Booker Prize-Winning Books
Looking for something new to read but don't know where to go to for good suggestions? Check out the Booker Prize's award winning books for recommendations you can trust!
what is the booker prize?
The Booker Prize (formerly known as the Man Booker Prize) is a major literary award that started in 1969. Every year, the award recognizes written works published in the UK or Ireland that are written in the English language. The winning author receives a prize of £50,000 ($63,460) as well as all the readership the award promises.
From 2016 onwards, the Booker Prize also considers fiction for translation. If a book from this category wins, both the winning author and translator receive the prize money.
Booker prize-Winners
2024: Orbital: A Novel by Samantha Harvey (Just announced!)
2023: Prophet Song: A Novel by Paul Lynch
2022: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
2021: The Promise: A Novel by Damon Galgut
2020: Shuggie Bain: A Novel by Douglas Stuart
2019: Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel by Bernardine Evaristo
2019: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
2018: Milkman by Anna Burns
2017: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
2016: The Sellout by Paul Beatty
2015: A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
2014: The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
2013:The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
2012: Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
2011: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
2010: The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
2009: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
2008: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
2007: The Gathering: A Novel by Anne Enright
2006: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
2005: The Sea by John Banville
2004: The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
2003: Vernon God Little by D B C Pierre
2002: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
2001: True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
2000: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
1999: Disgrace by J M Coetzee
1998: Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
1997: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
1996: Last Orders by Graham Swift
1995: The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
1994: How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman
1993: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
1992: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
1992: Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
1991: The Famished Road by Ben Okri
1990: Possession by A S Byatt
1989: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
1988: Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Stafford Carey
1987: Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
1986: The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis - Robin Hawdon
1985: The Bone People by Keri Hulme
1984: Hotel Du Lac: A Novel by Anita Brookner
1983: Life & Times of Michael K by J M Coetzee
1982: Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
1981: Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
1980: Rites of Passage by William Golding - Golding Golding
1979: Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
1978: The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
1977: Staying On by Paul Scott
1976: Saville by David Storey
1975: Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1974: The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
1973: The Siege of Krishnapur by J G Farrell
1972: G.: A Novel by John Berger
1971: In a Free State by V S Naipaul
1970: Elected Member by Bernice Rubens
1969: Something to Answer for by P H Newby
Happy Reading
There you have it, 54 years and 58 winners of the Booker Prize. While the list of winners is varied and each one is different from the other, one thing you can count on all these titles to provide is quality. So, dive into these winners with confidence, and happy reading!