2002

• Anita Shreve: Strange Fits of Passion – Very good
• Ian McEwan: Atonement – Very good
• Peter Carey: The True History of the Kelly Gang – Variable appeal
• Nora Roberts: The Villa – Average

2003

• Sebastian Faulks: On Green Dolphin Street – Excellent
• Paul Vincent: The Death of Me – Awful
• Sarah Waters: Fingersmith – Excellent
• A.S. Byatt: Possession – Very good
• Haruki Murakami: Sputnik Sweetheart – Good

2004

• Richard Russo: Empire Falls – Very good
• Beryl Bainbridge: According to Queeney – Good
• Sue Monk Kidd: The Secret Life of Bees – Very good
• David Lodge: Thinks – Average
• Anna Sebold: The Lovely Bones – Very good
• Monica Ali: Brick Lane – Excellent
• Paul Bryers: The Used Women’s Book Club – Good

2005

• William Boyd: Any Human Heart – Very good
• Barbara Kingsolver: The Poisonwood Bible – Excellent
• Audrey Niffennegger: The Time Travellers Wife – Very good
• Lorna Landvik: Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons – Average
• David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas – Good

2006

• Karen Joy Fowler: The Jane Austen Book Club – Awful
• Sue Monk Kidd: The Mermaid Chair – Good
• Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner – Excellent
• Kazua Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go – Good
• Isabel Allende: The House of the Spirits – Good
• Julian Barnes: Arthur and George – Good
• Victoria Hislop: The Island – Good

2007

• Jasper Fforde: The Big Over Easy – Good
• Sarah Waters: The Night Watch – Good
• Tim Pears: In the Place of Fallen Leaves – Very good
• Tim Pears: Blenheim Orchard – Good
• Ahdaf Soueif: The Map of Love – Opinion sharply divided
• A.M. Homes: This Book Could Save Your Life – Divided response again
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Half of a Yellow Sun – Excellent

2008

• Barbara Trapido: Frankie and Stankie – Good
• Helen Dunmore: The Seige – Very good
• Katharine McMahon: The Rose of Sebastopol – Very good/good
• Markus Zusak: The Book Thief – Excellent
• Deborah Moggach: These Foolish Things – Very good

2009

• Rose Tremain: Music and Silence – Very good/good
• Amy Tan: The Bonesetter’s Daughter – Good
• Ian McEwan: Saturday – Excellent
• Stella Rimington: At Risk – Good
• Victoria Hislop: The Return – Good
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Purple Hibiscus – Very good
• Sebastian Barry: The Secret Scripture – Good

2010

• Sarah Dunant: The Birth of Venus – Good
• Stefan Zweig: The Post Office Girl – Good
• Iain Banks: The Wasp Factory – Very good (though gruesome)
• Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Good
• Tracey Chevalier: Remarkable creatures – Good
• Steig Larsson: The Millennium Trilogy – Very good
• Kathryn Stockett: The Help – Excellent
• Monique Roffey: The White Woman on the Green Bicycle – Good

2011

• Alan Bennett: The Uncommon Reader – Very good
• David Nicholls: One Day – Very good
• Jo Nesbo: The Snowman – Good/Very good
• Hisham Matar: In the Country of Men – Very good
• Ali Smith: Girl Meets Boy (Canongate Myths) – Good
• Maggie O’Farrell: After you’d gone – Good
• Helen Dunmore: The Betrayal – Very good
• Sarah Winman: When God was a Rabbit – Good

2012

• Edmund de Waal: The Hare with Amber Eyes – Mixed response
• Louisa Young: My Dear I wanted To Tell You – Very good
• Anita Shreve: Testimony – Good
• Michelle Paver: Dark Matter – Good
• C.J. Sansom: Dissolution – Good
• Vanessa Diffenbaugh: The Language of Flowers – Good to very good
• Jonathan Coe: The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim – Good

2013

• Jonas Jonasson: The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared – Very good
• Stephen King: 11.22.63 – Excellent
• Jo-Jo Moyes: Me Before You – Very good
• Rosie Thomas: The Kashmir Shawl – Good to very good
• Winifred Watson: Miss Pettigrew lives for a Day – Ranged from disappointing to good
• Karen Thompson Walker: The Age of Miracles – Very good
• Liza Klaussman: Tigers in Red Weather – Good
• Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl – Average to good
• Simon Toyne: Sanctus – Below average
• Adriana Trigiani: The Shoemaker’s Wife – Average to good
• William Boyd: Waiting for Sunrise – Good to very good

2014

• Ian McEwan: Sweet Tooth – Average to good
• Donna Tartt: The Secret History – Average to good
• Deborah Rodriguez: The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul – Average to good

2015

• Rosamund Lupton: Sister – Good
• Judy Blume: In The Unlikely Event – Good