Previous Winners
Explore our brand new reading guides, exclusive author interviews, writing prompts, and extracts on our Reading Women page.
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2020
Hamnet
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2019
An American Marriage - 2019 Winner
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2018
Home Fire - 2018 Winner
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2017
The Power - 2017 Winner
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2016
The Glorious Heresies - 2016 Winner
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2015
How to be both - 2015 Winner
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2014
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing - 2014 Winner
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2013
May We Be Forgiven - 2013 Winner
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2012
The Song of Achilles - 2012 Winner
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2011
The Tiger's Wife - 2011 Winner
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2010
The Lacuna - 2010 Winner
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2009
Home - 2009 Winner
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2008
The Road Home - 2008 Winner
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2007
Half of a Yellow Sun - 2007 Winner
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2006
On Beauty - 2006 Winner
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2005
We Need to Talk About Kevin - 2005 Winner
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2004
Small Island - 2004 Winner
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2003
Property - 2003 Winner
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2002
Bel Canto - 2002 Winner
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2001
The Idea of Perfection - 2001 Winner
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2000
When I Lived in Modern Times - 2000 Winner
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1999
A Crime in the Neighborhood - 1999 Winner
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1998
Larry’s Party - 1998 Winner
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1997
Fugitive Pieces - 1997 Winner
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1996
A Spell of Winter - 1996 Winner
Featured Podcasts
Listen to the Chair of Judges from each year discussing their winning book on BBC Woman's Hour
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The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht
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The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
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The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
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Shami Chakrabarti on How to be Both
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Muriel Gray on Half Of A Yellow Sun
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Miranda Richardson on May We Be Forgiven
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Martha Kearney on On Beauty by Zadie Smith
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Kirsty Lang on The Road Home by Rose Tremain
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Helen Fraser on A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing
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Fi Glover on Home by Marilynne Robinson
