"Offshore" - Penelope Fitzgerald 1979  Winner 
"The Old Devils" - Kingsley Amis 1986  Winner 
"On Beauty" - Zadie Smith 2005
"On Chesil Beach" - Ian McEwan 2007
"The Orchard on Fire" - Shena Mckay 1996
"Oryx and Crake" - Margaret Atwood 2003
"Oscar and Lucinda" - Peter Carey 1988  Winner 
"Our Fathers" - Andrew O'Hagan 1999
"Oxygen" - Andrew Miller 2001

"Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha" - Roddy Doyle 1993  Winner 
"Paradise" - Abdulrazak Gumah 1994
"Pascali's Island" - Barry Unsworth 1980
"Pasmore" - David Storey 1972
"Peter Smart's Confessions" - Paul Bailey 1977
"Possession" - A.S. Byatt 1990  Winner 
"Praxis" - Fay Weldon 1979
"The Public Image" - Muriel Spark 1969

"Quarantine" - Jim Crace 1997
"Quartet in Autumn" - Barbara Pym 1977

"Rates of Exchange" - Malcolm Bradbury 1983
"Reading in the Dark" - Seamus Deane 1996
"Reading Turgenev" - William Trevor 1991
"The Redundancy of Courage" - Timothy Mo 1991
"Reef" - Romesh Gunesekera 1994
"The Reluctant Fundamentalist" - Moshin Hamid 2007
"The Remains of the Day" - Kazuo Ishiguro 1989  Winner 
"Remembering Babylon" - David Malouf 1993
"Restoration" - Rose Tremain 1989
"The Restraint of Beasts" - Magnus Mills 1998
"Rhine Journey" - Ann Schlee 1981
"The Riders" - Tim Winton 1995
"Rising" - R.C. Hutchison 1976
"Rites of Passage" - Wlliam Golding 1980  Winner 
"The Road to Lichfield" - Penelope Lively 1977
"Rumours of Rain" - Andre Brink 1978