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Costa Book Award
14 years tracked (2006–2021), 52 entries total.
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2021
Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell
John Preston
Winner
Consumed: A Sister’s Story
Arifa Akbar
Nominee
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History
Lea Ypi
Nominee
The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War and Everest
Ed Caesar
Nominee
2020
The Louder I Will Sing
Lee Lawrence
Winner
2018
Normal People
Sally Rooney · Novel
Winner
Orphan Monster Spy
Matt Killeen · Children's
Nominee
The Silence of the Girls
Pat Barker · Novel
Nominee
2017
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman · First Novel
Winner
The Explorer
Katherine Rundell · Children's Book
Winner
Home Fire
Kamila Shamsie · Novel
Nominee
Tin Man
Sarah Winman · Novel
Nominee
2015
A God in Ruins
Kate Atkinson · Novel
Winner
A Place Called Winter
Patrick Gale · Novel
Nominee
An Island of Our Own
Sally Nicholls · Children's Book
Nominee
Friends for Life
Andrew Norriss · Children's Book
Nominee
2014
Elizabeth Is Missing
Emma Healey · First Novel
Winner
H is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald · Biography
Winner
How to Be Both
Ali Smith · Novel
Winner
Listen to the Moon
Michael Morpurgo · Children's Book
Nominee
2013
Life After Life
Kate Atkinson · Novel
Winner
The Shock of the Fall
Nathan Filer · First Novel
Winner
2012
Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel · Novel
Winner
Maggot Moon
Sally Gardner · Children's Book
Winner
The Innocents
Francesca Segal · First Novel
Winner
The Bellwether Revivals
Benjamin Wood · First Novel
Nominee
2011
Blood Red Road
Moira Young · Children's Book
Winner
Pure
Andrew Miller · Novel
Winner
Tiny Sunbirds Far Away
Christie Watson · First Novel
Winner
City of Bohane
Kevin Barry · First Novel
Nominee
Flip
Martyn Bedford · Children's Book
Nominee
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes · Novel
Nominee
2010
The Hand That First Held Mine
Maggie O'Farrell · Novel
Winner
Skippy Dies
Paul Murray · Literary Award
Nominee
2009
Brooklyn
Colm Tóibín · Novel
Winner
The Ask and the Answer
Patrick Ness · Children's Book
Winner
The Girl With Glass Feet
Ali Shaw · First Novel
Nominee
Troubadour
Mary Hoffman · Children's
Nominee
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel · Novel
Nominee
2008
The Outcast
Sadie Jones · First Novel
Winner
The Secret Scripture
Sebastian Barry · Novel
Winner
Little Bee
Chris Cleave · Novel
Nominee
2007
Young Stalin
Simon Sebag-Montefiore · Biography
Winner
Skin Lane
Neil Bartlett · Novel
Nominee
The Road Home
Rose Tremain · Novel
Nominee
2006
The Tenderness of Wolves
Stef Penney · First Novel
Winner
A Spot of Bother
Mark Haddon · Novel
Nominee
Black Swan Green
David Mitchell · Novel
Nominee
Clay
David Almond · Children's Book
Nominee
Just in Case
Meg Rosoff · Children's Book
Nominee
The Diamond of Drury Lane
Julia Golding · Children's Book
Nominee
The Meaning of Night
Michael Cox · First Novel
Nominee
