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