Booker Prize for Fiction

Winners

2025Flashlight ☆Susan Choi ★★☆
2024Orbital ☆Samantha Harvey ★☆☆
2023Prophet Song ★☆Paul Lynch ★☆
2022The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida ☆Shehan Karunatilaka ★
2021The Promise ☆Damon Galgut ★☆☆☆
2020Shuggie Bain ★☆Douglas Stuart ★☆
2019The Testaments ☆Margaret Atwood ★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
2018Milkman ★★☆Anna Burns ★★☆☆
2017Lincoln in the Bardo ★☆George Saunders ★☆☆
2016The Sellout ☆Paul Beatty ★
2015A Brief History of Seven Killings ★☆Marlon James ★☆☆
2014The Narrow Road to the Deep North ★☆Richard Flanagan ★☆
2013The Luminaries ☆Eleanor Catton ★
2012Bring Up the Bodies ★★☆Hilary Mantel ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
2011The Sense of an Ending ★☆Julian Barnes ★☆☆☆☆☆
2010The Finkler Question ☆Howard Jacobson ★☆☆☆
2009Wolf Hall ★☆☆Hilary Mantel ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
2008The White Tiger ☆Aravind Adiga ★
2007The Gathering ☆Anne Enright ★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
2006The Inheritance of Loss ★☆Kiran Desai ★☆☆
2005The Sea ☆John Banville ★☆☆☆☆
2004The Line of Beauty ★☆Alan Hollinghurst ★☆☆☆
2003Vernon God Little ☆DBC Pierre ★
2002Life of Pi ☆Yann Martel ★
2001True History of the Kelly Gang ★☆Peter Carey ★★☆☆☆☆☆
2000The Blind Assassin ★☆☆Margaret Atwood ★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
1999Disgrace ☆J. M. Coetzee ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆
1998Amsterdam ☆Ian McEwan ★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
1997The God of Small Things ☆Arundhati Roy ★☆
1996Last Orders ★☆☆Graham Swift ★☆☆☆☆
1995The Ghost Road ★☆Pat Barker ★☆☆☆☆
1994How Late It Was, How Late ☆James Kelman ★☆☆
1993Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha ☆Roddy Doyle ★☆
1992The English Patient ☆Michael Ondaatje ★☆
1991The Famished Road ☆Ben Okri ★
1990Possession: A Romance ☆A. S. Byatt ★☆
1989The Remains of the Day ☆Kazuo Ishiguro ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆
1988Oscar and Lucinda ☆Peter Carey ★★☆☆☆☆☆
1987Moon Tiger ☆Penelope Lively ★☆☆☆
1986The Old Devils ☆Kingsley Amis ★☆☆
1985The Bone People ☆Keri Hulme ★
1984Hotel du Lac ☆Anita Brookner ★☆
1983Life & Times of Michael K ☆J. M. Coetzee ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆
1982Schindler's Ark ☆Thomas Keneally ★☆☆☆
1981Midnight's Children ☆Salman Rushdie ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
1980Rites of Passage ☆William Golding ★★★
1979Offshore ☆Penelope Fitzgerald ★☆☆☆
1978The Sea, the Sea ☆Iris Murdoch ★★☆☆☆☆☆☆
1977Staying On ☆Paul Scott ★
1976Saville ☆David Storey ★☆
1975Heat and Dust ☆Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ★
1974The Conservationist ☆Nadine Gordimer ★★★☆☆
1973The Siege of Krishnapur ☆J. G. Farrell ★★
1972G. ☆John Berger ★☆
1971In a Free State ☆V. S. Naipaul ★★★☆☆☆
1970Troubles ☆J. G. Farrell ★★
1970The Elected Member ☆Bernice Rubens ★☆
1969Something to Answer For ☆P. H. Newby ★