Goldsmiths Prize

Best Book Awards

2019
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann (winner)
Good Day? by Vesna Main
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
The Porpoise by Mark Haddon

2018
The Cemetery in Barnes by Gabriel Josipovici
Crudo by Olivia Laing
In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne
Kudos by Rachel Cusk
The Long Take by Robin Robertson (winner)
Murmur by Will Eaves

2017
First Love by Gwendoline Riley
H(A)ppy by Nicola Barker (winner)
A Line Made By Walking by Sara Baume
Phone by Will Self
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor

2016
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun by Sarah Ladipo Manyika
Martin John by Anakana Schofield
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack (winner)
Transit by Rachel Cusk

2015
The Apostle Killer by Richard Beard
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
Field of the Cloth of Gold by Magnus Mills
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter (winner)
Satin Island by Tom McCarthy

2014
The Absent Therapist by Will Eaves
How to be both by Ali Smith (winner)
In the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman
J by Howard Jacobson
Outline by Rachel Cusk
The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth

2013
Artful by Ali Smith
Exodus by Lars Iyer
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride (winner)
Harvest by Jim Crace
Red or Dead by David Peace
Tapestry by Philip Terry