The Man Booker Prize Winners List

The Man Booker Prize is popularly known as the Booker Prize, awarded each year for the best original full length novel written in English by a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe. The Booker Prize winners are assured of global acclaim and literary success. Booker Prize Winners thus get an assurance of enhanced readership. The Man Booker Prize is therefore of great value to writers and the book trade. Besides winning, being nominated for the Booker long list is also a mark of distinction. Presented below are the names of renowned Booker Prize winners and Booker Prize nominees.

2012

• Bring up the Bodies - by Hilary Mantel - Winner!
• Narcopolis - by Jeet Thayil
• Swimming Home - by Deborah Levy
• Umbrella - by Will Self
• The Lighthouse - by Alison Moore
• The Garden of Evening Mists - by Tan Twan Eng

2011

• The Sense Of An Ending - by Julian Barnes - Winner!
• Jamrach S Menagerie - by Carol Birch
• The Sisters Brothers - by Patrick De Witt
• Pigeon English - by Stephen Kelman
• Snowdrops - by A D Miller
• Half Blood Blues - by Esi Edugyan

2010

• The Finkler Question - by Howard Jacobson - Winner!
• The Slap - by Christos Tsiolkas
• Trespass - by Rose Tremain
• Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet - by David Mitchell
• February - by Lisa Moore

2009

• The Children's Book - by A S Byatt
• Summertime - by J M Coetzee
• Wolf Hall - by Hilary Mantel - Winner!
• The Glass Room - by Simon Mawer
• The Little Stranger - by Sarah Waters

2008

• The White Tiger - by Aravind Adiga - Winner!
• 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 - Winner!
• 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

• Inheritance of Loss - by Kiran Desai - Winner!
• The Secret River - by Kate Grenville & Margaret Elphinstone
• 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 - Winner!
• Arthur and 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 - by Zadie Smith

2004

• The Line of Beauty - by Alan Hollinghurst - Winner!
• Bitter Fruit - by Achmat Dangor
• The Electric Michelangelo - by Sarah Hall
• Cloud Atlas - by David Mitchell
• The Master - by Colm Toibin
• I'll Go to Bed at Noon - by Gerard Woodward

2003

• Vernon God Little - by D B C Pierre - Winner!
• Brick Lane - by Monica Ali
• Oryx and Crake - by Margaret Atwood
• The Good Doctor - by Damon Galgut
• What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal: A Novel - by Zoe Heller
• Astonishing Splashes of Colour - by Clare Morrall

2002

• Life of Pi - by Yann Martel - Winner!
• Family Matters - by Rohinton Mistry
• Unless - by Carol Shields
• The Story of Lucy Gault - by William Trevor
• Fingersmith - by Sarah Waters
• Dirt Music - by Tim Winton

2001

• True History of The Kelly Gang - by Peter Carey - Winner!
• Atonement - by Ian Mc Ewan
• Oxygen - by Andrew Miller
• Number9dream - by David Mitchell
• The Dark Room - by Rachel Seiffert
• Hotel World - by Ali Smith

2000

• The Blind Assassin - by Margaret Atwood - Winner!
• The Hiding Place - by Trezza Azzopardi
• Keepers of Truth - 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 - Winner!
• 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 Toibin

1998

• Amsterdam - by Ian Mc Ewan - Winner!
• Master Georgie - by Beryl Bainbridge
• England, England - by Julian Barnes
• Breakfast on Pluto - by Patrick Mc Cabe
• The Restraint of Beasts - by Magnus Mills
• The Industry of Souls - by Martin Booth

1997

• The God of Small Things: Winner of the 1997 Booker Prize - by Arundhati Roy - Winner!
• Grace Notes - by Bernard Mac Laverty
• The Underground Man - by Mick Jackson
• Europa - by Tim Parks
• Quarantine - by Jim Crace
• The Essence of the Thing - by Madeleine St. John

1996

• Last Orders (Spanish Edition) - by Graham Swift - Winner!
• Every Man for Himself - by Beryl Bainbridge
• Alias Grace - by Margaret Atwood
• Reading in the Dark - by Seamus Deane
• A Fine Balance - by Rohinton Mistry
• Orchard on Fire - by Shena Mac Kay

1995

• The Ghost Road - by Pat Barker - Winner!
• The Moor's Last Sigh - by Salman Rushdie
• Morality Play - by Barry Unsworth
• Riders - by Tim Winton
• In Every Face I Meet - by Justin Cartwright

1994

• How Late It Was, How Late - by James Kelman - Winner!
• Beside the Ocean of Time - by George Mac Kay Brown
• Reef - by Romesh Gunesekera
• The Folding Star - by Alan Hollinghurst

1993

• Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (English) - by Roddy Doyle - Winner!
• Under the Frog - by Tibor Fischer
• Remembering Babylon - by David Malouf
• Crossing the River - by Caryl Phillips

1992

• The English Patient - by Michael Ondaatje - Cowinner!
• Sacred Hunger - by Barry Unsworth - Cowinner!
• The Butcher Boy - by Patrick Mc Cabe
• Black Dogs - by Ian Mc Ewan
• Serenity House - by Christopher Hope
• Daughters of the House - by Michele Roberts

1991

• The Famished Road - by Ben Okri - Winner!
• Two Lives - by William Trevor
• Time's Arrow - by Martin Amis
• The Van - by Roddy Doyle
• Such a Long Journey - by Rohinton Mistry
• The Redundancy of Courage - by Timothy Mo

1990

• Possession (Vintage Classics) - by A S Byatt - Winner!
• An Awfully Big Adventure - by Beryl Bainbridge
• The Gate of Angels - by Penelope Fitzgerald
• Amongst Women - by John Mc Gahern
• Lies Of Silence - by Brian Moore
• Solomon Gursky Was Here - by Mordecai Richler

1989

• The Remains of the Day - by Kazuo Ishiguro - Winner!
• Cat's Eye - by Margaret Atwood
• The Book of Evidence - by John Banville
• Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) - by Sybille Bedford
• A Disaffection - by James Kelman
• Restoration: Tie-In Edition - by Rose Tremain

1988

• Oscar and Lucinda - by Peter Carey - Winner!
• Utz - by Bruce Chatwin
• The Beginning of Spring - by Penelope Fitzgerald
• Nice Work (Spanish Edition) - by David Lodge
• The Satanic Verses - by Salman Rushdie
• Lost Father - by Marina Warner

1987

• Moon Tiger - by Penelope Lively - Winner!
• Anthills of the Savannah - by Chinua Achebe
• Chatterton - by Peter Ackroyd
• Circles of Deceit - by Nina Bawden
• The Colour of Blood - by Brian Moore
• The Book and the Brotherhood - by Iris Murdoch

1986

• The Handmaid's Tale - by Margaret Atwood
• The Cornish Trilogy: What's Bred in the Bone, The Rebel Angels, The Lyre of Orpheus - by Robertson Davies
• An Artist of the Floating World - by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Old Devils - by Kingsley Amis - Winner!
• Gabriel's Lament - by Paul Bailey
• An Insular Possession - by Timothy Mo

1985

• The Bone People - by Keri Hulme - Winner!
• Illywhacker - by Peter Carey
• The Good Terrorist - by Doris May Lessing
• Hav: Comprising Last Letters from Hav of the Myrmidons - by Jan Morris
• Good Apprentice - by Iris Murdoch
• The Battle of Pollock's Crossing - by J.L. Carr

1984

• Hotel Du Lac (Spanish Edition) - by Anita Brookner - Winner!
• Empire of the Sun - by J G Ballard
• Flaubert's Parrot - by Julian Barnes
• In Custody - by Anita Desai
• According to Mark - by Penelope Lively
• Small World - by David Lodge

1983

• Life and Times of Michael K - by J M Coetzee - Winner!
• Shame - by Salman Rushdie
• Waterland (Picador Thirty) - by Graham Swift
• Rates of Exchange - by Malcolm Bradbury
• The Illusionist - by Anita Mason
• Flying to Nowhere - by John Fuller

1982

• Schindler's List - by Thomas Keneally - Winner!
• An Ice- cream War - by William Boyd
• The Secret Lives of Alexandra David- Neel: A Biography of the Explorer of Tibet and Its Forbidden Practices - by Barbara Foster
• The 27th Kingdom - by Alice Thomas Ellis
• Silence Among the Weapons - by John Arden
• Sour Sweet - by Timothy Mo

1981

• Midnight's Children - by Salman Rushdie - Winner!
• Good Behaviour - by Molly Keane
• The Sirian Experiments - by Doris May Lessing
• Comfort of Strangers - by Ian Mc Ewan
• Loitering with Intent - by Muriel Spark
• The White Hotel - by D M Thomas
• Rhine Journey - by Anne Schlee

1980

• Rites of Passage (Sea Trilogy) - by William Golding - Winner!
• Earthly Powers (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) - by Anthony Burgess
• A Month in the Country - by J Carr
• The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose - by Alice Munro
• Pascali's Island - by Barry Unsworth

1979

• Offshore - by Penelope Fitzgerald - Winner!
• The Widow and Her Hero - 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 - Winner!
• Jake's Thing (Vintage Classics) - by Kingsley Amis
• Rumors of Rain - by Andre Brink
• Bookshop - by Penelope Fitzgerald
• A Five Year Sentence - by Bernice Rubens
• God on the Rocks - by Jane Gardam

1977

• Staying On - by Paul Scott - Winner!
• Great Granny Webster - by Caroline Blackwood
• The Road to Lichfield - by Penelope Lively
• Quartet in Autumn - by Barbara Pym
• Peter Smart's Confessions - by Paul Bailey
• Shadows on Our Skin - by Jennifer Johnston

1976

• An Instant in the Wind - by Andre Brink
• The Children of Dynmouth (Penguin Modern Classics) - by William Trevor
• Saville - by David Storey - Winner!
• Rising - by R.C. Hutchinson
• The Doctor's Wife - by Brian Moore
• King Fisher Lives - by Julian Rathbone

1975

• Heat and Dust - by R P Jhabvala - Winner!
• Gossip from the Forest - by Thomas Keneally

1974

• The Conservationist - by Nadine Gordimer - Cowinner!
• Holiday - by Stanley Middleto - Cowinner!
• 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 - Winner!
• The Black Prince (Vintage Classics) - by J G Farrell
• The Dressmaker - by Beryl Bainbridge
• The Green Equinox - by Elizabeth Mavor

1972

• The Bird of Night - by Susan Hill - Winner!
• G: A NOVEL - by John Berger
• The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith - by Thomas Keneally
• Pasmore - by David Storey

1971

• In a Free State - by V S Naipaul - Winner!
• Briefing for a Descent Into Hell - by Doris Lessing
• Mordecai Richler: Leaving St. Urbain - by Reinhold Kramer
• Goshawk Squadron - by Derek Robinson
• Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont - by Elizabeth Taylor
• The Big Chapel - by Thomas Kilroy

1970

• The Elected Member - by Bernice Rubens - Winner!
• John Brown's Body - by A L Barker
• Eva Trout: Or Changing Scenes (Twentieth Century Classics S. ) - by Elizabeth Bowen
• Bruno's Dream - by Iris Murdoch
• Mrs. Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel - by William Trevor
• The Conjunction - by T. Wheeler

1969

• Impossible Object - by Nicholas Mosley
• The Nice and the Good - by Iris Murdoch
• The Public Image - by Muriel Spark
• Something to Answer For - by P.H. New - Winner!
• Figures in a Landscape - by Barry England
• From Scenes Like These - by G.M. Williams