From Margaret Atwood to Kazuo Ishiguro, the Booker Prize has been celebrating and rewarding the best writers of long-form fiction in the English language since 1969. Here is a definitive list of the winning, shortlisted and longlisted authors alongside their novels, since the prize’s inception

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The Booker Prize is the world’s leading literary award for a single work of fiction. Founded in the UK in 1969, it initially rewarded Commonwealth writers and now spans the globe: it is open to anyone regardless of origin.

Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of our judges, the best sustained work of fiction written in English and published in the UK and Ireland. Find out more about the prize’s origins here

The winning book is a work that not only speaks to our current times, but also one that will endure and join the pantheon of great literature. 

The winner of the inaugural prize was P.H Newby in 1969, with his novel Something To Answer For. Since then, some of the world’s most acclaimed and celebrated writers have won the prize with an array of remarkable fiction, including V.S. Naipaul, Iris Murdoch, William Golding, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Bernardine Evaristo and Hilary Mantel, to name but a few. You can discover more authors and novels in the Booker Library, here

The winner of the Prize now receives £50,000, with £2,500 awarded to each of the shortlisted authors. Most recently, Prophet Song by Paul Lynch was announced as the winner of the Booker Prize 2023 at a ceremony in London. 

1969

Winner: 

Something to Answer For by P. H. Newby (Faber & Faber)

Shortlist: 

Figures in a Landscape by Barry England (Jonathan Cape)

Impossible Object by Nicholas Mosley (Hodder & Stoughton)

The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch (Chatto & Windus)

The Public Image by Muriel Spark (Macmillan)

From Scenes Like These by Gordon Williams (Secker & Warburg)

Judges:

David FarrerFrank Kermode, Stephen Spender, Rebecca WestW. L. Webb

P.H. Newby

The Lost Man Booker Prize

J.G. Farrell

1970

Bernice Rubens 1970

1971

Winner: 

In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul (Deutsch)

Shortlist: 

The Big Chapel by Thomas Kilroy (Faber & Faber)

Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing (Jonathan Cape)

St. Urbain’s Horseman by Mordecai Richler (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

Goshawk Squadron by Derek Robinson (Heinemann)

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor (Chatto & Windus)

Judges: 

John Gross (Chair), Saul Bellow, John Fowles, Antonia Fraser, Philip Toynbee

1971 Booker Prize

1972

Winner: 

G. by John Berger (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

Shortlist: 

The Bird of Night by Susan Hill (Hamish Hamilton)

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally (Angus & Robertson)

Pasmore by David Storey (Longman)

Judges:

Cyril Connolly (Chair), George SteinerElizabeth Bowen

John Berger, 1972

1973

Winner: 

The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

Shortlist: 

The Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge (Duckworth)

A Green Equinox by Elizabeth Mavor (Michael Joseph)

The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch (Chatto & Windus)

Judges: 

Karl Miller (Chair), Edna O’BrienMary McCarthy

1973 Booker Prize

1974

Winners: 

The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer (Jonathan Cape)

Holiday by Stanley Middleton (Hutchinson)

Shortlist: 

Ending Up by Kingsley Amis (Jonathan Cape)

The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge (Duckworth)

In Their Wisdom by C. P. Snow (Macmillan)

Judges:

Ion Trewin (Chair), A. S. ByattElizabeth Jane Howard

1974 Booker Prize

1975

Winner: 

Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (John Murray)

Shortlist:

Gossip from the Forest by Thomas Keneally (Collins)

Judges: 

Angus Wilson (Chair), Peter Ackroyd, Susan Hill, Roy Fuller

 

1975 Booker Prize

1976

Winner:

Saville by David Storey (Jonathan Cape)

Shortlist: 

An Instant in the Wind by André Brink (W. H. Allen) 

Rising by R. C. Hutchinson (Michael Joseph)

The Doctor’s Wife by Brian Moore (Jonathan Cape)

King Fisher Lives by Julian Rathbone (Michael Joseph)

The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor (Bodley Head)

Judges: 

Walter Allen (Chair), Mary Wilson, Francis King

David Storey receives the 1976 Booker prize trophy

1977

1977 Booker Prize

1978

Winner:

The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch (Chatto & Windus)

Shortlist:

Jake’s Thing by Kingsley Amis (Hutchinson)

Rumours of Rain by André Brink (W. H. Allen)

The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald (Duckworth)

God on the Rocks by Jane Gardam (Hamish Hamilton)

A Five-Year Sentence by Bernice Rubens (W. H. Allen)

Judges: 

A.J Ayer (Chair), Derwent May, P. H. Newby, Angela Huth, Clare Boylan

Iris Murdoch wins the Booker Prize 1978

1979

Winner:

Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald (Collins)

Shortlist:

Confederates by Thomas Keneally (Collins)

A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul (Deutsch) 

Joseph by Julian Rathbone (Michael Joseph) 

Praxis by Fay Weldon (Hodder and Stoughton) 

Judges: 

Asa Briggs (Chair), Benny Green, Michael Ratcliffe, Hilary Spurling, Paul Theroux

1979 Booker Prize

1980

1980 Booker Prize

1981

Salman Rushdie in conversation at the 1981 Booker Prize ceremony

1982

1982 Booker Prize

1983

Winner:

Life and Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee (Secker & Warburg)

Shortlist:

Rates of Exchange by Malcolm Bradbury (Secker & Warburg)

Flying to Nowhere by John Fuller (Salamander)

The Illusionist by Anita Mason (Hamish Hamilton)

Shame by Salman Rushdie (Jonathan Cape)

Waterland by Graham Swift (Heinemann)

Judges:

Fay Weldon (Chair), Angela Carter, Terence Kilmartin, Peter Porter, Libby Purves

1983 Booker Prize

1984

Winner:

Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner (Jonathan Cape)
    
Shortlist:

Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard (Gollancz)

Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes (Jonathan Cape)

In Custody by Anita Desai (Heinemann)

According to Mark by Penelope Lively (Heinemann)

Small World by David Lodge (Secker & Warburg)

Judges:

Richard Cobb (Chair), Anthony Curtis, Polly Devlin, John Fuller, Ted Rowlands

1984 Booker Prize

1985

Winner:

The Bone People by Keri Hulme (Hodder & Stoughton)

Shortlist:

Illywhacker by Peter Carey (Faber & Faber)

The Battle of Pollocks Crossing by J. L. Carr (Viking)

The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing (Jonathan Cape)

Last Letters from Hav by Jan Morris (Viking)

The Good Apprentice by Iris Murdoch (Chatto & Windus)

Judges:

Norman St John-Stevas (Chair), Nina Bawden, J. W. Lambert, Joanna Lumley, Marina Warner

1985 Booker Prize award for Bone People

1986

1986 Booker Prize

1987

Winner: 

Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively (Deutsch)

Shortlist:

Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe (Heinemann)

Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd (Hamish Hamilton)

Circles of Deceit by Nina Bawden (Macmillan)

The Colour of Blood by Brian Moore (Jonathan Cape)

The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch (Chatto & Windus)

Judges: 

P. D. James (Chair), Selina HastingsAllan MassieTrevor McDonaldJohn B. Thompson

1987 Booker Prize

1988

Winner:

Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey (Faber & Faber)

Shortlist:

Utz by Bruce Chatwin (Jonathan Cape)

The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald (Collins)

Nice Work by David Lodge (Secker & Warburg)

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie (Viking)

The Lost Father by Marina Warner (Chatto & Windus)

Judges:

Michael Foot, Sebastian Faulks, Philip French, Blake Morrison, Rose Tremain

1988 Booker Prize

1989

Winner: 

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber)

Shortlist:

Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood (Bloomsbury)

The Book of Evidence by John Banville (Secker & Warburg)

Jigsaw by Sybille Bedford (Hamish Hamilton)

A Disaffection by James Kelman (Secker & Warburg)

Restoration by Rose Tremain (Hamish Hamilton)

Judges: 

David Lodge, Maggie Gee, Helen McNeil, David Profumo, Edmund White

1989 Booker Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro

1990

A.S. Byatt 1990

1991

Ben Okri wins the 1991 Booker Prize

1992

1992 Booker Prize ceremony

1993

Winner:

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle (Secker & Warburg)
    
Shortlist:

Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer (Polygon)

Scar Tissue by Michael Ignatieff (Chatto & Windus)

Remembering Babylon by David Malouf (Chatto & Windus)

Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips (Bloomsbury)

The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (4th Estate)

Judges: 

Grey Gowrie (Chair), Gillian Beer, Anne Chisholm, Nicholas Clee, Olivier Todd

 Roddy Doyle, 1993

1994

Winner:

How late it was, how late by James Kelman (Secker & Warburg)
    
Shortlist:

Reef by Romesh Gunesekera (Granta Books)

Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah (Hamish Hamilton)

The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst (Chatto & Windus)

Beside the Ocean of Time by George Mackay Brown (John Murray)

Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh (Green Bay)

Judges: 

John Bayley (Chair), Julia NeubergerAlastair Niven, Alan TaylorJames Wood

1994 Booker Prize judges

1995

1995 Booker Prize judges

1996

Graham Swift 1996

1997

Arundhati Roy, winner of the 1997 Booker Prize for The God of Small Things.

1998

Ian McEwan

1999

Winner:

Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (Secker & Warburg)

Shortlist:

Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai (Chatto & Windus)

Headlong by Michael Frayn (Faber & Faber)

Our Fathers by Andrew O’Hagan (Faber & Faber)

The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif (Bloomsbury)

The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín (Picador)

Judges:

Gerald Kaufman (Chair), Shena Mackay, John Sutherland, Boyd Tonkin, Natasha Walter

J.M. Coetzee

2000

Margaret Atwood 2000

2001

Winner:

True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (Faber & Faber)  

Shortlist:

Atonement by Ian McEwan  (Jonathan Cape)

Oxygen by Andrew Miller (Sceptre)

number9dream by David Mitchell (Sceptre)

The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert (William Heinemann)

Hotel World by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)

Longlist:

Atonement by Ian McEwan  (Jonathan Cape)

According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge (Duckworth)

If The Invader Comes by Derek Beaven (4th Estate)

A Son of War by Melvyn Bragg (Sceptre)

Shamrock Tea by Ciaran Carson (Granta Books)

The Element of Water by Stevie Davies (The Women’s Press)

The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer (Bloomsbury)

Dogside Story by Patricia Grace (The Women’s Press)

By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah (Bloomsbury)

How to Be Good by Nick Hornby (Viking)

Wolfy and the Strudelbakers by Zvi Jagendorf (Dewi Lewis)

Translated Accounts by James Kelman (Secker & Warburg)

The Blue Tango by Eion McNamee (Faber & Faber)

Fairness by Ferdinand Mount (Chatto & Windus)

Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul (Picador)

The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman (Scholastic)

The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri (Bloomsbury)

The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart (Bloomsbury)

The Leto Bundle by Marina Warner (Chatto & Windus)

Oxygen by Andrew Miller (Sceptre)

number9dream by David Mitchell (Sceptre)

The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert (William Heinemann)

Hotel World by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)

Judges: 

Kenneth Baker (Chair), Philip Hensher, Michèle Roberts, Kate Summerscale, Rory Watson

Peter Carey 2001

2002

Yann Martel on winning the Man Booker Prize for Life of Pi, October 2002

2003

DBC Pierre 2003

2005

Winner:

The Sea by John Banville (Picador)   

Shortlist:

Arthur & George by Julian Barnes (Jonathan Cape)

A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry (Faber & Faber)

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber)

The Accidental by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)

On Beauty by Zadie Smith (Hamish Hamilton)

Longlist:

Arthur & George by Julian Barnes (Jonathan Cape)

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka (Viking)

In the Fold by Rachel Cusk (Faber & Faber)

The People’s Act of Love by James Meek (Canongate)

Saturday by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape)

This Is The Country by William Wall (Sceptre)

Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie (Jonathan Carp)

This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson (Headline Review)

Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel (4th Estate)

Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee (Secker & Warburg)

All For Love by Dan Jacobson (Hamish Hamilton)

The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw (4th Estate)

A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry (Faber & Faber)

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber)

The Accidental by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)

On Beauty by Zadie Smith (Hamish Hamilton)

Judges: 

John Sutherland (Chair), Lindsay Duguid, Rick Gekoski, Josephine Hart, David Sexton

John Banville 2005

2006

Kiran Desai, 2006

2007

Winner:

The Gathering by Anne Enright (Hamish Hamilton)

Shortlist:

Darkmans by Nicola Barker (4th Estate)

The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (Hamish Hamilton)

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (John Murray)

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape)

Animal’s People by Indra Sinha (Simon & Schuster)

Longlist:

Darkmans by Nicola Barker (Fourth Estate)

Self Help by Edward Docx (Picador)

The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davis (Sceptre)

Gifted by Nikita Lalwani (Penguin)

The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (Hamish Hamilton)

What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn (Tindal Street Press)

Winnie & Wolf by A.N. Wilson (Hutchinson)

Consolation by Michael Redhill (William Heinemann)

The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng (Myrmidon)

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (John Murray)

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape)

Animal’s People by Indra Sinha (Simon & Schuster)

Judges: 

Howard Davies (Chair), Wendy Cope, Giles Foden, Ruth Scurr, Imogen Stubbs

Anne Enright, 2007

2008

Aravind Adiga, 2008

2009

Winner:

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (4th Estate) 

Shortlist:

The Children’s Book by A. S. Byatt (Chatto and Windus)

Summertime by J. M. Coetzee (Harvill Secker)

The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds (Jonathan Cape)

The Glass Room by Simon Mawer (Little, Brown)

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (Virago)

Longlist:

The Children’s Book by A. S. Byatt (Chatto and Windus)

Me Cheeta by James Lever (4th Estate)

How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall (Faber & Faber)

The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey (Jonathan Cape)

Not Untrue & Not Unkind by Edward O’Loughlin (Penguin)

Heliopolis by James Scudamore (Harvill Secker)

Summertime by J. M. Coetzee (Harvill Secker)

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín (Viking)

Love and Summer by William Trevor (Viking)

The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds (Jonathan Cape)

The Glass Room by Simon Mawer (Little, Brown)

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (Virago)

Judges:

James Naughtie (Chair), Lucasta Miller, John Mullan, Sue PerkinsMichael Prodger

Hilary Mantel, 2009

2010

Winner:

The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson (Bloomsbury) 

Shortlist:

Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey (Faber & Faber)

Room by Emma Donoghue (Picador)

In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut (Atlantic Books)

The Long Song by Andrea Levy (Hachette)

C by Tom McCarthy (Jonathan Cape)

Longlist:

Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey (Faber & Faber)

The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore (Fig Tree)

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell (Sceptre)

February by Lisa Moore (Random House)

Skippy Dies by Paul Murray (Hamish Hamilton)

Room by Emma Donoghue (Picador)

Trespass by Rose Tremain (Chatto & Windus)

The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas (Allen & Unwin)

The Stars in the Bright Sky by Alan Warner (Jonathan Cape)

In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut (Atlantic Books)

The Long Song by Andrea Levy (Hachette)

C by Tom McCarthy (Jonathan Cape)

Judges:

Andrew Motion (Chair), Rosie Blau, Deborah Bull, Tom Sutcliffe, Frances Wilson

Howard Jacobson, 2010

2011

Julian Barnes 2011

2012

Winner:

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (4th Estate)

Shortlist:

Swimming Home by Deborah Levy (And Other Stories/Faber & Faber)

The Lighthouse by Alison Moore (Salt Publishing)

Umbrella by Will Self (Bloomsbury)

The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng (Myrmidon Books)

Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil (Faber & Faber)

Longlist:

Swimming Home by Deborah Levy (And Other Stories/Faber & Faber)

The Lighthouse by Alison Moore (Salt Publishing)

The Yips by Nicola Barker (4th Estate)

The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman (Sceptre)

Umbrella by Will Self (Bloomsbury)

The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng (Myrmidon Books)

Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil (Faber & Faber)

Skios by Michael Frayn (Faber & Faber)

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (Doubleday)

Communion Town by Sam Thompson (4th Estate)

Philida by André Brink (Harvill Secker)

Judges:

Peter Stothard (Chair), Dinah Birch, Dan Stevens, Amanda Foreman, Bharat Tandon

Hilary Mantel, Man Booker Prize winner 2012

2013

Winner:

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (Granta)    

Shortlist:

We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo (Chatto & Windus)

Harvest by Jim Crace (Picador)

The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (Bloomsbury)

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (Canongate Books)

The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín (Viking)

Longlist:

Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw (4th Estate)

The Kills by Richard House (Picador)

The Marrying of Chani Kaufman by Eve Harris (Sandstone Press)

We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo (Chatto & Windus)

Almost English by Charlotte Mendelson (Mantle)

The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan (Doubleday)

Harvest by Jim Crace (Picador)

Unexploded by Alison MacLeod (Hamish Hamilton)

TransAtlantic by Colum McCann (Bloomsbury)

The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (Bloomsbury)

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (Canongate Books)

The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín (Viking)

Judges:

Robert Macfarlane (Chair), Martha Kearney, Stuart Kelly, Natalie Haynes, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Eleanor Catton reacts as she is announced 2013 Man Booker Prize winner

2014

Winner:

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan (Chatto & Windus)    

Shortlist:

To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris (Viking)

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler (Serpent’s Tail)

J  by Howard Jacobson (Jonathan Cape)

The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee (Jonathan Cape)

How to Be Both by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)

Longlist:

To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris (Viking)

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler (Serpent’s Tail)

The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt (Sceptre)

J  by Howard Jacobson (Jonathan Cape)

The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee (Jonathan Cape)

Us by David Nicholls (Hodder and Stoughton)

The Dog by Joseph O’Neill (4th Estate)

The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth (Unbound)

How to Be Both by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)

Orfeo by Richard Powers (Atlantic Books)

History of the Rain by Niall Williams (Bloomsbury)

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell (Sceptre)

Judges: 

A. C. Grayling (Chair), Sarah Churchwell, Jonathan Bate, Daniel Glaser, Alastair Niven, Erica Wagner

Richard Flanagan 2014

2015

Marlon James awarded his winner's cheque 2015

2016

Paul Beatty 2016

2017

Winner:

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (Bloomsbury)

Shortlist:

4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster (Faber & Faber)

History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

Exit West  by Mohsin Hamid (Hamish Hamilton)

Elmet by Fiona Mozley (John Murray)

Autumn by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)

Longlist:

4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster (Faber & Faber)

History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

Exit West  by Mohsin Hamid (Hamish Hamilton)

Elmet by Fiona Mozley (John Murray)

Autumn by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)

Days Without End by Sebastian Barry (Faber & Faber)

Solar Bones by Mike McCormack (Canongate)

Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor (4th Estate)

Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy (Hamish Hamilton)

Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (Bloomsbury)

Swing Time by Zadie Smith (Haminsh Hamilton)

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (Fleet Publishing)

Judges:

Baroness Lola Young (Chair), Lila Azam Zanganeh, Sarah Hall, Colin Thubron, Tom Phillips

George Saunders 2017 Man Booker Prize winner

2018

Winner:

Milkman by Anna Burns (Faber & Faber)

Shortlist:

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan (Serpent’s Tail)

Everything Under by Daisy Johnson (Jonathan Cape)

The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner (Jonathan Cape)

The Overstory by Richard Powers (William Heinemann)

The Long Take by Robin Robertson (Picador)

Longlist:

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan (Serpent’s Tail)

Snap by Belinda Bauer (Bantam Press)

From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan (Doubleday)

Normal People by Sally Rooney (Faber & Faber)

Warlight by Michael Ondaatje (Jonathan Cape)

The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh (Hamish Hamilton)

Sabrina by Nick Drnaso (Granta)

In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne (Tinder Press)

Everything Under by Daisy Johnson (Jonathan Cape)

The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner (Jonathan Cape)

The Overstory by Richard Powers (William Heinemann)

The Long Take by Robin Robertson (Picador)

Judges: 

Kwame Anthony Appiah (Chair), Val McDermid, Leo Robson, Leanne Shapton, Jacqueline Rose

Anna Burns winner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize

2019

Booker Prize awards 2019

2020

Winner:

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (Picador)

Shortlist:

The New Wilderness by Diane Cook (Oneworld)

This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga (Faber & Faber)

Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi (Hamish Hamilton)

The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste (Canongate Books)

Real Life by Brandon Taylor (Originals, Daunt Books Publishing)

Longlist:

Who They Was by Gabriel Krauze (4th Estate)

The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel (4th Estate)

The New Wilderness by Diane Cook (Oneworld)

This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga (Faber & Faber)

Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi (Hamish Hamilton)

The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste (Canongate Books)

Love and Other Thought Experiments by Sophie Ward (Corsair)

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (Bloomsbury)

Apeirogon by Colum McCann (Bloomsbury)

Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler (Chatto & Windus)

Real Life by Brandon Taylor (Originals, Daunt Books Publishing)

How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang (Virago)

Judges

Margaret Busby (Chair), Lee Child, Lemn Sissay, Sameer RahimEmily Wilson

Douglas Stuart on stage at the 2021 Booker Prize Awards

2021

Winner:

The Promise by Damon Galgut (Chatto & Windus)

Shortlist:

A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam (Granta)

No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood (Bloomsbury)

The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed (Viking)

Bewilderment by Richard Powers (Hutchinson Heinemann)

Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead (Doubleday/Transworld)

Longlist:

Second Place by Rachel Cusk (Faber & Faber)

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber)

A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam (Granta)

An Island by Karen Jennings (Holland House Books)

China Room by Sunjeev Sahota (Harvill Secker)

No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood (Bloomsbury)

Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford (Faber & Faber)

The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed (Viking)

The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris (Tinder Press)

A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson (Chatto & Windus)

Bewilderment by Richard Powers (Hutchinson Heinemann)

Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead (Doubleday/Transworld)

Judges:

Maya Jasanoff (Chair), Horatia Harrod, Natascha McElhone, Chigozie Obioma, Rowan Williams

Booker Prize ceremony 2021

2022

Shehan Karunatilaka winner of the Booker Prize 2022

2023

Winner:

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch (Oneworld)

Shortlist:

Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein (Granta Books)

If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery (4th Estate)

This Other Eden by Paul Harding (Hutchinson Heinemann)

Western Lane by Chetna Maroo (Picador)

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray (Hamish Hamilton)

Longlist:

A Spell of Good Things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ (Canongate)

Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry (Faber & Faber)

Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein (Granta Books)

If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery (4th Estate)

How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney (Harvill Secker)

This Other Eden by Paul Harding (Hutchinson Heinemann)

Pearl by Siân Hughes (The Indigo Press)

All the Little Bird-Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow (Tinder Press)

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch (Oneworld)

In Ascension by Martin MacInnes (Atlantic Books)

Western Lane by Chetna Maroo (Picador)

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray (Hamish Hamilton)

The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng (Canongate)

Judges: 

Esi Edugyan (Chair), Adjoa AndohMary Jean ChanJames ShapiroRobert Webb

Paul Lynch, author of Prophet Song makes a speech after winning the Booker Prize 2023