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Costa Book Award for Novel

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The Costa Book Award for Novel, formerly known as the Whitbread Award (1971–2005), was an annual literary award for novels, as part of the Costa Book Awards.

The awards were dissolved in 2022.[1]

Recipients

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Costa Books of the Year are distinguished with a blue ribbon (Blue ribbon). Award winners are listed in bold.

Costa Book Award for Novel winners and finalists[2]
Year Author Title Result Ref.
1971 Gerda Charles The Destiny Waltz Winner
1972 Susan Hill The Bird of Night Winner
1973 Shiva Naipaul The Chip-Chip Gatherers Winner
1974 Iris Murdoch The Sacred and Profane Love Machine Winner
1975 William McIlvanney Docherty Winner
1976 William Trevor The Children of Dynmouth Winner
1977 Beryl Bainbridge Injury Time Winner
1978 Paul Theroux Picture Palace Winner
1979 Jennifer Johnston The Old Jest Winner
1980 David Lodge How Far Can You Go? Blue ribbon Winner
1981 Maurice Leitch Silver's City Winner
1982 John Wain Young Shoulders Winner
1983 William Trevor Fools of Fortune Winner
1984 Christopher Hope Kruger's Alp Winner
1985 Peter Ackroyd Hawksmoor Winner
1986 Kazuo Ishiguro An Artist of the Floating World Blue ribbon Winner
1987 Ian McEwan The Child in Time Winner
1988 Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses Winner
1989 Lindsay Clarke The Chymical Wedding Winner
1990 Nicholas Mosley Hopeful Monsters Winner
1991 Jane Gardam The Queen of the Tambourine Winner
1992 Alasdair Gray Poor Things Winner
1993 Joan Brady Theory of War Blue ribbon Winner
1994 William Trevor Felicia's Journey Blue ribbon Winner
1995 Salman Rushdie The Moor's Last Sigh Winner
Martin Amis The Information Shortlist
Pat Barker The Ghost Road
Justin Cartwright In Every Face I Meet
Kazuo Ishiguro The Unconsoled
1996 Beryl Bainbridge Every Man for Himself Winner
Neil Bartlett Mr Clive & Mr Page Shortlist
J. G. Ballard Cocaine Nights
Patrick McGrath Asylum
Graham Swift Last Orders
Fay Weldon Worst Fears
1997 Jim Crace Quarantine Winner
John Banville The Untouchable Shortlist
Bernard MacLaverty Grace Notes
Ian McEwan Enduring Love
Geoff Nicholson Bleeding London
1998 Justin Cartwright Leading the Cheers Winner
Ronan Bennett the catastrophist Shortlist
Barbara Trapido The Travelling Hornplayer
1999 Rose Tremain Music and Silence Winner
Jim Crace Being Dead Shortlist
Michael Frayn Headlong
Joanne Harris Chocolat
2000 Matthew Kneale English Passengers Blue ribbon Winner
Jill Dawson Fred & Edie Shortlist
Anne Enright What Are You Like?
Kazuo Ishiguro When We Were Orphans
Will Self How the Dead Live
2001 Patrick Neate Twelve Bar Blues Winner
Helen Dunmore The Siege Shortlist
Ian McEwan Atonement
Andrew Miller Oxygen
2002 Michael Frayn Spies Winner
Justin Cartwright White Lightning Shortlist
Tim Lott Rumours of a Hurricane
William Trevor The Story of Lucy Gault
2003 Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Blue ribbon Winner
Rachel Cusk The Lucky Ones Shortlist
Shena Mackay Heligoland
Barbara Trapido Frankie & Stankie
2004 Andrea Levy Small Island Blue ribbon Winner
Kate Atkinson Case Histories Shortlist
Louis de Bernières Birds Without Wings
Alan Hollinghurst The Line of Beauty
Andrea Levy Small Island
2005 Ali Smith The Accidental Winner
Nick Hornby A Long Way Down Shortlist
Salman Rushdie Shalimar the Clown
Christopher Wilson The Ballad of Lee Cotton
2006 William Boyd Restless Winner
Neil Griffiths Saving Caravaggio Shortlist [3]
Mark Haddon A Spot of Bother
David Mitchell Black Swan Green
2007 A.L. Kennedy Day Blue ribbon Winner [4]
Neil Bartlett Skin Lane Shortlist
Rupert Thomson Death of a Murderer
Rose Tremain The Road Home
2008 Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture Blue ribbon Winner [5]
Chris Cleave The Other Hand Shortlist
Louis de Bernières A Partisan's Daughter
Patrick McGrath Trauma
2009 Colm Tóibin Brooklyn Winner [6]
Penelope Lively Family Album Shortlist
Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall
Christopher Nicholson The Elephant Keeper
2010 Maggie O'Farrell The Hand That First Held Mine Winner [7]
Louise Doughty Whatever You Love Shortlist [8]
Nigel Farndale The Blasphemer
Paul Murray Skippy Dies
2011 Andrew Miller Pure Blue ribbon Winner [9]
Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending Shortlist [10]
John Burnside A Summer of Drowning
Louisa Young My Dear I Wanted to Tell You
2012 Hilary Mantel Bring Up the Bodies Blue ribbon Winner [11]
Stephen May Life! Death! Prizes! Shortlist
James Meek The Heart Broke In
Joff Winterhart Days of the Bagnold Summer
2013 Kate Atkinson Life after Life Winner [12][13]
Bernardine Bishop Unexpected Lessons in Love Shortlist [14]
Maggie O'Farrell Instructions for a Heatwave
Evie Wyld All the Birds, Singing
2014 Ali Smith How to Be Both Winner [15][16]
Neel Mukherjee The Lives of Others Shortlist [17]
Monique Roffey House of Ashes
Colm Tóibín Nora Webster
2015 Kate Atkinson A God in Ruins Winner [18]
Anne Enright The Green Road Shortlist [19]
Patrick Gale A Place Called Winter
Melissa Harrison At Hawthorn Time
2016 Sebastian Barry Days Without End Blue ribbon Winner [20]
Maggie O'Farrell This Must Be the Place Shortlist [21]
Sarah Perry The Essex Serpent
Rose Tremain The Gustav Sonata
2017 Jon McGregor Reservoir 13 Winner [22]
Steph Penney Under a Pole Star Shortlist [23]
Kamila Shamsie Home Fire
Sarah Winman Tin Man
2018 Sally Rooney Normal People Winner [24]
Pat Barker The Silence of the Girls Shortlist [25]
Tom Rachman The Italian Teacher
Donal Ryan From a Low and Quiet Sea
2019 Jonathan Coe Middle England Winner [26]
Sophie Hardach Confession with Blue Horses Shortlist [27]
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan Starling Days
Joseph O'Connor Shadowplay
2020 Monique Roffey The Mermaid of Black Conch Blue ribbon Winner [28]
Susanna Clarke Piranesi Shortlist [29]
Tim Finch Peace Talks
Denise Mina The Less Dead
2021 Claire Fuller Unsettled Ground Winner [30]
Jessie Greengrass The High House Shortlist [31]
Nadifa Mohamed The Fortune Men
Elif Shafak The Island of Missing Trees

See also

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References

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  3. ^ Pauli, Michelle (2006-11-28). "Costa kicks off prize sponsorship with populist shortlist". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2020-10-17. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
  4. ^ Brown, Mark (2008-01-02). "Former postwoman takes Costa first novel award". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2022-05-27. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
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  16. ^ Brown, Mark (2015-01-27). "Helen Macdonald wins 2014 Costa book award for 'haunting' H is for Hawk". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2015-02-21. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
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  18. ^ Brown, Mark (26 January 2016). "Frances Hardinge's The Lie Tree wins Costa book of the year 2015". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 29 June 2017. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
  19. ^ Flood, Alison (2015-11-17). "Costa category awards 2015: tiny presses square up to big hitters". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2022-12-27. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
  20. ^ Cain, Sian (2017-01-31). "Days Without End wins Sebastian Barry second Costa book of the year award". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2022-07-04. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
  21. ^ Sian Cain (22 November 2016). "Costa book award 2016 shortlists dominated by female writers". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 3 October 2022. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
  22. ^ Cain, Sian (2018-01-02). "Helen Dunmore wins posthumous Costa award for collection Inside the Wave". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2018-01-02. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
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