Prizewinning Books of 2008

1. The White Tiger / Aravind Adiga
2. A Golden Age / Tahmima Anam
3. Somewhere Towards the End / Diana Athill
4. The Secret Scripture / Sebastian Barry
5. Through Black Spruce / Joseph Boyden
6. The Time We Have Taken / Steven Carroll
7. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao / Junot Díaz
8. The Broken Word / Adam Foulds
9. The Graveyard Book / Neil Gaiman
10. Nigh-No-Place / Jen Hadfield

11. De Niro’s Game / Rawi Hage
12. The Book of Negroes / Lawrence Hill
13. The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English / Henry Hitchings
14. The Lost Leader / Mick Imlah
15. Mister Pip / Lloyd Jones
16. The Outcast / Sadie Jones
17. Inglorious / Joanna Kavenna
18. Kieron Smith, Boy / James Kelman
19. Day / A.L. Kennedy
20. The Lost Dog / Michelle de Kretser

21. Unaccustomed Earth / Jhumpa Lahiri
22. The Boat / Nam Le
23. The Complete Stories / David Malouf
24. Shadow Country / Peter Matthiessen
25. Be Near Me / Andrew O’Hagan
26. The Origin of Species / Nino Ricci
27. The Discovery of France / Graham Robb
28. Midnight’s Children / Salman Rushdie
29. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: or The Murder at Road Hill House / Kate Summerscale
30. Ilustrado (to be published in 2010) / Miguel Syjuco

31. The Road Home / Rose Tremain
32. The Loudest Sound and Nothing / Clare Wigfall