Costa Book Award

The Costa Book Awards celebrated the most enjoyable books of the year by writers based in the UK and Ireland. The award was discontinued after the 2022 ceremon…

Writers resident in the UK or Ireland for at least six months of the previous three years.

2021

• Unsettled Ground — winner

2019

• Middle England — winner

2018

• Normal People — winner

2017

• Reservoir 13 — winner

2016

• Days Without End — winner

2015

• A God in Ruins — winner

2014

• How to Be Both — winner

2013

• Life After Life — winner

2012

• Bring Up the Bodies — winner

2011

• Pure — winner

2010

• The Hand That First Held Mine — winner

2008

• The Secret Scripture — winner

2006

• Restless — winner

2005

• The Accidental — winner

2004

• Small Island — winner

2003

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time — winner

2002

• Spies — winner

2001

• Twelve Bar Blues — winner

2000

• English Passengers — winner

1998

• Leading the Cheers — winner

1997

• Quarantine — winner

1995

• The Moor's Last Sigh — winner

1993

• Theory Of War — winner

1992

• Poor Things — winner

1991

• The Queen of the Tambourine — winner

1990

• Hopeful Monsters — winner

1988

• The Satanic Verses — winner

1987

• The Child in Time — winner

1986

• An Artist of the Floating World — winner

1985

• Hawksmoor — winner

1984

• Kruger's Alp — winner

1983

• Fools of Fortune — winner

1982

• Young Shoulders — winner

1981

• Silver's City — winner

1980

• How Far Can You Go — winner

1979

• The Old Jest — winner

1978

• Picture Palace — winner

1976

• The Children of Dynmouth — winner

1975

• Docherty — winner

1973

• The Chip-Chip Gatherers — winner

1972

• The Bird of Night — winner