British Book Award for Book of the Year

First awarded in 1994 the British Book Award for Book of the Year recognises the book with the greatest impact on the British publishing industry and should not therefore be taken as an indication of any literary merit in the winner.

• 1994 - Wild Swans Jung Chang (Flamingo)
• 1995 - Writing Home Alan Bennett (Faber & Faber)
• 1996 - Delia Smith's Winter Collection (BBC Books)
• 1997 - Longitude Dava Sobel (Fourth Estate)
• 1998 - Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding (Picador)
• 1999 - Birthday Letters Ted Hughes (Faber & Faber)
• 2000 - Managing My Life Alex Ferguson (Hodder & Stoughton)
• 2001 - Man and Boy Tony Parsons (HarperCollins)
• 2002 - Billy Pamela Stephenson (HarperCollins)
• 2003 - Stupid White Men Michael Moore (Penguin)
• 2004 - Eats, Shoots & Leaves Lynne Truss (Profile)
• 2005 - The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown (Corgi)

References

http://www.britishbookawards.co.uk/