Full list of Booker Prize winners, shortlisted authors and their books

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. 

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 Farrer, Frank Kermode, Stephen Spender, Rebecca West, W. L. Webb

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

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

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 Steiner, Elizabeth Bowen

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’Brien, Mary McCarthy

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. Byatt, Elizabeth Jane Howard

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

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

Winner:

Staying On by Paul Scott (Heinemann)

Shortlist:

Peter Smart’s Confessions by Paul Bailey (Jonathan Cape)

Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood (Duckworth) 

Shadows on our Skin by Jennifer Johnston (Hamish Hamilton) 

The Road to Lichfield by Penelope Lively (Heinemann)

Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym (Macmillan)

Judges: 

Philip Larkin (Chair), Beryl Bainbridge, Brendan Gil, David Hughes, Robin Ray

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

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

Winner: 

Rites of Passage by William Golding (Faber & Faber)

Shortlist: 

Earthly Powers by Anthony Burges (Hutchinson)

Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai (Heinemann)

The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro (Viking)

No Country for Young Men by Julia O’Faolain (Viking)

Pascali’s Island by Barry Unsworth (Michael Joseph)

A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr

Judges: 

David Daiches (Chair), Ronald Blythe, Margaret Forster, Claire Tomalin, Brian Wenham

Winner: 

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (Jonathan Cape)

Shortlist:

Good Behaviour by Molly Keane (Deutsch)

The Sirian Experiments by Doris Lessing (Jonathan Cape)

The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape)

Rhine Journey by Ann Schlee (Macmillan)

Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark (Bodley Head)

The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas (Gollancz)

Judges:

Malcolm Bradbury (Chair), Brian Aldiss, Joan Bakewell, Samuel Hynes, Hermione Lee

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

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

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

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

Winner:

The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis (Hutchinson)

Shortlist:

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (Jonathan Cape)

Gabriel’s Lament by Paul Bailey (Jonathan Cape)

What’s Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies (Viking)

An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber)

An Insular Possession by Timothy Mo (Chatto & Windus)

Judges:

Anthony Thwaite, Edna Healey, Isabel Quigly, Gillian Reynolds, Bernice Rubens

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 Hastings, Allan Massie, Trevor McDonald, John B. Thompson

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

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

Winner:

Possession by A. S. Byatt (Chatto & Windus)

Shortlist:

An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge (Duckworth)

The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald (Collins)

Amongst Women by John McGahern (Faber & Faber)

Lies of Silence by Brian Moore (Bloomsbury)

Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler (Chatto & Windus)

Judges:

Denis Forman, Susannah Clapp, A. Walton Litz, Hilary Mantel, Kate Saunders

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

Winners:

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (Bloomsbury)    

Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth (Hamish Hamilton)

Shortlist: 

Serenity House by Christopher Hope (Macmillan)

The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe (Picador)

Black Dogs by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape)

Daughters of the House by Michèle Roberts (Virago)

Judges:

Victoria Glendinning (Chair), John Coldstream, Valentine Cunningham, Harriet Harvey Wood, Mark Lawson

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

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 Neuberger, Alastair Niven, Alan Taylor, James Wood

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

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 Callil, Jonathan Coe, Ian Jack, A. L. Kennedy, A. N. Wilson

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

Winner:

Amsterdam by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape)  

Shortlist:

Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge (Duckworth)

England, England by Julian Barnes (Jonathan Cape)

The Industry of Souls by Martin Booth (Dewi Lewis)

Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe (Picador)

The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills (Flamingo)

Judges:

Douglas Hurd (Chair), Valentine Cunningham, Penelope Fitzgerald, Miriam Gross, Nigella Lawson

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

Winner:

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (Bloomsbury)

Shortlist:

The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi (Picador)

The Keepers of Truth by Michael Collins (Phoenix House)

When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber)

English Passengers by Matthew Kneale (Hamish Hamilton)

The Deposition of Father McGreevy by Brian O’Doherty (Arcadia)

Judges:

Simon Jenkins (Chair), Roy Foster, Mariella Frostrup, Caroline Gascoigne, Rose Tremain

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

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

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

Winner:

The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (Picador)  

Shortlist:

Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor (Atlantic)

The Electric Michaelangelo by Sarah Hall (Faber & Faber)

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (Sceptre)

The Master by Colm Tóibín (Picador)

I’ll Go to Bed at Noon by Gerard Woodward (Chatto & Windus)

Judges: 

Chris Smith (Chair), Tibor Fischer, Robert Macfarlane, Rowan Pelling, Fiammetta Rocco

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

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

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

Winner:

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (Atlantic)

Shortlist:

The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (Faber & Faber)

Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh (John Murray)

The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant (Virago)

The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher (4th Estate)

A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz (Hamish Hamilton)

Judges:

Michael Portillo (Chair), Alex Clark, Louise Doughty, James Heneage, Hardeep Singh Kohli

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 Perkins, Michael Prodger

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

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

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

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)

Judges:

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

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)

Judges: 

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

Winner:

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James (Oneworld Publications)

Shortlist:   

Satin Island by Tom McCarthy (Jonathan Cape)

The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma (One)

The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota (Picador)

A Spool of Blue Thread  by Anne Tyler (Chatto & Windus)

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (Picador)

Judges: 

Michael Wood (Chair), John Burnside, Sam Leith, Frances Osborne, Ellah Wakatama Allfrey

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

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

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

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

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 Rahim, Emily Wilson

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)

Judges:

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

Winner:

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka (Sort of Books)

Shortlist:

Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo (Vintage)

The Trees by Percival Everett (Influx Press)

Treacle Walker by Alan Garner (HarperCollins)

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (Faber & Faber)

Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout (Penguin Books)

Judges: 

Neil MacGregor (Chair), Shahidha Bari, Helen Castor, M. John Harrison, Alain Mabanckou