The Man Booker Prize :  Winners and Shortlisters

For more information about the Man Booker Prize, click here.  The winner of the Man Booker prize is listed first and is followed by the shortlist.

The Best of the Booker  (for more information about what this means, click here.)
Midnight's children : a novel by Salman Rushdie

2018
Milkman by Anna Burns
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Everything under by Daisy Johnson
The Mars room : a novel by Rachel Kushner
The overstory : a novel by Richard Powers
The long take by Robin Robertson

2017
Lincoln in the bardo : a novel by George Saunders
4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
History of wolves : a novel by Emily Fridlund
Exit west : a novel by Mohsin Hamid
Elmet by Fiona Mozley
Autumn by Ali Smith

2016
The sellout : a novel by Paul Beatty
Hot milk by Deborah Levy
His bloody project : a novel by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
All that man is by David Szalay
Do not say we have nothing by Madeleine Thien

2015
A brief history of seven killings by Marlon James
Satin Island : a novel by Tom McCarthy
The fishermen : a novel by Chigozie Obioma
The year of the runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
A spool of blue thread by Anne Tyler
A little life : a novel by Hanya Yanagihara

2014
The narrow road to the deep North by Richard Flanagan
How to be both by Ali Smith
J by Howard Jacobson
The lives of others by Neel Mukherjee
To rise again at a decent hour by Joshua Ferris
We are all completely beside ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

2013
The luminaries : a novel by Eleanor Catton
We need new names : a novel by NoViolet Bulawayo
Harvest by Jim Crace
The lowland : a novel by Jhumpa Lahiri
A tale for the time being by Ruth Ozeki
The testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín

2012
Bring up the bodies by Hilary Mantel
Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
Swimming home by Deborah Levy
The garden of evening mists by Tai Twan Eng
The lighthouse by Alison Moore
Umbrella by Will Self

2011
The sense of an ending by Julian Barnes
Jamrach's menagerie by Carol Birch
The Sisters brothers by Patrick deWitt
Half blood blues by Esi Edugyan
Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman
Snowdrops by A. D. Miller

2010
The Finkler question by Howard Jacobson
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
Room : a novel by Emma Donoghue
In a strange room by Damon Galgut
The long song by Andrea Levy
C by Tom McCarthy

2009
Wolf Hall : a novel by Hilary Mantel
The children’s book : a novel by A. S. Byatt
Summertime : fiction by J. M. Coetzee
The quickening maze by Adam Foulds
The glass room by Simon Mawer
The little stranger by Sarah Waters

2008
The white tiger : a novel by Aravind Adiga
The secret scripture by Sebastian Barry
Sea of poppies by Amitav Ghosh
The clothes on their backs by Linda Grant
The northern clemency by Philip Hensher
A fraction of the whole by Steve Toltz

2007
The gathering by Anne Enright
Darkmans by Nicola Barker
The reluctant fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Animal's people by Indra Sinha

2006
The inheritance of loss by Kiran Desai
The secret river by Kate Grenville
Carry me down by M. J. Hyland
In the country of men by Hisham Matar
Mother's milk by Edward St. Aubyn
The night watch by Sarah Waters

2005
The sea by John Banville
Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
A long long way by Sebastian Barry
Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The accidental by Ali Smith
On beauty : a novel by Zadie Smith

2004
The line of beauty : a novel by Alan Hollinghurst
Bitter fruit by Achmat Dangor
The electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall
Cloud atlas : a novel by David Mitchell
The master : a novel by Colm Tóibín
I'll go to bed at noon by Gerard Woodward

2003
Vernon God Little by D. B. C. Pierre
Brick lane : a novel by Monica Ali
Oryx and Crake : a novel by Margaret Atwood
The good doctor by Damon Galgut
What was she thinking? : notes on a scandal by Zoë Heller
Astonishing splashes of colour by Clare Morrall

2002
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Family matters by Rohinton Mistry
Unless by Carol Shields
The story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
Fingersmith by Sarah Water
Dirt music : a novel by Tim Winton

2001
True history of the Kelly gang by Peter Carey
Atonement : a novel by Ian McEwan
Oxygen by Andrew Miller
Number9dream : a novel by David Mitchell
The dark room by Rachel Seiffert
Hotel world by Ali Smith

2000
The blind assassin by Margaret Atwood
The hiding place by Trezza Azzopardi
The keepers of truth : a novel by Michael Collins
When we were orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
English passengers by Matthew Kneale
The deposition of Father McGreevy by Brian O'Doherty

1999
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
Fasting, feasting by Anita Desai
Headlong by Michael Frayn
Our fathers by Andrew O'Hagan
The map of love by Ahdaf Soueif
The Blackwater lightship by Colm Tóibín

1998
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
Master Georgie : a novel by Beryl Bainbridge
England, England by Julian Barnes
The industry of souls by Martin Booth
Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe
The restraint of beasts : a novel by Magnus Mills

1997
The god of small things by Arundhati Roy
Quarantine by Jim Crace
The underground man by Mick Jackson
Grace notes by Bernard MacLaverty
Europa by Tim Parks
The essence of the thing by Madeleine St. John

1996
Last orders by Graham Swift
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Every man for himself by Beryl Bainbridge
Reading in the dark by Seamus Deane
The orchard on fire : a novel by Shena Mackay
A fine balance : a novel by Rohinton Mistry

1995
The ghost road by Pat Barker
In every face I meet by Justin Cartwright
The Moor's last sigh by Salman Rushdie
Morality play by Barry Unsworth
The riders by Tim Winton

1994
How late it was, how late by James Kelman
Reef by Romesh Gunesekera
Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah
The folding star by Alan Hollinghurst
Beside the ocean of time by George Mackay Brown
Knowledge of angels by Jill Paton Walsh

1993
Paddy Clarke, ha-ha-ha by Roddy Doyle
Under the frog : a black comedy by Tibor Fischer
Scar tissue by Michael Ignatieff
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
Crossing the river by Caryl Phillips
The stone diaries by Carol Shields

The "Booker of Bookers," a special award to mark 25 years of the Booker Prize, was made in 1993 to Salman Rushdie, for Midnight's children : a novel.

1992
The English patient : a novel by Michael Ondaatje and Sacred hunger by Barry Unsworth (joint winnners)
Serenity house by Christopher Hope
The butcher boy by Patrick McCabe
Black dogs by Ian McEwan
Daughters of the house by Michèle Roberts

1991
The famished road by Ben Okri
Time's arrow, or, The nature of the offense by Martin Amis
The van by Roddy Doyle
Such a long journey by Rohinton Mistry
The redundancy of courage by Timothy Mo
Reading Turgenev (from Two lives) by William Trevor

1990
Possession : a romance by A. S. Byatt
An awfully big adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
The gate of angels by Penelope Fitzgerald
Amongst women by John McGahern
Lies of silence by Brian Moore
Solomon Gursky was here : a novel by Mordecai Richler

1989
The remains of the day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Cat's eye by Margaret Atwood
The book of evidence by John Banville
Jigsaw : an unsentimental education : a biographical novel by Sybille Bedford
A disaffection by James Kelman
Restoration : a novel of seventeenth-century England by Rose Tremain

1988
Oscar & Lucinda by Peter Carey
Utz by Bruce Chatwin
Nice work : a novel by David Lodge
The satanic verses by Salman Rushdie
The lost father by Marina Warner

1987
Moon tiger by Penelope Lively
Anthills of the savannah by Chinua Achebe
Circles of deceit by Nina Bawden
The color of blood by Brian Moore
The book and the brotherhood by Iris Murdoch

1986
The old devils : a novel by Kingsley Amis
The handmaid's tale by Margaret Atwood
Gabriel's lament by Paul Bailey
What's bred in the bone by Robertson Davies
An artist of the floating world by Kazuo Ishiguro
An insular possession by Timothy Mo

1985
The bone people : a novel by Keri Hulme
Illywhacker by Peter Carey
The Battle of Pollocks Crossing by J. L. Carr
The good terrorist by Doris Lessing
Last letters from Hav by Jan Morris

1984
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
Empire of the Sun : a novel by J. G. Ballard
Flaubert's parrot by Julian Barnes
In custody by Anita Desai
According to Mark : a novel by Penelope Lively
Small world : an academic romance by David Lodge

1983
Life & times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee
Rates of exchange by Malcolm Bradbury
Flying to nowhere : a tale by John Fuller
The illusionist by Anita Mason
Shame by Salman Rushdie
Waterland by Graham Swift

1982
Schindler's Ark (American title: Schindler's list) by Thomas Keneally
Silence among the weapons by John Arden
An ice-cream war by William Boyd
Constance, or, Solitary practices by Lawrence Durrell
The 27th kingdom by Alice Thomas Ellis
Sour sweet by Timothy Mo

1981
Midnight's children : a novel by Salman Rushdie
Good behaviour by Molly Keane
The Sirian experiments : the report by Ambien II, of the five by Doris Lessing
The comfort of strangers by Ian McEwan
Rhine journey : a novel by Ann Schlee
Loitering with intent by Muriel Spark
The white hotel by D. M. Thomas

1980
Rites of passage by William Golding
Earthly powers by Anthony Burgess
Clear light of day by Anita Desai
The beggar maid : stories of Flo and Rose by Alice Munro
No country for young men by Julia O'Faolain
Pascali's island by Barry Unsworth
A month in the country by J. L. Carr

1979
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
Confederates by Thomas Keneally
A bend in the river by V. S. Naipaul
Joseph by Julian Rathbone
Praxis by Fay Weldon

1978
The sea, the sea by Iris Murdoch
Jake's thing by Kingsley Amis
Rumours of rain by André Brink
The bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
God on the rocks by Jane Gardam
A five-year sentence by Bernice Rubens

1977
Staying on : a novel by Paul Scott
Peter Smart's confessions by Paul Bailey
Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood
Shadows on our skin by Jennifer Johnston
The road to Lichfield by Penelope Lively
Quartet in autumn by Barbara Pym

1976
Saville by David Storey
An instant in the wind by André Brink
Rising by R. C. Hutchinson
The doctor's wife by Brian Moore
King Fisher Lives by Julian Rathbone
The children of Dynmouth by William Trevor

1975
Heat and dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Gossip from the forest by Thomas Keneally

1974
The conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
 and Holiday by Stanley Middleton (joint winners)
Ending Up by Kingsley Amis
The bottle factory outing by Beryl Bainbridge
In their wisdom by C. P. Snow

1973
The siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell
The dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge
The Green Equinox by Elizabeth Mavor
The black prince by Iris Murdoch

1972
G : a novel by John Berger
Bird of night by Susan Hill
The chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally
Pasmore by David Storey

1971
In a free state by V. S. Naipaul
The big chapel by Thomas Kilroy
Briefing for a descent into Hell by Doris Lessing
St. Urbain's horseman : a novel by Mordecai Richler
Goshawk Squadron by Derek Robinson
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor

1970
The elected member by Bernice Rubens
John Brown's body by A. L. Barker
Eva Trout; or, Changing scenes by Elizabeth Bowen
Bruno's dream by Iris Murdoch
Mrs. Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel by William Trevor
The conjunction by T. W. Wheeler

1969
Something to answer for : a novel by P. H. Newby
Figures in a landscape by Barry England
Impossible object by Nicholas Mosley
The nice and the good by Iris Murdoch
The public image by Muriel Spark
From scenes like these by Gordon M. Williams