The Booker Prize for Fiction, 1969-2008

2010
o Howard Jacobson / The Finkler Question (2010)
o Peter Carey / Parrot and Olivier in America (2010)
o Emma Donoghue / Room (2010)
o Damon Galgut / In a Strange Room (2010)
o Andrea Levy / The Long Song (2010)
o Tom McCarthy / C (2010)

2009
o Hilary Mantel / Wolf Fall (2009)
o A.S. Byatt / The Children’s Book (2009)
o J.M. Coetzee / Summertime (2009)
o Adam Foulds / The Quickening Maze (2009)
o Simon Mawer / The Glass Room (2009)
o Sarah Waters / The Little Stranger (2009)

2008
o Aravind Adiga / The White Tiger (2008)
o Sebastian Barry / The Secret Scripture (2008)
o Amitav Ghosh / Sea of Poppies (2008)
o Linda Grant / The Clothes On Our Backs (2008)
o Philip Hensher / The Northern Clemency (2008)
o Steve Toltz / A Fragment of the Whole (2008)

2007
o Anne Enright / The Gathering (2007)
o Nicola Barker / Darkmans (2007)
o Mohsin Hamid / The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007)
o Lloyd Jones / Mister Pip (2007)
o Ian McEwan / On Chesil Beach (2007)
o Indra Sinha / Animal’s People (2007)

2006
o Kiran Desai / The Inheritance of Loss (2006)
o Kate Grenville / The Secret River (2006)
o M.J. Hyland / Carry Me Down (2006)
o Hisham Matar / In the Country of Men (2006)
o Edward St. Aubyn / Mother’s Milk (2006)
o Sarah Waters / The Night Watch (2006)

2005
o John Banville/ The Sea (2005)
o Julian Barnes / Arthur and George (2005)
o Sebastian Barry / A Long Long Way (2005)
o Kazuo Ishiguro / Never Let Me Go (2005)
o Ali Smith / The Accidental (2005)
o Zadie Smith / On Beauty (2005)

2004
o Alan Hollinghurst / The Line of Beauty (2004)
o Achmat Dangor / Bitter Fruit (2001)
o Sarah Hall / The Electric Michelangelo (2004)
o David Mitchell / Cloud Atlas (2004)
o Colm Tóibín / The Master (2004)
o Gerard Woodward / I’ll Go to Bed at Noon (2004)

2003
o D.B.C. Pierre / Vernon God Little (2002)
o Monica Ali / Brick Lane (2003)
o Margaret Atwood / Oryx and Crake (2003)
o Damon Galgut / The Good Doctor (2003)
o Zoë Heller / Notes on a Scandal (2003)
o Clare Morrall / Astonishing Splashes of Colour (2003)

2002
o Yann Martel / Life of Pi (2001)
o Rohinton Mistry / Family Matters (2002)
o Carol Shields / Unless (2002)
o William Trevor / The Story of Lucy Gault (2002)
o Sarah Waters / Fingersmith (2002)
o Tim Winton / Dirt Music (2001)

2001
o Peter Carey / True History of the Kelly Gang (2000)
o Ian McEwan / Atonement (2001)
o Andrew Miller / Oxygen (2001)
o David Mitchell / number9dream (2001)
o Rachel Seiffert / The Dark Room (2001)
o Ali Smith / Hotel World (2001)

2000
o Margaret Atwood / The Blind Assassin (2000)
o Trezza Azzopardi / The Hiding Place (2000)
o Michael Collins / The Keepers of Truth (2000)
o Kazuo Ishiguro / When We Were Orphans (2000)
o Matthew Kneale / English Passengers (2000)
o Brian O’Doherty / The Deposition of Father McGreevy (1999)

1999
o J.M. Coetzee / Disgrace (1999)
o Anita Desai / Fasting, Feasting (1999)
o Michael Frayn / Headlong (1999)
o Andrew O’Hagan / Our Fathers (1999)
o Ahdaf Soueif / The Map of Love(1999)
o Colm Tóibín / The Blackwater Lightship (1999)

1998
o Ian McEwan / Amsterdam (1998)
o Beryl Bainbridge / Master Georgie (1998)
o Julian Barnes / England, England (1998)
o Martin Booth / The Industry of Souls (1998)
o Patrick McCabe / Breakfast on Pluto (1988)
o Magnus Mills / The Restraint of Beasts (1988)

1997
o Arundhati Roy / The God of Small Things (1997)
o Jim Crace / Quarantine (1997)
o Mick Jackson / The Underground Man (1997)
o Bernard MacLaverty / Grace Notes (1997)
o Tim Parks / Europa (1997)
o Madeline St John / The Essence of the Thing (1997)

1996
o Graham Swift / Last Orders (1996)
o Margaret Atwood / Alias Grace (1996)
o Beryl Bainbridge / Every Man for Himself(1996)
o Seamus Deane / Reading in the Dark (1996)
o Shena Mackay / The Orchard on Fire (1995)
o Rohinton Mistry / A Fine Balance (1995)

1995
o Pat Barker / The Ghost Road (1995)
o Justin Cartwright / In Every Face I Meet (1995)
o Salman Rushdie / The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995)
o Barry Unsworth / Morality Play (1995)
o Tim Winton / The Riders (1994)

1994
o James Kelman / How Late It Was, How Late (1994)
o Romesh Gunesekera / Reef (1994)
o Abdulrazak Gurnah / Paradise (1994)
o Alan Hollinghurst / The Folding Star (1994)
o George Mackay Brown / Beside the Ocean of Time (1994)
o Jill Paton Walsh / Knowledge of Angels (1994)

1993
o Roddy Doyle / Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1993)
o Tibor Fischer / Under the Frog (1992)
o Michael Ignatieff / Scar Tissue (1993)
o David Malouf / Remembering Babylon (1993)
o Caryl Phillips / Crossing the River (1993)
o Carol Shields / The Stone Diaries (1993)

1992
o Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (1992)
o Barry Unsworth / Sacred Hunger (1992)
o Christopher Hope / Serenity House (1992)
o Patrick McCabe / The Butcher Boy (1992)
o Ian McEwan/ Black Dogs (1992)
o Michèle Roberts / Daughters of the House (1992)

1991
o Ben Okri / The Famished Road (1991)
o Martin Amis / Time’s Arrow (1991)
o Roddy Doyle / The Van (1991)
o Rohinton Mistry / Such a Long Journey (1991)
o Timothy Mo / The Redundancy of Courage (1991)
o William Trevor / Reading Turgenev (from Two Lives) (1991)

1990
o A.S. Byatt / Possession: A Romance (1990)
o Beryl Bainbridge / An Awfully Big Adventure (1989)
o Penelope Fitzgerald / The Gate of Angels (1990)
o John McGahern / Amongst Women (1990)
o Brian Moore / Lies of Silence (1990)
o Mordecai Richler / Solomon Gursky Was Here (1989)

1989
o Kazuo Ishiguro / The Remains of the Day (1989)
o Margaret Atwood / Cat’s Eye (1988)
o John Banville / The Book of Evidence (1989)
o Sybille Bedford / Jigsaw (1989)
o James Kelman / A Disaffection (1989)
o Rose Tremain / Restoration (1989)

1988
o Peter Carey / Oscar and Lucinda (1988)
o Bruce Chatwin / Utz (1988)
o Penelope Fitzgerald / The Beginning of Spring (1988)
o David Lodge / Nice Work (1988)
o Salman Rushdie / The Satanic Verses (1988)
o Marina Warner / The Lost Father (1987)

1987
o Penelope Lively / Moon Tiger (1987)
o Chinua Achebe / Anthills of the Savannah (1987)
o Peter Ackroyd / Chatterton (1987)
o Nina Bawden / Circles of Deceit (1987)
o Brian Moore / The Colour of Blood (1987)
o Iris Murdoch / The Book and the Brotherhood (1987)

1986
o Kingsley Amis / The Old Devils (1986)
o Margaret Atwood / The Handmaid’s Tale 1985)
o Paul Bailey / Gabriel’s Lament (1986)
o Robertson Davies / What’s Bred in the Bone (1985)
o Kazuo Ishiguro / An Artist of the Floating World (1986)
o Timothy Mo / An Insular Possession (1986)

1985
o Keri Hulme / The Bone People (1983)
o Peter Carey / Illywhacker (1985)
o J.L. Carr / The Battle of Pollocks Crossing (1985)
o Doris Lessing / The Good Terrorist (1985)
o Jan Morris / Last Letters from Hav (1985)
o Iris Murdoch / The Good Apprentice (1985)

1984
o Anita Brookner / Hotel du Lac (1984)
o J.G. Ballard / Empire of the Sun (1984)
o Julian Barnes / Flaubert’s Parrot (1984)
o Anita Desai / In Custody (1984)
o Penelope Lively / According to Mark (1984)
o David Lodge / Small World (1984)

1983
o J.M. Coetzee / Life and Times of Michael K (1983)
o Malcolm Bradbury / Rates of Exchange (1983)
o John Fuller / Flying to Nowhere (1983)
o Anita Mason / The Illusionist (1983)
o Salman Rushdie / Shame (1983)
o Graham Swift / Waterland (1983)

1982
o Thomas Keneally / Schindler’s Ark (1982)
o John Arden / Silence Among the Weapons (1983)
o William Boyd / An Ice-Cream War (1983)
o Lawrence Durrell / Constance; Or, Solitary Practices (1982)
o Alice Thomas Ellis / The 27th Kingdom (1982)
o Timothy Mo / Sour Sweet (1982)

1981
o Salman Rushdie / Midnight’s Children (1981)
o Molly Keane / Good Behaviour (1981)
o Doris Lessing / The Sirian Experiments (1981)
o Ian McEwan / The Comfort of Strangers (1981)
o Ann Schlee / Rhine Journey (1981)
o Muriel Spark / Loitering with Intent (1981)
o D.M. Thomas / The White Hotel (1981)

1980
o William Golding / Rites of Passage (1980)
o Anthony Burgess / Earthly Powers (1980)
o Anita Desai / Clear Light of Day (1980)
o Alice Munro / The Beggar Maid (1978)
o Julian O’Faolain / No Country for Young Men (1980)
o Barry Unsworth / Pascali’s Island (1980)
o J.L. Carr / A Month in the Country (1980)

1979
o Penelope Fitzgerald / Offshore (1979)
o Thomas Keneally / Confederates (1979)
o V.S. Naipaul / A Bend in the River (1979)
o Julian Rathbone / Joseph (1979)
o Fay Weldon / Praxis (1978)

1978
o Iris Murdoch / The Sea, the Sea (1978)
o Kingsley Amis / Jake’s Thing (1978)
o André Brink / Rumours of Rain (1978)
o Penelope Fitzgerald / The Bookshop (1978)
o Jane Gardam / God on the Rocks (1978)
o Bernice Rubens / A Five-Year Sentence (1978)

1977
o Paul Scott / Staying On (1977)
o Paul Bailey / Peter Smart’s Confessions (1977)
o Caroline Blackwood / Great Granny Webster (1977)
o Jennifer Johnston / Shadows on our Skin (1977)
o Penelope Lively / The Road to Lichfield (1977)
o Barbara Pym / Quartet in Autumn (1977)

1976
o David Storey / Saville (1976)
o André Brink / An Instant in the Wind (1976)
o R.C. Hutchinson / Rising (1976)
o Brian Moore / The Doctor’s Wife (1976)
o Julian Rathbone / King Fisher Lives (1976)
o William Trevor / The Children of Dynmouth (1976)

1975
o Ruth Prawer Jhabvala / Heat and Dust (1975)
o Thomas Keneally / Gossip from the Forest (1975)

1974
o Nadine Gordimer / The Conservationist (1974)
o Stanley Middleton / Holiday (1974)
o Kingsley Amis / Ending Up (1974)
o Beryl Bainbridge / The Bottle Factory Outing (1974)
o C.P. Snow / In Their Wisdom (1974)

1973
o J.G. Farrell / The Siege of Krishnapur (1973)
o Beryl Bainbridge / The Dressmaker (1973)
o Elizabeth Mavor / The Green Equinox (1973)
o Iris Murdoch / The Black Prince (1973)

1972
o John Berger / G. (1972)
o Susan Hill / The Bird of Night (1972)
o Thomas Keneally / The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1972)
o David Storey / Pasmore (1972)

1971
o V.S. Naipaul / In a Free State (1971)
o Thomas Kilroy / The Big Chapel (1971)
o Doris Lessing / Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971)
o Mordecai Richler / St Urbain’s Horseman (1971)
o Derek Robinson / Goshawk Squadron (1971)
o Elizabeth Taylor / Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (1971)

1970
o Bernice Rubens / The Elected Member (1969)
o A.L. Barker / John Brown’s Body (1969)
o Elizabeth Bowen / Eva Trout (1968)
o Iris Murdoch / Bruno’s Dream (1969)
o William Trevor / Mrs Eckdorf in O’Neill’s Hotel (1969)
o T.W. Wheeler / The Conjunction (1970)

1969
o Percy Howard Newby / Something to Answer For (1969)
o Barry England / Figures in a Landscape (1968)
o Nicholas Mosley / Impossible Object (1968)
o Iris Murdoch / The Nice and the Good (1968)
o Muriel Spark / The Public Image (1968)
o G.M. Williams / From Scenes like These (1969)

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