays by Justine Kilkerr2010
Pictures of Lily by Matthew Yorke2010
A Kind of Intimacy by Jenn Ashworth2009
Neverland: the unreal Michael Jackson stories by Simon Crump2009
This is How by M. J. Hyland2009
Tomas by James Palumbo2009
The Tin Kin by Eleanor Thom2009

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