Year Author Title Result Ref. 2012 Russell Norman Polpo: A Venetian Cookbook (of Sorts) Won [ 1] [ 4] Laurent Binet HHhH Shortlisted [ 5] Artemis Cooper Patrick Leigh Fermor Shortlisted [ 5] Simon Garfield On the Map Shortlisted [ 5] Robert Macfarlane The Old Ways Shortlisted [ 5] Hilary Mantel Bring Up the Bodies Shortlisted [ 5] 2013 John Williams Stoner Won [ 6] [ 1] Kate Atkinson Life After Life Shortlisted [ 3] Julian Barnes Levels of Life Shortlisted [ 3] Stephen Collins The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil Shortlisted [ 3] Aleksandra Mizielińska Maps Shortlisted [ 3] Nina Stibbe Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life Shortlisted [ 3] 2014 Jessie Burton The Miniaturist Won [ 7] [ 8] Laura Bates Everyday Sexism Shortlisted [ 9] Richard Flanagan The Narrow Road to the Deep North Shortlisted [ 9] Sabrina Ghayour Persiana: Recipes from the Middle East & Beyond Shortlisted [ 9] Oliver Jeffers Once Upon an Alphabet Shortlisted [ 9] Marina Keegan The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays & Stories Shortlisted [ 9] Helen Macdonald H Is for Hawk Shortlisted [ 9] Thomas Piketty Capital in the Twenty-First Century Shortlisted [ 9] 2015 Coralie Bickford-Smith The Fox and the Star Won [ 10] [ 11] Harper Lee Go Set a Watchman Shortlisted [ 12] Elena Ferrante My Brilliant Friend Shortlisted [ 12] Paula Hawkins The Girl on the Train Shortlisted [ 12] James Rebanks The Shepherd's Life Shortlisted [ 12] Matt Haig Reasons to Stay Alive Shortlisted [ 12] Mary Beard SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome Shortlisted [ 12] Hanya Yanagihara A Little Life Shortlisted [ 12] 2016 Sarah Perry The Essex Serpent Won [ 13] J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Shortlisted [ 14] Emma-Jane Kirby The Optician of Lampedusa Shortlisted [ 14] Beatrix Potter Quentin Blake (illus.) The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots Shortlisted [ 14] Christopher de Hamel Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts Shortlisted [ 14] Paul Kalanithi When Breath Becomes Air Shortlisted [ 14] 2017 Philip Pullman La Belle Sauvage : Book of Dust Volume One Won [ 1] [ 15] Elena Favilli Francesca Cavallo Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls Shortlisted [ 16] George Saunders Lincoln in the Bardo Shortlisted [ 16] Jenny Uglow Mr. Lear Shortlisted [ 16] Yanis Varoufakis Talking to My Daughter About the Economy Shortlisted [ 16] Frances Hardinge A Skinful of Shadows Shortlisted [ 16] Robert Macfarlane Jackie Morris The Lost Words Shortlisted [ 16] 2018 Sally Rooney Normal People Won [ 1] [ 17] [ 18] Isabel Hardman Why We Get the Wrong Politicians Shortlisted [ 1] [ 2] [ 17] Dan Jones Marina Amaral The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850–1960 Shortlisted [ 1] [ 2] [ 17] The Secret Barrister The Secret Barrister Shortlisted [ 1] [ 2] [ 17] Dolly Alderton Everything I Know About Love Shortlisted [ 1] [ 2] [ 17] Henry Eliot The Penguin Classics Book Shortlisted [ 1] [ 2] [ 17] Madeline Miller Circe Shortlisted [ 1] [ 2] [ 17] Fiona Waters Frann Preston-Gannon I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree Shortlisted [ 1] [ 2] [ 17] 2019 Charlie Mackesy The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Won [ 19] [ 20] Margaret Atwood The Testaments Shortlisted [ 21] [ 22] Candice Carty-Williams Queenie Shortlisted [ 22] Bridget Collins The Binding Shortlisted [ 21] [ 22] Robert Macfarlane Underland Shortlisted [ 22] Max Porter Lanny Shortlisted [ 21] [ 22] Greta Thunberg No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference Shortlisted [ 20] [ 22] 2020 Maggie O'Farrell Hamnet Won [ 23] [ 24] [ 25] Dara McAnulty Diary of a Young Naturalist Shortlisted [ 26] Brit Bennett The Vanishing Half Shortlisted [ 26] Michiko Kakutani Ex Libris Shortlisted [ 26] Gavin Francis Island Dreams Shortlisted [ 26] Philippe Sands The Ratline Shortlisted [ 26] Craig Brown One, Two, Three, Four: The Beatles in Time Shortlisted [ 26] Naoise Dolan Exciting Times Shortlisted [ 26] Bolu Babalola Love in Colour Shortlisted [ 26] David Olusoga Black and British: A Short, Essential History Shortlisted [ 26] Fiona Waters Britta Teckentrup (illus.)Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright! Shortlisted [ 26] Rundell Katherine The Book of Hopes Shortlisted [ 26] 2021 Paul McCartney The Lyrics Won [ 27] [ 28] Jonathan Drori Lucille Clerc (illus.)Around the World in 80 Plants Shortlisted [ 29] Janice Hallett The Appeal Shortlisted [ 29] Kiran Millwood Hargrave Tom de Freston (illus.)Julia and the Shark Shortlisted [ 29] Charlotte Higgins Chris Ofili (illus.)Greek Myths Shortlisted [ 29] Kazuo Ishiguro Klara and the Sun Shortlisted [ 29] Amy Jeffs Storyland Shortlisted [ 29] Caleb Azumah Nelson Open Water Shortlisted [ 29] Marcus Rashford Carl Anka You Are a Champion Shortlisted [ 29] Jennifer Saint Ariadne Shortlisted [ 29] Adam Silvera They Both Die at the End Shortlisted [ 29] Colin Thubron Amur River Shortlisted [ 29] Tracey Turner Andrew Donkin with Libby VanderPloeg (illus.)British Museum: History of the World in 25 Cities Shortlisted [ 29] 2022 Katy Hessel The Story of Art without Men Won [ 30] Maggie O'Farrell The Marriage Portrait Shortlisted [ 31] Alice Oseman Heartstopper Volume 1 Shortlisted [ 31] Bonnie Garmus Lessons in Chemistry Shortlisted [ 31] Jonathan Freedland The Escape Artist Shortlisted [ 31] Thomas Halliday Otherlands Shortlisted [ 31] Katherine Rundell with Talya Baldwin (illus.) In the Golden Mole Shortlisted [ 31] Jeremy Lee Cooking Shortlisted [ 31] R. F. Kuang Babel Shortlisted [ 31] A. F. Steadman Skandar and the Unicorn Thief Shortlisted [ 31] 2023 Katherine Rundell Impossible Creatures Won [ 32] Chris Broad Abroad in Japan Shortlisted [ 33] G. T. Karber Murdle Shortlisted [ 33] Rebecca F. Kuang Yellowface Shortlisted [ 33] Ann Patchett Tom Lake Shortlisted [ 33] Rick Rubin The Creative Act: A Way of Being Shortlisted [ 33] Zadie Smith The Fraud Shortlisted [ 33] Chris van Tulleken Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn't... Shortlisted [ 33] Alice Winn In Memoriam Shortlisted [ 33] Rebecca Yarros Fourth Wing Shortlisted [ 33] Lou Peacock and Matt Hunt A Whale of a Time: A Funny Poem for Every Day of the Year Shortlisted [ 33] Mary Beard Emperor of Rome Shortlisted [ 33]