Books

James Tait Black Memorial Prize (awards)

This award was given to 156 books.


  1. Burying the Bones

    Pearl Buck in China

    by Hilary Spurling

    Year: 2010
    Category: Biography
  2. The Lotus Eaters

    by Tatjana Soli

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  3. William Golding

    The Man who wrote Lord of the Flies

    by John Carey

    Year: 2009
    Category: Biography
  4. The Children's Book

    by A. S. Byatt

    Year: 2009
    Category: Fiction
  5. A Strange Eventful History

    The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable Families

    by Michael Holroyd

    Year: 2008
    Category: Biography
  6. The Secret Scripture

    by Sebastian Barry

    Year: 2008
    Category: Fiction
  7. God's Architect

    Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain

    by Rosemary Hill

    Year: 2007
    Category: Biography
  8. Our Horses in Egypt

    by Rosalind Belben

    Year: 2007
    Category: Fiction
  9. The Man Who Went into the West

    The Life of R. S. Thomas

    by Byron Rogers

    Year: 2006
    Category: Biography
  10. The Road

    by Cormac McCarthy

    Year: 2006
    Category: Fiction
  11. Edvard Munch

    Behind The Scream

    by Sue Prideaux

    Year: 2005
    Category: Biography
  12. Saturday

    by Ian McEwan

    Year: 2005
    Category: Fiction
  13. John Clare

    A Biography

    by Jonathan Bate

    Year: 2004
    Category: Biography
  14. GB84

    by David Peace

    Year: 2004
    Category: Fiction
  15. Charles Darwin: Book 2

    Charles Darwin

    The Power of Place

    by Janet Browne

    Year: 2003
    Category: Biography
  16. Personality

    by Andrew O'Hagan

    Year: 2003
    Category: Fiction
  17. The Lunar Men

    Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World

    by Jennifer Uglow

    Year: 2002
    Category: Biography
  18. The Corrections

    by Jonathan Franzen

    Year: 2002
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Winner
  19. John Maynard Keynes: Book 3

    John Maynard Keynes

    Fighting for Freedom, 1937-1946

    by Robert Skidelsky

    Year: 2001
    Category: Biography
  20. Something Like a House

    by Sid Smith

    Year: 2001
    Category: Fiction
  21. Experience

    A Memoir

    by Martin Amis

    Year: 2000
    Category: Biography
  22. White Teeth

    by Zadie Smith

    Year: 2000
    Category: Fiction
  23. George Eliot

    The Last Victorian

    by Kathryn Hughes

    Year: 1999
    Category: Biography
  24. Renegade or Halo2

    by Timothy Mo

    Year: 1999
    Category: Fiction
  25. The Life of Thomas More

    by Peter Ackroyd

    Year: 1998
    Category: Biography
  26. Master Georgie

    by Beryl Bainbridge

    Year: 1998
    Category: Fiction
  27. W. B. Yeats: A Life: Book 1

    W. B. Yeats: A Life

    Vol. 1: The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914

    by R. F. Foster

    Year: 1997
    Category: Biography
  28. Ingenious Pain

    by Andrew Miller

    Year: 1997
    Category: Fiction
  29. Thomas Cranmer

    by Diarmaid MacCulloch

    Year: 1996
    Category: Biography
  30. Last Orders

    by Graham Swift

    Year: 1996
    Category: Fiction
  31. Justine

    by Alice Thompson

    Year: 1996
    Category: Fiction
  32. Albert Speer

    His Battle With Truth

    by Gitta Sereny

    Year: 1995
    Category: Biography
  33. The Prestige

    by Christopher Priest

    Year: 1995
    Category: Fiction
  34. Doris Lessing's Autobiography: Book 1

    Under My Skin

    My Autobiography to 1949

    by Doris Lessing

    Year: 1994
    Category: Biography
  35. The Folding Star

    by Alan Hollinghurst

    Year: 1994
    Category: Fiction
  36. Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage

    by Richard Holmes

    Year: 1993
    Category: Biography
  37. Crossing the River

    by Caryl Phillips

    Year: 1993
    Category: Fiction
  38. The Reckoning

    The Murder of Christopher Marlowe

    by Charles Nicholl

    Year: 1992
    Category: Biography
  39. Sacred Country

    by Rose Tremain

    Year: 1992
    Category: Fiction
  40. Darwin

    The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist

    by Adrian Desmond, James F. Moore

    Year: 1991
    Category: Biography
  41. Downriver

    by Iain Sinclair

    Year: 1991
    Category: Fiction
  42. The Invisible Woman

    The Story Of Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan

    by Claire Tomalin

    Year: 1990
    Category: Biography
  43. Brazzaville Beach

    by William Boyd

    Year: 1990
    Category: Fiction
  44. Federico GarcĂ­a Lorca

    A Life

    by Ian Gibson

    Year: 1989
    Category: Biography
  45. A Disaffection

    by James Kelman

    Year: 1989
    Category: Fiction
  46. Wittgenstein: A Life: Book 1

    Wittgenstein: A Life

    Young Ludwig, 1889-1921

    by Brian McGuinness

    Year: 1988
    Category: Biography
  47. A Season in the West

    by Piers Paul Read

    Year: 1988
    Category: Fiction
  48. Victor Gollancz

    A Biography

    by Ruth Dudley Edwards

    Year: 1987
    Category: Biography
  49. The Golden Bird

    Two Orkney Stories

    by George Mackay Brown

    Year: 1987
    Category: Fiction
  50. Helen Waddell

    A Biography

    by Felicitas Corrigan

    Year: 1986
    Category: Biography

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