Booker Prize for Fiction

Winners

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