"An Ice-Cream War" - William Boyd 1982
"Illywhacker" - Peter Carey 1985
"The Illusionist" - Anita Mason 1983
"Impossible Object" - Nicholas Mosley 1969
"In a Free State" - V.S. Naipaul 1971  Winner 
"In Custody" - Anita Desai 1984
"In Every Face I Meet" - Justin Cartwright 1995
"In Their Wisdom" - C.P. Snow 1974
"An Instant in the Wind" - Andre Brink 1976
"An Insular Possession" - Timothy Mo 1986
"In the Country of Men" - Hisham Matar 2006
"The Inheritance of Loss" - Kiran Desai 2006  Winner 

"Jake's Thing" - Kingsley Amis 1978
"Jigsaw - an Unsentimental Education" - Sybille Bedford 1989
"John Brown's Body" - A.L. Barker 1970
"Joseph" - Julian Rathbone 1979

"The Keepers of Truth" - Michael Collins 2000
"King Fisher Lives" - Julian Rathbone 1976
"Knowledge of Angels" - Jill Paton Walsh 1994

"Last Letters from Hav" - Jan Morris 1985
"Last Orders" - Graham Swift 1996  Winner 
"Lies of Silence" - Brian Moore 1990
"Life and Times of Michael K." - J.M. Coetzee 1983  Winner 
"Life of Pi" - Yann Martel 2002  Winner 
"Loitering with Intent" - Murial Spark 1981
"A Long Long Way" - Sebastian Barry 2005
"The Lost Father" - Marina Warner 1988

"The Map of Love" - Adhaf Soueif 1999
"Master Georgie" - Beryl Bainbridge 1998
"Midnight's Children" - Salman Rushdie 1981  Winner 
"Mister Pip" - Lloyd Jones 2007
"A Month in the Country" - J.L. Carr 1980
"Moon Tiger" - Penelope Lively 1987  Winner 
"The Moor's Last Sigh" - Salman Rushdie 1995
"Morality Play" - Barry Unsworth 1995
"Mother's Milk" - Edward St Aubyn 2006
"Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel" - William Trevor 1970
"Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont" - Elizabeth Taylor 1971

"Never Let Me Go" - Kazuo Ishiguro 2005
"The Nice and the Good" - Iris Murdoch 1969
"Nice Work" - David Lodge 1988
"The Night Watch" - Sarah Waters 2006
"No Country for Young Men" - Julia O'Faolain 1980
"Notes on a Scandal" - Zoe Heller 2003
"number9dream" - David Mitchell 2001