Costa Book Award for Best Book of the Year - Book Awards - Happy Dead Trees

The Costa Book Award for best book of the year can be found below along with a list of all previous winners. We also have links to the winners of  the other Costa Book Awards, and links to dozens of other book awards featured on Happy Dead Trees. 

The latest winner of the Costa Book Award for the Book of the Year

2007 - Day by A. L. Kennedy  (2008 Award will be announced early 2009)

All winners of the Costa Book Award for Best Book of the Year

1985 - Elegies by Douglas Dunn

1986 - An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

1987 - Under the Eye of the Clock by Christopher Nolan

1988 - The Comforts of Madness by Paul Sayer

1989 - Coleridge: Early Visions by Richard Holmes

1990 - Hopeful Monsters by Nicholas Mosley

1991 - A Life of Picasso by John Richardson

1992 - Swing Hammer Swing by Jeff Torrington

1993 - Theory of War by Joan Brady

1994 - Felicia's Journey by William Trevor

1995 - Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson

1996 - The Spirit Level by Seamus Heaney

1997 - Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes

1998 - Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes

1999 - Beowulf by Seamus Heaney

2000 - English Passengers by Matthew Kneale

2001 - The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

2002 - Samuel Pepys: The Enequalled Self by Claire Tomalin

2003 - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

2004 - Small Island by Andrea Levy

2005 - Matisse: The Master by Hilary Spurling

2006 - The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney

2007 - Day by A. L. Kennedy

2008 - Award will be announced early 2009

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