1960: The Guide – R. K. Narayan (Novel)
1964: The Serpent and the Rope – Raja Rao (Novel)
1967: Shadow from Ladakh – Bhabani Bhattacharya (Novel)
1971: Morning Face – Mulk Raj Anand (Novel)
1975: Scholar Extraordinary – Nirad C. Chaudhuri (Biography)
1976: Jawaharlal Nehru – Sarvepalli Gopal (Biography)
1977: Azadi – Chaman Nahal (Novel)
1978: Fire on the Mountain – Anita Desai (Novel)
1980: On the Mother – K. R. S. Iyengar (Biography)
1981: Relationship – Jayanta Mahapatra (Poetry)
1982: The Last Labyrinth – Arun Joshi (Novel)
1983: Latter-Day Psalms – Nissim Ezekiel (Poetry)
1984: The Keeper of the Dead – Keki N. Daruwalla (Poetry)
1985: Collected Poems – Kamala Das (Poetry)
1986: Rich Like Us – Nayantara Sahgal (Novel)
1988: The Golden Gate – Vikram Seth (Novel)
1989: The Shadow Lines – Amitav Ghosh (Novel)
1990: That Long Silence – Shashi Deshpande (Novel)
1992: Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra – Ruskin Bond (Short Story)
1998: Final Solutions and Other Plays – Mahesh Dattani (Drama)
1999: The Collected Poems – A. K. Ramanujan (Poetry)
2002: A New World – Amit Chaudhuri (Novel)
2003: The Perishable Empire – Meenakshi Mukherjee (Essays)
2004: The Mammaries of the Welfare State – Upamanyu Chatterjee (Novel)
2011: India after Gandhi – Ramachandra Guha (Historical)
2012: These Errors are Correct – Jeet Thayil (Poetry)
2014: Trying to Say Goodbye – Adil Jussawalla (Poetry)
2015: Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer – Cyrus Mistry (Novel)
2016: Em and the Big Hoom – Jerry Pinto (Novel)
2017: The Black Hill – Mamang Dai (Novel)
2018: The Blind Lady’s Descendants – Anees Salim (Novel)
2019: An Era of Darkness – Shashi Tharoor
2020: When God is a Traveler – Arundhathi Subramaniam (Poetry)
2021: Things to Leave Behind – Namita Gokhale (Novel)
2022: All the Lives We Never Lived – Anuradha Roy (Novel)
2023: Requiem in Raga Janki – Neelum Saran Gour (Novel)