| P. H. Newby | Something to Answer For | 1969 | Yes |
| Bernice Rubens | The Elected Member | 1970 | |
| J. G. Farrell | Troubles | 1970 | |
| V. S. Naipaul | In a Free State | 1971 | |
| John Berger | G. | 1972 | |
| J. G. Farrell | The Siege of Krishnapur | 1973 | |
| Nadine Gordimer | The Conservationist | 1974 | |
| Stanley Middleton | Holiday | | |
| Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Heat and Dust | 1975 | |
| David Storey | Saville | 1976 | |
| Paul Scott | Staying On | 1977 | |
| Iris Murdoch | The Sea, the Sea | 1978 | |
| Penelope Fitzgerald | Offshore | 1979 | |
| William Golding | Rites of Passage | 1980 | |
| Salman Rushdie | Midnight's Children | 1981 | |
| Thomas Keneally | Schindler's Ark | 1982 | |
| J. M. Coetzee | Life & Times of Michael K | 1983 | |
| Anita Brookner | Hotel du Lac | 1984 | Yes |
| Keri Hulme | The Bone People | 1985 | |
| Kingsley Amis | The Old Devils | 1986 | |
| Penelope Lively | Moon Tiger | 1987 | |
| Peter Carey | Oscar and Lucinda | 1988 | |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | The Remains of the Day | 1989 | Yes |
| A. S. Byatt | Possession | 1990 | |
| Ben Okri | The Famished Road | 1991 | |
| Michael Ondaatje | The English Patient | 1992 | |
| Barry Unsworth | Sacred Hunger | | |
| Roddy Doyle | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha | 1993 | |
| James Kelman | How Late It Was, How Late | 1994 | |
| Pat Barker | The Ghost Road | 1995 | |
| Graham Swift | Last Orders | 1996 | In progress |
| Arundhati Roy | The God of Small Things | 1997 | |
| Ian McEwan | Amsterdam | 1998 | |
| J. M. Coetzee | Disgrace | 1999 | |
| Margaret Atwood | The Blind Assassin | 2000 | Yes |
| Peter Carey | True History of the Kelly Gang | 2001 | |
| Yann Martel | Life of Pi | 2002 | Yes |
| DBC Pierre | Vernon God Little | 2003 | Yes |
| Alan Hollinghurst | The Line of Beauty | 2004 | |
| John Banville | The Sea | 2005 | |
| Kiran Desai | The Inheritance of Loss | 2006 | |
| Anne Enright | The Gathering | 2007 | Yes |
| Aravind Adiga | The White Tiger | 2008 | |
| Hilary Mantel | Wolf Hall | 2009 | |
| Howard Jacobson | The Finkler Question | 2010 | Yes |
| Julian Barnes | The Sense of an Ending | 2011 | Yes |
| Hilary Mantel | Bring Up the Bodies | 2012 | |
| Eleanor Catton | The Luminaries | 2013 | Yes |
| Richard Flanagan | The Narrow Road to the Deep North | 2014 | |
| Marlon James | A Brief History of Seven Killings | 2015 | |
| Paul Beatty | The Sellout | 2016 | Yes |
| George Saunders | Lincoln in the Bardo | 2017 | Yes |
| Anna Burns | Milkman | 2018 | |
| Margaret Atwood | The Testaments | 2019 | |
| Bernardine Evaristo | Girl, Woman, Other | | |
