1960
Facial Justice, by L. P. Hartley
The Balkan Trilogy (to 1965), by Olivia Manning

1961
The Mighty and Their Fall, by Ivy Compton-Burnett
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
The Fox in the Attic, by Richard Hughes
Riders in the Chariot, by Patrick White
The Old Men at the Zoo, by Angus Wilson

1962
Another Country, by James Baldwin
An Error of Judgement, by Pamela Hansford Johnson
Island, by Aldous Huxley
The Golden Notebook, by Doris Lessing
Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov

1963
The Girls of Slender Means, by Muriel Spark

1964
The Spire, by William Golding
Heartland, by Wilson Harris
A Single Man, by Christopher Isherwood
The Defense, by Vladimir Nabokov
Late Call, by Angus Wilson

1965
The Lockwood Concern, by John O'Hara
Cocksure, by Mordecai Richler
The Mandelbaum Gate, by Muriel Spark

1966
A Man of the People, by Chinua Achebe
The Anti-Death League, by Kingsley Amis
Giles Goat-Boy John Barth
The Late Bourgeois World, by Nadine Gordimer
The Last Gentleman, by Walker Percy

1967
The Vendor of Sweets, by R. K. Narayan

1968
The Image Men, by J. B. Priestley
Pavane, by Keith Roberts

1969
The French Lieutenant's Woman, by John Fowles
Portnoy's Complaint, by Philip Roth

1970
Bomber, by Len Deighton

1973
Sweet Dreams, by Michael Frayn
Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon

1975
Humboldt's Gift, by Saul Bellow
The History Man, by Malcolm Bradbury

1976
The Doctor's Wife, by Brian Moore
Falstaff, by Robert Nye

1977
How To Save Your Own Life, by Erica Jong
Farewell Companions, by James Plunkett
Staying On, by Paul Scott

1978
The Coup, by John Updike

1979
The Unlimited Dream Company, by J. G. Ballard
Dubin's Lives, by Bernard Malamud
A Bend in the River, by V. S. Naipaul
Sophie's Choice, by William Styron

1980
Life in the West, by Brian Aldiss
Riddley Walker, by Russell Hoban
How Far Can You Go?, by David Lodge
A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole

1981
Lanark, by Alasdair Gray
Darconville's Cat, by Alexander Theroux
The Mosquito Coast, by Paul Theroux
Creation, by Gore Vidal

1982
The Rebel Angels, by Robertson Davies

1983
Ancient Evenings, by Norman Mailer