A list of the finalists and winners of the Booker Prize from 1969 to the present. Winners are highlighted.
Contents of this page: 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021.
| 2021 |
| Damon Galgut, The Promise (South Africa) |
| Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North (Sri Lanka) |
| Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This (US) |
| Nadifa Mohamed, The Fortune Men (Somalia/UK) |
| Richard Powers, Bewilderment (US) |
| Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle (US) |
| 2020 |
| Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain (Scotland/UK/US) |
| Diane Cook, The New Wilderness (US) |
| Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body (Zimbabwe) |
| Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar (US) |
| Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King (Ethiopia/US) |
| Brandon Taylor, Real Life (US) |
| 2019 |
| Margaret Atwood, The Testaments (Canada) joint winner |
| Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other (UK) joint winner |
| Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport (US) |
| Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities (Nigeria) |
| Salman Rushdie, Quichotte (UK/US/India) |
| Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World (Turkey) |
| 2018 |
| Anna Burns, Milkman (N. Ireland) |
| Esi Edugyan, Washington Black (Canada) |
| Daisy Johnson, Everything Under (UK) |
| Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room (USA) |
| Richard Powers, The Overstory (USA) |
| Robin Robertson, The Long Take (UK) |
| 2017 |
| George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo (US) |
| Paul Auster, 4 3 2 1 (US) |
| Emily Fridlund, History of Wolves (US) |
| Mohsin Hamid, Exit West (UK/Pakistan) |
| Fiona Mozley, Elmet (UK) |
| Ali Smith, Autumn (UK) |
| 2016 |
| Paul Beatty, The Sellout (US) |
| Deborah Levy, Hot Milk (UK) |
| Graeme Macrae Burnet, His Bloody Project (UK) |
| Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen (US) |
| David Szalay, All That Man Is (UK) |
| Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Canada) |
| 2015 |
| Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings (Jamaica) |
| Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life (US) |
| Anne Tyler, A Spool of Blue Thread (US) |
| Tom McCarthy, Satin Island (UK) |
| Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen (Nigeria) |
| Sunjeev Sahota, The Year of the Runaways (UK) |
| 2014 |
| Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Australia) |
| Joshua Ferris, To Rise Again At a Decent Hour (US) |
| Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (US) |
| Howard Jacobson, J (UK) |
| Neel Mukherjee, The Lives of Others (UK) |
| Ali Smith, How to Be Both (UK) |
| 2013 |
| Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries (New Zealand) |
| NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names (Zimbabwe) |
| Jim Crace, Harvest (England) |
| Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland (India/USA) |
| Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being (Canada/USA) |
| Colm Tóibín, The Testament of Mary (Ireland) |
| 2012 |
| Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies (England) |
| Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists (Malaysia) |
| Deborah Levy, Swimming Home (England) |
| Alison Moore, The Lighthouse (England) |
| Will Self, Umbrella (England) |
| Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis (India) |
| 2011 |
| Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending (England) |
| Carol Birch, Jamrach's Menagerie (England) |
| Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers (Canada) |
| Esi Edugyan, Half Blood Blues (Canada) |
| Stephen Kelman, Pigeon English (England) |
| A.D. Miller, Snowdrops (England) |
| 2010 |
| Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question (England) |
| Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in America (Australia) |
| Emma Donoghue, Room (Ireland) |
| Damon Galgut, In a Strange Room (South Africa) |
| Andrea Levy, The Long Song (England) |
| Tom McCarthy, C (England) |
| 2009 |
| Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall (England) |
| A. S. Byatt, The Children's Book (England) |
| J. M. Coetzee, Summertime (South Africa) |
| Adam Foulds, The Quickening Maze (England) |
| Simon Mawer, The Glass Room (England) |
| Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger (Wales) |
| 2008 |
| Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger (India) |
| Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture (Ireland) |
| Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies (India) |
| Linda Grant, The Clothes on Their Backs (Britain) |
| Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole (Australia) |
| 2007 |
| Anne Enright, The Gathering (Ireland) |
| Nicola Barker, Darkmans (England) |
| Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (England/Pakistan) |
| Lloyd Jones, Mister Pip (New Zeland) |
| Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach (England) |
| Indra Sinha, Animal's People (England/India) |
| More info at the The Guardian |
| 2006 |
| Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss (Indian born) |
| Kate Grenville, The Secret River (Australian born) |
| M. J. Hyland, Carry Me Down (English born) |
| Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men (American born) |
| Edward St Aubyn, Mother's Milk (English) |
| Sarah Waters, The Night Watch (English) |
| More info at the The Guardian |
| 2005 |
| John Banville, The Sea (Ireland) |
| Julian Barnes, Arthur & George (England) |
| Sebastian Barry, A Long Long Way (Ireland) |
| Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (England) |
| Ali Smith, The Accidental (England) |
| Zadie Smith, On Beauty (England) |
| More info at the The Guardian |
| 2004 |
| Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty (England) |
| Achmat Dangor, Bitter Fruit (South Africa) |
| Sarah Hall, The Electric Michelangelo (England) |
| David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (England) |
| Colm Tóibín, The Master (Ireland) |
| Gerard Woodward, I'll go to Bed at Noon (English) |
| More info at the The Guardian |
| 2003 |
| DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little (Australia) |
| Monica Ali, Brick Lane (Bangladesh & England) |
| Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake (Canada) |
| Damon Galgut, The Good Doctor (South Africa) |
| Zoe Heller, Notes on a Scandal (England) |
| Clare Morrall, Astonishing Splashes Of Colour (England) |
| More info at the BBC website |
| 2002 |
| Yann Martel, Life of Pi (Canada) |
| Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters (Canada) |
| Carol Shields, Unless (Canada) |
| William Trevor, The Story of Lucy Gault (Ireland) |
| Sarah Waters, Fingersmith (England) |
| Tim Winton, Dirt Music (Australia) |
| 2001 |
| Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang |
| Ian McEwan, Atonement |
| Andrew Miller, Oxygen |
| David Mitchell, Number 9 Dream |
| Rachel Seiffert, The Dark Room |
| Ali Smith, Hotel World |
| 2000 |
| Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin |
| Trezza Azzopardi, The Hiding Place |
| Michael Collins, The Keepers of Truth |
| Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans |
| Matthew Kneale, English Passengers |
| Brian O'Doherty, The Deposition of the Father |
| 1999 |
| J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace |
| Anita Desai, Fasting, Feasting |
| Michael Frayn, Headlong |
| Andrew O'Hagan, Our Fathers |
| Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love |
| Colm Tóibín, The Blackwater Lightship |
| 1998 |
| Ian McEwan, Amsterdam |
| Beryl Bainbridge, Master Georgie |
| Julian Barnes, England, England |
| Martin Booth, The Industry of Souls |
| Patrick McCabe, Breakfast on Pluto |
| Magnus Mills, The Restraint of Beasts |
| 1997 |
| Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things |
| Jim Crace, Quarantine |
| Mick Jackson, Underground Man |
| Madelaine St. John, The Essence of the Thing |
| Bernard McLaverty, Grace Notes |
| Tim Parks, Europa |
| 1996 |
| Graham Swift, Last Orders |
| Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace |
| Beryl Bainbridge, Every Man for Himself |
| Seamus Deane, Reading in the Dark |
| Shena Mackay, The Orchard on Fire |
| Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance |
| 1995 |
| Pat Barker, The Ghost Road |
| Justin Cartwright, In Every Face I Meet |
| Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh |
| Barry Unsworth, Morality Play |
| Tim Winton, The Riders |
| 1994 |
| James Kelman, How Late It Was, How Late |
| George MacKay Brown, Beside the Ocean of Time |
| Romesh Gunesekera, Reef |
| Abdulrazak Gurnah, Paradise |
| Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star |
| Jill Paton Walsh, Knowledge of Angels |
| 1993 |
| Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha |
| Tibor Fischer, Under the Frog |
| Michael Ignatieff, Scar Tissue |
| David Malouf, Remembering Babylon |
| Caryl Phillips, Crossing the River |
| Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries |
| 1992 |
| Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient |
| Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger |
| Christopher Hope, Serenity House |
| Patrick McCabe, The Butcher Boy |
| Ian McEwan, Black Dogs |
| Michele Roberts, Daughters of the House |
| 1991 |
| Ben Okri, The Famished Road |
| Martin Amis, Time's Arrow |
| Roddy Doyle, The Van |
| Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey |
| Timothy Mo, The Redundancy of Courage |
| William Trevor, Reading Turgenev (from Two Lives) |
| 1990 |
| A. S. Byatt, Possession |
| Beryl Bainbridge, An Awfully Big Adventure |
| Penelope Fitzgerald, The Gate of Angels |
| John McGahern, Amongst Women |
| Brian Moore, Lies of Silence |
| Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky was Here |
| 1989 |
| Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day |
| Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye |
| John Banville, The Book of Evidence |
| Sybille Bedford, Jigsaw, an Unsentimental Education |
| James Kelman, A Disaffection |
| Rose Tremain, Restoration |
| 1988 |
| Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda |
| Bruce Chatwin, Utz |
| Penelope Fitzgerald, The Beginning of Spring |
| David Lodge, Nice Work |
| Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses |
| Marina Warner, The Lost Father |
| 1987 |
| Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger |
| Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah |
| Peter Ackroyd, Chatterton |
| Nina Bawden, Circles of Deceit |
| Brian Moore, The Colour of Blood |
| Iris Murdoch, The Book and the Brotherhood |
| 1986 |
| Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils |
| Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale |
| Paul Bailey, Gabriel's Lament |
| Robertson Davies, What's Bred in the Bone |
| Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World |
| Timothy Mo, An Insular Possession |
| 1985 |
| Keri Hulme, The Bone People |
| Peter Carey, Illywhacker |
| J. L. Carr, The Battle of Pollock's Crossing |
| Doris Lessing, The Good Terrorist |
| Jan Morris, Last Letters from Hav |
| Iris Murdoch, The Good Apprentice |
| 1984 |
| Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac |
| J. G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun |
| Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot |
| Anita Desai, In Custody |
| Penelope Lively, According to Mark |
| David Lodge, Small World |
| 1983 |
| J. M. Coetzee, Life and Times of Michael K. |
| Malcolm Bradbury, Rates of Exchange |
| John Fuller, Flying to Nowhere |
| Anita Mason, The Illusionist |
| Salman Rushdie, Shame |
| Graham Swift, Waterland |
| 1982 |
| Thomas Keneally, Schindler's Ark |
| John Arden, Silence Among the Weapons |
| William Boyd, An Ice-Cream War |
| Lawrence Durrell, Constance or Solitary Practices |
| Alice Thomas Ellis, The 27th Kingdom |
| Timothy Mo, Sour Sweet |
| 1981 |
| Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children |
| Molly Keane, Good Behaviour |
| Doris Lessing, The Sirian Experiments |
| Ian McEwan, The Comfort of Strangers |
| Anne Schlee, Rhine Journey |
| Muriel Spark, Loitering with Intent |
| D. M. Thomas, The White Hotel |
| 1980 |
| William Golding, Rites of Passage |
| Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers |
| J. L. Carr, A Month in the Country |
| Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day |
| Alice Munro, The Beggar Maid |
| Julia O'Faolain, No Country for Young Men |
| Barry Unsworth, Pascali's Island |
| 1979 |
| Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore |
| Thomas Keneally, Confederates |
| V. S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River |
| Julian Rathbone, Joseph |
| Fay Weldon, Praxis |
| 1978 |
| The Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea |
| Kingsley Amis, Jake's Thing |
| André Brink, Rumours of Rain |
| Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop |
| Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks |
| Bernice Rubens, A Five-Year Sentence |
| 1977 |
| Paul Scott, Staying On |
| Paul Bailey, Peter Smart's Confessions |
| Caroline Blackwood, Great Granny Webster |
| Jennifer Johnston, Shadows on Our Skin |
| Penelope Lively, The Road to Lichfield |
| Barbara Pym, Quartet in Autumn |
| 1976 |
| David Storey, Saville |
| André Brink, An Instant in the Wind |
| R. C. Hutchinson, Rising |
| Brian Moore, The Doctor's Wife |
| Julian Rathbone, King Fisher Lives |
| William Trevor, The Children of Dynmouth |
| 1975 |
| Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust |
| Thomas Keneally, Gossip from the Forest |
| 1974 |
| Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist |
| Stanley Middleton, Holiday |
| Kinglsey Amis, Ending Up |
| Beryl Bainridge, The Bottle Factory Outing |
| C. P. Snow, In Their Wisdom |
| 1973 |
| J. G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur |
| Beryl Bainridge, The Dressmaker |
| Elizabeth Mavor, The Green Equinox |
| Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince |
| 1972 |
| John Berger, G.: A Novel |
| Susan Hill, Bird of Night |
| Thomas Keneally, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith |
| David Storey, Pasmore |
| 1971 |
| V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State |
| Thomas Kilroy, The Big Chapel |
| Doris Lessing, Briefing for a Descent into Hell |
| Mordecai Richler, St. Urbain's Horseman |
| Derek Robinson, Goshawk Squadron |
| Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont |
| 1970 |
| Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member |
| A. L. Barker, John Brown's Body |
| Elizabeth Bowen, Eva Trout |
| Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream |
| William Trevor, Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel |
| Terence Wheeler, The Conjunction |
| 1969 |
| P. H. Newby, Something to Answer For |
| Barry England, Figures in a Landscape |
| Nicholas Mosley, The Impossible Object |
| Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good |
| Muriel Spark, The Public Image |
| Gordon Williams, From Scenes Like These |