Books

Commonwealth Writers' Prize For Best Book (awards)

This award was given to 100 books.


  1. The Memory of Love

    by Aminatta Forna

    Year: 2011
    Category: Africa
  2. Room

    by Emma Donoghue

    Year: 2011
    Category: Caribbean and Canada
  3. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

    by David Mitchell

    Year: 2011
    Category: South Asia and Europe
  4. That Deadman Dance

    by Kim Scott

    Year: 2011
    Category: South East Asia and Pacific
  5. The Double Crown

    Secret Writings of the Female Pharaoh

    by Marié Heese

    Year: 2010
    Category: Africa
  6. Galore

    by Michael Crummey

    Year: 2010
    Category: Caribbean and Canada
  7. Solo

    by Rana Dasgupta

    Year: 2010
    Category: South Asia and Europe
  8. The Adventures of Vela

    by Albert Wendt

    Year: 2010
    Category: South East Asia and Pacific
  9. The Lost Colours of the Chameleon

    by Mandla Langa

    Year: 2009
    Category: Africa
  10. Good to a Fault

    by Marina Endicott

    Year: 2009
    Category: Caribbean and Canada
  11. Unaccustomed Earth

    by Jhumpa Lahiri

    Year: 2009
    Category: South Asia and Europe
  12. The Slap

    by Christos Tsiolkas

    Year: 2009
    Category: South East Asia and Pacific
  13. The Hangman's Game

    by Karen King-Aribisala

    Year: 2008
    Category: Africa
  14. The Book of Negroes

    by Lawrence Hill

    Year: 2008
    Category: Overall
  15. Animal's People

    by Indra Sinha

    Year: 2008
    Category: South Asia and Europe
  16. The Time We Have Taken

    by Steven Carroll

    Year: 2008
    Category: South East Asia and Pacific
  17. Native Commissioner

    by Shaun Johnson

    Year: 2007
    Category: Africa
  18. The Friends of Meager Fortune

    by David Adams Richards

    Year: 2007
    Category: Caribbean and Canada
  19. Mister Pip

    by Lloyd Jones

    Year: 2007
    Category: Overall
    Rank: 1
  20. The Perfect Man

    by Naeem Murr

    Year: 2007
    Category: South Asia and Europe
  21. The Sun by Night

    by Benjamin Kwakye

    Year: 2006
    Category: Africa
  22. Alligator

    by Lisa Moore

    Year: 2006
    Category: Caribbean and Canada
  23. The Secret River

    by Kate Grenville

    Year: 2006
    Category: Overall
  24. On Beauty

    by Zadie Smith

    Year: 2006
    Category: South Asia and Europe
  25. Boy

    by Lindsey Collen

    Year: 2005
    Category: Africa
  26. Runaway

    by Alice Munro

    Year: 2005
    Category: Caribbean and Canada
  27. Small Island

    by Andrea Levy

    Year: 2005
    Category: Overall
  28. The Good Doctor

    by Damon Galgut

    Year: 2004
    Category: Africa
  29. Deafening

    by Frances Itani

    Year: 2004
    Category: Caribbean and Canada
  30. A Distant Shore

    by Caryl Phillips

    Year: 2004
    Category: South Asia and Europe
  31. The Hamilton Case

    by Michelle De Kretser

    Year: 2004
    Category: South East Asia and Pacific
  32. The Other Side of Silence

    by André Brink

    Year: 2003
    Category: Africa
  33. The Polished Hoe

    by Austin Clarke

    Year: 2003
    Category: Caribbean and Canada
  34. Spies

    by Michael Frayn

    Year: 2003
    Category: South Asia and Europe
  35. The Pickup

    by Nadine Gordimer

    Year: 2002
    Category: Africa
  36. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

    by Alice Munro

    Year: 2002
    Category: Caribbean and Canada
  37. Atonement

    by Ian McEwan

    Year: 2002
    Category: South Asia and Europe
  38. Gould's Book of Fish

    A Novel in Twelve Fish

    by Richard Flanagan

    Year: 2002
    Category: South East Asia and Pacific
  39. The Heart of Redness

    by Zakes Mda

    Year: 2001
    Category: Africa
  40. The Hero's Walk

    by Anita Rau Badami

    Year: 2001
    Category: Caribbean and Canada
  41. Super-Cannes

    by J. G. Ballard

    Year: 2001
    Category: South Asia and Europe
  42. True History of the Kelly Gang

    by Peter Carey

    Year: 2001
    Category: South East Asia and Pacific
  43. Disgrace

    by J. M. Coetzee

    Year: 2000
    Category: Africa
  44. What the Body Remembers

    by Shauna Singh Baldwin

    Year: 2000
    Category: Caribbean and Canada
  45. The Ground Beneath Her Feet

    by Salman Rushdie

    Year: 2000
    Category: South Asia and Europe
  46. Too Many Men

    by Lily Brett

    Year: 2000
    Category: South East Asia and Pacific
  47. If You Can Walk, You Can Dance

    by Marion Molteno

    Year: 1999
    Category: Africa
  48. Aelred's Sin

    by Lawrence Scott

    Year: 1999
    Category: Caribbean and Pacific
  49. Master Georgie

    by Beryl Bainbridge

    Year: 1999
    Category: South Asia and Europe
  50. Eucalyptus

    by Murray Bail

    Year: 1999
    Category: South East Asia and Pacific

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