Guardian First Book Award winners and shortlisted books

1999 Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
2000 Zadie Smith, White Teeth

From 2001, the shortlisted books are also shown.

2001 Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, graphic novel
Miranda Carter, Anthony Blunt: His Lives biography
David Edmonds and John Eidinow, Wittgenstein's Poker, non-fiction
Glen David Gold, Carter Beats The Devil, fiction
Rachel Seiffert, The Dark Room, fiction
2002 Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
Alexandra Fuller, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Hari Kunzru, The Impressionist
Oliver Morton, Mapping Mars
Sandra Newman, The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done
2003 Robert Macfarlane, Mountains of the Mind
Monica Ali, Brick Lane
DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little
Paul Broks, Into the Silent Land
Anna Funder, Stasiland
2004 Armand Marie Leroi, Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of Human Body
Matthew Hollis, Ground Water (Bloodaxe)
David Bezmozgis Natasha and Other Stories (Cape)
Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Bloomsbury)
Rory Stewart The Places in Between, by (Picador)
2005 Alexander Masters, Stuart: A Life Backwards
Reza Aslan, No god but God
Richard Benson, The Farm
Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Sightseeing
2006 Yiyun Li, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Lorraine Adams, Harbor
Clare Allan, Poppy Shakespeare
Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men
Carrie Tiffany, Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living
2007 Dinaw Mengestu , Children of the Revolution
Tahmima Anam, A Golden Age
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Imperial Life in the Emerald City
Rosemary Hill, God's Architect
Catherine O'Flynn, What Was Lost
2008 Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century
Mohammed Hanif, A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Owen Matthews, Stalin's Children
Ross Raisin, God's Own Country
Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole Please leave your comments below by clicking on comments