List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize

The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a
citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland. In 2014, it was opened for the first time to any work
published in the United Kingdom and in the English language.

Year Author Title

P. H. Newby Something to Answer For
Barry England Figures in a Landscape
Nicholas Mosley The Impossible Object
1969
Iris Murdoch The Nice and the Good
Muriel Spark The Public Image
Gordon Williams From Scenes Like These
Bernice Rubens The Elected Member
A L Barker John Brown's Body
Elizabeth Bowen Eva Trout
1970
Iris Murdoch Bruno's Dream
William Trevor Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel
Terence Wheeler The Conjunction
1970 J. G. Farrell Troubles
Nina Bawden The Birds on the Trees
Awarded in Shirley Hazzard The Bay of Noon
2010 as the Mary Renault Fire From Heaven
Lost Man Muriel Spark The Driver's Seat
Booker Prize Patrick White The Vivisector
V. S. Naipaul In a Free State
Thomas Kilroy The Big Chapel
Doris Lessing Briefing for a Descent into Hell
1971
Mordecai Richler St. Urbain's Horseman
Derek Robinson Goshawk Squadron
Elizabeth Taylor Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
John Berger G.
Susan Hill The Bird of Night
1972
Thomas Keneally The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
David Storey Pasmore
J. G. Farrell The Siege of Krishnapur
Beryl Bainbridge The Dressmaker
1973
Elizabeth Mavor The Green Equinox
Iris Murdoch The Black Prince
Nadine Gordimer The Conservationist
Stanley Middleton Holiday
1974 Kingsley Amis Ending Up
Beryl Bainbridge The Bottle Factory Outing
C. P. Snow In Their Wisdom
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Heat and Dust
1975
Thomas Keneally Gossip from the Forest
David Storey Saville
André Brink An Instant in the Wind
R. C. Hutchinson Rising
1976
Brian Moore The Doctor's Wife
Julian Rathbone King Fisher Lives
William Trevor The Children of Dynmouth
Paul Scott Staying On
Paul Bailey Peter Smart's Confessions
Caroline Blackwood Great Granny Webster
1977
Jennifer Johnston Shadows on our Skin
Penelope Lively The Road to Lichfield
Barbara Pym Quartet in Autumn
1978 Iris Murdoch The Sea, the Sea
 Kingsley Amis Jake's Thing
André Brink Rumours of Rain
Penelope Fitzgerald The Bookshop
Jane Gardam God on the Rocks
Bernice Rubens A Five-Year Sentence
Penelope Fitzgerald Offshore
Thomas Keneally Confederates
1979 V. S. Naipaul A Bend in the River
Julian Rathbone Joseph
Fay Weldon Praxis
William Golding Rites of Passage
Anthony Burgess Earthly Powers
Anita Desai Clear Light of Day
1980 Alice Munro The Beggar Maid
Julia O'Faolain No Country for Young Men
Barry Unsworth Pascali's Island
J. L. Carr A Month in the Country
Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children
Molly Keane Good Behaviour
Doris Lessing The Sirian Experiments
1981 Ian McEwan The Comfort of Strangers
Ann Schlee Rhine Journey
Muriel Spark Loitering with Intent
D. M. Thomas The White Hotel
Thomas Keneally Schindler's Ark
John Arden Silence Among the Weapons
William Boyd An Ice-Cream War
1982
Lawrence Durrell Constance or Solitary Practices
Alice Thomas Ellis The 27th Kingdom
Timothy Mo Sour Sweet
J. M. Coetzee Life & Times of Michael K
Malcolm Bradbury Rates of Exchange
John Fuller Flying to Nowhere
1983
Anita Mason The Illusionist
Salman Rushdie Shame
Graham Swift Waterland
Anita Brookner Hotel du Lac
J. G. Ballard Empire of the Sun
Julian Barnes Flaubert's Parrot
1984
Anita Desai In Custody
Penelope Lively According to Mark
David Lodge Small World
Keri Hulme The Bone People
Peter Carey Illywhacker
J. L. Carr The Battle of Pollocks Crossing
1985
Doris Lessing The Good Terrorist
Jan Morris Last Letters from Hav
Iris Murdoch The Good Apprentice
Kingsley Amis The Old Devils
Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale
Paul Bailey Gabriel's Lament
1986
Robertson Davies What's Bred in the Bone
Kazuo Ishiguro An Artist of the Floating World
Timothy Mo An Insular Possession
1987 Penelope Lively Moon Tiger
Chinua Achebe Anthills of the Savannah
Peter Ackroyd Chatterton
Nina Bawden Circles of Deceit
Brian Moore The Colour of Blood
 Iris Murdoch The Book and the Brotherhood
Peter Carey Oscar and Lucinda
Bruce Chatwin Utz
Penelope Fitzgerald The Beginning of Spring
1988
David Lodge Nice Work
Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses
Marina Warner The Lost Father
Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day
Margaret Atwood Cat's Eye
John Banville The Book of Evidence
1989
Sybille Bedford Jigsaw
James Kelman A Disaffection
Rose Tremain Restoration
A. S. Byatt Possession: A Romance
Beryl Bainbridge An Awfully Big Adventure
Penelope Fitzgerald The Gate of Angels
1990
John McGahern Amongst Women
Brian Moore Lies of Silence
Mordecai Richler Solomon Gursky Was Here
Ben Okri The Famished Road
Martin Amis Time's Arrow
Roddy Doyle The Van
1991
Rohinton Mistry Such a Long Journey
Timothy Mo The Redundancy of Courage
William Trevor Reading Turgenev
Michael Ondaatje The English Patient
Barry Unsworth Sacred Hunger
Christopher Hope Serenity House
1992
Patrick McCabe The Butcher Boy
Ian McEwan Black Dogs
Michèle Roberts Daughters of the House
Roddy Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Tibor Fischer Under the Frog
Michael Ignatieff Scar Tissue
1993
David Malouf Remembering Babylon
Caryl Phillips Crossing the River
Carol Shields The Stone Diaries
James Kelman How late it was, how late
Romesh Gunesekera Reef
Abdulrazak Gurnah Paradise
1994
Alan Hollinghurst The Folding Star
George Mackay Brown Beside the Ocean of Time
Jill Paton Walsh Knowledge of Angels
Pat Barker The Ghost Road
Justin Cartwright In Every Face I Meet
1995 Salman Rushdie The Moor's Last Sigh
Barry Unsworth Morality Play
Tim Winton The Riders
Graham Swift Last Orders
Margaret Atwood Alias Grace
Beryl Bainbridge Every Man for Himself
1996
Seamus Deane Reading in the Dark
Shena Mackay The Orchard on Fire
Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance
1997 Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things
Jim Crace Quarantine
Mick Jackson The Underground Man
Bernard MacLaverty Grace Notes
Tim Parks Europa
 Madeleine St John The Essence of the Thing
Ian McEwan Amsterdam
Beryl Bainbridge Master Georgie
Julian Barnes England, England
1998
Martin Booth The Industry of Souls
Patrick McCabe Breakfast on Pluto
Magnus Mills The Restraint of Beasts
J. M. Coetzee Disgrace
Anita Desai Fasting, Feasting
Michael Frayn Headlong
1999
Andrew O'Hagan Our Fathers
Ahdaf Soueif The Map of Love
Colm Tóibín The Blackwater Lightship
Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin
Trezza Azzopardi The Hiding Place
Michael Collins The Keepers of Truth
2000
Kazuo Ishiguro When We Were Orphans
Matthew Kneale English Passengers
Brian O'Doherty The Deposition of Father McGreevy
Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang
Ian McEwan Atonement
Andrew Miller Oxygen
2001
David Mitchell number9dream
Rachel Seiffert The Dark Room
Ali Smith Hotel World
Yann Martel Life of Pi
Rohinton Mistry Family Matters
Carol Shields Unless
2002
William Trevor The Story of Lucy Gault
Sarah Waters Fingersmith
Tim Winton Dirt Music
DBC Pierre Vernon God Little
Monica Ali Brick Lane
Margaret Atwood Oryx and Crake
2003
Damon Galgut The Good Doctor
Zoë Heller Notes on a Scandal
Clare Morrall Astonishing Splashes of Colour
Alan Hollinghurst The Line of Beauty
Achmat Dangor Bitter Fruit
Sarah Hall The Electric Michelangelo
2004
David Mitchell Cloud Atlas
Colm Tóibín The Master
Gerard Woodward I'll Go to Bed at Noon
John Banville The Sea
Julian Barnes Arthur & George
Sebastian Barry A Long Long Way
2005
Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go
Ali Smith The Accidental
Zadie Smith On Beauty
Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss
Kate Grenville The Secret River
M. J. Hyland Carry Me Down
2006
Hisham Matar In the Country of Men
Edward St Aubyn Mother's Milk
Sarah Waters The Night Watch
2007 Anne Enright The Gathering
Nicola Barker Darkmans
Mohsin Hamid The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Lloyd Jones Mister Pip
 Ian McEwan On Chesil Beach
Indra Sinha Animal's People
Aravind Adiga The White Tiger
Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture
Amitav Ghosh Sea of Poppies
2008
Linda Grant The Clothes on Their Backs
Philip Hensher The Northern Clemency
Steve Toltz A Fraction of the Whole
Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall
A. S. Byatt The Children's Book
J. M. Coetzee Summertime
2009
Adam Foulds The Quickening Maze
Simon Mawer The Glass Room
Sarah Waters The Little Stranger
Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question
Peter Carey Parrot and Olivier in America
Emma Donoghue Room
2010
Damon Galgut In a Strange Room
Andrea Levy The Long Song
Tom McCarthy C
Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending
Carol Birch Jamrach's Menagerie
Patrick deWitt The Sisters Brothers
2011
Esi Edugyan Half-Blood Blues
Stephen Kelman Pigeon English
A D Miller Snowdrops
Hilary Mantel Bring Up the Bodies
Deborah Levy Swimming Home
Alison Moore The Lighthouse
2012
Will Self Umbrella
Tan Twan Eng The Garden of Evening Mists
Jeet Thayil Narcopolis
Eleanor Catton The Luminaries
NoViolet Bulawayo We Need New Names
Jim Crace Harvest
2013
Jhumpa Lahiri The Lowland
Ruth Ozeki A Tale for the Time Being
Colm Tóibín The Testament of Mary
Richard Flanagan The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Joshua Ferris To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
Karen Joy Fowler We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
2014
Howard Jacobson J
Neel Mukherjee The Lives of Others
Ali Smith How to Be Both
Marlon James A Brief History of Seven Killings
Tom McCarthy Satin Island
Chigozie Obioma The Fishermen
2015
Sunjeev Sahota The Year of the Runaways
Anne Tyler A Spool of Blue Thread
Hanya Yanagihara A Little Life
Paul Beatty The Sellout
Deborah Levy Hot Milk
Graeme Macrae Burnet His Bloody Project
2016
Ottessa Moshfegh Eileen
David Szalay All That Man Is
Madeleine Thien Do Not Say We Have Nothing
2017 George Saunders Lincoln in the Bardo
Paul Auster 4321
Emily Fridlund History of Wolves
 Mohsin Hamid Exit West
Fiona Mozley Elmet
Ali Smith Autumn
Anna Burns Milkman
Esi Edugyan Washington Black
Daisy Johnson Everything Under
2018
Rachel Kushner The Mars Room
Richard Powers The Overstory
Robin Robertson The Long Take