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

-The public image - Muriel Spark 

-Figures in a landscape - Barry England

-The nice and the good - Iris Murdoch (BIB OUT)

-From scenes like these - Gordon Williams

1970 

-Eva Trout By Elizabeth Bowen

-Bruno's Dream By Iris Murdoch  (BIB OUT)

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

-The Conjunction By Terence Wheeler

-The Elected Member By Bernice Rubens WINNER 

-John Brown's Body By  A.L. Barker

1971

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

-The Big Chapel By Thomas Kilroy

-Briefing for a Descent into Hell By Doris Lessing

-St Urbain's Horseman By Mordecai Richler

-Goshawk Squadron By Derek Robinson

-Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont By Elizabeth Taylor  (BIB OR)

1972

-The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith By Thomas Keneally

-Pasmore By David Storey

-G. By John Berger WINNER

-The Bird of Night By Susan Hill

1973

-The Siege of Krishnapur By J.G. Farrell  WINNER  (BIB OUT)

-The Dressmaker By Beryl Bainbridge

-A Green Equinox By Elizabeth Mavor

-The Black Prince By Iris Murdoch  (BIB OUT)

1974

-The Conservationist By Nadine Gordimer WINNER  

-Holiday By Stanley Middleton WINNER

-Ending Up By Kingsley Amis

-The Bottle Factory Outing By Beryl Bainbridge

-In Their Wisdom By C.P. Snow

1975

-Heat and Dust By Ruth Prawer Jhabvala WINNER

-Gossip from the Forest By Thomas Keneally

1976

-Saville By David Storey WINNER

-An Instant in the Wind By André Brink  (BIB OUT)

-Rising By R.C. Hutchinson

-The Doctor's Wife By Brian Moore

-King Fisher Lives By Julian Rathbone

-The Children of Dynmouth By William Trevor

1977

-Staying On By Paul Scott WINNER

-Peter Smart's Confessions By Paul Bailey

-Great Granny Webster By Caroline Blackwood  (BIB OUT)

-Shadows on our Skin By Jennifer Johnston

-The Road to Lichfield By Penelope Lively

-Quartet in Autumn By Barbara Pym  (BIB OUT)

1978

-The Sea, the Sea By Iris Murdoch WINNER   (BIB OUT)

-Jake's Thing By Kingsley Amis

-Rumours of Rain By André Brink

-The Bookshop By Penelope Fitzgerald  (BIB OUT)

-God on the Rocks By Jane Gardam

-A Five-Year Sentence By Bernice Rubens 

1979

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

-Joseph By Julian Rathbone

-Praxis By Fay Weldon

-Offshore By Penelope Fitzgerald WINNER

-Confederates By Thomas Keneally

1980

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

-Rites of Passage By William Golding WINNER  

-Earthly Powers By Anthony Burgess

-Clear Light of Day By Anita Desai  (BIB OUT)

-The Beggar Maid By Alice Munro

-No Country for Young Men By Julia O'Faolain

-Pascali's Island By Barry Unsworth

1981

-Midnight's Children By Salman Rushdie WINNER    (BIB OUT)  BC

-Good Behaviour By Molly Keane

-The Sirian Experiments By Doris Lessing  

-The Comfort of Strangers By Ian McEwan

-Rhine Journey By Ann Schlee

-Loitering with Intent By Muriel Spark

-The White Hotel By  D.M. Thomas  BC

1982

-Schindler's Ark By Thomas Keneally WINNER  (BIB OUT)  BC

-Silence Among the Weapons By John Arden

-An Ice-Cream War By William Boyd

-Constance or Solitary Practices By Lawrence Durrell  

-The 27th Kingdom By Alice Thomas Ellis

-Sour Sweet By Timothy Mo

1983

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

-Rates of Exchange By Malcolm Bradbury

-Flying to Nowhere By John Fuller

-The Illusionist By Anita Mason

-Shame By Salman Rushdie   (BIB OUT)

-Waterland By Graham Swift   (BIB OUT)  BC

1984

-Flaubert's Parrot By Julian Barnes  (BIB OR)

-In Custody By Anita Desai

-According to Mark By Penelope Lively

-Small World By David Lodge  (BIB OUT) BC

-Hotel du Lac By Anita Brookner WINNER  (BIB OUT)

-Empire of the Sun By J.G. Ballard  

1985

-The Bone People By Keri Hulme WINNER

-Illywhacker By Peter Carey

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

-The Good Terrorist By Doris Lessing  (BIB OUT)  BC

-Last Letters from Hav By Jan Morris   (BIB OUT)

-The Good Apprentice By Iris Murdoch  

1986

-The Old Devils By Kingsley Amis WINNER  (BIB OUT)

-The Handmaid's Tale By Margaret Atwood  DONE

-Gabriel's Lament By Paul Bailey

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

-An Artist of the Floating World By Kazuo Ishiguro  (BIB OUT)

-An Insular Possession By Timothy Mo

1987

-Moon Tiger By Penelope Lively  WINNER

-Anthills of the Savannah By Chinua Achebe

-Chatterton By Peter Ackroyd  (BIB OUT)

-Circles of Deceit By Nina Bawden

-The Colour of Blood By Brian Moore  

-The Book and the Brotherhood By Iris Murdoch

1988

-Oscar and Lucinda By Peter Carey WINNER  (BIB OUT)  BC

-Utz By Bruce Chatwin  (BIB OUT)

-The Beginning of Spring By Penelope Fitzgerald

-Nice Work By David Lodge

-The Satanic Verses By Salman Rushdie  (BIB OR)  BC

-The Lost Father By Marina Warner

1989

-The Book of Evidence By John Banville  

-Jigsaw By Sybille Bedford

-A Disaffection By James Kelman

-Restoration By Rose Tremain  BC

-The Remains of the Day By Kazuo Ishiguro WINNER   (BIB OUT)

-Cat's Eye By Margaret Atwood  (BIB OUT)

1990

-The Gate of Angels By Penelope Fitzgerald

-Amongst Women By John McGahern

-Lies of Silence By Brian Moore  

-Solomon Gursky Was Here By Mordecai Richler

-Possession By A.S. Byatt  WINNER  

-An Awfully Big Adventure By Beryl Bainbridge

1991

-The Famished Road By Ben Okri  WINNER

-Time's Arrow By Martin Amis  (BIB OUT)

-The Van By Roddy Doyle

-Such a Long Journey By Rohinton Mistry  

-The Redundancy of Courage By Timothy Mo  

-Reading Turgenev By William Trevor

1992

-The English Patient By Michael Ondaatje WINNER  (BIB OUT)  BC

-Sacred Hunger By Barry Unsworth WINNER

-Serenity House By Christopher Hope

-The Butcher Boy By Patrick McCabe

-Black Dogs By Ian McEwan  (BIB OR)

-Daughters of the House By Michèle Roberts

1993

-Scar Tissue By Michael Ignatieff

-Remembering Babylon By David Malouf   (BIB OUT)

-Crossing the River By Caryl Phillips

-The Stone Diaries By Carol Shields  

-Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha By Roddy Doyle WINNER    (BIB OUT)

-Under the Frog By Tibor Fischer

1994

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

-Reef By Romesh Gunesekera

-Paradise By Abdulrazak Gurnah   (BIB OR)

-The Folding Star By Alan Hollinghurst

-Beside the Ocean of Time By George Mackay Brown

-Knowledge of Angels By Jill Paton Walsh    (BIB OUT)  BC

1995

-The Moor's Last Sigh By Salman Rushdie  (BIB OUT)

-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 OUT)

-Every Man for Himself By Beryl Bainbridge  

-Reading in the Dark By Seamus Deane  

-The Orchard on Fire By Shena Mackay  (BIB OUT) BC

-A Fine Balance By Rohinton Mistry  (BIB OUT)

1997

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

-Quarantine By Jim Crace  (BIB OUT)  BC

-The Underground Man By Mick Jackson   (BIB OUT)

-Grace Notes By Bernard MacLaverty

-Europa By Tim Parks

-The Essence of the Thing By Madeleine St John

1998

-Amsterdam By Ian McEwan WINNER  (BIB OUT)  BC

-Master Georgie By Beryl Bainbridge  

-England, England By Julian Barnes  (BIB OUT)

-The Industry of Souls By Martin Booth

-Breakfast on Pluto By Patrick McCabe  

-The Restraint of Beasts By Magnus Mills   (BIB OUT) BC

1999

-Headlong By Michael Frayn

-Our Fathers By Andrew O'Hagan  

-The Map of Love By Ahdaf Soueif   (BIB OUT) BC

-The Blackwater Lightship By Colm Tóibín    (BIB OUT)

-Disgrace By J.M. Coetzee WINNER  

-Fasting, Feasting By Anita Desai  (BIB OUT) BC

2000

-The Blind Assassin By Margaret Atwood WINNER -  DONE

-The Hiding Place By  Trezza Azzopardi

-The Keepers of Truth By Michael Collins  (BIB OUT)  BC

-When We Were Orphans By Kazuo Ishiguro  (BIB OR)

-English Passengers By Matthew Kneale  

-The Deposition of Father McGreevy By Brian O'Doherty  

2001

-Oxygen By Andrew Miller  (BIB OR)

-number9dream By David Mitchell

-The Dark Room By Rachel Seiffert  BC

-Hotel World By Ali Smith  (BIB OUT)

-True History of the Kelly Gang By Peter Carey WINNER  

-Atonement By Ian McEwan    (BIB OR)

2002

-Unless By Carol Shields  (BIB OUT)  BC

-The Story of Lucy Gault By William Trevor  (BIB OR)

-Fingersmith By Sarah Waters  DONE

-Dirt Music By Tim Winton

-Life of Pi By Yann Martel WINNER -  DONE

-Family Matters By Rohinton Mistry   (BIB OUT)

2003

-Vernon God Little By DBC Pierre WINNER 

-Brick Lane By Monica Ali  

-Oryx and Crake By Margaret Atwood  DONE

-The Good Doctor By Damon Galgut

-Notes on a Scandal By Zoë Heller  DONE

-Astonishing Splashes of Colour By Clare Morrall

2004

-The Line of Beauty By Alan Hollinghurst WINNER  (BIB OUT)

-Bitter Fruit By Achmat Dangor

-The Electric Michaelangelo By Sarah Hall  

-Cloud Atlas By David Mitchell 

-The Master By Colm Tóibín  (BIB OUT)

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

2005

-The Sea By John Banville WINNER  (BIB OR)

-Arthur & George By Julian Barnes  (BIB OUT)

-A Long Long Way By Sebastian Barry  (BIB OUT)

-Never Let Me Go By Kazuo Ishiguro  DONE 

-The Accidental By Ali Smith  (BIB OUT)

-On Beauty By Zadie Smith  (BIB OUT)

2006

-The Inheritance of Loss By Kiran Desai WINNER  (BIB OUT)  BC

-The Secret River By Kate Grenville  (BIB OUT)

-Carry Me Down By M.J. Hyland  (BIB OUT)

-In the Country of Men By Hisham Matar  (BIB OUT)  BC

-Mother's Milk By Edward St Aubyn  DONE

-The Night Watch By Sarah Waters   DONE

2007

-The Reluctant Fundamentalist By Mohsin Hamid  (BIB OUT)  BC

-Mister Pip By Lloyd Jones   (BIB OUT)  BC

-On Chesil Beach By Ian McEwan  (BIB OR)

-Animal's People By Indra Sinha    (BIB OUT) BC

-The Gathering By Anne Enright WINNER  (BIB OR)

-Darkmans By Nicola Barker

2008

-Sea of Poppies By Amitav Ghosh  (BIB OUT)

-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 OUT)

2009

-Summertime By J.M. Coetzee  (BIB OUT)

-The Quickening Maze By Adam Foulds

-The Glass Room By Simon Mawer   (BIB OUT)

-The Little Stranger By Sarah Waters  DONE

-Wolf Hall By Hilary Mantel WINNER  (BIB OUT)

-The Children's Book By A.S. Byatt  

2010

-The Finkler Question By Howard Jacobson WINNER  (BIB OUT)

-Parrot and Olivier in America By Peter Carey  (BIB OUT)

-Room By Emma Donoghue   DONE

-In a Strange Room By Damon Galgut  

-The Long Song By Andrea Levy   (BIB OUT)

-C By Tom McCarthy  

2011

-The Sense of an Ending By Julian Barnes WINNER (BIB OR)

-Jamrach's Menagerie By Carol Birch  (BIB OUT)

-The Sisters Brothers By Patrick deWitt   (BIB OUT)

-Half Blood Blues By Esi Edugyan   (BIB OUT)

-Pigeon English By Stephen Kelman   (BIB OUT)

-Snowdrops By  A.D. Miller

2012

-Bring Up the Bodies By Hilary Mantel WINNER  (BIB OUT)

-Swimming Home By Deborah Levy  (BIB OUT)

-The Lighthouse By Alison Moore

-Umbrella By Will Self

-The Garden of Evening Mists By Tan Twan Eng

-Narcopolis By Jeet Thayil

2013

-Harvest By Jim Crace  (BIB OUT)

-The Lowland By Jhumpa Lahiri

-A Tale for the Time Being By Ruth Ozeki

-The Testament of Mary By Colm Tóibín   (BIB OUT)

-The Luminaries By Eleanor Catton WINNER  (BIB OUT) BC

-We Need New Names By NoViolet Bulawayo

2014

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

-To Rise Again at a Decent Hour By Joshua Ferris

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

-J By Howard Jacobson  (BIB OUT)

-The Lives of Others By Neel Mukherjee  (BIB OUT)

-How to Be Both By Ali Smith  /(BIB OR)

2015

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

-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 OUT)

-A Little Life By Hanya Yanagihara  (BIB OUT)

2016

-The Sellout By Paul Beatty WINNER  (BIB OR)

-Hot Milk By Deborah Levy

-His Bloody Project By Graeme Macrae Burnet

-Eileen By Ottessa Moshfegh  (BIB OUT)

-All That Man Is By David Szalay  (BIB OUT)

-Do Not Say We Have Nothing By Madeleine Thien    (BIB OUT)

2017

-Lincoln in the Bardo By George Saunders WINNER  (BIB OR)

-4 3 2 1 By Paul Auster   (BIB OR)

-History of Wolves By Emily Fridlund

-Exit West By Mohsin Hamid  (BIB OUT)

-Elmet By Fiona Mozley   (BIB OUT)

-Autumn By Ali Smith  (BIB OR)

2018

-Milkman By Anna Burns WINNER  (BIB OR)

-Washington Black By Esi Edugyan

-Everything Under By Daisy Johnson

-The Mars Room By Rachel Kushner  (BIB OUT)

-The Overstory By Richard Powers  (BIB OR)

-The Long Take By Robin Robertson

2019

-The Testaments By Margaret Atwood WINNER - DONE

-Girl, Woman, Other By Bernardine Evaristo WINNER  (BIB OR)

-Ducks, Newburyport By Lucy Ellmann

-An Orchestra of Minorities By Chigozie Obioma

-Quichotte By Salman Rushdie   (BIB OR)

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

2020

-Shuggie Bain By Douglas Stuart WINNER  (BIB OR)

-The New Wilderness By Diane Cook  (BIB OR)

-This Mournable Body By Tsitsi Dangarembga

-Burnt Sugar By Avni Doshi   (BIB OUT)

-The Shadow King By Maaza Mengiste   (BIB OUT)

-Real Life By Brandon Taylor

2021

-A Passage North By Anuk Arudpragasam

-The Promise By Damon Galgut WINNER  (BIB OUT)

-No One Is Talking About This By Patricia Lockwood  (BIB OUT)

-The Fortune Men By Nadifa Mohamed

-Bewilderment By Richard Powers   (BIB OUT)

-Great Circle By Maggie Shipstead  (BIB OR)

2022

-Glory By NoViolet Bulawayo  (BIB OR)

-Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan   (BIB OR)

-Treacle Walker by Alan Garner

-The Trees By Percival Everett  (BIB OUT)

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

-Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout  (BIB OR)

2023

-The Bee Sting By Paul Murray

-Western Lane by Chetna Maroo 

-Prophet Song by Paul Lynch WINNER

-This Other Eden by Paul Harding

-If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery

-Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein

 

INTERNATIONAL BOOKER WINNERS:

2016 Han Kang - The Vegetarian DONE

2017 David Grossman - A Horse Walks Into a Bar  (BIB OUT)

2018 Olga Tokarczuk - Flights   (BIB OR)

2019 Jokha Al Harthi - Celestial Bodies (BIB OUT)

2020 Marieke Lucas Rijneveld - The Discomfort of Evening  DONE

2021 David Diop - At Night All Blood is Black  (BIB OR)

2022 Geetanjali Shree - Tomb of Sand 

2023 Georgi Gospodinov - Time Shelter   (BIB OR)

2024 Jenny Erpenbeck - Kairos  DONE