Homepage awardsarchive_e47t1f Costa Book Award – Novel 2018 Costa Book Award – Novel Normal People Sally Rooney Amazon 2017 Costa Book Award – Novel Reservoir 13 Jon McGregor Amazon 2016 Costa Book Award – Novel Days Without End Sebastian Barry Amazon 2015 Costa Book Award – Novel A God in Ruins Kate Atkinson Amazon 2014 Costa Book Award – Novel How To Be Both Ali Smith Amazon 2013 Costa Book Award – Novel Life After Life Kate Atkinson Amazon 2012 Costa Book Award – Novel Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel Amazon 2011 Costa Book Award – Novel Pure Andrew Miller Amazon 2010 Costa Book Award – Novel The Hand That First Held Mine Maggie O’Farrell Amazon 2009 Costa Book Award – Novel Brooklyn Colm Toibin Amazon 2008 Costa Book Award – Novel The Secret Scripture Sebastian Barry Amazon 2007 Costa Book Award – Novel Day A. L. Kennedy Amazon 2006 Costa Book Award – Novel Restless William Boyd Amazon 2005 Costa Book Award – Novel The Accidental Ali Smith Amazon 2004 Costa Book Award – Novel Small Island Andrea Levy Amazon 2003 Costa Book Award – Novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon Amazon 2002 Costa Book Award – Novel Spies Michael Frayn Amazon 2001 Costa Book Award – Novel Twelve Bar Blues Patrick Neate Amazon 2000 Costa Book Award – Novel English Passengers Matthew Kneale Amazon 1999 Costa Book Award – Novel Music and Silence Rose Tremain Amazon 1998 Costa Book Award – Novel Leading the Cheers Justin Cartwright Amazon 1997 Costa Book Award – Novel Quarantine Jim Crace Amazon 1996 Costa Book Award – Novel Every Man for Himself Beryl Bainbridge Amazon 1995 Costa Book Award – Novel The Moor’s Last Sigh Salman Rushdie Amazon 1994 Costa Book Award – Novel Felicia’s Journey William Trevor Amazon 1993 Costa Book Award – Novel Theory of War Joan Brady Amazon 1992 Costa Book Award – Novel Poor Things Alasdair Gray Amazon 1991 Costa Book Award – Novel The Queen of the Tambourine Jane Gardam Amazon 1990 Costa Book Award – Novel Hopeful Monsters Nicholas Mosley Amazon 1989 Costa Book Award – Novel The Chymical Wedding Lindsay Clarke Amazon 1988 Costa Book Award – Novel The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie Amazon 1987 Costa Book Award – Novel The Child in Time Ian McEwan Amazon 1986 Costa Book Award – Novel An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro Amazon 1985 Costa Book Award – Novel Hawksmoor Peter Ackroyd Amazon 1984 Costa Book Award – Novel Kruger’s Alp Christopher Hope Amazon 1983 Costa Book Award – Novel Fools of Fortune William Trevor Amazon 1982 Costa Book Award – Novel Young Shoulders John Wain Amazon 1981 Costa Book Award – Novel Silver’s City Maurice Leitch Amazon 1980 Costa Book Award – Novel How Far Can You Go? David Lodge Amazon 1979 Costa Book Award – Novel The Old Jest Jennifer Johnston Amazon 1978 Costa Book Award – Novel Picture Palace Paul Theroux Amazon 1977 Costa Book Award – Novel Injury Time Beryl Bainbridge Amazon 1976 Costa Book Award – Novel The Children of Dynmouth William Trevor Amazon 1975 Costa Book Award – Novel Docherty William McIlvanney Amazon 1974 Costa Book Award – Novel The Sacred & Profane Love Machine Iris Murdoch Amazon 1973 Costa Book Award – Novel The Chip Chip Gatherers Shiva Naipaul Amazon 1972 Costa Book Award – Novel The Bird of Night Susan Hill Amazon 1971 Costa Book Award – Novel The Destiny Waltz Gerda Charles Amazon