ShelfEvidentCosta Book of the Year — Complete Winners List
210 years of winners · Costa Coffee · Since 1971 · ← Back to award page
| 2021 | Hannah Lowe | Picador | |
| 2020 | Monique Roffey | Peepal Tree Press | |
| 2019 | Jack Fairweather | — | |
| 2018 | Bart van Es | — | |
| 2017 | Helen Dunmore | — | |
| 2016 | Sebastian Barry | Faber & Faber | |
| 2015 | Frances Hardinge | Macmillan Children's Books | |
| 2014 | Helen Macdonald | Jonathan Cape | |
| 2013 | Nathan Filer | HarperCollins | |
| 2012 | Hilary Mantel | Henry Holt and Co. | |
| 2011 | Andrew Miller | Sceptre | |
| 2010 | Jo Shapcott | Faber & Faber | |
| 2009 | Graham Farmelo | — | |
| 2009 | Christopher Reid | — | |
| 2009 | Patrick Ness | — | |
| 2009 | Raphael Selbourne | — | |
| 2009 | Colm Tóibín | — | |
| 2009 | Christopher Reid | — | |
| 2008 | Diana Athill | — | |
| 2008 | Sebastian Barry | Faber & Faber | |
| 2008 | Michelle Magorian | — | |
| 2008 | Sadie Jones | — | |
| 2008 | Sebastian Barry | Faber & Faber | |
| 2008 | Adam Foulds | — | |
| 2007 | Simon Sebag Montefiore | — | |
| 2007 | A.L. Kennedy | — | |
| 2007 | Ann Kelley | — | |
| 2007 | Catherine O'Flynn | — | |
| 2007 | A.L. Kennedy | — | |
| 2007 | Jean Sprackland | — | |
| 2006 | Brian Thompson | — | |
| 2006 | Stef Penney | — | |
| 2006 | Linda Newbery | — | |
| 2006 | Stef Penney | — | |
| 2006 | William Boyd | — | |
| 2006 | John Haynes | — | |
| 2005 | Hilary Spurling | — | |
| 2005 | Hilary Spurling | — | |
| 2005 | Kate Thompson | — | |
| 2005 | Tash Aw | — | |
| 2005 | Ali Smith | — | |
| 2005 | Christopher Logue | — | |
| 2004 | John Guy | — | |
| 2004 | Andrea Levy | — | |
| 2004 | Geraldine McCaughrean | — | |
| 2004 | Susan Fletcher | — | |
| 2004 | Andrea Levy | — | |
| 2004 | Michael Symmons Roberts | — | |
| 2003 | DJ Taylor | — | |
| 2003 | Mark Haddon | — | |
| 2003 | David Almond | — | |
| 2003 | DBC Pierre | — | |
| 2003 | Mark Haddon | — | |
| 2003 | Don Paterson | — | |
| 2002 | Claire Tomalin | — | |
| 2002 | Claire Tomalin | — | |
| 2002 | Hilary McKay | — | |
| 2002 | Norman Lebrecht | — | |
| 2002 | Michael Frayn | — | |
| 2002 | Paul Farley | — | |
| 2001 | Diana Souhami | — | |
| 2001 | Philip Pullman | — | |
| 2001 | Philip Pullman | — | |
| 2001 | Sid Smith | — | |
| 2001 | Patrick Neate | — | |
| 2001 | Selima Hill | — | |
| 2000 | Lorna Sage | — | |
| 2000 | Matthew Kneale | — | |
| 2000 | Jamila Gavin | — | |
| 2000 | Zadie Smith | — | |
| 2000 | Matthew Kneale | — | |
| 2000 | John Burnside | — | |
| 1999 | David Cairns | — | |
| 1999 | Seamus Heaney | — | |
| 1999 | J.K. Rowling | — | |
| 1999 | Tim Lott | — | |
| 1999 | Rose Tremain | — | |
| 1999 | Seamus Heaney | — | |
| 1998 | Amanda Foreman | — | |
| 1998 | Ted Hughes | — | |
| 1998 | David Almond | — | |
| 1998 | Giles Foden | — | |
| 1998 | Justin Cartwright | — | |
| 1998 | Ted Hughes | — | |
| 1997 | Graham Robb | — | |
| 1997 | Ted Hughes | — | |
| 1997 | Andrew Norriss | — | |
| 1997 | Pauline Melville | — | |
| 1997 | Jim Crace | — | |
| 1997 | Ted Hughes | — | |
| 1996 | Diarmaid MacCulloch | — | |
| 1996 | Seamus Heaney | — | |
| 1996 | Anne Fine | — | |
| 1996 | John Lanchester | — | |
| 1996 | Beryl Bainbridge | — | |
| 1996 | Seamus Heaney | — | |
| 1995 | Roy Jenkins | — | |
| 1995 | Kate Atkinson | — | |
| 1995 | Michael Morpurgo | — | |
| 1995 | Kate Atkinson | — | |
| 1995 | Salman Rushdie | — | |
| 1995 | Bernard O'Donoghue | — | |
| 1994 | Brenda Maddox | — | |
| 1994 | William Trevor | — | |
| 1994 | Geraldine McCaughrean | — | |
| 1994 | Fred D'Aguiar | — | |
| 1994 | William Trevor | — | |
| 1994 | James Fenton | — | |
| 1993 | Andrew Motion | — | |
| 1993 | Joan Brady | — | |
| 1993 | Anne Fine | — | |
| 1993 | Rachel Cusk | — | |
| 1993 | Joan Brady | — | |
| 1993 | Carol Ann Duffy | — | |
| 1992 | Victoria Glendinning | — | |
| 1992 | Jeff Torrington | — | |
| 1992 | Gillian Cross | — | |
| 1992 | Jeff Torrington | — | |
| 1992 | Alasdair Gray | — | |
| 1992 | Tony Harrison | — | |
| 1991 | John Richardson | — | |
| 1991 | John Richardson | — | |
| 1991 | Diana Hendry | — | |
| 1991 | Gordon Burn | — | |
| 1991 | Jane Gardam | — | |
| 1991 | Michael Longley | — | |
| 1990 | Ann Thwaite | — | |
| 1990 | Nicholas Mosley | — | |
| 1990 | Peter Dickinson | — | |
| 1990 | Hanif Kureishi | — | |
| 1990 | Nicholas Mosley | — | |
| 1990 | Paul Durcan | — | |
| 1989 | Richard Holmes | — | |
| 1989 | Richard Holmes | — | |
| 1989 | Hugh Scott | — | |
| 1989 | James Hamilton-Paterson | — | |
| 1989 | Lindsay Clarke | — | |
| 1989 | Michael Donaghy | — | |
| 1988 | A. N. Wilson | — | |
| 1988 | Paul Sayer | — | |
| 1988 | Judy Allen | — | |
| 1988 | Paul Sayer | — | |
| 1988 | Salman Rushdie | — | |
| 1988 | Peter Porter | — | |
| 1987 | Christopher Nolan | — | |
| 1987 | Christopher Nolan | — | |
| 1987 | Geraldine McCaughrean | — | |
| 1987 | Francis Wyndham | — | |
| 1987 | Ian McEwan | — | |
| 1987 | Seamus Heaney | — | |
| 1986 | Richard Mabey | — | |
| 1986 | Kazuo Ishiguro | — | |
| 1986 | Andrew Taylor | — | |
| 1986 | Jim Crace | — | |
| 1986 | Kazuo Ishiguro | — | |
| 1986 | Peter Reading | — | |
| 1985 | Ben Pimlott | — | |
| 1985 | Douglas Dunn | — | |
| 1985 | Janni Howker | — | |
| 1985 | Jeanette Winterson | — | |
| 1985 | Peter Ackroyd | — | |
| 1985 | Douglas Dunn | — | |
| 1984 | Peter Ackroyd | — | |
| 1984 | Barbara Willard | — | |
| 1984 | James Buchan | — | |
| 1984 | Christopher Hope | — | |
| 1983 | Victoria Glendinning | — | |
| 1983 | Roald Dahl | — | |
| 1983 | John Fuller | — | |
| 1983 | William Trevor | — | |
| 1982 | Edward Crankshaw | — | |
| 1982 | W. J. Corbett | — | |
| 1982 | Bruce Chatwin | — | |
| 1982 | John Wain | — | |
| 1981 | Nigel Hamilton | — | |
| 1981 | Jane Gardam | — | |
| 1981 | William Boyd | — | |
| 1981 | Maurice Leitch | — | |
| 1980 | David Newsome | — | |
| 1980 | David Lodge | — | |
| 1980 | Leon Garfield | — | |
| 1980 | David Lodge | — | |
| 1979 | Penelope Mortimer | — | |
| 1979 | Peter Dickinson | — | |
| 1979 | Jennifer Johnston | — | |
| 1978 | John Grigg | — | |
| 1978 | Philippa Pearce | — | |
| 1978 | Paul Theroux | — | |
| 1977 | Nigel Nicolson | — | |
| 1977 | Shelagh Macdonald | — | |
| 1977 | Beryl Bainbridge | — | |
| 1976 | Winifred Gerin | — | |
| 1976 | Penelope Lively | — | |
| 1976 | William Trevor | — | |
| 1975 | Helen Corke | — | |
| 1975 | Ruth Spalding | — | |
| 1975 | William McIlvanney | — | |
| 1974 | Andrew Boyle | — | |
| 1974 | Russell Hoban and Quentin Blake | — | |
| 1974 | Claire Tomalin | — | |
| 1974 | Iris Murdoch | — | |
| 1973 | John Wilson | — | |
| 1973 | Alan Aldridge and William Plomer | — | |
| 1973 | Shiva Naipaul | — | |
| 1972 | James Pope-Hennessy | — | |
| 1972 | Rumer Godden | — | |
| 1972 | Susan Hill | — | |
| 1971 | Michael Meyer | — | |
| 1971 | Gerda Charles | — | |
| 1971 | Geoffrey Hill | — |
