# Costa Book Awards

I Costa Book Awards sono stati una serie di premi letterari assegnati a scrittori residenti nel Regno Unito e in Irlanda pubblicati l'anno precedente.
Istituiti a partire dal 1971 per celebrare i "libri più divertenti dell'anno" come Whitbread Awards, hanno cambiato il loro nome in quello attuale nel 2006 quando è subentrato il nuovo sponsor Costa Coffee.
Sono suddivisi in cinque categorie: Romanzo d'esordio, Romanzo, Libro per ragazzi, Biografia, Poesia alle quali si è aggiunta dal 2012 una sesta: Raccolta di racconti.
Ad ogni vincitore viene riconosciuta una cifra pari a 5000£ e, a partire dal 1985, l'autore del libro dell'anno scelto tra i premiati si aggiudica ulteriori 30000£.
Il riconoscimento è stato cancellato improvvisamente il 10 giugno 2022 dopo 50 anni di attività.

## Albo d'oro

| Anno | Premi | Premi | Premi | Premi | Premi | Premi | Note |
| Anno | Romanzo | Romanzo d'esordio | Libro per ragazzi | Poesia | Biografia | Raccolta di racconti | Note |
| 1971 | Gerda Charles The Destiny Waltz | — | — | Geoffrey Hill Mercian Hymns | Michael Meyer Henrik Ibsen | — | |
| 1972 | Susan Hill The Bird of Night | — | Rumer Godden The Diddakoi | — | James Pope-Hennessy Anthony Trollope | — | |
| 1973 | Shiva Naipaul The Chip-Chip Gatherers | — | Alan Aldridge and William Plomer The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast | — | John Wilson CB: A Life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman | — | |
| 1974 | Iris Murdoch The Sacred and Profane Love Machine | Claire Tomalin The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft | Russell Hoban and Quentin Blake How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen Jill Paton Walsh The Emperor's Winding Sheet | — | Andrew Boyle Poor Dear Brendan | — | |
| 1975 | William McIlvanney Docherty | Ruth Spalding The Improbable Puritan: A Life of Bulstrode Whitelocke | — | — | Helen Corke In Our Infancy | — | |
| 1976 | William Trevor The Children of Dynmouth | — | Penelope Lively L'estate in cui tutto cambiò | — | Winifred Gerin Elizabeth Gaskell | — | |
| 1977 | Beryl Bainbridge Injury Time | — | Shelagh Macdonald No End to Yesterday | — | Nigel Nicolson Mary Curzon | — | |
| 1978 | Paul Theroux Picture Palace | — | Philippa Pearce The Battle of Bubble & Squeak | — | John Grigg Lloyd George: The People's Champion | — | |
| 1979 | Jennifer Johnston The Dawning | — | Peter Dickinson Tulku | — | Penelope Mortimer About Time | — | |
| 1980 | David Lodge How Far Can You Go | — | Leon Garfield John Diamond | — | David Newsome On the Edge of Paradise: A. C. Benson, Diarist | — | |
| 1981 | Maurice Leitch Silver's City | William Boyd A Good Man in Africa | Jane Gardam The Hollow Land | — | Nigel Hamilton Monty: The Making of a General | — | |
| 1982 | John Wain Young Shoulders | Bruce Chatwin Sulla collina nera | W. J. Corbett The Song of Pentecost | — | Edward Crankshaw Bismark | — | |
| 1983 | William Trevor Fools of Fortune | John Fuller Flying to Nowhere | Roald Dahl Le streghe | — | Victoria Glendinning Vita Kenneth Rose King George V | — | |
| 1984 | Christopher Hope Kruger's Alp | James Buchan A Parish of Rich Women | Barbara Willard The Queen of the Pharisees' Children | — | Peter Ackroyd T. S. Eliot | Diane Rowe Tomorrow is our Permanent Address | |
| 1985 | Peter Ackroyd Hawksmoor | Jeanette Winterson Non ci sono solo le arance | Janni Howker The Nature of the Beast | Douglas Dunn Elegies | Ben Pimlott Hugh Dalton | — | |
| 1986 | Kazuo Ishiguro Un artista del mondo fluttuante | Jim Crace Continent | Andrew Taylor The Coal House | Peter Reading Stet | Richard Mabey Gilbert White | — | |
| 1987 | Ian McEwan Bambini nel tempo | Francis Wyndham The Other Garden | Geraldine McCaughrean A Little Lower than the Angels | Seamus Heaney The Haw Lantern | Christopher Nolan Under the Eye of the Clock | — | |
| 1988 | Salman Rushdie I versi satanici | Paul Sayer Le comodità della pazzia | Judy Allen Awaiting Developments | Peter Porter The Automatic Oracle | A. N. Wilson Tolstoy | — | |
| 1989 | Lindsay Clarke The Chymical Wedding | James Hamilton-Paterson Gerontius | Hugh Scott Why Weeps the Brogan | Michael Donaghy Shibboleth | Richard Holmes Coleridge: Early Visions | — | |
| 1990 | Nicholas Mosley Hopeful Monsters | Hanif Kureishi Il Budda delle periferie | Peter Dickinson AK | Paul Durcan Daddy, Daddy | Ann Thwaite AA Milne – His Life | — | |
| 1991 | Jane Gardam The Queen of the Tambourine | Gordon Burn Alma Cogan | Diana Hendry Harvey Angell | Michael Longley Gorse Fires | John Richardson A Life of Picasso | — | |
| 1992 | Alasdair Gray Poor Things | Jeff Torrington Swing Hammer Swing! | Gillian Cross Il caso del grande elefante | Tony Harrison The Gaze of the Gorgon | Victoria Glendinning Trollope | — | |
| 1993 | Joan Brady Theory of War | Rachel Cusk Saving Agnes | Anne Fine Flour Babies | Carol Ann Duffy Mean Time | Andrew Motion Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life | — | |
| 1994 | William Trevor Felicia's Journey | Fred D'Aguiar The Longest Memory | Geraldine McCaughrean Gold Dust | James Fenton Out of Danger | Brenda Maddox D H Lawrence: The Married Man | — | |
| 1995 | Salman Rushdie L'ultimo sospiro del Moro | Kate Atkinson Behind the Scenes at the Museum | Michael Morpurgo The Wreck of the Zanzibar | Bernard O'Donoghue Gunpowder | Roy Jenkins Gladstone | — | |
| 1996 | Beryl Bainbridge Ognuno per sé | John Lanchester The Debt to Pleasure | Anne Fine The Tulip Touch | Seamus Heaney The Spirit Level | Diarmaid MacCulloch Thomas Cranmer: A Life | — | |
| 1997 | Jim Crace Quarantine | Pauline Melville The Ventriloquist's Tale | Andrew Norriss Aquila | Ted Hughes Tales from Ovid | Graham Robb Victor Hugo | — | |
| 1998 | Justin Cartwright Leading the Cheers | Giles Foden The Last King of Scotland | David Almond Skellig | Ted Hughes Birthday Letters | Amanda Foreman Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire | — | Libro dell'anno postumo |
| 1999 | Rose Tremain Music and Silence | Tim Lott White City Blue | J.K. Rowling Harry Potter e il prigioniero di Azkaban | Seamus Heaney Beowulf | David Cairns Berlioz Volume Two: Servitude and Greatness | — | |
| 2000 | Matthew Kneale Il passeggero inglese | Zadie Smith Denti bianchi | Jamila Gavin Coram Boy | John Burnside The Asylum Dance | Lorna Sage Bad Blood – A Memoir | — | |
| 2001 | Patrick Neate Twelve Bar Blues | Sid Smith Something Like A House | Philip Pullman Il cannocchiale d'ambra | Selima Hill Bunny | Diana Souhami Selkirk's Island | — | |
| 2002 | Michael Frayn Spies | Norman Lebrecht The Song of Names | Hilary McKay L'angelo di Saffy | Paul Farley The Ice Age | Claire Tomalin Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self | — | |
| 2003 | Mark Haddon Lo strano caso del cane ucciso a mezzanotte | DBC Pierre Vernon God Little | David Almond L'uomo che mangiava il fuoco | Don Paterson Landing Light | DJ Taylor Orwell: The Life | — | |
| 2004 | Andrea Levy Small Island | Susan Fletcher Eve Green | Geraldine McCaughrean Not the End of the World | Michael Symmons Roberts Corpus | John Guy My Heart Is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots | — | |
| 2005 | Ali Smith Voci fuori campo | Tash Aw The Harmony Silk Factory | Kate Thompson The New Policeman | Christopher Logue Cold Calls | Hilary Spurling Matisse the Master | — | |
| 2006 | William Boyd Inquietudine | Stef Penney La tenerezza dei lupi | Linda Newbery Set in Stone | John Haynes Letter to Patience | Brian Thompson Keeping Mum | — | |
| 2007 | Alison Louise Kennedy Day | Catherine O'Flynn What Was Lost | Ann Kelley The Bower Bird | Jean Sprackland Tilt | Simon Sebag Montefiore Young Stalin | — | |
| 2008 | Sebastian Barry Il segreto | Sadie Jones Il bambino del fiume | Michelle Magorian Just Henry | Adam Foulds The Broken Word | Diana Athill Somewhere Towards the End | — | |
| 2009 | Colm Tóibín Brooklyn | Raphael Selbourne Beauty | Patrick Ness The Ask and the Answer | Christopher Reid A Scattering | Graham Farmelo The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius | — | |
| 2010 | Maggie O'Farrell La mano che teneva la mia | Kishwar Desai Witness the Night | Jason Wallace Out of Shadows | Jo Shapcott Della mutabilità | Edmund de Waal Un'eredità di avorio e ambra | — | |
| 2011 | Andrew Miller Pure | Christie Watson Un cielo pieno di lucciole | Moira Young Dark Eden | Carol Ann Duffy The Bees | Matthew Hollis Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas | — | |
| 2012 | Hilary Mantel Anna Bolena, una questione di famiglia | Francesca Segal La cugina americana | Sally Gardner Maggot Moon | Kathleen Jamie The Overhaul | Mary M. Talbot and Bryan Talbot Dotter of Her Father's Eyes | Avril Joy Millie and Bird | |
| 2013 | Kate Atkinson Vita dopo vita | Nathan Filer The Shock of the Fall | Chris Riddell Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse | Michael Symmons Roberts Drysalter | Lucy Hughes-Hallett The Pike | Angela Readman The Keeper of the Jackalopes | |
| 2014 | Ali Smith How to Be Both | Emma Healey Elizabeth è scomparsa | Kate Saunders Five Children on the Western Front | Jonathan Edwards My Family and Other Superheroes | Helen Macdonald H is for Hawk | Zoe Gilbert Fishskin, Hareskin | |
| 2015 | Kate Atkinson Un dio in rovina | Andrew Michael Hurley Loney | Frances Hardinge The Lie Tree | Don Paterson 40 Sonnets | Andrea Wulf The Invention of Nature | Danny Murphy Rogey | |
| 2016 | Sebastian Barry Days Without End | Francis Spufford Golden Hill | Brian Conaghan The Bombs That Brought Us Together | Alice Oswald Falling Awake | Keggie Carew Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory | Jess Kidd Dirty Little Fishes | |
| 2017 | Jon McGregor Bacino 13 | Gail Honeyman Eleanor Oliphant sta benissimo | Katherine Rundell L'esploratore | Helen Dunmore Inside the Wave | Rebecca Stott In the Days of Rain | — | Libro dell'anno postumo |
| 2018 | Sally Rooney Persone normali | Stuart Turton Le sette morti di Evelyn Hardcastle | Hilary McKay The Skylarks' War | J. O. Morgan Assurances | Bart van Es La ragazza cancellata | — | |
| 2019 | Jonathan Coe Middle England | Sara Collins The Confessions of Frannie Langton | Jasbinder Bilan Asha & the Spirit Bird | Mary Jean Chan Flèche | Jack Fairweather Volontario ad Auschwitz | — | |
| 2020 | Monique Roffey La sirena di Black Conch | Ingrid Persaud Love After Love | Natasha Farrant Voyage of the Sparrowhawk | Eavan Boland The Historians | Lee Lawrence The Louder I Will Sing | — | |
| 2021 | Claire Fuller Unsettled Ground | Caleb Azumah Nelson Mare aperto | Manjeet Maan The Crossing | Hannah Lowe The Kids | John Preston Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell | — | |
| Anno | Romanzo | Romanzo d'esordio | Libro per ragazzi | Poesia | Biografia | Raccolta di racconti | Note |
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