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 and shortlisted authors and 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, Shehan Karunatilaka won the Booker Prize 2022 for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.

In July 2023, the next ‘Booker Dozen’ of 12 or 13 books will be announced, with the shortlist of six books to follow in September. The winner of the Booker Prize 2023 will be announced in Autumn 2023. 

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

1970

Winner: 

The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens (Eyre & Spottiswoode)

Shortlist:

John Brown’s Body by A. L. Barker (Hogarth)

Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen (Jonathan Cape)

Bruno’s Dream by Iris Murdoch (Chatto & Windus)

Mrs Eckdorf in O’Neill’s Hotel by William Trevor (Bodley Head)

The Conjunction by Terence Wheeler (Angus & Robertson)

Judges: 

Antonia Fraser, Ross Higgins, Richard Hoggart, Dame Rebecca West, David Holloway

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 (Hutchison)

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

Winner:

Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally (Hodder & Stoughton)    

Shortlist:

Silence Among the Weapons by John Arden (Methuen)

An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd (Hamish Hamilton)

Constance or Solitary Practices by Lawrence Durrell (Faber & Faber)

The 27th Kingdom by Alice Thomas Ellis (Duckworth)

Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo (Deutsch)

Judges:

John Carey (Chair), Paul Bailey, Frank Delaney, Janet Morgan, Lorna Sage

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

Winner:

The Famished Road by Ben Okri (Jonathan Cape)

Shortlist: 

Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis (Jonathan Cape)

The Van by Roddy Doyle (Secker & Warburg)

Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry (Faber & Faber)

The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo (Chatto & Windus)

Reading Turgenev by William Trevor (Viking)

Judges:

Jeremy Treglown (Chair), Penelope Fitzgerald, Jonathan Keates, Nicholas Mosley, Ann Schlee

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 (Fourth 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

Winner: 

The Ghost Road by Pat Barker (Viking)

Shortlist: 
    
In Every Face I Meet by Justin Cartwright (Sceptre)

The Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie (Jonathan Cape)

Morality Play by Barry Unsworth (Hamish Hamilton)

The Riders by Tim Winton (Picador)

Judges:

George Walden (Chair), Kate Kellaway, Peter Kemp, Adam Mars-Jones, Ruth Rendell

1995 Booker Prize judges

1996

Winner:

Last Orders by Graham Swift (Picador)
    
Shortlist: 

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (Bloomsbury)

Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge (Duckworth)

Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane (Jonathan Cape)

The Orchard on Fire by Shena Mackay (Heinemann)

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (Faber & Faber)

Judges:

Carmen CallilJonathan Coe, Ian Jack, A. L. Kennedy, A. N. Wilson

Graham Swift 1996

1997

Winner:

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Flamingo)    

Shortlist:

Quarantine by Jim Crace (Viking)

The Underground Man by Mick Jackson (Picador)

Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty (Jonathan Cape)

Europa by Tim Parks (Secker & Warburg)

The Essence of the Thing by Madeleine St John (Fourth Estate)

Judges: 

Gillian Beer (Chair), Rachel Billington, Jason Cowley, Jan Dalley, Dan Jacobson

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

1998

Ian McEwan 1998

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)

Judges: 

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

Peter Carey 2001

2002

Winner:

Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Canongate Books)   

Shortlist:

Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry (Faber & Faber)

Unless by Carol Shields (Fourth Estate)

The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor (Viking)

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (Virago)

Dirt Music by Tim Winton (Picador)

Judges: 

Lisa Jardine (Chair), David Baddiel, Russell Celyn Jones, Salley Vickers, Erica Wagner

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

2003

Winner:

Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre (Faber & Faber)    

Shortlist:

Brick Lane by Monica Ali (Doubleday)

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (Bloomsbury)

The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut (Atlantic Books)

Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller (Viking)

Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall (Tindal Street Press)

Judges: 

John Carey (Chair), A. C. Grayling, Francine Stock, Rebecca Stephens, D. J. Taylor

DBC Pierre 2003

2004

Alan Hollinghurst, 2004

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)

Judges: 

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

John Banville 2005

2006

Winner:

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (Hamish Hamilton)

Shortlist:   

The Secret River by Kate Grenville (Canongate Books)

Carry Me Down by M. J. Hyland (Canongate Books)

In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar (Viking)

Mother’s Milk by Edward St Aubyn (Picador)

The Night Watch by Sarah Waters (Virago)

Judges:

Hermione Lee (Chair), Simon Armitage, Candia McWilliam, Anthony Quinn, Fiona Shaw

Kiran Desai, 2006

2007

Winner:

The Gathering by Anne Enright (Hamish Hamilton)

Shortlist:

Darkmans by Nicola Barker (Fourth 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)

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)

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 Americar 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)

Judges:

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

Howard Jacobson, 2010

2011

Winner:

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (Jonathan Cape) 

Shortlist:

Jamrach’s Menagerie by Carol Birch (Canongate Books)

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt (Granta Books)

Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan (Serpent’s Tail)

Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman (Bloomsbury)

Snowdrops by A.D, Miller (Atlantic Books)

Judges:

Stella Rimington (Chair), Matthew d’Ancona, Susan Hill, Chris Mullin, Gaby Wood

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)

Judges:

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

Hilary Mantel, Man Booker Prize winner 2012

2013

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

2014

Richard Flanagan 2014

2015

Marlon James awarded his winner's cheque 2015

2016

Winner:

The Sellout by Paul Beatty (Oneworld Publications)  

Shortlist:

Hot Milk by Deborah Levy (Hamish Hamilton)

His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet (Contraband)

Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh (Jonathan Cape)

All That Man Is by David Szalay (Jonathan Cape)

Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien (Granta Books)

Judges: 

Amanda Foreman (Chair), Jon Day, David Harsent, Olivia Williams, Abdulrazak Gurnah

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)

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)

Judges: 

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

Anna Burns winner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize

2019

Winners    

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (Hamish Hamilton)

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (Vintage; Chatto & Windus) 

Shortlist:

Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann (Galley Beggar Press)

An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma (Little, Brown)

Quichotte by Salman Rushdie (Jonathan Cape)

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak (Viking)

Judges: 

Peter Florence (Chair), Afua Hirsch, Liz Calder, Xiaolu Guo, Joanna MacGregor

Booker Prize awards 2019

2020

Winner:

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (Picador, Pan Macmillan)

Shortlist:

The New Wilderness by Diane Cook (Oneworld Publications)

This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga (Faber & Faber)

Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House)

The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste (Canongate Books)

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

Judges

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

Douglas Stuart on stage at the 2021 Booker Prize Awards

2021

Booker Prize ceremony 2021

2022

Shehan Karunatilaka winner of the Booker Prize 2022