What the critics gave prizes to
Award winners and shortlists, old and new together.
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead2016
The Overstory
Richard Powers2018
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver2022
The Color Purple
Alice Walker1982
The Shipping News
Annie Proulx1993
The Fixer
Bernard Malamud1966
A Fable
William Faulkner1954
The Testaments
Margaret Atwood2019
Trust
Hernán Díaz2022
Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart2020
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr2014
The Stone Diaries
Carol Shields1993
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut1969
Exit West
Mohsin Hamid2017
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon1973
The Echo Maker
Richard Powers2006
The Road
Cormac McCarthy2006
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt2013
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead2019
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders2017
The Orphan Master's Son
Adam Johnson2012
Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel2012
The Night Watchman
Louise Erdrich2020
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes2011
The Luminaries
Eleanor Catton2013
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Richard Flanagan2014
Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo2019
Orbital
Samantha Harvey2024
There There
Tommy Orange2018
James
Percival Everett2024
The Book of Form and Emptiness
Ruth Ozeki2021
Blackouts
Justin Torres2023
Bewilderment
Richard Powers2021
Beloved
Toni Morrison1987
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee1960
Life of Pi
Yann Martel2001