The Booker Prize is the most prominent award for literary fiction written in English, awarded annually since 1969. Since 2014 it has been open to any novel published in the UK or Ireland, whatever the author’s nationality; before that it was confined to the Commonwealth and Ireland. Its winners run from Iris Murdoch and William Golding to Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Hilary Mantel, who took the prize twice for consecutive volumes of her Thomas Cromwell trilogy. This list collects the winning novels by year.
Flesh
David Szalay
Orbital
Samantha Harvey
Prophet Song
Paul Lynch
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Shehan Karunatilaka
The Promise
Damon Galgut
Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart
The Testaments
Margaret Atwood
Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo
Milkman
Anna Burns
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
The Sellout
Paul Beatty
A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Richard Flanagan
The Luminaries
Eleanor Catton
Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes
The Finkler Question
Howard Jacobson
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga
The Gathering
Anne Enright
The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai
The Sea
John Banville
The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst
Vernon God Little
DBC Pierre
Life of Pi
Yann Martel
True History of the Kelly Gang
Peter Carey
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood
Disgrace
J. M. Coetzee
Amsterdam
Ian McEwan
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
Last Orders
Graham Swift
The Ghost Road
Pat Barker
How Late It Was, How Late
James Kelman
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Roddy Doyle
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
Sacred Hunger
Barry Unsworth
The Famished Road
Ben Okri
Possession
A. S. Byatt
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
Oscar and Lucinda
Peter Carey
Moon Tiger
Penelope Lively
The Old Devils
Kingsley Amis
The Bone People
Keri Hulme
Hotel du Lac
Anita Brookner
Life & Times of Michael K
J. M. Coetzee
Schindler's Ark
Thomas Keneally
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
Rites of Passage
William Golding
Offshore
Penelope Fitzgerald
The Sea, the Sea
Iris Murdoch
Staying On
Paul Scott
Saville
David Storey
Heat and Dust
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Holiday
Stanley Middleton
The Conservationist
Nadine Gordimer
The Siege of Krishnapur
J. G. Farrell
G.
John Berger
In a Free State
V. S. Naipaul
The Elected Member
Bernice Rubens
Something to Answer For
P. H. Newby
