Year Author(s) Title Publisher Result Ref. 2000 Howard Jacobson The Mighty Walzer Jonathan Cape Winner [ 5] Helen Fielding Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason Viking Press Shortlisted [ 4] Tony Hawks Playing the Moldovans at Tennis Ebury Hugh Massingberd The Book of Obituaries Pan Books Sue Townsend Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years Michael Joseph 2001 Jonathan Coe The Rotters' Club Viking Press Winner [ 6] 2002 Michael Frayn Spies Faber and Faber Winner Terry Eagleton The Gatekeeper St. Martin's Press Shortlisted [ 7] Lissa Evans Spencer's List Viking Press Will Ferguson Happiness™ Canongate Dave Gorman & Danny Wallace Are You Dave Gorman? Ebury Terry Pratchett Thief of Time Doubleday 2003 DBC Pierre Vernon God Little Faber and Faber Winner [ 8] Lucy Ellmann Dot in the Universe Bloomsbury Shortlisted [ 9] India Knight Don't You Want Me Penguin Books Yann Martel Life of Pi Knopf Canada Allison Pearson I Don't Know How She Does It Chatto & Windus Zadie Smith The Autograph Man Hamish Hamilton 2004 Jasper Fforde The Well of Lost Plots Hodder & Stoughton Winner [ 10] Andrey Kurkov Penguin Lost Vintage Books Shortlisted Deborah Moggach These Foolish Things Vintage Books Alexei Sayle Overtaken Sceptre 2005 Marina Lewycka A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Viking Press Winner [ 11] [ 12] James Hamilton-Paterson Cooking with Fernet Branca Faber and Faber Shortlisted [ 13] Lloyd Jones Mr Vogel Seren Tiffany Murray Happy Accidents Harper Perennial Terry Pratchett Going Postal Doubleday Malcolm Pryce The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth Bloomsbury 2006 Christopher Brookmyre All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye Abacus Books Winner [ 14] Jilly Cooper Wicked! Bantam Press Shortlisted [ 15] Robert Lewis The Last Llanelli Train Serpent's Tail John O'Farrell May Contain Nuts Doubleday Terry Pratchett Thud! Doubleday Zadie Smith On Beauty Hamish Hamilton 2007 Paul Torday Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Weidenfeld & Nicolson Winner [ 16] [ 17] Howard Jacobson Kalooki Nights Jonathan Cape Shortlisted [ 18] Marina Lewycka Two Caravans Penguin Books , Fig Tree David Nobbs Cupid's Dart Heinemann 2008 Will Self The Butt Bloomsbury Winner [ 19] [ 20] Alan Bennett The Uncommon Reader Faber and Faber Shortlisted [ 21] Joe Dunthorne Submarine Hamish Hamilton Julian Gough Jude: Level 1 Old Street Garrison Keillor Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon Viking Press John Walsh Sunday at the Cross Bones Harper Perennial 2009 Geoff Dyer Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi Canongate Books Winner [ 22] [ 23] Christopher Brookmyre A Snowball in Hell Little, Brown and Company Shortlisted [ 24] [ 25] Lissa Evans Their Finest Hour and a Half Transworld / Doubleday James Hamilton-Paterson Rancid Pansies Faber and Faber Saša Stanišić How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone Weidenfeld & Nicolson Steve Toltz A Fraction of the Whole Hamish Hamilton 2010 Ian McEwan Solar Jonathan Cape Winner [ 26] [ 27] Paul Murray Skippy Dies Hamish Hamilton Shortlisted [ 28] [ 29] Tiffany Murray Diamond Star Halo Portobello David Nicholls One Day Hodder & Stoughton Malcolm Pryce From Aberystwyth with Love Bloomsbury 2011 Gary Shteyngart Super Sad True Love Story Granta Winner [ 1] [ 30] Manu Joseph Serious Men John Murray Shortlisted [ 31] India Knight Comfort and Joy Penguin Books , Fig Tree Sam Leith The Coincidence Engine Bloomsbury Catherine O'Flynn The News Where You Are Penguin Books 2012 Terry Pratchett Snuff Transworld / Doubleday Winner [ 32] [ 33] Julian Gough Jude in London Old Street Shortlisted [ 34] [ 35] John Lanchester Capital W. W. Norton John O'Farrell The Man Who Forgot His Wife Doubleday Sue Townsend The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year Michael Joseph 2013 Howard Jacobson Zoo Time Bloomsbury Winner [ 36] [ 37] Joseph Connolly England's Lane Quercus Shortlisted [ 38] Helen DeWitt Lightning Rods (and Other Stories) New Directions Michael Frayn Skios Faber and Faber Deborah Moggach Heartbreak Hotel Chatto & Windus 2014 Edward St Aubyn Lost for Words Picador Winner [ 39] [ 40] [ 41] Sebastian Faulks Jeeves and the Wedding Bells Hutchinson Shortlisted [ 42] [ 43] [ 44] Helen Fielding Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy Jonathan Cape Hanif Kureishi The Last Word Faber and Faber John Niven Straight White Male Heinemann Joseph O'Connor The Thrill of it All Harvill Secker 2015 Alexander McCall Smith Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party Polygon Winner [ 45] [ 46] Helen Lederer Losing It Pan Macmillan Shortlisted [ 47] [ 48] Caitlin Moran How to Build a Girl Ebury Joseph O'Neill The Dog 4th Estate Nina Stibbe Man at the Helm Viking Press , Penguin Books Irvine Welsh A Decent Ride Jonathan Cape 2016 Paul Murray The Mark and the Void Penguin Books Winner (tie) [ 49] [ 50] Hannah Rothschild The Improbability of Love Bloomsbury Paul Beatty The Sellout Oneworld Publications Shortlisted [ 51] [ 52] Marina Lewycka The Lubetkin Legacy Penguin Random House John O'Farrell There's Only Two David Beckhams Black Swan, Transworld 2017 Helen Fielding Bridget Jones's Baby Vintage Books Winner [ 53] [ 54] Carl Hiaasen Razor Girl Little, Brown and Company Shortlisted [ 55] James Robertson To Be Continued... Penguin Random House Richard Russo Everybody's Fool Atlantic Books Nina Stibbe Paradise Lodge Penguin Random House Simon Wroe Here Comes Trouble Orion Books 2018 Not awarded [ 56] [ 57] [ 58] 2019 Nina Stibbe Reasons to be Cheerful Little, Brown and Company Winner [ 59] [ 60] Jen Beagin Vacuum in the Dark Simon & Schuster Shortlisted [ 61] [ 62] Kate Davies In at the Deep End Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Roddy Doyle Charlie Savage Jonathan Cape Lissa Evans Old Baggage Harper Perennial Paul Ewen Francis Plug: Writer in Residence Galley Beggar Press 2020 Matthew Dooley Flake Jonathan Cape Winner [ 2] [ 63] Oisín Fagan Nobber John Murray Shortlisted [ 64] Jessica Francis Kane Rules for Visiting Granta Jenny Offill Weather Granta Alastair Puddick 46% Better than Dave Raven Crest Books Hannah Rothschild House of Trelawney Bloomsbury 2021 Guy Kennaway The Accidental Collector Mensch Winner [ 65] Dolly Alderton Ghosts Penguin Books Shortlisted [ 66] A. Naji Bakhti Between Beirut and the Moon Influx Press Diksha Basu Destination Wedding Bloomsbury Hilary Leichter Temporary Faber and Faber Lauren Oyler Fake Accounts 4th Estate 2022 Percival Everett The Trees Influx Press Winner [ 67] John Boyne The Echo Chamber Doubleday Shortlisted [ 68] Zakiya Dalila Harris The Other Black Girl Bloomsbury Marian Keyes Again, Rachel Penguin Books , Michael Joseph Andrew Lipstein Last Resort Weidenfeld & Nicolson Sarah Lotz Impossible HarperCollins Phoebe Luckhurst The Lock-in Penguin Books , Michael Joseph Lucy Mangan Are We Having Fun Yet? Profile Richard Osman The Man Who Died Twice Viking Press Gary Shteyngart Our Country Friends Atlantic Books Nina Stibbe One Day I Shall Astonish the World Viking Press Joy Williams Harrow Profile 2023 Bob Mortimer The Satsuma Complex Gallery Books Winner [ 69] [ 70] Fergus Craig Murder at Crime Manor Sphere Shortlisted [ 71] James Hannaham Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta Europa Editions Aravind Jayan Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors Serpent's Tail India Knight Darling Fig Tree Sophie McCartney Mother Hens HarperNorth 2024 Ferdia Lennon Glorious Exploits Fig Tree Winner [ 72] 2024 Dolly Alderton Good Material Fig Tree Shortlisted [ 73] Kaliane Bradley The Ministry of Time Sceptre Andrew Hunter Murray A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering Hutchinson Heinemann Ferdia Lennon Glorious Exploits Fig Tree Caroline O'Donoghue The Rachel Incident Virago David Nicholls You Are Here Sceptre Jen Sugden and Chris SugdenHigh Vaultage Gollancz