*Has read it. DNF: Did not finish.

Crime Novel of the Year (British and Irish authors)

• 2021: We Begin at The End by Chris Whitaker 
• 2020: The Chain Adrian McGinty
• 2019: Thirteen Steve Cavanagh
• 2018       The Intrusions Stav Sherez
• 2017       Black Widow by Chris Brookmyre
• 2016       Clare Mackintosh, I Let You Go*
• 2015       Sarah Hilary Someone Else’s Skin
• 2014       Belinda Bauer Rubbernecker
• 2013       Denise Mina – Gods and Beasts
• 2012  Denise Mina The End of the Wasp Season
• 2011       Lee Child 61 Hours
• 2010       R J Ellory A Simple Act of Violence
• 2009       Mark Billingham Death Message
• 2008       Stef Penney The Tenderness of Wolves
• 2007       Allan Guthrie Two-Way Split
• 2006       Val McDermid The Torment of Others
• 2005       Mark Billingham Lazybones

Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction (UK, Ireland or Commonwealth)

• 2021: The Mirror and The Light Hilary Mantel
• 2020 The Narrow Land by Christine Dwyer Hickey
• 2019 The Long Take by Robin Robertson*
• 2018  The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers
• 2017  Days Without End* Sebastian Barry
• 2016  Tightrope by Simon Mawer
• 2015  The ten thousand things John Spurling
• 2014  An Officer and a Spy, Robert Harris
• 2013 The Garden of Evening Mists* by Tan Twan Eng
• 2012 On Canaan’s Side by Sebastian Barry
• 2011 The Long Story by Andrea Levy
• 2010  Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel DNF

David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction – to encourage and reward excellent American historical fiction. No more?

• 2019 Mark Barr Watershed
• 2018 Laurel Davis Huber The Velveteen Daughter
• 2016 Michele Moore for Her The Cigar Factory
• 2015 Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse by Faith Sullivan
• 2014 What is Visible by Kimberly Elkins
• 2013 Crossing Purgatory, by Gary Schanbacher
• 2012 The Cove, by Ron Rash
• 2011 Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
• 2010 Robin Oliveira for My Name is Mary Sutter
• 2009 Edward Rutherfurd for  New York: The Novel*
• 2008 Kathleen Kent for The Heretic’s Daughter: A Novel
• 2007 Kurt Andersen for his Heyday, a novel
• 2006 Sheldon Russell for his Dreams to Dust: A Tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush
• 2005 Madison House: A Novel by Peter Donahue
• 2004 Linda Busby Parker for her Seven Laurels: A Novel
• 2003 Robert J. Begiebing Rebecca Wentworth’s Distraction: A Novel