- Beryl Bainbridge Master Georgie
- Percival Everett The Trees
- Maggie O'Farrrell The Marriage Portrait
- Lewis Grassic Gibbon Sunset Song
- Ruth Ozeki The Book of Form and Emptiness
- Tomasi Di Lampedusa The Leopard
- Damon Galgut The Promise
- John Banville The Book of Evidence
- Alice Munro Dear Life
- Jim Crace Harvest
- Hanif Kureishi The Buddha of Suburbia
- Shirley Hazzard The Transit of Venus