| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year
!Author
!Title
!Publisher
!Ref |
| style="background:lightyellow"
! rowspan="5" |2013
|Ben Myers
|Pig Iron
|Bluemoose Books
|[{{cite web |last1=Bury |first1=Liz |date=21 October 2013 |title=Benjamin Myers claims inaugural Gordon Burn prize |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/21/benjamin-myers-gordon-burn-prize-pig-iron |accessdate=3 September 2014 |website=The Guardian |publisher=Guardian News and Media}}][{{Cite news |title=Award honours influential writer |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-tyne-25407692 |access-date=2024-03-08 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}] |
| Anthony Cartwright
|How I Killed Margaret Thatcher
|Tindal Street Press
| rowspan="4" |[{{Cite web |date=2013-08-16 |title=Content - News |url=http://www.gordonburntrust.com/index.php?id=8 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141017083802/http://gordonburntrust.com/index.php?id=8 |archive-date=2014-10-17 |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=www.gordonburntrust.com}}][{{Cite web |last=Tallentire |first=Mark |date=2013-08-07 |title=Five on Gordon Burn prize shortlist |url=https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/10597986.five-gordon-burn-prize-shortlist/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=The Northern Echo |language=en}}] |
| Duncan Hamilton
|The Footballer Who Could Fly
|Century |
| Richard Lloyd Parry
|People Who Eat Darkness
|Jonathan Cape |
| Jean Rafferty
|Myra, Beyond Saddleworth
|Wild Wolf Publishing |
| style="background:lightyellow"
! rowspan="6" |2014
|Paul Kingsnorth
|The Wake
|Unbound
|[{{cite web |date=10 October 2014 |title=Mark Rylance-backed novel wins £5,000 literary prize |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29572691 |accessdate=11 October 2014 |website=BBC News}}] |
| Richard Benson
|The Valley
|Bloomsbury
| rowspan="5" |[{{cite web |last1=Taylor |first1=Chris |date=12 August 2014 |title=Gordon Burn Prize 2014: Super Furry Animals frontman nominated |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookprizes/11028548/Gordon-Burn-Prize-2014-Super-Furry-Animals-frontman-nominated.html |accessdate=10 September 2014 |website=The Daily Telegraph}}][{{Cite news |date=2014-08-13 |title=Super Furry Animals musician makes book prize shortlist |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-28770906 |access-date=2024-03-08 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}] |
| Richard House
|The Kills
|Picador |
| Olivia Laing
|The Trip to Echo Spring
|Canongate |
| Gruff Rhys
|American Interior
|Hamish Hamilton |
| Willy Vlautin
|The Free
|Faber and Faber |
| style="background:lightyellow"
! rowspan="5" |2015
|Dan Davies
|In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile
|Quercus
|[{{Cite news |date=9 October 2015 |title=Journalist wins award for Jimmy Savile book |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34486844 |accessdate=2015-10-10 |work=BBC News}}] |
| Honor Gavin
|Midland
|Penned in the Margins
| rowspan="4" |[{{Cite web |last=Tallentire |first=Mark |date=2015-10-09 |title=Jimmy Savile investigation wins book prize |url=https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/13838565.jimmy-savile-investigation-wins-book-prize/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=The Northern Echo |language=en}}][{{Cite web |last=Lowes |first=Jude |date=2015-08-11 |title=Gordon Burn Prize shortlist announced |url=https://newwritingnorth.com/gordon-burn-prize-shortlist-announced/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=New Writing North |language=en}}] |
| Romesh Gunesekera
|Noon Tide Toll
|Granta Books |
| Richard King
|Original Rockers
|Faber and Faber |
| Peter Pomerantsev
|Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible
|PublicAffairs |
| style="background:lightyellow"
! rowspan="6" |2016
|David Szalay
|All That Man Is
|Jonathan Cape
|[{{cite web |last1=Flood |first1=Alison |date=7 October 2016 |title=David Szalay's 'unsparing' All That Man Is wins Gordon Burn prize |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/07/david-szalays-unsparing-all-that-man-is-wins-gordon-burn-prize |accessdate=8 November 2016 |website=The Guardian}}][{{Cite web |last=Tayler |first=Christopher |date=2018-11-30 |title=Turbulence by David Szalay — the mile high-club |url=https://www.ft.com/content/f4b29bb2-f237-11e8-938a-543765795f99 |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=www.ft.com}}] |
| Jeremy Gavron
|A Woman on the Edge of Time: A Son's Search for his Mother
|Scribe
| rowspan="5" |[{{Cite web |last=Cowdrey |first=Katherine |date=2016-10-07 |title=David Szalay wins Gordon Burn Prize 2016 |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/david-szalay-wins-gordon-burn-prize-2016-407521 |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=The Bookseller |language=En}}][{{Cite web |last=Wonfor |first=Sam |date=2016-08-09 |title=Gordon Burns Prize 2016 shortlist announced |url=http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/books-shortlist-gordon-burns-prize-11726326 |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=Chronicle Live |language=en}}] |
| Olivia Laing
|The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
|Picador |
| Ottessa Moshfegh
|Eileen
|Penguin Press |
| Harry Parker
|Anatomy of a Soldier
|Faber and Faber |
| Adrian Tempany
|And the Sun Shines Now
|Faber and Faber |
| style="background:lightyellow"
! rowspan="6" |2017
|Denise Mina
|The Long Drop
|Harvill Secker
|[{{Cite news |last=Lawson |first=Mark |date=2017-11-30 |title=The best crime books and thrillers of 2017 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/nov/30/the-best-crime-books-and-thrillers-of-2017 |access-date=2024-03-08 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}][{{Cite web |last=Lowes |first=Jude |date=2017-10-12 |title=The winner of the Gordon Burn Prize 2017 is announced |url=https://newwritingnorth.com/winner-gordon-burn-prize-2017-announced/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=New Writing North |language=en}}] |
| Kapka Kassabova
|Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
|Granta Books
| rowspan="5" |[{{Cite web |last=Lewis |first=Chrissie |date=2017-07-22 |title=Gordon Burn Prize Shortlist! |url=https://wreckingballpress.com/2017/07/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=Wrecking Ball Press |language=en-US}}][{{Cite web |last=Fraine |first=Laura |date=2017-07-21 |title=Gordon Burn Prize 2017 – shortlist announced |url=https://newwritingnorth.com/gordon-burn-prize-2017-shortlist-announced/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=New Writing North |language=en}}] |
| David Keenan
|This Is Memorial Device
|Faber and Faber |
| Lara Pawson
|This Is the Place to Be
|CB Editions |
| Gwendoline Riley
|First Love
|Granta Books |
| Adelle Stripe
|Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile
|Wrecking Ball Press |
| style="background:lightyellow"
! rowspan="6" |2018
|Jesse Ball
|Census
|Granta Books
|[{{cite web |last1=Flood |first1=Alison |date=11 October 2018 |title=Jesse Ball's 'strange and beautiful' Census wins Gordon Burn prize |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/11/jesse-balls-strange-and-beautiful-census-wins-gordon-burn-prize |accessdate=16 October 2018 |website=The Guardian}}] |
| Nicola Barker
|H(a)ppy
|William Heinemann
| rowspan="5" |[{{Cite web |last=Onwuemezi |first=Natasha |date=2018-07-20 |title=McNamara makes 2018 Gordon Burn shortlist |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/mcnamara-makes-2018-gordon-burn-shortlist-833556 |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=The Bookseller |language=En}}][{{Cite web |last=Lowes |first=Jude |date=2018-07-20 |title=Shortlist announced for Gordon Burn Prize 2018 |url=https://newwritingnorth.com/shortlist-announced-for-gordon-burn-prize-2018/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=New Writing North |language=en}}] |
| Guy Gunaratne
|In Our Mad and Furious City
|Tinder Press |
| Olivia Laing
|Crudo
|Picador |
| Deborah Levy
|The Cost of Living
|Hamish Hamilton |
| Michelle McNamara
|I'll Be Gone in the Dark
|Faber and Faber |
| style="background:lightyellow"
! rowspan="6" |2019
|David Keenan
|For the Good Times
|Faber and Faber
|[{{cite web |last1=Flood |first1=Alison |date=11 October 2019 |title=David Keenan's Troubles novel For the Good Times wins Gordon Burn prize |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/11/david-keenan-for-the-good-times-gordon-burn-prize |accessdate=18 October 2019 |website=The Guardian}}] |
| Pat Barker
|The Silence of the Girls
|Penguin
| rowspan="5" |[{{Cite web |last=Fraine |first=Laura |date=2019-07-17 |title=Shortlist announced for Gordon Burn Prize 2019 |url=https://newwritingnorth.com/shortlist-announced-for-gordon-burn-prize-2019/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=New Writing North |language=en}}][{{Cite web |last=Wood |first=Heloise |date=2019-07-17 |title=Porter and Barker shortlisted for 2019 Gordon Burn Prize |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/porter-and-barker-tussle-2019-gordon-burn-prize-1039986 |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=The Bookseller |language=En}}] |
| Bernardine Evaristo
|Girl, Woman, Other
|Hamish Hamilton |
| Niven Govinden
|This Brutal House
|Dialogue Books |
| Max Porter
|Lanny
|Faber and Faber |
| Nafissa Thompson-Spires
|Heads of the Colored People
|Chatto & Windus |
| style="background:lightyellow"
! rowspan="6" |2020
|Peter Pomerantsev
|This Is Not Propaganda
|Faber and Faber
|[{{Cite news |last=Lea |first=Richard |date=2020-10-15 |title=Peter Pomerantsev's study of 'the war against reality' wins Gordon Burn prize |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/15/peter-pomerantsev-gordon-burn-prize-this-is-not-propaganda |access-date=2020-10-20 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}] |
| Jenn Ashworth
|Notes Made While Falling
|Goldsmiths Press
| rowspan="5" |[{{Cite web |last=Fraine |first=Laura |date=2020-07-23 |title=Shortlist announced for Gordon Burn Prize 2020 |url=https://newwritingnorth.com/shortlist-announced-for-gordon-burn-prize-2020/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=New Writing North |language=en}}][{{Cite web |last=Comerford |first=Ruth |date=2020-07-23 |title=Sissay, Taddeo and Mendez shortlisted for Gordon Burn Prize |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/sissay-taddeo-and-mendez-shortlisted-gordon-burn-prize-1212195 |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=The Bookseller |language=En}}] |
| Paul Mendez
|Rainbow Milk
|Dialogue Books |
| Deborah Orr
|Motherwell: A Girlhood
|Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Lemn Sissay
|My Name Is Why
|Canongate |
| Lisa Taddeo
|Three Women
|Bloomsbury |
| style="background:lightyellow"
! rowspan="6" |2021
|Hanif Abdurraqib
|A Little Devil in America
|Allen Lane
|[{{Cite news |last=Flood |first=Alison |date=14 October 2021 |title=Hanif Abdurraqib wins the Gordon Burn prize for A Little Devil in America |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/14/hanif-abdurraqib-wins-the-gordon-burn-prize-for-a-little-devil-in-america |access-date=20 November 2021 |work=The Guardian}}] |
| Sam Byers
|Come Join Our Disease
|Faber and Faber
| rowspan="5" |[{{Cite news |last=Knight |first=Lucy |date=2021-08-13 |title=Sam Byers and Salena Godden shortlisted for the Gordon Burn prize |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/13/sam-byers-salena-godden-gordon-burn-prize |access-date=2024-03-08 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}] |
| Jenni Fagan
|Luckenbooth
|William Heinemann |
| Salena Godden
|Mrs Death Misses Death
|Canongate |
| Tabitha Lasley
|Sea State
|HarperCollins |
| Doireann Ní Ghríofa
|A Ghost in the Throat
|Tramp Press |
| style="background:lightyellow"
! rowspan="5" |2022
|Preti Taneja
|Aftermath
|And Other Stories
|[{{cite news |last=Knight |first=Lucy |date=13 October 2022 |title=2022 Gordon Burn prize awarded to London Bridge terror attack examination, Aftermath |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/oct/13/2022-gordon-burn-prize-london-bridge-terrorist-attack-aftermath-preti-taneja |access-date=14 October 2022 |work=The Guardian |language=en}}][{{Cite news |last=Khanna |first=Aditi |date=2022-10-20 |title=British Indian author Preti Taneja bags Gordon Burn Prize for 'Aftermath' on 2019 London Bridge terror attack |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/british-indian-author-preti-taneja-bags-gordon-burn-prize-for-aftermath-on-2019-london-bridge-terror-attack/articleshow/94991052.cms?from=mdr |access-date=2024-03-08 |work=The Economic Times |issn=0013-0389}}] |
| Graeme Macrae Burnet
|Case Study
|Saraband
| rowspan="4" |[{{Cite news |last=Shaffi |first=Sarah |date=2022-08-03 |title=Gordon Burn prize shortlist announced: jazz icons, true crime and a rogue psychotherapist |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/03/gordon-burn-prize-shortlist-announced-jazz-icons-true-and-a-rogue-psychotherapist |access-date=2024-03-08 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}] |
| Margo Jefferson
|Constructing a Nervous System
|Granta Books |
| David Whitehouse
|About a Son
|Phoenix Press |
| Lea Ypi
|Free: Coming of Age at the End of History
|Allen Lane |
| style="background:lightyellow"
! rowspan="7" |2023 / 2024
|Kathryn Scanlan
|Kick the Latch
|Daunt Originals
|[{{Cite news |last=Creamer |first=Ella |date=2024-03-07 |title=Kathryn Scanlan wins Gordon Burn prize for novel Kick the Latch |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/07/kathryn-scanlan-wins-gordon-burn-prize-for-novel-kick-the-latch |access-date=2024-03-08 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}] |
| Rory Carroll
|Killing Thatcher
|Mudlark
| rowspan="6" |[{{Cite news |last=Creamer |first=Ella |date=2024-01-25 |title=Gordon Burn prize announces 'blazing' shortlist |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/25/gordon-burn-prize-announces-electric-shortlist |access-date=2024-03-08 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}][{{Cite news |last=Doyle |first=Martin |date=2024-01-25 |title=Magee and Morris on Dylan Thomas Prize longlist; Nolan and Carroll on Gordon Burn Prize shortlist; Bernie McGill wins Edge Hill story prize |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2024/01/25/magee-and-morris-on-dylan-thomas-prize-longlist-nolan-and-carroll-on-gordon-burn-prize-shortlist-bernie-mcgill-wins-edge-hill-story-prize/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en}}] |
| Jonathan Escoffery
|If I Survive You
|4th Estate |
| Anna Funder
|Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life
|Viking Press |
| John Niven
|O Brother
|Canongate |
| Megan Nolan
|Ordinary Human Failings
|Jonathan Cape |
| Tanya Tagaq
|Split Tooth
|And Other Stories |
| style="background:lightyellow"
! rowspan="5" |2025
|Jenni Fagan
|Ootlin
|Hutchinson Heinemann
|[{{Cite web |date=2025-03-13 |title=Fagan wins 2025 Gordon Burn Prize |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2025/03/13/268115/fagan-wins-2025-gordon-burn-prize/ |access-date=2025-03-16 |publisher=Books+Publishing}}] |
| Rita Bullwinkel
|Headshot
|Daunt Books
| rowspan="4" |[{{Cite web |date=2025-01-28 |title=Osborne-Crowley shortlisted for 2025 Gordon Burn Prize |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2025/01/28/265176/osborne-crowley-shortlisted-for-2025-gordon-burn-prize/ |access-date=2025-03-16 |publisher=Books+Publishing}}] |
| Emma Glass
|Mrs Jekyll
|Cheerio |
| Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad
|Poor Artists
|Particular Books |
| Tom Newlands
|Only Here, Only Now
|Phoenix |