Booker Prize
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About this list
Booker Prize, 59 Books
The Booker Prize for Fiction, also known in short as the Booker Prize, is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of either the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe.[1] The winner of the Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and success and, for this reason, the prize is of great significance for the book trade.[2] It is also a mark of distinction for authors to be nominated for the Booker longlist or selected for inclusion in the shortlist.
Who votes?
The Booker Prize is always voted on by 5 unknown people.
This list is a yearly book award, and was added to this site over 12 years ago.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15718 | Something to Answer For | P. H. Newby | 1968 | British | English | |
| 15718 | The Elected Member | Bernice Rubens | 1969 | British | English | |
| 2185 | In a Free State | V. S. Naipaul | 1971 | Trinidadian | English | |
| 1564 | G. | John Berger | 1972 | British | English | |
| 663 | The Siege of Krishnapur | J. G. Farrell | 1973 | British | English | |
| 2605 | The Conservationist | Nadine Gordimer | 1974 | South African | English | |
| 15718 | Holiday | Stanley Middleton | 1974 | British | English | |
| 4873 | Heat and Dust | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | 1975 | Indian | English | |
| 14667 | Saville | David Storey | 1976 | British | English | |
| 2998 | Staying On | Paul Scott | 1977 | British | English | |
| 454 | The Sea, The Sea | Iris Murdoch | 1978 | British | English | |
| 14667 | Offshore | Penelope Fitzgerald | 1979 | British | English | |
| 2519 | Rites of Passage | William Golding | 1980 | British | English | |
| 64 | Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie | 1981 | Indian | English | |
| 1028 | Schindler's List | Thomas Keneally | 1982 | Australian | English | |
| 1743 | Life & Times of Michael K | J. M. Coetzee | 1983 | South African | English | |
| 3808 | Hotel du Lac | Anita Brookner | 1984 | British | English | |
| 1145 | The Bone People | Keri Hulme | 1984 | New Zealand | English | |
| 2803 | The Old Devils | Kingsley Amis | 1986 | British | English | |
| 6366 | Moon Tiger | Penelope Lively | 1987 | British | English | |
| 1561 | Oscar and Lucinda | Peter Carey | 1988 | Australian | English | |
| 204 | The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro | 1989 | British | English | |
| 718 | Possession | A. S. Byatt | 1990 | British | English | |
| 1505 | The Famished Road | Ben Okri | 1991 | Nigerian | English | |
| 644 | The English Patient | Michael Ondaatje | 1992 | Canadian | English | |
| 14667 | Sacred Hunger | Barry Unsworth | 1992 | British | English | |
| 4634 | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha | Roddy Doyle | 1993 | Irish | English | |
| 2068 | How Late It Was, How Late | James Kelman | 1994 | Scottish | English | |
| 5738 | The Ghost Road | Pat Barker | 1995 | British | English | |
| 13338 | Last Orders | Graham Swift | 1996 | British | English | |
| 359 | The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | 1997 | Indian | English | |
| 255 | Disgrace | J. M. Coetzee | 1999 | South African | English | |
| 1261 | The Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood | 2000 | Canadian | English | |
| 1154 | True History of the Kelly Gang | Peter Carey | 2000 | Australian | English | |
| 1142 | Life of Pi | Yann Martel | 2001 | Canadian | English | |
| 5736 | Vernon God Little | DBC Pierre | 2003 | British | English | |
| 723 | The Line of Beauty | Alan Hollinghurst | 2004 | British | English | |
| 2967 | The Sea | John Banville | 2005 | Irish | English | |
| 2958 | The Inheritance of Loss | Kiran Desai | 2006 | Indian | English | |
| 2245 | The Gathering | Anne Enright | 2007 | Irish | English | |
| 2973 | The White Tiger | Aravind Adiga | 2008 | Indian | English | |
| 397 | Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel | 2009 | British | English | |
| 14667 | The Finkler Question | Howard Jacobson | 2010 | British | English | |
| 2219 | The Sense of an Ending | Julian Barnes | 2011 | British | English | |
| 2919 | Bring Up the Bodies | Hilary Mantel | 2012 | British | English | |
| 3272 | The Luminaries | Eleanor Catton | 2013 | New Zealand | English | |
| 6277 | The Narrow Road To The Deep North | Richard Flanagan | 2013 | Australian | English | |
| 1390 | A Brief History of Seven Killings | Marlon James | 2014 | Jamaican | English | |
| 837 | The Sellout | Paul Beatty | 2015 | American | English | |
| 1022 | Lincoln in the Bardo | George Saunders | 2017 | American | English | |
| 2243 | Milkman | Anna Burns | 2018 | Irish | English | |
| 6986 | The Testaments | Margaret Atwood | 2019 | Canadian | English | |
| 3533 | Girl, Woman, Other | Bernardine Evaristo | 2019 | British | English | |
| 7757 | Shuggie Bain | Douglas Stuart | 2020 | Scottish | English | |
| 8591 | The Promise | Damon Galgut | 2021 | South African | English | |
| 9305 | The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida | Shehan Karunatilaka | 2022 | Sri Lankan | English | |
| 7214 | Prophet Song | Paul Lynch | 2023 | Irish | English | |
| 7584 | Orbital | Samantha Harvey | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 7743 | Flesh | David Szalay | 2025 | British | English |