Costa Book Award for Novel

Annual literary award for fictional books

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 (). Award winners are listed in bold.

Costa Book Award for Novel winners and finalists[2] Year  | Author  | Title  | Result  | Ref.

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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? | 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 | 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 | Winner  |
1994 | William Trevor | Felicia's Journey | 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 | 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 | Winner  |
Rachel Cusk | The Lucky Ones | Shortlist  |
Shena Mackay | Heligoland |
Barbara Trapido | Frankie & Stankie |
2004 | Andrea Levy | Small Island | 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 | Winner  | [4]
Neil Bartlett | Skin Lane | Shortlist  |
Rupert Thomson | Death of a Murderer |
Rose Tremain | The Road Home |
2008 | Sebastian Barry | The Secret Scripture | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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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* Costa Book Award for Biography
* Costa Book Award for Children's Books
* Costa Book Award for First Novel
* Costa Book Award for Poetry
* Costa Book Award for Short Story
* Costa Book Awards

## References

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2. ^ "Past Winners" (PDF). Costa Book Awards. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-12-29. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
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.
5. ^ Brown, Mark (2009-01-05). "Nonagenarian Diana Athill leads Costa book award winners". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2022-09-09. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
6. ^ Brown, Mark (2010-01-26). "Christopher Reid wins Costa book prize". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2022-05-29. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
7. ^ "In pictures: Costa book awards 2010". the Guardian. 2011-01-05. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2022-11-23. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
8. ^ Brown, Mark (2010-11-16). "Costa prize shortlist falls short on biographies". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2019-05-14. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
9. ^ Brown, Mark; correspondent, arts (2012-01-24). "Costa book award: Andrew Miller wins for sixth novel, Pure". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2023-06-04. Retrieved 2023-06-09. `{{cite news}}`: `|last2=` has generic name (help)
10. ^ "Costa book awards 2011: the shortlists – in pictures". the Guardian. 2011-11-15. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2022-07-07. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
11. ^ Brown, Mark (2013-01-29). "Hilary Mantel's Bring up the Bodies wins Costa prize after unanimous vote". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2022-12-16. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
12. ^ "Former winners recapture Costa prize". BBC News. 2014-01-06. Archived from the original on 2022-02-07. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
13. ^ Brown, Mark (2014-01-28). "Costa book award won by Nathan Filer for debut novel, The Shock of the Fall". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2023-04-05. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
14. ^ Mark Brown (26 November 2013). "Costa book awards 2013: late author on all-female fiction shortlist". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 3 April 2019. Retrieved November 27, 2013.
15. ^ Vincent, Alice (2015-01-05). "Wartime adaptation of Five Children and It wins in Costa Book Award categories". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2019-05-02. Retrieved 2015-01-12.
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.
17. ^ Oliver Arnoldi (18 November 2014). "2014 Costa Book Awards shortlists announced". Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 January 2015. Retrieved January 12, 2015.
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.
23. ^ "Costa Book Awards 2017 Shortlists Announced". Foyles. 27 November 2017. Archived from the original on 3 October 2022. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
24. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Front Row - The Cut Out Girl by Bart van Es named Costa Book of the Year 2018". BBC. Archived from the original on 2022-01-04. Retrieved 2022-02-06.
25. ^ "Costa Book Awards 2018 Shortlists Announced". BBC Radio 4. Archived from the original on October 3, 2022. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
26. ^ Doyle, Martin (6 January 2020). "Costa Book Awards 2019 winners revealed". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 13 June 2022. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
27. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Front Row - Costa Book Awards 2019 shortlists announced". BBC. Archived from the original on 2022-08-04. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
28. ^ "Costa Book of the Year: 'Utterly original' Mermaid of Black Conch wins". BBC. January 2021. Archived from the original on 2022-06-07. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
29. ^ Anderson, Porter (2020-11-25). "The Costa Book Awards Announce their 2020 Shortlists". Publishing Perspectives. Archived from the original on 2022-08-14. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
30. ^ "Costa Book Awards 2021 category winners announced". Costa. Archived from the original on 2022-01-05. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
31. ^ "Costa prize 2021 shortlists highlight climate anxiety". the Guardian. 2021-11-23. Archived from the original on 2022-12-07. Retrieved 2022-08-04.

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