The Booker Prize Authors Titles Nationalities Gender Commentary
This list appears in historical, chronological order. As of 2002, the prize is officially called the Man Booker Prize. Merritt Moseley's site provides links to information about many British literary prizes, including the Booker Prize. Elaborate site on the Booker Prize including predictions of novels likely to be shortlisted.
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•1969 (Judges: W. L. Webb [chair], Rebecca West, Stephen Spender, Frank Kermode, David Farrer)
P. H. Newby, Something to
Answer For, Faber & Faber
Barry England, Figures in a Landscape, Cape
Nicholas Mosley, The Impossible Object, Hodder &
Stoughton
Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good, Chatto & Windus
Muriel Spark, The Public Image, Macmillan
G. M. Williams, From Scenes Like These, Secker &
Warburg
•1970 (Judges: David Holloway [chair], Dame Rebecca West, Lady Antonia Fraser, Ross Higgins, Richard Hoggart)
Bernice Rubens, The Elected
Member, Eyre & Spottiswoode
A. L. Barker, John Brown's Body, Hogarth Press
Elizabeth Bowen, Eva Trout, Cape
Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream, Chatto & Windus
William Trevor, Mrs. Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel, Bodley
Head
T. W. Wheeler, The Conjunction, Angus & Robertson
•1971(Judges: John Gross [chair], Saul Bellow, John Fowles, Lady Antonia Fraser, Philip Toynbee)
V. S. Naipaul, In a Free
State, Deutsch
Thomas Kilroy, The Big Chapel, Faber & Faber
Doris Lessing, Briefing for a Descent into Hell, Cape
Mordecai Richler, St. Urbain's Horseman, Weidenfeld &
Nicolson
Derek Robinson, Goshawk Squadron, Heinemann
Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, Chatto
& Windus
•1972(Judges: Cyril Connolly [chair], Dr. George Steiner, Elizabeth Bowen)
John Berger, G,
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Susan Hill, Bird of Night, Hamish Hamilton
Thomas Keneally, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Angus
& Robertson
David Storey, Pasmore, Longman
•1973(Judges: Karl Miller [chair], Edna O'Brien, Mary McCarthy)
J. G. Farrell, The Seige of
Krishnapur, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Beryl Bainbridge, The Dressmaker, Duckworth
Elizabeth Mavor, The Green Equinox, Michael Joseph
Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince, Chatto & Windus
•1974 (Judges: Ion Trewin [chair], A.S. Byatt, Elizabeth Jane Howard)
Nadine Gordimer, The
Conservationist, Cape
Stanley Middleton, Holiday,
Hutchinson
Kingsley Amis, Ending Up, Cape
Beryl Bainbridge, The Bottle Factory Outing, Duckworth
C. P. Snow, In Their Wisdom, Macmillan
•1975(Judges: Angus Wilson [chair], Susan Hill, Roy Fuller)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat
and Dust, John Murray
Thomas Keneally, Gossip From the Forest, Collins
•1976 (Judges: Walter Allen [chair], Lady (Mary) Wilson, Francis King)
David Storey, Saville, Cape
Andre Brink, An Instant In the Wind, W. H. Allen
R. C. Hutchinson, Rising, Michael Joseph
Brian Moore, The Doctor's Wife, Cape
Julian Rathbone, King Fisher Lives, Michael Joseph
William Trevor, The Children of Dynmouth, Bodley Head
•1977(Judges: Philip Larkin [chair], Beryl Bainbridge, Brendan Gill, David Hughes, Robin Ray)
Paul Scott, Staying On,
Heinemann
Paul Bailey, Peter Smart's Confessions, Cape
Caroline Blackwood, Great Granny Webster, Duckworth
Jennifer Johnston, Shadows on Our Skin, Hamish
Hamilton
Penelope Lively, The Road to Lichfield, Heinemann
Barbara Pym, Quartet in Autumn, Macmillan
•1978 (Judges: Sir Alfred Ayer [chair], Derwent May, P.H. Newby, Angela Huth, Clare Boylen)
Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the
Sea, Chatto & Windus
Kingsley Amis, Jake's Thing, Hutchinson
Andre Brink, Rumours of Rain, W. H. Allen
Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop, Duckworth
Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Hamish Hamilton
Bernice Rubens, A Five-Year Sentence, W. H. Allen
•1979(Judges: Asa Lord Briggs [chair], Benny Green, Michael Ratcliffe, Hilary Spurling, Paul Theroux)
Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore,
Collins
Thomas Keneally, Confederates, Collins
V. S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River, Deutsch
Julian Rathbone, Joseph, Michael Joseph
Fay Weldon, Praxis, Hodder & Stoughton
•1980 (Judges: Professor David Daiches [chair], Ronald Blythe, Margaret Foster, Claire Tomalin, Brian Wenham)
William Golding, Rites of
Passage, Faber & Faber
Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, Hutchinson
J. L. Carr, A Month in the Country, Harvester
Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day, Heinemann
Alice Munro, The Beggar Maid, Allen Lane
Julia O'Faolain, No Country For Young Men, Allen Lane
Barry Unsworth, Pascali's Island, Michael Joseph
•1981 (Judges: Professor Malcolm Bradbury [chair], Brian Aldiss, Joan Bakewell, Professor Samuel Hynes, Hermione Lee)
Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children, Cape
(in 1993, named Booker of Bookers by Malcolm Bradbury,
David Holloway, and W. L. Webb)
Molly Keane, Good Behaviour, Deutsch
Doris Lessing, The Sirian Experiments, Cape
Ian McEwan, The Comfort of Strangers, Cape
Anne Schlee, Rhine Journey, Macmillan
Muriel Spark, Loitering With Intent, Bodley Head
D. M. Thomas, The White Hotel, Gollancz
•1982(Judges: Professor John Carey [chair], Paul Bailey, Frank Delaney, Janet Morgan, Lorna Sage)
Thomas Keneally, Schindler's
Ark, Hodder & Stoughton
John Arden, Silence Among the Weapons, Methuen
William Boyd, An Ice-Cream War, Hamish Hamilton
Lawrence Durrell, Constance or Solitary Practices, Faber
& Faber
Alice Thomas Ellis, The 27th Kingdom, Duckworth
Timothy Mo, Sour Sweet, Deutsch
•1983 (Judges: Fay Weldon [chair], Angela Carter, Terence Kilmartin, Peter Porter, Libby Purves)
J. M. Coetzee, The Life & Times
of Michael K, Secker & Warburg
Malcolm Bradbury, Rates of Exchange, Secker & Warburg
John Fuller, Flying to Nowhere, Salamander Press
Anita Mason, The Illusionist, Hamish Hamilton
Salman Rushdie, Shame, Cape
Graham Swift, Waterland, Heinemann
•1984 (Judges: Professor Richard Cobb [chair], Anthony Curtis, Polly Devlin, John Fuller, Ted Rowlands)
Anita Brookner, Hotel du
Lac, Cape
J. G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun, Gollancz
Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot, Cape
Anita Desai, In Custody, Heinemann
Penelope Lively, According to Mark, Heinemann
David Lodge, Small World, Secker & Warburg
•1985(Judges: The Rt. Hon. Norman St. John-Stevas [chair], Nina Bawden, J. W. Lambert, Joanna Lumley, Marina Warner)
Keri Hulme, The Bone People,
Hodder & Stoughton
Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber & Faber
J. L. Carr, The Battle of Pollocks Crossing, Viking
Doris Lessing, The Good Terrorist, Cape
Jan Morris, Last Letters From Hav, Viking
Iris Murdoch, The Good Apprentice, Chatto & Windus
•1986(Judges: Anthony Thwaite [chair], Edna Healey, Isabel Quigly, Gillian Reynolds, Bernice Rubens)
Kingsley Amis, The Old
Devils, Hutchinson
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale, Cape
Paul Bailey, Gabriel's Lament, Cape
Robertson Davies, What's Bred in the Bone, Viking
Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World, Faber
& Faber
Timothy Mo, An Insular Possession, Chatto & Windus
•1987 (Judges: P. D. James [chair], Lady Selina Hastings, Allan Massie, Trevor McDonald, John B. Thompson)
Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger,
Deutsch
Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah, Heinemann
Peter Ackroyd, Chatterton, Hamish Hamilton
Nina Bawden, Circles of Deceit, Macmillan
Brian Moore, The Colour of Blood, Cape
Iris Murdoch, The Book and the Brotherhood, Chatto &
Windus
•1988 (Judges: The Rt. Hon. Michael Foot [chair], Sebastian Faulks, Philip French, Blake Morrison, Rose Tremain)
Peter Carey, Oscar and
Lucinda, Faber & Faber
Bruce Chatwin, Utz, Cape
Penelope Fitzgerald, The Beginning of Spring, Collins
David Lodge, Nice Work, Secker & Warburg
Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses, Viking
Marina Warner, The Lost Father, Chatto & Windus
•1989 (Judges: David Lodge (chair), Edmund White)
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains
of the Day, Faber & Faber
Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye, Bloomsbury
John Banville, The Book of Evidence, Secker & Warburg
Sybille Bedford, Jigsaw, Hamish Hamilton
James Kelman, A Disaffection, Secker & Warburg
Rose Tremain, Restoration, Hamish Hamilton
•1990(Judges: Sir Denis Forman [chair], Susannah Clapp, A. Walton Litz, Hilary Mantel, Kate Saunders)
A. S. Byatt, Possession,
Chatto & Windus
Beryl Bainbridge, An Awfully Big Adventure, Duckworth
Penelope Fitzgerald, The Gate of Angels, Collins
John McGahern, Amongst Women, Faber & Faber
Brian Moore, Lies of Silence, Bloomsbury
Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here, Chatto &
Windus
•1991 (Judges: Jeremy Treglown [chair], Penelope Fitzgerald, Jonathan Keates, Nicholas Mosley, Ann Schlee)
Ben Okri, The Famished Road,
Cape
Martin Amis, Time's Arrow, Cape
Roddy Doyle, The Van, Secker & Warburg
Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey, Faber & Faber
Timothy Mo, A Singular Rebellion (The Redundancy of
Courage) Chatto & Windus
William Trevor, Reading Turgenev (from Two Lives),
Viking
•1992(Judges: Victoria Glendinning [chair], John Coldstream, Valentine Cunningham, Dr. Harriet Harvey Wood, Mark Lawson)
Michael Ondaatje, The
English Patient, Bloomsbury
Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger,
Hamish Hamilton
Christopher Hope, Serenity House, Macmillan
Patrick McCabe, The Butcher Boy, Picador
Ian McEwan, Black Dogs, Cape
Michele Roberts, Daughters of the House, Virago
•1993(Judges: Lord Gowrie [chair], Professor Gillian Beer, Anne Chisholm, Nicholas Clee, Olivier Todd)
Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke
Ha Ha Ha, Secker & Warburg
Tibor Fischer, Under the Frog, Polygon
Michael Ignatieff, Scar Tissue, Chatto & Windus
David Malouf, Remembering Babylon, Chatto & Windus
Caryl Phillips, Crossing the River, Bloomsbury
Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries, Fourth Estate
•1994(Judges: John Bayley [chair], Julia Neuberger, Alastair Niven, Alan Taylor, James Wood)
James Kelman, How Late It
Was, How Late
George Mackay Brown, Beside the Ocean of Time, Murray
Romesh Gunesekera, Reef, Granta with Penguin
Abdulrazak Gurnah, Paradise, Hamish Hamilton
Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star, Chatto and Windus
Jill Paton Walsh, Knowledge of Angels, self-published
•1995 (Judges: George Walden [chair], Adam Mars-Jones, Peter Kemp, Ruth Rendell, Kate Kellaway)
Pat Barker, The Ghost Road,
Viking
Salman Rushdie, The Moor’s Last Sigh, Cape
Justin Cartwright, In Every Face I Meet, Sceptre
Barry Unsworth, Morality Play, Hamish Hamilton
Tim Winton, The Riders, Picador
•1996 (Judges: Carmen Callil [chair] A. L. Kennedy, Ian Jack, Jonathan Coe)
Graham Swift, Last Orders,
Picador
Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, Bloomsbury
Beryl Bainbridge, Every Man for Himself, Duckworth
Seamus Deane, Reading in the Dark, Jonathan Cape
Shena Mackay, The Orchard on Fire, Heinemann
Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance, Faber
•1997(Judges: Gillian Beer [chair], Rachel Billington, Jan Dalley, Jason Cowley)
Arundhati Roy, The God of
Small Things
Jim Crace, Quarantine, Viking
Mick Jackson, The Underground Man, Picador
Bernard Maclaverty, Grace Notes, Jonathan Cape
Tim Parks, Europa, Martin Secker and Warburg
Madeleine St. John, The Essence of the Thing, Fourth
Estate
•1998 (Judges: Lord Hurd [chair], Penelope Fitzgerald, Valentine Cunningham, Nigella Lawson).
Ian McEwan, Amsterdam,
Jonathan Cape
Beryl Bainbridge, Master Georgie, Duckworth
Julian Barnes, England, England, Jonathan Cape
Martin Booth, The Industry of Souls, Dewi Lewis
Patrick McCabe, Breakfast on Pluto, Picador
Magnus Mills, The Restraint of Beasts, Flamingo
Commentary on composition of 1998 shortlist by critic Lisa Jardine.
•1999 (Judges: Gerald Kaufman [chair], John Sutherland, Natasha Walter, Shena Mackay, Boyd Tonkin)
J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace,
Secker and Warburg
Anita Desai, Fasting, Feasting, Chatto and Windus
Michael Frayn, Headlong, Faber
Andrew O'Hagan, Our Fathers, Faber
Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love, Bloomsbury
Colm Toibin, The Blackwater Lightship, Picador
•2000 (Judges: Simon Jenkins [chair], Mariella Frostup, Roy Foster, Rose Tremain, Caroline Gascoigne)
Margaret Atwood, The Blind
Assassin,
Trezza Azzopardi, The Hiding Place, Picador
Michael Collins, The Keepers of the Truth, Pheonix House
Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans, Faber
Matthew Kneale, English Passengers, Hamish Hamilton
Brian O'Doherty, The Deposition of Father McGreevy, Turtle
Point, Books & Co., Helen Marx Books
•2001 (Judges: Kenneth Baker [chair], Philip Hensher, Michele Roberts, Kate Summerscale, Rory Watson)
Peter Carey, The True
History of the Kelly Gang, Faber
Ian McEwan, Atonement, Jonathan Cape
Andrew Miller, Oxygen, Hodder and Stoughton
David Mitchell, Number 9 Dream, Hodder and Stoughton
Rachel Seiffert, The Dark Room, Heinemann
Ali Smith, Hotel World, Hamish Hamilton
•2002 (Judges: Lisa Jardine [chair], David Baddiel, Russell Celyn Jones, Salley Vickers, Erica Wagner) Controversy about admitting American novels. See the Guardian leader, and Jonathan Yardley's column.
Yann Martel, Life of Pi, Canongate Books
Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters, Faber
Carol Shields, Unless, Fourth Estate
William Trevor, The Story of Lucy Gault, Viking
Sarah Waters, Fingersmith, Virago
Tim Winton, Dirt Music, Picador
•2003 ( Judges: John Carey [Chair], A C Grayling, Francine Stock, Rebecca Stephens, MBE, D J Taylor)
DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little, Faber & Faber
Monica Ali, Brick Lane, Doubleday
Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, Bloomsbury
Damon Galgut, The Good Doctor, Atlantic Books
Zoë Heller, Notes on a Scandal, Viking Penguin
Clare Morrall, Astonishing Splashes Of Colour, Tindal Street Press
•2004
(Judges: Rt. Hon Chris Smith MP [Chair], Tibor Fischer, Robert Macfarlane. Rowan Pelling, Fiammetta Rocco)
Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Picador
Achmat Dangor, Bitter Fruit, Atlantic Books
Sarah Hall, The Electric Michelangelo, Faber & Faber
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, Sceptre
Colm Tóibín, The Master, Picador
Gerard Woodward, I'll go to Bed at Noon, Chatto & Windus
•2005
( Judges: Professor John Sutherland [chair], Lindsay Duguid, Rick Gekoski, Josephine Hart, and David Sexton)
John Banville, The Sea , Picador
Julian Barnes, Arthur & George, Jonathan Cape
Sebastian Barry, A Long, Long Way, Faber
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go, Faber
Ali Smith, The Accidental, Hamish Hamilton
Zadie Smith, On Beauty, Hamish Hamilton
•2006
•2007
•2008
•2009
•2010
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