The Booker Project
The table below shows a list of Booker winners. A red tick indicates that book was read by one of this site's reviewers prior to its creation, so no review currently exists for it. A blue tick indicates the book was reread by a reviewer for review on this website. A green tick indicates the book was read for the first time for review on this website. Books highlighted by a light blue background have been awarded the Booker International Prize. Books highlighted by a green background have won other special Booker prizes.
Our list contains all the Booker winners since 1969 when the award began. Originally, the Booker was awarded only to writers from the Commonwealth, Ireland and Zimbabwe. However, since 2014 any English language book published anywhere has been eligible, so long as it is also published in the United Kingdom. This has opened the way to American winners like George Saunders.
Our list only includes winners of the International Booker since 2016. In 2016 the International award was changed to recognise a single novel in translation. Prior to 2016 the International award had been given every two years between 2005 and 2015 to a living author of any nationality for a body of work that demonstrated continued creativity, development and overall contribution to fiction on the world stage.
We have chosen not to cover those years since a body of work by each selected author would be burdensome for us.
In the long term, we hope to review all the Man Booker Prize winners in our list.
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1969 | Something to Answer For | P.H.Newby | Faber & Faber |  |
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1970 | The Elected Member | Bernice Rubens | Abacus | |
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| The Lost Man Booker Prize |  |
1970 | Troubles | J.G.Farrell | Orion |  |
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1971 | In A Free State | V.S.Naipaul | Picador |  |
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1972 | G | John Berger | Bloomsbury | |
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1973 | The Siege of Krishnapur | J.G.Farrell | Orion | |
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1974 | The Conservationist | Nadine Gordimer | Bloomsbury | ||
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1974 | Holiday | Stanley Middleton | Windmill Books | |
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1975 | Heat and Dust | Rith Prawer Jhabvala | Abacus | ||
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1976 | Saville | David Storey | Vintage | |
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1977 | Staying On | Paul Scott | Arrow | |
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1978 | The Sea, The Sea | Iris Murdoch | Vintage | |
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1979 | Offshore | Penelope Fitzgerald | Fourth Estate | |
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1980 | Rites of Passage | William Golding | Faber & Faber | |
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| The Booker of Bookers Prize 1993 . . . The Best of Booker Prize 2008 |
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1981 | Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie | Vintage | |
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1982 | Schindler's Ark | Thomas Keneally | Sceptre | ||
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1983 | Life & Times of Michael K | J.M.Coetzee | Vintage | |
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1984 | Hotel du Lac | Anita Brookner | Penguin | |
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1985 | The Bone People | Keri Hulme | Picador | |
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1986 | The Old Devils | Kingsley Amis | Vintage | ||
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1987 | Moon Tiger | Penelope Lively | Penguin | |
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1988 | Oscar and Lucinda | Peter Carey | Faber & Faber | |
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1989 | The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro | Faber & Faber | |
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1990 | Possession | A.S.Byatt | Vintage | |
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1991 | The Famished Road | Ben Okri | Vintage | |
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| Golden Booker Prize Winner 2018 |
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1992 | The English Patient | Michael Ondaatje | Bloomsbury | |
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1992 | Sacred Hunger | Barry Unsworth | Penguin | |
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1993 | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha | Roddy Doyle | Vintage | ||
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1994 | How Late It Was, How Late | James Kelman | Vintage | ||
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1995 | The Ghost Road | Pat Barker | Penguin | ||
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1996 | Last Orders | Graham Swift | Picador | |
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1997 | The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | Fourth Estate | |
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1998 | Amsterdam | Ian McEwan | Vintage | |
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1999 | Disgrace | J.M.Coetzee | Vintage | |
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2000 | The Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood | Bloomsbury | |
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2001 | True History of the Kelly Gang | Peter Carey | Faber & Faber | |
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2002 | Life of Pi | Yann Martel | Canongate | |
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2003 | Vernon God Little | D.B.C.Pierre | Faber & Faber | |
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2004 | The Line of Beauty | Alan Hollinghurts | Picador | ||
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2005 | The Sea | John Banville | Picador | |
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2006 | The Inheritance of Loss | Kiran Desai | Penguin | ||
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2007 | The Gathering | Anne Enright | Vintage | ||
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2008 | The White Tiger | Aravind Adiga | Atlantic | |
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2009 | Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel | Fourth Estate | |
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2010 | The Finkler Question | Howard Jacobson | Bloomsbury | |
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2011 | The Sense of an Ending | Julian Barnes | Vintage | |
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2012 | Bring Up The Bodies | Hilary Mantel | Fourth Estate | |
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2013 | The Luminaries | Eleanor Catton | Granta | |
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2014 | The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Richard Flanagan | Vintage | |
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2015 | A Brief History of Seven Killings | Marlon James | Oneworld | ||
| The Man Booker International Prize |  |
2016 | The Vegetarian | Han Kang Translated from the Korean by: Deborah Smith |
Portobello | |
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2016 | The Sellout | Paul Beatty | Oneworld | |
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| The Man Booker International Prize |  |
2017 | A Horse Walks Into A Bar | David Grossman Translated from the Hebrew by: Jessica Cohen |
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2017 | Lincoln in the Bardo | George Saunders | Bloomsbury | |
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| The Man Booker International Prize |  |
2018 | Flights | Olga Tokarczuk Translated from the Polish by: Jennifer Croft |
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2018 | Milkman | Anna Burns | Faber & Faber | |
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| The Man Booker International Prize |  |
2019 | Celestial Bodies | Jokha Alharthi Translated from Arabic by: Marilyn Booth |
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2019 | The Testaments | Margaret Atwood | Chatto & Windus | |
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2019 | Girl, Woman, Other | Bernadine Evaristo | Hamish Hamilton |
