| Year | 1st | 2nd |
| 2024 | The Fortnight in September | In the Blink of an Eye |
| 2023 | Still Life | Lessons in Chemistry |
| 2022 | The Morning Gift | The Island of Missing Trees |
| 2021 | Hamnet | The Mountains Sing |
| 2020 | American Dirt | Airhead
Dominicana
The Greengage Summer
This Terrible Beauty
Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race |
| 2019 | The Sealwoman's Gift | Milkman
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
The Country Girls |
| 2018 | Home Fire | A Fine Balance
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| 2017 | My Name is Leon | Flowers for Algernon
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| 2016 | The Bees | All the Light we cannot see
A Place called Winter |
| 2015 | Guernica | The Rosie Project |
| 2014 | The Lowlands | Life After Life
The Garden of Evening Mists |
| 2013 | Moonfleet | The Hare with the Amber Eyes
Gone Girl |
| 2012 | How to be a Woman
The Hunger Games
True Grit | |
| 2011 | The Help | The Long Song |
| 2010 | Brooklyn | I Capture the Castle
American Wife |
| 2009 | The Road Home | Cellist of Sarajevo |
| 2008 | A Thousand Splendid Suns | One Good Turn / Crow Lake/
Agent Zigzag / Fallen Skies
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| 2007 | The Nightwatch | England's Mistress |
| 2006 | The Kite Runner | Incendiary |
| 2005 | Ice Road | Small Island |
| 2004 | Death of a Penguin | The Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night
Star of the Sea |
| 2003 | Atonement | Cold Comfort Farm |
| 2002 | Year of Wonders | Miss Garnett's Angel
Blue Poppies |
| 2001 | A Star called Henry | Driving over Lemons |
| 2000 | Chocolat | Larry's Party |
| 1996-2000 | Birdsong | Captain Corelli's Mandolin |