Minaret / Leila Aboulela
Harbor / Lorraine Adams
Disobedience / Naomi Alderman
Watch Me Disappear / Jill Dawson
House of Orphans / Helen Dunmore
White Ghost Girls / Alice Greenway
The Constant Princess / Philippa Gregory
Dreams of Speaking / Gail Jones
The History of Love / Nicole Krauss
Beyond Black / Hilary Mantel
Lost in the Forest / Sue Miller
Rape: A Love Story / Joyce Carol Oates
Gilead / Marilynne Robinson
Prep / Curtis Sittenfeld
The Accidental / Ali Smith
On Beauty / Zadie Smith
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living / Carrie Tiffany
Frangipani / Célestine Hitiura Vaite
The Night Watch / Sarah Waters
The Position / Meg Wolitzer

We Need to Talk About Kevin / Lionel Shriver (Winner)
Case Histories / Kate Atkinson
The Great Stink / Clare Clark
Escape Routes for Beginners / Kira Cochrane
Billie Morgan / Joolz Denby
The Zigzag Way / Anita Desai
Tatty / Christine Dwyer Hickey
It So Happens / Patricia Ferguson
Away From You / Melanie Finn
Old Filth / Jane Gardam
The Mysteries of Glass / Sue Gee
Nelson’s Daughter / Miranda Hearn
Ursula, Under / Ingrid Hill
The Mammoth Cheese / Sheri Holman
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian / Marina Lewycka
Black Dirt / Nell Leyshon
The Remedy / Michelle Lovric
Liars and Saints / Maile Meloy
The Falls / Joyce Carol Oates
The River / Tricia Wastvedt

Small Island / Andrea Levy (Winner)
Brick Lane / Monica Ali
Oryx and Crake / Margaret Atwood
The Sari Shop / Rupa Bajwa
Kith & Kin / Stevie Davies
State of Happiness / Stella Duffy
The Flood / Maggie Gee
The Electric Michelangelo / Sarah Hall
The Great Fire / Shirley Hazzard
What Was She Thinking? / Zoë Heller
The Namesake / Jhumpa Lahiri
A Visit from Voltaire / Dinah Lee Küng
Gilgamesh / Joan London
The Internationals / Sarah May
Love / Toni Morrison
Purple Hibiscus / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Time Traveler’s Wife / Audrey Niffenegger
Ice Road / Gillian Slovo
The Colour / Rose Tremain
The Amateur Marriage / Anne Tyler

Property / Valerie Martin (Winner)
Special / Bella Bathurst
Caramelo / Sandra Cisneros
English Correspondence / Janet Davey
Buddha Da / Anne Donovan
Dot in the Universe / Lucy Ellmann
What the Birds See / Sonya Hartnett
What I Loved / Siri Hustvedt
War Crimes for the Home / Liz Jensen
The Solace of Leaving Early / Haven Kimmel
Heligoland / Shena Mackay
In the Forest / Edna O'Brien
Fox Girl / Nora Okja Keller
When the Emperor was Divine / Julie Otsuka
The Lovely Bones / Alice Sebold
Unless / Carol Shields
The Autograph Man / Zadie Smith
The Little Friend / Donna Tartt
The Cutting Room / Louise Welsh
Water Street / Crystal Wilkinson

A Crime in the Neighborhood / Suzanne Berne (Winner)
The Short History of a Prince / Jane Hamilton
The Poisonwood Bible / Barbara Kingsolver
Paradise / Toni Morrison
The Leper's Companions / Julia Blackburn
Visible Worlds / Marilyn Bowering
Master Georgie / Beryl Bainbridge
The Voyage of the Narwhal / Andrea Barrett
In a Fishbone Church / Catherine Chidgey
Crocodile Soup / Julia Darling
Restitution / Maureen Duffy
Trumpet / Jackie Kay
Comfort Woman / Nora Okja Keller
Buxton Spice / Oonya Kempadoo
The Vintner's Luck / Elizabeth Knox
Marchlands / Karla Kuban
The Giant O'Brien / Hilary Mantel
The Most Wanted / Jacquelyn Mitchard
A History of Silence / Barbara Neil
Evening News / Marly Swick

Larry’s Party / Carol Shields (Winner)
Lives of the Monster Dogs / Kirsten Bakis
The Ventriloquist’s Tale / Pauline Melville
The Magician’s Assistant / Ann Patchett
Love Like Hate Adore / Deirdre Purcell
The Weight of Water / Anita Shreve
Bitter Grounds / Sandra Benitez
Man or Mango? / Lucy Ellmann
Gaglow / Esther Freud
The Agüero Sisters / Cristina Garcia
The House Gun / Nadine Gordimer
The Breaking / Kathryn Heyman
Round Rock / Michelle Huneven
Ark Baby / Liz Jensen
Undiscovered Country / Christina Koning
The Orchard / Drusilla Modjeska
Black and Blue / Anna Quindlen
Impossible Saints / Michele Roberts
The Underpainter / Jane Urquhart
Baby Love / Louisa Young


Fugitive Pieces / Anne Michaels (Winner)
Alias Grace / Margaret Atwood
I Was Amelia Earhart / Jane Mendelsohn
One by One in the Darkness / Deirdre Madden
Accordion Crimes / E. Annie Proulx
Hen’s Teeth / Manda Scott
Every Man for Himself / Beryl Bainbridge
Death Comes for Peter Pan / Joan Brady
The Mistress of Spices / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Last Thing He Wanted / Joan Didion
The Cast Iron Shore / Linda Grant
The Enchantment of Lily Dahl / Siri Hustvedt
The Autobiography of My Mother / Jamaica Kincaid
With Child / Laurie R King
Fall on Your Knees / Ann-Marie MacDonald
All the Blood is Red / Leone Ross
Red Leaves / Paulina Simons
Anita and Me / Meera Syal
Gut Symmetries / Jeanette Winterson
The Frequency of Souls / Mary Kay Zuravleff


A Spell of Winter / Helen Dunmore (Winner)
The Book of Color / Julia Blackburn
Spinsters / Pagan Kennedy
The Hundred Secret Senses / Amy Tan
Ladder of Years / Anne Tyler
Eveless Eden / Marianne Wiggins
The Ghost Road / Pat Barker
Official and Doubtful / Ajay Close
The Rape of Sita / Lindsey Collen
Keeping Up with Magda / Isla Dewar
The Blue Flower / Penelope Fitzgerald
The Private Parts of Women / Lesley Glaister
The Passion of Alice / Stephanie Grant
Egg Dancing / Liz Jensen
So I am Glad / A.L. Kennedy
Never Far from Nowhere / Andrea Levy
Mother of Pearl / Mary Morrissy
Promised Lands / Jane Rogers
River Lines / Elspeth Sandys
The Love Letter / Cathleen Schine

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Last updated: April 19, 2006