Commonwealth Writers Prize Best Books: 2005 to 1996
2005 : Small Island by Andrea Levy
2004 : A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips
2003 : The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke
2002 : Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
2001 : True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
2000 : Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
1999 : Eucalyptus by Murray Bail
1998 : Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
1997 : Salt by Earl Lovelace
1996 : A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry