The Reading List - The Booker Prize

BOOKER PRIZE WINNERS AND SHORTLISTED BOOKS FULL LIST 

1969

-Something to answer for - PH Newby   WINNER

-Impossible Object - Nicholas Mosley  OPEN

-The public image - Muriel Spark  DONE

-Figures in a landscape - Barry England   OPEN

-The nice and the good - Iris Murdoch  BIB

-From scenes like these - Gordon Williams  OPEN

1970 

-Eva Trout By Elizabeth Bowen  OPEN

-Bruno's Dream By Iris Murdoch  OPEN BIB

-Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel By William Trevor   OPEN

-The Conjunction By Terence Wheeler

-The Elected Member By Bernice Rubens WINNER  - OPEN

-John Brown's Body By  A.L. Barker   OPEN

1971

-In a Free State By V. S. Naipaul  WINNER   BIB

-The Big Chapel By Thomas Kilroy   OPEN

-Briefing for a Descent into Hell By Doris Lessing 

-St Urbain's Horseman By Mordecai Richler  

-Goshawk Squadron By Derek Robinson  OPEN

-Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont By Elizabeth Taylor  BIB OPEN

1972

-The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith By Thomas Keneally   OPEN

-Pasmore By David Storey

-G. By John Berger  WINNER

-The Bird of Night By Susan Hill  OPEN

1973

-The Siege of Krishnapur By J.G. Farrell  WINNER  BIB OPEN

-The Dressmaker By Beryl Bainbridge  OPEN

-A Green Equinox By Elizabeth Mavor

-The Black Prince By Iris Murdoch  BIB OPEN

1974

-The Conservationist By Nadine Gordimer WINNER  OPEN

-Holiday By Stanley Middleton WINNER   OPEN

-Ending Up By Kingsley Amis   OPEN

-The Bottle Factory Outing By Beryl Bainbridge   OPEN

-In Their Wisdom By C.P. Snow

1975

-Heat and Dust By Ruth Prawer Jhabvala WINNER   OPEN

-Gossip from the Forest By Thomas Keneally

1976

-Saville By David Storey   WINNER

-An Instant in the Wind By André Brink   BIB OPEN

-Rising By R.C. Hutchinson

-The Doctor's Wife By Brian Moore  DONE

-King Fisher Lives By Julian Rathbone     OPEN

-The Children of Dynmouth By William Trevor  OPEN

1977

-Staying On By Paul Scott   WINNER (BC)

-Peter Smart's Confessions By Paul Bailey

-Great Granny Webster By Caroline Blackwood  BIB OP

-Shadows on our Skin By Jennifer Johnston

-The Road to Lichfield By Penelope Lively  OP

-Quartet in Autumn By Barbara Pym   BIB

1978

-The Sea, the Sea By Iris Murdoch WINNER   BIB OP

-Jake's Thing By Kingsley Amis   OP

-Rumours of Rain By André Brink   OP

-The Bookshop By Penelope Fitzgerald   OP

-God on the Rocks By Jane Gardam    OP

-A Five-Year Sentence By Bernice Rubens    OP

1979

-A Bend in the River By V. S. Naipaul   BIB

-Joseph By Julian Rathbone  OP

-Praxis By Fay Weldon   OP

-Offshore By Penelope Fitzgerald   WINNER  - DONE

-Confederates By Thomas Keneally

  

1980

-A Month in the Country By J.L. Carr  BC

-Rites of Passage By William Golding  WINNER  

-Earthly Powers By Anthony Burgess    OP

-Clear Light of Day By Anita Desai  BIB OP

-The Beggar Maid By Alice Munro

-No Country for Young Men By Julia O'Faolain   OP

-Pascali's Island By Barry Unsworth

1981

-Midnight's Children By Salman Rushdie WINNER  BIB OP BC

-Good Behaviour By Molly Keane  OP

-The Sirian Experiments By Doris Lessing  OP

-The Comfort of Strangers By Ian McEwan

-Rhine Journey By Ann Schlee  OP

-Loitering with Intent By Muriel Spark   OP

-The White Hotel By  D.M. Thomas  DONE

1982

-Schindler's Ark By Thomas Keneally WINNER   BIB OP BC

-Silence Among the Weapons By John Arden  OP

-An Ice-Cream War By William Boyd

-Constance or Solitary Practices By Lawrence Durrell  

-The 27th Kingdom By Alice Thomas Ellis OP

-Sour Sweet By Timothy Mo  OP

1983

-Life and Times of Michael K By J.M. Coetzee  WINNER   BIB

-Rates of Exchange By Malcolm Bradbury  OP

-Flying to Nowhere By John Fuller

-The Illusionist By Anita Mason  OP

-Shame By Salman Rushdie  BIB

-Waterland By Graham Swift  BIB BC OP

1984 

-Flaubert's Parrot By Julian Barnes  BIB OP

-In Custody By Anita Desai  OP

-According to Mark By Penelope Lively  OP

-Small World By David Lodge  BIB BC

-Hotel du Lac By Anita Brookner   WINNER  BIB

-Empire of the Sun By J.G. Ballard  OP

1985 

-The Bone People By Keri Hulme  WINNER  OP

-Illywhacker By Peter Carey

-The Battle of Pollocks Crossing By J.L. Carr    OP

-The Good Terrorist By Doris Lessing  OP BIB BC

-Last Letters from Hav By Jan Morris  BIB

-The Good Apprentice By Iris Murdoch  

1986

-The Old Devils By Kingsley Amis   WINNER  BIB OP

-The Handmaid's Tale By Margaret Atwood   DONE

-Gabriel's Lament By Paul Bailey  OP

-What's Bred in the Bone By Robertson Davies  BIB

-An Artist of the Floating World By Kazuo Ishiguro  BIB

-An Insular Possession By Timothy Mo   OP

1987

-Moon Tiger By Penelope Lively  WINNER

-Anthills of the Savannah By Chinua Achebe

-Chatterton By Peter Ackroyd  OP BIB

-Circles of Deceit By Nina Bawden   OP

-The Colour of Blood By Brian Moore  DONE

-The Book and the Brotherhood By Iris Murdoch   

1988

-Oscar and Lucinda By Peter Carey    WINNER  BIB BC

-Utz By Bruce Chatwin  BIB

-The Beginning of Spring By Penelope Fitzgerald  OP

-Nice Work By David Lodge   OP

-The Satanic Verses By Salman Rushdie  OP BIB BC

-The Lost Father By Marina Warner    OP

1989

-The Book of Evidence By John Banville  

-Jigsaw By Sybille Bedford   OP

-A Disaffection By James Kelman    OP

-Restoration By Rose Tremain  

-The Remains of the Day By Kazuo Ishiguro    WINNER  BIB OP

-Cat's Eye By Margaret Atwood  BIB

1990

-The Gate of Angels By Penelope Fitzgerald  OP

-Amongst Women By John McGahern

-Lies of Silence By Brian Moore  DONE

-Solomon Gursky Was Here By Mordecai Richler  OP

-Possession By A.S. Byatt      WINNER  - DONE

-An Awfully Big Adventure By Beryl Bainbridge

1991

-The Famished Road By Ben Okri  WINNER  OP

-Time's Arrow By Martin Amis  BIB OP

-The Van By Roddy Doyle

-Such a Long Journey By Rohinton Mistry  

-The Redundancy of Courage By Timothy Mo  OP

-Reading Turgenev By William Trevor  OP

1992

-The English Patient By Michael Ondaatje   WINNER  BIB BC

-Sacred Hunger By Barry Unsworth   WINNER

-Serenity House By Christopher Hope   OP

-The Butcher Boy By Patrick McCabe

-Black Dogs By Ian McEwan  BIB

-Daughters of the House By Michèle Roberts

1993

-Scar Tissue By Michael Ignatieff

-Remembering Babylon By David Malouf   BIB OP

-Crossing the River By Caryl Phillips    OP

-The Stone Diaries By Carol Shields  

-Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha By Roddy Doyle  WINNER  BIB OP

-Under the Frog By Tibor Fischer

1994

-How late it was, how late By James Kelman   WINNER  OP

-Reef By Romesh Gunesekera     OP

-Paradise By Abdulrazak Gurnah  BIB OP

-The Folding Star By Alan Hollinghurst

-Beside the Ocean of Time By George Mackay Brown  OP

-Knowledge of Angels By Jill Paton Walsh   BIB OP BC

1995

-The Moor's Last Sigh By Salman Rushdie  BIB

-Morality Play By Barry Unsworth  BC

-The Riders By Tim Winton

-The Ghost Road By Pat Barker   WINNER

-In Every Face I Meet By Justin Cartwright

1996

-Last Orders By Graham Swift   WINNER  BC

-Alias Grace By Margaret Atwood  BIB

-Every Man for Himself By Beryl Bainbridge  

-Reading in the Dark By Seamus Deane  OP

-The Orchard on Fire By Shena Mackay  BIB BC OP

-A Fine Balance By Rohinton Mistry  

1997

-The God of Small Things By Arundhati Roy  WINNER - DONE 

-Quarantine By Jim Crace  BIB BC

-The Underground Man By Mick Jackson  BIB OP

-Grace Notes By Bernard MacLaverty

-Europa By Tim Parks

-The Essence of the Thing By Madeleine St John  OP

1998

-Amsterdam By Ian McEwan   WINNER BIB BC

-Master Georgie By Beryl Bainbridge  

-England, England By Julian Barnes  BIB

-The Industry of Souls By Martin Booth

-Breakfast on Pluto By Patrick McCabe  OP

-The Restraint of Beasts By Magnus Mills   BIB BC OP

1999

-Headlong By Michael Frayn  BC

-Our Fathers By Andrew O'Hagan  OP

-The Map of Love By Ahdaf Soueif   BIB BC

-The Blackwater Lightship By Colm Tóibín    BIB

-Disgrace By J.M. Coetzee  WINNER  OP

-Fasting, Feasting By Anita Desai   DONE

2000

-The Blind Assassin By Margaret Atwood   WINNER -  DONE

-The Hiding Place By  Trezza Azzopardi    OP

-The Keepers of Truth By Michael Collins  BIB BC

-When We Were Orphans By Kazuo Ishiguro  BIB

-English Passengers By Matthew Kneale  

-The Deposition of Father McGreevy By Brian O'Doherty   OP

2001

-Oxygen By Andrew Miller  BIB OP

-number9dream By David Mitchell

-The Dark Room By Rachel Seiffert  BC

-Hotel World By Ali Smith  BIB

-True History of the Kelly Gang By Peter Carey   WINNER - DONE

-Atonement By Ian McEwan    BIB OP

2002

-Unless By Carol Shields  BIB BC

-The Story of Lucy Gault By William Trevor  DONE

-Fingersmith By Sarah Waters  DONE

-Dirt Music By Tim Winton

-Life of Pi By Yann Martel  WINNER -  DONE

-Family Matters By Rohinton Mistry  BIB

2003

-Vernon God Little By DBC Pierre  WINNER - DONE 

-Brick Lane By Monica Ali  

-Oryx and Crake By Margaret Atwood  DONE

-The Good Doctor By Damon Galgut    OP

-Notes on a Scandal By Zoë Heller  DONE

-Astonishing Splashes of Colour By Clare Morrall  OP

2004

-The Line of Beauty By Alan Hollinghurst  WINNER  BIB

-Bitter Fruit By Achmat Dangor  OP

-The Electric Michaelangelo By Sarah Hall  

-Cloud Atlas By David Mitchell  DONE

-The Master By Colm Tóibín  BIB OP

-I'll Go to Bed at Noon By Gerard Woodward  OP

2005

-The Sea By John Banville  WINNER BIB

-Arthur & George By Julian Barnes  BIB

-A Long Long Way By Sebastian Barry   BIB

-Never Let Me Go By Kazuo Ishiguro  DONE 

-The Accidental By Ali Smith   BIB

-On Beauty By Zadie Smith   BIB

2006

-The Inheritance of Loss By Kiran Desai  WINNER  BIB BC OP

-The Secret River By Kate Grenville  BIB

-Carry Me Down By M.J. Hyland  BIB OP

-In the Country of Men By Hisham Matar  BIB BC

-Mother's Milk By Edward St Aubyn  DONE

-The Night Watch By Sarah Waters   DONE

2007

-The Reluctant Fundamentalist By Mohsin Hamid   DONE

-Mister Pip By Lloyd Jones    BIB BC

-On Chesil Beach By Ian McEwan   BIB OP

-Animal's People By Indra Sinha     BIB BC

-The Gathering By Anne Enright   WINNER  DONE

-Darkmans By Nicola Barker

2008

-Sea of Poppies By Amitav Ghosh  BIB

-The Clothes on Their Backs By Linda Grant

-The Northern Clemency By Philip Hensher

-A Fraction of the Whole By Steve Toltz  

-The White Tiger By Aravind Adiga WINNER -  DONE

-The Secret Scripture By Sebastian Barry  BIB

2009

-Summertime By J.M. Coetzee   BIB OP

-The Quickening Maze By Adam Foulds

-The Glass Room By Simon Mawer    BIB OP

-The Little Stranger By Sarah Waters  DONE

-Wolf Hall By Hilary Mantel WINNER   BIB

-The Children's Book By A.S. Byatt  

2010

-The Finkler Question By Howard Jacobson WINNER  BIB

-Parrot and Olivier in America By Peter Carey   BIB

-Room By Emma Donoghue   DONE

-In a Strange Room By Damon Galgut  OP

-The Long Song By Andrea Levy   BIB

-C By Tom McCarthy  

2011

-The Sense of an Ending By Julian Barnes WINNER  - BIB

-Jamrach's Menagerie By Carol Birch BIB

-The Sisters Brothers By Patrick deWitt   BIB

-Half Blood Blues By Esi Edugyan  BIB OP

-Pigeon English By Stephen Kelman  BIB

-Snowdrops By  A.D. Miller

2012

-Bring Up the Bodies By Hilary Mantel WINNER   BIB

-Swimming Home By Deborah Levy   BIB

-The Lighthouse By Alison Moore

-Umbrella By Will Self OP

-The Garden of Evening Mists By Tan Twan Eng

-Narcopolis By Jeet Thayil

2013

-Harvest By Jim Crace   BIB

-The Lowland By Jhumpa Lahiri

-A Tale for the Time Being By Ruth Ozeki

-The Testament of Mary By Colm Tóibín    BIB

-The Luminaries By Eleanor Catton   WINNER   BIB BC

-We Need New Names By NoViolet Bulawayo

2014

-The Narrow Road to the Deep North By Richard Flanagan   WINNER BIB

-To Rise Again at a Decent Hour By Joshua Ferris

-We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves By Karen Joy Fowler  BIB

-J By Howard Jacobson   BIB

-The Lives of Others By Neel Mukherjee   BIB

-How to Be Both By Ali Smith   BIB

2015

-A Brief History of Seven Killings By Marlon James WINNER   BIB

-Satin Island By Tom McCarthy

-The Fishermen By Chigozie Obioma

-The Year of the Runaways By Sunjeev Sahota

-A Spool of Blue Thread By Anne Tyler  BIB OP

-A Little Life By Hanya Yanagihara   BIB

2016

-The Sellout By Paul Beatty   WINNER  BIB

-Hot Milk By Deborah Levy

-His Bloody Project By Graeme Macrae Burnet

-Eileen By Ottessa Moshfegh  BIB

-All That Man Is By David Szalay   

-Do Not Say We Have Nothing By Madeleine Thien  BIB

2017

-Lincoln in the Bardo By George Saunders  WINNER   BIB

-4 3 2 1 By Paul Auster    BIB

-History of Wolves By Emily Fridlund

-Exit West By Mohsin Hamid   BIB

-Elmet By Fiona Mozley BIB

-Autumn By Ali Smith BIB

2018

-Milkman By Anna Burns WINNER  - DONE

-Washington Black By Esi Edugyan

-Everything Under By Daisy Johnson

-The Mars Room By Rachel Kushner  BIB

-The Overstory By Richard Powers   BIB

-The Long Take By Robin Robertson

2019

-The Testaments By Margaret Atwood WINNER - DONE

-Girl, Woman, Other By Bernardine Evaristo WINNER BIB

-Ducks, Newburyport By Lucy Ellmann

-An Orchestra of Minorities By Chigozie Obioma

-Quichotte By Salman Rushdie   BIB

-10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World By Elif Shafak   BIB

2020

-Shuggie Bain By Douglas Stuart WINNER  - DONE

-The New Wilderness By Diane Cook   DONE

-This Mournable Body By Tsitsi Dangarembga

-Burnt Sugar By Avni Doshi    BIB

-The Shadow King By Maaza Mengiste     BIB

-Real Life By Brandon Taylor

2021

-A Passage North By Anuk Arudpragasam

-The Promise By Damon Galgut WINNER  BIB

-No One Is Talking About This By Patricia Lockwood   BIB

-The Fortune Men By Nadifa Mohamed

-Bewilderment By Richard Powers    BIB

-Great Circle By Maggie Shipstead    BIB

2022

-Glory By NoViolet Bulawayo BIB

-Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan  DONE

-Treacle Walker by Alan Garner

-The Trees By Percival Everett    BIB

-The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida By Shehan Karunatilaka  WINNER - DONE

-Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout  BIB

2023

-The Bee Sting By Paul Murray  DONE

-Western Lane by Chetna Maroo DONE

-Prophet Song by Paul Lynch WINNER  BIB

-This Other Eden by Paul Harding DONE

-If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery  DONE

-Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein  BIB

INTERNATIONAL BOOKER WINNERS:

2016 Han Kang - The Vegetarian DONE

2017 David Grossman - A Horse Walks Into a Bar  DONE

2018 Olga Tokarczuk - Flights   DONE

2019 Jokha Al Harthi - Celestial Bodies  DONE

2020 Lucas Rijneveld - The Discomfort of Evening  DONE

2021 David Diop - At Night All Blood is Black  DONE

2022 Geetanjali Shree - Tomb of Sand  DONE

2023 Georgi Gospodinov - Time Shelter  DONE

2024 Jenny Erpenbeck - Kairos  DONE

2025 Banu Mushtaq - Heart Lamp

2024 - DONE

 -James by Percival Everett  DONE

-Orbital by Samantha Harvey   DONE - WINNER

-Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner   DONE 

-Held by Anne Michaels  DONE 

-The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden  DONE

-Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood  DONE

2025

• Flashlight by Susan Choi

• The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny  by Kiran Desai

• Audition by Katie Kitamura 

• The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits

• The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller

• Flesh by David Szalay WINNER