The Booker Prize for Fiction Complete List of Winning Titles

Wondering who was the winner of the Booker Prize in 2022? in 2021? in 2020? or any year? Here is a handy list of winning Booker Prize book titles since 1969.

What is the Booker Prize

The Booker Prize is an annual British award presented to a Commonwealth author of a recently published full-length novel in recognition for an outstanding contribution to literary fiction. The prestigious award which began in 1969 is currently named the Booker Prize although it was previously known as the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969-2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002-2019). There is a large cash prize attached to the Booker Prize and the selection process involves first longlisting nominated books and then shortlisting to just six nominees. The final selection is made by a panel of suitably qualified judges.

There is also an International Booker Prize that honours one author from around the world for a body of literary work. The Booker Prize finalists are announced annually sometime toward the end of May and the winner at the end of the year.

Please see below for the complete list of the Booker Prize winners for Fiction since its inception:

2022

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - Shehan Karunatilak

2021

The Promise - Damon Galgut

2020

Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart

2019

The Testaments - Margeret Atwood
Girl, Woman, Other - Bernadine Evaristo

2018

Milkman - Anna Burns

2017

Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders

2016

The Sellout - Paul Beatty

2015

A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James

2014

The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan

2013

The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton

2012

Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel

2011

The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes

2010

The Finkler Question - Howard Jacobson

2009

Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel

2008

The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga

2007

The Gathering - Anne Enright

2006

The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai

2005

The Sea - John Banville

2004

The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst

2003

Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre

2002

Life of Pi - Yann Martel

2001

The True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey

2000

The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood

1999

Disgrace - J. M. Coetzee

1998

Amsterdam - Ian McEwan

1997

The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy

1996

Last Orders - Graham Swift

1995

The Ghost Road - Pat Barker

1994

How Late is Was, How Late - James Kelman

1993

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha - Roddy Doyle

1992

Sacred Hunger - Barry Unsworth
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje

1991

The Famished Road - Ben Okri

1990

Possession - A. S. Byatt

1989

The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

1988

Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey

1987

Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively

1986

The Old Devils - Kingsley Amis

1985

The Bone People - Keri Hulme

1984

Hotel du Lac - Anita Brookner

1983

Life and Times of Michael K - J. M. Coetzee

1982

Schindler's Ark - Thomas Keneally

1981

Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

1980

Rites of Passage - William Golding

1979

Offshore - Penelope Fitzgerald

1978

The Sea, the Sea - Iris Murdoch

1977

Staying On - Paul Scott

1976

Saville - David Storey

1975

Heat and Dust - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

1974

Holiday - Stanley Middleton
The Conservationist - Nadine Gordimer

1973

The Siege of Krishnapur - J. G. Farrell

1972

G - John Berger

1971

In a Free State - V. S. Naipaul

1970

The Elected Member - Bernice Rubens

1969

Somethng to Answer For - P. H. Newby



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