Looking for that next read and want the gold standard?
Browse these lists of major prizewinning books from the last decade. Click through to find a digital version or to place a hold on a print copy today.
The Booker Prize for Fiction
2023 Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
2022 The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida Shehan Karunatilaka
2021 The Promise Damon Galgut
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
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
2023 Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver
Trust Hernan Diaz
2022 The Netanyahus Joshua Cohen
2021 The Night Watchman Louise Erdrich
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
NZ Book Awards - Fiction
2023 The Axeman’s Carnival Catherine Chidgey
2022 Kurangaituku Whiti Hereaka
2021 Bug week : & other stories Airini Beautrais
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
NZ Book Awards - General Non-Fiction
2022 Voices from the New Zealand wars | he reo nō ngā pakanga o Aotearoa Vincent O'Malley
2021 The Dark is Light Enough: Ralph Hotere A Biographical Portrait Vincent O’Sullivan
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
Women's Prize for Fiction
2023 Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver
2022 The Book of Form and Emptiness Ruth Ozeki
2021 Piranesi Susanna Clarke
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