Year |
Author |
Title |
Publisher |
Chair |
Judges |
1969 | P. H. Newby | Something to Answer For | Faber & Faber |
n/a |
|
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 |
1970 | Bernice Rubens | The Elected Member | Eyre & Spottiswoode |
n/a |
|
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 |
1970 Awarded in 2010 as the Lost Man Booker PrizeNote #A | J. G. Farrell | Troubles | Phoenix |
n/a |
|
Nina Bawden | The Birds on the Trees | Virago |
Shirley Hazzard | The Bay of Noon | Virago |
Mary Renault | Fire From Heaven | Arrow |
Muriel Spark | The Driver's Seat | Penguin |
Patrick White | The Vivisector | Vintage |
1971 | V. S. Naipaul | In a Free State | Deutsch |
John Gross |
|
Thomas Kilroy | The Big Chapel | Faber & Faber |
Doris Lessing | Briefing for a Descent into Hell | Jonathan Cape |
Mordecai Richler | St Urbain's Horseman | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Derek Robinson | Goshawk Squadron | Heinemann |
Elizabeth Taylor | Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont | Chatto & Windus |
1972 | John Berger | G. | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Cyril Connolly |
|
Susan Hill | The Bird of Night | Hamish Hamilton |
Thomas Keneally | The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith | Angus & Robertson |
David Storey | Pasmore | Longman |
1973 | J. G. Farrell | The Siege of Krishnapur | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Karl Miller |
|
Beryl Bainbridge | The Dressmaker | Duckworth |
Elizabeth Mavor | The Green Equinox | Michael Joseph |
Iris Murdoch | The Black Prince | Chatto & Windus |
1974 | Nadine Gordimer | The Conservationist | Jonathan Cape |
Ion Trewin |
|
Stanley Middleton | Holiday | Hutchinson |
Kingsley Amis | Ending Up | Jonathan Cape |
Beryl Bainbridge | The Bottle Factory Outing | Duckworth |
C. P. Snow | In Their Wisdom | Macmillan |
1975 | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Heat and Dust | John Murray |
Angus Wilson |
|
Thomas Keneally | Gossip from the Forest | Collins |
1976 | David Storey | Saville | Jonathan Cape |
Walter Allen |
|
André Brink | An Instant in the Wind | W. H. Allen |
R. C. Hutchinson | Rising | Michael Joseph |
Brian Moore | The Doctor's Wife | Jonathan Cape |
Julian Rathbone | King Fisher Lives | Michael Joseph |
William Trevor | The Children of Dynmouth | Bodley Head |
1977 | Paul Scott | Staying On | Heinemann |
Philip Larkin |
|
Paul Bailey | Peter Smart's Confessions | Jonathan Cape |
Caroline Blackwood | Great Granny Webster | Duckworth |
Jennifer Johnston | Shadows on our Skin | Hamish Hamilton |
Penelope Lively | The Road to Lichfield | Heinemann |
Barbara Pym | Quartet in Autumn | Macmillan |
1978 | Iris Murdoch | The Sea, the Sea | Chatto & Windus |
Sir Alfred Ayer |
|
Kingsley Amis | Jake's Thing | Hutchinson |
André Brink | Rumours of Rain | W. H. Allen |
Penelope Fitzgerald | The Bookshop | Duckworth |
Jane Gardam | God on the Rocks | Hamish Hamilton |
Bernice Rubens | A Five-Year Sentence | W. H. Allen |
1979 | Penelope Fitzgerald | Offshore | Collins |
Lord Briggs |
|
Thomas Keneally | Confederates | Collins |
V. S. Naipaul | A Bend in the River | Deutsch |
Julian Rathbone | Joseph | Michael Joseph |
Fay Weldon | Praxis | Hodder & Stoughton |
1980 | William Golding | Rites of Passage | Faber & Faber | David Daiches |
|
Anthony Burgess | Earthly Powers | Hutchinson |
Anita Desai | Clear Light of Day | Heinemann |
Alice Munro | The Beggar Maid | Viking |
Julia O'Faolain | No Country for Young Men | Viking |
Barry Unsworth | Pascali's Island | Michael Joseph |
J. L. Carr | A Month in the Country | Harvester |
1981 | Salman Rushdie | Midnight's Children | Jonathan Cape |
Professor Malcolm Bradbury |
|
Molly Keane | Good Behaviour | Deutsch |
Doris Lessing | The Sirian Experiments | Jonathan Cape |
Ian McEwan | The Comfort of Strangers | Jonathan Cape |
Ann Schlee | Rhine Journey | Macmillan |
Muriel Spark | Loitering with Intent | Bodley Head |
D. M. Thomas | The White Hotel | Gollancz |
1982 | Thomas Keneally | Schindler's Ark | Hodder & Staughton | John Carey |
|
John Arden | Silence Among the Weapons | Methuen |
William Boyd | An Ice-Cream War | Hamish Hamilton |
Lawrence Durrell | Constance or Solitary Practices | Faber & Faber |
Alice Thomas Ellis | The 27th Kingdom | Duckworth |
Timothy Mo | Sour Sweet | Deutsch |
1983 | J. M. Coetzee | Life & Times of Michael K | Secker & Warburg | Fay Weldon |
|
Malcolm Bradbury | Rates of Exchange | Secker & Warburg |
John Fuller | Flying to Nowhere | Salamander |
Anita Mason | The Illusionist | Hamish Hamilton |
Salman Rushdie | Shame | Jonathan Cape |
Graham Swift | Waterland | Heinemann |
1984 | Anita Brookner | Hotel du Lac | Jonathan Cape |
Professor Richard Cobb |
|
J. G. Ballard | Empire of the Sun | Gollancz |
Julian Barnes | Flaubert's Parrot | Jonathan Cape |
Anita Desai | In Custody | Heinemann |
Penelope Lively | According to Mark | Heinemann |
David Lodge | Small World | Secker & Warburg |
1985 | Keri Hulme | The Bone People | Hodder & Stoughton |
Norman St John-Stevas |
|
Peter Carey | Illywhacker | Faber & Faber |
J. L. Carr | The Battle of Pollocks Crossing | Viking |
Doris Lessing | The Good Terrorist | Jonathan Cape |
Jan Morris | Last Letters from Hav | Viking |
Iris Murdoch | The Good Apprentice | Chatto & Windus |
1986 | Kingsley Amis | The Old Devils | Hutchinson |
Anthony Thwaite |
|
Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid's Tale | Jonathan Cape |
Paul Bailey | Gabriel's Lament | Jonathan Cape |
Robertson Davies | What's Bred in the Bone | Viking |
Kazuo Ishiguro | An Artist of the Floating World | Faber & Faber |
Timothy Mo | An Insular Possession | Chatto & Windus |
1987 | Penelope Lively | Moon Tiger | Deutsch | P. D. James |
|
Chinua Achebe | Anthills of the Savannah | Heinemann |
Peter Ackroyd | Chatterton | Hamish Hamilton |
Nina Bawden | Circles of Deceit | Macmillan |
Brian Moore | The Colour of Blood | Jonathan Cape |
Iris Murdoch | The Book and the Brotherhood | Chatto & Windus |
1988 | Peter Carey | Oscar and Lucinda | Faber & Faber |
The Rt Hon Michael Foot |
|
Bruce Chatwin | Utz | Jonathan Cape |
Penelope Fitzgerald | The Beginning of Spring | Collins |
David Lodge | Nice Work | Secker & Warburg |
Salman Rushdie | The Satanic Verses | Viking |
Marina Warner | The Lost Father | Chatto & Windus |
1989 | Kazuo Ishiguro | The Remains of the Day | Faber & Faber | David Lodge |
|
Margaret Atwood | Cat's Eye | Bloomsbury |
John Banville | The Book of Evidence | Secker & Warburg |
Sybille Bedford | Jigsaw | Hamish Hamilton |
James Kelman | A Disaffection | Secker & Warburg |
Rose Tremain | Restoration | Hamish Hamilton |
1990 | A. S. Byatt | Possession: A Romance | Chatto & Windus |
Sir Denis Forman |
|
Beryl Bainbridge | An Awfully Big Adventure | Duckworth |
Penelope Fitzgerald | The Gate of Angels | Collins |
John McGahern | Amongst Women | Faber & Faber |
Brian Moore | Lies of Silence | Bloomsbury |
Mordecai Richler | Solomon Gursky Was Here | Chatto & Windus |
1991 | Ben Okri | The Famished Road | Jonathan Cape |
Jeremy Treglown |
|
Martin Amis | Time's Arrow | Jonathan Cape |
Roddy Doyle | The Van | Secker & Warburg |
Rohinton Mistry | Such a Long Journey | Faber & Faber |
Timothy Mo | The Redundancy of Courage | Chatto & Windus |
William Trevor | Reading Turgenev[1] | Viking |
1992 | Michael Ondaatje | The English Patient | Bloomsbury |
Victoria Glendinning |
|
Barry Unsworth | Sacred Hunger | Hamish Hamilton |
Christopher Hope | Serenity House | Macmillan |
Patrick McCabe | The Butcher Boy | Picador |
Ian McEwan | Black Dogs | Jonathan Cape |
Michèle Roberts | Daughters of the House | Virago |
1993 | Roddy Doyle | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha | Secker & Warburg |
Lord Gowrie |
- Professor Gillian Beer
- Anne Chisholm
- Nicholas Clee
- Olivier Todd
|
Tibor Fischer | Under the Frog | Polygon |
Michael Ignatieff | Scar Tissue | Chatto & Windus |
David Malouf | Remembering Babylon | Chatto & Windus |
Caryl Phillips | Crossing the River | Bloomsbury |
Carol Shields | The Stone Diaries | Fourth Estate |
1994 | James Kelman | How late it was, how late | Secker & Warburg |
Professor John Bayley |
|
Romesh Gunesekera | Reef | Granta Books |
Abdulrazak Gurnah | Paradise | Hamish Hamilton |
Alan Hollinghurst | The Folding Star | Chatto & Windus |
George Mackay Brown | Beside the Ocean of Time | John Murray |
Jill Paton Walsh | Knowledge of Angels | Green Bay |
1995 | Pat Barker | The Ghost Road | Viking |
George Walden MP |
|
Justin Cartwright | In Every Face I Meet | Sceptre |
Salman Rushdie | The Moor's Last Sigh | Jonathan Cape |
Barry Unsworth | Morality Play | Hamish Hamilton |
Tim Winton | The Riders | Picador |
1996 | Graham Swift | Last Orders | Picador |
Carmen Callil |
|
Margaret Atwood | Alias Grace | Bloomsbury |
Beryl Bainbridge | Every Man for Himself | Duckworth |
Seamus Deane | Reading in the Dark | Jonathan Cape |
Shena Mackay | The Orchard on Fire | Heinemann |
Rohinton Mistry | A Fine Balance | Faber & Faber |
1997 | Arundhati Roy | The God of Small Things | Flamingo |
Professor Gillian Beer |
|
Jim Crace | Quarantine | Viking |
Mick Jackson | The Underground Man | Picador |
Bernard MacLaverty | Grace Notes | Jonathan Cape |
Tim Parks | Europa | Secker & Warburg |
Madeleine St John | The Essence of the Thing | Fourth Estate |
1998 | Ian McEwan | Amsterdam | Jonathan Cape |
Douglas Hurd |
|
Beryl Bainbridge | Master Georgie | Duckworth |
Julian Barnes | England, England | Jonathan Cape |
Martin Booth | The Industry of Souls | Dewi Lewis |
Patrick McCabe | Breakfast on Pluto | Picador |
Magnus Mills | The Restraint of Beasts | Flamingo |
1999 | J. M. Coetzee | Disgrace | Secker & Warburg |
Gerald Kaufman |
|
Anita Desai | Fasting, Feasting | Chatto & Windus |
Michael Frayn | Headlong | Faber & Faber |
Andrew O'Hagan | Our Fathers | Faber & Faber |
Ahdaf Soueif | The Map of Love | Bloomsbury |
Colm Tóibín | The Blackwater Lightship | Picador |
2000 | Margaret Atwood | The Blind Assassin | Bloomsbury |
Simon Jenkins |
|
Trezza Azzopardi | The Hiding Place | Picador |
Michael Collins | The Keepers of Truth | Phoenix House |
Kazuo Ishiguro | When We Were Orphans | Faber & Faber |
Matthew Kneale | English Passengers | Hamish Hamilton |
Brian O'Doherty | The Deposition of Father McGreevy | Arcadia |
2001 | Peter Carey | True History of the Kelly Gang | Faber & Faber |
Kenneth Baker |
|
Ian McEwan | Atonement | Jonathan Cape |
Andrew Miller | Oxygen | Sceptre |
David Mitchell | number9dream | Sceptre |
Rachel Seiffert | The Dark Room | William Heinemann |
Ali Smith | Hotel World | Hamish Hamilton |
2002 | Yann Martel | Life of Pi | Canongate |
Lisa Jardine |
|
Rohinton Mistry | Family Matters | Faber & Faber |
Carol Shields | Unless | Fourth Estate |
William Trevor | The Story of Lucy Gault | Viking |
Sarah Waters | Fingersmith | Virago |
Tim Winton | Dirt Music | Picador |
2003 | DBC Pierre | Vernon God Little | Faber & Faber |
John Carey |
|
Monica Ali | Brick Lane | Doubleday |
Margaret Atwood | Oryx and Crake | Bloomsbury |
Damon Galgut | The Good Doctor | Atlantic |
Zoë Heller | Notes on a Scandal | Viking |
Clare Morrall | Astonishing Splashes of Colour | Tindal Street |
2004 | Alan Hollinghurst | The Line of Beauty | Picador |
Chris Smith |
|
Achmat Dangor | Bitter Fruit | Atlantic |
Sarah Hall | The Electric Michelangelo | Faber & Faber |
David Mitchell | Cloud Atlas | Sceptre |
Colm Tóibín | The Master | Picador |
Gerard Woodward | I'll Go to Bed at Noon | Chatto & Windus |
2005 | John Banville | The Sea | Picador |
John Sutherland |
|
Julian Barnes | Arthur & George | Jonathan Cape |
Sebastian Barry | A Long Long Way | Faber & Faber |
Kazuo Ishiguro | Never Let Me Go | Faber & Faber |
Ali Smith | The Accidental | Hamish Hamilton |
Zadie Smith | On Beauty | Hamish Hamilton |
2006 | Kiran Desai | The Inheritance of Loss | Hamish Hamilton |
Hermione Lee |
|
Kate Grenville | The Secret River | Canongate |
M. J. Hyland | Carry Me Down | Canongate |
Hisham Matar | In the Country of Men | Viking |
Edward St Aubyn | Mother's Milk | Picador |
Sarah Waters | The Night Watch | Virago |
2007 | Anne Enright | The Gathering | Jonathan Cape |
Howard Davies |
|
Nicola Barker | Darkmans | Fourth Estate |
Mohsin Hamid | The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Hamish Hamilton |
Lloyd Jones | Mister Pip | John Murray |
Ian McEwan | On Chesil Beach | Jonathan Cape |
Indra Sinha | Animal's People | Simon & Schuster |
2008 | Aravind Adiga | The White Tiger | Atlantic |
Michael Portillo |
|
Sebastian Barry | The Secret Scripture | Faber & Faber |
Amitav Ghosh | Sea of Poppies | John Murray |
Linda Grant | The Clothes on Their Backs | Virago |
Philip Hensher | The Northern Clemency | Fourth Estate |
Steve Toltz | A Fraction of the Whole | Hamish Hamilton |
2009[3] | Hilary Mantel | Wolf Hall | Fourth Estate |
James Naughtie |
|
A. S. Byatt | The Children's Book | Chatto and Windus |
J. M. Coetzee | Summertime | Harvill Secker |
Adam Foulds | The Quickening Maze | Jonathan Cape |
Simon Mawer | The Glass Room | Little, Brown |
Sarah Waters | The Little Stranger | Virago |
2010 | Howard Jacobson | The Finkler Question | Bloomsbury |
Andrew Motion |
|
Peter Carey | Parrot and Olivier in America | Faber & Faber |
Emma Donoghue | Room | Picador |
Damon Galgut | In a Strange Room | Atlantic Books |
Andrea Levy | The Long Song | Hachette |
Tom McCarthy | C | Jonathan Cape |
2011 | Julian Barnes | The Sense of an Ending | Jonathan Cape |
Dame Stella Rimington |
|
Carol Birch | Jamrach's Menagerie | Canongate |
Patrick deWitt | The Sisters Brothers | Granta Books |
Esi Edugyan | Half-Blood Blues | Serpent's Tail |
Stephen Kelman | Pigeon English | Bloomsbury |
A D Miller | Snowdrops | Atlantic Books |
2012 | Hilary Mantel | Bring Up the Bodies | Fourth Estate |
Sir Peter Stothard |
|
Deborah Levy | Swimming Home | And Other Stories/Faber & Faber |
Alison Moore | The Lighthouse | Salt Publishing |
Will Self | Umbrella | Bloomsbury |
Tan Twan Eng | The Garden of Evening Mists | Myrmidon Books |
Jeet Thayil | Narcopolis | Faber & Faber |
2013 | Eleanor Catton | The Luminaries | Granta |
Robert Macfarlane |
|
NoViolet Bulawayo |
We Need New Names |
Chatto & Windus |
Jim Crace | Harvest | Picador |
Jhumpa Lahiri | The Lowland | Bloomsbury |
Ruth Ozeki | A Tale for the Time Being | Canongate |
Colm Tóibín | The Testament of Mary | Viking |
2014 | Richard Flanagan | The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Chatto & Windus |
AC Grayling |
|
Joshua Ferris | To Rise Again at a Decent Hour | Viking |
Karen Joy Fowler | We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves | Serpent's Tail |
Howard Jacobson | J | Jonathan Cape |
Neel Mukherjee | The Lives of Others | Jonathan Cape |
Ali Smith | How to Be Both | Hamish Hamilton |
2015[4] | Marlon James | A Brief History of Seven Killings | Oneworld Publications |
Michael Wood |
|
Tom McCarthy | Satin Island | Jonathan Cape |
Chigozie Obioma | The Fishermen | One |
Sunjeev Sahota | The Year of the Runaways | Picador |
Anne Tyler | A Spool of Blue Thread | Chatto & Windus |
Hanya Yanagihara | A Little Life | Picador |
2016 | Paul Beatty | The Sellout | Oneworld Publications |
Amanda Foreman |
|
Deborah Levy | Hot Milk | Hamish Hamilton |
Graeme Macrae Burnet | His Bloody Project | Contraband |
Ottessa Moshfegh | Eileen | Jonathan Cape |
David Szalay | All That Man Is | Jonathan Cape |
Madeleine Thien | Do Not Say We Have Nothing | Granta Books |