Booker Prize¶

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TABLE author, year, rating, status
FROM "Area/Reading"
WHERE contains(tags, "Booker-prize") AND file.name != "Booker-prize"
SORT rating DESC, title ASC

Booker Prize — full list¶

Source: thebookerprizes.com · Scraped 2025-05-22

2025¶

Longlist: Flesh · Flashlight · The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny · Audition · The Rest of Our Lives · The Land in Winter · Love Forms · The South · Universality · One Boat · Endling · Seascraper · Misinterpretation

2024¶

Winner: Orbital — Samantha Harvey
Shortlist: James · Creation Lake · Held · The Safekeep · Stone Yard Devotional
Longlist: Wild Houses · Headshot · My Friends · This Strange Eventful History · Wandering Stars · Enlightenment · Playground

2023¶

Winner: Prophet Song — Paul Lynch
Shortlist: The Bee Sting · Western Lane · In Ascension · If I Survive You · The House of Doors
Longlist: Study for Obedience · How to Build a Boat · This Other Eden · Pearl · All the Little Bird-Hearts · Glory · The Trees · Treacle Walker

2022¶

Winner: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida — Shehan Karunatilaka
Shortlist: Oh William! · Booth · The Colony · Maps of our Spectacular Bodies · Small Things Like These
Longlist: Trust · Nightcrawling · After Sappho · Glory · The Trees · Treacle Walker

2021¶

Winner: The Promise — Damon Galgut
Shortlist: Klara and the Sun · An Island · China Room · Light Perpetual · The Sweetness of Water
Longlist: A Town Called Solace · A Passage North · No One Is Talking About This · The Fortune Men · Second Place · Great Circle · Bewilderment

2020¶

Winner: Shuggie Bain — Douglas Stuart
Shortlist: This Mournable Body · Burnt Sugar · The Shadow King · Who They Was · The Mirror and the Light
Longlist: Hamnet · Love and Other Thought Experiments · Such a Fun Age · Apeirogon · Redhead · How Much of These Hills is Gold

2019¶

Winner (joint): Girl, Woman, Other — Bernardine Evaristo · The Testaments — Margaret Atwood
Shortlist: Ducks, Newburyport · An Orchestra of Minorities · Lanny · Frankissstein · Night Boat to Tangier · 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
Longlist: Lost Children Archive · The Man Who Saw Everything · My Sister, the Serial Killer · The Wall · Quichotte

2018¶

Winner: Milkman — Anna Burns
Shortlist: Washington Black · Everything Under · The Mars Room · The Overstory · The Long Take
Longlist: From a Low and Quiet Sea · Normal People · Warlight · The Water Cure · Sabrina · In Our Mad and Furious City · Snap

2017¶

Winner: Lincoln in the Bardo — George Saunders
Shortlist: 4 3 2 1 · Exit West · Elmet · Autumn · Days Without End
Longlist: Solar Bones · Reservoir 13 · Ministry of Utmost Happiness · Home Fire · Swing Time

2016¶

Winner: The Sellout — Paul Beatty
Shortlist: His Bloody Project · Eileen · All That Man Is · Do Not Say We Have Nothing · Hot Milk
Longlist: The Schooldays of Jesus · Serious Sweet · The North Water · Hystopia · The Many · My Name is Lucy Barton · Work Like Any Other

2015¶

Winner: A Brief History of Seven Killings — Marlon James
Shortlist: A Little Life · The Fishermen · Satin Island · A Spool of Blue Thread · The Year of the Runaways
Longlist: Did You Ever Have a Family · Sleeping on Jupiter · The Illuminations · Lila · The Moor's Account · The Green Road

2014¶

Winner: The Narrow Road to the Deep North — Richard Flanagan
Shortlist: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves · J · How to Be Both · The Bone Clocks · Orfeo
Longlist: The Blazing World · Us · The Dog · The Wake · History of the Rain

2013¶

Winner: The Luminaries — Eleanor Catton
Shortlist: Harvest · The Lowland · A Tale for the Time Being · The Testament of Mary · We Need New Names

2012¶

Winner: Bring Up the Bodies — Hilary Mantel
Shortlist: The Garden of Evening Mists · Swimming Home · Umbrella · The Lighthouse · Narcopolis

2011¶

Winner: The Sense of an Ending — Julian Barnes
Shortlist: Snowdrops · On Canaan's Side · A Cupboard Full of Coats · The Last Hundred Days · Far to Go · The Testament of Jessie Lamb · Derby Day · The Stranger's Child

2010¶

Winner: The Finkler Question — Howard Jacobson
Shortlist: C · The Betrayal · February · Skippy Dies · Trespass · The Slap · The Stars in the Bright Sky · Room · In a Strange Room

2009¶

Winner: Wolf Hall — Hilary Mantel
Shortlist: The Children's Book · The Quickening Maze · The Glass Room · Brooklyn · Me Cheeta

2008¶

Winner: The White Tiger — Aravind Adiga
Shortlist: The Secret Scripture · Sea of Poppies · The Clothes on Their Backs · The Northern Clemency · A Fraction of the Whole

2007¶

Winner: The Gathering — Anne Enright
Shortlist: Mister Pip · On Chesil Beach · Animal's People · Gifted · The Gift of Rain

2006¶

Winner: The Inheritance of Loss — Kiran Desai
Shortlist: Carry Me Down · In the Country of Men · Mother's Milk · The Night Watch · The Secret River

2005¶

Winner: The Sea — John Banville
Shortlist: Arthur & George · A Long Long Way · Never Let Me Go · The Accidental · On Beauty

2004¶

Winner: The Line of Beauty — Alan Hollinghurst
Shortlist: The Electric Michelangelo · Cloud Atlas · The Master · Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell · Purple Hibiscus

2003¶

Winner: Vernon God Little — DBC Pierre
Shortlist: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time · Brick Lane · The Namesake · A Strange and Sublime Address

2002¶

Winner: Life of Pi — Yann Martel
Shortlist: Family Matters · Unless · The Story of Lucy Gault · Fingersmith

2001¶

Winner: True History of the Kelly Gang — Peter Carey
Shortlist: Any Human Heart · Spies · If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things · Atonement

2000¶

Winner: The Blind Assassin — Margaret Atwood
Shortlist: When We Were Orphans · English Passengers · Anil's Ghost · The Keepers of Truth

1999¶

Winner: Disgrace — J. M. Coetzee
Shortlist: Headlong · Eucalyptus · Celestial Harmonies · Amy and Isabelle

1998¶

Winner: Amsterdam — Ian McEwan
Shortlist: The God of Small Things · Quarantine · The Poisonwood Bible

1997¶

Winner: The God of Small Things — Arundhati Roy
Shortlist: Enduring Love · The Porcupine · Madeleine · Last Orders

1996¶

Winner: Last Orders — Graham Swift
Shortlist: Reading in the Dark · The Orchard on Fire · A Fine Balance · Every Man for Himself

1995¶

Winner: The Ghost Road — Pat Barker
Shortlist: In Every Face I Meet · The Moor's Last Sigh · Morality Play · The Riders · Reef

1994¶

Winner: How Late It Was, How Late — James Kelman
Shortlist: The Stone Diaries · Beside the Ocean of Time · Knowledge of Angels · What a Carve Up!

1993¶

Winner: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha — Roddy Doyle
Shortlist: Remembering Babylon · Crossing the River · Under the Frog · Scar Tissue

1992¶

Winner (joint): The English Patient — Michael Ondaatje · Sacred Hunger — Barry Unsworth
Shortlist: The Butcher Boy · Black Dogs · Daughters of the House · The Famished Road

1991¶

Winner: The Famished Road — Ben Okri
Shortlist: Time's Arrow · Such a Long Journey · The Van · The Redundancy of Courage · Reading Turgenev

1990¶

Winner: Possession — A. S. Byatt
Shortlist: An Awfully Big Adventure · The Gate of Angels · Amongst Women · Lies of Silence · Solomon Gursky Was Here

1989¶

Winner: The Remains of the Day — Kazuo Ishiguro
Shortlist: Cat's Eye · The Book of Evidence · Jigsaw · Restoration

1988¶

Winner: Oscar and Lucinda — Peter Carey
Shortlist: The Beginning of Spring · Nice Work · The Satanic Verses · The Lost Father

1987¶

Winner: Moon Tiger — Penelope Lively
Shortlist: Chatterton · Circles of Deceit · The Colour of Blood · The Book and the Brotherhood

1986¶

Winner: The Old Devils — Kingsley Amis
Shortlist: The Handmaid's Tale · Gabriel's Lament · What's Bred in the Bone · An Artist of the Floating World

1985¶

Winner: The Bone People — Keri Hulme
Shortlist: Illywhacker · Last Letters from Hav · The Good Apprentice

1984¶

Winner: Hotel du Lac — Anita Brookner
Shortlist: Empire of the Sun · Flaubert's Parrot · In Custody · Small World

1983¶

Winner: Life and Times of Michael K — J. M. Coetzee
Shortlist: Rates of Exchange · Shame · Waterland

1982¶

Winner: Schindler's Ark — Thomas Keneally
Shortlist: An Ice-Cream War · The Mosquito Coast

1981¶

Winner: Midnight's Children — Salman Rushdie
Shortlist: Rites of Passage · The Comfort of Strangers · The White Hotel

1980¶

Winner: Rites of Passage — William Golding
Shortlist: Earthly Powers · Clear Light of Day

1979¶

Winner: Offshore — Penelope Fitzgerald
Shortlist: The Beggar Maid · Staying On · Confederates

1978¶

Winner: The Sea, the Sea — Iris Murdoch
Shortlist: Rumours of Rain · God on the Rocks · The Five-Year Sentence · Staying On

1977¶

Winner: Staying On — Paul Scott
Shortlist: Quartet in Autumn · Saville

1976¶

Winner: Saville — David Storey
Shortlist: Holiday · Troubles · The Bay of Noon

1975¶

Winner: Heat and Dust — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Shortlist: Fire From Heaven · The Driver's Seat

1974¶

Winner (joint): The Conservationist — Nadine Gordimer · Holiday — Stanley Middleton

1973¶

Winner: The Siege of Krishnapur — J. G. Farrell

1972¶

Winner: G. — John Berger

1971¶

Winner: In a Free State — V. S. Naipaul

1970¶

Winner: The Elected Member — Bernice Rubens

1969¶

Winner: Something to Answer For — P. H. Newby

International Booker Prize — full list¶

Source: thebookerprizes.com · Scraped 2025-05-22. Prize was biennial (body of work) 2005–2015; annual (single translated novel) from 2016.

2026¶

Winner: Taiwan Travelogue — Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, tr. Lin King
Shortlist: The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran · She Who Remains · The Director · On Earth As It Is Beneath · The Witch · We Are Green and Trembling · The Remembered Soldier · The Deserters · Small Comfort · The Duke · Women Without Men · The Wax Child

2025¶

Winner: Heart Lamp — Banu Mushtaq, tr. Deepa Bhasthi
Shortlist: On the Calculation of Volume I · Small Boat · Under the Eye of the Big Bird · Perfection · A Leopard-Skin Hat · The Book of Disappearance · There's a Monster Behind the Door · Solenoid · Reservoir Bitches · Hunchback · Eurotrash · On a Woman's Madness

2024¶

Winner: Kairos — Jenny Erpenbeck, tr. Michael Hofmann
Shortlist: Not a River · The Details · Mater 2-10 · Crooked Plow · What I'd Rather Not Think About · Simpatía · White Nights · A Dictator Calls · The Silver Bone · Lost on Me · The House on Via Gemito · Undiscovered

2023¶

Winner: Time Shelter — Georgi Gospodinov, tr. Angela Rodel
Shortlist: Ninth Building · A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding · Pyre · While We Were Dreaming · The Birthday Party · Jimi Hendrix Live In Lviv · Is Mother Dead

2022¶

Winner: Tomb of Sand — Geetanjali Shree, tr. Daisy Rockwell
Shortlist: Cursed Bunny · A New Name: Septology VI–VII · Heaven · Elena Knows · The Books of Jacob · After the Sun · More Than I Love My Life · The Book of Mother · Paradais · Love in the Big City · Happy Stories, Mostly · Phenotypes

2021¶

Winner: At Night All Blood Is Black — David Diop, tr. Anna Moschovakis
Shortlist: The Dangers of Smoking in Bed · The Employees · When We Cease to Understand the World · In Memory of Memory · The War of the Poor · An Inventory of Losses · Minor Detail · Wretchedness

2020¶

Winner: The Discomfort of Evening — Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, tr. Michele Hutchison
Shortlist: The Enlightenment of The Greengage Tree · The Adventures of China Iron · Tyll · Hurricane Season · The Memory Police · Red Dog · The Other Name: Septology I–II · The Eighth Life · Serotonin · Faces on the Tip of My Tongue · Little Eyes · Mac and His Problem

2019¶

Winner: Celestial Bodies — Jokha Alharthi, tr. Marilyn Booth
Shortlist: The Years · The Pine Islands · Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead · The Shape of the Ruins · The Remainder · Love in the New Millennium · At Dusk · Jokes for the Gunmen · Four Soldiers · Mouthful of Birds · The Faculty of Dreams · The Death of Murat Idrissi

2018¶

Winner: Flights — Olga Tokarczuk, tr. Jennifer Croft
Shortlist: Vernon Subutex 1 · The White Book · The World Goes On · Like a Fading Shadow · Frankenstein in Baghdad · The 7th Function of Language · The Impostor · Go, Went, Gone · Die, My Love · The Flying Mountain · The Stolen Bicycle · The Dinner Guest

2017¶

Winner: A Horse Walks into a Bar — David Grossman, tr. Jessica Cohen
Shortlist: Compass · The Unseen · Mirror, Shoulder, Signal · Judas · Fever Dream · Swallowing Mercury · War and Turpentine · The Traitor's Niche · Fish Have No Feet · The Explosion Chronicles · Black Moses · Bricks and Mortar

2016¶

Winner: The Vegetarian — Han Kang, tr. Deborah Smith
Shortlist: A General Theory of Oblivion · The Story of the Lost Child · The Four Books · A Strangeness in My Mind · A Whole Life · Mend the Living · Man Tiger · Tram 83 · A Cup of Rage · Ladivine · Death · White Hunger

2015¶

(Biennial prize — body of work. László Krasznahorkai)

2013¶

(Biennial prize — body of work. Lydia Davis)

2011¶

(Biennial prize — body of work. Philip Roth)

2009¶

(Biennial prize — body of work. Alice Munro)

2007¶

(Biennial prize — body of work. Chinua Achebe)

2005¶

(Inaugural prize — body of work. Ismail Kadare)