The Tiger's Wife, by Tea Obreht (Winner)

Room, by Emma Donoghue

The Memory of Love, by Aminatta Forna

Grace Williams Says It Loud, by Emma Henderson

Great House, by Nicole Krauss

Annabel, by Kathleen Winter

The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver (Winner)

The Very Thought of You, by Rosie Alison

Black Water Rising, by Attica Locke

Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel

A Gate at the Stairs, by Lorrie Moore

The White Woman on the Green Bicycle, by Monique Roffey

Home, by Marilynne Robinson (Winner)

Scottsboro, by Ellen Feldman

The Wilderness, by Samantha Harvey

The Invention of Everything Else, by Samantha Hunt

Molly Fox's Birthday, by Deirdre Madden

Burnt Shadows, by Kamila Shamsie

The Road Home , by Rose Tremain (Winner)

Fault Lines , by Nancy Huston

The Outcast , by Sadie Jones

When We Were Bad , by Charlotte Mendelson

Lullabies for Little Criminals , by Heather O'Neill

Lottery , by Patricia Wood

Half of a Yellow Sun , by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Winner)

Arlington Park , by Rachel Cusk

The Inheritance of Loss , by Kiran Desai

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers , by Xiaolu Guo

The Observations , by Jane Harris

Digging to America , by Anne Tyler

On Beauty , by Zadie Smith (Winner)

The History of Love , by Nicole Krauss

Beyond Black , by Hilary Mantel

The Accidental , by Ali Smith

Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living , by Carrie Tiffany

The Night Watch , by Sarah Waters

We Need to Talk about Kevin , by Lionel Shriver (Winner)

Billie Morgan , by Joolz Denby

Old Filth , by Jane Gardam

The Mammoth Cheese , by Sheri Holman

Liars and Saints , by Maile Meloy

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian , by Marina Lewycka

Small Island , by Andrea Levy (Winner)

Oryx and Crake , by Margaret Atwood

The Great Fire , by Shirley Hazzard

Purple Hibiscus , by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Ice Road , by Gillian Slovo

The Colour , by Rose Tremain

Property , by Valerie Martin (Winner)

Buddha Da , by Anne Donovan

The Autograph Man , by Zadie Smith

Heligoland , by Shena Mackay

The Little Friend , by Donna artt

Unless , by Carol Shields

Bel Canto , by Ann Patchett (Winner)

The Siege , by Helen Dunmore

The White Family , by Maggie Gee

The Child's Book of True Crime , by Chloe Hooper

Fingersmith , by Sarah Waters

The Idea Of Perfection , by Kate Grenville (Winner)

The Blind Assassin , by Margaret Atwood

Hotel World , by Ali Smith

Fred and Edie , by Jill Dawson

Homestead , by Rosina Lippi

Horse Heaven , by Jane Smiley

When I Lived in Modern Times , by Linda Grant (Winner)

If I Told You Once , by Judy Budnitz

The Dancers Dancing , by ýilis Ni Dhuibhne

White Teeth , by Zadie Smith

Amy and Isabelle , by Elizabeth Strout

The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood , by Rebecca Wells

A Crime in the Neighborhood , by Suzanne Berne (Winner)

The Leper's Companions , by Julia Blackburn

Visible Worlds , by Marilyn Bowering

The Short History of a Prince , by Jane Hamilton

The Poisonwood Bible , by Barbara Kingsolver

Paradise , by Toni Morrison

Larry's Party , by Carol Shields (Winner)

Lives of the Monster Dogs , by Kirsten Bakis

The Ventriloquist's Tale , by Pauline Melville

The Magician's Assistant , by Ann Patchett

Love Like Hate Adore , by Deirdre Purcell

The Weight of Water , by Anita Shreve

Fugitive Pieces , by Anne Michaels (Winner)

Alias Grace , by Margaret Atwood

One, by One In The Darkness , by Deirdre Madden

I Was Amelia Earhart , by Jane Mendelsohn

Accordian Crimes , by E Annie Proulx

Hen's Teeth , by Manda Scott

Spell of Winter , by Helen Dunmore (Winner)

The Book of Colour , by Julia Blackburn

Spinsters , by Pagan Kennedy

The Hundred Secret Senses , by Amy Tan

The Ladder of Years , by Anne Tyler

Eveless Eden , by Marianne Wiggins