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  (open)

-Figures in a landscape - Barry England   (open)

-The nice and the good - Iris Murdoch (bib)

-From scenes like these - Gordon Williams

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  (open)

-Goshawk Squadron By Derek Robinson  (open)

-Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont By Elizabeth Taylor  (bib or) (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) (open)

-Shadows on our Skin By Jennifer Johnston

-The Road to Lichfield By Penelope Lively   (open)

-Quartet in Autumn By Barbara Pym   (bib)

1978

-The Sea, the Sea By Iris Murdoch WINNER   (bib) (open)

-Jake's Thing By Kingsley Amis   (open)

-Rumours of Rain By André Brink   (open)

-The Bookshop By Penelope Fitzgerald   (open)

-God on the Rocks By Jane Gardam    (open)

-A Five-Year Sentence By Bernice Rubens    (open)

1979

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

-Joseph By Julian Rathbone  (open)

-Praxis By Fay Weldon   (open)

-Offshore By Penelope Fitzgerald   WINNER   (open)

-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    (open)

-Clear Light of Day By Anita Desai  (bib) (open)

-The Beggar Maid By Alice Munro

-No Country for Young Men By Julia O'Faolain   (open)

-Pascali's Island By Barry Unsworth

1981

-Midnight's Children By Salman Rushdie WINNER  (bib) (open) (BC)

-Good Behaviour By Molly Keane  (open)

-The Sirian Experiments By Doris Lessing  (open)

-The Comfort of Strangers By Ian McEwan

-Rhine Journey By Ann Schlee   (open)

-Loitering with Intent By Muriel Spark   (open)

-The White Hotel By  D.M. Thomas  DONE

1982

-Schindler's Ark By Thomas Keneally WINNER   (bib) (open) (BC)

-Silence Among the Weapons By John Arden  (open)

-An Ice-Cream War By William Boyd

-Constance or Solitary Practices By Lawrence Durrell  

-The 27th Kingdom By Alice Thomas Ellis  (open)

-Sour Sweet By Timothy Mo  (open)

1983

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

-Rates of Exchange By Malcolm Bradbury  (open)

-Flying to Nowhere By John Fuller

-The Illusionist By Anita Mason  (open)

-Shame By Salman Rushdie  (bib)

-Waterland By Graham Swift  (bib) (BC) (open)

1984 

-Flaubert's Parrot By Julian Barnes  (bib or) (open)

-In Custody By Anita Desai  (open)

-According to Mark By Penelope Lively  (open)

-Small World By David Lodge (bib) (BC)

-Hotel du Lac By Anita Brookner   WINNER  (bib)

-Empire of the Sun By J.G. Ballard  (open)

1985 

-The Bone People By Keri Hulme  WINNER  (open) 

-Illywhacker By Peter Carey

-The Battle of Pollocks Crossing By J.L. Carr    (open)

-The Good Terrorist By Doris Lessing  (bib) (BC) (open)

-Last Letters from Hav By Jan Morris  (bib)

-The Good Apprentice By Iris Murdoch  

1986

-The Old Devils By Kingsley Amis   WINNER  (bib) (open)

-The Handmaid's Tale By Margaret Atwood   DONE

-Gabriel's Lament By Paul Bailey  (open)

-What's Bred in the Bone By Robertson Davies  (bib or)

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

-An Insular Possession By Timothy Mo   (open)

1987

-Moon Tiger By Penelope Lively  WINNER

-Anthills of the Savannah By Chinua Achebe

-Chatterton By Peter Ackroyd  (bib) (open)

-Circles of Deceit By Nina Bawden   (open)

-The Colour of Blood By Brian Moore  (open)   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  (open)

-Nice Work By David Lodge   (open)

-The Satanic Verses By Salman Rushdie  (bib or) (BC) (open)

-The Lost Father By Marina Warner    (open)

1989

-The Book of Evidence By John Banville  

-Jigsaw By Sybille Bedford   (open)

-A Disaffection By James Kelman    (open)

-Restoration By Rose Tremain  (BC)

-The Remains of the Day By Kazuo Ishiguro    WINNER  (bib) (open)

-Cat's Eye By Margaret Atwood  (bib)

1990

-The Gate of Angels By Penelope Fitzgerald  (open)

-Amongst Women By John McGahern

-Lies of Silence By Brian Moore  DONE

-Solomon Gursky Was Here By Mordecai Richler  (open)

-Possession By A.S. Byatt      WINNER  - DONE

-An Awfully Big Adventure By Beryl Bainbridge

1991

-The Famished Road By Ben Okri  WINNER     (open)

-Time's Arrow By Martin Amis  (bib) (open)

-The Van By Roddy Doyle

-Such a Long Journey By Rohinton Mistry  

-The Redundancy of Courage By Timothy Mo  (open)

-Reading Turgenev By William Trevor  (open)

1992

-The English Patient By Michael Ondaatje   WINNER  (bib) (BC)

-Sacred Hunger By Barry Unsworth   WINNER

-Serenity House By Christopher Hope   (open)

-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) (open)

-Crossing the River By Caryl Phillips    (open)

-The Stone Diaries By Carol Shields  

-Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha By Roddy Doyle  WINNER  (bib) (open)

-Under the Frog By Tibor Fischer

1994

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

-Reef By Romesh Gunesekera     (open)

-Paradise By Abdulrazak Gurnah  (bib or) (open)

-The Folding Star By Alan Hollinghurst

-Beside the Ocean of Time By George Mackay Brown (open)

-Knowledge of Angels By Jill Paton Walsh   (bib) (BC) (open)

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  (open)

-The Orchard on Fire By Shena Mackay  (bib) (BC) (open)

-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) (open)

-Grace Notes By Bernard MacLaverty

-Europa By Tim Parks

-The Essence of the Thing By Madeleine St John  (open)

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  (open)

-The Restraint of Beasts By Magnus Mills   (bib) (BC) (open)

1999

-Headlong By Michael Frayn (BC)

-Our Fathers By Andrew O'Hagan  (open)

-The Map of Love By Ahdaf Soueif   (bib) (BC)

-The Blackwater Lightship By Colm Tóibín    (bib)

-Disgrace By J.M. Coetzee  WINNER   (open)

-Fasting, Feasting By Anita Desai   DONE

2000

-The Blind Assassin By Margaret Atwood   WINNER -  DONE

-The Hiding Place By  Trezza Azzopardi    (open)

-The Keepers of Truth By Michael Collins  (bib) (BC)

-When We Were Orphans By Kazuo Ishiguro  (bib or)

-English Passengers By Matthew Kneale  

-The Deposition of Father McGreevy By Brian O'Doherty   (open)

2001

-Oxygen By Andrew Miller  (bib or) (open)

-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 or) (open)

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    (open)

-Notes on a Scandal By Zoë Heller  DONE

-Astonishing Splashes of Colour By Clare Morrall  (open)

2004

-The Line of Beauty By Alan Hollinghurst  WINNER  (bib)

-Bitter Fruit By Achmat Dangor  (open)

-The Electric Michaelangelo By Sarah Hall  

-Cloud Atlas By David Mitchell  DONE

-The Master By Colm Tóibín  (bib)  (open)

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

2005

-The Sea By John Banville  WINNER (bib or)

-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) (open)

-The Secret River By Kate Grenville  (bib)

-Carry Me Down By M.J. Hyland  (bib) (open)

-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 or) (open)

-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) (open)

-The Quickening Maze By Adam Foulds

-The Glass Room By Simon Mawer    (bib) (open)

-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  (open)

-The Long Song By Andrea Levy   (bib) 

-C By Tom McCarthy  

2011

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

-Jamrach's Menagerie By Carol Birch (bib)

-The Sisters Brothers By Patrick deWitt   (bib)

-Half Blood Blues By Esi Edugyan  (bib) (open) 

-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 (open)

-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 or)

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) (open)

-A Little Life By Hanya Yanagihara   (bib)

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) 

-All That Man Is By David Szalay   (bib) (open)

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

2017

-Lincoln in the Bardo By George Saunders  WINNER   (bib or) 

-4 3 2 1 By Paul Auster    (bib or) (open)

-History of Wolves By Emily Fridlund

-Exit West By Mohsin Hamid   (bib) (open)

-Elmet By Fiona Mozley (bib)

-Autumn By Ali Smith (bib or)

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 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  - 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 or) 

2022

-Glory By NoViolet Bulawayo (bib or) 

-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 or) 

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

-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

OUTROS: READING LIST: 

-MEMORIA PUTAS TRISTES - GARCIA MARQUEZ  (BLX)

- FERNANDO ARAMBURU- Patria (BLX )

-SAMANTA SCHWEBLIN :  kentukis BLx

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