Booker Prize Winners: Complete List by Year

61 winning results from 1969 to 2025, plus 278 recorded shortlist and finalist results. Explore the chronological list and follow the links to authors, available book guides and other winners from the same year.

Category: Fiction
Country: United Kingdom
Founded: 1969
Frequency: Annual
Prize: £50,000
Previously: Booker–McConnell Prize, Man Booker Prize
Official website: Visit site

The leading literary award in the English-speaking world, awarded annually for the best novel written in English and published in the UK or Ireland.

Winners by year

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

Shortlists and finalists

These books reached a shortlist or final round. They are not counted as winners. Coverage depends on the published historical record.

Year	Book / recipient	Award	Result
2025	The Land in Winter Andrew Miller	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2025	The Rest of Our Lives Ben Markovits	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2025	Audition Katie Kitamura	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2025	The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2025	Flashlight Susan Choi	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2024	Held Anne Michaels	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2024	Stone Yard Devotional Charlotte Wood	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2024	James Percival Everett	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2024	Creation Lake Rachel Kushner	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2024	The Safekeep Yael van der Wouden	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2023	Western Lane Chetna Maroo	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2023	If I Survive You Jonathan Escoffery	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2023	This Other Eden Paul Harding	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2023	The Bee Sting Paul Murray	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2023	Study for Obedience Sarah Bernstein	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2022	Treacle Walker Alan Garner	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2022	Small Things like These Claire Keegan	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2022	Oh William! Elizabeth Strout	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2022	Glory NoViolet Bulawayo	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2022	The Trees Percival Everett	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2021	A Passage North Anuk Arudpragasam	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2021	Great Circle Maggie Shipstead	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2021	The Fortune Men Nadifa Mohamed	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2021	No One Is Talking about This Patricia Lockwood	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2021	Bewilderment Richard Powers	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2020	Burnt Sugar Avni Doshi	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2020	Real Life Brandon Taylor	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2020	The New Wilderness Diane Cook	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2020	The Shadow King Maaza Mengiste	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2020	This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2019	An Orchestra of Minorities Chigozie Obioma	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2019	10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World Elif Shafak	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2019	Ducks, Newburyport Lucy Ellmann	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2019	Quichotte Salman Rushdie	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2018	Everything Under Daisy Johnson	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2018	Washington Black Esi Edugyan	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2018	The Mars Room Rachel Kushner	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2018	The Overstory Richard Powers	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2018	The Long Take Robin Robertson	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2017	Autumn Ali Smith	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2017	History of Wolves Emily Fridlund	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2017	Elmet Fiona Mozley	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2017	Exit West Mohsin Hamid	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2017	4 3 2 1 Paul Auster	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2016	All That Man Is David Szalay	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2016	Hot Milk Deborah Levy	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2016	His Bloody Project Graeme Macrae Burnet	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2016	Do Not Say We Have Nothing Madeleine Thien	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2016	Eileen Ottessa Moshfegh	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2015	A Spool of Blue Thread Anne Tyler	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2015	The Fishermen Chigozie Obioma	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2015	A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2015	The Year of the Runaways Sunjeev Sahota	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2015	Satin Island Tom McCarthy	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2014	How to Be Both Ali Smith	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2014	J Howard Jacobson	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2014	To Rise Again at a Decent Hour Joshua Ferris	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2014	We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Karen Joy Fowler	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2014	The Lives of Others Neel Mukherjee	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2013	The Testament of Mary Colm Tóibín	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2013	The Lowland Jhumpa Lahiri	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2013	Harvest Jim Crace	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2013	We Need New Names NoViolet Bulawayo	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2013	A Tale for the Time Being Ruth Ozeki	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2012	The Lighthouse Alison Moore	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2012	Swimming Home Deborah Levy	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2012	Narcopolis Jeet Thayil	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2012	The Garden of Evening Mists Tan Twan Eng	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2012	Umbrella Will Self	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2011	Snowdrops A D Miller	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2011	Jamrach's Menagerie Carol Birch	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2011	Half-Blood Blues Esi Edugyan	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2011	The Sisters Brothers Patrick deWitt	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2011	Pigeon English Stephen Kelman	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2010	The Long Song Andrea Levy	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2010	In a Strange Room Damon Galgut	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2010	Room Emma Donoghue	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2010	Parrot and Olivier in America Peter Carey	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2010	C Tom McCarthy	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2009	The Children's Book A. S. Byatt	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2009	The Quickening Maze Adam Foulds	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2009	Summertime J. M. Coetzee	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2009	The Little Stranger Sarah Waters	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2009	The Glass Room Simon Mawer	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2008	Sea of Poppies Amitav Ghosh	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2008	The Clothes on Their Backs Linda Grant	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2008	The Northern Clemency Philip Hensher	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2008	The Secret Scripture Sebastian Barry	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2008	A Fraction of the Whole Steve Toltz	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2007	On Chesil Beach Ian McEwan	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2007	Animal's People Indra Sinha	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2007	Mister Pip Lloyd Jones	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2007	The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2007	Darkmans Nicola Barker	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2006	Mother's Milk Edward St Aubyn	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2006	In the Country of Men Hisham Matar	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2006	The Secret River Kate Grenville	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2006	Carry Me Down M. J. Hyland	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2006	The Night Watch Sarah Waters	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2005	The Accidental Ali Smith	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2005	Arthur and George Julian Barnes	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2005	Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2005	A Long Long Way Sebastian Barry	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2005	On Beauty Zadie Smith	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2004	Bitter Fruit Achmat Dangor	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2004	The Master Colm Tóibín	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2004	Cloud Atlas David Mitchell	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2004	I'll Go to Bed at Noon Gerard Woodward	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2004	The Electric Michelangelo Sarah Hall	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2003	Astonishing Splashes of Colour Clare Morrall	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2003	The Good Doctor Damon Galgut	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2003	Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2003	Brick Lane Monica Ali	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2003	Notes on a Scandal Zoë Heller	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2002	Unless Carol Shields	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2002	Family Matters Rohinton Mistry	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2002	Fingersmith Sarah Waters	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2002	Dirt Music Tim Winton	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2002	The Story of Lucy Gault William Trevor	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2001	Hotel World Ali Smith	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2001	Oxygen Andrew Miller	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2001	number9dream David Mitchell	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2001	Atonement Ian McEwan	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2001	The Dark Room Rachel Seiffert	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2000	The Deposition of Father McGreevy Brian O'Doherty	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2000	When We Were Orphans Kazuo Ishiguro	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2000	English Passengers Matthew Kneale	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2000	The Keepers of Truth Michael Collins	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
2000	The Hiding Place Trezza Azzopardi	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1999	The Map of Love Ahdaf Soueif	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1999	Our Fathers Andrew O'Hagan	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1999	Fasting, Feasting Anita Desai	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1999	The Blackwater Lightship Colm Tóibín	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1999	Headlong Michael Frayn	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1998	Master Georgie Beryl Bainbridge	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1998	England, England Julian Barnes	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1998	The Restraint of Beasts Magnus Mills	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1998	The Industry of Souls Martin Booth	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1998	Breakfast on Pluto Patrick McCabe	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1997	Grace Notes Bernard MacLaverty	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1997	Quarantine Jim Crace	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1997	The Essence of the Thing Madeleine St John	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1997	The Underground Man Mick Jackson	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1997	Europa Tim Parks	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1996	Every Man for Himself Beryl Bainbridge	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1996	Alias Grace Margaret Atwood	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1996	A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1996	Reading in the Dark Seamus Deane	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1996	The Orchard on Fire Shena Mackay	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1995	Morality Play Barry Unsworth	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1995	In Every Face I Meet Justin Cartwright	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1995	The Moor's Last Sigh Salman Rushdie	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1995	The Riders Tim Winton	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1994	Paradise Abdulrazak Gurnah	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1994	The Folding Star Alan Hollinghurst	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1994	Beside the Ocean of Time George Mackay Brown	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1994	Knowledge of Angels Jill Paton Walsh	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1994	Reef Romesh Gunesekera	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1993	The Stone Diaries Carol Shields	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1993	Crossing the River Caryl Phillips	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1993	Remembering Babylon David Malouf	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1993	Scar Tissue Michael Ignatieff	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1993	Under the Frog Tibor Fischer	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1992	Serenity House Christopher Hope	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1992	Black Dogs Ian McEwan	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1992	Daughters of the House Michèle Roberts	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1992	The Butcher Boy Patrick McCabe	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1991	Time's Arrow Martin Amis	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1991	The Van Roddy Doyle	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1991	Such a Long Journey Rohinton Mistry	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1991	The Redundancy of Courage Timothy Mo	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1991	Reading Turgenev William Trevor	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1990	An Awfully Big Adventure Beryl Bainbridge	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1990	Lies of Silence Brian Moore	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1990	Amongst Women John McGahern	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1990	Solomon Gursky Was Here Mordecai Richler	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1990	The Gate of Angels Penelope Fitzgerald	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1989	A Disaffection James Kelman	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1989	The Book of Evidence John Banville	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1989	Cat's Eye Margaret Atwood	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1989	Restoration Rose Tremain	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1989	Jigsaw Sybille Bedford	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1988	Utz Bruce Chatwin	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1988	Nice Work David Lodge	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1988	The Lost Father Marina Warner	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1988	The Beginning of Spring Penelope Fitzgerald	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1988	The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1987	The Colour of Blood Brian Moore	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1987	Anthills of the Savannah Chinua Achebe	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1987	The Book and the Brotherhood Iris Murdoch	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1987	Circles of Deceit Nina Bawden	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1987	Chatterton Peter Ackroyd	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1986	An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1986	The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1986	Gabriel's Lament Paul Bailey	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1986	What's Bred in the Bone Robertson Davies	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1986	An Insular Possession Timothy Mo	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1985	The Good Terrorist Doris Lessing	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1985	The Good Apprentice Iris Murdoch	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1985	The Battle of Pollocks Crossing J. L. Carr	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1985	Last Letters from Hav Jan Morris	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1985	Illywhacker Peter Carey	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1984	In Custody Anita Desai	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1984	Small World David Lodge	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1984	Empire of the Sun J. G. Ballard	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1984	Flaubert's Parrot Julian Barnes	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1984	According to Mark Penelope Lively	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1983	The Illusionist Anita Mason	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1983	Waterland Graham Swift	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1983	Flying to Nowhere John Fuller	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1983	Rates of Exchange Malcolm Bradbury	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1983	Shame Salman Rushdie	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1982	The 27th Kingdom Alice Thomas Ellis	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1982	Silence among the Weapons John Arden	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1982	Constance or Solitary Practices Lawrence Durrell	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1982	Sour Sweet Timothy Mo	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1982	An Ice-Cream War William Boyd	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1981	Rhine Journey Ann Schlee	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1981	The White Hotel D. M. Thomas	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1981	The Sirian Experiments Doris Lessing	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1981	The Comfort of Strangers Ian McEwan	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1981	Good Behaviour Molly Keane	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1981	Loitering with Intent Muriel Spark	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1980	The Beggar Maid Alice Munro	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1980	Clear Light of Day Anita Desai	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1980	Earthly Powers Anthony Burgess	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1980	Pascali's Island Barry Unsworth	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1980	A Month in the Country J. L. Carr	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1980	No Country for Young Men Julia O'Faolain	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1979	Praxis Fay Weldon	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1979	Joseph Julian Rathbone	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1979	Confederates Thomas Keneally	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1979	A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1978	Rumours of Rain André Brink	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1978	A Five-Year Sentence Bernice Rubens	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1978	God on the Rocks Jane Gardam	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1978	Jake's Thing Kingsley Amis	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1978	The Bookshop Penelope Fitzgerald	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1977	Quartet in Autumn Barbara Pym	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1977	Great Granny Webster Caroline Blackwood	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1977	Shadows on Our Skin Jennifer Johnston	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1977	Peter Smart's Confessions Paul Bailey	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1977	The Road to Lichfield Penelope Lively	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1976	An Instant in the Wind André Brink	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1976	The Doctor's Wife Brian Moore	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1976	King Fisher Lives Julian Rathbone	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1976	Rising R. C. Hutchinson	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1976	The Children of Dynmouth William Trevor	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1975	Gossip from the Forest Thomas Keneally	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1974	The Bottle Factory Outing Beryl Bainbridge	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1974	In Their Wisdom C. P. Snow	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1974	Ending Up Kingsley Amis	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1973	The Dressmaker Beryl Bainbridge	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1973	A Green Equinox Elizabeth Mavor	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1973	The Black Prince Iris Murdoch	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1972	Pasmore David Storey	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1972	The Bird of Night Susan Hill	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1972	The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith Thomas Keneally	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1971	Goshawk Squadron Derek Robinson	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1971	Briefing for a Descent into Hell Doris Lessing	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1971	Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont Elizabeth Taylor	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1971	St. Urbain's Horseman Mordecai Richler	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1971	The Big Chapel Thomas Kilroy	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1970	John Brown's Body A. L. Barker	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1970	Eva Trout Elizabeth Bowen	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1970	Bruno's Dream Iris Murdoch	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1970	Fire from Heaven Mary Renault Retrospective prize awarded in 2010 for books published in 1970.	The Booker Prize Lost Man Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1970	The Driver's Seat Muriel Spark Retrospective prize awarded in 2010 for books published in 1970.	The Booker Prize Lost Man Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1970	The Birds on the Trees Nina Bawden Retrospective prize awarded in 2010 for books published in 1970.	The Booker Prize Lost Man Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1970	The Vivisector Patrick White Retrospective prize awarded in 2010 for books published in 1970.	The Booker Prize Lost Man Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1970	The Bay of Noon Shirley Hazzard Retrospective prize awarded in 2010 for books published in 1970.	The Booker Prize Lost Man Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1970	The Conjunction Terence Wheeler	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1970	Mrs. Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel William Trevor	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1969	Figures in a Landscape Barry England	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1969	From Scenes like These Gordon Williams	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1969	The Nice and the Good Iris Murdoch	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1969	The Public Image Muriel Spark	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource
1969	Impossible Object Nicholas Mosley	The Booker Prize	shortlistedSource

Sources and coverage

Records retrieved 2026-09-18. Every winning year in the 1969–2025 coverage period is represented, allowing for the exceptions below. This completeness check covers years, not an independently verified count of every finalist. Each row links to its source.

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