James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction

Best Book Awards

2017
American War by Omar El Akkad
Attrib.: And Other Stories by Eley Williams (winner)
First Love by Gwendoline Riley
White Tears by Hari Kunzru

2016
A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker
The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
The Sport of Kings by C E Morgan
What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell

2015
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
The First Bad Man by Miranda July
The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall
You Don't Have To Live Like This by Benjamin Markovits (winner)

2014
In the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman (winner)

2013
Harvest by Jim Crace (winner)

2012
The Deadman's Pedal by Alan Warner (winner)

2011
You & I by Padgett Powell (winner)

2010
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli (winner)

2009
The Children's Book by Antonia S Byatt (winner)

2008
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (winner)

2007
The Devil's Footprints by John Burnside
A Far Country by Daniel Mason
Our Horses in Egypt by Rosalind Belben (winner)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Salvage by Gee Williams

2006
Electricity by Ray Robinson
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (winner)
Seven Lies by James Lasdun
The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro

2005
The Accidental by Ali Smith
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
Mother, Missing by Joyce Carol Oates
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Praying Mantis by André Brink
Saturday by Ian McEwan (winner)

2004
The Afterglow by Anthony Cartwright
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
GB84 by David Peace (winner)
Havoc by Ronan Bennett
Psychoraag by Suhayl Saadi

2003
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Personality by Andrew O'Hagan (winner)

2002
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (winner)
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
Fragrant Harbour by John Lanchester
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
Unless by Carol Shields

2001
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
Number9dream by David Mitchell
Something Like a House by Sid Smith (winner)

2000
The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi
House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski
In the Shape of a Boar by Lawrence Norfolk
White Teeth by Zadie Smith (winner)

1999
A Harlot's Progress by David Dabydeen
The Harvest by Christopher Hart
Headlong by Michael Frayn
The Leper's Companions by Julia Blackburn
Renegade or Halo 2 by Timothy Mo (winner)

1998
Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks
The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden
Man or Mango? by Lucy Ellmann
Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge (winner)
The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills

1997
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Feeding the Ghosts by Fred D'Aguiar
Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty
Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller (winner)
Jack Maggs by Peter Carey

1996
Justine by Alice Thompson (winner)
Last Orders by Graham Swift (winner)

1995
The Prestige by Christopher Priest (winner)

1994
The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst (winner)

1993
Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips (winner)

1992
Sacred Country by Rose Tremain (winner)

1991
Downriver by Iain Sinclair (winner)

1990
Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd (winner)

1989
A Disaffection by James Kelman (winner)

1988
A Season in the West by Piers Paul Read (winner)

1987
The Golden Bird by George Mackay Brown (winner)

1986
Persephone by Jenny Joseph (winner)

1985
Winter Garden by Robert Edric (winner)

1984
Empire of the Sun by J G Ballard (winner)
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter (winner)

1983
Allegro Postillions by Jonathan Keates (winner)

1982
On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin (winner)

1981
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (winner)
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux (winner)

1980
Waiting for the Barbarians by J M Coetzee (winner)

1979
Darkness Visible by William Golding (winner)

1978
Plumb by Maurice Gee (winner)

1977
The Honourable Schoolboy by John Le Carré (winner)

1976
Doctor Copernicus by John Banville (winner)

1975
The Great Victorian Collection by Brian Moore (winner)

1974
Monsieur by Lawrence Durrell (winner)

1973
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch (winner)

1972
G. by John Berger (winner)

1971
A Guest of Honour by Nadine Gordimer (winner)