Books

Costa Book Award (awards)

This award was given to 52 books.


  1. Small Change for Stuart

    by Lissa Evans

    Year: 2012
    Category: Children's Fiction
    Finalist
  2. Pure

    by Andrew Miller

    Year: 2011
  3. Thin Paths

    Journeys In and Around an Italian Mountain Village

    by Julia Blackburn

    Year: 2011
    Category: Biography
    Rank: Shortlist
  4. Henry's Demons

    Living with Schizophrenia: A Father and Son's Story

    by Patrick Cockburn, Henry Cockburn

    Year: 2011
    Category: Biography
    Rank: Shortlist
  5. Now All Roads Lead to France

    by Matthew Hollis

    Year: 2011
    Category: Biography
    Rank: Shortlist
  6. Charles Dickens

    A Life

    by Claire Tomalin

    Year: 2011
    Category: Biography
    Rank: Shortlist
  7. Dustlands: Book 1

    Blood Red Road

    by Moira Young

    Year: 2011
    Category: Children's Book
    Rank: 1
  8. Flip

    by Martyn Bedford

    Year: 2011
    Category: Children's Book
    Rank: Shortlist
  9. The Unforgotten Coat

    by Frank Cottrell Boyce

    Year: 2011
    Category: Children's Book
    Rank: Shortlist
  10. Small Change for Stuart

    by Lissa Evans

    Year: 2011
    Category: Children's Book
    Rank: Shortlist
  11. City of Bohane

    by Kevin Barry

    Year: 2011
    Category: First Novel
    Rank: Shortlist
  12. The Last Hundred Days

    by Patrick McGuinness

    Year: 2011
    Category: First Novel
    Rank: Shortlist
  13. Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away

    by Christie Watson

    Year: 2011
    Category: First Novel
    Rank: Shortlist
  14. Pao

    by Kerry Young

    Year: 2011
    Category: First Novel
    Rank: Shortlist
  15. The Sense of an Ending

    by Julian Barnes

    Year: 2011
    Category: Novel
    Rank: Shortlist
  16. A Summer of Drowning

    by John Burnside

    Year: 2011
    Category: Novel
    Rank: Shortlist
  17. My Dear I Wanted to Tell You

    by Louisa Young

    Year: 2011
    Category: Novel
    Rank: Shortlist
  18. The Bees

    by Carol Ann Duffy

    Year: 2011
    Category: Poetry
    Rank: Shortlist
  19. Night

    by David Harsent

    Year: 2011
    Category: Poetry
    Rank: Shortlist
  20. Fiere

    by Jackie Kay

    Year: 2011
    Category: Poetry
    Rank: Shortlist
  21. November

    by Sean O'Brien

    Year: 2011
    Category: Poetry
    Rank: Shortlist
  22. The Hare With Amber Eyes

    A Hidden Inheritance

    by Edmund De Waal

    Year: 2010
    Category: Biography
  23. Out of Shadows

    by Jason Wallace

    Year: 2010
    Category: Children's Book
  24. Witness the Night

    by Kishwar Desai

    Year: 2010
    Category: First Novel
  25. Not Quite White

    by Simon Thirsk

    Year: 2010
    Category: First Novel Award
    Finalist
  26. The Blasphemer

    by Nigel Farndale

    Year: 2010
    Category: Novel
    Finalist
  27. Skippy Dies

    by Paul Murray

    Year: 2010
    Category: Novel
    Finalist
  28. The Hand That First Held Mine

    by Maggie O'Farrell

    Year: 2010
    Category: Novel
  29. Of Mutability

    by Jo Shapcott

    Year: 2010
    Category: Poetry
  30. The Strangest Man

    The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom

    by Graham Farmelo

    Year: 2009
    Category: Biography
  31. Chaos Walking: Book 2

    The Ask and the Answer

    by Patrick Ness

    Year: 2009
    Category: Children's Book
  32. Beauty

    by Raphael Selbourne

    Year: 2009
    Category: First Novel
  33. Brooklyn

    by Colm Tóibín

    Year: 2009
    Category: Novel
  34. A Scattering

    by Christopher Reid

    Year: 2009
    Category: Poetry
  35. Little Bee

    (published as "The Other Hand" in the UK)

    by Chris Cleave

    Year: 2008
    Rank: shortlist
  36. Somewhere Towards the End

    A Memoir

    by Diana Athill

    Year: 2008
    Category: Biography
  37. Just Henry

    by Michelle Magorian

    Year: 2008
    Category: Children's Book
  38. The Outcast

    by Sadie Jones

    Year: 2008
    Category: First Novel
  39. The Secret Scripture

    by Sebastian Barry

    Year: 2008
    Category: Novel
  40. The Broken Word

    by Adam Foulds

    Year: 2008
    Category: Poetry
  41. The Road Home

    by Rose Tremain

    Year: 2007
    Finalist
  42. Young Stalin

    by Simon Sebag Montefiore

    Year: 2007
    Category: Biography
  43. Gussie: Book 2

    The Bower Bird

    by Ann Kelley

    Year: 2007
    Category: Children's Book
  44. What Was Lost

    by Catherine O'Flynn

    Year: 2007
    Category: First Novel
  45. Day

    by A. L. Kennedy

    Year: 2007
    Category: Novel
  46. Tilt

    by Jean Sprackland

    Year: 2007
    Category: Poetry
  47. Black Swan Green

    by David Mitchell

    Year: 2006
    Rank: shortlist
  48. Keeping Mum

    A Wartime Childhood

    by Brian Thompson

    Year: 2006
    Category: Biography
  49. Set in Stone

    by Linda Newbery

    Year: 2006
    Category: Children's Book
  50. The Tenderness of Wolves

    by Stef Penney

    Year: 2006
    Category: First Novel

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