The Not the Booker Prize is an annual literary award presented by The Guardian . To be eligible for the Prize, books must meet all criteria for the Booker Prize. Eligible books are nominated and voted on by Guardian readers to select a shortlist. After the shortlist is selected, the books are debated on the Guardian books blog in the following weeks, and the winner is selected both by reader votes and a panel of judges. [1]
Year | Author | Book | Result | Ref. |
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2009 | Rana Dasgupta | Solo | Winner | [2] |
Jenn Ashworth | A Kind of Intimacy | Shortlist | [3] | |
Simon Crump | Neverland | Shortlist | [3] | |
M. J. Hyland | This Is How | Shortlist | [3] | |
James Palumbo | Tomas | Shortlist | [3] | |
Eleanor Thom | The Tin-Kin | Shortlist | [3] | |
2010 | Lee Rourke | The Canal | Winner | [4] |
Matthew Hooton | Deloume Road | Winner | [4] | |
Grant Gillespie | The Cuckoo Boy | Shortlist | [5] | |
Justine Kilkerr | Advice for Strays | Shortlist | [5] | |
Matthew Yorke | Pictures of Lily | Shortlist | [5] | |
2011 | Michael Stewart | King Crow | Winner | [6] |
Julian Gough | Jude in London | Shortlist | [7] | |
Cody James | The Dead Beat | Shortlist | [7] | |
Tyler Keevil | Fireball | Shortlist | [7] | |
Lars Iyer | Spurious | Shortlist | [7] | |
Chris Morton | English Slacker | Shortlist | [7] | |
2012 | Ewan Morrison | Tales from the Mall | Winner | [8] |
Ben Myers | Pig Iron | Shortlist | [9] | |
A. J. Kirby | Paint the Town Red | Shortlist | [9] | |
J. W. Ironmonger | The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder | Shortlist | [9] | |
Stephen May | Life! Death! Prizes! | Shortlist | [9] | |
Alex Preston | The Revelations | Shortlist | [9] | |
Simon Swift | The Casablanca Case | Shortlist | [9] | |
2013 | Kate Atkinson | Life After Life | Winner [a] | [10] |
Neil Gaiman | The Ocean at the End of the Lane | Shortlist | [11] | |
Lucy Cruickshanks | The Trader of Saigon | Shortlist | [11] | |
Suzie Tullett | Little White Lies and Butterflies | Shortlist | [11] | |
Zoe Venditozzi | Anywhere's Better Than Here | Shortlist | [11] | |
Meike Ziervogel | Magda | Shortlist | [11] | |
2014 | Simon Sylvester | The Visitors | Winner | [12] |
Donna Tartt | The Goldfinch | Shortlist | [13] | |
Tony Black | The Last Tiger | Shortlist | [13] | |
Louis Armand | Cairo | Shortlist | [13] | |
Iain Maloney | First Time Solo | Shortlist | [13] | |
Mahesh Rao | The Smoke Is Rising | Shortlist | [13] | |
2015 | Kirstin Innes | Fishnet | Winner | [14] |
Kat Gordon | The Artificial Anatomy of Parks | Shortlist | [15] | |
Oliver Langmead | Dark Star | Shortlist | [15] | |
Paul McVeigh | The Good Son | Shortlist | [15] | |
Tasha Kavanagh | Things We Have in Common | Shortlist | [15] | |
Melanie Finn | Shame | Shortlist | [15] | |
2016 | Tiffany McDaniel | The Summer That Melted Everything | Winner | [16] |
Deborah Andrews | Walking the Lights | Shortlist | [17] | |
Louis Armand | The Combinations | Shortlist | [17] | |
Dan Clements | What Will Remain | Shortlist | [17] | |
Dan Micklethwaite | The Less Than Perfect Legend of Donna Creosote | Shortlist | [17] | |
Jemma Wayne | Chains of Sand | Shortlist | [17] | |
2017 | Winnie M Li | Dark Chapter | Winner | [18] |
Sara Gethin | Not Thomas | Shortlist | [19] | |
Harriet Paige | Man with a Seagull on His Head | Shortlist | [19] | |
Rowena Macdonald | The Threat Level Remains Severe | Shortlist | [19] | |
Ann O'Loughlin | The Ludlow Ladies' Society | Shortlist | [19] | |
2018 | Rebecca Ley | Sweet Fruit, Sour Land | Winner | [20] |
Naomi Booth | Sealed | Shortlist | [21] | |
Will Dean | Dark Pines | Shortlist | [21] | |
Ariel Kahn | Raising Sparks | Shortlist | [21] | |
Dervla McTiernan | The Ruin | Shortlist | [21] | |
Marc Nash | Three Dreams in the Key of G | Wildcard | [21] | |
2019 | Lara Williams | Supper Club | Winner | [22] |
Robbie Arnott | Flames | Shortlist | [23] | |
Liam Brown | Skin | Shortlist | [23] | |
Karen Havelin | Please Read This Leaflet Carefully | Shortlist | [23] | |
Daniel James | The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas | Shortlist | [23] | |
Ali Smith | Spring | Shortlist | [23] | |
2020 | Richard Owain Roberts | Hello Friend We Missed You | Winner | [24] [25] |
Shahnaz Ahsan | Hashim & Family | Shortlist | [26] | |
Chris Bonnello | Underdogs: Tooth and Nail | Shortlist | [26] | |
Abi Daré | The Girl with the Louding Voice | Shortlist | [26] | |
Emma Donoghue | Akin | Shortlist | [26] | |
Maggie O'Farrell | Hamnet | Shortlist | [26] |