Not the Booker Prize

The Not the Booker Prize is an annual literary award presented by The Guardian. To be eligible for the Prize, books must meet all criteria for the Booker Prize. Eligible books are nominated and voted on by Guardian readers to select a shortlist. After the shortlist is selected, the books are debated on the Guardian books blog in the following weeks, and the winner is selected both by reader votes and a panel of judges.[1]

Honorees

Not the Booker Prize winners and shortlists

Year	Author	Book	Result	Ref.
2009	Rana Dasgupta	Solo	Winner	[2]
	Jenn Ashworth	A Kind of Intimacy	Shortlist	[3]
	Simon Crump	Neverland	Shortlist	[3]
	M. J. Hyland	This Is How	Shortlist	[3]
	James Palumbo	Tomas	Shortlist	[3]
	Eleanor Thom	The Tin-Kin	Shortlist	[3]
2010	Lee Rourke	The Canal	Winner	[4]
	Matthew Hooton	Deloume Road	Winner	[4]
	Grant Gillespie	The Cuckoo Boy	Shortlist	[5]
	Justine Kilkerr	Advice for Strays	Shortlist	[5]
	Matthew Yorke	Pictures of Lily	Shortlist	[5]
2011	Michael Stewart	King Crow	Winner	[6]
	Julian Gough	Jude in London	Shortlist	[7]
	Cody James	The Dead Beat	Shortlist	[7]
	Tyler Keevil	Fireball	Shortlist	[7]
	Lars Iyer	Spurious	Shortlist	[7]
	Chris Morton	English Slacker	Shortlist	[7]
2012	Ewan Morrison	Tales from the Mall	Winner	[8]
	Ben Myers	Pig Iron	Shortlist	[9]
	A. J. Kirby	Paint the Town Red	Shortlist	[9]
	J. W. Ironmonger	The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder	Shortlist	[9]
	Stephen May	Life! Death! Prizes!	Shortlist	[9]
	Alex Preston	The Revelations	Shortlist	[9]
	Simon Swift	The Casablanca Case	Shortlist	[9]
2013	Kate Atkinson	Life After Life	Winner[a]	[10]
	Neil Gaiman	The Ocean at the End of the Lane	Shortlist	[11]
	Lucy Cruickshanks	The Trader of Saigon	Shortlist	[11]
	Suzie Tullett	Little White Lies and Butterflies	Shortlist	[11]
	Zoe Venditozzi	Anywhere's Better Than Here	Shortlist	[11]
	Meike Ziervogel	Magda	Shortlist	[11]
2014	Simon Sylvester	The Visitors	Winner	[12]
	Donna Tartt	The Goldfinch	Shortlist	[13]
	Tony Black	The Last Tiger	Shortlist	[13]
	Louis Armand	Cairo	Shortlist	[13]
	Iain Maloney	First Time Solo	Shortlist	[13]
	Mahesh Rao	The Smoke Is Rising	Shortlist	[13]
2015	Kirstin Innes	Fishnet	Winner	[14]
	Kat Gordon	The Artificial Anatomy of Parks	Shortlist	[15]
	Oliver Langmead	Dark Star	Shortlist	[15]
	Paul McVeigh	The Good Son	Shortlist	[15]
	Tasha Kavanagh	Things We Have in Common	Shortlist	[15]
	Melanie Finn	Shame	Shortlist	[15]
2016	Tiffany McDaniel	The Summer That Melted Everything	Winner	[16]
	Deborah Andrews	Walking the Lights	Shortlist	[17]
	Louis Armand	The Combinations	Shortlist	[17]
	Dan Clements	What Will Remain	Shortlist	[17]
	Dan Micklethwaite	The Less Than Perfect Legend of Donna Creosote	Shortlist	[17]
	Jemma Wayne	Chains of Sand	Shortlist	[17]
2017	Winnie M Li	Dark Chapter	Winner	[18]
	Sara Gethin	Not Thomas	Shortlist	[19]
	Harriet Paige	Man with a Seagull on His Head	Shortlist	[19]
	Rowena Macdonald	The Threat Level Remains Severe	Shortlist	[19]
	Ann O'Loughlin	The Ludlow Ladies' Society	Shortlist	[19]
2018	Rebecca Ley	Sweet Fruit, Sour Land	Winner	[20]
	Naomi Booth	Sealed	Shortlist	[21]
	Will Dean	Dark Pines	Shortlist	[21]
	Ariel Kahn	Raising Sparks	Shortlist	[21]
	Dervla McTiernan	The Ruin	Shortlist	[21]
	Marc Nash	Three Dreams in the Key of G	Wildcard	[21]
2019	Lara Williams	Supper Club	Winner	[22]
	Robbie Arnott	Flames	Shortlist	[23]
	Liam Brown	Skin	Shortlist	[23]
	Karen Havelin	Please Read This Leaflet Carefully	Shortlist	[23]
	Daniel James	The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas	Shortlist	[23]
	Ali Smith	Spring	Shortlist	[23]
2020	Richard Owain Roberts	Hello Friend We Missed You	Winner	[24][25]
	Shahnaz Ahsan	Hashim & Family	Shortlist	[26]
	Chris Bonnello	Underdogs: Tooth and Nail	Shortlist	[26]
	Abi Daré	The Girl with the Louding Voice	Shortlist	[26]
	Emma Donoghue	Akin	Shortlist	[26]
	Maggie O'Farrell	Hamnet	Shortlist	[26]

Notes

1. Zoe Venditozzi won the popular vote, but the judges opted to award the prize to Kate Atkinson.

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