The Reading List - The Booker Prize

BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING BOOKS LIST

1969

-Something to answer for - PH Newby   

1970 

-The Elected Member By Bernice Rubens 

1971

-In a Free State By V. S. Naipaul  

1972

-G. By John Berger  

1973

-The Siege of Krishnapur By J.G. Farrell  (OPEN)

1974

-The Conservationist By Nadine Gordimer    (OPEN)

-Holiday by Stanley Middleton

1975

-Heat and Dust By Ruth Prawer Jhabvala  (OPEN)

1976

-Saville By David Storey   

1977

-Staying On By Paul Scott   

1978

-The Sea, the Sea By Iris Murdoch BIB  

1979

-Offshore By Penelope Fitzgerald   DONE

1980

--Rites of Passage By William Golding   (OPEN)  BIB

1981

-Midnight's Children By Salman Rushdie   (OPEN)  BIB OR

1982

-Schindler's Ark By Thomas Keneally   (OPEN)  BIB

1983

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

1984 

-Hotel du Lac By Anita Brookner    (OPEN) BIB

1985 

-The Bone People By Keri Hulme   (OPEN)

1986

-The Old Devils By Kingsley Amis   (OPEN)  BIB

1987

-Moon Tiger By Penelope Lively  (Anel de Areia)  BIB

1988

-Oscar and Lucinda By Peter Carey    BIB

1989

-The Remains of the Day By Kazuo Ishiguro    BIB

1990

-Possession By A.S. Byatt     DONE

1991

-The Famished Road By Ben Okri   (OPEN)

1992

-The English Patient By Michael Ondaatje   BIB

-Sacred Hunger By Barry Unsworth   

1993

-Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha By Roddy Doyle  (OPEN) BIB

1994

-How late it was, how late By James Kelman   (OPEN)

1995

-The Ghost Road By Pat Barker   DONE

1996

-Last Orders By Graham Swift   BIB

1997

-The God of Small Things By Arundhati Roy  DONE 

1998

-Amsterdam By Ian McEwan   BIB RESERVEI

1999

-Disgrace By J.M. Coetzee BIB OR

2000

-The Blind Assassin By Margaret Atwood    DONE

2001

-True History of the Kelly Gang By Peter Carey   DONE

2002

--Life of Pi By Yann Martel  DONE

2003

-Vernon God Little By DBC Pierre   DONE 

2004

-The Line of Beauty By Alan Hollinghurst  BIB

2005

-The Sea By John Banville  BIB OR

2006

-The Inheritance of Loss By Kiran Desai    (OPEN) / BIB

2007

-The Gathering By Anne Enright   DONE

2008

-The White Tiger By Aravind Adiga   DONE

2009

-Wolf Hall By Hilary Mantel  BIB OR

2010

-The Finkler Question By Howard Jacobson  BIB OR

2011

-The Sense of an Ending By Julian Barnes   BIB OR

2012

-Bring Up the Bodies By Hilary Mantel  BIB OR

2013

-The Luminaries By Eleanor Catton   BIB

2014

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

2015

-A Brief History of Seven Killings By Marlon James   BIB

2016

-The Sellout By Paul Beatty   BIB OR

2017

-Lincoln in the Bardo By George Saunders  BIB OR

2018

-Milkman By Anna Burns   DONE

2019

-The Testaments By Margaret Atwood    DONE

-Girl, Woman, Other By Bernardine Evaristo   BIB OR

2020

-Shuggie Bain By Douglas Stuart    DONE

2021

-The Promise By Damon Galgut  BIB

2022

-The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida By Shehan Karunatilaka   DONE

2023

-Prophet Song by Paul Lynch  BIB

2024

Orbital by Samantha Harvey   DONE 

2025

Flesh by David Szalay  (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

2026 Yang Shuang zi - Taiwan Travelogue