Waterstones Book of the Year — Complete Winners List

14 years of winners · Waterstones · Since 2012 · ← Back to award page


2025	The Artist	Lucy Steeds	Quarto Publishing
2024	Butter	Asako Yuzuki	—
2023	Impossible Creatures	Katherine Rundell	Bloomsbury Children's Books
2022	The Story of Art Without Men	Katy Hessel	Ebury Press
2021	The Lyrics	Paul McCartney	—
2020	Hamnet	Maggie O'Farrell	Knopf
2019	The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse	Charlie Mackesy	Ebury Press
2018	Normal People	Sally Rooney	Faber and Faber
2017	La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One	Philip Pullman	David Fickling Books
2016	The Essex Serpent	Sarah Perry	Serpent's Tail
2015	The Fox and the Star	Coralie Bickford-Smith	Particular Books
2014	The Miniaturist	Jessie Burton	Picador
2013	Stoner	John Williams	Vintage Books
2012	Polpo: A Venetian Cookbook (of Sorts)	Russell Norman	Bloomsbury