| Year | Book | Author |
| 2006 | The Inheritance of Loss | Kiran Desai |
| 2005 | The Sea | John Banville |
| 2004 | The Line of Beauty | Alan Hollinghurst |
| 2003 | Vernon God Little | Peter Finlay |
| 2002 | Life of Pi | Yann Martel |
| 2001 | True History of the Kelly Gang | Peter Carey |
| 2000 | The blind assassin | Margaret Atwood |
| 1999 | Disgrace | J.M. Coetzee |
| 1998 | Amsterdam | Ian McEwan |
| 1997 | The god of small things | Arundhati Roy |
| 1996 | Last orders | Graham Swift |
| 1995 | The ghost road | Pat Barker |
| 1994 | How late it was, how late | James Kelman |
| Special Prize for Best of the Past 25 years - Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie |
| 1993 | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha | Roddy Doyle |
| 1992 | The English Patient | Michael Ondaatje |
| 1992 | Sacred hunger | Barry Unsworth |
| 1991 | The Famished road | Ben Okri |
| 1990 | Possession | A.S. Byatt |
| 1989 | Remains of the day | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| 1988 | Oscar and Lucinda | Peter Carey |
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