Looking for that next read and want the gold standard?
Browse these lists of major prizewinning books from the last twelve years. Click through to find a digital version or to place a hold on a print copy today.
The Booker Prize for Fiction
2020 Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart
2019 Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo
The Testaments Margaret Atwood
2018 Milkman Anna Burns
2017 Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders
2016 The Sellout Paul Beatty
2015 A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James
2014 The Narrow Road to the Deep North Richard Flanagan
2013 The Luminaries Eleanor Catton
2012 Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel
2011 The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes
2010 The Finkler Question Howard Jacobson
2009 Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel
2008 The White Tiger Aravind Adiga
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
2020 The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead
2019 The Overstory Richard Powers
2018 Less: a novel Andrew Sean Greer
2017 The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead
2016 The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen
2015 All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr
2014 The Goldfinch Donna Tartt
2013 The Orphan Master's Son Adam Johnson
2012 (no award given)
2011 A Visit From the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan
2010 Tinkers Paul Harding
2009 Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout
2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz
NZ Book Awards - Fiction
2020 Auē Becky Manawatu
2019 This Mortal Boy Fiona Kidman
2018 The New Animals Pip Adam
2017 The Wish Child Catherine Chidgey
2016 Coming Rain Stephen Daisley
2015 (no award given)
2014 The Luminaries Eleanor Catton
2013 The Big Music Kirsty Gunn
2012 Rangatira Paula Morris
2011 The Hut Builder Laurence Fearnley
2010 As the Earth Turns Silver Alison Wong
2009 Novel About My Wife Emily Perkins
2008 Opportunity Charlotte Grimshaw
NZ Book Awards - General Non-Fiction
2020 Dead People I Have Known Shayne Carter
2019 Hudson and Halls: the Food of Love Joanne Drayton
2018 Driving to Treblinka Diana Wichtel
2017 Can You Tolerate This? Ashleigh Young
2016 Maori Boy Witi Ihimaera
2015 (no award given)
2014 Peter McLeavey: the Life and Times of a New Zealand Art Dealer Jill Trevelyan
2013 Civilisation: Twenty Places on the Edge of the World Steve Braunias
2012 Tupaia: The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook’s Polynesian Navigator Joan Druett
2011 Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918–1964 Chris Bourke
2010 Encircled Lands: Te Urewera, 1820–1921 Judith Binney
2009 Rita Angus: an Artist's Life Jill Trevelyan
2008 Wetlands of New Zealand: A Bitter-Sweet Story Janet Hunt
Women's Prize for Fiction
2020 Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell
2019 An American Marriage Tayari Jones
2018 Home Fire Kamila Shamsie
2017 The Power Naomi Alderman
2016 The Glorious Heresies Lisa McInerney
2015 How to be Both Ali Smith
2014 A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing Eimear McBride
2013 May we be Forgiven A.M. Holmes
2012 The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller
2011 The Tiger's Wife Tea Obreht
2010 The Lacuna Barbara Kingsolver
2009 Home Marilynne Robinson
2008 The Road Home Rose Tremain
Updated November 2020