The Gathering , by Anne Enright (winner)

Darkmans , by Nicola Barker

The Reluctant Fundamentalist , by Mohsin Hamid

Mister Pip , by Lloyd Jones

On Chesil Beach , by Ian McEwan

Animal's People , by Indra Sinha

The Inheritance of Loss , by Kiran Desai (winner)

The Secret River , by Kate Grenville

Carry Me Down , by M.J. Hyland

In the Country of Men , by Hisham Matar

Mother's Milk , by Edward St. Aubyn

The Night Watch , by Sarah Waters

The Sea , by John Banville (winner)

Arthur & George , by Julian Barnes

A Long Long Way , by Sebastian Barry

Never Let Me Go , by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Accidental , by Ali Smith

On Beauty , by Zadie Smith

The Line of Beauty , by Alan Hollinghurst (winner)

The Master , by Colm Tóibín

Cloud Atlas , by David Mitchell

Bitter Fruit , by Achmat Dangor

The Electric Michelangelo , by Sarah Hall

I'll Go to Bed at Noon , by Gerard Woodward

Vernon God Little , by DBC Pierre (Winner)

Brick Lane , by Monica Ali

Oryx and Crake , by Margaret Atwood

Notes on a Scandal , by Zoë Heller

Astonishing Splashes of Colour , by Clare Morrall

The Good Doctor , by Damon Galgut

The Life Of Pi , by Yann Martel (Winner)

Family Matters , by Rohinton Mistry

Unless , by Carol Shields

The Story of Lucy Gault , by William Trevor

Fingersmith , by Sarah Waters

Dirt Music , by Tim Winton

True History of the Kelly Gang , by Peter Carey (Winner)

Atonement , by Ian McEwan

Oxygen , by Andrew Miller

Number 9 Dream , by David Mitchell

The Dark Room , by Rachel Seiffert

Hotel World , by Ali Smith

The Blind Assassin , by Margaret Atwood (Winner)

The Hiding Place , by Trezza Azzopardi

The Keepers of Truth , by Michael Collins

When We Were Orphans , by Kazuo Ishiguro

English Passengers , by Matthew Kneale

The Deposition of Father McGreevy , by Brian O'Doherty

Disgrace , by J. M. Coetzee (Winner)

Fasting, Feasting , by Anita Desai

Headlong , by Michael Frayn

Our Fathers , by Andrew O'Hagan

The Map of Love , by Ahdaf Soueif

The Blackwater Lightship , by Colm Toibin

Amsterdam , by Ian McEwan (Winner)

Master Georgie , by Beryl Bainbridge

England, England , by Julian Barnes

The Industry of Souls , by Martin Booth

Breakfast on Pluto , by Patrick McCabe

The Restraint of Beasts , by Magnus Mills

The God of Small Things , by Arundhati Roy (Winner)

The Essence of the Thing , by Madeleine St. John

Grace Notes , by Bernard MacLaverty

The Underground Man , by Mick Jackson

Europa , by Tim Parks

Quarantine , by Jim Crace

Last Orders , by Graham Swift (Winner)

Every Man for Himself , by Beryl Bainbridge

Alias Grace , by Margaret Atwood

Reading in the Dark , by Seamus Deane

A Fine Balance , by Rohinton Mistry

The Orchard on Fire , by Shena Mackay

The Ghost Road , by Pat Barker (Winner)

In Every Face I Meet , by Justin Cartwright

The Moor's Last Sigh , by Salman Rushdie

Morality Play , by Barry Unsworth

The Riders , by Tim Winton

How Late It Was, How Late , by James Kelman (Winner)

Beside the Ocean of Time , by George MacKay Brown

Reef , by Romesh Gunesekera

Paradise , by Abdulrazak Gurnah

The Folding Star , by Alan Hollinghurst

Knowledge of Angels , by Jill Paton Walsh

Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha , by Roddy Doyle (Winner)

Scar Tissue , by Michael Ignatieff

Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer

Remembering Babylon , by David Malouf

Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips

The Stone Diaries , by Carol Shields

The English Patient , by Michael Ondaatje (Co-winner)

Sacred Hunger , by Barry Unsworth (Co-winner)

Serenity House , by Christopher Hope

The Butcher Boy , by Patrick McCabe

Black Dogs , by Ian McEwan

Daughters of the House , by Michele Roberts

The Famished Road , by Ben Okri (Winner)

Time's Arrow , by Martin Amis

The Van , by Roddy Doyle

Such a Long Journey , by Rohinton Mistry

The Redundancy of Courage , by Timothy Mo

Reading Turgenev (from Two Lives) , by William Trevor

Possession , by A. S. Byatt (Winner)

An Awfully Big Adventure , by Beryl Bainbridge

The Gate of Angels , by Penelope Fitzgerald

Amongst Women , by John McGahern

Lies of Silence , by Brian Moore

Solomon Gursky was Here , by Mordecai Richler

The Remains of the Day , by Kazuo Ishiguro (Winner)

Cat's Eye , by Margaret Atwood

The Book of Evidence , by John Banville

Jigsaw - an Unsentimental Education , by Sybille Bedford

A Disaffection , by James Kelman

Restoration , by Rose Tremain

Oscar and Lucinda , by Peter Carey (Winner)

Utz , by Bruce Chatwin

The Beginning of Spring , by Penelope Fitzgerald

Nice Work , by David Lodge

The Satanic Verses , by Salman Rushdie

The Lost Father , by Marina Warner

Moon Tiger , by Penelope Lively (Winner)

Anthills of the Savannah , by Chinua Achebe

Chatterton , by Peter Ackroyd

Circles of Deceit , by Nina Bawden

The Colour of Blood , by Brian Moore

The Book and the Brotherhood , by Iris Murdoch

The Old Devils , by Kingsley Amis (Winner)

The Handmaid's Tale , by Margaret Atwood

Gabriel's Lament , by Paul Bailey

What's Bred in the Bone , by Robertson Davies

An Artist of the Floating World , by Kazuo Ishiguro

An Insular Possession , by Timothy Mo

The Bone People , by Keri Hulme (Winner)

Illywhacker , by Peter Carey

The Battle of Pollocks Crossing , by J. L. Carr

The Good Terrorist , by Doris Lessing

Last Letters from Hav , by Jan Morris

The Good Apprentice , by Iris Murdoch

Hotel du Lac , by Anita Brookner (Winner)

Empire of the Sun , by J. G. Ballard

Flaubert's Parrot , by Julian Barnes

In Custody , by Anita Desai

According to Mark , by Penelope Lively

Small World , by David Lodge

Life and Times of Michael K. , by J. M. Coetzee (Winner)

Rates of Exchange , by Malcolm Bradbury

Flying to Nowhere , by John Fuller

The Illusionist , by Anita Mason

Shame , by Salman Rushdie

Small World , by Graham Swift

Schindler's List , by Thomas Keneally (Winner)

Silence Among the Weapons , by John Arden

An Ice-Cream War , by William Boyd

Constance or Solitary Practices , by Lawrence Durrell

The 27th Kingdom , by Alice Thomas Ellis

Sour Sweet , by Timothy Mo

Midnight's Children , by Salman Rushdie (Winner)

Good Behaviour , by Molly Keane

The Sirian Experiments , by Doris Lessing

The Comfort of Strangers , by Ian McEwan

Rhine Journey , by Anne Schlee

Loitering with Intent , by Muriel Spark

The White Hotel , by D.M. Thomas

Rites of Passage , by William Golding (Winner)

Earthly Powers , by Anthony Burgess

A Month in the Country , by J.L. Carr

Clear Light of Day , by Anita Desai

The Beggar Maid , by Alice Munro

No Country for Young Men , by Julia O'Faolain

Pascali's Island , by Barry Unsworth

Offshore , by Penelope Fitzgerald (Winner)

Confederates , by Thomas Keneally

A Bend in the River , by V.S. Naipaul

Joseph , by Julian Rathbone

Praxis , by Fay Weldon

The Sea, The Sea , by Iris Murdoch (Winner)

Jake's Thing , by Kingsley Amis

Rumours of Rain , by Andre Brink

The Bookshop , by Penelope Fitzgerald

God on the Rocks , by Jane Gardam

A Five-Year Sentence , by Bernice Rubens

Staying On , by Paul Scott (Winner)

Peter Smart's Confessions , by Paul Bailey

Great Granny Webster , by Caroline Blackwood

Shadows on Our Skin , by Jennifer Johnston

The Road to Lichfield , by Penelope Lively

Quartet in Autumn , by Barbara Pym

Saville , by David Storey (Winner)

An Instant in the Wind , by Andre Brink

Rising , by R.C. Hutchinson

The Doctor's Wife , by Brian Moore

King Fisher Lives , by Julian Rathbone

The Children of Dynmouth , by William Trevor

Heat and Dust , by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Winner)

Gossip from the Forest , by Thomas Keneally

The Conservationist , by Nadine Gordimer (Co-winner)

Holiday , by Stanley Middleton (Co-winner)

Ending Up , by Kingsley Amis

The Bottle Factory Outing , by Beryl Bainbridge

In Their Wisdom , by C.P. Snow

The Siege of Krishnapur , by J.G. Farrell (Winner)

The Dressmaker , by Beryl Bainridge

The Green Equinox , by Elizabeth Mavor

The Black Prince , by Iris Murdoch

G , by John Berger (Winner)

Bird of Night , by Susan Hill

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith , by Thomas Keneally

Pasmore , by David Storey

In a Free State , by V.S. Naipaul (Winner)

The Big Chapel , by Thomas Kilroy

Briefing for a Descent into Hell , by Doris Lessing

St. Urban's Horseman , by Mordecai Richler

Goshawk Squadron , by Derek Robinson

Mrs Palfrey at the Clairmont , by Elizabeth Taylor

The Elected Member , by Bernice Rubens (Winner)

John Brown's Body , by A.L. Barker

Eva Trout , by Elizabeth Bowen

Bruno's Dream , by Iris Murdoch

Mrs. Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel , by William Trevor

The Conjunction , by T. Wheeler

Something to Answer For , by P. H. Newby (Winner)

Figures in a Landscape , by Barry England

The Impossible Object , by Nicholas Mosley

The Nice and the Good , by Iris Murdoch

The Public Image , by Muriel Spark

From Scenes Like These , by G.M. Williams