# Not the Booker Prize

The Not the Booker Prize is an annual literary award presented by The Guardian. To be eligible for the Prize, books must meet all criteria for the Booker Prize. Eligible books are nominated and voted on by Guardian readers to select a shortlist. After the shortlist is selected, the books are debated on the Guardian books blog in the following weeks, and the winner is selected both by reader votes and a panel of judges.

## Honorees

Not the Booker Prize winners and shortlists :
| Year | Author | Book | Result |
| 2009 | Rana Dasgupta | Solo | Winner |
| 2009 | Jenn Ashworth | A Kind of Intimacy | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Simon Crump | Neverland | Shortlist |
| 2009 | M. J. Hyland | This Is How | Shortlist |
| 2009 | James Palumbo | Tomas | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Eleanor Thom | The Tin-Kin | Shortlist |
| 2010 | Lee Rourke | The Canal | Winner |
| 2010 | Matthew Hooton | Deloume Road | Winner |
| 2010 | Grant Gillespie | The Cuckoo Boy | Shortlist |
| 2010 | Justine Kilkerr | Advice for Strays | Shortlist |
| 2010 | Matthew Yorke | Pictures of Lily | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Michael Stewart | King Crow | Winner |
| 2011 | Julian Gough | Jude in London | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Cody James | The Dead Beat | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Tyler Keevil | Fireball | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Lars Iyer | Spurious | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Chris Morton | English Slacker | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Ewan Morrison | Tales from the Mall | Winner |
| 2012 | Ben Myers | Pig Iron | Shortlist |
| 2012 | A. J. Kirby | Paint the Town Red | Shortlist |
| 2012 | J. W. Ironmonger | The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Stephen May | Life! Death! Prizes! | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Alex Preston | The Revelations | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Simon Swift | The Casablanca Case | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Kate Atkinson | Life After Life | Winner |
| 2013 | Neil Gaiman | The Ocean at the End of the Lane | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Lucy Cruickshanks | The Trader of Saigon | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Suzie Tullett | Little White Lies and Butterflies | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Zoe Venditozzi | Anywhere's Better Than Here | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Meike Ziervogel | Magda | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Simon Sylvester | The Visitors | Winner |
| 2014 | Donna Tartt | The Goldfinch | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Tony Black | The Last Tiger | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Louis Armand | Cairo | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Iain Maloney | First Time Solo | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Mahesh Rao | The Smoke Is Rising | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Kirstin Innes | Fishnet | Winner |
| 2015 | Kat Gordon | The Artificial Anatomy of Parks | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Oliver Langmead | Dark Star | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Paul McVeigh | The Good Son | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Tasha Kavanagh | Things We Have in Common | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Melanie Finn | Shame | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Tiffany McDaniel | The Summer That Melted Everything | Winner |
| 2016 | Deborah Andrews | Walking the Lights | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Louis Armand | The Combinations | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Dan Clements | What Will Remain | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Dan Micklethwaite | The Less Than Perfect Legend of Donna Creosote | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Jemma Wayne | Chains of Sand | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Winnie M Li | Dark Chapter | Winner |
| 2017 | Sara Gethin | Not Thomas | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Harriet Paige | Man with a Seagull on His Head | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Rowena Macdonald | The Threat Level Remains Severe | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Ann O'Loughlin | The Ludlow Ladies' Society | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Rebecca Ley | Sweet Fruit, Sour Land | Winner |
| 2018 | Naomi Booth | Sealed | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Will Dean | Dark Pines | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Ariel Kahn | Raising Sparks | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Dervla McTiernan | The Ruin | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Marc Nash | Three Dreams in the Key of G | Wildcard |
| 2019 | Lara Williams | Supper Club | Winner |
| 2019 | Robbie Arnott | Flames | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Liam Brown | Skin | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Karen Havelin | Please Read This Leaflet Carefully | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Daniel James | The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Ali Smith | Spring | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Richard Owain Roberts | Hello Friend We Missed You | Winner |
| 2020 | Shahnaz Ahsan | Hashim & Family | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Chris Bonnello | Underdogs: Tooth and Nail | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Abi Daré | The Girl with the Louding Voice | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Emma Donoghue | Akin | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Maggie O'Farrell | Hamnet | Shortlist |