Costa Novel Winners and Shortlisted 1995-2019

1.
Pure
Pure 3.60 avg rating — 10,462 ratings
2.
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 227,522 ratings
3.
The Elephant Keeper
The Elephant Keeper 3.50 avg rating — 3,653 ratings
4.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 3.89 avg rating — 1,568,799 ratings
5.
When We Were Orphans
When We Were Orphans 3.54 avg rating — 45,941 ratings
6.
English Passengers
English Passengers 4.07 avg rating — 7,473 ratings
7.
Music & Silence
Music & Silence 3.95 avg rating — 4,800 ratings
8.
The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder
The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder 3.82 avg rating — 598 ratings
9.
Snake Ropes
Snake Ropes 3.58 avg rating — 603 ratings
10.
The Innocents
The Innocents 3.19 avg rating — 5,689 ratings
11.
The Bellwether Revivals
The Bellwether Revivals 3.61 avg rating — 3,860 ratings
12.
The Sense of an Ending
The Sense of an Ending 3.74 avg rating — 188,375 ratings
13.
A Summer of Drowning
A Summer of Drowning 3.56 avg rating — 900 ratings
14.
My Dear I Wanted to Tell You (My Dear I Wanted to Tell You, #1)
My Dear I Wanted to Tell You (My Dear I Wanted to Tell You, #1) 3.86 avg rating — 6,375 ratings
15.
Whatever You Love
Whatever You Love 3.56 avg rating — 3,223 ratings
16.
The Blasphemer
The Blasphemer 3.59 avg rating — 1,508 ratings
17.
Skippy Dies
Skippy Dies 3.79 avg rating — 26,314 ratings
18.
The Hand That First Held Mine
The Hand That First Held Mine 4.05 avg rating — 29,052 ratings
19.
Family Album
Family Album 3.45 avg rating — 3,815 ratings
20.
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 151,322 ratings
21.
Trauma
Trauma 3.25 avg rating — 1,572 ratings
22.
The Secret Scripture
The Secret Scripture 3.84 avg rating — 22,630 ratings
23.
The Other Hand
The Other Hand 3.72 avg rating — 247,074 ratings
24.
A Partisan's Daughter
A Partisan's Daughter 3.22 avg rating — 3,022 ratings
25.
Skin Lane
Skin Lane 4.05 avg rating — 373 ratings
26.
Day
Day 3.40 avg rating — 723 ratings
27.
Death of a Murderer
Death of a Murderer 3.38 avg rating — 713 ratings
28.
The Road Home
The Road Home 3.88 avg rating — 10,464 ratings
29.
Restless
Restless 3.94 avg rating — 22,488 ratings
30.
Saving Caravaggio
Saving Caravaggio 2.80 avg rating — 91 ratings
31.
A Spot of Bother
A Spot of Bother 3.50 avg rating — 37,433 ratings
32.
Black Swan Green
Black Swan Green 3.98 avg rating — 43,417 ratings
33.
A Long Way Down
A Long Way Down 3.44 avg rating — 90,596 ratings
34.
Shalimar the Clown
Shalimar the Clown 3.91 avg rating — 14,680 ratings
35.
The Accidental
The Accidental
by: Ali Smith
3.37 avg rating — 13,494 ratings
36.
The Ballad of Lee Cotton
The Ballad of Lee Cotton 3.63 avg rating — 819 ratings
37.
Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)
Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 119,780 ratings
38.
Birds Without Wings
Birds Without Wings 4.16 avg rating — 15,940 ratings
39.
The Line of Beauty
The Line of Beauty 3.77 avg rating — 30,643 ratings
40.
Small Island
Small Island 4.01 avg rating — 37,170 ratings
41.
The Lucky Ones
The Lucky Ones 3.42 avg rating — 535 ratings
42.
Heligoland
Heligoland 3.13 avg rating — 108 ratings
43.
Frankie and Stankie
Frankie and Stankie 3.62 avg rating — 876 ratings
44.
White Lightning
White Lightning 3.48 avg rating — 209 ratings
45.
Spies
Spies 3.55 avg rating — 6,331 ratings
46.
Rumours Of A Hurricane
Rumours Of A Hurricane
by: Tim Lott
3.79 avg rating — 280 ratings
47.
The Story of Lucy Gault
The Story of Lucy Gault 3.77 avg rating — 7,820 ratings
48.
Twelve Bar Blues
Twelve Bar Blues 3.90 avg rating — 818 ratings
49.
Oxygen
Oxygen 3.36 avg rating — 1,391 ratings
50.
Atonement
Atonement 3.95 avg rating — 551,972 ratings
51.
The Siege (The Siege, #1)
The Siege (The Siege, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 6,883 ratings
52.
Fred & Edie
Fred & Edie 3.65 avg rating — 477 ratings
53.
What Are You Like?
What Are You Like? 3.33 avg rating — 622 ratings
54.
How the Dead Live
How the Dead Live
by: Will Self
3.57 avg rating — 2,938 ratings
55.
Being Dead
Being Dead
by: Jim Crace
3.73 avg rating — 5,342 ratings
56.
Headlong
Headlong 3.66 avg rating — 4,957 ratings
57.
Chocolat (Chocolat, #1)
Chocolat (Chocolat, #1) 3.96 avg rating — 129,687 ratings
58.
Leading the Cheers
Leading the Cheers 3.25 avg rating — 182 ratings
59.
The Travelling Hornplayer
The Travelling Hornplayer 3.85 avg rating — 1,317 ratings
60.
The Catastrophist
The Catastrophist 3.73 avg rating — 868 ratings
61.
The Untouchable
The Untouchable 3.95 avg rating — 4,128 ratings
62.
Quarantine
Quarantine
by: Jim Crace
3.68 avg rating — 4,085 ratings
63.
Grace Notes
Grace Notes 3.76 avg rating — 1,617 ratings
64.
Enduring Love
Enduring Love 3.65 avg rating — 46,946 ratings
65.
Bleeding London
Bleeding London 3.53 avg rating — 443 ratings
66.
Every Man for Himself
Every Man for Himself 3.48 avg rating — 1,884 ratings
67.
Mr Clive and Mr Page
Mr Clive and Mr Page 3.54 avg rating — 163 ratings
68.
Cocaine Nights
Cocaine Nights 3.56 avg rating — 6,599 ratings
69.
Asylum
Asylum 3.96 avg rating — 38,472 ratings
70.
Last Orders
Last Orders 3.67 avg rating — 14,707 ratings
71.
Worst Fears
Worst Fears 3.34 avg rating — 535 ratings
72.
The Information
The Information 3.61 avg rating — 6,432 ratings
73.
Felicia's Journey
Felicia's Journey 3.68 avg rating — 3,999 ratings
74.
Theory of War
Theory of War 3.97 avg rating — 410 ratings
75.
Poor Things
Poor Things 3.92 avg rating — 39,145 ratings
76.
The Queen of the Tambourine
The Queen of the Tambourine 3.59 avg rating — 1,765 ratings
77.
Hopeful Monsters
Hopeful Monsters 4.13 avg rating — 569 ratings
78.
The Chymical Wedding
The Chymical Wedding 3.83 avg rating — 601 ratings
79.
The Satanic Verses
The Satanic Verses 3.71 avg rating — 70,302 ratings
80.
The Child in Time
The Child in Time 3.59 avg rating — 14,640 ratings
81.
An Artist of the Floating World
An Artist of the Floating World 3.78 avg rating — 43,679 ratings
82.
Hawksmoor
Hawksmoor 3.46 avg rating — 4,845 ratings
83.
Kruger's Alp
Kruger's Alp 3.04 avg rating — 25 ratings
84.
Fools of Fortune
Fools of Fortune 3.98 avg rating — 1,326 ratings
85.
Young Shoulders
Young Shoulders
by: John Wain
3.39 avg rating — 41 ratings
86.
Silver's City
Silver's City 3.50 avg rating — 32 ratings
87.
How Far Can You Go?
How Far Can You Go? 3.75 avg rating — 1,642 ratings
88.
The Old Jest
The Old Jest 3.78 avg rating — 259 ratings
89.
Picture Palace
Picture Palace 3.50 avg rating — 319 ratings
90.
Injury Time
Injury Time 3.39 avg rating — 466 ratings
91.
The Children of Dynmouth
The Children of Dynmouth 3.98 avg rating — 1,091 ratings
92.
Docherty
Docherty 4.13 avg rating — 683 ratings
93.
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine 3.91 avg rating — 1,601 ratings
94.
The Chip-Chip Gatherers
The Chip-Chip Gatherers 3.70 avg rating — 135 ratings
95.
The Bird of Night
The Bird of Night 3.81 avg rating — 259 ratings
96.
The destiny waltz
The destiny waltz 2.67 avg rating — 6 ratings