2018

• Census Jesse Ball Granta Books
• H(a)ppy Nicola Barker William Heinemann
• In Our Mad and Furious City Guy Gunaratne Tinder Press
• Crudo Olivia Laing Pan Macmillan/Picador
• The Cost of Living Deborah Levy Hamish Hamilton
• I’ll be Gone in the Dark Michelle McNamara Faber & Faber

2017

• Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe Kapka Kassabova (Granta Books)
• This is Memorial Device David Keenan (Faber & Faber)
• The Long Drop Denise Mina (Harvill Secker)
• This is the Place to Be Lara Pawson (CB Editions)
• First Love Gwendoline Riley (Granta Books)
• Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile Adelle Stripe (Wrecking Ball Press)

2016

• A Woman on the Edge of Time Jeremy Gavron (Scribe)
• The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone Olivia Laing (Canongate)
• Eileen Ottessa Moshfegh (Jonathan Cape)
• Anatomy of a Soldier Harry Parker (Faber and Faber)
• All That Man Is David Szalay (Jonathan Cape)
• And the Sun Shines Now: How Hillsborough and the Premier League Changed Britain Adrian Tempany (Faber and Faber)

2015

• In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile Dan Davies (Quercus)
• Midland Honor Gavin (Penned in the Margins)
• Noon Tide Toll Romesh Gunesekera (Granta Books)
• Original Rockers Richard King (Faber & Faber)
• Nothing is True and Everything is Possible Peter Pomerantsev (Faber & Faber)

2014

• The Valley Richard Benson (Bloomsbury)
• The Kills Richard House (Picador)
• The Wake Paul Kingsnorth (Unbound)
• The Trip to Echo Spring Olivia Laing (Canongate)
• American Interior Gruff Rhys (Hamish Hamilton)
• The Free Willy Vlautin (Faber & Faber)

2013

• How I Killed Margaret Thatcher Anthony Cartwright (Tindal Street Press)
• The Footballer Who Could Fly Duncan Hamilton (Century)
• People Who Eat Darkness Richard Lloyd Parry (Jonathan Cape)
• Pig Iron Benjamin Myers (Blue Moose Books)
• Myra, Beyond Saddleworth Jean Rafferty (Wild Wolf Publishing)